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tantek.com@tantek.com ("Tantek Çelik") wrote:

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simevidas ("Šime Vidas") wrote:

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I find myself working on some old C code[1], and I find myself wanting to do things like pass around some lambda functions and other things like that. But *no*, instead I have to define an entire function and give it a *name*. And I can't even do closures, unless I do something ridiculous and pass around function pointers that take a void* parameter (which will be cast etc.), and then pass around the void* parameter too. It's just so... so... UGH...

[1] I know. I *KNOW*.

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lorenzofb@infosec.exchange ("Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai") wrote:

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falkowata@strangeobject.space ("Kat") wrote:

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• A close up of a sleeping tabby cat. She's sleeping on her side, with feet next to her face. Her curled front paws ready on three legs. (remote)

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researchfairy@scholar.social ("The research fairy") wrote:

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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

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• News headline from the Financial Times (London): "Plan to raise UK state pension age to 68 delayed amid falling life expectancy" (remote)

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

kids these days will never know how hard I laughed at this comic

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• Ivan visits lynda.com on his weird lamp-style iMac: "So, is the Browser-safe Pallette dead? Though this might seem blasphemous to our older readers, I believe it's safe to design without the palette. I believe this because so few users view the web in 256 colors any more." Ivan: What?!? Bollocks!!! Ivan: *reaches up to his shelf* I guess I won't need this any more... *throws a canister of hair coloring labeled #FFFFCC in the trash* (remote)

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

ugh my touchpad was acting very weird and a restart didn't help but a full shutdown did. what could cause that?! would be very annoying if i had to have that in my fixes to try

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

don't you hate it when you go to a web site,wand they're using colors that aren't even on the web safe color palette??

kids these days, smh, etc

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

Beethoven: genetically ordinary, as you should expect.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/03/22/famous-person-found-to-have-ordinary-genetic-history/

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• Beethoven (remote)

blithe ("Blithe") wrote:

Dope shirt https://fanjoy.co/collections/elyse/products/elysemyers-restisproductive-crewneck

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jsparty@changelog.social ("JS Party 🪩") wrote:

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Privates all too often die far too young

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JamesBoag@mastodon.scot ("James Boag") wrote:

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toby@antenna.toby.sh wrote:

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Current Ham Radio Conditions - HAM Radio for Non-Techies https://hamradiofornontechies.com/current-ham-radio-conditions/ - an easy-to-understand explanation of how to get read & understand those propagation charts, like the one I embed at https://www.well.com/~jeffs

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

Start with an ugly and stupid idea. Plant it in a culture that rewards extremist views. Watch Answers in Genesis race towards new lows in dogmatic hatred.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/03/22/extremism-leads-to-more-extremism/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj9QORmoCP8

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/timesharing/timesharing.html

And it's wild to think about all the memos, committee meetings, request for quotes etc. that were required to do something like add interrupts to your computer so that maybe you could more easily share the resource between people.

(This post brought you by following a reference on one of Ken Shirriff's posts. https://righto.com )

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

I guess this is one of those problems Musk doesn't feel a need to fix.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/03/22/feature-or-bug/

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cmiksche ("Christoph Miksche") wrote:

We need an inverse #Forbes #ETF

Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

Earworm of the day. Woke up and had this in my head. :catjam:

Diary Of Dreams - Gedeih & Verderb
https://song.link/s/3MV8Tjya9tU30YnoA3EA2o

#music #NowPlaying #DiaryOfDreams #goth #darkwave #IDoNotKnowGenres

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alfredtwu@sfba.social ("Alfred Twu") wrote:

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blithe ("Blithe") wrote:

Ohtani was always >> than Trout. #baseball #wbc

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Apparently everything in my home automation setup depends on one little smart plug on the balcony, routing the ZigBee messages for all other devices... 😂

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phildini@wandering.shop ("phildini @ the shop") wrote:

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shandrew@hachyderm.io wrote:

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• Operating a mastodon instance is great. It's all the reliability and ease of maintenance of a rails application, combined with the user experience of hosting a mail server, and the developer workflow of day drinking on the Linux kernel mailing list. (remote)

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mmasnick ("Mike Masnick ✅") wrote:

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