Stewart C. Russell @scruss@mastodon.social

I've been trying not to buy things from Amazon for the last couple years but OH my GOD does literally no one else know how online shopping works?

Ace Hardware placed 3 holds on my credit card... and insisted the transaction failed every time.

Sears (or someone committing identity fraud, who knows!) just CALLED me a day after an online order and insisted that I recite every detail of the order, billing, shipping, etc to them, ma'am it's a belt sander, not a diamond

https://plotter.vision converts 3D STL files to 2D SVG suitable for #plottertoots with interactive camera positioning, back-face culling, hidden-line removal, and coplanar-triangle merging.

"And if thou gaze long into thy navel, thy navel will gaze also into thee."

The #Pinecil RISC-V
soldering iron is now available for purchase for $24.99. With this first batch we also decided to include the break-out board free of charge.
You're welcome.

https://pine64.com/product-category/soldering-irons/?v=0446c16e2e66

Oh god oh god https://archive.org/details/barbiephonic_archive_collection

My mom was talking about an old Sierra adventure game she played when she was a kid, called King's Quest (the ancestor to all the point & clicks they ended up making). I quickly took her over to a computer, fired up archive.org, and now she's beaming at the computer screen and yelling "EVERYONE GET OVER HERE IT'S KING'S QUEST IT'S KING'S QUEST" :D

I want to take on a new creative outlet, but I also wanna skip the part where I'm bad at it in the beginning.

It's kind of funny in retrospect that the programming language whose mantra was "There Should Be Only One Way To Do It" featured two separately maintained, incompatible, versions of itself for 11 years.