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rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

VEM COM TUDO, SEU 'NOOB'

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• Screen from Freezer Pops. The MC is overhearing volleyball players that are not visible on screen. A dialogue box says, "Fernando: Bring it, you noob!" in Portuguese

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h_thoreson@mastodon.world ("hannah") wrote:

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eRatt@gaygeek.social ("Elliott") wrote:

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Surprised that a couple of smart techies in my feed are interested and mention Bluesky and the likes. I'm just going to rely on my gut feeling from a few years ago and continue ignoring those. They are attempts from people with money to make it look like they invented decentralization, but thankfully they're going nowhere. #Fediverse has won, even if it isn't supported by current numbers. The trend is obvious: this side of The Cycle where open technologies lay the foundation.

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julialuna@chaos.social ("julia, serial project starter") wrote:

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• a signup form with a gender field. the gender field has a dropdown with different levels, and its contents change depending on which one is selected. beginner: radio buttons between man, woman, non-binary intermediate: slider between masculine and feminine advanced: three sliders: masculine/feminine, agender/hypergender, queer/normative expert: this one has a lot. 5 sliders: - hypomasculine / hypermasculine - hypofeminine / hyperfeminine - gendersolid / genderfluid - cis / trans - queer / normative a grid between star signs and celestial bodies a color picker for aura 4 more sliders: - nerd / jock - wretched / ethereal - herbivore / carnivore - cringe / based a grid between good/neutral/evil and lawful/neutral/chaotic 5 more sliders: - pure of heart, dumb of ass / villain (sexy) - hoarder / spartan - top / bottom - cats / dogs - podcasts / music hardcore: a textbox elevated: yes / no (remote)

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drwho@hackers.town ("The Doctor") wrote:

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

Hmmm... My wife seemed disappointed to learn I had spare whoopee cushions stashed away for the kiddo. 🤔

bendingoutward wrote:

I'm my life so far, I've survived nearly bleeding out as a child, a pile of street fights, a few epidemics, too many vehicular situations, undetected pneumonia, and an actual goddamn pandemic (so far).

Friends, I was nearly taken out by a fucking raisin two minutes ago.

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marsroverdriver@deepspace.social ("Scott marsroverdriver Maxwell") wrote:

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psf@oldbytes.space wrote:

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

Er... "achievement unlocked"?

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

I got this to work, although I did have to add an operator to the obscure macro assembler's syntax. And... also run it with 'ulimit -s unlimited'. 😆

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futzle@old.mermaid.town ("Deborah Pickett") wrote:

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rugedigu@mastodon.art wrote:

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• Picture of the upper half of a person from the back with blonde hair in a ponytail in front of a green hedge. A black-and-gray shawl is draped over their outstretched arms. It consists of three layers of elongated „feathers“, looking a little like wings. (remote)
• Same person and shawl as in first picture, only from the side-back. (remote)
• Same person and shawl as in first picture, but from the front, and without head. The shawl is wrapped around the torso. Black kitty stalks the lawn in the background. (remote)

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shugmonkey@mastodon.art wrote:

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• A girl with a bob hairstyle. Her dress is made of abstract shapes. (remote)

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

Me: [explaining helpfully] So you see, today is yesterday's tomorrow *and* today is tomorrow's yesterday. Does that make sense?

4yo: ಠ_ಠ

bcrypt@infosec.exchange ("yan") wrote:

to give an example, a lot of undergrad physics is proving equations from first principles but usually years later people forget the proofs (maybe equations too) and just remember the intuition, then look up the proofs/equations on wikipedia as needed. but there's not a lot of writing that focuses on just teaching the intuition without getting too deeply into the math. feyman's "QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter" is a good counterexample.

bcrypt@infosec.exchange ("yan") wrote:

been reading about LLMs recently and it struck me that there's a lot of writing in the "how deep learning works starting from gradient descent" and "how to use chatGPT better than 99% of people" ranges but not much in between. seems maybe in general there is a shortage of technical writing in the intermediate range which IMO is probably most useful for non-research developers.

i think if you're trying to learn a topic quickly for some specific purpose (rather than general learning) it's important to pick the right level of abstraction and not waste too much time in other ones.

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edavies@functional.cafe ("Ed Davies") wrote:

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twitchbunny@pettingzoo.co ("Twitchers the Bunny") wrote:

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• Wolf, talking to sheep: "Everybody knows I don't eat sheep." Eating sheep, "In fact I eat way less sheep than anybody. I have a fantastic relationship with the sheep." Sheep: "He'll protect us from the sheep eaters." Child reading this story with their mom, "Oh c'mon, Mom! Nobody is THAT dumb!" Mom looks sad cause people are, in fact, that dumb. (remote)

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History:

"On April 23, 1963, William L. Moore was found dead on U.S. Highway 11 near Attalla, Alabama—only four days shy of his 36th birthday... in the midst of a one-man civil rights march to Jackson, Mississippi... shot in the head with a .22-caliber rifle that was traced to Floyd Simpson, a white Alabamian. Mr. Simpson was arrested but never indicted for Mr. Moore's murder." https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/apr/23

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

If they could see us now what would they think? "Oh shit! Does it see me? I think it sees me! It probably wants to eat me! I'm outta here." [scurries off to survive another day]

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

T-shirt idea: "My ancestors survived Chicxulub".

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

Petition to change the "Greatest Generation" so it refers to the rat-like mammals that survived the K-T extinction event.

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

Our Cat-Faced #Spider left us an egg sac last year, before expiring in the cold. We're going to alert you of any developments!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/04/23/araneus-gemmoides-left-us-a-present-last-year/

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• Araneus gemmoides egg sac. Will it hatch? (remote)

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

What went wrong with the inappropriately named Starship launch? One simple answer: Elon Musk. And NASA is relying on this clown for key parts of the Artemis mission?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/04/23/starship-post-mortem/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8q24QLXixo

bendingoutward wrote:

So, in my #ruby days, I was all about making incredibly tiny gems that provided value with minimal code.

In my #go days, it seems habits die hard.

https://codeberg.org/ess/mcnulty

I refuse to apologize for that name.

bendingoutward wrote:

Okay, Google. You keep insisting that it's well above the freezing point in my area. So I ask you, oh great wizard whose name is a verb, why did I just slip on naturally occurring ice in my yard?

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

minha queen 'Bablo Bittar'

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• Another Freezer Pops screencap. The MC is watching a cooking show starring a blonde woman with a pixie cut and a small purple dragon puppet. Dialogue box: "Os comerciais são mais rápidos do que eu esperava, mas pego um papel velho e meio usado e escrevo a receita de Samara. Tenho certeza que minha queen 'Bablo Bittar' está me dando a oportunidade de mudar o jogo da minha vida."

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

Real thrill a minute kinda game

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• Screencap of Freezer Pops. Pictured is a pair of hands washing some dishes under a running tap. Superimposed is a dialogue box that says in Portuguese, "I grab a plate and start to wash it, pressing the sponge hard against it. I'm going to remove every piece of food, every mark, until it shines."