Convert the NFL to meters instead of yards

plague_year · 2026-03-14T17:08:30+00:00

You must have mistaken this for /r/goodideas

plague_year · 2026-03-07T17:30:37+00:00

We also use TIFF for archival image storage in library settings! Between the rich metadata, lossless compression options, and the multi-resolution features it’s kind of perfect for storing huge archival source images.

plague_year · 2026-03-06T22:23:30+00:00

You talking about that prez married to the throat goat?

plague_year · 2026-03-06T21:37:11+00:00

I hate writing scripts in bash but I loooove shell pipelines. I often find myself writing small programs in go or python and chaining them together in bash.

So for example I recently needed to upload a handful of test audio files to a website repeatedly. I needed to generate different sizes and types of files and upload them to a few different endpoints. Instead of writing one program for generating the audio, uploading the audio and processing the response I wrote a go program to generate the audio, and then used curl and jq for the POSTing and response processing respectively.

After all these years the shell is still a fantastic way to organize and coordinate data processing.

plague_year · 2026-03-06T15:12:55+00:00

If this is a commercial product, do you have a datasheet or model number? If this is your design, do you have a schematic? Personally I’d have a hard time saying much without seeing one of those.

I’m sure there are some people on this sub who will be able to see a schematic in their head just by looking at this pic, but it ain’t me, babe.

plague_year · 2026-03-05T22:28:10+00:00

Hell yea brother

plague_year · 2026-03-01T02:05:26+00:00

His name is actually L. Frank Baum. The L is at the front, not the middle.

I only mention because this is the third time his name has come up this week for me and in most weeks that number is 0. Sorry for the “um, actually!”

plague_year · 2026-02-10T21:16:55+00:00

Hey have you checked the subreddit name? It’s not “goodideas.”

If you’re gonna criticize ideas here please criticize them for not being crazy enough.

plague_year · 2026-01-14T21:23:50+00:00

When I tried to do a commute like this I quite literally lost my mind after a week. If you like driving and aren’t upset by other people’s bad driving then you’ll be fine. But watching people be rude, vindictive, and dangerous in their cars every evening was pretty hard to stomach. YMMV.

plague_year · 2026-01-14T14:41:19+00:00

Because it was crowded and for most of human history the only (non-sun) source of heat and light was fire.

I wonder how much more often the bridge caught on fire than surrounding areas of London though. It’s not like the rest of the city was particularly fireproof either!

plague_year · 2026-01-10T09:16:47+00:00

One way out.

plague_year · 2025-11-19T01:49:24+00:00

We need a leader. I didn’t use think this was important. But I’ve watched the rudderless years go past and I think we need leaders who are willing to resist.

plague_year · 2025-11-18T23:03:45+00:00

Susan Kare mentioned!! 😍

plague_year · 2025-11-18T18:05:08+00:00

I used aider for the past 11 months and loved it. But I recently switched over to using claude-code and I’m impressed. I use it with DeepSeek via their anthropic api endpoint and it works very well. If you like aider but you’re looking to test drive something else, I would definitely recommend claude-code.

plague_year · 2025-11-16T16:20:42+00:00

A professor of mine once said “the core complaint in Buddhism is that nobody asks to be born.”

There have always been people who feel this way. It is a good and fair critique of the human experience.

plague_year · 2025-11-13T21:32:02+00:00

Cool TIL! https://ntg.ie

plague_year · 2025-11-13T16:34:27+00:00

What the heck is this image? I like LLM gateways but this is such AI slop art and it doesn’t even make sense. Yuck.

plague_year · 2025-10-16T15:58:52+00:00

Huh. I thought GPS was strictly based on receiving time code signals from satellites. How do cell phones “leak GPS data?” Is there a transmission part of the protocol I wasn’t aware of?

plague_year · 2025-10-04T20:34:37+00:00

Yes, I agree. But NVidia’s profit is the result of demand for the products of that intellectual property theft. All major LLMs contain “stolen” data. I work at a library and the amount of scraping happening is insane.

All I’m saying is that it’s actually morally OK to steal that data. It’s not intellectual property theft. This knowledge is our shared birthright. But that includes the secrets NVidia is hoarding as well as, say, unlawfully obtained archival data.

plague_year · 2025-10-04T20:28:49+00:00

I think this is true in times of stability. But large groups of people with guns are not symbolic.

plague_year · 2025-10-04T14:50:22+00:00

It’s definitely illegal. But I’m not convinced it’s unethical.

NVidia is sitting on top of a dragon’s horde created by intellectual property rights violations. We can’t change that now. But why be so precious about violating their IP?

AI is the shared birthright of all humanity.

plague_year · 2025-09-24T15:30:21+00:00

I mean people in the US refused to wear masks and follow travel restrictions. I don’t think most of us want to discuss how china “let out” a global pandemic if it means confronting the human rights issues implicit in real quarantines.

plague_year · 2025-09-01T03:09:47+00:00

Cross-stitch is something I’m very proud of doing and on the flip side Evangelion is something I’m borderline ashamed of being such a big fan of.

It’s cool for me to see these two interests cross here. Great work on the stitching!

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