@miles_commodore We went back to the refugee housing we first came to when we defected, and showed up in a Porsche. They opened up right away We had tea and had a great conversation.
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Why Do You Care
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Why Do You Care
@GoRideABike
Internet UI Architect, Refugee to Canada. Air Cooled Porsches, MTB, MX, BMX and Skate. Post-Gentile, science, data, KPIs 4 societal advancement. Stage4 survivor
Canada Katılım Nisan 2007
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If a family rang your doorbell and said he lived in this house 30 years ago and wanted to show his kids where he grew up.
How would you handle that?
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@glen_mcgregor Next time post a screen cap. For anyone who visited the link, based on my cookie review I would suggest:
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These fake Canadian news stories are getting more sophisticated. This scammy campaign — which advertises heavily on X — uses a made-up CBC Marketplace story. airepapp.com/dsTXJp?sub2=me…
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@txsalth2o @Marriott Buy a watch. Watches tell more than time. They tell people you are prepared, care about appointments, they can open doors for you, they tell people about your activities and your aesthetic, your interests (diving/driving) and even the level of quality you demand.
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At a @Marriott
I had all USB chargers but only USB-C blocks, and a phone at 30%.
Looked for an alarm clock to set for the am.
No clock.
Called the front desk.
"We don't have alarm clocks. We can set up a wake-up call."
"There are no alarm clocks in this entire 14-story hotel?"
"Nope"
"Am I supposed to turn on the TV any time I want to know what time it is?"
"I guess"
"So if I wake up in the middle of the night and want to know what time it is, and I didn't want to turn on the TV to figure out what time it is, I'd have to, what, call you?"
"Why would you want to know what the time is in the middle of the night?"
"Here's the thing, when you get old, you wake up a lot in the middle of the night. If you wake up and it's 4:45, you say 'screw it, I'm up, ' but if it's 2 am, you have to figure out how to go back to sleep."
"Ok, I'll call housekeeping"
Am I the crazy person?
Have phones eliminated clocks?
Housekeeping had a clock, and as expected, it also had a USB port :)
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@BuckSexton Great show, a little short. I'd like these to be extended into more cerebral discussions. Meeting with a state rep, or local lawyer in that jurisdiction that can detail some of the issues with current legislation. Definitely an eye opener!
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Stumbled onto this "Squatters" show on A&E tonight, surprisingly satisfying to watch
Squatter protections in places like NY, CA, many other states are insane. Friends tell me horror stories. One said a squatter who broke into his home in DC under renovation, immediately set up mail/utilities to be sent there in squatter's name. Never had a lease. Illegally entered it. But it took a year to evict him, no rent collected for the whole period. Big legal bills too.
In many jurisdictions, the homeowner is better off paying the squatter a bounty to leave than actually go through the full eviction process. No recoup of rent, no penalty for the squatter. They live rent free then get a bonus check.
Some states are getting better about this in recent years. Florida has tightened things up. But it's shocking how much many state legislatures still enable this theft of private property.
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@LinuxJedi Amazing what we get from enthusiasts like you fo free these days. Thank you.
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@LinuxJedi Ham mode here we go. Now if only we had all the Psygnosis games loaded in.
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As you may know, I created the #Amiga emulator no one asked for called Copperline.
Now, a huge feature you also didn't ask for... Running it in your browser. Enjoy!
copperline.dev/try/
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@pitchfork The marathon son about running.. not into it back in the day, but listen to the bridge section and it is amazing. For us in Canada listening to mystic rhythms while looking at the northern lights is epic
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For today's Sunday Review, we're looking back at Rush’s 1985 album, the peak of the prog trio’s synth era, home to both impressive musicianship and pop grandeur
pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…
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@SandyofCthulhu One day in my comp sci lab with about 30 PCs (all playing Doom), we had the president of the College walk in showing some dignitaries. He was shocked we weren't coding, but the guests (most likely from Corel or Nortel) were delighted, wanting a terminal to join in!
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To think, just 2 years earlier this was the level of 3D that MicroProse was doing.
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I realized Doom was going to be HUGE in November 1993.
I took a trip back to my old workplace at MicroProse, and had a pre-release copy with me. So I thought I'd show it off to my former workmates. It was amazing.
1/3
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@peruho @Xavirompe In Canada MSX machines were RARE. I had a Yamaha CX5M II MSX music computer as a midi and 4 operator FM synth. Very cool kit for the time until my Amiga took over. Nice hack
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This is a dream come true!
I’d always wanted to connect a #MiniDisc to an #MSX as a data drive. I think MiniDisc 💽 is one of the coolest media ever.
I contacted @xavirompe in 2023 about his Rookie Drive, and he explained to me that CDs and MiniDiscs have 2K sectors and Nextor won't read them.
But now, with AI, some dreams can become reality: #Claude has created a driver to read, write, and format Hi-MD on the MSX, and it works like a charm!!
This might be the first time in history that a MiniDisc has been connected to an MSX!
Combining the two coolest things in the world 😎 MSX + MiniDisc!
You can watch a video of it loading a photo gallery in the next post⬇️
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@SandyofCthulhu @spencer_askew Bingo, but to be honest, even as a kid reading Jukes Verne's 20,000 Leagues is tedious due to the pretention; almost all underwater flora and fauna are listed by latin names (and there are a lot) with genus, species, order ... Full taxonomy. It's an eye roll reading it today.
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The Silmarillion is not a challenging read, and everyone should stop pretending that it is.
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@twitandrewking Hold on he was "Jumpman" in this game, and only had a single person. It was 83 when we got both Mario bros together in an arcade game.
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It was on this very day in 1981, July 9th, thats Nintendo released the arcade game "Donkey Kong" created by Shigeru Miyamoto in Japan.
It would arrive in N.America in August.
The Mario Brothers were born. The girl who was to be rescued, her name was Pauline.
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@niccruzpatane @Tesla GM's Saturn division did this in the 90s using dent-resistant thermoplastic polymer and polycarbonate body panels. Glad to see we are going back.
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The @Tesla Cybercab uses lightweight Reaction Injection Molding (RIM) body panels which enables:
• Manufacturing cycle times go from hours using a traditional paint shop, to minutes since the color is injected during the molding process.
• Supply chain and manufacturing Green House Gas emissions are cut by 35% for those parts.
• 100% elimination of volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from painting.
Usually a conventional car’s body panels are stamped, painted, and processed through a paint shop (see video). Cybercab’s manufacturing process doesn’t need any of that.
The material science that’s going on at Tesla is simply incredible.
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@filippkowalski I called it the "Shower Solution"; leave work with a challenge, think about it before sleep, have a coincidental dream about it, solution appears, morning shower I have all the pseudocode.
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As a software dev, do you remember those times where you couldn't figure out something the entire day, went to sleep and handled it in 5 minutes the next day?
I think that every software engineer used to have this pride and a sense of accomplishment when they managed to solve a hard task, issue, build a complicated but beautiful website, or animation.
This is now gone, as anyone can do it by nagging the LLM long enough until they solve it...
Ok, in some cases, you still need to know how to navigate the LLM, but tackling hard challenges is a different story now.
The challenge, the dopamine is gone, so I guess we need to find it somewhere else:)
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@Teddybraves @ShaunTheGreat12 @StokeyyG2 Mine says boots! Lol guess is it geo-fenced for you. Keeps you safe.
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@Teddybraves @ShaunTheGreat12 @StokeyyG2 Nike calls them boots on their website, and shoes in the URL: nike.com/ca/w/football-…
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@ShaunTheGreat12 @StokeyyG2 Those are soccer players and cleats not boots
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@BlastingThrough They probably had a whitelist of project codes to find matches, and inadvertently leaked the project name to you during the interview. I would of leaned in and whispered "tell me more about...Flashlight".
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Funny Story for a Tuesday Evening:
At JSOC, we had two types of phones. One was a regular phone, and one was a secure phone, called a STU-III. It used a key to go in secure mode. We also had an intelligence unit that monitored all our open communications. They would make a report and try to figure out what we were doing.
One day, I was told to report to the Director of JSOC, J-3 COL Bargewell. He told me that it was reported that I had committed a security violation. The report said that it had a recording of me discussing a classified project over an unsecured phone.
I was puzzled, as I didn’t recall doing anything remotely close to committing a security violation. He said that, apparently, I was discussing a classified project called “Flashlight."
I had to think about it, but then I remembered. I had been discussing flashlights to someone over the phone. You know. The flashlights that you need at night, the kind you can buy just about anywhere. Somehow, someone listening in had reinterpreted the word “flashlight,” and had become convinced that I was using a codename for some Special Assessment Project (SAP).
To read their reports on what they thought we were doing was hilarious at times.
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@pmarca Maybe there's a good recipe. *Shrug* you never know. Plus I just finished Marcus Aurelius's musings and am looking for something practical. :)
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@tobi @scottastevenson This is great for automatic nervous systems and the like (trained/learn/objective/operate), but doesn't value cognitive pursuits at all. Maybe because ideas are abundant, and execution has value in this modern context. MENSA gets it right: gamification for escalating thought.
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@scottastevenson Ha. I have something very similar, but APM framing makes this 10x better.
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Want my APM tracker @tobi?
David Senra@davidsenra
.@tobi on why the right video game is a great way to learn entrepreneurship: “The good video games are simulations. They are a world upon itself, and you are a high-agency actor, and you modify things. You perform actions, you make decisions, and then you learn about the consequences of your actions. When I was in my teens in the 90s, I played StarCraft and I loved it. It was easy to learn, but hard to master, which is a hallmark of everything that’s worth doing. It taught me there’s no right decision. There’s only context in which decisions turn out to be correct. It taught me resource management is extremely important. Managing resources is not just about quantifiables. It’s also teaches you about managing your attention. I learned a lot about how do you get better? How do you get more out of every game you play? How do I get more skill progress units out of the time that I have? StarCraft might have just been the right teacher for me at that moment, and the student was ready. It was a perfect little sandbox to explore how to think about when it’s time to build infrastructure, when it’s time to invest in resources, when it’s time to prepare, when it’s time to reveal your hand, when it’s not time to reveal your hand. I think it was a perfect place to spend time for me in my teenage years, given what I did afterwards.”
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