Someone showed me a record turntable with what must have been a centrifugal governor! What an ingenious device. (I got the impression from him this was unusual for a turntable, at least...)
At what point can this menace be slapped with Barratry and barred from filing nuisance lawsuits? sheesh.
That's what I ended up doing. A dumb monitor is just fine, as long as you don't need a huuuge screen. The main thing is to find a good external speaker though that doesn't auto-sleep in the middle of one's show...
Hmm, more yummy mushrooms in autumn here, so that wins for me.
Which came first, Weeping Angels or SCP-173?
Heaven forbid journalists do... you know, their jobs?
True. I hope it bubbles up to those who have 'more to lose' and they put country over career and party.
Fair point -- she had the courage and 100% deserves credit for that! I wish more had her strength.
'former officials'
... it isn't courageous and won't mean anything until CURRENT officials do the same, en masse. They're mostly too scared of losing their cushy positions. Cowards.
Don't care what treaties we may have for water to the US, f*ck that Orange ahole (and Nestle, too) if they even think of takimg more water from up here. Grrrrrrrrrr
Canada has always used paper, hand-counted ballots. Why anyone would trust their elections to machines which can be sabotaged is beyond me. Perhaps use them to check human-counted results, not the other way 'round.
Takes too long? Recruit more volunteers. Or, heaven forbid, pay them. Something this important deserves the resources to do it transparently and accurately.
Or, please consider Devuan as well, to ensure there are distros without hard dependencies on systemd, an expansive attempt to cement IBM/RedHat's control over the direction of Linux through foundational changes to the init, filesystem, login, homedir, and other components...
Please don't bother replying to change my mind... never gonna like systemd no matter what. If it works for you, fine. Some of us still find it wholly unnecessary.
I put on my robe and wizard hat
When our last TV which was 'smart' died, we just bought a big lcd monitor at the pawn shop. We already were only using Kodi on an Android box, so a monitor with external speaker is fine. (Seemed spyware free last time I checked, but beware no-name android media boxes on=from eBay etc., use a tiny or old spare PC instead if you wish).
One must 'sail the high seas' tovget content, of course...
Hmm, nothing a little thermite on their hoods wouldn't fix?
Praise "Bob"!
Remember, the world is ending... and you may die! Stock up on SLACK while prices are low!
Debugging pretty much any multithreaded application..
APL Keyboard Sticker Set
APL Programmer's Keyboard Keycap Stickers
Whether you are an old hand at APL, or someone just discovering the language, having the symbols in the standard layout right there on your keyboard is a great help... dedicated APL keyboards are pretty expensive, so consider these stickers that let one adapt any standard desktop or laptop keyboard!
APL keyboard sticker set on Tindie
To set up your keyboard for APL programming on Linux, see here.
Would Sentinel Island still be untouched in the Star Trek Universe?
If you haven't heard of it, this island has a population that the world has collectively decided to leave alone, mostly because they have proven, on multiple occasions, that they absolutely do not want visitors. Like, arrow-to-death anyone attempting to land or even visit near their shores.
This probably cannot go on forever... but maybe, it could. Essentially, we are already implementing a 'Prime Directive' of sorts here. Would the 23rd, 24th, ... centuries in Star Trek canon still have this little island on Earth, isolated from not just from Earth's own unified Federation society, but from the greater Federation races? What steps would the Federation and Earth take to maintain their isolation and the ecosystem on which they depend?
Would make for an interesting episode, or at least a cool side-note reference in one :)
DFV GME YOLO June 2, 2024
Normally I avoid linking to the old sh$thole here ('cuz you know, f*ck u/Spez), but this is an exception.
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DFV posted DIRECTLY to 'stonk: https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/s/8TNza7V2IN
Discussion over on the 'stonk sub: https://old.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1d6r84q/roaring_kitty_theroaringkitty_on_x/
Twitter post tonight: https://x.com/theroaringkitty/status/1797418617908154621?s=46&t=C7yuUBuPnwEdJziHIhO53w
Building GNU APL for Linux
GNU APL is easy to build on your own Linux machine, though the steps aren't detailed on the website.
--- Benefits of building yourself locally:
- One can customize how many cores GNU APL has access to
- Customizing optional extensions like PNG image, SQLite, GTK support etc.
- Having the latest bugfixes ---
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Obtain the latest source
- mkdir apl-build
- svn checkout http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/svn/apl/trunk
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Configure using autotools
- cd trunk
- make clean
- ./configure CORE_COUNT_WANTED=3 RATIONAL_NUMBERS_WANTED=yes --with-ctrld_del
Use ./configure --help to see other options, adjust to taste
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Build and install
- make -j && sudo make install
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Set up your default workspace
- cd ~
- mkdir -p GNUAPL/workspaces ---
GME climbs over 22.5% in German Market 2024-05-13
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🟥 US close price: $17.46 / 16,20 € ($17.39 / 16,13 € after-hours)
US market volume: 36.83 million shares ---
The Musician's Guide to MIDI
Best book for learning the ins and outs of MIDI I've ever encountered. Relatively obscure, but an invaluable reference book for anyone wanting to dig into the details of how MIDI works.
Activist investor Cevian has acquired a 1.3% stake in the Swiss bank UBS.
Starting FORTH, 1st Edition
Starting FORTH has been the classic Forth tutorial and textbook since its first release. Many experienced programmers have commented on its concise
ABC News piece on tracking and exposing Congressional stock trades
Nothing we apes don't already know (at least those of us who've been here for 84 years or so), but an interesting take from the MSM on it.
The system is rigged, this is one of the reasons why I Buy, HODL, DRS!
Wood pellet stove servicing on Vancouver Island?
A wire broke off the ignitor element in our Harman unit. I have ordered a replacement and it looks simple enough to fix myself. But before sourcing the part I had called about 5 different fireplace companies in the area, and it seems everyone has dropped all support for pellet stoves in recent years! Not only does no one sell them any more (other than Canadian Tire), but they all outright refused to even consider sending a repairperson to help.
It's a bit infuriating. I am calling them, literally saying "please come take my money at your standard hourly rate". One would think "struggling businesses" would be more willing to take on what should be profitable work.
Is it such a liability issue for them that they're actually afraid to take on the work?
What if something bigger fails someday on my pellet stove? Why is no one on the island now willing to work on one?
If you know of someone who does still service wood pellet stoves on the island (Courtenay/Comox), please reply here or DM me. Thanks.
EDIT: formatting
OSC Appoves permanent "Exemption from Disclosure of a Specified Financial Measure" for federal financial institutions
TORONTO – The OSC announced today the adoption of OSC Rule 52-503 Exemption from Disclosure of a Specified Financial Measure.
What does this mean? New levels of ass-covering for bank malfeasance, or just the regular sort of opacity?
Also see the original 'interim' declaration: https://www.osc.ca/en/securities-law/instruments-rules-policies/5/52-502/ontario-instrument-52-502-exemption-national-instrument-52-112-non-gaap-and-other-financial
and
https://www.osfi-bsif.gc.ca/Eng/osfi-bsif/rep-rap/blueprint-plan-directeur/Pages/supervision-surveillance-let.aspx
Thanks to re⊃⊃it user JackTheTranscoder for links.
Crosspost: Excellent Quick Summary of the Last Couple of Years
Richard Newton produces good GME-related content and this is one of his better videos!
Good video by Richard Newton updating the whole GME story from the start up to today.
The 'old site' censorship gets even worse. Can't even mention lemmy in a comment.
This occurred today when I tried updating/deleting old comments via the Redact tool, on the old super-stonk sub.
Guess they're afraid of losing their captive Apes!
OK, I'll start: what FORTHs do people like to use nowadays?
Found this community, saw no posts. Why not start off by letting us know what FORTH you use in the modern day?
I know there's GNU FORTH, and variants like 8th, which I downloaded ages ago but haven't really used. I like the idea of FORTH but haven't had the itch to write anything in it (I need to get over my current fascination with APL first, I guess, so I can try out FORTH again someday 😀 )
Luxury Homes Hitting the Canadian Market
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/3589345
> (Credit to rexxit user u/JackTheTranscoder) > > Could this be the start of a big foreign ownership dump?