@skade doesn’t every small town police station in the US have its own IFV these days? Seems like a slightly larger market, but even they aren’t buying rocketry. Yet.

I always wanted an ex-russian amphibious IFV. They’d fit in the local canals, and one-up the narrowboat folk. Bit out of my budget, though, especially the fuel.

I get the weirdest adverts, probably because I try to limit tracking. Some stuff seems fairly standard, like promises of bikini shots of ageing slebs or swamp coolers pretending to be aircon, but also apparently israeli missile manufacturers?

I appreciate that ad targeting is tricky, but the number of actual individual people in the market for battlefield weaponry sold by nations actively engaging in genocide has got to be quite small.

@angelastella I’m sure Peter Watts wrote a story on that very subject, but I can’t seem to find it now.

Fun fact, old world primates (which include humans) don’t produce alpha-gal, and so would remain safe to eat.

If I have to see this goddamn "spatial ability" argument one more time. Get more specific. What type of spatial ability you absolute clowns. Exactly what task, and explain how you address the spatial ability conflation with gender problems. Explain why and how these diffs vanish when you include all the spatial tasks THAT RESEARCHERS REMOVED BECAUSE GIRLS WERE GOOD AT THEM

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10648-023-09728-2

Next time I have to go job hunting, maybe I’ll ask an llm to write me a cover letter, and then rewrite my own to make it as unlike the llm in style, tone and content as possible.

Reading a cover letter for an internship application and I’m pretty certain it was largely written by a google llm 😔

In my head, it sounds like tiktok text-to-speech reading out a linkedin post, or something. Effusive, but mostly empty tech-business-speak. You’d like to come and work with us because of our pragmatic approach to cutting edge and results-focussed engineering? Bruh, you know nothing about our engineering practises because they’re just as shameful as every other mid-stage startup that’s been winging it to woo investors, and we’re very keen not to expose that fact.

Hopefully, this is all because he’s young and he’ll seem a bit less like a linkedin markov chain in person.

@ldcd depending on what vscode features you need, it might be worth looking at vscodium… it’s worked pretty smoothly for me over the past year or so, and the project does a reasonable job of keeping the worst Microsoft awfulness out. Various bits of the copilot up are still present, but non-functional.

@cas i guess you wouldn’t get anything with that form factor out of the likes of mikrotik, which is worth remembering the next time vendor discussions come up.

we have got to stop talking about open source software this way man. someone who published work with an explicit label on it saying "this comes with absolutely no warranty" and is not being compensated is not part of a "supply chain" https://abyssdomain.expert/@filippo/114723318068853623

@vantiss a coworker was just lamenting that they lost several days of their holiday, because “flu” broke out at the place that they were staying and all their friends came down with it too. Flu, in a summer heatwave. Who’d have thought?

I’m the only person who masks at my office 😕

@VulpineAmethyst epinouns, too.

I.... This is one of the weirder papers I've ever looked at

https://fediscience.org/@gwagner/114690366530883451

@cliffle certainly sounds like an unexpected sort of character.

Mapper, a TU Delft Spin-Off, was promising cheaper, higher throughput, and maskless lithography.
The machine is very elegant and demonstrated a solution that didn't require masks, so you could take your circuit file and just print the circuit with one machine, allowing to do even very small batches of chips. The machine is really amazing to see and is in the Applied Physics building of the university.

@david_chisnall my mind autocompleted that with “sell it all to microsoft”.

@grawity given that there was already one disaster, they might have done a little extra code review before risking a second.

@markgritter clearly the time is ripe for python 4. I’m sure everyone has got over the whole 2-to-3 transition by now.

@krutonium the new ones have windows 11 to make sure that the increase in ram and cpu power doesn’t make it feel any more responsive that the original. They’ve thought of everything!

@krutonium there are a bunch of modern takes on aliexpress. They even have suitably underpowered atom processors and similarly crappy screen resolutions.