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He/they. Software engineer with an interest in ending racism and sexism, and increasing freedom for sex and gender identities/behavior. Attempt to practice […]
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@b0rk nice list. I have never used disown, but everything I find useful.
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@schrottkatze the history of CS is it changing from a mathematical science where it made sense to prove things correct into a biological science where observation and experiments are needed, and even then you can’t be sure that one of your dozens or hundreds (thousands for js) of dependencies […]
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@miek I just wrote that line as a function. Nice.
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something I think a lot about when explaining things is whether the design of the thing still "makes sense" (like, if we had to redesign it today, might we make similar choices?)
like the way DNS caching works is inconvenient sometimes but it feels like the basic design decisions around DNS […]
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@b0rk this would be a useful mental model for understanding what happens :) Just mention that Control-L often redraws the screen when the random stuff interacts poorly.
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@juandesant @timbray @RonAvitzur I don't think I have tried geogebra as I stopped looking when i found Desmos, in a search for that old graphing calculator feel.
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@juandesant @timbray @RonAvitzur Desmos is closest to graphing calculator for that quick exploration of graphs. When you aren’t up to a full mathematica session
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@xs4me2 @msbellows Elon Musk’s success is a zero interest rate phenomenon.
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@GottaLaff one substack worth the moral compromise. Everyone fired due to standing up to fascism deserves a few dollars.
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@indubitablyodin wow, something I will be able to enjoy even if I have fled the country with my trans and immigrant family. Such fun books, tho, sadly that might mean I am likely to find the show irritating.
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@ScienceDesk @npr @birdpoof OMG. I do not want more pandemics. Wasn’t covid enough to scare people about diseases?
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@servelan worse than I expected - software engineering is not aerospace engineering. And fintech experience (you can always dispute a charge) isn’t that useful for operating physical systems that are destroyed by errors.
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@Lazarou interesting angle of analysis. I like it.
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@johncarlosbaez lovely subject, but especially I love this quote:
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@GottaLaff it buried in India. And I think we will continue to prove how much of the US material success in the 20th c came from soft power, from being kind to people more often than many empires. Not fully grown in our maturity of course but had we continued in our growth in maturity, we might […]
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@futurebird some of my favorite music I have heard is Wendy Carlos’ Brandenburg Concertos. Analog Moog and such lovely arrangement.
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@yabellini and walks thru the land.
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@bagder yeah that came out wrong. I didn’t mean to imply some shadowy force on you, I actually meant the data are interesting and particularly topical.
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Based on the book I'm reading about plants, it turns out that many of the trees and plants can probably still *hear* these hidden rivers flowing, and the roots seek the sound of the water. Sometimes they pry open the pipes causing all sorts of trouble.
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@bagder i trees ting that you feel compelled to sort them into C related or not C related.
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[Politics, family]
@HayiWena I apologize. I will try to understand and not repeat that particular error.
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[Politics, family]
@HayiWena so how long before the GOP in Alabama or NC starts putting Mein Kampf on the curriculum?
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@epicdemiologist oh thanks! Also I didn't know she had a patreon. I love Saints of Steele and have had to ration other series since I still other tasks. Just finished A Sorceress Cones to Call and loved it.