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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Will the United States ever learn its lesson? Not as long as the media and the military/industrial complex get paid for never learning anything.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/08/16/remember-now/
Mastodon Feedrust@octodon.social ("Rust tips") wrote:
The `.get()` method on a `Vec` or `HashMap` will only temporarily borrow an item, and you won't be allowed to move it or use it outside of the scope of the `.get()` call.
If you want to get an _owned_, freely movable value, use `.remove()` instead.
If you need to have an owned value without removing elements from the collection, you're going to have to clone. Clone can be fast if items are wrapped in `Rc` or `Arc`.
https://play.rust-lang.org/?gist=a7ccfd499aaafc4a3cb35d6e4dd16e03 #rustlang
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alex@godforsaken.website wrote:
A filmmaker called John Carpenter, and a carpenter called John Filmmaker. Both have produced an item called "The Thing"
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LittleJoeMuc@social.tchncs.de wrote:
Die moderne Spinne baut kein eigenes Netz mehr, sie sitzt außen auf meinem Insektengitter am Fenster, und wartet einfach.
Works for me.
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liarsliar@mastodon.art ("LIAR") wrote:
果然，一切感受到了最后就是痛觉。如何说人生不苦呢？追求短暂的快乐？只是反应不过来快乐并不存在。很多时候，那只是对痛苦的逃避。
Mastodon Feedtechnomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:
been trying to let him learn to do things himself more, and this has been a big success in that. he found the file on thingiverse, I provided the material, he made a few test cuts to adjust the power and watched over it as it ran. (over 90 minute time for it due to the amount of etching needed)
the final cut didn't go all the way thru around the edges since this material is so uneven so I got him an exacto knife and he manually cut it loose from the surrounding wood.
Mastodon FeedIntroducing the PineNote:
Mastodon Feedtechnomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:
my kid laser cut a hexagonal chess board and pieces on some old leftover wood I had lying around. quality isn't the best due to the wood charring easily but it's playable. really interesting concept and challenges the way you think!
Mastodon Feedtechnomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:
the only game that can challenge FFX in the "hunt down and kill god" trope is Chrono Trigger, which is admittedly nearly perfect, but the world doesn't seem as expansive, due to technical limitations of the time
Mastodon Feedtechnomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:
I still think VI might have more quirky charm to it (largely due to its huge ensemble cast), and the mechanics of XII take the gameplay up to the next level, and I haven't played XIII or XV yet.
but none of the other games distill the quintessential JRPG essence of "a teen and his misfit pals hunt down and kill god with the power of friendship" in quite as spectacularly effective a way.
Mastodon Feedtechnomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:
I played Final Fantasy X when it first came out on my uni roommate's console and since it was the first one I played, I didn't really have any context for evaluating it. I'm replaying it now since I got it for my kids who are now obsessed with the series, and it might be my favorite of them all.
the worldbuilding and the bit about Yevon's teachings really resonates with me personally, as does the character of Yuna who believes she has to sacrifice her own wishes for everyone else.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Have these horribly stupid pod people been living among us all this time? That's the scary thing, that we just now noticed.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/08/15/i-cant-listen-to-these-people-anymore/
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aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:
“How does one hate a country, or love one? … I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply?”
— Ursula K. Le Guin (The Left Hand of Darkness)
Via @neil
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
My underwear today is dark blue, just to preempt that question.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/08/15/qa-coming-up/
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viznut@venera.social wrote:
Permacomputing Update 2021 https://venera.social/display/85a863ed-1961-1500-211e-3ab164712045
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Curator@mastodon.art ("Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator :masto:") wrote:
What's a recent piece of art that you've seen shared on the fediverse that made you go "ooooh!"? Link it! :D :frida_y_animalitos:
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neil@social.coop wrote:
Whenever I get that stab of feeling like there’s too many ideas to explore, too many books to read, too little time to do it in, I remind myself not to turn to productivity systems, efficiency improvements and the like, but to knowledge sharing and communities of practice, and remind myself that you don’t need to know it all, knowing things is not just an individual pursuit but a collective endeavour.
Mastodon Feed[marked sensitive for a bit of blood]
Slightly blurry Sunday doodle with red and barbed wire.
Hope to get back into the swing of things soon. 👍
#art #mastoart #sketch #sketchbook #doodle #blood #barbedwire
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stman ("★ STMAN ★ 🏳️🌈") wrote:
RT @stman ► Crypto-Anarchist Warning :
— Glowworm Attack —
Experts demonstrate a novel technique that uses the optical emanations from a device's power indicator LED to recover sounds from connected peripherals and spy on electronic conversations from up to 35 meters away.
Read: https://thehackernews.com/2021/08/new-glowworm-attack-recovers-devices.html
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vertigo@hackers.town ("Vertigo #$FF") wrote:
Home-made semiconductor fabrication techniques are getting more sophisticated. From the hacker who put 6 transistors on a chip in an amplifier configuration, behold, one thousand two hundred transistors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS5ycm7VfXg
(Admittedly, not configured as anything in particular yet, but the work is getting there. He's already half-way to an Intel 4004. I'm willing to bet that you can make a viable CPU with 1200 transistors if it used a bit-serial micro-architecture.)
Blog article is here: http://sam.zeloof.xyz/second-ic/
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Nocta@eldritch.cafe ("Mar-gay") wrote:
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cryodraws@mastodon.art ("Cryo") wrote:
We're serving some Thanksgiving dinner level of awkward conversations in this week's Drugs & Wires update
https://drugsandwires.fail
(also on Tapas and Webtoon!)
#webcomic
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antiphasis@social.tchncs.de wrote:
Mastodon Feedtechnomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:
I thought I could get thru a single 12-minute laser cut this morning before it overheated but I was wrong, it paused to cool down with 54 seconds remaining. bringing in this window fan helped save the piece.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I don't find de Grey persuasive, whether he's babbling about his "science" or trying to wave away his predatory sexual behavior.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/08/14/the-success-of-aubrey-de-grey-baffles-me/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I was asked about this the other day: yes, spiders can build a large intricate web overnight, and they do this routinely.
Mastodon FeedScarf Ace
Mastodon FeedA Plea For Lean Software[1] from 1995 sounds very familiar. Only the byte sizes have changed.
The article complains about a text editor requiring as much as 800KB of RAM. 0.8MB would be impressively lean today.
• We've been making "bloated" software the whole time, so maybe it isn't that bad? 🤔
• A lot of 1995 tech still works today, so people could write leaner software if they wanted to.
[1] https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/Articles/LeanSoftware.pdf
Mastodon FeedWait a minute AC/DC, if that's your real name, how does one get struck by thunder?
