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
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Good policy is not partisan.
Repealing a grocery tax puts more food on every person's table, continuing to tax groceries takes food off of every person's table.
The effects of the policy are the same regardless of political party.
The path forward for our country is to get back to discussions of policy and away from arguments over political party.
As Frederick Douglass said, “I would unite with anybody to do right; and with nobody to do wrong.”
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"We don’t need more hyperventilating about TikTok: we need strong privacy and transparency laws, and antitrust action to break up the companies getting rich off their data empires"
@team https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/02/resistance-tiktok-ban-is-growing-washington/
A supposed lawyer popped into my mentions to try to deny an easily provable fact then blocked me before I could bring receipts.
Yep, it's starting to feel like Twitter here...😕
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The Supreme Court is all but certain to invalidate Biden's student debt forgiveness plan. And they're legally correct to. Whether you think the plan was good policy or not, the president has constitutionally limited powers—which is good, because you don't want a presidency without limited powers—and his plan obviously went beyond them. If you want to forgive student debt, Congress needs to do it.
So, apparently #RegionsBank, which does not offer token or app authentication, uses easily-spoofed browser-provided data to determine whether or not to trigger its SMS #2FA authentication.
It's insane to me that a *#Bank* of all places could be such a failure on basic #DigitalSecurity measures.
Guess I need to start shopping around for a new account.
Well, that issue is resolved now. 😂
What do you prefer: Fediverse or fediverse? You might say it's a proper noun that refers to this specific community that we’re all using to communi...
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"So, doing some quick math, has Thiel been contributing to his Roth IRA for 714,285 years and some months? He is a noted life-extension and cryogenics enthusiast, but the numbers don’t seem to add up.
As it turns out, the trick is much simpler and doesn’t involve time travel or liquid nitrogen."
It just requires special access -- access you and I don't have.
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Another development on the rapid detection of #methane plumes: NASA's EMIT instrument on the ISS is now also providing near-real-time detection of big plumes, available here:
https://earth.jpl.nasa.gov/emit/data/data-portal/Greenhouse-Gases/
What can it see? Well, look at this big burp from a landfill in the Kansas City suburbs from earlier this month.
EMIT was offline from Sept-Dec due to a fix needed on the ISS, but the portal should be ongoing now.
These portals should be a boon to local #climate reporters.
These are the kinds of articles you get from people who think the primary work of software engineering is writing code instead of debugging.
I really don't like Ron #DeSantis, but I have to admit that his decision to wait until the last possible moment to announce his candidacy is smart and savvy as hell. Makes me even more worried about his ambitions, frankly.
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I dunno, "fellow liberal," you seem to have made a good case that the threat from DeSantis is not exaggerated at all.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/27/opinion/desantis-trump-president-comparison.html
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Duggar family on abortion:
•2013: Abortion is “Baby Holocaust”
•2015: Rally against abortion!
•2020: March for Life!
•2023: “Due to complications we had a procedure to remove the baby & pretend it isn’t abortion.”
Healthcare for me but not for thee. This is the right wing movement in a nutshell. Revolting hypocrisy, which apparently is the point.
https://people.com/parents/jessa-duggar-reveals-she-suffered-a-miscarriage/
"My .NET 7 code compiles perfectly! Not so much as a warning or message!"
"Oh, really? Ctrl-Shift-F find exclamation points."
One of the many cool things about GitHub #CoPilot is that it helps increase discoverability of API features you may not have ever known existed!
For example, when I want to return an empty collection, I usually just instantiate a zero-length array. But, apparently, there's a cleaner way in .NET: Enumerable.Empty<T>()
Now I know! Neat!
Hey, my game on Steam currently has a higher review score than KSP2!
Not a huge fan of #KerbalSpaceProgram 2 so far.
The graphics are definitely improved, but I'm not convinced the new interface is an improvement.
In particular, the art direction for the interface has led to a more cluttered and less-readable HUD in-game.
Bugs abound. Fairings don't respect physics rules. Cloud resolution is awful and interferes with the rocket rendering. Orbital paths don't adjust for target body focus.
The first game had parts with very distinctive profiles, but the addition of more detail (especially in the background of the VAB) has led to a decrease in the readability of the parts too. Also, the color selection options can really screw you here too if you don't know better.
Most importantly, though, I'm not really sure what the direction is in this sequel. What does it bring to the table other than a graphics and interface overhaul? So far, best as I can tell, not a whole lot.
How did Kerbal Space Program 2 and Sons of the Forest both launch to Early Access within a day of each other?
Are you people trying to kill me?
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Current mood:
Thinking it may be worse to be mansplained to by someone I basically agree with than someone who's just wrong.
It really emphasizes the condescension, rather than just the general idiocy.
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MSCHF has filed a “Motion for Leave to File One Packet of Crayola® Colored Pencils” with the Supreme Court.
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US Mint today releases 'Freedom of the Press' $100 platinum coin. (At a cost of $1545 not too many reporters likely to be able to afford to buy one). https://catalog.usmint.gov/first-amendment-to-the-united-states-constitution-2023-platinum-proof-coin-freedom-of-the-press-23EJ.html
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
