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Thomas Dickerson

@elfprince13.mumak.app

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co-Founder // Chief Science Officer @geopipe.ai (šŸ––šŸ»), PhD from Brown CS Dept, SMCVT alum (Math/Physics/CS), admin @cemetech.net, AFOL & open-theist.

Decentralizing systems (human & digital). Opinions are my own.

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cc @kevincarson1.bsky.social
who knows a lot of archival tricksšŸ“ā€ā˜ ļø

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Jeremy what do you mean itā€™s Friday it was Friday two days ago

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I am one with the ffmpeg and the ffmpeg is with me

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Look at this sweet baby who likes being pet now

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Speaking of comms peopleā€¦did theyā€¦ummā€¦did they paint Joe Biden orange now?

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Special interest activated!

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ā€œHow can we make this one interchange even more cursedā€šŸ¤Ŗ

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I havenā€™t read that much of his stuff but Stardust is probably the best fantasy film of the last 20 years. Breaks my heart

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Catsicle?

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But wait! Thereā€™s more! Stopped at my parentsā€™ because my dadā€™s Vietnamese sister was visiting from Chicago and making dinner and got sent home with about a quart of red currants (and a belly full of spring rolls)

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Hmmm well mostly I was wondering if thereā€™s a way to disable hot reloading (or have it request / prompt to do it) to avoid losing half-written drafts

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@nacl.sh enjoy I think?

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(And buckets from a nursery are easier than bare-root for sure)

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Strawberries are very susceptible to pests and pestilences - a family friend with a commercial strawberry farm ended up switching completely to grapes and starting a winery and had better luck. Blueberries need highly acidic soil or special acidic fertilizer. Raspberries/brambles are easy.

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@haileyok.com do I remember you did a blogpost about how the app hot reloads JS/HTML updates after 15 minutes of inactivity?

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Big ā€œShrimp Jesusā€ Energy

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Are you planting bare root or getting them in a bucket from a nursery?

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They also come in a deep almost purple maroon but we havenā€™t planted any of those yet (and I havenā€™t seen them grow wild)

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Found some treasure!

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Bluesky users telling trolls to go back to Twitter reminds me of the golden days of Heroes of the Storm users telling trolls to go back to League of Legends

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Hey folks, I did some writing this week on my explorations with HLS (HTTP Live-Streaming) and how I learned the protocol is really just a bunch of text files in a trench coat.

If you're interested in how it works and how to add features to video streams, check it out!

jazco.dev/2024/07/05/h...

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From pp. 20-21 of Justice Jackson's dissent in Trump v US last week. I think it's fair to infer this as a call to action:

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> take toddler on pony ride for 4th of July > argue with wife about the definition of pony > go to Wikipedia > spend the week telling everyone about the evolution of Yakutian cattle as a landrace

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Having a real ā€œfuck Alzheimerā€™s, that shit sucksā€ kinda day

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WOW, perfect framing. Ivy-pedigreed-academics tend to see the NYT as a wayward sibling, or the 13th Harvard house, or a prize committee, or a high-impact-factor venue. At core, part of their prestige, non-profit ecosystem. I've struggled to explain how different it feels in the building. This is it.

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I thought the problem was they make most of their money from the people who send the spam?

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Read this in tandem with HG Wellsā€™s ā€œThe First Men in the Moonā€ if you havenā€™t before

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log cabin with no running water and only a discarded solar panel charging a car battery for lights in a sheep pasture is a surprisingly decent accommodation

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ā€œboth candidates have obvious cognitive decline but the media only wants to talk about one of themā€ isnā€™t quite an own goal but itā€™s damn close.

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šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚ Love this for you

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Plus gotta get it up to like 900Ā°F for it catch fire

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Motion detector that yells ā€œdonā€™t come in, Iā€™m pooping ā€ loud enough for the whole neighborhood to hear

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Headline: ā€œGaiman denies rape allegationsā€ Me: sounds sus but I should at least hear testimony of both sides Gaiman: ā€œI fucked my kidā€™s nanny (consensually)ā€ Me: ā€¦.Iā€™ve heard enough

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Caterpillar tomato French fry word salad. 47% PV for Trump of 59% turnout is 28% of American citizens voted for Trump in 2016. Higher than it should be? Yes. Close to half? Not remotely.

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And I was like ā€œholy shit Iā€™m taking to a Markov Chain chatbot who has been trained on 6 weeks of seeing Java syntax on a white board with no comprehension of intentā€

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Throwback to the time I was TAing intro CS and trying to help a student debug a problem with their code so I asked ā€œwhat were you *trying* to do with this function?ā€ hoping to find a path towards correct understanding and their response was ā€œI donā€™t know, I just typed itā€

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Do you have a good recipe though? The birds always get the elderberries in our yard before they are ripe enough to cook.

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Scott Aaronsonā€™s ā€œGhost in the Quantum Turing Machineā€ is a pretty solid bit of writing that gets further into mathematical formalism on some related issues: www.scottaaronson.com/papers/giqtm...

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In 2016, when Trump beat Clinton, if people who didnā€™t vote counted for ā€œNone Of The Aboveā€, NOTA would have won

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This really started kicking in with the post-9/11 expansion of the security state. It just took 20 years of right-wing cultural creep with the Tea Party and MAGA, before an outright fascist presidential candidate showed up openly promising to exploit the ready-made legal tools at his disposal.

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Me at Aldi when I canā€™t find a quarter for the cart

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I'd be happy with the "everybody / people i follow / people mentioned / nobody" option already implemented for replies tbh

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one of my mutuals was appending "please don't repost" to posts recently and I immediately thought "repost gates would be useful"

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