Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
Fellow white people: If you enjoy the milk at the bottom of a bowl of sugary cereal, you should know that Thai folks have commoditized this into a drink that you can buy pretty much anywhere. It's called "Thai milk tea" and you should go try it right now if you haven't already. If you want the whole soggy cereal experience (you do, trust me) get it with boba.
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A 2023 map of every high speed railway in the US, complete with stations and service frequencies 😎
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Good for Meta. Forcing websites to pay news outlets when those outlets choose to advertise on the website is insane and completely backwards. The worst kind of corporate cronyism.
Meta has begun blocking links to news publishers in Canada, and Google is looking to do the same. Canada's Online News Act requires technology comp...
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Another federal judge issues another (temporary) injunction against another state law making it a crime to give minors "harmful" books and allowing anyone to challenge any material a library has that they don't like, this time in Arkansas.
I'm glad there are judges who remember that we still have the First Amendment, even if state legislatures and authoritarian governors like Sarah Huckabee don't like anyone exercising constitutional rights other than having guns.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/07/30/arkansas-book-ban-judge-injunction/
I'm really annoyed with how the pandemic normalized adding tip lines to every credit card transaction, even ones for transactions where extra service isn't included.
Business owners: It's not my fucking job to pay your employees a reasonable wage. It's yours.
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The engineers who designed the #Voyager probes half a century ago even thought of the possibility that a wrong sequence of commands may point the antenna dish away from earth.
And they implemented a self-adjusting mechanism that a few times a year scans the positions of a few known stars to infer the position of the earth, and point back the antenna in the right direction.
50 years later, these wonderful machines are still working, tens of billions of km away from earth, and even a wrong sequence of commands won't put them out of use.
The more I understand how they were designed, the more I feel like an early Medieval engineer looking at the Pantheon or other marvels or Roman architecture. Some amazing skills, knowledge and attention to details have been lost from that generation to ours.
Also, yes, for those who are wondering, I did, in fact, have the Firefly theme stuck in my head the entire time.
One of my vices is the occasional fine cigar.
But, I've noticed something interesting lately... Even though I'm in my mid-30s with a full beard, I'm waaaay more likely to get carded when I buy gummy bears with my cigars, lol
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The Long History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore
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The more you dig the worse it gets…
Enraged members of Florida’s original task force on African American education said they were purposefully kept in the dark about the state’s new academic standards which say skills used during Black enslavement provided “personal benefit”.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-shady-backstory-of-floridas-outrageous-new-slavery-curriculum
But it does allow more descriptive terms, like "dark-skinned"...
Okay, I think I found the formula. If you include any racial indicators (i.e. "African American", "Caucasian", "Latino") and you include the word "Female", it blocks the request.
How bizarre.
Interesting. If I do not specify the age/race of the character to be generated, it then allows it. I removed the terms "caucasian" and "middle-aged" to get past the block.
Well, this is disturbing... Bing's ML image generator will generate male politician video game character portraits no problem, but change the word "male" to "female" and it gives a content warning and blocks the request.
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Louis Ingenthron
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Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
