So Gaspar Noé, H.G. Wells, Charlie Brooker or Lovecraft get to write your afterlife?

Dopamine

It’s the same place the “made my life worse to own the libs” energy comes from.

They have fucked up reward systems and are seeking the brain chemicals they get from thinking they have succeeded in winding someone up

“Don’t feed the trolls” is because that’s literally what they want. They don’t care about winning anything, the goal is to get you to reply

All sorts of weird precedents are being set in the shameless kowtowing to the deluded traffic cone

Lawyers are going to be making any kind of weird argument based on some precedent set during this presidency for decades

I think it’s a mostly automated voice with me saying my first name at one point

That’s if it’s still even enabled, I should check that…

Why, it’s magnificent, that’s what the fuck it is

Ooh an opportunity to post about one of the best sandwich shops in London

Dom’s Subs: https://www.impeccablesandwiches.co.uk/

I wish I still had time for advent of code…

I think I saw a thing once where someone with ARFID would literally only eat undercooked looking french fries.

I can understand if the restriction is something unhealthy, and nothing stopping quantity, I can see this scenario happening

Oh that’s cool to hear, I was under the impression in research that whilst a lot of the processing actually happens in FORTRAN-written code, it was nearly always reusing already-written functions and primitives in a higher level language (such as python, via the aforementioned SciPy). And then those libraries being maintained by a handful of wizards on the internet somewhere.

Can you elaborate on the kind of research where people are still actively writing directly in FORTRAN? Did people typically arrive with the skills already or was there training for learning how to write it well?

Isn’t it more COBOL than FORTRAN in terms of getting paid?

I thought FORTRAN was pretty much exclusively used via SciPy in research & academia these days.

COBOL is still powering the world economy on mainframes

John Cage - 4’33

Everyone just has to sit in silence and think about why having a nationalist song is kinda weird in the light of the modern day

Not a doctor and I don’t have an exact answer to your question, but this might be helpful:

This may not be a thing in Italy, but check if you’re actually able to get enough vitamin D naturally all times of the year where you are.

if you live in northern England near where I am, for example, you can only really guarantee you’ll get your RDA of vitamin D from the sun during the summer months. I believe in north Scotland it’s not ever possible to reliably get enough naturally.

I try to take a 3000/4000 (honestly which one depends what’s on offer) more or less daily outside of summer. During summer I still take them but maybe every few days.

I would probably try what your doctor recommends (assuming you’ve already flagged your specific concerns, otherwise I’d do that first), it’s entirely possible the 50,000 pill is formulated in such a way it manages to be (somewhat incredibly) slow release. If you experience any issues, schedule an appointment as soon as you can, so they can do some tests to help figure out what’s going on. Your doctor has a degree in this stuff, so it’s good to try what they suggest and discuss any changes with them

This also might not be much of an issue for you since I assume you’re getting your supplements from the same, trusted place. But if not, there’s a load of fake and low quality supplements out there, make sure you research the brand you’re getting has been tested and had its contents verified independently. Any issues could be down to unexpected adulterants rather than the vitamin dose itself

FWIW I think there’s still some merit in maglev vactrains that aren’t tied to someone who was only pushing it to get public infrastructure projects cancelled with the goal of selling more cars.

At least there are seemingly serious academics and engineers still researching and developing the concept anyway.

Imagine sniffing your own farts this much

I think I’m finally ready to abandon my ancient HP all-in-one

Thankfully it’s from before they went full shit, but I don’t print regularly enough for an inkjet to make sense

Does anyone have any good recommendations for a compact colour laser all-in-one. I still need to scan shit a couple of times a year, so it’s useful to not need a dedicated appliance.

I’ve not really looked much myself yet, but I already know Brother, Ricoh and Epson are probably who I should be looking at for a decent printer (other recs welcome too)

Yeah, for audiophiles this is actually a better situation now tbf

You can get inline USB-C DACs that are head and shoulders above the DACs that were used in 95% of smartphones out there. Or more frustratingly with Samsung, they used to (probably like 8-9 years ago now lol) include half decent DACs but configure them terribly which could only be fixed with custom ROMs, so I had to choose between shit audio or my banking apps.

Average Joe that doesn’t care about that just uses Bluetooth today anyway since you can get cheap Bluetooth headphones for about the same as cheap wired headphones (where the audio is going to be crap whatever you do). And of course there’s the cheap but passable inline DACs they used to include with phones that you can pick up for pretty cheap if you really want to use cheap wired headphones for whatever reason.

It was definitely annoying when they all just got rid of them, but at least now when I want to use my wired headphones on a device, I know it will actually sound good and isn’t down to what was the cheapest DAC they could get away with putting into the device itself.

Notification priority

There’s loads of apps I want notifications from, but I want to go to them at my leisure. Apps don’t get to decide to interrupt me, that’s my decision.

99% of my apps are set to not display the notification icon and not buzz my phone. If I open the draw they show up under any notifications I’ve deemed important enough to still be allowed to interrupt me.

Edit: caveman typo

Well I’d lean on the shoulder of giants in terms of the actual service and not do it completely from scratch given we’ve got Facebook-likes in the fediverse, you could suggest to them. But basically yes from a network perspective unfortunately

Although you have given me an idea for an angle that the fediverse is perfect for: set up an instance for your local area

That allows you to also do the “screw untrustworthy big tech, keep things local with people you know” kind of angle.

Also obviously a fair bit of work, and you still have to ultimately convince people to use it, but worth highlighting regardless.

You unfortunately are coming at the problem from the wrong direction.

The only social network they will want to use is the one with all their friends on it; and for the older generations, that’s basically just Facebook.

In order to get them to move you’d need to get their friends to move, and in order to get their friends to move, you’ll need to get their friends to also move. It’s called the network effect and it’s why it’s incredibly hard for any non-established social networks to gain much of a market share.

Your best bet (which is by no means a guarantee) is to wait for the latest Facebook scandal to be in the news, and chat to them about it whilst they’re watching it on TV. Plus add a bit more fuel by doing the ol’ “oh this reminds me of something else I was reading a couple of months ago…” And have some other recent scandals in your back pocket to fire out. Bonus points if you can already establish yourself on something like Friendica, which will allow you to say “yeah I quit Facebook a while ago, the company running it just seems skeevy, I’ve been using friendica instead for a bit now” or something like that

Then you have to hope that registers enough as a talking point amongst them and their friends that it sticks. But you have an uphill struggle ahead with no certainty of success.