Les Orchard <me@lmorchard.com>

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  • 12 hours ago How The Oregon Trail became a generational icon | The Verge
    Whether you played it in the back of your classroom or on your computer at home, if you were a kid in the last 30 years you almost certainly grew up playing The Oregon Trail.
  • 3 days ago SPACESHIPS
    Inverted Asteroids: you are not the ship. Place gravity wells and sling the rocks.
  • 4 days ago cocktail virgin slut
    quality versus quantity does not have to be a winner-take-all proposition.
  • 5 days ago It's time to talk about my writerdeck
    Of course, I'm a Linux user, and I have any number of options. I could have gone with a simple desktop or window manager and just not installed a browser, but I wanted something that really broke the desktop OS muscle memory and forced me into thinking about my words with intention. I opted for a tty-based setup, using Debian (Trixie at the time of writing). Console only- no x11 or Wayland, no desktop getting in my way.
  • 5 days ago Millionaires Love NY: New IRS Data Shows New York’s Millionaire Population Grew Years After the State Raised Taxes on the Rich - Groundwork Collaborative
    New York added nearly 2,000 millionaire tax filers in a single year, according to newly released IRS data. The agency’s 2023 Statistics of Income (SOI) data show the number of New Yorkers reporting more than $1 million in income grew about 3%, shortly after the state raised its top tax rate on high earners. Far from triggering the millionaire exodus warned about, the new figures cut at the heart of one of the most persistent arguments against millionaire surtax proposals.
  • 5 days ago The Wind, The Wind | blarg
    It looks like people are starting to come around about designing, planning and building houses by counting number of nails they used. It’s probably for the best; people sure went crazy about it for a year or two, though.
  • 5 days ago libvips
    libvips is a demand-driven, horizontally threaded image processing library. Compared to similar libraries, libvips runs quickly and uses little memory. libvips is licensed under the LGPL-2.1-or-later.
  • 5 days ago OpenSeadragon
    An open-source, web-based viewer for high-resolution zoomable images, implemented in pure JavaScript, for desktop and mobile.
  • 5 days ago Staff+ engineers must rebuild team culture - LeadDev
    AI is driving a shift to more autonomous work within teams, which means opportunities to establish culture that used to be automatic – time spent pairing, organizing work around shared goals, planning and designing together – now require deliberate choices.
  • 5 days ago Engineers grieve a job that no longer exists - LeadDev
    The more AI-generated code a team produces, the more review work lands on the engineers who care most about quality, often the most experienced people on the team. The volume of output rises while the nature of the work shifts from creation to inspection, and the engineers doing the hardest cognitive labor appear, by the metrics, to be less productive than the ones generating code with AI.
  • 5 days ago Byte - a visual archive
    This zoomable map shows every page of every issue of BYTE starting from the front cover of the first issue (top left) to the last page of the final edition (bottom right). The search bar runs RE2 regex over the full text of all 100k pages. The archive itself is not new, scans of BYTE have long existed on the Internet Archive and elsewhere on the net – but I hope seeing everything in single, searchable place offers a unique perspective.
  • 6 days ago The Test Card Gallery
    The BBC and ITV have over the years used a number of tuning signals, test cards and captions either for engineering purposes, or just to fill time in the days before breakfast and daytime TV. This page shows some of them, and some of the captions used in days past.

@lmorchard@masto.hackers.town

  • 4 hours ago
    Like, i know they did some level rework shenanigans at some point when I wasn't playing. But I distinctly remember hustling to hit level 60 before Burning Crusade came out and then getting up to 90 or 120 at some point. Coming back in after a long while to be that nerfed is just RUDE
  • 4 hours ago
    Playing some WoW Classic, because hell if I remember what all these buttons do. Also my guy in WoW proper is level 35 now? Rude
  • 13 hours ago
    Whoa: New stuff from Echo & the Bunnymen - Brussels is Haunted https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCDFLUBYxVg
  • 14 hours ago
    While I'm busy printing stupid shit, it suddenly occurs to me to print a Demon Core lamp. I've got silver filament, purple glow-in-the-dark filament, and a spool of UV LEDs - I have the technology. https://www.printables.com/model/1827717-demon-core-lamp-kit-001
  • 1 day ago
    Content warning:lewd corn? This corn is very floppy #3dprinting
  • 1 day ago
    I have printed limp corn? #3dprinting https://makerworld.com/en/models/771439-flexi-corn-cob-pencil-case#profileId-724278
  • 1 day ago
    Listening to bird song from a nest outside my window and I'm wondering what the world would be like if people just went outside and screamed to attract mates?
  • 1 day ago
    I remember one of the things I really liked about Guild Wars 2 vs WoW was that there were big world events where you didn't have to explicitly form a party or a group - you could just kind of show up and start pitching in. Wish more games had that kind of thing going on.
  • 1 day ago
    My main problem with MMORPGs is that, apparently, I don't often like playing games with other people. But I do sometimes like games where there are other people around.
  • 1 day ago
    Watched some of the Blizzcon announcements, and well, they got me: I reinstalled WoW and forked over some money for the first time since 2017. We'll see if this is actually fun or just ADHD. It might be both? Probably just ADHD though.
  • 2 days ago
    Finally watched Project Hail Mary. Had skipped it til now, because Andy Weir's "anti-woke" comments had grossed me right the fuck out. But, I don't understand how you can be in that orbit and produce this story. This was like Star Trek level optimism in the face of terrible realities, resolved via inter-species diversity and friendship. Like, did he miss his own point here? or that there was a point to it at all?
  • 2 days ago
    I had a dream that the dairy industry somehow convinced investors that they were a trillion dollar concern. Like, you remember all those TV commercials for drinking milk and eating cheese? Picture that, except taken to AI levels of hype. Dairy farms in every municipality instead of data centers. Dairy as an ingredient in everything - we went out for cocktails and my boulevardier had half-and-half in it. About the time I was waking up, there were rumors that the pork industry was making a move

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