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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
The laboratory cafeteria is open. Breakfast today is flies.
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
If you're excited about systems programming in Rust, whether it's down on the bare metal where I work, or up at the cluster management software layer and customer API endpoints -- we're hiring at Oxide!
https://oxide.computer/careers/software-engineer
We try to write really thorough job descriptions. Also, the salary is right on that page (top and bottom) and is independent of your location, because we respect you and don't want to bullshit you.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Once again thinking about the overt ageism of letting young people alone define the "right" usage of emoji.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
If you're over in the Boston area and are into machining, sculpture, etc., you might consider attending Chris Bathgate's exhibition at the Fuller Craft Museum starting in May through November.
https://fullercraft.org/exhibitions/chris-bathgate-the-machinist-sculptor/
You can see more of his work here:
http://chrisbathgate.blogspot.com/
and here:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
stephaniewalter@front-end.social ("Stef Walter") wrote:
The work is never just “the work”. The actual “work” you have to do, is just a very small part of a whole invisible set of a project. There’s the world around the work, to get the work, before the work, between the work, beyond the work, outside the work, etc. It makes it hard sometimes to estimate it all.
Dave Stewart has an interesting framework to help you estimate it more accurately.
Full article and framework: https://davestewart.co.uk/blog/the-work-is-never-just-the-work/
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Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Regarding LB[1]: That Fortune story is full of unsubstantiated commentary, and there is a lot of talk of "employees" where I suspect "upper management" would probably be the more accurate phrase, and the perspective of talking about an apparently profitable company as already a failure will never not be baffling to me, but it's good to be informed about how the hype around tech can be easily, and artificially, inflated by injecting a little money in the right places.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
600 Activision QA workers just formed the biggest videogame union in the US | PC Gamer
h/t Prof Steve Jacobs
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Jon Stewart speaks his mind. Good.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/12/democrats-listen-up/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:
Kickstarter's bizarre blockchain announcement in December 2021 makes so much more sense now that we know Andreessen Horowitz secretly promised them $100 million to pivot to a blockchain-based product built on the also-a16z-backed Celo blockchain.
At the time, I wondered why COO Sean Leow was so insistent on the move despite being apparently very confused about the whole concept.
https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/03/11/kickstarter-blockchain-a16z-crypto-secret-investment-chris-dixon/
(archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20240311124253/https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/03/11/kickstarter-blockchain-a16z-crypto-secret-investment-chris-dixon/)
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- Kickstarter's COO, Sean Leow, did an interview with The Beat to discuss the announcement. He seemed to be a little bit confused on the whole concept throughout, and seemed to believe that "open source" is some sort of competing idea to blockchains. At one point he stated, "We believe that that data can be structured in a way through a blockchain where it ... can move in a much more efficient and effective way between services ... in a way that open source doesn't allow". Later in the interview he spoke about governance, saying, "our understanding is that [governance] is done more effectively with blockchain then with open-source." (remote)
![Kickstarter's COO, Sean Leow, did an interview with The Beat to discuss the announcement. He seemed to be a little bit confused on the whole concept throughout, and seemed to believe that "open source" is some sort of competing idea to blockchains. At one point he stated, "We believe that that data can be structured in a way through a blockchain where it ... can move in a much more efficient and effective way between services ... in a way that open source doesn't allow". Later in the interview he spoke about governance, saying, "our understanding is that [governance] is done more effectively with blockchain then with open-source."](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/112/077/909/024/087/686/original/d377a20bb535385c.png){kind=link}
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
"There is no case in history where the Caucasian race has survived social integration. We will not drink from the cup of genocide." Old conservatives, same as the new conservatives.
Mastodon FeedI'll be honest. When I'm seeing "sqrt" in code, my first thought isn't exactly "square root".
Mastodon FeedReblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
stephaniewalter@front-end.social ("Stef Walter") wrote:
What does a PIN Number and a PDF Format have in common? They both suffer from RAS Syndrome, also known as Redundant Acronym Syndrome. It’s when an acronym is followed by a word that is also part of the acronym, and there’s quite a couple of them.
Full details and more examples on Sketchplanations: https://sketchplanations.com/ras-syndrome
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Mastodon FeedProgramming languages that use "ELSIF"... what's wrong with them?!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
mia@front-end.social ("Miriam (still)") wrote:
You're so dull, I bet you look the same in sRGB! I bet you're a web-safe hex!
Nailed it.
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GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social wrote:
We've developed a patch for the upstream Android 14 QPR2 use-after-free bug we discovered with Bluetooth LE. Our priority is getting out a GrapheneOS release with our fix soon and we'll report it as an Android security bug. This should resolve the BLE audio regressions too.
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
anybody else gonna be at SCaLE this weekend? 👀
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
esden@chaos.social ("Piotr Esden-Tempski") wrote:
Hey everyone! A new Glasgow - Digital Interface Explorer Update is live! The first regular Glasgows are shipping! Read the update for more details! Make sure to update your address if you have moved! https://www.crowdsupply.com/1bitsquared/glasgow/updates/glasgows-are-shipping #electronics #opensource #fpga #tool #embedded #hacking #assembly #python #usb #protocol
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I’ve been cooking some lamb at 170°F for the past 6 hours, some leg rolled up into a “roast” of sorts. I tasted a little end piece just now, and it is YUM
Mastodon FeedReblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):
weekend_editor@mathstodon.xyz ("Weekend Editor") wrote:
I did some digging into the details of what went on here.
(1) A combination of multiple factors made it lethal (touchscreen confusion, lack of barrier around pond, crazy-obscure door releases, unbreakable glass, distance from first responders).
(2) It sounded familiar, though! Turns out the Navy had several instances of this about 7 years ago, in which ships collided because of, among other things, touchscreen problems.
Details in today's blog post:
Mastodon FeedGetting the first wet wipe out of a pack without tearing 10 others apart is an actual superpower.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
aparrish@friend.camp ("allison") wrote:
celebrating nearly 100 years of "educational institutions must adopt [this tech thingy that i want to sell] or risk falling behind the times" https://www.si.edu/object/pressey-teaching-machine%3Anmah_1367149
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I typed into the shell something like "start a new rust project called test_integration using cargo" & hit instead of ... it showed a spinner, then asked if it was okay to run "cargo new test_integration && cd test_integration && touch src/lib.rs && echo 'pub fn greet() -> String { "Hello, world!".to_string() }' > src/lib.rs"
and I said OKAY... and it did it right.
it is not how high the elephant flies which is amazing, it is the fact that the elephant flies at all.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
once I figured out where & how to write the config files, edited my shell's rc file to bind to an F-key F6 was not being used), this integrated *great* into my shell... https://github.com/sigoden/aichat/tree/main
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I used to wear a wrist brace, for pain from working on a computer all day.
It just occurred to me today that I don't even know where my wrist brace is; I haven't worn it probably since October, when I started using the MoErgo Glove80 keyboard as my main daily driver.
Keyboards like this take a lot of time to adjust to, but if you have RSI from typing (or want to avoid it), I'd definitely say it's worth a look.
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Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I'm behind the news, and I knew Intel was spinning out their FPGA stuff again, but I hadn't heard they completed it. I find it funny they refer to "new" and Altera. I suppose the logo typeface is new.
I suppose this bucks the trend of all the consolidation towards a single semiconductor company, but it's probably just noise. All hail Big Chip...
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
just hit my first real hallucinatory response from GPT-4... amusing. asked what it knew about myself...
no, my degrees are neither in systems analysis nor curriculum development, I never attended University of Miami nor University of Rochester, and I am not "Director Health Workforce Development" anywhere.
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
It's kind of astonishing to me that Google Docs doesn't have a "drop into plaintext" mode with some markdown support. It feels like such a gap in the market, and all we've got is this weird partial markdown support
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
I'm a big ol' liar. My brain just won't allow me to edit this stupid thing.
I have one client call today and then I'm taking the rest of the day to edit this post. I don't care how long it takes me.
THIS TIME ITS PERSONAL
From: @fromjason
https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/112073653677524464
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
One gorgeous, classic airplane.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/11/the-era-of-beautiful-airplanes/
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
felinoid resistance training #cats 🐈⬛
