Mastodawn

I made a small 2-page comic where I tried to cram in as many badly-translateable Finnish phrases as possible. Read here (explanations of the phrases at the end): https://www.hempuli.com/comic/?title=comics&id=20

Alistair Buxton Apr 17

The Teletext Archaeologist Apr 17

For a long time it was only possible to recover teletext on Linux - now you can do it on your Windows laptop! Get more information and download VBI Recorder for nothing at https://teletextarchaeologist.org/software/ - but do remember to upload your recoveries to https://www.teletextarchive.com afterwards :-)

Alistair Buxton Apr 17

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Alistair Buxton Feb 6

@hedders

I think the most surprising thing is that (we are expected to believe) the security vetting for ambassador to the US involves the PM asking if you're bent and then just taking your word for it.

Alistair Buxton Mar 27

Has anyone tried emailing Sam Altman "Bro what if you're wrong about LLMs and the Basilisk decides to punish you for wasting resources on an obvious dead-end?"

Alistair Buxton Mar 8

Kauz Mar 8

I've just invented a drafted linear extrusion for #OpenSCAD without using roof() or minkowski(), and also not limited to convex 2d geometries as in convex_offset_extrude() from #BOSL2.

I didn't stumble upon this solution anywhere else, so I might be onto something.

I present to you
module drafted_extrude(height,angle,$fn) {
intersection_for(a=[360/$fn:360/$fn:360]) linear_extrude(height=height,v=[cos(a),sin(a),tan(angle)]) children();
}

I need to work on $fn and convexity passthrough, and it may be as inefficient as minkowski(), but it has no limitations on inner radii and how thin walls on 2d geometry can be. Example usage for chamfers is in alt text

Alistair Buxton Feb 21

I realised Cory Doctorow was full of it when he said "you can't encrypt one bit". That was 20 years ago.

The people who are mad at him now are the ones who've been uncritically lapping up everything he writes, and the irony is he's very much responsible for the culture he is now complaining about.

Alistair Buxton Feb 6

Adults need to stop co-opting and ruining children's memes on a time frame of weeks. It is the memetic equivalent of antibiotic over-prescription, and brainrot memes are the equivalent of MRSA.

If we don't stop doing this, the only shibboleth they have left will be things you would not dare say in public or put on a t-shirt. Like the things that guy says. You know, that guy you don't like.

Alistair Buxton Feb 6

PSA: Running patch(1) on random patches that were emailed to you is unsafe.

Alistair Buxton Jan 13

@SnoopJ

Who is Armin?

Are they in the room with us now?

Alistair Buxton Jan 13

There is nobody in the world I trust to take a bribe and then deliver absolutely nothing in return more than open source developers.

The quants are worse anyway and they've been donating for years.