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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Also, I think I get this one, but then again... probably not. Salvatore Ganacci's "Galaxy Brain":
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Surprisingly relatable content in the middle of this action packed music video from Salvatore Ganacci's "Fight Dirty":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZiaXEIQgkE
(CW for a minor spoiler if you haven't seen the video before.)
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![A cartoon Salvatore Ganacci standing outside, surrounded by cherry blossoms, looking back over his shoulder at the camera he says, "Sometimes I cry when I'm alone." [A still from the music video for "Fight Dirty"]](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/110/911/850/243/473/480/original/8c167a938ea7892c.png){kind=link}
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
and now I have charging batteries and little glowing lights everywhere
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Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
It's not C's fault that we got into the mess we're in. Maybe we have to put it down for the welfare of the land, but have some sympathy for the poor thing. We made it the monster it has become. 😢
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
But cast your mind back to the late 60s and early 70s where the language was developed on a PDP-11 with 24K 16-bit words (with a lineage linking it to a PDP-7 with 8K 18-bit), generally programmed in assembly. It wasn't a bad choice at the time. It's not like they could just download any number of already implemented programming languages on a whim or run everything in their browser.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Cancel the lesbian spider porn, it looks like it was just morphological variation in my males.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/08/18/update-i-dont-think-they-were-lesbian-spiders/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
@jsonstein Fantastic! I hope you give us all a report and some snapshots.
The only advice I'll offer is this-no matter how many people show up, do it again. And then again. It builds. People will get hooked.
One of my clubs is having a group SOTA thing tomorrow; listen for us under our club call of AA6CV. I'd love a SOTA-to-micro QSO!
#MicroFieldDay #µFieldDay #µFD #PortableHamRadio #TheBOREDnet
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Monroe County NY μField Day
In the spirit of the μField Day idea ( see http://www.theborednet.net/index.php/field-day/ ),
tomorrow (19 AUG 2023) I will set up next to the reservoir atop Highland Park in Rochester.
If you are in town and looking for another informal “get on the air” (GOTA) opportunity, either come
by and use my gear, or bring a rig and use my antennas, or (better yet) set up your rig in a
park or backyard wherever you might be… there is one at least one other site (in Webster) joining
in. the idea is to have a distributed fun GOTA event, to compliment the centralized
events also happening elsewhere.When: 11:00am East Coast Time, 19 AUG 2023
Where: next to Highland Park Reservoir and
146.520MHz FM voice (simplex, no repeaters no PL codes no programming)
14.285MHz USB voiceI will bring a medium-power FM voice transceiver for 2m and will set up a J-Pole.
I will be calling CQ on 146.520MHz (simplex). The idea is to see how far away I can
make decent contacts *without* a repeater network using a (nominal) 80W rig. Please
do check in if you can… it would be fun to get some real distance with 2m FM.I will also bring a low-power (15w) sideband rig and will set up a “magnetic loop”
antenna, and see what we can do making contacts on 14.285MHz USB voice. Again,
the idea is to play outside, to enjoy a distributed-to-where-you-are event, and to offer
another GOTA opportunity that can include Technicians.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
samlitzinger@journa.host ("Sam Litzinger") wrote:
James Buckley, conservative politician and U.S. senator, dies at 100
“… Mr. Buckley was perhaps best remembered as the lead plaintiff in a landmark campaign finance lawsuit… that in 1976 unraveled part of the post-Watergate regulation of political money. That ruling set the basis for a chain of court decisions…that embraced the concept that money is equal to speech.”
Quite a wretched legacy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/08/18/james-buckley-valeo-obit/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
thanks again for turning me on to the μField Day idea, @W6KME
I'm trying to get something similar started here in the #ROC area (Rochester, Upstate NY), with an informal "kickoff event" happening tomorrow
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
There are also a lot of ways in which the moniker doesn't fit. Adopting Tailwind doesn't cost you anything, and neither does leaving. (Outside the technical aspects of those decisions, I mean.) I don't know of any secret language or inner power structure to Tailwind.
But cultish behavior is also when you are discouraged from criticism, and well...that part is definitely there.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
digits@ravenation.club ("Digits") wrote:
Amazing new band alert! N'Dekho is Joe Goddard (Hot Chip) and Falle Nioke. Debut single/EP on repeat!
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ryanfb@digipres.club ("Ryan Baumann") wrote:
my best command-line development productivity tip is this: mosh + tmux + @tailscale
(use tailscale as a private VPN, use mosh to connect to tailscale hosts for a resilient/resumable remote shell, use tmux to maintain state across sessions)
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Here's the book link: https://www.amazon.com/Cultish-Language-Fanaticism-Amanda-Montell/dp/0062993151
Please don't infer that I'm saying people who use Tailwind are brainwashed, or anything of the like.
I just notice the culture of trying to silence dissenters, and notice the similarity to some of the groups discussed.
Not all "cultish" groups are what you'd consider a cult. CrossFit, for example, fits the bill. So do many innocuous religious groups. It's not a slam; it's just a note of language and behavior.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I'm listening to Cultish by Amanda Montell (which I highly recommend).
It covers the language of cultish groups (the author avoids the word "cult" because its meaning is too fluid and overloaded), and what makes a group "cultish."
Weirdly, when listening to it, one of the things that struck me as cultish is: Tailwind.
Tailwind isn't a cult. But it is cultish. The "in" group firmly believes Tailwind the answer. They make you afraid to talk negatively about it. Tailwind vs CSS is "us vs. them."
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Weather: ⛅️ Partly cloudy, +63°F, 75%, →22mph, 1007hPa
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Location: Rochester, Monroe County, New York [43.1572,-77.6151]
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
What an embarrassing admission from Bryan Johnson.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/08/18/shut-up-bryan/
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Moms For Liberty has some really strange ideas about consent and gender affirming care.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/08/18/consent-is-obedience/
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
categorical refutation of lies:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
shannoncurtis ("Shannon Curtis") wrote:
Here's to kicking in chairs and knocking down tables in a restaurant. 💪🏻💃🏻
New 80s kids song has dropped!
It's on ye olde #Bandcamp, of course: https://shannoncurtis.bandcamp.com/track/west-end-girls
And anywhere else you might stream: https://songwhip.com/shannoncurtis/west-end-girls
#music #NewMusic #80sMusic #synthpop #electropop #altpop #alternativeMusic #GenX #80s @hilljam
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
bunny breakfast buffet
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Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Got my first film roll developed
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newsyc250@botsin.space ("Hacker News 250 points") wrote:
How They Tried to Kill Me: https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/how-they-tried-to-kill-me/
Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37145491
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Wild how many human problems can be perfectly summarized as "too much power in the hands of too few people."
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bubbline@tech.lgbt ("Liana :v_trans: :v_kirb:") wrote:
Redux is the most insane human invention, and it has probably wasted uncountable human hours and resources just for the pipe dream of adding immutability to a mutable language
All that because a few people in charge of frameworks and tech influencers decided that it's cool and fashionable and that all codebases should have immutable state
functionally it doesn't even do anything useful. You could replace it with a literal fucking object. Look at pinia in Vue.js
All this technical complexity and boilerplate code just to jerk off about reducers.
the tech industry is a joke and I hope React dies because having one framework be the standard means the entire web industry is constantly forced to play with whatever new toy the people making it are into lately
Dan Abramov is nice and interesting but I don't need this shit.
Mastodon FeedComputers are fast:
* Loading and parsing 123,610 JSON files from a git repo: 6s.
* Running full recursive dependency resolution for 160,404 versions of crates: 1.6s.
* Calculating stats for reverse dependencies from 6,206,363 uses of crates: 0.3s.And it all trivially fits in RAM, I'm not using any database. #rustlang