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

one thing that I appreciate about youtube is that so far they seem to have remembered/respected my request every time I hit "don't recommend this channel."

That should be a given but my expectations for content recommendation systems are through the floor

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ralf_muschall@octodon.social ("𒀭Ralf Muschall🐙-") wrote:

@pzmyers Since some time, she is producing videos about everything, whether it's relevant or not, and whether she knows stuff or not. The craziest was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnVWUIhQ8dE where she explains (correctly) why the Gulf stream won't stop. But the trivial reason is that "Gulf stream" is the proper name for only the southern part of the warm water stream on the northern atlantic, and only the part further up north may collapse (due to freshwater from melting Greenland glaciers). I.e. she spends 14 minutes telling that different people name stuff differently (and maybe incorrectly), and we are still bound to get MN weather in Europe.

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

I wonder if photoreceptors are damaged by stress, too? I think the semester is ending just in time.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/05/the-end-of-a-stressalicious-semester/

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

"Both sides are crazy"…no, lady, you're taking a stand to privilege your crazy opinion. It's true for politics, it's true for arrogant physicists.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/05/blatant-both-siderism-from-a-physicist/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Kau7bO3Fw

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mairin@fosstodon.org ("Máirín Duffy :fedora: :podman:") wrote:

Yep still holds up

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Duffy/FundamentalTheoremOfDevelopingFLOSS

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scott_eff@mastodon.scot ("Scott Macdonald 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇨🇺") wrote:

I remember reading Michael Abrash's book, and John Carmack's Doom/Quake source years ago. I think I now grok BSP trees - a good explanation.

BSP Trees: The Magic Behind Collision Detection in Quake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLHXn8IlAiA

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

It's a spider eat bat/bat eat spider kind of world out there. That's not just a metaphor.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/05/is-it-halloween-already/

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

This setup is so cool! #Dota2 #BerlinMajor

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• There are 3 large screens showing the game and 5 narrow screens on each side of the stage showing each player’s hero, level and inventory

cmiksche ("Christoph Miksche") wrote:

#themomtest is a great #book for every #startup #founder.

It’s a bit short but completely changed the way I look at customer conversations.

One key takeaway is that you should figure out how your customers currently takle the problem you try to solve instead of directly pitching your idea. Maybe your customers don’t even search for the solution - how will they find you then?!

#bookreview #bookrecommendation

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

It’s starting! #Dota2 #BerlinMajor

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• The arena is lit up and filled now

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

#Dota2 #BerlinMajor hype!

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• An arena full of seats and large screens in front

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tofugolem ("Tofu Golem") wrote:

I don't think this part of the Star Wars story was intended to be prescient.

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• The part of the Star Wars mythos where the incompetent elites who failed to stop the system from sliding into fascism simply go into hiding and do nothing, waiting for a bunch of kids to grow up and fix the problem themselves hits pretty hard right now.

blithe ("Blithe") wrote:

Ya girl just got #SABR certified. 🙌 #baseball

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

@BugbearPancakes On the importance of backups.

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christina@social.coop ("christina bowen") wrote:

I’m so grateful for all the people working behind the scenes to help make a more cooperative, healthy world.

Remember that many of the loud voices are busy looking big and shiny. Many more people are quietly helping others.

If you’re doing that, thank you.❤️

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paulisci@mstdn.ca ("Paul Fairie") wrote:

A List of Things People Blamed on Flappers

🧵

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misty@digipres.club ("Misty") wrote:

My employer, Shopify, announced layoffs today and I've been affected. If you're looking for someone with deep experience with developer tooling and developer environments, I'd love to work with you. I've spent the last two years building Shopify's in-house cloud developer environment, and I have extensive experience building developer tools as one of members of the Homebrew package manager's Project Leadership Committee.

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

Just say it. Clarence Thomas takes bribes.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/04/its-called-a-bribe/

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sathariel@gentoo.live ("Nagual Sathariel") wrote:

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blithe ("Blithe") wrote:

Ffinished reading "The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity" by Esther Perel https://a.co/glqQ886

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nathanolsenart@mastodon.art ("Nathan Olsen") wrote:

#maythe4thbewithyou

#sundaecomics #funny #humor #cartoons #webcomic #webcomics #comicstrip #comic #comics #starwars #starwarsday

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• A space musician tells his drinking buddies about an incident that happened long ago, in a place far, far away. (remote)

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adrianhon ("Adrian Hon") wrote:

ChatGPT, write me the most Hacker News comment of them all

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35813694

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• I'm an investor. To make that work, I'm not a historian, but a current-ian. I avoid news like the plague - all narrative, all emotion, all written by English majors, not subject-matter experts. If a current-ian has to avoid the news, what hope will a historian have in a hundred years in understanding the truth of our time, given only a storm of past-due emotional clickbait? Future historians can learn more from dispassionate recording of facts, not local news. They would be better served by databases that have lists of facts about current times in simple data formats. Stats, voting records, laws, commodity prices, demographics, weather data, boring (but low-key fascinating) things like that.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

In ppc64el, Little-Endian is abbreviated "el". Whoever named it, knew what the *correct* endian is.

blithe ("Blithe") wrote:

Parenting tip: if your kid won’t stop eating with their hands, tell them to “use the foooorrrkkk.” #MayThe4th

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libreleah@mas.to ("Leah Rowe") wrote:

Fun fact:

Today is local council elections, in the UK.

I nearly forgot, but was reminded that they're on today, so I went and voted. (I voted for my local Conservative Party candidate)

Putting this post out there, for my British readers. The polls are still open, as I write this.

Please go out and vote! It is your constitutional right, and you should always do so, if you can. Even if you think your preferred party will lose, you should still vote, out of principle.

Please go out and vote :)

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

hell yeah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-8DT5Q8kzI

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Nash076 ("Mad Nash Beyond Thunderdome") wrote:

RT @arstechnica@twitter.com

Judge slams Tesla for claiming Musk quotes captured on video may be deepfakes https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/judge-slams-tesla-for-claiming-musk-quotes-captured-on-video-may-be-deepfakes/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_source=twitter&utm_social-type=owned&utm_medium=social by @JBrodkin@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/arstechnica/status/1651678984910827524

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openculture@toot.community ("Open Culture (Official)") wrote:

A Star Wars Film Made in a Wes Anderson Aesthetic

https://www.openculture.com/2023/05/a-star-wars-film-made-in-a-wes-anderson-aesthetic.html

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

"... the trial provided a unique and disturbing glimpse into the Proud Boys’ culture, as a trove of internal group chats and recordings revealed a toxic stew of machismo, homophobia and misogyny often accompanied by sophomoric humor and rampant alcohol use. The jury heard members of the group engaging in casual antisemitism and, in some cases, promoting outright Nazi sympathy."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/us/politics/jan-6-proud-boys-sedition.html

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

OH (re: Alexander Hamilton): He basically got killed over a tweet.