Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@qoto.org
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
Politically moderate, but a registered Democrat since January 7th 2021.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
@atomicpoet @dotnet @fediversenews What does the account being created months ago have to do with whether or not they're affiliated? I don't see where you're making that leap. It makes sense they'd want to claim the name they'd eventually use early, even if they weren't prepared to commit to engaging yet. That doesn't mean they're affiliated with the server.
And that's on top of the fact that they've now expressly said they are not affiliated with it. 🤦♂️
@atomicpoet @dotnet @fediversenews Why would they not? They can migrate any time if they need to, but this makes it easier for their marketing crew. Most brand accounts are just accounts, not whole servers.
@atomicpoet @Ciantic @dotnet They joined a community server. They posted about it an hour ago and said so themselves, thanking the community member by handle who set up the instance. @Ciantic is correct.
Louis Ingenthron
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Okay, so, yeah, in the last year or so I too fell into the deep hole of mechanical keyboards (and just recently built my own... which I haven't quite got working yet...). But I've (mostly) stayed away from the deeper obsession with what keycaps to use. Until now. This is amazing.
From: https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/11m25p4/im_getting_better_at_this/
@interfluidity I really wanted to write a tribal reply about how real libertarians actually are on the left on these issues, but then I realized that no real libertarians still call themselves "libertarians" because that word has been so completely co-opted by the far right trolls. It's sad, really.
This is despicable. Manchin and Rosen ought to be ashamed.
America is worse-off due to their poor judgement.
@skrishna What exactly is propellant conditioning? Is it essentially just giving it time to settle to even out any unevenness in temp/density from the inflow?
Louis Ingenthron
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This is *amazing*. Go get yourself some morning energy.
From: @restartproject
https://mastodon.green/@restartproject/109987640624481034
Most people struggle to get to inbox-zero.
For tech folk like me, we struggle to get to inboxes-zero.
Today, I got my email client down to handling only *6* email addresses!
@emilymbender Wait, I thought each session was run in an insulated container to prevent Microsoft Tay from happening again?
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This International Women’s Day kinda feels like a slap in the face. Why? Because America has taken drastic steps back in women’s rights of late.
1) In 2022 women lost their fundamental right to control their own bodies with Dobbs and numerous states have since banned abortions and moved to ban common forms of birth control.
2) In the past few months we’ve seen outright legal attacks on the ability of trans-women to simply exist. Trans-women are women.
3) In 2022 the pay gap got worse for women.
Pathetic. #Minnesota #Wild players too scared to wear a rainbow. Is this what modern white heterosexual masculinity looks like? A bunch of grown men scared of a shirt?
https://www.outsports.com/2023/3/7/23629942/minnesota-wild-pride-jerseys-lgbt-gay-homophobia-nhl
@maegul Pretty sure it's just a limitation of the platform. But there's an easy workaround! When you're on their profile, click their profile picture. That will take you to their profile on *their* server. So, at least for non-protected accounts, you should be able to see the full lists there.
I made the transition to #Mastodon the day Elon closed his deal. Looking back, the difference is surreal.
On Twitter, my feed was full of political trolls pushing my buttons and pissing me off and making me question my faith in humanity.
On Mastodon, I get to read opinions from many of the same people I respected over there... but also I get brief, random windows into subcommunities like #Mosstodon, which is a delightful group of nature weirdoes and scientists posting pictures of moss they see out in the wild. It's so wholesome and positive that it restores my faith in humanity.
Louis Ingenthron
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It’s very difficult and almost never economically viable to make technical systems resilient on their own. That’s why we focus so much on sociotechnical systems.
When Elon laid off most of the company, he destroyed the “socio” part of the sociotechnical system that kept it running. And unless I missed the Erlang rewrite, Twitter isn’t built for unattended five-nines reliability.
This “complete rewrite” is a fool’s errand. You can’t solve much of anything with code by itself.
I'm trying out a new #gamedev concept... Well, not really a new one, but new to me.
I'm trying to build a world entirely in code. Nominally a "text-based game", the idea is to take the Dwarf Fortress route of enabling development of a deep simulation by eschewing design and art concerns completely. In this case it's a space ship captaining RPG.
Even if it never goes anywhere, it's still a really fun and challenging exercise.
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Today I had to ask for a hearing to be delayed for 2 weeks because opposing counsel hadn't sent us some necessary files. For a split second I thought about being self-righteous about it before the judge, but of course I decided not to. That's not a good look.
And a good thing, too. Turns out opposing counsel DID send the files a month ago, & our office somehow missed it. Oops!
A good reminder not to be a jerk about opposing counsels' errors, lest you find out the errors are actually your own.
@jbe Can confirm. I've been on both sides of that and the crow I had to eat when I was originally uppity was brutal, but well-deserved.
Is referring to sea-or-spacefaring vessels with #feminine #pronouns #sexist?
I've always thought it was respectful with a bit of snark, like "She can be temperamental, but love and respect her and you'll go far together" kind of thing.
But I would prefer to hear the opinions of some actual #women on the matter.
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
Politically moderate, but a registered Democrat since January 7th 2021.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
