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adg @nf.id.au · Nov 24

In April I released Andromeda, a downtempo IDM track inspired by images taken by the Voyager space telescope. It’s on all the music streaming services. Hope you like it. ❤️

youtu.be/MNVFpItmook

#idm #downtempo #music

Andromeda

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adg @nf.id.au · 22d

Even if it worked perfectly I don’t see how having a robot voice tell me what to do would be preferable to just reading a recipe and following it.

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · Sep 7

Doctor I trust more than RFK Jr.

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adg @nf.id.au · Aug 31

I’d say “unbelievable” if this wasn’t so utterly on brand for this LLM bs

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adg @nf.id.au · Aug 25

We implemented internal in response to a lot of real world dependency issues. There’s nothing deranged about it imho. You may not have seen the issues but I certainly did.

adg @nf.id.au · Aug 25

Yes but those internal packages are not stable or maintained in the sense that they are not APis that the authors are committed to supporting, unlike their non-internal packages.

adg @nf.id.au · Aug 24

You don’t want to import packages that are not maintained and stable. That’s what internal is for.

It’s open source so you can just copy it if you want to use it.

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · Aug 23

if i had to see this today, so do you

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · Aug 12

From a story about a new species of pseudoscorpion, this sort of highlighted the management of Australia in a nutshell

au.news.yahoo.com/incredible-p...

Incredible facts about Barrow Island
There is no public access to Barrow Island as it is listed as a Class A Nature Reserve.

It is home to 24 species and subspecies found nowhere else on Earth.

Barrow Island is home to Boodie Cave, which is one of Australia's oldest archaeological sites and contains evidence of humans from 46,200 to 51,100 years ago.

US energy giant Chevron was permitted to build its $54 billion Greater Gorgon gas extraction project on the island.

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adg @nf.id.au · Aug 10

Here it is in action:

adg @nf.id.au · Aug 10

For "reasons" I am playing around with DVD video streams, and today I learned that DVD subtitles are bitmaps, not text rendered by the player. My copy of Terminator 2 Extreme Edition has this interesting subtitle track that gives details on the VFX, including some illustrations.

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adg @nf.id.au · Jul 21

Wondering whether it’s better to be the sister to two brothers or the brother to two sisters.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · Jun 30

One of my strongest beliefs is if they actually put this on Broadway it would absolutely destroy at the award shows and run for 20 years

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adg @nf.id.au · Jun 30

There’s something weirdly cyberpunk about me liking a William Gibson laundry cat post. (@greatdismal.bsky.social)

adg @nf.id.au · Jun 30

Living the dream.

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Keith Fitzgerald @keithfitzgerald.bsky.social · Jun 26

Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

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adg @nf.id.au · Jun 17

This is great. So many lovely moments. Also, Lucy <3

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Alan Donovan @adonovan.bsky.social · Jun 16

Gopls v0.19.0 is released!
$ go install golang.org/x/tools/[email protected]

Release notes:
github.com/golang/tools...

Release gopls/v0.19.0 · golang/tools

Complete list of issues closed: gopls/v0.19.0 milestone Configuration Changes The gopls check subcommand now accepts a -severity flag to set a minimum severity for the diagnostics it reports. By d...

github.com

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adg @nf.id.au · Jun 12

Guys this is lovely

adg @nf.id.au · Jun 8

Also curious

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localthunk @localthunk.com · Jun 3

The honest reason I don't have microtransactions/season pass/ads/100 DLCs/etc in Balatro isn't just about the ethics of those practices but because when I play other games that have those things it makes me want to put my computer in the dishwasher and set it to pots & pans

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👁️ isaac io 👁️ @eyesack.bsky.social · May 27

This whole thing is amazing but I was not prepared for the reveal that Atrus was wearing a Hard Rock Cafe shirt the entire time

Rand Miller as Atrus in front of a green screen wearing a Hard Rock Cafe shirt under his robe-thing

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adg @nf.id.au · May 28

I'd think of it more like method acting. He has willed himself into becoming this histrionic person because it is profitable.

adg @nf.id.au · May 26

It’s not his opponents he’s trying to trick, it’s his viewers who are too stupid to realise that he’s not smart.

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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · May 19

Three Trail of Bits engineers audited core Go cryptography for a month and found only one low-sev security issue... in unsupported Go+BoringCrypto! 🍾

Years of efforts on testing, limiting complexity, safe APIs, and readability have paid off! ✨

Yes I am taking a victory lap. No I am not sorry. 🏆

Go Cryptography Security Audit

Go's cryptography libraries underwent an audit by Trail of Bits. Read more about the scope and results.

go.dev

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adg @nf.id.au · May 20

Oooh TIL. I didn’t know all these things supported OIDC. Ty!