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New comment by dsnuh in "A transistorized shift register box, built in 1965 for Apollo testing"

dsnuh — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 22:05:56 +0000

I made a little joke project a while back called "Keytarnetes" which used a MIDI controller (in this case a keytar from a Guitar Hero set) to run various actions against a Kubernetes cluster when you pressed the keys. It was really simple to hack together in a night using the mido python library. I basically just had a folder with shell scripts named after the notes and a process that polled for new keypresses and executed the script with the same name when that note that was pressed on the keytar. Maybe something like that could work for you?

New comment by dsnuh in "Mary Mallon"

dsnuh — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 22:05:57 +0000

I just wanted to use this as an opportunity to call out what I believe to be the finest song about Mary Mallon, by the finest musical act named after Mary Mallon...

"Plagues and Bacon" by Hail Mary Mallon (Aesop Rock and Rob Sonic). Some NSFW lyrics. It's a jam.

https://youtu.be/pNCM5CmxYSQ

New comment by dsnuh in "A visual guide on troubleshooting Kubernetes deployments"

dsnuh — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 20:02:16 +0000

Try https://magick8sball.github.io/ for those scenarios. :)

New comment by dsnuh in "Square Inc. Co-Founder Tristan O’Tierney Dies at 35"

dsnuh — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 19:11:03 +0000

I'm not spreading that it is harmless, but I have a hard time believing that it ruins more lives than alcohol, which is what my comment is centered on. I am happy to be proven wrong if you have some stats that show differently. Again, I'm not saying it does no harm, only that it does less harm than alcohol, and that alcohol use is more widely accepted and even promoted.

New comment by dsnuh in "Square Inc. Co-Founder Tristan O’Tierney Dies at 35"

dsnuh — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 07:02:16 +0000

I'm not saying it is a substitute for alcohol, but I will take someone addicted psychologically to weed over someone psychologically and physically addicted to alcohol any day of the week.

New comment by dsnuh in "Square Inc. Co-Founder Tristan O’Tierney Dies at 35"

dsnuh — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 06:55:29 +0000

Please enlighten me, informed expert!

New comment by dsnuh in "Square Inc. Co-Founder Tristan O’Tierney Dies at 35"

dsnuh — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 03:45:22 +0000

Reading this on mobile, and there is a huge ad for Belvedere Vodka. Just like the "Fuck Cancer" movement, it's time we had a "Fuck Alcohol" movement. I'm hoping with cannabis gaining more and more support throughout the US that we see a drop-off in alcohol consumption. It may take a generation or two, but I think it's time to drop this poison as a society.

R.I.P. and so sorry to hear that his young daughter will not get to know her father.

New comment by dsnuh in "On Building an Instagram Street Art Dataset and Detection Model"

dsnuh — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 06:16:48 +0000

Hi, really neat project. I don't have much to add, other than it would be neat to see this for Buenos Aires street art. When I visited (granted this was about 10 years ago) I remember the amount of stencil graffiti was striking.

New comment by dsnuh in "Lego collecting delivers huge and uncorrelated market returns"

dsnuh — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 00:43:10 +0000

I worked at a competing toy store in the mid 90s also. It always brought me great joy that Beanie Babies ended up being a bad investment. We had to call the cops the day we got our shipment of Princess Diana bears. I'd say about 90% of our BB sales were to adult buyers speculating on huge returns.

Care to share what action figures you held onto? My guess is Star Wars reissue figures from the 20th anniversary theater releases. Maybe some early McFarlane toys? :)

Fun fact: The small toy store chain I worked for is the toy store that Arnold goes to in Jingle All The Way. I make sure to watch it every year for a little trip back in time.

New comment by dsnuh in "MongoDB removed from RHEL 8 beta due to license"

dsnuh — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 21:11:11 +0000

Pretty sure that they were referring to ArangoDB and OrientDB as being immature, not MongoDB...

New comment by dsnuh in "Scratch 3.0"

dsnuh — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 00:28:58 +0000

Wow! Super cool!

New comment by dsnuh in "How Space and Time Could Be a Quantum Error-Correcting Code"

dsnuh — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 00:21:47 +0000

>So, how do quantum error-correcting codes work? The trick to protecting information in jittery qubits is to store it not in individual qubits, but in patterns of entanglement among many.

So are quantum encoding patterns the Proof Of Work of multidimensional holgraphic blockchains?

Edit: accidentally pasted entire article

New comment by dsnuh in "Scratch 3.0"

dsnuh — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 05:33:07 +0000

Voxatron from the same developer is also a lot of fun. I got both in a bundle deal for like $15 I think. Well worth it.

New comment by dsnuh in "The Largest Vocabulary in Hip Hop (2014)"

dsnuh — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 19:21:17 +0000

Don't miss out on Hail Mary Mallon, which is Aesop Rock and Rob Sonic. I would highly recommend their album Bestiary if you like Aesop's solo stuff.

New comment by dsnuh in "Scientists discover spider species that feeds its young milk"

dsnuh — Sat, 01 Dec 2018 18:40:37 +0000

Pump pure oxygen into the grow-domes.

New comment by dsnuh in "Goldman Sachs Ensnarled in Vast 1MDB Fraud Scandal"

dsnuh — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 20:53:54 +0000

>the Malaysian businessman they believe stole some of the money: Jho Low

Would Jho Low be pronounced "YOLO"?

New comment by dsnuh in "When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Improves"

dsnuh — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 20:41:11 +0000

I'm not sure if you're being serious, but I disagree if you are. Any drug can be the gateway for a person at risk for addiction. I don't have hard data (and I suspect there is none proving weed is the gateway drug, but am happy to be educated) but my guess is that alcohol is the gateway drug for a vast majority of Americans.

Can weed be a person's gateway to harder drugs? Sure. Is it the gateway drug? I don't think so.

New comment by dsnuh in "Tiny Books Fit in One Hand. Will They Change the Way We Read?"

dsnuh — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 20:01:44 +0000

Since we got on a bit of a Dune tangent here, I wanted to say that one of the most interesting topics (and this is more in the later books of the series) is that the ultimate "weapon" is being an unknown quantity in a universe dominated by a prescient god-king who sees all paths. The idea of "no-ships" and other places where you couldn't been "seen" seems very similar to dropping off of social media or trying to escape from the permanent record of your activities online, etc.

It really is a fantastic series. The first book is amazing and stands on its own, but it really is rewarding to read the entire series (that Frank Herbert wrote, not the new crap his son puts out).

New comment by dsnuh in "Tiny Books Fit in One Hand. Will They Change the Way We Read?"

dsnuh — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 18:44:35 +0000

Exactly, and this is why I think the series is such a standout.

New comment by dsnuh in "Tiny Books Fit in One Hand. Will They Change the Way We Read?"

dsnuh — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 18:43:51 +0000

The book aesthetic was important because it is a religious text, and also because anything like what we would call a "computer" is not only banned, but seen as unholy. The story of Dune is one of religion, ecology, the fallibility and fatality of prescience, scatterings and exoduses, failures of humans, how mankind matures and develops over a 10,0000+ year period. The actual technology mentioned is often in passing, is often intertwined with some human ability, and almost never a plot device like in so many sci-fi stories (Death Star anyone?).