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

Parenting is heartbreaking, but not always in the ways you expect.

For example: when your child sobs because they've developed a sincere emotional attachment to the packaging their toothbrush came in, and tearfully begs you not to make them throw it away, hugging the plastic and cardboard like a cherished pet and telling it "I'll miss you" through the sobs.

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glennf@twit.social ("Glenn Fleishman") wrote:

Retail theft went down and the national retailers federation had to admit 5% not 50% of theft was from criminal gangs. This whole panic was concocted to close underperforming and unionized stores and the media bought it. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/08/business/organized-shoplifting-retail-crime-theft-retraction.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ek0.cMux.iabRLNkE-vqu&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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tubetime ("Tube⛄Time") wrote:

bookmark this: https://connectorbook.com/

it is not just a book--there is an online utility that can help you identify mystery connectors!

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

I deplore debates, but sometimes I still get talked into doing them.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/12/09/does-god-exist-perry-hendricks-i-argue-about-it/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0FOaVtwBi4

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

My dream for the next generation of #3dprinting:

make nozzles that work like an iris diaphragm and let you dynamically adjust their diameter during printing.

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

we have some ugly recent history. the perpetrators of these stains on our national honor both operated with impunity then and still have suffered no consequences now. nobody here should get sanctimonious about other countries.

https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/dec/09

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MBoffin ("Dylan Bennett") wrote:

This is so cool! A command-line escape room! Love it. https://rmkubik.itch.io/terminal-escape

Made by @rmkubik for Confounding Calendar 2023.

#gamedev #commandline #terminal #linux #escaperoom

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nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

The handover

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• The handover comic. Two code monkeys are in front of the computer. The monkey number 1 tells monkey number 2, this is my code. It’s your problem now. I’m out. The money number 1 walks out, probably indicating that he quit the job as a code monkey.

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mattiem ("Matt Massicotte") wrote:

I've just added 3 solutions to caching values using structured concurrency. This is a common problem that is incredibly difficult to do robustly. I would appreciate more eyes on it. Is it actually correct? Can it be simpler?

https://github.com/mattmassicotte/ConcurrencyRecipes

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gericci@indieweb.social ("Angela "Ge" Ricci") wrote:

Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (UK Parliement)

"The architecture of the web is currently threatened by those who would create and preserve their own walled gardens of content that is provided by others, privatise a public resource for their own ends and monopolise all content offered to the public via the internet for their own profit."
https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2023-12-05/debates/8A9A99FB-CD4C-4591-B357-02A1FA287FCB/DigitalMarketsCompetitionAndConsumersBill

#AppleBrowserBan

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amoroso@fosstodon.org ("Paolo Amoroso") wrote:

I found a great winter holidays reading. The book "Write Your Own Retro Compiler" by Nils Holm, which has just been published, describes the development of a self-hosting compiler that targets the Z80 on CP/M.

https://t3x.org/t3x/0/book.html

#compilers #z80 #retrocomputing

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futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

:: You see, it’s not just how you see the world that changes. To measure a system is to forever alter it: a physical effect on matter itself. Any object recorded or counted is subject to this distortion. The universe looked very different before the first imagination dreamed of numbers. No modern human eye has seen (or mind perceived) the unsubtized beauty of nature in tens of thousands of years. And yet, in the wilds of deepest wilderness, there are … refuges remnants of a metricless universe.

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mcfadden ("Brian McFadden") wrote:

Paul Reubens' estate posted Pee-Wee's Xmas special remastered in HD. If you've been watching the same ratty DVD or bootleg clips for 20+ years, it's quite the upgrade. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRvtOGLzpvE

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POLITICOEurope@press.coop ("POLITICOEurope :press:") wrote:

Ukraine’s first lady: Without more aid the world ‘will simply let us die’

'It hurts us greatly to see the signs that the passionate willingness to help may fade,' says Olena Zelenska. #press

https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-first-lady-olena-zelenska-financial-support-war-russia-weapons/?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication&utm_source=press.coop

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KristenWixx@pebble.social ("Kristen Wixx") wrote:

Librarian humor.

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• A group of books lined up on a shelf so that the titles spell out Nana, Nana, Nana, Nana, Batman. (remote)

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paninid@mastodon.world ("Sampath Pāṇini ®") wrote:

I had dinner with an edtech founder and told her the metaphor of the networked org tree.

It’s a very familiar narrative for me.

She really digged it and suggested I write it as a Medium article so she could share it.

Let me know your thoughts: https://www.superversive.co/essays/history-of-the-org-chart

#ComplexAdaptiveSystems #network #OrganizationalChart

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

sitting here, watching the sky lighten & drinking coffee with a cat purring on my lap on a Saturday morning. thinking about how just one key player can introduce an enormous level of churning & discord into an organization.

yes, I’m thinking of one specifically. no, saying which one here would be rude.

;^}

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stoyan@indieweb.social wrote:

🪩 Web Performance calendar day 8
🔗 https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2023/monitor-performance-using-google-sheets-and-crux-history-api/
📜 Henry Price shares his way to use Google sheets and CrUX API to monitor perf metrics over time
📈 You thought setting up perf monitoring is hard and/or expensive? No more!

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

Two losers in a meeting of the mindless.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/12/09/what-if-two-of-the-most-annoying-people-in-the-world-had-a-conversation/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bzfUDrJLaI

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bruces ("Bruce Sterling @bruces") wrote:

*They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead

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nikvo@esperanto.masto.host wrote:

*iras al esperanto punkto masto punkto host en mia retumejo* hej. tiu ĉi paĝo estas en esperanto

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fimion@notacult.social ("Alex Riviere") wrote:

I saw someone else say this, and I don't disagree: CSS is the only language that gets blamed when the author is bad.

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phooky@octodon.social wrote:

[evening newscaster]
and we are just now learning
the vengabus is burning
we'll go to our reporter
for answers in short order
[reporter, soberly]
they liked to party

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Festive doofus.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

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• A black cat wearing a red and white scarf with red pom-poms, being held in arms like a baby, and looking very silly.

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

Could the fact of this debate presented as evidence that god exists, and he really really hates me?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/12/08/pray-for-me-2/

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• hendricks vs. myers, does god exist? (remote)

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

surPRISE!

‘OPEC Leader Tells Members to Block Any Climate Summit Deal to Curb Fossil Fuels
In a letter, the secretary general of the oil cartel called on countries in the group to “reject any text or formula that targets energy.”’

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/08/climate/opec-cop28-climate-oil.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

Did a little thing to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Ask #MetaFilter: https://ask.metafilter.com/377078/Your-favorite-DVD-commentary-tracks

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mwl@io.mwl.io ("Michael W Lucas¹ :flan_brick:") wrote:

Computers are like onions. Everything is layers built on layers, and every layer makes you cry. #sysadmin

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kangaroo5383 ("Jessica Lam 👩🏻‍💻👩🏻‍🎨") wrote:

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• I'm still tired from all the crossfit this morning. It's pronounced croissant and you ate 4 of them.

keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:

Well, also intellisense/editor integration are great with types.
When I moved to Python I still used Eclipse for a while, but missing autocompletion and refactoring features has been something I missed. For a very short time.