Ben Zanin / is on Nostr

Robertson screwdriver owner, believer in the value of personal-scale computing and skeptic of the value of computing scales any larger than that

(previously https://twitter.com/gnomon ; account de-funked)

Pronouns: he/him
💍: Katie Lou Boo (npub1myf…3whl)
Home: Toronto, Canada
Trash animals: raccoons, possums, skunks, rats, squirrels, not geese

Last Notes

2024-10-24 15:54:49

"Post hoc ergo propter hoc"
A logical fallacy
And also
A legitimately useful debugging technique
:psyduck:

2024-08-26 03:48:35

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woah damn, that's a fantastic price for that glass

2024-08-24 03:04:54

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Amazon will get it to you faster, but let me send you the good stuff straight from the place that definitely won't take your money for counterfeit cards.

2024-08-24 02:24:17

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how many do you need?

2024-04-16 00:21:49

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those are my two middle names and also the "needs improvement" section of my yearly performance review

2024-04-16 00:18:40

Ooh 14°C at a quarter of an hour after sundown, methinks it is "play video games in my reclining camp chair on the fire escape with a thermos of tea" season already
#dlws

2024-03-28 02:33:11

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I actually want to run air cooling, but I can't find a good selection of cases that will let me mount the motherboard horizontal. I don't want to hang a huge CPU radiator sideways off four retaining pins if I can help it. I'm looking at water coolers just because the blocks are lighter and less cantilevered out so they'll generate less physical force on the CPU heat spreader.
(I know, I know, "just put a tower case on its side". Nope. Can't do it.)

2024-03-28 02:25:03

hey, do you have opinions about CPU water coolers? (I'm thinking of building up a gaming PC in Q2/Q3 of this year, just gathering ideas for now.)

2024-03-23 03:42:56

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in some ways it _still_ feels like the future. The battery life, the uncanny ability to melt into the background until you needed it for just a quick moment, the focus on personal information management... it was superb.
I read a lot of books in Plucker on my PalmOS machines, and wrote a lot of terrible code in DragonForth and LispMe. (Heck, I think I know [@bwinton](https://mstdn.ca/@bwinton) because of LispMe!)

2024-03-21 02:33:50

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IS THAT A 16" SVS SUBURBAN WOOFITER