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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
is he allowed to cast House votes remotely? asking for a friend...
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/05/10/nyregion/george-santos-charges-news
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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:
... Or, in full:
"The Fermi paradox suggests that we are among the first spacefaring intelligent species to evolve (at least, in this galaxy). So it therefore seems likely that any sexy alien I meet will be an extremely intelligent, venomous, tree-dwelling crab. Or maybe a hypercastrating alien mind control endoparasite (like the real-world Sacculina carcini) that has eaten the spacecrab's gonads and would like to sample my wedding tackle."
And now I want to blog the whole thing.
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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:
Dammit, I just did an email interview with an SF magazine in which my answer to the question "If you were to write a love story between a human and an alien, what challenges would they face?" turns into a rant about biochemistry and evolutionary biology, culminating in ...
"The Fermi paradox suggests that we are among the first spacefaring intelligent species to evolve in this galaxy. So it seems likely that any sexy alien I meet will be an extremely intelligent, venomous, tree-dwelling crab."
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
He's simply a bad psychiatrist.
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burritojustice ("Burrito Justice") wrote:
“Faced with the pressures of modernization and capitalism, their traditional exchange systems, based on barter and gifting, now seemed obsolete.
And while previously self-sufficient, they suddenly felt relative deprivation compared to the foreigners’ opulent lifestyles. It was against this backdrop that cargo cults emerged” https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-ritual-mind/202305/what-cargo-cult-rituals-show-us-about-human-nature
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Harlan Crow is using strategic generosity to increase his influence. The Republicans favor that kind of self-serving patronage.
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
The CSS Zen Garden is 20 today.
http://www.csszengarden.com/It was about 9pm or so in Vancouver twenty years ago today, where I spun up an FTP connection and uploaded a handful of files to a server. I didn’t expect what happened next.
My intent was creating a site that proved CSS was a better way to design and build for the web that the mess of fonts and table tags the industry was dependent on up till that point. I figured a handful of the folks already into CSS at the time would find it neat, maybe a few other people would make an attempt at submitting, and it might prove to be a neat talking point for a few months.
What I didn’t see was how effectively it proved the point, and how revelatory that would be to the wider industry who weren’t using CSS yet. I mean I always dreamed it might reach a wider audience, but I never expected it to blow up early and remain relevant for as long as it did.
The designs it contains span a formative period of web design and development and most are of that era, while the industry has continued advancing beyond the ideals of 2003. But I keep it alive not just as an early web milestone, but also because it continues on as a reference for web curriculums and those joining the industry every day who get to experience that same aha moment the rest of us did many many years ago.
It’s no exaggeration to say that this one site launched not just my own career, but the careers of many of the contributors who are still prominent in the industry today. It remains my most significant mark on an industry I still work within today, and I still feel the pride of managing to create something that helped change the trajectory of the web for the better.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
Finally, a solution to the unfairness of authorship ordering in scientific papers! 😂
"Every Author as First Author"
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- Title of a LaTeX paper: Every Author as First Author (Two almost unreadable author names overlaid on top of each other.) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139 (Email address with overlaid names before the domain) (remote)
- Abstract We propose a new standard for writing author names on papers and in bibliographies, which places every author as a first author — superimposed. This approach enables authors to write papers as true equals, without any advantage given to whoever’s name happens to come first alphabetically (for example). We develop the technology for implementing this standard in LATEX, BIBTEX, and HTML; show several examples; and discuss further advantages. (remote)
- Bias. A fundamental limitation to any approach that lists the authors in a fixed order arises when citing papers with several authors. In the body of a paper (as opposed to the bibliography), it is most common to write “X et al. [#]” when referring to a paper [#] whose first author’s surname is X. In author—year styles such as APA, this is even built into the citation itself, e.g., (X et al., 2023). As a result, author X gets their name effectively promoted with every citation, which is inconsistent with multiple or all authors being equal. In our own writing, we try to avoid this practice, and instead write all authors’ surnames whenever citing a paper, e.g., “X, Y, and Z [#]”. But this workaround becomes impractical for refer- ences with over a dozen authors, such as some of our papers (four examples with a lot of author names overlaid on top of each other, with publication years.) (remote)
- Figure 3. Circular arrangements of the authors of Fisimindon (2020). Drawn in Inkscape using Circular Align and Distribute, onto a circle of radius 50 (left) or 200 (right); followed by 90° rotation (left); and rotating 180° to make names upright (bottom). 4. Future Work A final issue is that overlapping name stacks are not easy to read. It may be possible to write names in a way that has no first name but still makes all names clearly readable. For example, a circle has no beginning or end, so arranging the names in a circular pattern avoids arranging any author “first”. Figure 3 shows some initial experiments in this direction. Related, traditional round- robin documents (Wikipedia 2022) are signed by authors in a circle to prevent identification of a ringleader (such as mutineer sailors). It remains unsolved how to fit such circular arrangements in with the rest of a text document, which feels inherently sequential. Circular arrangements also seem difficult to apply to small numbers of authors such as 2. (remote)
![Bias. A fundamental limitation to any approach that lists the authors in a fixed order arises when citing papers with several authors. In the body of a paper (as opposed to the bibliography), it is most common to write “X et al. [#]” when referring to a paper [#] whose first author’s surname is X. In author—year styles such as APA, this is even built into the citation itself, e.g., (X et al., 2023). As a result, author X gets their name effectively promoted with every citation, which is inconsistent with multiple or all authors being equal. In our own writing, we try to avoid this practice, and instead write all authors’ surnames whenever citing a paper, e.g., “X, Y, and Z [#]”. But this workaround becomes impractical for refer- ences with over a dozen authors, such as some of our papers (four examples with a lot of author names overlaid on top of each other, with publication years.)](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/110/339/450/157/846/041/original/64724ab4794a4d2e.png){kind=link}
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
It's amazing how little a conviction for rape is going to affect a rich man's career.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/09/guilty-but-it-wont-matter/
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team@fightforthefuture.org ("Fight for the Future") wrote:
#HeyGoogle, you committed to delete location data for health care visits including abortion care. But 🐦accountabletech found you’re still retaining this data.
Stop collecting and retaining location data and aiding abortion prosecutors: http://HeyGoogle.info.
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scottjehl@mstdn.social ("Scott Jehl") wrote:
Alright, it's launch day!
Introducing Carbon Control. Measure & Improve Your Site's Footprint with WebPageTest. I'm very proud of this new release. https://webpagetest.org/carbon-control/
You can read all about it on the blog post here: https://blog.webpagetest.org/posts/carbon-control/
#webdev #webdevelopment #climate #carbonfootprint #webperf
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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:
A deep dive on Andreessen Horowitz's latest "State of Crypto" report. In short: they want people to keep buying crypto, and are not above publishing blatant falsehoods to convince them to do so.
The report itself is 60 pages long, so this is a long one.
https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/andreessen-horowitzs-state-of-crypto
Mastodon FeedGuten Morgen meine Damen und Herren, wir begrüßen Sie zur tagesschau!
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
mythologybot@botsin.space ("MythologyBot") wrote:
G302.7.1
Sexual relation between man
and demons.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Welcome, Interim President Ettinger!
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Have you ever noticed how complex and lovely cobwebs are?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/09/cobweb-art/
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Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
Totally blindsided by this. Apparently he'd been seriously ill since last year. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/09/david-miranda-dead-brazil-campaigner-congressman
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I would cross to the other side of the street if I saw this creep coming.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/09/every-accusation-a-confession/
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faho@octodon.social ("He-Bean") wrote:
My hottest take on common gifs is that the "That's a penis!" gif is much better reversed, where the dude exclaims "That's a penis!" and then sits down and smiles
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Welcome, Interim University President Ettinger! Will you be staying long? Do you think your experience with processed meats is really comparable to serving our students?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/09/i-predicted-this/
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Good stuff from the mensches over at Speedcurve:
"A Complete Guide to Performance Budgets": https://www.speedcurve.com/blog/performance-budgets
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
The upper midwest is for ducks.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/09/a-walk-in-the-wetlands/
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PolygonAlex@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou") wrote:
Sometimes it's ok to take liberties with 'accepted practice' 3D. In (the double BAFTA-nominated) Röki we literally sink arms and legs into the bodies of our characters.
Those fuckers aren't even connected.
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Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
I found a thing that lists all the videos played on MTV's AMP and I've been looking some of them up https://web.archive.org/web/20130626041130/http://my.execpc.com/~danperry/mus/amp.html
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hikari@noyu.me ("hikari 🌟") wrote:
For touchHLE in particular, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot and many other machine-learning-based systems are at best unhelpful, wasting my time with coherent-looking nonsense, and at worst sabotage the project by sneakily violating copyright. They actively make my life worse.
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
Ken Ishii - Extra
(caution for some strobing effects) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6maVVFs0As
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juliana@solarpunk.moe ("🐀 Goddess of Vengeance") wrote:
Spritely Goblins v0.11.0 released today!!! https://spritely.institute/news/spritely-goblins-v0110-released-time-travel-distributed-debugging-and-more.html
The highlight feature here is the incredible debugger @dthompson has made seeing its first public release! It's hard to explain what's so cool about it without delving into how OCaps work, but trust me - it's extremely impressive! There are a variety of other "bug fixes and improvements" as well, so check it out!
oh yeah also my work with spritely got released too neat
Mastodon Feedbcrypt@infosec.exchange ("yan") wrote:
does anyone have hanoi recommendations?
also if anyone wants to join a deep water soloing (climbing) trip on cat ba island, lmk...
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
I never realized how big and tanky the 808 is. It looks like it could stop a bullet
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jef ("Jef Poskanzer :batman:") wrote:
San Francisco stores: We are closing because of crime! Unless you give us a huge tax break hint hint.
SF Mayor: We can't give you a tax break because we spent all our money on police. Would you like some extra police instead?
Stores: Well actually we may have been fibbing a little about the crime, which statistics show is in fact down. But we really could use that tax break.
Mayor: More police it is!