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

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

The semester must nearly be over -- the Undergraduate Research Symposium is today!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/04/19/urs/

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• Undergrad research symposium logo (remote)

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Eidon@raru.re ("栄屯") wrote:

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

Geez, I am really bad at this rat race stuff.

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

Me: [defensively] No, *you're* implementing an example of Karplus-Strong string synthesis in an obscure macro assembler whose source, when assembled, results in a .wav file.

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

Some Oklahoma county officials are just like comic book villains.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/04/19/all-sheriffs-are-bad-too/

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• Jimmy Olsen, threatened by a hit man (remote)

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

I don't need to tell everyone how good the new ContraPoints video is, do I?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/04/19/can-we-debate-about-how-remote-the-desert-island-debate-bros-should-be-abandoned-on-should-be/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmT0i0xG6zg

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
m2m@indieweb.social ("Simone Silvestroni (M2M)") wrote:

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

TZAG to you as well. :)

nikvo@esperanto.masto.host wrote:

mi iom bedaŭras la fakton ke tvitero ne vere plu uzeblas. kie mi metu la plej sensensajn pensojn kiuj eniras mian menson, mi ne povas simple lasi ilin tie, ili ruinigus la aliajn pensojn

Reblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
cyberghost@fosstodon.org wrote:

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

sometimes history demands that one take a side:

Exclusive: South Korea's Yoon opens door for possible military aid to Ukraine https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-koreas-yoon-opens-door-possible-military-aid-ukraine-2023-04-19/

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ryanmiglavs ("Ryan the Design Lion") wrote:

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dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

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

feeling pycon fomo and somehow also the anxiety of anticipating even worse fomo in the near future

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caseynewton ("Casey Newton") wrote:

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• The shutdown has been chaotic. Rather than cut off access to automated accounts in a uniform manner, Twitter has had employees reviewing every single API suspension, we’re told. The strategy seems to be to cut off as many apps as possible, see which developers complain the loudest, and then restore some of them based on Musk and his team’s private rationale.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

JS apologists need to own up to the reality that massive errors – e.g. Apollo, "CSS-in-JS", etc. – are continuing to spread faster than the "thought leader" consensus that "everyone knows" to avoid them, which has only begun to proliferate.

The damage isn't over, even if (someday) Vercel manages to make React fast-ish by default.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

I'm an absolute sucker for pseudo-scientific documentaries, e.g. about extraterrestrials, pyramids, or ancient times.

I know I'll learn nothing but nonsense, but I still feel kind of entertained 🫣

Reblogged by technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see..."):
nocontexttrek ("Star Trek Minus Context") wrote:

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• Ok we're in a Jeffries Tube on the Voyager. We're facing, within the tube, the EMH Doctor and just behind him is Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix 01. Both are crawling on hands and knees towards us, the viewer. (side note- how bad would it hurt to crawl through them tubes?!) Seven is holding a space briefcase, which probably makes crawling in a tube even harder. Doc is talking. Closed caption reads, "I'll complain if I want to. It's comforting."
• 45c7ebcf19713964.jpg

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

like, i guess it's a good thing that my bots still work? but it's not exactly confidence-inspiring

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

it is funny and extremely predictable that twitter appears to not have actually shut down the api tokens that it notified me last week about shutting down. bots still successfully making write (and read!) calls that should not be allowed

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advicepig@space-pirates.org ("Willy (they/them)") wrote:

rust@octodon.social ("Rust tips") wrote:

If you want to allocate a buffer of uninitialized memory in #Rustlang, the easiest way is `Vec::with_capacity(len)`.

Get the buffer with `vec.as_mut_ptr()` for C APIs, or `&mut vec.spare_capacity_mut()[..len]` for Rust. Spare capacity needs extra slicing, because `Vec` reserves the right to have a larger capacity than requested. Once the buffer is filled, use `vec.set_len(len)` to make the data safe to access.

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Names and dates on docs. Every time. Don't forget.

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Taweret@octodon.social ("4 8 15 16 23 42") wrote:

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
pho4cexa@tiny.tilde.website ("a very weeny construct") wrote:

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• a red pill-bottle cap with a built-in 4x7 segment lcd display that counts up hours and minutes from zero every time you put the cap back on the bottle this little timer has simpler electronics and is easier to use than possibly any other electronic device i have. they solved one of my biggest problems. they always work, will never betray me to their manufacturer, and i love them so much. what a great, loyal, helpful friend they are! who's a good little stopwatch? it's you! that's right! yes you are! so cute too (remote)

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ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

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Natanox@chaos.social ("Natasha Nox 💙💛") wrote:

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cross@discuss.systems ("Dan Cross") wrote: