TIL that there’s a new floating bridge under development that will replace the 520 bridge as the longest floating bridge in the world when it’s done: https://thebridgeguy.org/2021/01/update-bjornafjorden-crossing-design-progresses/

Enjoyed this article that covers Trimming the Herbs and goes a little deeper on TAS.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/04/how-to-cheat-at-super-mario-maker-and-get-away-with-it-for-years/

The American tech scene would explode in a second Renaissance if the US got basic universal health care as a public right.

Oh hell yes - a sequel to the game that I’ve certainly played the most of in my whole life (I should count up the hours again - it’s probably close to 1000 at this point): https://youtu.be/krDFltgjLtE

https://blog.erlend.sh/evergreen-content-gardens

Social bookmarking is a novel use case for #ActivityPub and I’m super excited about it. I heckin’ love links and lists! I wanna use them for everything.

Things like #Bookwyrm are cool, but it’s not what I want. I just wanna link the thing. Books, films, podcasts, articles, songs.., they’re all just resource recommendations which can be encapsulated by links.

Thanks to @raffomania and @eb for the indirect prompts leading to this article mixing their ideas with my own.

One often overlooked benefit of municipal broadband is keeping local dollars close to home and using the extra $$ to make community investments

Check out what Westfield MA is doing thanks to the success of its municipal telecom utility Whip City Fiber

The "profits" the network has made are now being used to build new track and athletic fields for the entire community. Click link below for our story

#Internet #InternetForAll #broadband

https://communitynets.org/content/municipal-broadband-provider-whip-city-fiber-serves-win-everybody

"Solutions architect" no, I'm a problems architect.

Kind of baffled that I haven't seen any eclipse pictures from folks in Alaska. #geography

Fresh results from another guaranteed basic income pilot. This time from Seattle's King County where 102 people got $500/mo for 10 months.

Employment nearly doubled from 37% to 66%

Average income from jobs went up by $410/mo

Retirement plans nearly tripled

Percent with any savings of those with kids went from 0% to 42%

Percent with any savings of those without kids went from 24% to 35%

Participants also reported gains in health and well-being
https://www.seakingwdc.org/latest-news/gbi-report

It kind of sucks that "adult toy" is a euphemism for "sex toy." Like sure, those are all well and good, but what about poseable figures that break if you look at them the wrong way, or gunpla, or ESP32-C6 dev boards, or completely impractical computers that beg to be called cyberdecks, or 3D printers, or infrared cameras, or overly fancy drones, or record players and vinyl albums, or anything that still has a floppy drive in 2024?

“Note even utility boxes and machinery get yellow steel poles for protection. Cyclists get plastic”

https://sf.streetsblog.org/2024/04/09/eyes-on-the-street-san-francisco-joins-the-sidewalk-level-bike-lane-club

Interesting to see more robust commenting getting mainlined into neovim: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/28176

I’m more of an SDEJ: software development engineer in jest.

I don't care about MTTR, I care about TCI (total cost of incidents).

I keep seeing the news about lunar time presented as “the Moon is getting its own time zone." What's actually happening is the Moon is getting its own time *standard*. The problem being solved is that time passes slightly more quickly on the Moon compared to Earth (due to General Relativity) and so the Moon needs its own time standard for precise measurements and navigation. UTC is the time standard for measuring time on Earth, and LTC is being created for the Moon.

#GeneralRelativity #time

These two items were adjacent in my feed.

https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/112237545994624170

https://octodon.social/@jalefkowit/112238324590392720

I hugely respect both @simon and @baldur. How to square their opposing views? Two things can be true. Some who use LLMs are experiencing a massive boost. Others are fooling themselves about AGI.

#fandom #startrek #spiffy

♫ It's time to shoot the phasers (Pike's hair was set alight), it's time to fight the Klingons on a Strange New Worlds tonight ♪

https://www.slashfilm.com/1551351/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-muppets-episode-tease/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

The secret to succeeding in technology is to build exciting things with boring technology.

Boring tech is well-understood and the edge cases well-known.

Your product should be what’s exciting, not your stack or your devops.

This 170 page document on “Mongolia meta” for GeoGuessr is amazing. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W_QK69BXMHUZXI5VdNH93_aLhTd9SQzNYhRLrh_-ZVA/edit?usp=sharing