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2026-09-05T03:35:17.214Z
Miami mentioned

2026-09-05T03:45:27.608Z
I now have the name of the former owner of the hard drive, I won't share it publicly
at least, it seems likely that she was the owner
2026-09-08T23:49:36.666Z
thank you Seagate for giving your drives cool names like "Momentus Thin™" instead of just ST600LT012
2026-09-09T00:15:19.087Z
hey, just found the first problematic drive in the batch! 100 reallocated sectors. One of the less-used and one of the faster drives in the batch, too bad
2026-09-09T01:11:51.455Z
I finally found an actual copy of Windows! Win 10, version 2004 (May 2020 update). Nothing in userspace though.
2026-09-09T22:52:49.477Z
Probably my most radical "pro-AI" position is that I think AI art is possible. Not in the sense of AI image generation that people call "AI art", that shit pretty much uniformly sucks. But I think it's possible that a machine that has consumed an incomprehensible amount of the human condition might have something insightful and unique to tell us about the human condition. Just by the nature of current models I expect that would be more likely to come in the form of something like a novel than a visual or auditory artwork. And I don't know if current AI models are possible of it. I haven't seen it yet, anyways. But I suspect that if the frontier labs put as much money and effort into art as they did solving math problems, there's a real chance they could create something on the level of *The Catcher in the Rye* or *To Kill a Mockingbird*.
2026-09-10T01:04:05.259Z

2026-09-11T15:22:41.774Z
Interesting that Linear B has shapes for female (𖥵) and male (ǂ), which don't appear on their own but composited into other symbols (eg 𐂊𐂋)
2026-09-11T19:03:54.380Z
they should make a `pip install *` that installs all packages
2026-09-12T00:08:16.360Z
real

2026-09-12T12:44:15.167Z
it's too bad that they didn't really make use of the Wii U gamepad in BotW
obviously, they were also releasing for Switch, so it probably couldn't be a critical aspect of gameplay
but like, they could show your inventory or something on there, at least
2026-09-13T21:18:08.236Z
been doing some OSM mapping lately
generally going well, trying to focus more on landuse and just doing some buildings here and there
landuse has a lot of low-hanging fruit in the area that would be generally very beneficial
but I'm too perfectionist to do it quickly
2026-09-15T13:14:48.225Z
It's Java 27 release day! I believe official binaries just released minutes ago.
2026-09-15T13:20:53.070Z
I've already talked about this update, but as a recap:
* Compact object headers are now the default, which should improve performance across many workflows out-of-the-box
* G1 is now officially the default garbage collector for Hotspot
* Programs using TLS 1.3 get better encryption
* Various small stuff
2026-09-15T13:23:39.982Z
The new and interesting info is that this might be the last Java version which you can get for x64 macOS, as Oracle will stop supporting the platform after this release. Adoptium has even discussed dropping the port for 27 builds. It remains to be seen if another OpenJDK vendor picks it up and maintains it for future versions, but I wouldn't count on it. Those vendors mostly cater to cloud environments, and there's not a whole lot of x64 Macs in the cloud.
2026-09-16T17:24:04.010Z
Has anyone considered cryptography based on the idea that symbolic integration is hard and symbolic derivation is relatively easy?
2026-09-17T03:38:26.307Z
"finally", thanks Tumblr

2026-09-18T14:30:08.991Z
god Tableau sucks sometimes
so like, Tableau has the basic data manipulation tools you need for a BI tool, right?
2026-09-18T14:32:34.151Z
you have a concept of "physical tables" and "logical tables". physical tables come from your data source (more or less) directly. but once you do some manipulations on it, you have a logical table. logical tables are what you actually graph with
Tableau also has a way to merge tables. Multiple ways, in fact, for different kinds of merges that you might need to do! For some reason, they all only work on physical tables, not logical tables
2026-09-18T14:34:32.342Z
The thinking is presumably that you should merge all your tables, *then* tidy the data as necessary. But that's not always the best approach! In fact, it's often impossible to get the desired result if you can't merge after transformation!
2026-09-18T14:35:50.603Z
They now sell you a tool to fix this, "Tableau Prep", which is basically a souped-up version of the data manipulation tools in regular Tableau with a lot of extra complications on top to actually use the data
2026-09-18T22:17:32.110Z
the vibe of quoting something having quoted it so many times before that none of the original words remain but the cadence is still there
this time I was thinking "remember my buttons" and I don't remember what the original quote is at all except "my" might have been in there
(and no it's not "collect my pages")
Oh actually I remember the quote now, it was "remember my settings", that's actually not that far off
2026-09-19T00:50:23.226Z
when I say I'm too perfectionist, and then I see other people do this kind of stuff, man...

like, I might map these houses in more detail than necessary, but this is just innacurate
2026-09-19T00:51:50.728Z
and having these completely wrong building outlines makes it harder for me to come in and fix them, because of course I want to preserve the original object as much as possible for historical reasaons...
like what are we even doing here man

the really funny thing about these is that they didn't even finish the neighborhood. like, if you're going to do it, commit all the way, not just 75%

it's not like it would take you that much extra time when you're just drawing squares for each one
2026-09-19T00:55:01.501Z
hm, the person who did these is Figgy_c. they seem to have some other questionable edits, but also lots of perfectly fine ones
probably should still keep my eye out for them, and call them out if I notice them doing more weird stuff
they're not really \active at the moment though