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A common theme is that 1990/1991 is basically peak 80s, musically. I just thought of a counter to that: "Groove is in the Heart" is a song that could only exist in 1990. It is neither 80s nor 90s; it defines itself as 1990.

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Every day I make an iced coffee with milk, sweet cream, water, ice and instant coffee. I go through about a half gallon of milk per week, but decided to try something new and got almond milk this week. It my sound silly, but I was taken aback when I realized it tastes like almonds. (I think I […]

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The lake I have (soon to be "had") reservations for next week is on fire and I live a few blocks away from the evacuation warning zone, and am dealing with it by shitposting through it. There is some good news: the McDonald's, notable for being the only fast food restaurant directly connected […]

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GitHub Actions core actions: Deprecate and break v3, forcing you to go to v4 which is almost completely backwards compatible. Also GitHub Actions core actions: Completely break backwards compatibility in v4.4.

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Sometimes I feel bad copying and pasting posts from my old Fosstodon account a few years ago, but then I remember they're bangers and I'm awesome.

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When addressing a group, take care to avoid exclusionary language: Problematic: "Hey guys" - excludes people who aren't guys Suggested replacement: "Hey all, Scott here" - friendly, indicates you're about to show them your DS collection Problematic: "Ladies and gentlemen!" - excludes people […]

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Our book club's classified attack plans have been leaked to the War Thunder forums.

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Sometimes I wonder if I'm just weird for looking at code like this I wrote previously, and thinking it makes more sense (to me) than the obvious alternate form: if not (annotations.get("example.com/enabled", "false") == "true"):

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Drum AND bass? In this economy?

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There are two semi-universal truths: 1) The US West and East coasts' weather tend to be of opposite intensities at any given time. 2) The media (including social media) tends to be dominated by the East coast. Anyway, greetings from beautiful desert Southern California. It's partly cloudy and […]

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GitHub Actions goes to lengths to discourage humans from exfiltrating secrets stored in its internal secrets store, but sometimes you just gotta. May as well do it responsibly by gpg encrypting it to yourself, rather than e.g. defeating masking and then deleting the run output. jobs: tests: - […]

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Oh no! Over 20 years ago, I added a felt bottom to an AOL CD, and have been using it every day since then as a literal AOL coaster. It’s held up perfectly until now (it’s dirty in those photos but cleans up easily), but its screen printing has just started chipping […] [Original post on m29.us]

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Happy 5 year anniversary of the announcement of the Apple RISC Machine (ARM). https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/06/apple-announces-mac-transition-to-apple-silicon/

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I’ve had the RV in my driveway for three weeks now, and was getting bored with the “my girlfriend saw your RV from across the bar and we dig your vibe” notes on my front door.

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Got to the point with my camper van purchase where the online DMV queue has reviewed all my document scans, taken payment, and told me to physically mail the title and other documents. And this address is the most... busy I've ever seen: California Department of Motor Vehicles Registration […]

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Dear Accessibility Fedi, I'd like some advice please. A few months ago I went through all the @jucikadaily comics and ran them through machine translate and did sanity checks on each one; quality is decent but a native Hungarian speaker could probably do better. These translated titles are […]

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"Mark Twain, a wholly fictional adaptation of a public domain character, stepped off the spaceship on Betelgeuse IV, and said to a nearby reporter, 'The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. You may attribute that quote directly to me, for I am Mark Twain.'"

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This year I've been following several civil court cases for the entertainment aspect, and one of the things I find interesting is how many filings are simply the lawyers for one side going "we would like the court to order this, for these reasons". But then they go one step further and prepare […]

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AI is so bad that it's confidently asserting you still have some apes

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[uspol] I see we're up to the "it's made in America because we imported it from China and put it in a box before shipping it out" part of the trump grift

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There's a scene in a movie where a character walks into a dingy convenience store. On a shelf behind the counter, there's an old CRT TV, playing nothing in particular. Maybe a game show, it's not relevant to the plot. This is anachronistic. Even the seediest of bodegas have moved on by now, and […]

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I know that I have dreams, but I cannot retain them. Every few weeks, I'll have a dream which sticks with me enough to last a few seconds after I wake up, enough to remember I had a dream, but the details are lost after those few seconds. Apparently every few years I'll retain it long enough to […]

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YouTube gave me a fun short music video yesterday, which I watched. A few hours later, it shows up in my feed again, and because it was short and fun, I watched it again. It's the next day and the video is pretty much always being recommended, and I re-watch it every few hours. There is no end […]

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By the way, if you are a theoretical physicist and don't want to be late for work, you should subscribe to @847 which gives you the weather report for Southern New Mexico at 8:47 AM each morning.

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Heads up, Harbor Freight Tools will be receiving a fresh shipment of Switch 2s tomorrow morning. Better get in line now!

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About a month ago, I replaced the 12 year old utterly bonkers off-road tires on my custom camping trailer, with slightly less bonkers off-road tires. But I would still like to point out how incredibly overkill they are. I did a load calculation for them, and fully […] [Original post on m29.us]

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I do believe the backup status is critical.

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I'd like to offer my condolences to both of GCP's customers currently dealing with the outage.

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> Looking to submit feature request to git > Asks Linus Torvalds if the bug report process is user-friendly or is a mailing list ivory tower > He doesn't understand > Pulls out whitepaper explaining lowering the barrier to entry encourages a wider variety of use cases and strengthens the […]

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Epoch 1,750,000 is coming up on June 15 at 15:06:40 UTC. I just checked and there appears to be no Latin prefix for "one and three quarters". Incidentally, I noticed this after seeing a unix timestamp and thinking "1749... that's not right. I mean, I didn't attend that 'billennium' party too […]

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Jail for ONE THOUSAND YEARS for UI designers who make buttons which change color when you hover over any portion of them but can only be clicked on the text portion

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Why are people subtooting something terrible Apple has done? Do I want to know?

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Later today I'll be off to visit friends and have dinner in war-torn Los Angeles. If you don't hear back from me, assume I'm in a food coma from too much pizza.

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Contemplative #Cats #Caturday

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I have a pool with a diatomaceous earth filter, but I never remember how to say "diatomaceous". Most people get around that by just saying "DE", but instead I say "dionysus earth".

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This is great! Flightaware: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Aviation https://flightaware.engineering/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-aviation/ #aviation #software

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Dug out my old cheap phone endoscope, and apparently I’m in a horror movie now

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What's all this about Switch 2? I'm already up to Switch 5.

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I am genuinely surprised this $50 car stereo managed to render the album titled <|°_°|> by Caravan Palace, rather than mojibake.

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They say the happiest days of RV or boat ownership are the day you buy it, and the day you sell it. Anyway, this weekend I took possession of a 2000 Roadtrek 190 Popular. Her name is Jovanna — I don’t normally name vehicles, but she came with that name and who am I […] [Original post on m29.us]

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