Thomas B. Rücker @tbr@society.oftrolls.com

Me to the fediverse:

Too busy telling people what's on fire to help put the fire out.

ah so this is life as "senior dev"

Me: I'm going to optimize this application and make it run faster

Application:

I feel confident that I'm not the only one here who will get a chuckle out of this one

https://mastodon.art/media/mC2v_lF9JBY-FPQOkX8

@TheGibson

What if the image captions are just there to train the AI?

in europe we say "hello pal"
in america they say "hello ntsc"

Did cave men have man caves?

I just thought of a cake in the shape of a Hilbert curve to optimize for the best part of the cake: the edges, then I discovered someone already made it! I'm glad that there are brains out there that think about the same stuff as me.

https://mpetroff.net/2019/04/hilbert-curve-cake/#more-2810

Draw.io has become really mature, and I hear they have a standalone (Electron-based) desktop app (https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-desktop/releases).

https://www.draw.io

@thegibson Logically, that's 14/11.

Netizens, it has come to my attention that today is the most logical of days.

Today, 11/14, is Leonard Nimoy day.

Post appropriately.

honestly, given the reactions that the phrase "OK, Boomer" have been getting in the media, you'd think packs of teens have been systematically targeting elderly people for brutal street muggings or something. but, no... it's just a phrase, and a mild one at that. why is it so upsetting?

because it's not rebellious or confrontational, which are things older people are used to getting from younger people. it's straight-up *dismissive*. and it's not something we, GenX, the first-generation children of the Boomers, ever had the chance to express.

our rebellion was taken away, repackaged, and sold back to us when we were too young to know what it was for or why it could be powerful. we grew up feeling helpless and hopeless, trapped in a world where we had nothing meaningful to say and nothing useful to do because Doom was Nigh--the ozone layer, nuclear war, the Y2K bug, politicians that hated us sending us off to wars for blatant lies. Boomers got to have their Swinging 60s--we grew up under the specter of AIDS. we were isolated from each other, so we never realized that we weren't alone. and when we were finally able to get our own voice out into the popular culture, we spoke obliquely of isolation, depression, inward-turned knives.

Linux Foundation bans person for "Tone Policing."

https://www.patreon.com/posts/31469894

Full article (just the facts, no opinion) and video reaction (with opinion) for free at the link.

Trails

#tokyocameraclub

https://mstdn.tokyocameraclub.com/media/xs3Vt8bQ04eBGSvm8Ms https://mstdn.tokyocameraclub.com/media/jtVoXnar98Qid3T3qZo

people who know Qucs: how can I calculate RMS or arithmetic average of values in a transient simulation? If I try to do avg() of a time-dependent value, I get nan.

Maybe transient sim is not the best way to do this. I'm trying to get the power factor.

I want to simulate active PFC later on, I just need to get a grasp on the tools first.

Qucs is pretty good by the way, except for its documentation. That is worse than of LTspice, which is not a small feat.

@tbr maybe for Christmas if they get used to me enough I can get video of me dressed up like it with a santa hat, throwing them peanuts

It appears that peanuts make you very popular with crows as well as ravens GUESS WHO GOT A NEW GOTH FAMILY

Literal Disney villain shit, I love it °

Dear #HongKongProtests girls and guys: as a journalist from Germany I’m not used to get so many „Thank you“ from the people around me. It is incredible here.

I worked at the ISIS-Frontlines but I’m more afraid of the HK police, since they are unpredictable.