Right? Like maybe she was quipping about the exorbitant cost of actual ski trips :-)
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Aug 25, 2020, 7:19 AM -04:00 Huh. I had no idea until today that "ski trip" was a euphemism for "cocaine binge". I mean, I actually do know people who ski for real fairly regularly and my first thought was just "they don't really look different after? Maybe a little flushed" :-)
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feminist next door (@emrazz) on X
Tonight I learned that a lot of people I follow on twitter know what someone looks like after a long ski weekend. I see you Gen X. -
Aug 24, 2020, 9:02 PM -04:00 I hear you. I keep all of them on my hard drive and keep it backed up to two external drives. You may also be interested in my methodology for organizing my photos: https://desmondrivet.com/2018/11/18/photo-organization
Aug 24, 2020, 5:50 PM -04:00I have thirteen years worth of personal pictures in my Google Drive and I really dislike now how the whole collection is in the hands of a single corporation. -
Aug 24, 2020, 8:02 AM -04:00 My personal website is https://desmondrivet.com I have a blog on it and a kind of microblog as well. It's not wildly beautiful. I write about whatever strikes my fancy, so I definitely wouldn't call it "cohesive". But it's there and I use it and it's mine.
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Jul 25, 2020, 11:38 AM -04:00 I think I'm going to file this one under "adage"
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Jul 20, 2020, 10:24 AM -04:00 Hmmm... interesting, but I'm honestly not sure what that would even look like.
Jul 19, 2020, 6:28 PM -04:00I think the argument would be that any enforceable rules would be built in to the protocol itself. Kind of like the idea of smart contracts I guess – certainly not without its own range possible pitfalls, but the idea being that it requires much more consensus to change a protocol. -
Jul 19, 2020, 10:06 AM -04:00 Interesting. How do you think this would apply to something like a distributed game, where you want a certain kind of enforcement of the rules between players?
Jul 19, 2020, 8:03 AM -04:00Centralised applications are authoritarian
In thin client/thick server models, the server does all the work and has all the power. Any authority for the user to do something is borrowed from the server (which can also remove it at any point). The society of users in thick-server applications route their actions through the server. When they message each other, they are updating entries in the server’s database. When they publish files, they are writing those files to the server’s disks. The server has ultimate authority over those sys... -
Jul 17, 2020, 9:52 PM -04:00 I apparently did not post a photo. Here we go.
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Desmond Rivet (@desmondrivet) on X
Very late to the party on this one but I finally made @alisoneroman 's anchovy shallot pasta and I am shocked at how mellow this stuff is, considering it has a shit ton of shallots and a whole jar of anchovies. Good stuff! -
Jul 9, 2020, 9:00 AM -04:00 Errr...wrong link. I meant this one: https://youtu.be/ajM4vYCZMZk If you need theremin inspiration :)
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Helen Leigh ⚡ (@helenleigh) on X
Well I appear to have successfully put together this theremin tonight, an open source hardware @arduino Uno shield from Gaudi Labs. It apparently does CV so I wanna try and use it to control one of my synths. I'd post video but my neighbor complained already 😅 -
Jul 9, 2020, 7:39 AM -04:00 If you need inspiration to learn how to play: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=RDajM4vYCZMZk&feature=share&playnext=1
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Helen Leigh ⚡ (@helenleigh) on X
Well I appear to have successfully put together this theremin tonight, an open source hardware @arduino Uno shield from Gaudi Labs. It apparently does CV so I wanna try and use it to control one of my synths. I'd post video but my neighbor complained already 😅 -
Jul 8, 2020, 4:25 PM -04:00 I made this! It's a lot of fun. I never got very good playing it, though. Detailed my adventures here: https://desmondrivet.com/2018/05/20/theremin-build
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Helen Leigh ⚡ (@helenleigh) on X
Last week I got a little drunk and went down a theremin YouTube rabbit hole at 2am. This week, a deliciously pretty Open Source Hardware theremin board and a bundle of parts arrived in my mailbox. Thanks past drunken Helen! Your gifts are much appreciated 🥃🛠️✨ -
Jul 6, 2020, 11:21 PM -04:00 One of my favorite versions of it: https://youtu.be/ajM4vYCZMZk
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Gillian Kerruish (@FyreByrde) on X
This year has brought so many memorials I am not yet ready to make. I will eventually. But today let's appreciate this film score, and the one who created it. RIP. Ennio Morricone - "The Ecstasy Of Gold" from The Good, The Bad & The Ugl... https://t.co/q1tafgZ8lh via @YouTube -
Jun 29, 2020, 9:21 AM -04:00 This is amazing
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Tariq KRIM (@tariqkrim) on X
When French Sci-fi Barjavel was asked to imagine the future just after world war 2 : he had it almost right -
May 31, 2020, 4:15 PM -04:00 "IPA" stands for "India Pale Ale"
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May 27, 2020, 11:20 PM -04:00 I didn't know RumChata was a thing, but I want some.
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Kelly Vaughn (@kvlly) on X
Me: I’m going to make coffee @dxnielvaughn: I’m going to turn it into a cocktail -
May 24, 2020, 6:28 PM -04:00 You don't know me, but I have that exact same vermouth and it's delicious! You made a Boulevardier, right?
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Daniel Vaughn 👨💻 (@dxnielvaughn) on X
Everyone's picking up quarantine hobbies. Mine is cocktails! Slowly but surely building out the bar and the repertoire. @kvlly obviously has zero complaints. -
May 13, 2020, 2:46 PM -04:00 I don't know if I'd call it my favourite, but I use @getpelican, @NetlifyCMS and @CircleCI. Mostly because I'm semi-familiar with Python and Jinja2, CircleCI was faster than TravisCI, and Netlify is just easy.
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Ali Spittel (@ASpittel) on X
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Apr 28, 2020, 12:52 PM -04:00 I maintain website/blog at https://desmondrivet.com It's a statically generated site using @getpelican, hosted on @NetlifyCMS. Updated semi-regularly and cross-posted to Twitter.
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Jani Eväkallio (@jevakallio) on X
HI! Do you have a self-hosted personal website/blog? If yes drop a link in replies! 🙏 I'm also interested what are your main problems in hosting your own website? Effort? Cost? Tech? Getting engagement? -
Apr 23, 2020, 1:06 AM -04:00 Well, this is quite embarrassing. Thank you for the information! Actually, my blog entries on my feed page did have p-names but I think I accidentally made them part of the e-content, and I suspect that's why they were not showing up. And, yes, my published date was embedded in my h-card for silly reasons that I won't get into. Anyway, I think (hope) I've fixed both issues if you want to try again.
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Apr 16, 2020, 1:30 PM -04:00 Excellent :-) I seem to recall enjoying Jen Kirkman and Tig Nataro as well
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@desmondrivet I love them both and have watched all their netflix specials already! Haven't watched Oh Hello On Broadway yet though, been hesitant about that one for a while -
Apr 15, 2020, 5:03 PM -04:00 I'm a big fan of John Mulaney's stand-up. Mike Birbiglia is also really good.
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Nando | 🇵🇸 (@nandini_godara) on X
I'm looking for good stand-up specials to watch, please give suggestions ( not Dave Chappelle or Bill Burr please) -
Apr 9, 2020, 12:27 PM -04:00 Honestly, "The Fifth Season" was one of the few examples of second person writing that I actively enjoyed, and that didn't feel unusual for the sake of unusual.
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Apr 7, 2020, 4:27 PM -04:00 I find that "Learn enough about topic X to have an informed opinion about it" is a too nebulous to be useful. So I don't try to do anything like this. Better would be something like "Read 3 well-regarded books on topic X", and hopefully one's opinion just improves after that.
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Apr 6, 2020, 10:54 PM -04:00 Heh. I configured my VoIP landline to show up as Batman on call display :) Particularly funny when I use it to make restaurant reservations. (Yes, I have a landline. Leave me alone.)
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Kelly Vaughn (@kvlly) on X
I keep forgetting that I named my phone Batman and am always surprised by this option when it appears -
Mar 11, 2020, 10:36 PM -04:00 For me, it was Dune. I can see why people like it, but it just wasn't for me.