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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 16h

Curtis Sliwa comes across as a genuinely fucking weird guy. you don't really see this specific thing much anymore, or at least it's overshadowed by more extreme stuff

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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 16h

rip rust, no scalable vector support. maybe i'll actually write C++ for once in ~1 trillion years

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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 17h

guess what im doing

austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · Nov 22

if you write a computer program i immediately lose all respect for you

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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 1d

wow, this guy is 50? i can't believe it, he looks freakin' over 9000!! *posts a picture of the most 50yo-looking man to ever live*

austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 2d

wish i could have swung by but just wasn’t feeling well. next time!

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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 4d

that doesn't sound very good

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 4d

A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network. Included AI-generated robot porn.

www.404media.co/man-stores-a...

Man Stores AI-Generated Robot Porn on His Government Computer, Loses Access to Nuclear Secrets

A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network. As part of ...

www.404media.co

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Catherine @whitequark.org · 6d

added a WebUSB platform device capability descriptor to #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer so now it pops up a prompt like this if you plug it in and Chrome is running

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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 6d

I think for this build I want to do SSDs; how loud are spinning disks these days? not only that but obviously the iops-per-GB-provisioned-storage will be much better, but noise is my main concern

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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 6d

ok so apparently 8TB is probably the only reasonable option because the only reasonable 16TB drives I'm seeing are this thing and I'm not so sure about a noname brand www.amazon.com/VectoTech-V-...

Amazon.com: VectoTech V-MAX 16TB Internal SSD SATA III 6 Gb/s 3D NAND TLC 2.5"/7mm Solid State Drive, up to 550MB/s : Electronics

Buy VectoTech V-MAX 16TB Internal SSD SATA III 6 Gb/s 3D NAND TLC 2.5"/7mm Solid State Drive, up to 550MB/s: Internal Solid State Drives - Amazon.com ✓ FREE DELIVERY possible on eligible purchases

www.amazon.com

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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 6d

so, what's the down low on good large capacity SATA solid states these days? i need like 6x multi-TB drives for a new nas. 16TB is still probably too pricey but i'm interested in general options

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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 7d

hey it seems you wrote something using a small bit of rhetoric in the title. i just wanted to tell you this isn't lost on me, right before i take it literally and start complaining,

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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · Aug 7

Reddit fucked up the internet a lot but vote systems are one of the more insidious outcomes. for computer nerds it's like catnip because it lets dullards play out fake Foucault vs Chomsky fantasies in their mind while others clap like seals because it fits an idea of Liberal Western Intellectualism

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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · Aug 7

computer programming is an annoying topic to discuss online in general but one thing i dislike most about vote-based forum systems is that they are rife with this idea "not learning anything about something" is actually a display of pious wisdom and not a form of insane, literal gaslighting

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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 10d

Do YOU or someone you know in Austin want to speak at the next Austin Systems meetup? We have room for 1 more speaker for next week's event (Wed Oct 15) to talk about some interesting tech for 20-25 minutes. More details at austinsystems.org

Austin Systems Programming

A meetup for curious low-level engineers in Austin, TX. We meet in-person monthly.

austinsystems.org

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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 12d

the entire article could be reduced to "heat transfer/thermal radiation doesn't really work that well in space" and thus we could conclude it's basically a bullshit premise from the start. but i assume this would not be good journalism, for reasons beyond me

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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 12d

this article is interesting because it spends most of the second half explaining why the headline isn't possible, yet it just sort of treats this as a little fun factoid rather than a clear example of the way tech CEOs just make shit up and lie about it? www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

Jeff Bezos envisions space-based data centers in 10 to 20 years — could allow for natural cooling and more effective solar power

But at what cost?

www.tomshardware.com

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André Arko @indirect.io · 13d

announcing a new community-focused gem server from the team previously behind rubygems: gem.coop. join us and start using it today!

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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 16d

the only tv i think i’ve ever purchased with my own money (i don’t usually watch tv) and it was really nice and broke instantly. lol

austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 16d

and then i come back home and my new stupidass tv was stuck in a bricked boot loop. you can’t win them all

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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 16d

jjcon was fucking lit, git merge was fun, and i got to work with my team. it was a good week

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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 23d

my opinion on Typst: it’s good, but I still yearn for the true power of a Pollen-like lisp-based tool for writing papers and publishing them in various forms

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Okay Myfriend @debianxfce.bsky.social · 27d

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Apple Bottom Jings @afraidofwasps.bsky.social · Sep 20

(DMing girl) Life is so randommm it's like.. Whyyyyyy Lol. (logging into Albert Einstein role playing account) (DMing same girl) Life makes perfect since

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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 29d

it is my only goal in life to make the world a Worse Place. i am motivated by this and this alone

austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 29d

my name is Compiler Segfault

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