istewart

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[–] istewart@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

you know, if those ASML folks in dutchland weren't quite so busy what with their EUV lasers and all that, we might not be in quite this same pickle right now,

[–] istewart@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Broke: Wyoming gold mine

Woke: Wyoming bison ranch

Bespoke: Wyoming AI lab

[–] istewart@awful.systems 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

All 3 of the major Japanese manufacturers (Casio, Seiko, Citizen) have solar-powered radio sync models, but so far Casio is the best in my experience, and has the widest range of models. The Casios tend to have an auto-DST setting that relies on an internal calendar as well as the time signal. I have a chonky Seiko solar-atomic pilot's watch (with rotary slide-rule bezel!), but it doesn't have auto-DST so I have to bounce it back and forth between time zones. And it also doesn't seem to be as adept at receiving the WWVB signal as my Casios; it needs to be next to a window, while the Casios don't seem to care as long as there's not too much building mass to the east. I haven't had a chance to try a Citizen yet, but they now have solar-atomic moon-phase watches, which is tempting.

[–] istewart@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

I hope Yud doesn't mind if I borrow Mr. Assi for my upcoming epic crossover fic, "Naruto and Batman Stop the Poo-Pocalypse"

Wait a minute, what do you mean, it's not supposed to be that kind of ass?

[–] istewart@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago (13 children)

Impending availability of fully-functional Casio ring watches:

https://newatlas.com/wearables/casio-g-shock-nano-watch-ring/

[–] istewart@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago

The man just can't get a normal hobby. We tried Labubus, but he just sat there sweating all over everything and ranting about how it's the inevitable scapegoat for the collapse of Western aesthetic sensibilities

[–] istewart@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

All humanity has to do is scale up those Chinese battery-pack ejection systems for EVs that have been making the rounds lately, bing bong so simple

[–] istewart@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lightly concealing his identity behind a generated anime avatar may be the wisest thing that kid ever did

[–] istewart@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago

Kinda interesting that Google's TPUs are back in the news. Seemed like they had fallen by the wayside for a while. Of course there are no technical details, just blah blah revenue blah blah, but that's CNBC for you.

[–] istewart@awful.systems 12 points 1 month ago

The failure to include Ruby/Rails would seem to indicate that. Or maybe the guy's given up on framework development and he's just a culture-war grievance blogger these days

[–] istewart@awful.systems 24 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Props to Lemmy for doing... something... with the katakana URL. Was still able to follow the link on Safari.

Even as someone herding along a few perpetually-in-progress Gentoo setups, piping curl into sh to install random stuff staggers me. I don't see how this can be taken seriously; the software and the surrounding hype complex come off as a gimmick to catfish impressionable high-schoolers who don't know any better. After reading this, I can only imagine that Omarchy is most frequently distributed out of a shoddy panel van parked at a judicially-mandated distance outside of school zones. "Hey kid, want to try some Linux?"

[–] istewart@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

I propose a 450-foot-tall statue of the most famous parts of Kirk Johnson's anatomy, facing southwest back towards the city

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