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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
💥”#Hamas militant group says it has accepted an Egyptian-Qatari cease-fire proposal to halt seven-month war with #Israel.
It issued a statement Monday saying its supreme leader, Ismail Haniyeh, had delivered the news in a phone call with Qatar’s prime minister and Egypt’s intelligence minister.”
https://apnews.com/article/8659eae6e0a7362504f0aa4aa4be53e0
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Godyssey@pagan.plus ("The Godyssey Podcast") wrote:
Nagual are shapeshifters, human tricksters born with shamanic powers and familiars they can use for good or evil: the person must choose. Found across Mesoamerica with evidence stretching back millennias, modern Mexican naguals are often associated with brujería. #MythologyMonday
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
104/ Weissmann:
An apparent big slip by Trump counsel as he elicits from McConney that Weisselberg told him the money was for some sort of reimbursement. Remember: that is the DA's position, and that the paperwork disguised it as legal fees. And Trump wants to say it was really legal fees and not a reimbursement.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
vollmerm@types.pl ("mike vollmer 🎃") wrote:
A 🧵 about our PL research on typed functional programming and efficient data representation:
We have a paper accepted (conditionally) to ECOOP this year that we’ll hopefully be able to post online soon. It is part of our ongoing research project called Gibbon, which is focused on type-safe programming with serialized data—that is, programs that operate on data compacted in memory, rather than traditional pointer-based data structures. Basically, changing the data representation to make tree traversals/transforms much more efficient, and using types to make it safe.
Since I’ve been thinking about it recently, I thought I’d write up a thread about our PLDI 2019 paper, which lays out a lot of the foundation for this project. It was a few years ago and some people here might not have seen it.
LoCal: A Language for Programs Operating on Serialized Data
In it is a story about how we used types and programming language design to code tree traversals that are purely functional and type safe, and that are also as fast or often faster than idiomatic C/C++!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
me_@sueden.social ("Michael Engel") wrote:
Robert Dennard, inventor of the dynamic RAM and also famous for the semiconductor scaling law named after him, passed away on April 23rd at the age of 91. R.I.P.
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/legacyremembers/robert-dennard-obituary?id=55019900
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Jack Dorsey tweets a photo that says "In God we trust. All others we monitor" on a t-shirt with the CIA emblem.
He does this two hours after casually announcing he is no longer on the #BlueSky board of directors.
His media training would warn him tweeting these two things so close together would have implications. So either he's trying to be cryptic, or he doesn't care.
I don't have a conclusion, but thought it was noteworthy.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I tell myself I'll remember things later because I just love lying to myself, I guess.
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
The latest #NoRollsBarred video, Monopoly, but CRYPTO! was fun to watch 😄
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Hey! That's my pile of tender juicy snackies!
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/06/spider-gluttony/
Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
I finished @philipcball's extraordinary How Life Works -- and as the many tabs indicate, it blew my mind dozens of times!
On the next Oxide and Friends on May 13th, @ahl and I will joined by molecular biologist Greg Cost to discuss the book. Read it and bring your comments and questions -- or join just to listen to the discussion! On Discord on May 13th at 5p Pacific:
https://discord.gg/besjcERf?event=1233892673023246387
And recorded and syndicated as always:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
seachanger@alaskan.social ("malena") wrote:
@fromjason billionaires are *never* our friends
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Technocrats are using the language of revolution as a means of winning hearts and minds.
Lower-level fiefdoms are perhaps sincere in their attempt to make a better web. But mostly, we are witnessing a Potemkin revolution by the same folks who made their fortunes off our data and content.
Jack Dorsey is not a revolutionary. Mark Zuckerberg is not a revolutionary. Andreessen Horowitz, Sam Altman, and Steve Huffman are not revolutionaries.
They are the old lords of the new #socialweb.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
Every cyclist in every city in North America knows you need locks like this because the police don't do anything about bike theft, ever.
The thing I love most about this picture, the thing that really locks in the flavor, is that our guy doesn't recognize what he's holding at all. The police are so ineffective at preventing property crime that a deputy commissioner can have the public's response to their incompetence in his hands and be saying "nobody needs this."
https://www.404media.co/nypd-bike-lock-chain-kryptonite-columbia-university-protests/
Mastodon Feedandreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella") wrote:
Today, in random linguistics thoughts of a possibly-ADHD brain:
I wonder when the name Stephen had to have entered the English language, given that the sound /f/ in Greek "Stephanos" became /v/ in English.
In Old English /f/ and /v/ were not distinct phonemes – instead, /v/ is how /f/ was pronounced between vowels. And I think /f/ and /v/ only became separate phonemes after the Norman conquest of England, with a bunch of French loanwords entering the language?
Mastodon Feedrust@octodon.social ("Rust tips") wrote:
If you're writing a small #Rustlang library, use the quick-error crate instead of thiserror.
It reduces compilation time, because it doesn't use procedural macros.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
the more I look at this, the more attractive it becomes:
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Hindenburg explodes and burns, Lakehurst NJ, 1937
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: EDSAC demonstrated, 1949
Mastodon FeedReblogged by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella"):
“The long-term popularity of any given tool for software development is proportional to how much labour arbitrage it enables. […]
“The components sourced from an intern fixing ChatGPT’s output just enough for it to run and the exhaustively tested ones from a senior developer are equivalent in the eyes of management.”
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/react-electron-llms-labour-arbitrage/ by @baldur
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
How can someone be so right and so wrong at the same time.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Listening to The Byrds from Jan 16, 1972
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
I'm not so much of a stickler with the interchangeable use of the terms "web" and "internet"
But.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Maybe the real decentralized social media were the friends we made along the way
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Jack Dorsey is still an investor of #BlueSky, at least according to CrunchBase.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
#BlueSky confirms Jack's departure via skeet on the day of our lord.
Just your typical late Sunday afternoon press release for an exiting board member.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
rickberkphoto ("Rick Berk") wrote:
Was going through my archives yesterday looking for an image to try a new editing technique on, and found this one that I'd never edited before, from a trip to Yosemite back in 2012. I really need to get back there soon.
Prints available at https://rickberk.pixels.com/featured/the-majesty-of-yosemite-rick-berk.html
#yosemite #findyourpark #mastoart #photography #landscape #landscapephotography #artist #buyintoart #prints #wallart #homedecor #officedecor #decor #california #nationalpark
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️🌈🖖🏽") wrote:
Quick, someone call the Avengerzzzzz 😴
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
depends on your perspective, of course
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
https://mcusercontent.com/c196cb2377d2d5462fdfa5dbf/images/3b8d54e9-40c0-743b-2762-510efca51472.png
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
this is So Very Not Good for navigation:
“Over the past two years, almost all airlines flying over the Baltic region have experienced navigation problems.“
“GPS jamming in the Baltic region: Is Russia responsible?” – DW – 05/05/2024
