John

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A big ol’ gay. Proudly anti-fascist.
The NRA is a terrorist organization.
Scronch factory.
Born at 345 ppm atmospheric CO2.
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Show threadJohnMar 17
This course seems to get good reviews, but my mind was made up before I even read any of them 
JohnMar 17
I've been going back and forth on running through another basic python course (because I never commit to it for more than a few weeks or so every time and then just forget everything) and I just noticed the footer on the Automate The Boring Stuff site:
Show threadJohnFeb 22

@gigabecquerel I have one at home and one at work each running Folding@Home and I am objectively aware of how inefficient that is but something deep inside of me is compelling me to do it. It is wasteful (of a small amount of electricity) but it would somehow -feel- more wasteful to just have both Pis sit unused in a drawer.

Per watt, I have many, many times more compute available in my (mostly idle) Mac Studio on my desk right now... and yet!

JohnFeb 11

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116051908765517515

Uh yeah, it’s time to think beyond cars and car-centric infrastructure, you stupid fucks.

Show threadJohnFeb 2
@josch @mntmn me reading my power bill: “I don’t know what I expected.”
Show threadJohnJan 20
@Tomhodson I’m not sure if it holds for today, but this was a critical feature on color CRTs for getting rough color balance off just the SMPTE color bars. The effect on the bars should be the same, viewed on a modern screen, but maybe isnt as useful since we have finer control over display color.
JohnJan 19

ACAB includes billionaires (because the enforcement arm of the state always/only protects capital)...

Which unfortunately means the fictional wealthy suitor in the dialogue breakdown of Britney Spears' 2000 breakout hit, "Oops!... I Did It Again" (who apparently took some kind of OceanGate-pleasure-cruise down to the wreck of the Titanic to retrieve the famous Sapphire necklace) is, in fact, a bastard.

And if I could travel 26 years into the past, I'd tell Britney, "Girl, you can do better."

JohnJan 18
Get in loser, we're applying Aquaphor to the inside of our noses every 30 minutes until the worst season on this continent is finally over with again.
Show threadJohnJan 12

@geerlingguy Just read Longitude over the holiday in two sittings. Was not expecting it to be quite so riveting!

Be a clock engineer, become ungovernable!

JohnDec 10

Hey NYCMTA, are you doing okay?

This was, tbh, a major relief, because instead of ~20 screens full of annoying ads, every screen in this car was black, except for this one, from Jay Street-Metrotech all the way up to 181st Street.