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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

AskNick ("Nick Francesco") wrote:

I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. ~ Michael Jordan

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

da5nsy@social.coop ("Danny Garside") wrote:

Impeccable work everyone.

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• Screenshot of a Mastodon post with a poll saying "Bisexual:" where the choices are "Twice per sexual" and "Once every two sexuals". 375 people have voted. The results are split 50/50. (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

openstreetmap@en.osm.town ("OpenStreetMap") wrote:

There's a new map style on OpenStreetMap.org! The Tracestrack Topo map from @tracestrack.

It's a mix of osm-carto and OpenTopoMap. It has many improvements: more tag support (busway, embankment, cuisine, solar plants, aquaculture, pitch, sea, tree etc.), CJK fonts, etc. There is
also better internationalisation: country specific road shields, peaks
using imperial system in the US, hierarchical place rendering in China, etc.
#OpenStreetMap #OSM #gischat #maps

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• A screenshot of OSM.org showing the map layer sector open and showing tracesstrack Topo map selected and that as a map shown (remote)

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

there's a small joy in sharing an NYT gift link in Signal, which does no link shortening. the token makes the URL soooooo long it loops back around from annoying to funny

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• incredibly long nyt link in an outgoing signal message (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

obster@mastodon.sdf.org ("Rock L") wrote:

#Columbo meets #StarTrek #mashup

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• Columbo runs his hand through his hair and Spock stands with his hands on his hips as they look at a dead Enterprise crewman sprawled on his back on a rock. (remote)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

NASA capsule carrying asteroid samples lands in US – DW – 09/24/2023

https://www.dw.com/en/nasa-capsule-carrying-asteroid-samples-lands-in-us/a-66908391

(full disclosure: I worked on a comet lander project at NASA Ames Research Center in the 90s, so this sort of thing becoming an actuality at last makes me smile)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

US Rep. “Paul Gosar Demands Mark Milley's Hanging in Homophobic Rant”

https://www.mediaite.com/news/republican-congressman-calls-for-general-mark-milley-to-be-executed-in-shockingly-homophobic-screed/

insane

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

inquiline@union.place ("alt dot media dot studies") wrote:

This is a HAUNTING photo series, well worth clicking thru

https://www.nickbrandt.com/sink-rise/photographs/?imageId=0

HT @nspugh
cc @betsyvr @hugo I think you'll like what this is trying to do but be warned it's unsettling

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• An adult and a child underwater, on a see-saw on the sea bed. They are wearing street clothes and facing away from the camera. Nick Brandt, Sink/Rise (remote)

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

nedraggett@spaceballs.masto.host ("Ned Raggett") wrote:

BTW, I really can't recommend #Elisapie's new album #Inuktitut enough. The simple summary is that she translated and adapted a slew of nostalgic faves (#Queen, #Metallica, the #RollingStones, #Blondie, #FleetwoodMac etc) into Inuit. But it's a really cohesive and remarkable series of overall transformations. #music https://elisapie.bandcamp.com/album/inuktitut

Reblogged by xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins"):

opal@ioc.exchange ("Opalescent") wrote:

@ian

8675309 (as in, Jenny's number from the Tommy Tutone song) is a prime number. What's more, it's the bottom half of a twin prime pair: add 2, and you get 8675311, which is ALSO prime.

If you're writing software that implements number-theoretic algorithms, it can be problematic to test it using small primes like 7 or 11, because small primes tend to have a lot of weird properties tend to trigger exceptions and edge cases. Having a pair of easy-to-remember, "big enough" prime numbers like the Jenny primes is really useful.

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

if we met or didn't meet at #strangeloop this week and you'd like to keep in touch, please say hello here

Reblogged by xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins"):

myqkaplan@toot.site ("Myq Kaplan") wrote:

a movie about how hangry people can get on yom kippur called “the fast and the furious.”

Reblogged by xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins"):

myqkaplan@toot.site ("Myq Kaplan") wrote:

the best type of music

for yom kippur is

atonal.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

IMHO this is an incredibly powerful and important work by a major voice in modern American literature

https://www.audible.com/pd/B0BRM1YQN7?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=player_overflow

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

the dream solution here is of course blogs but

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

I really like the community of friends I have here on Mastodon, and I don't want it to be what Twitter was exactly, but I do hope we get back some of that old magic back somehow

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

Strange Loop was a great experience this week, and I enjoyed the Slack they set up for during the event, but for the first time in a while I left a bunch of great conversations without much confidence that I'd keep in touch online

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

There's been a lot of talk on Twitter about how the UK's Online Safety Bill was supposedly "defeated" or "weakened" -- it wasn't.

The bill passed with all the worst anti-encryption provisions, five days ago: https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks-online-safety-bill-passed-by-parliament-2023-09-19/

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

90% of my problems with Bluetooth are that Macs connect automatically even when they're asleep.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: F. Scott Fitzgerald born, 1896

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

[BEGIN TODAY IN HISTORY RUN]

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

stiefkind ("Wolfgang Stief") wrote:

Neither was I expecting nor was I prepared to meet the original BEHEMOTH at the Computer History Museum. But I did 😍
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Electronic_Human_Energized_Machine,_Only_Too_Heavy and https://bikepacking.com/plog/steve-roberts-computing-across-america/ #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #computerhistory #computerhistorymuseum

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xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

feels like the new MTA vending machines took their aesthetic cues from robocop and I kinda love it

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• Silver and black vending machine kiosk being installed at a NYC subway station (remote)

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

I wasn't ever going to take a ride on one anyway, but it's nice to see space elevators debunked.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/09/24/synchronicity-is-just-another-word-for-coincidence/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5aHMB4Tje4

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

Massive respect to the guy doing this. I'm interested in retro development but I don't have the patience to go quite this far https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyN9BZiKqJQ

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

Even if the brainworm doesn't infect humans, I think I'd rather not eat something that can kill a moose.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/09/24/a-horror-scenario/

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• Moose (remote)

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

markwyner@mas.to ("Mark Wyner :vm:") wrote:

I didn’t know I needed to watch a cute, chubby field hamster running through a field in slow motion, but here we are.

Wildlife photographer Julian Rad has a nice collection of photos/videos of furry little friends in nature. They’re super cute.

https://www.instagram.com/julianradwildlife/

#Hamster #Cute #Animals #Nature #Videography #Photography #Wildlife

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• First clip showing Julian holding his camera near the ground in front of the hamster, filming in real time. Second clip showing the footage from the camera in slow motion of the hamster running on the grass with its large jowls and tiny feet. (remote)

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milesmcbain@fosstodon.org ("MilesMcBain") wrote:

So 'Rust by example' has all these little runnable examples you can get output for in the browser that's very nice... but what I just realised is that every code snippet in the book is rendered in an embedded text editor!? You can edit the code and re-run with changes to see any behaviour you feel inspired to investigate... 🤯 👏 👏 👏

https://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/index.html

#rustlang

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

This is Haram

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