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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Soldier's Things (2023 Remaster) by Tom Waits
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Roll With The Punches by Warren Zevon
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Is That Jazz? by Gil Scott-Heron
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Song For Bobby Smith by Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Child's Song by Tom Rush
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
While I'm unable to chase spiders, Mary brings them home to me.
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Logging off like...
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Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I just meant the other side of my break... Nothing serious.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Alright, lovely folks. That's enough fediverse for me. Time to log off. I hope the rest of your Bandcamp Fridays are pleasant. See you all... on the other side.
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arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:
Voyager 2 phones home and says everything is cool
After sending the command, NASA had to wait 37 hours for a response.
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
good
“Tennessee Democrats expelled by GOP over protests win back their seats”
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Treeplex8@mastodon.world ("Shane H") wrote:
@gratefuldread
As retired military it ticks me off that the GOP won’t promote people that earned it.
And most importantly it’s detrimental to our national security.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
from the Guardian
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
well done
Ben Jennings on the latest indictment of Donald Trump – cartoon | Opinion | The Guardian
Mastodon FeedI wish Gran Turismo had proper offline, single-player racing. With a much cleverer AI, a real qualifying session, simulating the whole race weekend.
As it is, you always start last on the grid and it's basically a catch-the-leader type of game: you have to show up with a massively over-powered car, just so you can eventually catch the race leader in time for the race to end 🙄
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
danielgibert@mastodon.online ("Daniel Gibert") wrote:
The little tug. Yes, I have a thing with old vehicles and means of transportation. Modern ships looks boring to me. There is something lovable on the wooden cabins and riveted plates. And I super love tugboats. The little heavy workers of the marine world. This one was made a couple of years ago in #Procreate #drawing #illustration #digitalart #digitalpaint #mastoart #mastodoart #mastoartist #ship #tugboat #sea #digitaldrawing #steam
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- Drawing of a small tugboat where you can see both over and underwater parts. It is an old style boat, with riveted metal plates, dark red underwater and dark gray over water. The gunwale is white. It has a wooden light red cabin with a white painted iron frame and a white wood bridge cabin above it, that you can access thanks to an iron stair. A black and yellow chimney behind the bridge. A small mast over the bridge cabin supports a radio rig. A small crane with a little boat is behind the cabin. The submerged part cast a soft shadow on the turquoise water. (remote)
- The boat described in the first image, but part of the hull has been cut-out so you can see the inners of the ship. From top to bottom: The bridge, with the wheel and the command semaphore, walls panels are mustard yellow. The cabin, with a table, a red padded wall seat, overhead storage, a coal kitchen with a shelve for spices and condiments and some cooking tools. A petrol lamp enlights the scene. Same mustard wood panels. The hold area, right to left, contains storage, with packages, spare parts and crates. A workshop with a wooden table, a vice, buckets and tools and boxes. A metal stair to access the level, and the engine controls. The boiler, with exhaust pipes that goes up to the chimney. Finally, a triple expansion steam engine that powers the propeller, thanks to a gear box. At the bottom of the hull you can find the coal storage. And this is my largest ALT text since I opened my mastodon account. Oh my… (remote)
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I've been listening to this on repeat over lunch:
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
@NfNitLoop took a look at anyhow and at thiserror & they seem nicely done. I'm trying to be disciplined & finish working my way through the official "Rust Book" (only 11 more chapters to go, yay) before I get too deep into other materials, *and* this looks really useful for "real use" code. tnx
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
@NfNitLoop thank you for that pointer, will look after I get back from a desk-mind clearing walk.
;^}
Mastodon FeedNfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️🌈") wrote:
@jsonstein expect() and panic!() do have their place.
When prototyping, it's fine to .expect() or .unwrap() for error cases you don't care to handle right now.
For "production" code, you should only .expect()/panic!() for cases that you've proven can't happen (or are so rare you don't want to handle.)
Otherwise, you can use Rust's `?` error propagation and something like the Anyhow crate (https://github.com/dtolnay/anyhow) for much less boilerplate-y error handling that doesn't crash your program. 😊
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madrush@cosmos.social ("Marco V Morelli") wrote:
Hosting our second in-person meet-up in #longmont #colorado for people interested in being part of a visionary #writing and #art #cooperative, COSMOS #coop
https://cosmos.coop/events/cosmos-local-meet-up-longmont-colorado-2023-08-07/
Please re-share!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Armalyte main theme on DualSID C64 (8580 & 6581) #C64Month #DualSID #RetroComputing
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
What, exactly, is Harvard's reputation anymore, anyway? It's not looking good.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/08/04/jeffrey-epsteins-legacy/
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Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
(none of these are to be taken to a nihilistic extreme)
For a moment there I was worried, but then I remembered the universe is big and nothing matters.
There will be plenty of time to suffer in the future.
There's a difference between not giving up and beating yourself up.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I’m going to guess this attack on the Russian landing craft Olenegorsky Gornyak by the Ukrainians was a combat proof-of-concept. the skills, knowledge, and experience gained by them in the process of designing & deploying uncrewed aerial vehicles already should be relatively easily turned to uncrewed sea-surface vehicles now.
[just my $0.02]
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/04/europe/ukraine-sea-drone-russian-warship-black-sea-intl
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mwl@io.mwl.io ("Michael Lucas¹ :flan_molotov:") wrote:
Today's #30DaysOfDoom is a classic of silence.
"The Quiet Earth." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9KQrOx5cz8
The trailer does a LOT of work to make the film look like it has whiz-bang action.
But it's the only SF film I've seen where the manly hero storms into an Anglican church wearing nothing but a negligee, points a shotgun at the crucifix, and screams "Come on out or the kid gets it" and the audience goes "Yes, this is a perfectly reasonable action in this circumstance."
The stories in #apocalypseMoi have more whiz-bang action than this one. But practically everything does. There's a previously unpublished #ProhibitionOrcs tale in there, plus geeky murder, time travel, and the worst way to make chicken mole.
So please check out https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/apocalypse-moi and back it -- or, if you can't, pillage my freebies at https://mwl.io/fiction/freebies
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
aaaaand, here is dear John Eastman yet again:
“Klingenstein’s characterization of the political divide as a cold civil war – spelled out in a series of glossy YouTube videos – has been previously reported, as have some of his activities as chair of the rightwing Claremont Institute, a Claremont, California-based thinktank.
That organization charted a radical, pro-Trump course from 2016, culminating in Senior Fellow John Eastman advising Trump in his attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, and delivering a fiery speech to the crowd of protesters in Washington DC on 6 January 2021.”
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“The far-right financier giving millions to the Republican party to fight ‘woke communists’” | Super Pacs | The Guardian
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
pretty much:
“‘Disaster’: warning for democracy as experts condemn Meta over Canada news ban” | Canada | The Guardian
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘A federal judge has selected the plaintiffs' proposed cartographer to assist in litigation over Alabama's congressional map "should they become necessary to assist the Court in the event the Court determined it had to prepare a new map."’