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Garrett Wollman

wollman@mastodon.social

<p>I fix networks and other stuff with computers inside for MIT CSAIL. Bi cyclist, cis male. More frequency = better mobility. Formerly @garrett_wollman on Twitter, still @gwollman.bsky.social on the other site.</p>

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    No, #Firefox, I did not need fucking *rounded corners* on my tabs. What a stupid fucking waste of effort when you could have been making a better browser.

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    I have absolutely no expectation of ever using this, but has anyone written, in any language, a good float-to-vulgar-fraction converter? &quot;Good&quot; means &quot;only uses traditional vulgar fractions of the sort represented as single sorts in typesetters&#39; cases and in Unicode&quot; and &quot;falls back to decimal when the rational value would be a &#39;too far&#39; from the original float&quot;.

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    Got my Mass. voter information booklet in the mail today! YES on 1, 2, 4, 7, 9 NO on 3, 5, 6, 8

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    @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org I file him next to Dylan in the folder labeled &quot;amazing songwriters with terrible singing voices&quot;.

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    @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Had yesterday&#39;s leftover French toast for lunch today, because work is still &quot;closed&quot;.

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    @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Specifically, I bought milk, because I already had bread and eggs and I had written off the rest of the winter as far as hot chocolate goes.

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    RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116465689693004632 It&amp;#39;ll be awesome when I can finally buy file servers again.

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    RE: https://newsie.social/@servelan/116466092617935237 So what I&amp;#39;m hearing is it doesn&amp;#39;t matter if the farmers can&amp;#39;t afford fertilizer this year, because they weren&amp;#39;t going to be able to sell that corn and those beans anyway? Certainly a great message to push in South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, and Ohio this election.

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    Confused by how @graydon&amp;#39;s SAFELY YOU DELIVER can possibly be ten years old now.

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    Apropos of nothing in particular: nobody is out there trying to sell &amp;quot;Let&amp;#39;s rewrite the shell in Haskell&amp;quot;. (And yes I do remember scsh. Even worse, I&amp;#39;m on the POSIX committee.)

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    Do you have an account with Bank of America? If so, they want to force you into arbitration of any disputes. You have less than 60 days to tell them you do not agree.

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    @fluidlogic My mother worked for IBM so of course rather than a normal computer we had to get a 5150 (version 2 system board, so it could hold up to 256K RAM), which she paid for through payroll deduction. A few summers later I went to a &quot;computer camp&quot; where I was the only kid with a PC in a sea of TRS-80s and C-64s and Apple IIs. It was upgraded over time; the second floppy drive broke and was replaced with a 20M hard drive, and we got a better (non-Epson) printer and a color monitor...