Posts by ComradeGibbon@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AhImwmdXxqhH4cs6jI by ComradeGibbon@mastodon.social
2024-04-27T04:15:15Z
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@foone is there an Emacs plug in that allows you to order pizza?
(DIR) Post #Ahn88GGtPu7TIZdR4a by ComradeGibbon@mastodon.social
2024-05-11T19:30:42Z
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@foone I think a drone can cross the channel.Nothing says authoritarian bastards like picking on people with oddball sexuality.
(DIR) Post #Ahs5QVLqlCczCzlENU by ComradeGibbon@mastodon.social
2024-05-14T04:58:18Z
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@interfluidity You're singing my old favorite song about how government is better than business. Because you have zero control over who runs a corporation.
(DIR) Post #Ahw9m9Qg7jLE2QR6p6 by ComradeGibbon@mastodon.social
2024-05-16T04:05:52Z
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@interfluidity When people say by any means necessary I think of the old Bevis and Butthead episode 'cow tipping' where at the end the old farmer fires up the chainsaw and bevis trapped under the cow is yelling in panic 'not me the cow'Which is a juvenile way of thinking that how you lose often depends on how yo play the game. If you think playing by any means necessary is a good idea I don't want to be within shrapnel range of you.
(DIR) Post #AhzoLpKwspZXmwCbtQ by ComradeGibbon@mastodon.social
2024-05-17T21:11:25Z
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@foone Company I worked for in the 80's the draftsman laid out PCB''s at 4X scale using tape and stickers on acetate film.Also old etching process you hope it only etches the exposed copper. I swear that's why early PCB's had snaky traces instead of sharp corners.
(DIR) Post #AiKJTRnLHMRWpanNBY by ComradeGibbon@mastodon.social
2024-05-27T19:46:06Z
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@foone I saw a paper 40 years ago discussing an ALU design that could do the usual operations on words with error correction codes producing a result also with error correction codes.That seems close to what you are suggesting.
(DIR) Post #AiSfkVKD9xECxVO5PE by ComradeGibbon@mastodon.social
2024-05-31T20:34:54Z
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@interfluidity @pluralistic I saw a good essay about the difference between 1950's General Motors and 2020's FAANG's. The secondary economic effects of 1950 GM was huge. You got car dealers everywhere, repair shops, gas stations, etc etc. Lots of places in the US see no benefit from FAANG's.
(DIR) Post #AiZVLvD6pZl4BqgWxc by ComradeGibbon@mastodon.social
2024-06-04T03:39:47Z
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@foone I want a chair mouse. Move the cursor by shifting my butt.
(DIR) Post #AijPfOg0qO6Mw4htCK by ComradeGibbon@mastodon.social
2024-06-08T22:24:36Z
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@interfluidity I keep thinking that rentier capitalism blows up when aggregate growth turns negative. What happens is probably bad. Degrowthers absolutely want people to be poorer as individuals. There is no probably in how bad the result of that would be.My thought you have a shrinking population you likely need more public goods and less rentier capitalism. See Japan after the great bubble. And Bidens hybrid build back better. For the alternative see Britain under the Tories.
(DIR) Post #AioQgpLUeK57OpU3xg by ComradeGibbon@mastodon.social
2024-06-11T08:29:49Z
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@interfluidity I used to use Programmers notepad, but it's very very old now. I think it doesn't like windows 11 very much.https://www.pnotepad.org/It's built on Scintilla which tends to create very snappy editors.
(DIR) Post #AjZq7njZRWjckC5RVw by ComradeGibbon@mastodon.social
2024-07-04T05:25:18Z
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@foone Hot employers looking for test engineers in your area!
(DIR) Post #AjfJwdbmia5sZOpzpg by ComradeGibbon@mastodon.social
2024-07-06T20:53:56Z
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@interfluidity Beden could be put on the golden throne ala Warhammer 40k with an magic 8 ball under his one remaining finger and we'd be 10,000 times better off than Trump and his pack of quislings.
(DIR) Post #AjoJqzOKZ6JMoWUTFQ by ComradeGibbon@mastodon.social
2024-07-11T05:03:16Z
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@foone Need a cryto system where the data is encoded in AI generated my little pony porn.
(DIR) Post #AjqWcveDNK22rvSwEa by ComradeGibbon@mastodon.social
2024-07-12T06:37:51Z
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@interfluidity I'm 20 years younger than Biden. If I had to keep his schedule I'd melt down.That said I had a friend who sounded like the incoherent nut at the end of a bar. But his writing was superb showing a very deep intellect and wide knowledge of the world combined with street smarts.Also the press is acting exactly like a pack of Jr High mean girls.
(DIR) Post #AkT5qCbRWhIYFcxUDw by ComradeGibbon@mastodon.social
2024-07-30T20:15:44Z
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@foone Maybe the solution is write the code in some other language. Then use AI to convert it to Rust. If it compiles and passes a few tests it's probably okay.That way you don't get mind demons.
(DIR) Post #AkdSMcwTH4WPmOGBEm by ComradeGibbon@mastodon.social
2024-08-04T21:10:31Z
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@interfluidity Dead tree essay I read in the years after the Vietnam war and the Cambodian genocide. In short after the war the last thing most people in the surrounding countries wanted was their turn in the barrel. So while the commies won in Vietnam they failed everywhere else.After seeing what happened in Iraq, Syria, and Libya people and their leaders fear war.