Posts by randrews@somewhy.net
(DIR) Post #At0Nv0DSwriCvyNXN2 by randrews@somewhy.net
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@p @rvcx They aren't spambots; they were providing a useful service (useful to me anyway). I know I have alternate ways to get it (it's one of the functions of my watch) but I liked getting it from the bot, which is why I followed the bot. If you didn't want to see it, all you had to do was not follow the bot.
(DIR) Post #At0WgUgyFyt2hHKtXM by randrews@somewhy.net
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@mrsaturday @p @rvcx If he didn't ask permission to run them there first, that does make a difference, sure. And I suggested to him that he should just self-host them, which he wouldn't do. So yeah, kind of an unserious person. Depends on your definition of "spam" I guess; I wouldn't consider them spam.
(DIR) Post #Av5l0gvlmDUwrzI17g by randrews@somewhy.net
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@sj_zero Does yours have a lot of users? Mine is also basically free (about 1 pizza a month) but I'm also the only user on it.
(DIR) Post #Aw080RAfY75Tn1rX60 by randrews@somewhy.net
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@sj_zero Thing is, to this sort of person, this is not a contradiction. You and I see "if they'll censor one side they'll censor the other so censorship is bad." They see the practical results, which is "you can hear opinions I don't like so we need to censor that" and "you can't hear things I do like so they need to stop censoring that." They don't think about it in terms of principles.
(DIR) Post #Ax8nNpcUVpL5SjLR4q by randrews@somewhy.net
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@Turkleton I showed this to someone and he immediately responded: "he collects acorners."
(DIR) Post #AxIOUuDJHBNISoRTRw by randrews@somewhy.net
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@sj_zero It's a really fun hobby but if you have the skills to do it as a job you also have the skills to do any other development job for five times the money and one tenth the stress.
(DIR) Post #AxL1OTFkt3MzdcQcMa by randrews@somewhy.net
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@sj_zero I'm from Texas, so you know, I heard of "ice" in a story once. But would it still crack if the ice has somewhere to expand to? I would imagine the water would seep in and then come right back out when it expands to become ice, that the only problem would be something like a pipe where it's sealed in.
(DIR) Post #AxRPOSKFtmEqbsooOu by randrews@somewhy.net
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@sj_zero Something semi-related: take a filter (cleaning the filter for a french press is how I discovered this) and run it under a tap. The water coming out of the tap will be turbulent and have bubbles in it (that's part of what the tap does, aerate the water) but the stream coming out of the filter will be laminar and bubble-free. The filter filters out the bubbles.Which is the opposite of what you'd expect, right? You'd expect laminar + filter to equal turbulent.
(DIR) Post #AxRPOSvTfO0qTKEXQ0 by randrews@somewhy.net
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@sj_zero Turns out this is a well known thing in the oil industry (mud going down a drillpipe is turbulent, the nozzles on the drillbit act like a filter, the same mud coming back up the annulus is laminar) but no one I talked to, petroleum engineers who knew this and designed things for it, could tell me _why_.
(DIR) Post #Ay7Hp6ANktMki0i79M by randrews@somewhy.net
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@noyoushutthefuckupdad Surprised about Doctorow. Wish I were surprised about Zawinski.
(DIR) Post #AyCIuhnEMLIMb8v19s by randrews@somewhy.net
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@sj_zero I'm a generation too young to know firsthand, but the narrative I heard was that because of Vietnam, the colleges wanted to pass pretty much everyone, because kids were going to college to avoid being drafted. So the professors had to make everything a lot easier, so you ended up with dumber people getting more meaningless degrees.
(DIR) Post #AyDnKbD2eS3dUWDNMu by randrews@somewhy.net
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@sj_zero It's the "Republicans pounce" meme. If a right-wing extremist does something wrong, blame the right. If a left-wing extremist does something wrong, blame the right for their reaction to it.The thing is, people like this will never change their minds, they'll never reflect. But you can change the minds of the reasonable people watching, which is what Kirk was great at.
(DIR) Post #AyLRp3Phi3nFvRvx0C by randrews@somewhy.net
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@sj_zero I'm glad he was cancelled, I just wish the FCC hadn't said anything. I'm confident he'd have been toast without that, and it's just a talking point for the left now.
(DIR) Post #Ayf8SxTl56pnBImMZk by randrews@somewhy.net
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@Shadowman311 Yeah, we're confusing the hell out of historians from the 24th century right now.
(DIR) Post #AyrLWQM3oBq2uLgFPs by randrews@somewhy.net
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@sj_zero The most surprising thing for me was that Moonbase Commander, one of the best multiplayer games ever made, was written for Scumm and is now supported in ScummVM with internet multiplayer.
(DIR) Post #B0o6i5R3QJR8JhGpSS by randrews@somewhy.net
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@Gran3Walder Lol not even close
(DIR) Post #B2A09O1o1dOtOnAILY by randrews@somewhy.net
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@light I used to work for a company that did DNA sequencing. It's an acknowledged fact in that industry that some of the people who buy those profiles want them because there are dating sites that make you prove you're white enough.Our position was, we deliver accurate data regardless of why you want it. Although we did think it was funny that they were ordering this from a company owned and run by two Ashkenazi Jews.
(DIR) Post #B2A09U0FoJixviU8lE by randrews@somewhy.net
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@cy @light > insane people who think that race is a thingRace is absolutely a thing. You can look at a sample of someone's DNA and determine what race they are. That's the entire point of DNA testing.The idea that some races are inherently better than others, or that you can tell characteristics about an individual (like, morality, intelligence, whatever) from that, no, that's stupid. But "race" exists and is measurable.
(DIR) Post #B2ELkVZJpOWBAaDqim by randrews@somewhy.net
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@OpenComputeDesign I think it's a good idea to give cops some latitude in deciding what's actually causing a problem vs what is technically illegal but should be ignored. Not doing that leads to, essentially, homeowner's associations.On the other hand that latitude can itself cause problems, so, you also gotta hire good people as cops. Otherwise they ignore people they like committing crimes and hassle people they don't like.
(DIR) Post #B2WiICZUf1cLvx3QSO by randrews@somewhy.net
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@sj_zero I like to think of it as a "luck surface area." Imagine that opportunity just randomly shoots around all the time. What are the odds of one hitting you? Those odds increase if you hang around interesting people, go to meetups for whatever your industry is, try out weird stuff and publish it, etc.