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b0rk@jvns.ca ("Julia Evans") wrote:
inside .git
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jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:
Abortion is at stake in this election. It is an issue voters have clearly shown matters to them. Yesterday, Biden announced new policies to assure care. The Times & Post have nothing on their home pages. Yesterday, they each buried previews in tiny boxes. This is not journalism.
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dylanbeattie@hachyderm.io ("Dylan Beattie") wrote:
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
there are only two hard things in computing: naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors
(w apologies to Phil Karlton)
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antlerboy ("Benjamin P. Taylor") wrote:
First call for papers for the 5th Edition of World Conference on Complex Systems (WCCS24) November 11 to 14, 2024, in Casablanca, Morocco https://stream.syscoi.com/2024/01/22/first-call-for-papers-for-the-5th-edition-of-world-conference-on-complex-systems-wccs24-november-11-to-14-2024-in-casablanca-morocco/
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flexghost ("flexghost.") wrote:
Party of personal freedom strikes again!
Oklahoma bill SB1976 would make sending or viewing any "obscene materials" outside marriage a felony
It gets better. The bill is from repeal-no-fault divorce advocate, Dusty Deevers (R)
😃
Besides restricting viewing as much as a butt cheek, it would also be a misdemeanor to even pose for *anything* deemed erotic
And, like most times they take away freedoms, they’re hiding it under the banner of “save the children!”
http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24%20INT/SB/SB1976%20INT.PDF
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duggan@mastodon.ie ("Ross Duggan") wrote:
If you're interested in the current effervescence around AI, you could do a lot less useful things this week than listen to @bcantrill and @simon talk bucketloads of sense about it on Oxide and Friends https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends/1692510
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Verily I tell you that the Hunter BS is far more a story of Trump's corruption than Hunter's.
Because it's a story of how Trump has and would use the Justice System to persecute anyone who gets in his way.
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dnorman@social.ds106.us ("D'Arcy Norman") wrote:
Proposal for a new emoji to represent Generative AI
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VOANews ("Voice of America") wrote:
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck a sparsely populated part of China’s western Xinjiang region early Tuesday, causing extensive damage, and leaving three people dead, authorities said.
The quake was the latest in a series of seismic events and natural disasters to hit the vast country's western regions.
The quake rocked Uchturpan county in Aksu prefecture shortly after 2 a.m. local time Monday, the China Earthquake Networks Center said.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Sigh.
Via Meg James
@MegJamesLAT:L.A. Times began laying off at least 115 people in the newsroom beginning today in an effort to stem deep financial losses. Many cherished colleagues - including some with years of service - are being forced to say good-bye.
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cwebber@octodon.social ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:
A bunch of the Spritely crew will be at #FOSDEM and GuixDays 2024! https://spritely.institute/news/fosdem2024.html
You wanted to talk to myself, @tsyesika, @lispwitch about Hoot, Goblins, our goals for integrating the Guile and Guix and Spritely ecosystems, and the future of decentralized networks? Well, we hope to meet you there!
This is gonna be huge!!!
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
cat dreams
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Thread 🧵via Angry Staffer: 1/…
Just because you had your head in the sand for the entire #Trump presidency doesn’t mean there was “peace everywhere”
Kids were getting gassed in Syria.
There were 2,243 drone strikes in the first two years of Trump.
There was a failed coup in Venezuela.
Trump’s policy of deterrence by tweet allowed North Korea to fully develop ICBMs.
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It's really busy at the gym today.
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okay, this made me larf
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- Translation: Pirate English Translate the following into Pirate English: Welcome to the Oceanview Hotel — we hope you enjoy your stay. If you need anything, please contact the front desk. Ahoy matey! We be hopin’ ye relish yer time aboard the Oceanview Inn. If ye be needin’ anythin’, have a parley with the front desk, arrr! @ DeepLearning.Al Andrew Ng (remote)
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Something off Ki for #ProgTuesday.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Necessary caveats:
1. I like when libraries, frameworks, etc. use TypeScript. They should do that. It makes life easier for everyone using them.
2. Heavy emphasis on "beyond a certain point."
3. Again, I like TypeScript. It's undeniably useful. See 1 and 2.
4. This was originally a reply to a thread but I felt like it warranted being its own standalone post/explanation.
5. Remember that if I'm right, the psychology would still compel you to fervently defend TypeScript.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
We might be making young people work too hard.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/23/did-i-work-that-hard-when-i-was-young/
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Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I like TypeScript, but I maintain that beyond a certain point, it makes you *feel* more productive than it actually *makes* you.
It *feels* like an amazing achievement when you finally, satisfyingly, invoke the proper incantation to banish those cursed squigglies in your editor...
...but you might have just spent hours "improving" the code, when what actually ships and runs is 0% different that it was before.
It's possible the only thing you meaningfully changed was your own feelings.
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0x1C3B00DA@stereophonic.space wrote:
https://wedistribute.org/2024/01/sublinks-a-replacement-for-lemmy/
It’s crazy how much of the comments about #Subllinks on the threadiverse are mad that the author is using #Java or just complaining that they chose to build another implementation.
Most of it seems to be #Lemmy users who think that #kbin, #mbin, #piefed, etc don’t exist and no other federated link aggregator should exist.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
watching a Coursera video series on LLMs... is that a croissant on his desk?
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HelenBranswell@scicomm.xyz ("Helen Branswell") wrote:
"This isn’t Pez candy that we’re handing out like we’re a giant Pez dispenser.’” @brittanytrang's jawdropping story about the astonishing mismanagement of the White House "pharmacy" during the end of the last administration. Couldn't make this up. https://www.statnews.com/2024/01/23/white-house-pharmacy/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"prompted by complaints the Department of Defense received in 2018 about a senior military medical officer, who is not named, engaging in “improper medical practices.” It covers only activity in the office through early 2020 under the Trump administration, but investigators interviewed staffers who also worked there under former President Obama.
The OIG report does not mention Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson, the White House Medical Unit director from 2010 to 2014 and the president’s physician from 2013 through 2018. He removed his name from consideration as former President Trump’s Veterans Affairs secretary amid allegations about his lax prescribing practices and a hostile work environment in the White House Medical Unit, some of which were confirmed in a separate 2021 inspector general investigation"
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LouisIngenthron@qoto.org ("Louis Ingenthron") wrote:
There's an episode of *M*A*S*H* where Colonel Potter needs to deal with the fact that his son-in-law cheated on his daughter. In the end, he does so by relating to the boy the time that his own fidelity faltered.
I wonder how different the world would be if more of us understood that the things that piss us off the most in others are just reflections of the flaws we see in ourselves.
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EgyptianAphorist@mindly.social ("Yahia Lababidi") wrote:
A 23-year-old did this with nothing more than a hammer and chisel.
That man was Gian Lorenzo Bernini (The Abduction of Proserpina, 1622).
He liked to boast that "in his hands marble could become as impressionable as wax and as soft as dough”.
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
40m #JS8 is hopping right now #AmateurRadio
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"The Bear River Massacre (also known as the Marias Massacre or the Baker Massacre) was the largest massacre of Indigenous people in present-day Montana and one episode in the bloody campaign by the U.S. Army to dispossess the Blackfeet and other Indigenous groups of the territory. Whereas in the early 1800s the Blackfeet had a population of 20,000, by the end of the century, violence, disease, and starvation brought the number down to just 5,000."
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Paul Gosar only thinks he knows what the American military stands for. It's not "wokeness".
