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hi, I'm amos! 🦀 I make articles & videos about how computers work 🐻‍❄ cool bear's less cool counterpart ✨ be kind

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ah yes, the two genders

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@arch Yes but AIDS money! https://www.apple.com/product-red/

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I love how the GitHub Actions UI lets you submit a search term that does nothing

(only structured searching (actor/event/branch/is) is in yet)

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GOD YES everyone in charge of a database anywhere should read this:

>>> https://blog.ploeh.dk/2024/06/03/youll-regret-using-natural-keys/

(edit: There's a bit of casual transphobia in this article that can go fuck itself, the rest of the article is okay I guess)

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just got this on youtube completely unprompted, i didn't even click on anything, it just appeared when i loaded the homepage, like "hey, how do we suck today? tell us all about how we suck. be real scathing, we want to hear your views, just please tell us how much of a little piece of shit website we are owo

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@jk

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how did Google AdSense fumble templating that bad???

fasterthanlime , an Random Englisch
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How is your day going?

I'm once again trying to reach the French government to let them know that, when calculating taxes, they forgot to account for 30K€ I already paid.

For the second year in a row.

Since they end up taking ~55%, I'd rather they get the numbers right...

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It's hard to ascribe to stupidity what really looks like malice when checking out their documents: it really /really/ feels like they picked the most complicated, roundabout and confusing way to lay all that out.

Finally sitting down with a spreadsheet made the error obvious.

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It is now later today: a different branch of the French government is pretending they don't have the form I want.

(The form one can find ON THEIR WEBSITE after 5 seconds of googling "thing I asked for", for the record)

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The French tax authority has a ticketing system, by the way, which is horrendous.

They DISABLE COPY-PASTE so if you want to refer to a web page, good luck...

...but also! If they close the ticket, you can't re-open it! Ever! So you lose all context so far!

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I feel like I should sue them on behalf of like... everyone? For making a largely unusable website with public money? The bar to clear was so low and yet you somehow failed?

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oh wow, you can rent DaVinci Resolve Studio licenses now?

I bought it for ~$300 a while ago and that gives me two seats, but it's fun that I could just add a couple coworkers if needed

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for programmers who use linux:

Do you know how to write packages for your distro's package manager?

fasterthanlime ,
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@aeva rip your replies, thanks for your service

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@fasterthanlime I didn't know you had merch in stores

fasterthanlime ,
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@tedmielczarek !!! I want it

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That’s cool. That’s OK. I’m OK.

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The fun part of course is that this is NOT render cache, this is "Magic Mask tracking files" (roto brush, for AE folks) and it takes hours to regen so now, you absolutely cannot clear that cache.

(Unless, like me, you exported it as a matte in a separate step — I should actually do a write-up about all this)

fasterthanlime , an Random Englisch
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Every 15 days like clockwork I forget the bus makes me nauseous and ride it.

One day I’ll get my shit together.

fasterthanlime , an Random Englisch
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I’m excited about all of these, since the borrow checker is at the core of Rust.

I am holding my breath for Polonius, so please don’t let me run out of oxygen 🫥

https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2024/06/02/the-borrow-checker-within/

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@mgattozzi Good thing I have big lungs

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@hywan return types are inferred, local types are inferred, argument types are never inferred! you couldn't have stable interfaces if you did (also, you'd get inference loops).

&mut {counter} self is part of the signature: diagnostics can help you nudge you in the right direction, but "you're using a field you didn't opt into" or "you're not using a field you did opt into" may well indicate bugs.

Also: consider linking against a crate without having its source code & consider semver breakage

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Just witnessed someone join a call, stay silent for 30 minutes, and then wave bye.

There were like, 8 people on that call.

fasterthanlime OP ,
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(I find nothing wrong with the person, everything wrong with the meeting)

fasterthanlime OP ,
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@prozacchiwawa shouldn't be!!

fasterthanlime OP ,
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@whitequark it shouldn't!

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@gigantos

https://hachyderm.io/@fasterthanlime/112558520316651209

Please don't keep justifying the reputation the fediverse / your instance specifically has

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@unlambda I’m definitely on team “why is this not an email”

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Re: Microsoft Recall

fasterthanlime , an Random Englisch
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How's your morning?

I'm explaining to Amazon support that they have 3 mailing addresses: the company address (wrong, I need them to change it), the billing address (wrong, I COULD change it if my payment method appeared on the relevant page), and the delivery address (right)

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Amazon customer service: "so first, log in to Audible.com"
me: "long day huh"

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@djc

> shot down
good lord

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@djc (I kid, I kid — your morning sounds worse, I'll take mine!)

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@wffl 🫂🫂🫂

fasterthanlime , an Random Englisch
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The fact that this tool shows you not just the hour, but the day the task will finish on, is... ominous.

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@demize I am become garfield, waiter of sfx processing pipelines

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computer: 10 minutes left, boss
me: walks away for 5 minutes
computer: 10 minutes left, boss

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@thejpster Bwahahahha I need to give Snatch another watch

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this is fine 🔥

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@Kiskae Because that corner of my wallpaper is red

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@dluz @groxx @Kiskae The key to happiness is flexible expectations

fasterthanlime , an Random Englisch
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telling bad HTTP/2 clients to read the RFC

(goaway has a "debug data" field you can stuff with arbitrary bytes)

fasterthanlime , an Random Englisch
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Thinking of starting a new service: I'll schedule calls with you, with the implicit understanding I'll cancel them 5 minutes before, and you get to reclaim 25/50 minutes for yourself.

(Note: this only works if you know I'll cancel, otherwise it's low-key rude)

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@dysfun nah I only take US dollaridoos

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Am on the go, left some work at home, remembered that 1) my home computer is on tailscale, 2) git can pull over SSH

(I would've pushed from an SSH session, but agent forwarding is broken in some way I can't debug)

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@0atman I was using it over a decade ago x)

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@julia correct! well done!

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@0atman someone tell my YouTube audience I'm not actually a zoomer

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@julia I love it! I left Iosevka for it x)

$75 was an okay one-time expense for me, you do you! https://berkeleygraphics.com/products/

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Thinking of buying this cap as a business expense to wear it on videos

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1622682334/undiagnosed-but-im-pretty-sure-funny

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