Steven Sandoval

/ˈbɑːltəkʊteɪ/. Knows some chemistry and piping stuff. TeXmacs user.

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2026-07-15 22:39:57 UTC

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Meanwhile, some poor neural net training run is having a stroke trying to reconcile why Christine boosted this message with the content of this message.

2026-06-21 18:42:08 UTC

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The quote is said by his character Granny Weatherwax who talks to an Omnian priest in Carpe Jugulum (1998) about the nature of sin in the context of the Categorical Imperative. See also: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785) by Immanuel Kant.
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2026-04-29 17:50:16 UTC

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Works for me in Tusky.
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2026-04-07 22:27:04 UTC

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Thanks for the km/s. As an #eveonline player familiar with m/s, it helps me visualize how fast things are going.

2026-02-21 03:37:13 UTC

I wish #Signal and #Fediverse polls allowed #RankedChoiceVoting . It would help normalize this essential ingredient for democratic societies, ideally by making people realize “winner takes all” decisions need not be the default.

2026-01-27 03:13:35 UTC

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congratulations!

2025-09-23 10:08:09 UTC

I'm not good at platformers, but the runback to a particularly difficult Act 1 boss in #Silksong makes me look like I know what I'm doing, simply because I had to fight them several dozen times.
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2025-08-15 19:55:16 UTC

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Was the solution to increase the proof-of-work difficulty?

2025-08-04 17:21:07 UTC

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is that… a joke or a real release name?

2025-01-30 11:43:03 UTC

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“We have interstellar trade so relativistic effects mean there's no centralized canonical epoch anymore. Therefore, all timestamps are branches reticulated on a gravity-velocity spline tree rooted...”
“Let me guess: Earth, January 1st, 1970?”
“Yup.”

2024-12-22 00:26:37 UTC

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Scanning mom's #LDS Relief Society recipes was fun too, although probably fraught with copyright issues. #Mendon #Utah #recipes
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2024-12-22 00:14:21 UTC

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Yes, please. I ended up making my own setup for capturing family photos from the 1960s/1980s that were stuck on slides. I'm lucky since I happened to already own the most expensive equipment and had enough excess cash to buy the required macro lens.
Most families probably end up just tossing their collections or letting them get lost in fires or floods.
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2024-12-15 23:26:14 UTC

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“Seafile supports client-side end-to-end encryption to protect your data, which is a unique feature that you can rarely find in other solutions.”
This statement makes no logical sense which doesn't reassure me about their claim about encryption.

2024-12-02 00:00:11 UTC

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How do you navigate copyright / intellectual property issues? Simply not publishing anything newer than a certain age?

2024-09-21 15:00:52 UTC

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#ThreeMileIsland was a puff of mildly radioactive inert gasses while #ChurchRock was a diarrhea of bone-calcium-replacing uranium decay products that will continue to contaminate the #NavajoNation groundwater for millions of years. https://www.vice.com/en/article/church-rock-americas-forgotten-nuclear-disaster-is-still-poisoning-navajo-lands-40-years-later/