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
Watching Heat for the first time in years, and there's something very refreshing at the very beginning of the movie:
The crooks set off an explosive charge and it *doesn't* become a giant fireball. It's just a puff of smoke and a bunch of shattered car windows. The lack of hollywood exaggeration really grounds the sequence to follow.
@olives I do now. Started learning last month.
Aborted, unfortunately, due to equipment failure. Better safe than sorry. Gonna try again Friday.
Louis Ingenthron
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Film studios: Pirating films is bad because it prevents all the hardworking people who make these films from being paid.
Also film studios: Streaming is good because it prevents all the hardworking people who made these films from being paid, except us.
LOL avast matey, I'm in the clearrrrrrr.
@annmlipton @randahl On the contrary, they've done internal studies that show people prefer the recommended content (they scroll slower on the recommended feed than they do on the chronological feed)
https://www.techdirt.com/2021/10/27/when-facebook-turned-off-news-feed-algorithm-it-made-everyones-experience-worse-made-facebook-more-money/
@filby @stevesilberman I strongly disagree with all of that. Intent matters.
I, a highly-paid software engineer who has worked in IT for almost two decades, just spent two hours debugging an authentication error only to realize that I had the username wrong the whole time.
Nobody's perfect 🤷♂️ 🤦♂️
Sigh. The US Post Office shredded a four-figure check that I guess I'm not getting for another week.
Let's count the ways this is stupid:
1) Preventing jackasses from committing fraud against their investors isn't a free speech issue.
2) If I understand correctly, consent decrees are agreed to by both parties. So, he's suing them for something he agreed to?
3) Suing the SEC and taking it straight to SCOTUS is an incredibly poor choice for someone who is currently being widely and justly criticized for losing touch with reality due to the insulatory nature of his obscene wealth.
This is the latest in our series with Capital & Main, investigating LA's lost residential hotels. Catch up here: https://www.propublica.org/ser...
As much as I dislike the guy, I'm glad he wasn't hurt.
"This morning, the governor was in a car accident while traveling to an event in Chattanooga, Tennessee," says DeSantis spokesperson, Bryan Griffin...
Louis Ingenthron
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Uh oh, which one of you works for Fox News? I think you may need someone to explain my account to you. Preferably slowly and in very simple terms.
@ThinkingSapien 1.6 terabytes of photos? Are they all massive bitmaps or raw files or something? How many photos is that?
Planning to perform my first solo flight tomorrow. Excited and nervous! Got 5 safe landings myself today, so I'm feeling good about it.
@Pat
> "Consumer can choose to buy their electricity from non-polluting sources"
I don't know where you live, but I certainly don't have that choice anywhere I've ever lived. There was always only one choice, a local monopoly, sometimes subsidized by local government.
@Pat
>"Individuals work at those companies"
You're not going to convince the individuals who run the oil companies to have a change of heart by individually switching to an electric car. If enough people do that, then the oil man will just sell his oil to power plants to burn to make the energy for your car chargers.
>"If you're concerned about plants"
I'm not concerned about either. I'm asking why you choose to draw the line where you do, and whether you think it's any less arbitrary a decision than where I draw it.
@cshentrup It really is.
Step 1: Inherit millions from your parents
Step 2: Hire an investment firm
In Elon's case, he used his father's Apartheid emerald mine money to invest in things like PayPal and Tesla, which is where all his wealth comes from. Literally, all his billions come from him giving his daddy's money to the right people, who were smarter than him.
@cshentrup Lmao. I've heard Elon himself speak often enough to know he's an idiot. He talks with smart people and latches on to buzzwords and pretends to have deep knowledge.
Also, fwiw, real geniuses don't need to fire and sue anyone who criticizes their easily-predictable failures.
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
