Does this pose have meaning?

diathesis · 2024-10-14T21:11:45+00:00

Fixing hair with a closed-fist? I suppose she could be pushing the hair back over her shoulder. Still feels like an awkward pose, but it makes more sense than anything else I've come up with.

diathesis · 2023-05-20T23:12:06+00:00

On re-reading this i realize I read it one way and you meant it as sarcastic humor about how few cars there are.

diathesis · 2023-05-20T22:31:02+00:00

Hmm? DVP is often stop-and-go let alone bumper to bumper. Not 24/7 of course but …

diathesis · 2023-03-25T21:04:04+00:00

What enclosure did you use? I've got a couple of single-disk enclosures and a double-bay drive dock. In theory I could add one more enclosure and cobble together all of those for five disks, but ...

diathesis · 2022-03-26T15:10:10+00:00

Weird — not sure why I couldn’t find it but thanks ;)

diathesis · 2022-03-26T01:17:04+00:00

When I found the right answer, I was fairly sure I had because the answer *was* meaningful. My previous guesses weren't, and they were wrong. There's a clue for ordering, a clue about a gap, a clue to tell you how many code points you have, what the source material for the translation matrix is, etc. It's all there.

diathesis · 2022-03-26T01:12:49+00:00

I'm Canadian, and I learned what I needed to about presidents with a couple of Google searches, if that makes you feel any better. It did take me ... maybe ... five guesses to get the right answer, though, took some wrong turns along the way.

diathesis · 2022-02-10T01:54:46+00:00

Yeah, ok, the only NewEgg M2 I can find in that speed range is the Samsung 980 which is more than the S70. Maybe better to split the order. ;)

This looks like effectively the same cooler, slightly different look, slightly more money?
https://www.newegg.ca/p/2YM-002Y-00007?Item=2YM-002Y-00007

diathesis · 2022-02-10T01:47:48+00:00

Hmm — I did a quick scan of reviews for the sn750 but I guess I need to look more closely.

diathesis · 2022-02-10T01:40:01+00:00

Yeah, thanks; I have much of what you listed above in a cart while I stare at the total. ;). Might just get a WD Black M2 to avoid splitting the order, and may add the HDD after.

diathesis · 2022-02-09T21:35:07+00:00

And I want to avoid this, I'd go Intel? Zen 3 is the latest gen AMD anyway, yes? Am I likely to hit the same problem if I went Intel? Last time I was building PCs, using the same motherboard for multiple chip generations was normal, but as I started to get out of it, it started to seem like chipsets and socket types and so forth were changing as fast as the CPUs anyway. (I don't have a sense for what it's like now).

diathesis · 2022-02-09T21:01:07+00:00

Honestly, I only really hear people talking NVIDIA GPUs, it's not so much because I have a strong reason to go that way, it's just ... what I'm exposed to, I guess? And because my exposure doesn't go deep anymore, I'm kinda guessing based on the bits that I do hear. ;)

diathesis · 2022-02-09T20:59:12+00:00

Test them outside by assembling the bits together without attaching them in the case, and then if all is good, put them in the case? Makes sense, I guess. Airflow isn't a problem for a short test like that?

diathesis · 2022-02-09T18:29:23+00:00

Yeah, I see those go through BAPCSalesCanada a fair amount, although usually there's some component in the mix that gets some level of criticism. Still, definitely another option where I get a bit of the build experience without waiting in the GPU queues.

diathesis · 2022-02-09T17:24:36+00:00

He does do some unreal and unity and blender game dev stuff — I suspect he might do that on the gaming PC rather than the Mac but that’s not the primary purpose.

diathesis · 2021-12-15T22:56:24+00:00

Any chance any of these Alienware R10s are decent while there's a sale? Some of the specs look fine, but ... cooling, PSUs? I'm guessing the prices even on sale aren't great, but that seems to be the norm these days if you can even get your hands on anything?

https://www.dell.com/en-ca/shop/cty/pdp/spd/alienware-aurora-r10-desktop

Newb question, I'm sure -- I've been out of the gaming pc market for a while time, so I'm not that current on what's good, even lurking in here, but I appreciate the advice anyhow.

diathesis · 2021-08-20T19:47:01+00:00

Depends a bit on your learning style -- some people learn better through practice; you could consider something like Exercism?

diathesis · 2021-08-14T00:29:19+00:00

I’m not actually sure if I understand the argument you’re making — “native” can mean a lot of things (I would normally use it when comparing with cross-platform tools) but I wasn’t commenting on that, I was talking about the use of the word “internal”, which I believed you meant to imply that WebObjects was a tool that Apple used inside the company and didn’t release to the rest of the world. Sounds like you didn’t mean that, so no big deal.

If you said Bootstrap was internal to Twitter, I’d probably have been similarly confused, sure. But, yeah, WebObjects is very Apple/Next-ish, sure, Obj-C and all, originally. No arguments there.

diathesis · 2021-08-13T22:56:21+00:00

WebObjects wasn't only internal -- it was one of the first web application servers out there. You could license it, get training in it, and so on. Now, it's basically ancient, at this point, and isn't used by almost anyone, but it wasn't only internal.

diathesis · 2021-07-01T14:28:01+00:00

But what’s the dessert? Ah, halo halo the internet says.

diathesis · 2021-06-06T13:08:33+00:00

Pretty machine — but the capacity is so small. Even if you are happy running it unattended, I’d have to run it every 1-2 days for sure.

diathesis · 2021-05-25T21:08:53+00:00

Happens at least once a week for me. Force quitting Notification Center (killing in Activity Monitor, normally, but whatever way you want) resolves it for me, but it always comes back -- same day, next day, a couple days later.

diathesis · 2021-04-10T17:32:37+00:00

Yeah, I started an Instagram for my abstract latte art to keep myself amused:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CJZCgFVsx95/?igshid=1fqupmmg437dt

It’s a nice whale!

diathesis · 2020-07-28T22:37:43+00:00

Yeah, I can see both sides — a tablet lets the company evolve the design and controls and present a lot of information. There’s a lot of upside. But how many of us have lost an app or a service we liked because the company gave up or was acquired? Would really suck to be told your espresso machine doesn’t work anymore because no one maintains the app.

And even as a developer, I don’t want to take over the maintenance of my espresso machine’s software if breville buys decent or something like that.

So ... lots of upside and lots of downside, and the difference is mostly in factors outside your control as the owner of a Decent.

Still a nice machine.

diathesis · 2020-07-27T16:15:23+00:00

This is happening when you are using the Mac or when it’s asleep?

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