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Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
davidho@mastodon.world ("David Ho") wrote:
If we priced externalities into the cost of fossil fuels, it’s not a profitable business.
The cleanup costs in California will be triple the industry’s projected profits, and that doesn’t even include cleaning up CO₂ and CH₄ from the atmosphere.
https://www.propublica.org/article/cost-of-california-oil-cleanup-exceeds-industry-profits
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Hey folks. Everyone--EVERYONE--can get got by a scammer at some point.
When we blame folks who get socially engineered for their carelessness or lack of vigilance, we're making it less likely that people will self-report when they got got, and perpetuating the myth that all we need is vigilance to avoid scams.
The narrative that only fools get scammed helps scammers. Don't fall for it.
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
the prose chops of the horny side of tumblr are undefeated even in 2023
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“eight months pregnant”
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Lauren Boebert does the right thing for once.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
The Onion has deep insight into the minds of transphobes.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/19/the-onion-explains-trans-sports/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
One of the great problems in creationist theorizing has been solved.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/19/the-creationist-heat-problemsolved/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
davatron5000 ("Dave Rupert") wrote:
📝 How-to add View Transitions to your multi-page app or static site.
- 0kb JavaScript 🏎️
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- Emoji list clickbait 🤪https://daverupert.com/2023/05/getting-started-view-transitions/
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
NOBODY TELLS YOU THIS.
They all say "...oh, you want to work on X? You should join WG Y."
As though that's an answer! It's not. It's a late-stage problem that you don't need to solve when you're starting on design.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
So the skilled players all learn to do design outside of (or parallel to) the SDO WGs. Many WG participants lack an interest in rapid progress, but their eventual ratification of ground reality is necessary to remove a stench or stain. So the dance proceeds, with an in-group that understands the game, and the unwashed masses pretending that SDOs are where progress "happens"...when, in reality (as ever), it happens in small, focused communities of interest.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
If you said *out loud* that SDO's Working Groups are terrible places to think about doing design...that might make SDOs somehow seem less attractive. The event horizon of the SDO would be pierced, and the reality that there's no immaculate conception in standards for any feature would be laid bare.
And that's pretty unattractive to business types.
But operable!
And if you're trying to solve problems, operability is the only thing that matters.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
But honestly, if we weren't giving talks like this, I'm not sure any of what we built would be any more operable than what came before:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z83L6xa1tw
SDOs need manuals, and SDOs will never write honest manuals because they're member organisations and learning to operate them is explicitly out of scope in membership recruiting.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
We're lucky, in internet standards development, that many of the designers of the meta-systems are still around to discuss their tradeoffs. Also, many of their discussions were documented on mailing lists and such. And for more modern iterations, you can still just come talk to us.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
A corollary to this is that the system *intent* is often hidden, thanks to the Law of Requisite Variety. It's nearly impossible to understand what the designers meant from just observing how the thing (doesn't) operate. Standards bodies (et. al.) are stable because the systems were design with many axes of freedom in which to adapt their responses.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Gave a talk on web standards today at work, and it reminds me that complex social systems are complex, in part, because the scope of their design is far outside the experience of any one participant. It just looks like "the system" until you decide that it can and should change.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
"The Royal Scam", end-to-end...is better than its parts. But "The Fez" is still the underrated standout.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
pho4cexa@tiny.tilde.website ("a very weeny construct") wrote:
i knew that distance per cubic second, or rate-of-change of acceleration, is the funny but aptly-named SI unit "jerk"
TIL higher-order derivatives of position with respect to time -- those that could be expressed as distance per quartic, quintic, or sextic second -- are called "snap," "crackle," and "pop," respectively
"snap" is also called "jounce" which surely means either "jerk bounce" or "jean flounce"
"a device that measures jerk is called a 'jerkmeter'"
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
fugueish@infosec.exchange ("Chris Palmer :donor:") wrote:
Apple: We take utmost care to ensure that every aspect of the user experience is exquisitely polished
Also Apple: It takes 30 minutes for your computer to wake up from a routine security update
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
Is 'beef the same Atom as 'beef?
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
I was looking at The Little Typer again and it's a good example of how maybe over-simplified language can be as difficult to get through as overly convoluted prose.
The book is kinda interesting but I have to be at the absolute peak of my day's wakefulness to be able to survive more than 15 minutes of:
- Is 'beef the same Atom as 'beef?
That is believable, yes.
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
I was experimenting with dexnav chaining in pokemon alpha sapphire because it's supposed to give you pretty high shiny odds & my few-dozen chain just broke, probably because the mon spawned next to an NPC, who then walked into it
so what I'm saying is that they should let you permakill npcs in pokemon like they do in the old ultima games
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I believe this is called ‘preparation of the battlefield’
ISW: “Unknown actors, possibly Ukrainian partisans, attacked a Russian rail line in Crimea.”
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):
SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange wrote:
FYI if your girlfriend isn't replying to texts right now
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Justice Kagan:
“The majority does not see it… And I mean that literally. There is precious little evidence in today’s opinion that the majority has actually looked at these images, much less that it has engaged with expert views of their aesthetics and meaning.”
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):
profcarroll@federate.social ("David Carroll") wrote:
Fascinating to read how Justice Kagan eviscerates Sotomayor and majority in dissent on the Warhol Prince photo copyright decision that is expected to stifle creativity at a time when it’s undergoing profound transformation. Kagan basically calls her peers a bunch of chuds on the question of art, aesthetics, apparently unable to contemplate anything other than business mechanisms. #GiftLink https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/18/us/supreme-court-warhol-copyright.html?unlocked_article_code=aQ4ZaAooMhzGrfyDfuPlyZDFcfj1RnPWftBYDoYBIk1JDXP8zeQorBRDYgWDBCNHLIsmZlB4s6m6Ah0eMcFpd3HMKQwC4tgkRjQcRbW3BnxYxQ57nWDDF0AyYriXRD4nbOHYqWJsziR1myN14-lD8kzsjaNLzwGJ__xikAPGiAG5YwSRFyAcfsUYpRc9P1jU046EPE8SuS5xnIXOY3FQ2UK4uClnIQ26zuLPwac_1F5HxTf-VJrj9m8b67xObGm8r_Q1WP2JdDqOoah8kBmmJu2zsho__koNxancek9Rv2Dwoo8Lwf-oXH4DXg3KdYZWYHp4v0LKZZq870xg5EoB3v3HPw&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):
uncle6@sfba.social ("Uncle 6 🌁") wrote:
@smitty Waffle House is more diner-y, smaller scale. It is also neutral ground for every substrate of Southern society. The reason it is neutral ground is because every single Waffle House employee has got those hands. Waffle House employees have disarmed people with assault rifles with their bare hands. Rule #1: You do not ever want that smoke in a Waffle House. Rule #2: You do not EVER want that smoke in a Waffle House.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):
red@blimpof.evil.red ("__red__") wrote:
I did that because my highest rated talk I've ever done was titled: "Everything I learned about concurrency and reliability I learned at the Waffle House".
I think it's worth 30 minutes of your time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xty-gzzIkBc
… it talks about how every layer of abstraction in the company is designed for concurrency, resilience, and graceful degradation.
3/4
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
key ISW takeaway today:
“Ukrainian forces have seized the tactical initiative and made tactically significant gains around Bakhmut in counter-attack operations on May 18.
[they may have] have seized the battlefield initiative in the Bakhmut area.
Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin admitted on May 18 that Wagner mercenaries are unable to encircle the Ukrainian forces in Bakhmut due to the loss of stable flanks north and south of Bakhmut.”
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"nearly all the money went to pay the firms making the calls and the operatives themselves" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/05/14/us/politics/scam-robocalls-donations-policing-veterans.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare
