Andy Frank

@afrankvt
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Beer. Bourbon. Hokie. RVAer. Founder Novant. Prev SkyFoundry, Tridium. Maintainer Fantom lang, and Studs embedded IoT framework.
Websitehttp://andyfrank.com
GitHubhttps://github.com/afrankvt
It’s alive. https://udm14.com
&udm=14 | the disenshittification Konami code

A quick way to get an AI-free search without any extra work.

Classic version control:

Whatever you think the limit is on number of Thermoworks thermometers one should own…

I’ve handily exceeded it…

I’ll let you in on a secret: I love sporadically updated weblogs. I subscribe to over 1200 feeds and most of them are sporadic or even technically “inactive”. Months often pass between updates

It means that every post published was important to the writer

Back in the days of snail mail, letters that began with “It’s been a while since I last wrote to you” were the ones people cherished the most

You don’t need to post every day or even every week to have a blog that matters

Study indicating students don’t learn well in rooms with over 700ppm carbon dioxide. And over 1300 they definitely can’t learn (I’ve flown in planes with levels that high).

Study was done in 1893.

Like global warming, this stuff has been known for more than a century. It was just inconvenient to making excess profit. https://bird.makeup/users/mdc_martinus/statuses/1768598494216864164

Maarten De Cock

“students can work well in a clean room with about seven parts per 10,000 of carbon dioxide [700 ppm]; much more than this causes dullness, and anything over thirteen parts [>1300 ppm] causes in most cases an almost impassable barrier to the full acquisition of knowledge.” (3/3)

TIL if you have your iPhone plugged into your Mac and you do an AirDrop transfer, it can actually use the wired connection, so for iPhone 15 Pro/Max if you use a really good USB-C cable, you can transfer several gigabytes over AirDrop really quickly. Just used this to transfer some videos from the Blackmagic Cam app. WireDrop? 😅
This is most impressive (and almost scary). 😳
https://xoxo.zone/@waxy/112005570302750773
Waxy.org (@[email protected])

SDXL Lightning: generate janky 1024x1024 images nearly as fast as you can type, try random strings and nonsense https://fastsdxl.ai/

XOXO Zone
The data for France is remarkably consistent globally. On average, the French make 3 journeys per day for a duration of around an hour. This is consistent globally and known as Marchetti's constant and has been stable for two centuries. Motorization has extended the distance (but not time) of travel from 10 to 50 km/day [Source: Aurélien Bigo, associate researcher of the Energy and Prosperity Chair at the Louis-Bachelier Institute]
TIL tilde (~) as "home" in unix and web directories:

On Unix-like operating systems (including AIX, BSD, Linux and macOS), tilde normally indicates the current user's home directory. [...] This convention derives from the Lear-Siegler ADM-3A terminal in common use during the 1970s, which happened to have the tilde symbol and the word "Home" (for moving the cursor to the upper left) on the same key.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilde#Directories_and_URLs

pic: the ADM-3A
picture of a ADM-3A terminal, w…
Tilde - Wikipedia

Suppose the bright side of this - might as well use Digicert and get as far away as possible from the dumpster fire that is Sectico…