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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
"Vault of Evil" is what I call our university database system.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/08/let-the-gnashing-of-teeth-commence/
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Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Fall colors. Manchester.
Canon AE-1 Program
Kodak UltraMax 400
Canon FD 50mm/1.8
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
At last, a popular space book that is almost as pessimistic as I am about the prospect of humans colonizing Mars.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/08/space-bastards-vs-space-geeks/
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Mastodon Feedandreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella") wrote:
@nic Slides are at https://abotella.pages.igalia.com/past-and-future-of-server-side-runtimes
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I am happy to see Moms for Liberty get what they deserve: NOTHING.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/08/another-good-sign/
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I emerged from my bunker this morning to discover that we survived this stage of the political apocalypse. Yay.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/08/we-survived-another-election-day/
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Mastodon FeedOne day you're young and the next day you have a daughter who likes "Wake me up when September ends" and you're curing your own bacon because she wants to try the North American fatty crispy bacon and they don't have that in Japan.
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thatgeoguy@coales.co ("Jeremy 🇨🇦") wrote:
Is this just... evil? https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/generated/numpy.reshape.html
Specifically the part that says: " This will be a new view object if possible; otherwise, it will be a copy. Note there is no guarantee of the memory layout (C- or Fortran- contiguous) of the returned array."
Why in the hell would you return a view in some cases but a copy in others? That means mutability semantics aren't a big deal if it copies, but a big no-no if you get a view "for efficiency."
I can see this kind of semantic easily becoming a footgun embedded in a script somewhere. This is hardly something you'd think twice about!
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OceanTerra@fediscience.org ("Dr Sam Burgess 🌊 🌍 💸") wrote:
Exceptional October temperatures!
The anomaly for October 2023 (departure from average temperatures) is
the second largest anomaly (after September 2023)
of any month
of any year
in the ERA dataset (back to 1940)
and combining with IPCC data - the warmest October for over 125,000 years (AR6 WG1: Fig2_11)
October 2023 was around 1.7ºC above the preindustrial average, making it virtually certain that 2023 will be the warmest year on record
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Mastodon FeedMastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
“It's absolutely fantastic that as a citizen, you come into an empty library and treat it so lovingly.”
Librarian’s remark after Göteborg Main Library was accidentally left unlocked at Halloween and 400 people wandered in. ‘People sat reading newspapers. There were families in the children's section and people looking books up in the database. 200 books were borrowed and nothing was damaged.’
Thanks to @mrsostberg for sharing this. Am sharing in English as it’s so nice.
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- Screenshot of Sveriges Radio Ekot news story, my rough translation into English: ‘Gothenburg City Library was closed for the Hallowe’en weekend. Or, it should have been, but one door was accidentally left unlocked. On Saturday, over 400 eager readers wandered in to the unstaffed library. Library manager Anna Carin Elf heard what was going on, went to the library and found the visitors who were surprised themselves to learn the library wasn’t actually open. “They thought it seemed a bit empty. But there were quite a lot of people sitting and reading newspapers. There were families in the children's section and people using the search database to look for books,” she told Radio p4 Göteborg. ‘Over 200 books were borrowed and nothing was damaged,’ says Anna Carin Elf. ‘It's absolutely fantastic, I think, that as a citizen of Gothenburg, you come into an empty library and treat it so lovingly.” (remote)
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GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:
Re Optus - they’re saying there’s no indication it is cyber related. The outage is continuing.
They have apparently lost the RAN stack on mobile on all masts which is not a good sign. They’ve also lost fixed line and IP services.
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randomgeek@hackers.town ("Random Geek") wrote:
Stray thought.
I'm starting to understand more clearly that part of a senior dev's moral and ethical obligation is to speak up about overcomplications, dangerous assumptions, narrow thinking, and overwork. Basically to use our own history as a cautionary tale.
Our role in this very excitable industry is encouraging our teammates to stop and breathe for a sec. Nothing to do with knowing the code. It's about knowing the pain points and the hazards.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
Ohio, thankfully on the right side of history tonight, passing issues 1 and 2, which protect the right to abortion in the state constitution, and legalize marijuana, respectively.
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SunnJax@tech.lgbt ("SunnJax 🏳️🌈 :Fire_Pride:") wrote:
I’ve got it! Change the clocks back one hour at midnight so it’s lighter in the mornings, then change the clocks forward one hour at noon so it’s lighter again in the evenings. Do this every day. 🕚🕐
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abraxas3d@defcon.social ("Abraxas3d") wrote:
This was a great IEEE event. I got to represent #opensource at the engineering perspectives panel, and I volunteered at registration at the "Building Chips with CHIPS" conference held at #Qualcomm on 3 November 2023.
Thank you to everyone who participated! We will be working hard to benefit the people ready and able to rebuild the #semiconductor industry in the US.
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abraxas3d@defcon.social ("Abraxas3d") wrote:
"Why is the [#hamradio] hobby dying? Because a bunch of cantankerous old men demean and condemn the new and exciting and cutting edge aspects of amateur radio that made it so interesting in the first place. And are super vocal about it."
-from an email I received about a big new movement in citizen science radio work.
Next July, I'll be helping these people put on a really nice event.
A lot of us have left amateur radio, but haven't forgotten what amateur radio was supposed to be about. All of us - and a growing number of organizers and leaders - are thinking much broader and much more inclusive, picking up #opensource teams, industry groups, and authentically and kindly serving people that legacy and traditional organizations have forgotten, hate on, or outright exclude.
On the "naughty list" are #ARDC, #ARRL, and #AMSAT. Odd how they all start with the letter "A".
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mpesce@arvr.social ("Mark Pesce") wrote:
Scientists create artificial protein capable of degrading microplastics in bottles
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-scientists-artificial-protein-capable-degrading.html
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
@gwynnion No no no this is not that simple. The attack happened bc of Hamas. He's at fault for not having the army protecting the boundaries well enough. I can't stand him but he did not do the attack, he did let it happen though, but please don't remove the fault from Hamas. Hope he resigns. I'm speaking as an Israeli.
Mastodon FeedSearch in #iOS settings is so bad it's funny.
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Pandamoanimum@mstdn.social ("Amanda") wrote:
Pedro Pascal as Quokkas.
A thread.
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Balkingpoints@mastodon.online ("Balkingpoints.com") wrote:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/07/politics/exit-polls-election-2023/index.html
Exit poll: Most Ohio voters still largely favor legal abortion
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ct_bergstrom@fediscience.org ("Carl T. Bergstrom") wrote:
I am delighted to announce that the Department of Biology at the University of Washington is advertising for a tenure-track assistant professor position on the quantitative understanding of collective behavior.
I will be chairing the search. Details are here: apply.interfolio.com/130336
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netblocks ("NetBlocks") wrote:
⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show Optus mobile services are down across much of #Australia, leaving millions of customers unable to make calls or access internet since early morning; authorities said to be investigating possible cyberattack as trains and infrastructure disrupted 📵📉
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mpesce@arvr.social ("Mark Pesce") wrote:
There’s a known problem with the preview build where desktop icons are shuffled around. This apparently happens due to Copilot’s interaction with Windows multi-display setups.
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
getting set up for weekly local voice net on 50.250MHz USB #AmateurRadio
Mastodon Feedthe most kentastic of #owlkitty trailers
https://youtu.be/p-Z7CczgXgI
Mastodon FeedMastodon FeedNow that this is out… probably a good time to admit I never much liked QueryDSL (and I work at #Elastic… for now..)
#ESQL is very much welcome and is a multi-year effort in #Elasticsearch. This is NOT just a simple translation layer to QuerDSL.
https://www.elastic.co/blog/esql-elasticsearch-piped-query-language