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As we were talking about NeXT cubes, do you know that they fit nicely in an Ikea(r) Kallax, the unit of vintage computer storage?

There comes a point where "counterfeit product" transforms into "the last surviving record"
copy that floppy
write that poem

So it turns out Unicode has separate characters for 🛈 and ⓘ

NASA stated that the Ingenuity helicopter has officially taken its last flight. 72 out of 5 planned flights is pretty darn good.

H/t to @CubeApril

Had my young son watch The Matrix with me and he said "what if that 'real world' that keanu's group is fighting in is actually just another level of the matrix they built to keep rebels busy and preoccupied" and these children are maybe not ok after all but my god are they sharp

Man goes to Windows. Says thing is not working. Says he's getting a strange error. Says he feels lost and unsure what to do. Windows says, "Solution is simple. Administrator is in the office today. Go and see him. He should know the answer." Man bursts into tears. Says, "But Windows... I am Administrator!"

Repeating the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result can also be training, practice… that’s how we learn

When a tv show says it contains "adult themes" I'm expecting it to be about stuff like hurting your back, having indigestion, going for a nice nap

I wonder what the upper limit on battery density is, not from an electrochemical/physics perspective, but on a simple practical level based on collateral damage?

Like, we're already at the point where your cellphone battery isn't more than a few orders of magnitude away from the energy density of a hand grenade, making a tesla catching on fire a minor crisis for a fire department.

At what point do batteries stop getting more dense, to limit the damage when they fail?

Confirming what we already know, higher hood heights kill more pedestrians / cyclists:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212012224000017

I have always wanted passenger vehicles to standardize on bumper, headlight, and hood heights along with a max curb weight.

Anything that goes bigger would require a different class of drivers license, with additional driver testing and more insurance.

a significant part of my job is telling the customer that their code contains undefined behavior that could explode in their faces on next compiler upgrade, to which the response, invariably, is that they are still using the exact same build of gcc as the day the company was founded in 2007, and they will bury that exact binary of gcc with them in their grave.

This. Oh my, THIS.

Saved this like ten years ago. Still lovn' it.
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#BlackMastodon

I love Elle Cordova and her clever, funny videos. This one is for all my writer and editor friends.

People keep reinventing universal linux binary with like snap and flatpack and maybe alien before that, when wine is right here.

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New, slightly updated #introduction:

Hello! I’m Clar Fon, a.k.a. Light Dark, a.k.a. ltdk, and I use they/them/their pronouns.

I’m an agender autist who has announced their intention to leave the tech industry for at least six years, and who might actually leave it without a choice. If you want to stop me in this endeavour, please take a look at my CV and share it with anyone who might be hiring.

I’ve accumulated all sorts of weird knowledge in maths and software and I try to share with others whenever I can. I’ve also got a love for lots of mostly indie video games and have some ideas of my own that I hope to make a reality some day.

Although I’ve accepted that I’ll never be a Conventional teacher, I’ve started pivoting to working on longer-form pieces that can help educate people on all this weird stuff I’ve got floating in my head.

My plan is to make more and more educational content with the hope that it can maybe become a full-time job. I also want to continue working on my game projects and pursue that avenue as well.

Basically, I’m a mess of works in progress that will hopefully become something great, but I’m confident I’ll get there on at least something.

For something a little less serious, I also host the account @ltht (“light heart”) where I post light-hearted one-off stuff, which is mostly just out-of-context quotes from the various things I'm into.