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nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏 @nemo20000.bsky.social · 13h

I'm not googling that author.

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nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏 @nemo20000.bsky.social · 13h

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nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏 @nemo20000.bsky.social · 1d

This fun little game has legs, unlike its protagonist. Just needs lots more levels. Snake+gravity:

Non-mewtonian Cat by saud

A puzzle game with a funny cat

si-nk.itch.io

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nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏 @nemo20000.bsky.social · 1d

Mine died last year. 😭

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nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏 @nemo20000.bsky.social · 1d

Prototype for a typographic system that didn't happen. Arduino-based (IIRC) implementing a highly extended PS2 protocol.

As a result, off-the-shelf PS2-to-USB adapters only cope with the standard keys, the rest are wonky.

I keep intending to replace its insides with an RP2040 doing USB. No time!

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Jan-Jaap van der Geer @jjvdgeer.bsky.social · 2d

Why does this phone needs 27 buttons if I only ever should need number 9 4 times? #nordiccrown #gonordic #dfds

A picture of a phone with 27 buttons with a label telling me to only use it for emergency calls to 9999.

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nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏 @nemo20000.bsky.social · 2d

That is a printed sticker.

They had so many wrong phones, they had to print stickers.

They paid money for the phones.

And then

They paid money for the stickers.

And then

They had to stick the stickers on all of the phones.

They got paid for all of this. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

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nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏 @nemo20000.bsky.social · 2d

🎦 This was superb. Best film I've seen for a long time. Cynical, paranoid, transactional, and utterly cinematic.
BBC iPlayer and Amazon Prime.

Film Noir UK @filmnoiruk.bsky.social · Aug 19

If you haven’t had chance yet, head over to #BBCiPlayer to watch Iranian Police thriller Law of Tehran (2019): www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏 @nemo20000.bsky.social · 2d

50% over the speed limit. That'd be an immediate ban in the UK.

Dan O'Dowd @realdanodowd.bsky.social · 2d

“I feel like this is inevitable that I’m going to get a speeding ticket!”

Watch Tesla Full Self-Driving v14.1.2 in Mad Max mode drive 25kph over the speed limit.

Elon Musk’s dangerous and defective software puts lives at risk.

nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏 @nemo20000.bsky.social · 2d

The Unicode Committee.

Bear in mind there's a Unicode modifier to change the direction of emojis (subject to font support):

UTS #51: Unicode Emoji

unicode.org

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 2d

Finnland requires cars to be inspected for roadworthiness after four years, and basically half of Tesla's Model 3s failed that test last year, by far the highest rate in the auto industry.

Teslas are disposable garbage, don't buy them! #TeslaTakedown

yle.fi/a/74-20186654

Electric cars fare worse in Finnish car inspections – up to half of Teslas flunk

EVs are gaining popularity in Finland – but perform significantly worse in inspections than petrol, diesel or hybrid cars of the same age. Teslas have by far the highest test failure rate.

yle.fi

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nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏 @nemo20000.bsky.social · 2d

Engineered by Volkswagen's emissions team.

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nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏 @nemo20000.bsky.social · 2d

LOL!

A Dell XPS 13 utterly dwarfed by a custom typographic mechanical keyboard.

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nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏 @nemo20000.bsky.social · 2d

👨 I'd like to Foo a Bar
🤖 Great idea! First you need to instantiate a Foo session, then create a Foo token, build a Foo query object for Bar, pass the Bar query to the Foo processor with the Foo token, not forgetting to finalise the Foo session before discarding the token!
👨 So not Foo(Bar)?
🤖 Fool.

nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏 @nemo20000.bsky.social · 2d

This defence of LLMs is really a damning indictment of interface design - the fact that humans have to resort to ML pattern matching to satisfy the arcane requirements of APIs *designed by humans* is caused by the gulf between the conceptual requirement of the author and the bureaucracy of API cruft

Anil Dash @anildash.com · 3d

So that’s my point. And they do super interesting things for scenarios like helping writing code.

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Peter Chilvers @peterchilvers.com · 3d

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

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nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏 @nemo20000.bsky.social · 3d

None whatsoever.

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nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏 @nemo20000.bsky.social · 3d

You'd think an economist would have a clearer perception of where the money is supposed to come from.

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nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏 @nemo20000.bsky.social · 3d

Even Amazon's excellent customer services team is hidden behind a maze of questions and a chatbot trying really hard to not connect you to an actual human.

The otherwise remarkably prescient 1993 satirical film Demolition Man got it wrong with "If you prefer not to speak to a human, press 2"!

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nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏 @nemo20000.bsky.social · 3d

That was such a wholesome two-parter IIRC. "Why did Klingons look like that?". "We don't talk about it"! 😊
Saw it when aired and not since but that scene has stuck!

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nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏 @nemo20000.bsky.social · 3d

Yup! The behemoth and the young pretender: [both i7s and 1920x1080] The old one is more than twice as fast!

Two Dell laptops running RISC OS - one 17 inch with DVD drive, PCMCIA and six button trackpad, the other 13 inch with nothing but USB and a poor two button trackpad

One Dell is an inch thick, the other is much thinner

nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏 @nemo20000.bsky.social · 3d

Yay! A RISC OS laptop that isn't an inch thick (unlike my other Dell). This one only has 4 cores though...

Not that RISC OS would notice! 🤭

[now to deploy AHK to fix the Fn-Menu keypress 😡]

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nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏 @nemo20000.bsky.social · 4d

It is good for the pronunciation of foreign languages that Japanese kids are exposed to the L sound early, but I didn't anticipate that this might lead to changes in Japanese pronunciation. Beware! English spelling is so difficult because of pronunciation changes over the centuries!

nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏 @nemo20000.bsky.social · 4d

Small remnants of spine detected.

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nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏 @nemo20000.bsky.social · 4d

I had two R33s. Full service every 3 months (synthetic oil); new tyres every 6 months (Toyo Proxes); new pads every 9 months (EBC Yellowstuff kevlar); and discs skimmed every 18 months.

Pumped the tyres on the Polestar the other day and didn't even get dirty fingers - no brake dust! No maintenance.

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