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owl@beach.city wrote:

Glad there are people out there doing things way better than I could and sharing it.
https://zig.news/kprotty/resource-efficient-thread-pools-with-zig-3291

owl@beach.city wrote:

Big Dipper sounds like a euphemism.

owl@beach.city wrote:

It's clear enough that I can capture some stars with the phone.

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• Big Dipper and other star friends. (remote)

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

RT @mhoye I love this: hazmat warning labels for data science. https://very-good-science.github.io/data-hazards/index.html

technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

periodic reminder to take care of yourself

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• Prevent Carpal Tunnel NO: slouched shoulders, bent wrists YES: running into the woods, never to be seen again (credit: Obvious Plant) (remote)

Anathema wrote:

Planning to do things: amazing, uplifting, the joy of life.

Actually doing things: kill me now

owl@beach.city wrote:

I have to wait for around 10 days to get them fixed but at least it didn't cost anything.

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

Huh. An assert that actually caught an apparently invalid assumption. Well, I'm glad I put that in there.

owl@beach.city wrote:

glquake
glass

owl@beach.city wrote:

*kaos kauz*

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

They're easier to appreciate when they're fading away into winter.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/13/im-going-to-have-to-appreciate-dandelions-more/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ_QqtXoyQw

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
selfsame@tiny.tilde.website wrote:

thinking about a sandwich with 3 slices of bread

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• sandwich with radial symmetry, there are three ends (remote)

owl@beach.city wrote:

Making the same joke every year.

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

“They aren’t shooters. They are poseurs.”

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/13/they-arent-shooters-they-are-poseurs/

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• 3eaba85d62de9dd7.png (remote)

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

I was already mad, now I'm getting madder. At least my anger has a focus: Trump Republicans and Republicans in general.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/13/im-mad-as-hell-too/

Anathema wrote:

IN FULL: Nicola Sturgeon's keynote speech to the SNP conference https://www.thenational.scot/news/19576962.nicola-sturgeons-full-keynote-speech-snp-conference/?ref=twtrec

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

RT @mhoye Well, time for me to re-up this thing I made a while ago, as a public courtesy: https://flic.kr/p/eaBKeQ

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope"):
freebliss@post.lurk.org ("Simon Repp") wrote:

FOSS vector graphics application "VGC Illustration" is now 100% funded for a 1.0 release in july 2022! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vgcsoftware/vgc-illustration-the-drawing-app-of-the-future Thanks everyone for spreading the word, I'll cut back on commercial content now again. (*/▽＼*)

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

It's an exam day! Over Zoom! Neener, neener, you can't get me.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/13/one-of-the-few-advantages-to-teaching-over-zoom/

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• df516a4eddbe460e.png (remote)

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope"):
alexandria@cybre.space ("Lisp Witch") wrote:

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• The man and the rocks from Friedrich's "Wanderer above the sea of fog", except the background is the image from the poster for The Thirteenth Floor, a starry sky and neon orange landscape turning quickly into a neon green wireframe of mountains (remote)

owl@beach.city wrote:

Pikmin spice

owl@beach.city wrote:

pumpkin spies are at it again, be vigilant

cmiksche ("Christoph Miksche") wrote:

xcode-select --install seems to be the solution for everything

owl@beach.city wrote:

"This plus.... if you mute your audio prior to opening solitaire, the ADs don't care and bypass your mute so you can still hear them. What the actual f***? And even though it can bypass your mute, it still opens up a new device listing in your volume mixer every time it plays an AD to make it even harder to turn the audio off."

owl@beach.city wrote:

Is this real?
https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/pk7vhz/theres_unskippable_video_ads_and_a_premium/

owl@beach.city wrote:

In the month overview, Outlook shows the recurring morning meeting on every workday, and nothing else, because there's no more space.
So I can see the one thing that's easy to remember.

owl@beach.city wrote:

It's windy and shed leaves are knocking on the window.

owl@beach.city wrote:

Imagine how much surplus value would be lost if everyone was just getting all the sleep they need.

owl@beach.city wrote:

Good thing I have a contraption that will abort my sleep prematurely so that I can work instead. Fine and normal.

owl@beach.city wrote:

Glistening grass and cat.
It's darker than it appears in the photo.

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• Wet grass glistening in the night. In the shadows a cat can be seen wearing a LED collar. (remote)