GroteStreet 🦘 @ GroteStreet @aussie.zone

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Hahahah. I don't know how my sleep-deprived brain got to "I am Bob".

Yeah, audio isn't my preferred medium, but since I now commute by car instead of public transport, it's the only viable means of book consumption for me. It's unfortunate because a bad narrator can turn me off of an otherwise good book.

Sanderson's Skyward series have different narrators on Spotify and Audible. One of them I could not stand for more than 5 minutes. The other, Sophie Aldred, is a real pleasure to listen to.

Huh, interesting. I am Bob is literally next on my audiobook playlist.

Sigh. As a fan of Sanderson, Abercrombie, and Gibson, I am now compelled to check out your other recommendations. As if I haven't already had an overly long queue of things to read..

It looks like they lifted the ban in the USA too? If you're still keen, do give them a ring.

FYI, in Australia they scrapped the rule a couple years ago and you would've been able to donate now (at least blood, not sure about organs).

Wherever you are, maybe check again if they've relaxed the rule.

I can't stand Rossman's videos; but I respect the hell out of his ideas, principles, and efforts to better the slices of technological life that he cares about.

thousands

While technically correct, with $700k, I would argue that, "almost a million dollar" would give me a better picture of the scale of the problem than just "thousands".

Me in the late 90s: CSS is not a language!

Today: Holy crap, it's now Turing-complete.

"It's a deck of playing cards. How much more fun can it be, compared to the 50+ other solitaire games? And why would I want to play poker by myself?"

So I got a bit of money leftover after bills, and decided to get it anyway cause I haven't played anything fun this year. Went in blind without reading or watching any reviews.

Turns out it's NOT just your standard deck of playing cards. You can do all sorts of crazy things to your deck. Like playing illegal hands such as five-of-a-kind, or a flush house. It's a lot of fun.

Obligatory link to the Rustonomicon.

Should you wish a long and happy career of writing Rust programs, you should turn back now and forget you ever saw this book.

Thus just feels like a lazy LLM-generated article.

Here are some secrets of Linux that many people may not be aware of. Proceeds to list things that Linux is famous for

Speaking of stores, there's also Obtainium if you like living on the edge. It can pull directly from GitHub releases, which may or may not be desirable for different people.

Another obvious one is Firefox or its siblings Mull & Fennec, with their add-on support for a better browsing experience.

There's also system-wide ad/tracker blocking solutions. I don't actually have a recommendation on this as most of them share each other's blocklist anyway.

some kind of hobby (especially one with a social component)

Okay, I just joined a guild in WoW and started doing 40-man raids. What's the next step?

25MB.. Is that a lot?

Depends, I guess. For a Godot app? Probably about average.

For a quick and dirty native app? This timer app I use is 160kB. Less than 1% in size.

Or, short of that.. If you're whistleblowing on Boeing, you should go to Airbus and Lockheed and tell them, "it's in your best interest that I stay breathing".

Nah. He'll just claim the trophy for himself. And second and third place while he's at it.

all work in floats

We even have float16 / float8 now for low-accuracy hi-throughput work.

I really don’t know the Scottish English

If you think American v. British are at 80-90%, Scottish is around 30% and that's being generous 🙂

Reckon the manbaby-in-chief will let it stay up?