Posts by stevenaleach@sigmoid.social
(DIR) Post #B0YPLjJsi0RAGUbWJk by stevenaleach@sigmoid.social
2025-11-24T00:37:10Z
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@futurebird @brodnig I'm dead set on spending not a dime I don't have to from now until 2029.First, I won't contribute to an economy under an administration that denies climate change and wants to promote coal and oil.Second, I'll have funds to invest/contribute/use when we're ready to start planning for and building the future again.Save Every Dime Until Twenty-Twenty-Nine.
(DIR) Post #B0cmuAHNLNOHOTXRZI by stevenaleach@sigmoid.social
2025-11-26T03:19:56Z
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@futurebird @apLundell I once worked 137 days straight. It was weird and I'd never want to do it again, but it was kinda nice never having to think about what I was doing, just get up and go to work same as the day before.Now I'm scrubbing dishes at a few sorority/fraternity kitchens (which is already odd), and don't know what to do with the breaks coming up.I somehow doubt I'll be back after the summer break, since I can't imagine not just finding a new (normal) job during that downtime.
(DIR) Post #B0fxfmcADJP0umUEHQ by stevenaleach@sigmoid.social
2025-11-27T16:04:44Z
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@futurebirdgrey: an achromatic color between black and white.gray: an onomatopoeia used to designate an obnoxious braying sound.I don't know why, but I've always hated the American spelling of this word and will always fight with my spell check over it.
(DIR) Post #B0iDCacPirO2tXcniK by stevenaleach@sigmoid.social
2025-11-28T18:08:09Z
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@futurebird @iraIt amazes and astounds me that earthworms are "invasive species" in North America.What filled that niche before the ice age?Was it always similar earthworm species and they were just re-introduce?
(DIR) Post #B0pL11i7KRVfBT0dXs by stevenaleach@sigmoid.social
2025-12-02T04:38:40Z
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@futurebird Yes!I was amazed years ago having vaguely heard of "Art Bell" but never hearing that kinda stuff in real life when I spent some time staying with a friend who kept "Coast To Coast" Radio on full time.It' was a genre of "anything goes as long as it's absurd and clearly wrong". *That* was (is?) the unifying theme for the station and format.I was just blown away: craziness fandom is a thing, WTF. Like actual fans of stuff that's similar only in being crazy... Wow.
(DIR) Post #B0qV9m443xoZxs2q24 by stevenaleach@sigmoid.social
2025-12-02T18:07:03Z
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@futurebird Doesn't seem strange to have, but more used to % and // as in Python, or similar.Not used seeing a function name, just basic syntax for them.
(DIR) Post #B0rQssGjXLQFcqcHmC by stevenaleach@sigmoid.social
2025-12-03T04:53:51Z
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@futurebird @hollie Woh! That's completely doable. I just did a check and there's tons of ~$20 mp3 players on Amazon.So.. has any band released a physical album as a an mp3 player with a headphone jack + BlueTooth support and a custom case/artwork?I mean surely such an album device could be stamped out cheap and it would be a physical object fans could collect.Has that happened yet?
(DIR) Post #B0rRjfqiRXxqSFcjlg by stevenaleach@sigmoid.social
2025-12-03T05:03:26Z
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@futurebird A presidential pardon versus being murdered by an actual missile strike while helplessly clinging to wreckage.
(DIR) Post #B0tEFcJk6FnDj2SSoK by stevenaleach@sigmoid.social
2025-12-04T01:41:45Z
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@futurebird YouTube is a hard one - there's not much in the way of any other platform that folks are really moving to.I *Did* discover that one playlist (A rust language course) I'd had bookmarked on YouTube is also on #PeerTube which I take as a positive sign that the platform might be getting large/popular enough to go somewhere.But YouTube is just the default way we have of uploading and sharing content right now and it sucks because it would be entirely unusable without an ad blocker.
(DIR) Post #B1JprRxRoTnr0utJg0 by stevenaleach@sigmoid.social
2025-12-16T21:45:39Z
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@futurebird I do find the Fermi Paradox or, more generally, the lack of evidence of biology outside this solar system depressing.Yes, statistically there *should* be other life out there, but we don't *know* that yet and I find the prospect that perhaps we (as in life of all forms on this rock) *might* be "it" sad.Short length of time left for this solar system compared to the stretch of time to the heat death of the universe.... it just feels terrible to think of no one experiencing it.
(DIR) Post #B1kc11zpJ7hrljLqTY by stevenaleach@sigmoid.social
2025-12-29T19:47:44Z
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@futurebird "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaNameless Island is an island in Sitka, Alaska, United States.[1]Nameless Island was named in the year 1809 by a Russian navigator, and the present name is a translation from the Russian.[2] "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nameless_Island_(Alaska)
(DIR) Post #B1l74GVst3LkEyMtJw by stevenaleach@sigmoid.social
2025-12-30T01:35:40Z
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@futurebird @vikxin @NanoRaptor I was surprised to find this particular one is *way* worse on DuckDuckGo than Google for me. DuckDuckGo is multiple pages of "I tested SupderDana 66" results with that single "Did SuperDana really...?" link (like above). Google puts "Did they?" one up top for me, has a couple forum type links with the original meme in context, one link with the "66 Outlet" link title to a real 13 outlet strip, and then other other results are various (real) strips.
(DIR) Post #B21hlJUH5a5nqf7H0a by stevenaleach@sigmoid.social
2026-01-07T01:42:07Z
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@futurebirdI love this! How have I never heard about this cheese?"Jefferson's policy to refuse gifts while in office led him on January 4, 1802, to pay Leland $200 for the cheese"" reported to still be there as late as March of 1804 (at which point it was described as "very far from being good").[9] Apocryphal accounts assert that the last of it was served at a presidential reception in 1805, or that it was dumped in the Potomac at some date unknown"https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jefferson-encyclopedia/mammoth-cheese/
(DIR) Post #B224RQiQnoeXQ9E43M by stevenaleach@sigmoid.social
2026-01-07T05:56:20Z
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@futurebird Idea: A [fantasy|horror|sci-fi] setting with the normal physical impossibilities and tropes on tap that the genre expects, most people going with it and taking it all as given. ("Oh, magic's real.. Okay", "Oh, FTL and anti-gravity are possible? Okay")And a subset of lucid people are freaking out 'cause the best possible theory is that they live in a simulation because physics can't be "real" for all that (like causality violations, etc.) to happen.
(DIR) Post #B265CagaKPsEaMgq0W by stevenaleach@sigmoid.social
2026-01-09T04:23:41Z
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@futurebird I've always thought of Apple phones as status symbols. I figure standing out and being recognizable is pretty much the point?If someone just wants a phone, they'd get a generic Android and pay 1/10th of the price.
(DIR) Post #B265mAxXSMCZDlaWhc by stevenaleach@sigmoid.social
2026-01-09T04:30:09Z
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@futurebird @stevo618 My problem is usually that *no* phone that I'm aware of has a lens cap. And since I work in kitchens and live in a physical world that isn't always entirely clean, I have to take cue-tips to the barely cleanable lenses before I can even think about shooting something even close, let alone macro.Why don't phones have lens caps?Seriously, no camera was EVER made without a lens cap until our phones replaced cameras and now none of them have caps.
(DIR) Post #B29GHLXHlU7415gr7Q by stevenaleach@sigmoid.social
2026-01-10T17:11:56Z
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@futurebirdI'd love to replace Gmail, but I simply don't see any viable alternative.Not only is there no other free service that looks like they'll stay around, but I believe a Google account is *required* to use the "Play" store to install software on Android.And a smart phone is a requirement to participate in the modern world. I work as a dishwasher, for instance, and must clock in and out with an "app".I couldn't have my job without a Gmail address (or Apple equivalent maybe).
(DIR) Post #B2mWaSBLtSmPcH65y4 by stevenaleach@sigmoid.social
2026-01-29T15:48:25Z
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@futurebird @ligasser My only exposure is playing with Forth - Any number gets pushed onto the stack, any operator consumes the last two stack elements and pushes the result onto the stack.
(DIR) Post #B2mWoXjE4Lb4s8eyTA by stevenaleach@sigmoid.social
2026-01-29T15:50:59Z
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@futurebird @vikxin I love it 'cause it's easy to implement an interpreter... but actually using it? Not so much. Writing a Forth interpreter is fun. Writing Forth... less fun.
(DIR) Post #B2nNvXxKuskTAxU6oC by stevenaleach@sigmoid.social
2026-01-30T01:46:06Z
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@futurebird @alter_kaker I know you don't like the browser based UI, but I'd recommend JupyterLab -- Honestly, It's become my default working environment for Python for a long time, implementing and testing stuff bit by bit in notebooks even if they'll eventually be stand-alone scripts: https://www.codecademy.com/article/jupyter-notebook-chromebook