Jay @jay@freeradical.zone
Dad, Academic Technologist, AcademicIT Leader, Lapsed Pastry Cook, Aspiring Bagpiper. Valar Dohaeris
The reason I like #CreativeCommons licenses, and CC-by-SA in particular, is that I can prevent others having a monopoly on derivatives of my work. Basically, until it becomes public domain, it's exploitation-proof.
You can't pay your singers £20 each to record it and then make squillions, because you can't forbid them to record it themselves and cut you out.
You can't print it, then go "out of print" and demand some ransom to give up the printing rights because those were never exclusive.
Stagnaticus, god of waiting and long lines. He draws his power from the kinetic momentum of people impatiently waiting. His temples are your local DMV, but His Mecca is comprised of the lines at Disneyworld.
It is said that to seek His good graces, one must stand in the middle of an infinitely long line.
I’m thinking about opening a sporting goods store. It will be called Ball du Jour.
But we’ll carry a wide range of items. We’ll even puck your whole hockey team.
I turned my laptop over and it appears to feature a blood sacrifice port. Amazing how much tech they cram into these things nowadays.
if you had told college-aged me that I would be working on machines that surpassed the Sun pizza-boxen that we had in our college lab I'm not sure i would have believed you.
If you had told college-aged me that I would have a collection of programming languages available to me for free on said machines my mind would have boggled.
But that's what I have now. I have the workstation that I always dreamed I would have in my "dorm room".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARCstation#/media/File:SPARCstation_1.jpg
spaghetti code: unstructured, monolithic
lasagna code: stacks with unintentionally repeated functionality
ravioli code: small, self-contained modules
rotini code: huge dependency trees
farfalle code: nice syntax & layout but hard to use
Linguistics joke
@jk Doctor Who's canonical deaths:
1 got too old for the Internet
2 tracked by the Internet Lords
3 bitten by a web spider
4 fell off the wifi aerial
5 ate raw Internet
6 attacked by the Internet
7 shot in a Twitter fight
8 drank Internet potion
War blew up the entire Internet
9 too much Billie Piper
10 read the comments
11 spent Christmas on the Internet
12 "well, actuallyed" by an Internet Man
nothing is more "leet" than being kind to your peers
In software, employers should see a union as a positive sign that their employees want the company to succeed. Otherwise, employees wouldn't put in the effort to start a union, they'd just hop to the next available job.
When skilled developers are as hard to find as they've been for my entire career, employers should be happy to see developers who care enough to stay and fight.
Trying to decide explain dew to a 4yo has made me realize I don’t really understand it. It’s supposed to be condensation, but if it’s not also precipitating, why is the car that isn’t under the tree wetter? And other objects get condensation all over: the hollow bottom of a beer can isn’t dry.
Time to research some meteorology...
Remember when stuff™ you bought just came in a regular, non descriptive box, and you just took the stuff™ out?
"unboxing" and discussing how a thing was boxed and packaged seems so… strange.
I guess the internet's love of cats has rubbed off on people so they love boxes too?
"almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983"
"amber-screen library computer in 1998: type in two words and hit F3. search results appear instantly. now: type in two words, wait for an AJAX popup. get a throbber for five seconds. oops you pressed a key, your results are erased..."
Also a good bit about how interfaces destroy data, disable cross-referencing, and generally suck in all kinds of unpardonable ways.
I can't even. Students have been complaining about the audio in a room, so I stopped by to see what's going on, since it has new speakers, and amps, and everything should be fine.
Ambient HVAC noise is >70 dB, or about twice the ANSI S.12 standard.
Facilities says it's "fine." 😭
The world makes sense with quotes.
https://files.botsin.space/media_attachments/files/000/162/173/original/ebbcc835cb25e289.jpe
the one thing that i do want to see in VR: a control interface based on sign language
