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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
.@phae's article on why real browser choice matters is a banger:
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/why-browser-choice-matters/
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alice@lgbtqia.space ("🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴") wrote:
Well, the company I work(ed) for just folded. Poof! 💩⛈️.
No notice, no severance, no nothing. 🤬So I'm asking for boosts and leads. If anyone needs someone who knows data, please reach out.
I'm located in Seattle, WA. Remote preferred.
Last few titles include: CDO, Head of Data, and Sr. Operations Analyst.
I've worked in gaming, fintech, and B2C/C2C marketplaces most recently.
I'm proficient in Python, SQL, statistics, team management, (almost) all things data-related, and a host of other stuff.
I'm opinionated and anti-capitalist, but I also routinely bring in multiple times my department's cost in profits for the companies I work for.
I'm also hella nice (despite my RBF) and easy to get along with.
God, pitching myself is so awkward.
That's the toot. Thanks.
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**Gif is of parent company explaining our off-boarding process**
#PleaseBoost #Boost #FediHire #LWF #Layoffs #LookingForJob #LookingForWork #Data #DataScience #Python #SQL #Snowflake #ELT #DataPipeline #Analytics #BusinessIntelligence #CDO #HeadOfData #PleaseHelp #Gaming #Fintech #ChiefDataOfficer
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josephthomas@beige.party ("Joseph Thomas") wrote:
Was banned from Nextdoor when someone posted looking for a local hand doctor and I replied to “Check on Phalanges List”
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OrganizingLIS@glammr.us wrote:
After being fired for opposing book censorship, three librarians have filed workplace discrimination claims with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
#LibraryWorkers #ProtectLibraryWorkers #Librarians #EEOC #LGBTQ #PublicLibraries #DefendLibraries #NoBookBans #FreedomToRead #ReadBannedBooks
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abraxas3d@mastodon.radio ("Abraxas3d W5NYV") wrote:
Testbench passing for #polyphase channelizer for #Haifuraiya, an #opensource #HEO or #GEO communications #satellite design. Applicable to #hamradio, 5 GHz uplink and 10 GHz downlink. Shown is the transponder receiver filter.
If you’d like to join this or any other @OpenResearchIns project, get in touch.
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- Green glowing logic diagrams on black background. This simulation of the Theseus Cores customized IP block is running on a remotely accessible VM at Remote Labs West, which is hosted for free for open source work by ORI.There are nearly 30 signals shown in this simulation. Some of them are buses, which are signals grouped together to communicate arrays or coordinated sets of bits of data. (remote)
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Adam_Cadmon1@mastodon.online ("Adam F. Lawton") wrote:
The US government never misses a chance to screw vets. It's uncanny.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
truth
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latimes@press.coop ("Los Angeles Times :press:") wrote:
Trump's dangerous 'vermin' speech would have been at home in Nazi Germany
The former president used ugly Nazi-like language to foul Veterans' Day and dishonor a long line of Americans who fought and died for their nation. It should not be bushed off as Trump being Trump. #press
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-11-13/trump-vermin-speech?utm_source=press.coop
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
`@staticmethod` is (almost?) always wrong in #Python. It doesn't take the object's state as an argument, which means it's just a plain function. The class name is only used for namespacing, but modules already do this.
The only reason that I know of why people keep writing them is being taught Java's version of OOP too early too deeply. Java uses classes as a namespacing primitive.
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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:
font-size: 3000%;
[hacker voice]: i'm in
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taniel@journa.host ("Daniel Nichanian") wrote:
TODAY: It was confirmed that Dauphin County, PA, home to Harrisburg, flipped to Democratic control in last week's elections. For the first time in 100+ years.
GOP incumbent conceded.One reason this matters? Ballot access. County officials in PA have a lot of discretion on this. I talked to the Dem who won last week about how he plans to expand ballot access: He wants more ballot drop boxes. And he wants to allow ballot curing. https://boltsmag.org/democrats-pennsylvania-election-2023/
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I did back-of-the-napkin numbers last year; Apple really has starved Mozilla, nearly to death:
https://infrequently.org/2022/06/apple-is-not-defending-browser-engine-choice/
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
A lot of web developers have given Apple the benefit of the doubt over the past decade, assuming that Safari was terrible because of some internal necessity created by Apple's culture.
Turns out they were drowning in cash while investing a decreasing fraction of web revenue back into the platform...all while they strangled Mozilla and mobile browser competition:
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I have received a report that Vivian Silver’s remains have been identified. I had held on to hope that this life-long activist, a supporter with her deeds of peace & reconciliation, might have survived the Hamas attack. my wife went to grade school with her & is crushed. 💧
even the peacemakers suffer & die when fanatics control both sides of a conflict.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Watching Dr No. First impressions:
• Bond is a chickenshit coward, afraid of spiders.
• Ursula Andress is a terrible actress. What did they see in her?
• Andress killed someone with a spider. Improbable.
The movie just hates spiders.
Mastodon FeedLess than 15 minutes, DHL.
Just kidding, I already know you fucked this up again. I just wish your tracking system wouldn't suck as much as you do.
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Mastodon FeedCats are hobbits??
- little people
- furry toes
- can walk without making noise
- believe in second breakfast
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
when the Computer was created, heroes vowed to end its malevolent reign. the only thing powerful enough to destroy the Computer? a type of advanced weapon called Software. the battle has been ongoing for decades, with the Computer fending off all manner of assaults, and growing exponentially more powerful. but soon, the end is in sight. our heroes have the upper hand. we have mighty stacks of Software, tall as castles. soon the Computer will slow to a crawl, and its evil will be stopped forever
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Re-reading Orwell's 1984 I discovered that among all the other more well known observations, he saw AI art coming and identified it (correctly imo) as a tool of authoritarian power.
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- Passage from Orwell's 1984: "Julia was twenty-six years old. She lived in a hostel with thirty other girls ('Always in the stink of women! How I hate women!' she said parenthetically), and she worked, as he had guessed, on the novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department. She enjoyed her work, which consisted chiefly in running and servicing a powerful but tricky electric motor. She was 'not clever', but was fond of using her hands and felt at home with machinery. She could describe the whole process of composing a novel, from the general directive issued by the Planning Committee down to the final touch-ing-up by the Rewrite Squad. But she was not interested in the finished product. She 'didn't much care for reading,' she said. Books were just a commodity that had to be produced, like jam or bootlaces." (remote)
- Passage from Orwell's 1984: "The tune had been haunting London for weeks past. It was one of countless similar songs published for the benefit of the proles by a sub-section of the Music Depart-ment. The words of these songs were composed without any human intervention whatever on an instrument known as a versificator. But the woman sang so tunefully as to turn the dreadful rubbish into an almost pleasant sound. He could hear the woman singing and the scrape of her shoes on the flagstones, and the cries of the children in the street, and somewhere in the far distance a faint roar of traffic, and yet the room seemed curiously silent, thanks to the absence of a telescreen." (remote)
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cadusilva@bolha.one ("Cadu :oh_vixe:") wrote:
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- Tirinha colorida em inglês e dividida em 4 quadros. 1) Uma pessoa verde observa de longe uma pessoa amarela e outra rosa discutindo. A pessoa amarela tem uma opinião e a vermelha tem outra. Uma placa acima das duas diz "debate online". 2) A pessoa verde então franze os olhos, junta as duas mãos com os indicadores encostando no queixo, e diz "eu deveria entrar no assunto...". 3) Então muda para uma expressão pensativa e balança a cabeça para um lado e para o outro. Um balão de pensamento traz o texto "na verdade... não. Eu não deveria" 4) Agora o personagem verde faz uma expressão de paz e tranquilidade, enquanto pensa "algumas vezes você tem que dizer a si mesmo para calar a boca". Ele balança a cabeça como quem diz "sim, é verdade". (remote)
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binjip978@hachyderm.io ("Siarhiej") wrote:
@oxidecomputer @ahl @bcantrill All historical episodes are excellent, but as Go programer I especially like "The debugging odyssey".
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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
The Supreme Court code of ethics uses the word "should" 53 times and the word "shall" 0 times. https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/Code-of-Conduct-for-Justices_November_13_2023.pdf
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
I started up Higurashi 8 yesterday. I got a couple chapters in and it took me forever because this one is a side character origin story that hasn't yet grabbed me
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oxidecomputer@hachyderm.io ("Oxide Computer Company") wrote:
No Oxide and Friends today or next week, but @ahl and @bcantrill will be back on November 27th. In the meantime, new listeners and followers: be sure to check out our back catalog! Long-time listeners: what are some of your favorites?
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
This article about Mike Johnson and some of the disturbing movements he partakes in makes for some harrowing reading:
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/11/10/mike-johnson-rewrite-constitution-00126157
(Why is it so many conservative and fascist types have so much time on their hands to plot and scheme and even train to attempt to remake the US into some sort of "Christian" fascist state? Why can't they just be a bunch of people with dead end jobs who don't even have time for their families let alone taking over a country like the rest of us?)
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carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:
A lot of people who are more successful than you also had more opportunities than you. This shouldn’t make you despair but instead provide insight into why comparison is the thief of joy.
You should work hard and seize opportunities when ever you can but also realize that comparing yourself to people who started the race with a half mile head start just leads to unhappiness.
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Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
😒🤦♂️
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orangelantern@froggie.town ("Orange Lantern") wrote:
I have the best conversations with my mom. I try my best at a translation of the call I just had with her:
_phone ringing_Me: Hello m...
Her: Eʟᴅᴇʀ Sᴘᴀᴡɴ.
Me: ...
Me: Yᴇs Gʀᴀɴᴅ Mᴀᴛʀɪᴀʀᴄʜ.
Her: I sʜᴀʟʟ sᴜᴍᴍᴏɴ ʏᴏᴜ ᴛᴏ ᴘᴀʀᴛᴀᴋᴇ ɪɴ ꜰᴇᴀsᴛɪɴɢ ᴏɴ ᴛʜᴇ sᴀᴄʀɪꜰɪᴄᴇs ʟᴀɪᴅ ʙᴇꜰᴏʀᴇ ᴜs ᴛʜɪs ᴅᴀʏ ᴏꜰ sᴜɴ. Wɪʟʟ ʏᴏᴜ ʜᴇᴇᴅ ᴍʏ sᴜᴍᴍᴏɴs?
Me: checks calendar
Me: Tʜᴇ sᴛᴀʀs ᴀʟɪɢɴ, ɴᴏᴛʜɪɴɢ ᴡᴏᴜʟᴅ ᴘʟᴇᴀsᴇ ᴍᴇ ᴍᴏʀᴇ ɢʀᴇᴀᴛ ᴍᴏᴛʜᴇʀ. I sʜᴀʟʟ ᴍᴀɴɪꜰᴇsᴛ ɪɴ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴄᴏᴜʀᴛ ᴀᴛ ᴛʜᴇ 12ᴛʜ ʜᴏᴜʀ ᴡʜᴇɴ ᴛʜᴇ sᴜɴ ʙᴇʟɪᴇᴠᴇs ɪᴛsᴇʟꜰ ɪɴᴠɪɴᴄɪʙʟᴇ.
Her: Tʜᴜs ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴏʀᴅs ᴀʀᴇ sᴘᴏᴋᴇɴ, ᴛʜᴜs ɪᴛ sʜᴀʟʟ ʜᴀᴘᴘᴇɴ.
Me: Great, see you on sunday.
Her: Try to be punctual.I always refer to her when people ask me "why are you like this?".
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
2/ MacFarlane, cont’d:
"Defendant seeks yet another extension"
"..should not be permitted to derail the pretrial schedule by pointing to the rapid appellate consideration few other defendants enjoy"
Special Counsel slams latest Trump request for deadline delay in DC crim case
#JackSmith
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.258148/gov.uscourts.dcd.258148.151.0_2.pdf
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Caution@tech.lgbt ("CautionWIP (No longer spooky)") wrote:
Aaaaaand there’s a thread on BS where folks are playing “but wait it gets worse!” about Piers Anthony, so the bacon is gonna be washed down with heavily spiked coffee and then I’m reading comic books for the rest of the day.