Brutkey

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TIL about navigator.sendBeacon. Is there literally any reason to use this method in a world where Fetch exists?

https://floss.social/@servo/114993886078642447

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I will now watch the movie "Yojimbo" directed by Akira Kurosawa. This was the first Kurosawa movie I ever saw and it has always been my favorite. I am very excite.

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[Poll]

Do you have serious difficulty interpreting the faces or facial expressions of other people?

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[Poll]

Are you capable of forming imaginary images, and seeing them clearly in your "mind's eye"?

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The science fiction author "qntm" has written at length on the idea that the true horror of computers is that they do exactly what we tell them to, nothing more, nothing less.

https://mastodon.social/@jrose@belkadan.com/114983620291341068

( cc @jrose@social.belkadan.com )

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There's this funny thing where I liked Python much, MUCH more as a language during those many years I was locked to Apple's Python 2.7. Now I'm on Python 3 and I like Python much less. This is not per se because Python 2 is actually a better language than Python 3. It was because Python 2.7 was a "dead" or "finished" language, which meant I never had to deal with the problems of upgrading. Python 3 receives updates and improvements, which cause me continual problems without making my life better

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I spend a lot of time trying to imagine what retrocomputing would look like without the retro part. A stable platform is such a wonderful blessing and we somehow don't know how to offer it except by being intentionally obsolete

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There's this funny thing where I liked Python much, MUCH more as a language during those many years I was locked to Apple's Python 2.7. Now I'm on Python 3 and I like Python much less. This is not per se because Python 2 is actually a better language than Python 3. It was because Python 2.7 was a "dead" or "finished" language, which meant I never had to deal with the problems of upgrading. Python 3 receives updates and improvements, which cause me continual problems without making my life better

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(The solution to the error message above is to run pip install -U on the mercurial package, and I do not need assistance with it.)

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I HAVE JUST BEEN INTRODUCED TO HG

Me: Oh, this is so cool, hg is just a Python module. So I can just install it however I install Python modules

I HAVE BEEN USING HG FOR SIXTEEN YEARS

Me: It really sucks how hg is a Python module, which means anytime something goes weird with my Python environment hg breaks

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What I'm listening to today: "Brutal", HarrytheHat

Core-competency Jungle from an EP¹ made on a restricted set of instruments (2 Pocket Operator samplers, 1 Monotron Delay, 1 Volca Bass dialed into 303-mimic acid mode).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsbwnOX8aQo

Heavy but smooth; Millenials will immediately have flashbacks to late-90s racing games. Of course this isn't the hardware people would have used in the 90s, it just has the same number of bits².

¹ Full EP here https://harrythehat225.bandcamp.com/album/pocket-jungle-v1

² Twelve

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What I'm listening to today: "shapely hedgerows of the dying world", Dragon Warrior

Shuffling, comfy instrumental folk / indie pop in the Elephant 6 style. Feelings like Polaroids of early mornings. You might know this musician as Brother Android or Harrison Lemke, depending on what genre you encountered him in.

https://dragonwarrior.bandcamp.com/track/shapely-hedgerows-of-the-dying-world