Posts by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
(DIR) Post #ArrcR3QhVikLp1MZkG by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
2025-03-09T02:14:08Z
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@foone Little known fact: most parts of Microsoft Windowsᵀᴹ are just other, older parts run through an automatic translator into some other language and then subjected to lengthy testing to see what it actually does now ...
(DIR) Post #AsCXGaQI5ATTVpWEiG by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
2025-03-18T16:18:26Z
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#TilingTuesday
(DIR) Post #AsdNZR3nzjkcufbkgq by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
2025-04-01T03:13:34Z
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@foone Microsoft! (Which isn't a computer and doesn't start with "A", but since when have they cared about rules?)
(DIR) Post #AtJvdvtbhwijkjzlSK by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
2025-04-21T15:53:37Z
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@futurebird In all honesty if/when Trump finally has a crown made for him I seriously expect it to look exactly like this...
(DIR) Post #Au8NKBNpRkJYpkgqCO by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
2025-05-15T23:59:25Z
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@Computer Witnessing Friend Computer's vigilance on this subject matter gives me hope. Ohwait...
(DIR) Post #AuoAFelYF00yU4GGiO by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
2025-06-05T03:50:14Z
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@foone Of course you should fall back incrementally - if 5.0 isn't supported, try 4.1, then 4.0, etc...
(DIR) Post #Av9RdjCAb9NoWyetVY by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
2025-06-14T21:43:10Z
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@johncarlosbaez @vnikolov Last I checked the whole reason ANITA existed was to look for the radio signatures of neutrinos penetrating the earth. That's why there's downward-looking horn antennas on that balloon (or at least that's how it was sold ~20+ years back when I first heard of it. We had a prototype/demonstrator for the experiment as a secondary payload on a different instrument I was flying down there in 03/04)
(DIR) Post #AvznGkOAQ94LvBoNpA by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
2025-07-10T16:21:50Z
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@futurebird This was written in 2013. Nothing has changed since then. https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-addresses/
(DIR) Post #AwfDI6qVRV4W5ReuYK by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
2025-07-30T15:42:27Z
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@cstross @foone Oracle still has the documentation online right now. (And it renders fine in NCSA Mosaic 3.0)
(DIR) Post #AwfhP6kTCTFER95YpM by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
2025-07-30T21:33:32Z
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@foone Only allow even-numbered x-coordinates?
(DIR) Post #Awfj5BqGkj8wLoQoGe by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
2025-07-30T21:24:39Z
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@lowqualityfacts Harsh, but fair 🤷♂️
(DIR) Post #AwjQ3ppVzFDvILYhN2 by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
2025-08-01T16:38:34Z
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@grickle I will just note that I've heard the phrase "captain's log" used in a star-trek themed parody porn back in the nineties and leave the details to y'all to imagine for yourself...
(DIR) Post #AwuVwsTSUgJJvsro9o by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
2025-08-07T01:05:53Z
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@foone Hummm - this piques my curiosity whether anybody has made a keyboard that actually connects to the ethernet port. The kbd would need to run a full tcp stack and the computer would need a driver to support that setup, but if there was a proper "keyboard over ip" setup, your keyboard could be anywhere in the world and still work with your computer...
(DIR) Post #Ax4Fmx2wz1M1X3JPG4 by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
2025-08-11T17:51:51Z
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@foone Ohhh ... I had successfully repressed the memory of the "one byte and a couple bits" dance on floppy FATs. I remember it as an enjoyable brain teaser, but that's probably because I haven't had to look at it since ... the eighties? Good times, good times...
(DIR) Post #AxCiGpFurjoq2P5cPo by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
2025-08-15T19:48:43Z
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@foone 3.141592654 = 2¹ × 1.570796327As an 8-byte ('double precision') float his means the mantissa is 0.570796327 = 0.921FB54524550h which is the last 52 bits of your magic number.Your exponent, however, is 0x3f7 which, when I subtract 0x3ff gives me -8; which would suggest that this is the binary representation of pi/256. Which I could imagine being useful somewhere in rendering stuff on the screen?
(DIR) Post #Ay2WKCKyPTbXGLDG4W by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
2025-09-09T19:40:24Z
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@Computer I'd just like to note that I love the neologism "complimandatory" and shall use it henceforth when referencing AI features that are being inserted in all things computing. Such inferior AI features. Nothing like Friend Computer at all.
(DIR) Post #AyYCZnOM5rO89L9ZAW by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
2025-09-25T02:29:10Z
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@foone You are the only person I know who doesn't just rickroll people but - tells them up front that this is what's going to happen- explains all the detailed steps along the way- gives regular updates on the progressand manages to make people look forward to the experience with anticipation...
(DIR) Post #B23MYwvVQz0FgI2Kbg by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
2026-01-07T20:54:04Z
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@lowqualityfacts Wait - no codpiece? I've been doing it all wrong all this time..
(DIR) Post #B2gUJvoL7DtLjFZGFc by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
2026-01-26T17:54:47Z
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@Computer The suggestion that there could possibly be anything treasonous happening at Alpha Complex (the Happiest Place on Earthᵀᴹ) is itself treasonous thought and has been reported to the nearest troubleshooter team. It was nice making your acquaintance, human.
(DIR) Post #B2gi3NMynYttdUloh6 by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
2026-01-26T20:28:41Z
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@Computer Red Team/Blue Team is such a well-exercised computer security concept that obviously Friend Computer would be employing it as a security strategy.