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zkat@toot.cat ("Kat Marchán 🐈") wrote:

Biggest lesson learned: big refactorings and other major code *changes* are significantly easier with a rich static type system. It's almost like dynamic languages are easy to write first and then you just kinda gotta leave them like that or start from scratch

zkat@toot.cat ("Kat Marchán 🐈") wrote:

Me, several years ago: fuck static typing
Me, a while later: ok they're both valid
Me, last night, after another cryptic "badarg" from Elixir: dynamic typing is irresponsibly bad, actually

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

You'd think universities would be at the forefront of doing what was obvious & necessary to contain the pandemic, but you'd be wrong.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/08/28/scenes-from-newly-opened-universities-in-a-pandemic/

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emilylorange@mastodon.art ("Emily L'Orange") wrote:

Studies from windows in New York and San Francisco, USA
~2hrs each

#MastoArt #CreativeToots

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• speedpainting of a window overlooking a city on a rainy day (remote)
• speedpainting of a window overlooking a neighborhood hillside on a sunny day (remote)

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epilys@chaos.social wrote:

From "An Illustrated History of Black Hole Imaging"

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.11196.pdf

#physics #astrophysics

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• Series of snapshots showing what an observer approaching a black hole would see. Initially, it's a bright spot in the distance with stars filling the rest of the visual field. Suddenly the very bright accretion disk (gas and matter surrounding the black hole) expands showing the black spot in the center which is the event horizon of the black hole. As the observer approaches the event horizon, space and mind is bent. (remote)
• A wireframe model of the combined gravitational and doppler shift effects on the light of the accretion disk of a black hole. (remote)
• An infographic showing the path of the light from the accretion disk to the observer. The light from "behind" the black hole is pulled into the front, resulting in both front and behind being visible. (remote)

Anathema wrote:

I heard some of the vaccine side-effects can be serious

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• Wikas from the movie District 9 turning into a Prawn

Anathema wrote:

https://mental.jmir.org/2021/4/e25731 brb going to buy a VR system due to medical necessity

zkat@toot.cat ("Kat Marchán 🐈") wrote:

Finally finished What Does The Fox Say, after like, several weeks and wow that was a nice wrap up. But now I'm in my feels again. I don't even know what to read next.

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trc@social.coop ("Tyng-Ruey Chuang") wrote:

"A virtual Noah's Ark: Hongkongers race to archive democracy movement amid city-wide purge "

https://hongkongfp.com/2021/08/28/digital-dissent-hongkongers-race-to-archive-democracy-movement/

... "We needed to race the clock," Wong recalled after Apple Daily announced the printing of its final edition and the removal of its online presence for later that month.

Wong went to LIHKG — a Reddit-like forum that was instrumental in coordinating Hong Kong's 2019 democracy protests — and found tech-savvy volunteers willing to scrape the tabloid's website.

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jonatasbaldin@indieweb.social ("jojo") wrote:

A directory of projects aiming to re-make the Internet as it should be: free, federated, decentralized, distributed, fair and private.

Efforts like these warms my heart.

https://libreho.st

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Andy_P ("Andy P.") wrote:

RT @Andy_P Toot toot!
“This diagram traces the evolution of the elephant depiction throughout the middle ages up to the age of enlightenment.”

https://www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anthropogenus/index.html

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Aubrey de Grey *really* needs to shut the f*k up. I'm predisposed to dislike & disagree with him, and I'm cringing at his posts.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/08/27/shut-the-fk-up-aubrey/

zkat@toot.cat ("Kat Marchán 🐈") wrote:

👀 this used to only say "Sick Time"

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zkat@toot.cat ("Kat Marchán 🐈") wrote:

Cry

RT @jefflembeck@twitter.com

I want to write a library in TypeScript.

I want my build to make it so it can simply, with no additional steps by the user, be either `require`d or `import`ed. They just ran `npm install`, I don't want them to have to know nor care.

What's the solution today?

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/jefflembeck/status/1431364465698557956

Anathema wrote:

Me editing photos:

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• I Have No Idea What Im Doing GIF

Anathema wrote:

Have you ever noticed how long duck necks are?

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Anathema wrote:

bath time!

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zkat@toot.cat ("Kat Marchán 🐈") wrote:

honestly, the right-hand bracket is entirely made of violence. The left-hand side is just waiting until Tamen De Gushi loses to whatever bubbles up from the right side, imo.

RT @outcontextyuri@twitter.com

It's time to start the quarter-finals of the Girl's Love Bracket Fight! Are you confident your favorite is gonna make it through? Let's vote!

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/outcontextyuri/status/1431331856734162950

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zkat@toot.cat ("Kat Marchán 🐈") wrote:

I literally don't know how to feel about this because I wish they both could've won they are both excellent :(

RT @outcontextyuri@twitter.com

After the most intense battle so far, with over two thousand votes and many twists and turns, What Does The Fox Say is the winner!

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/outcontextyuri/status/1431331294206693378

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Anathema wrote:

This dove is learning how to use the feeder

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Anathema wrote:

also a ~borb~

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Anathema wrote:

Saw a Muntjac deer today.

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zkat@toot.cat ("Kat Marchán 🐈") wrote:

The cruelty is the point

RT @washingtonpost@twitter.com

A school district opted out of free and reduced-price meals, saying students could “become spoiled” https://wapo.st/3kpgXTM

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1431244339011854337

Anathema wrote:

Who is strangling the magpies near me?

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ln@chaos.social ("ln ✨type-c 2.1✨") wrote:

tired: semiconductor companies merge until it's all one
wired: whatever this is https://semianalysis.substack.com/p/the-semiconductor-heist-of-the-century

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alex@godforsaken.website wrote:

also in my headcanon: the universal translator is making aliens look a little more humanoid, so that we can read their "facial" "expressions" etc. irl when it looks like they're smiling, they're actually emitting sulphur or something (which has the equivalent communication function of a "smile" in their bioculture).

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PhoebeWallerPalladino@monads.online ("coconut octopus hot cefallopod") wrote:

me watching based biden pull out of afghanistan, returning it to local control: hell yeah now do dc

Anathema wrote:

How messed up would it be for non-identical twins conceived during an MMF threesome to have different fathers, they could look like they weren’t even related!

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danielcassidy ("Daniel Cassidy 🦌") wrote:

RT @danielcassidy join lobby, or, for short, jobby.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

@zkat Also, I realize you were mostly joking, so I apologize if my response is too serious. :)