What's the best time you can put on your model railway? That's right, a model model railway!
#QuestionableModelRailroadAccessories
@AnnemarieBridy And the ideal sensor is easily obtainable. It even has its own temperature and humidity sensors as well. (Turns out it needs them to in order to produce an accurate CO2 reading, but you can tap them yourself as well.) So there's a couple of nerdy hours I can spend on another side project...
@AnnemarieBridy Hm. I just made a little device with an e-ink display, remotely linked to an outdoor sensor to tell us the temperature and humidity. Now I'm thinking of attaching a sensor directly to it to display indoor CO2. And maybe even use a little canary graphic...
Nato expansion
@big_louse Lost me at "NATO shills". FOAD. Let me know if you need that initialism translated sometime during the 10 seconds before I block you.
You can have a civliization, or you can have these people. You can't have both. We really need to choose.
@AnnemarieBridy I knew I was doing the smart thing by refusing to replace my 11 year old macbook air. It'd turn into a mass of white-hot foam if I tried that.
@makegeneve Please tell me you've got a "misterbun". #susief4ever #CalvinAndHobbes
Massive #nerds everywhere: what are your favorite #hostname conventions for computers and #IOT devices around the home and office?
Of late I've been going with Hebridean islands for system names, Star Wars critters for IP cameras (because one of the first ones I installed reminded me vaguely of a Jawa), and characters from #MontyPython and the Holy Grail for other minor network-enabled microcontroller-based gizmos.
@davidbisset "Littering your code with hastily-written temporary functions you'll eventually forget the purpose of and be afraid to delete because you're too lazy to work out if anything's still calling any of them." doesn't leave room for a very large animal on the cover
@osintaurora Source of this estimate?
@GhostOnTheHalfShell @mhoye Google is an advertising company. It has never been anything else. 80% of its revenue is from ads. Of the remaining 20%, half is from apps, a proportion of which is also ads.
@chris I take it back. It gets a lot better. Very nail-bitey.
To the shock of absolutely zero people, I have lots of thoughts about King Arthur movies. Thanks to @UncannyMagazine for giving me a space to discuss!
https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-matter-of-king-arthur-on-the-screen/
@Virginicus That sounds like something the descendant of a telephone sanitizer would say.
Voting made easy:
Researching the issues and candidates can be time-consuming and baffling. instead, try this. Pick the most reliably wrong-headed person you know who likes to buttonhole you and tell you their theories about the world. Ask them how they intend to vote. Then do the opposite.
(Half-stolen or at best heavily paraphrased from Robert A. Heinlein)
Sooner or later it's going to come out that all these LLMs were trained principally on twitter shitposters and 8chan
Consulting SW Engineer, mostly Pacific Northwest these days.
Medical Informatics - Carrier-Grade Network Video Distribution - Real Time Clinical Telemetry
Formerly: Motorola, Tektronix, Intel, HP, Qualcomm, Nintendo; others you're less likely to have heard of.
"Millions for nonsense but not one cent for entropy."
Will code for pie. 🥧