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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
The Republicans oppose birth control. How can anyone vote for them?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/06/republicans-are-the-forced-birth-party/
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Mastodon Feedkeul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:
There are days I hate #TypeScript soooo much…
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richardmedh@famichiki.jp ("Richard Medhurst") wrote:
A meaty metaphor from Emily Wilson in her translator's introduction to The Iliad.
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- Ideally, literary translators should not grind the beef, pork, and lamb of their originals into an unidentifiable hot dog. Instead, the distinctive stylistic features of each original should remain distinct in translation. Having published English translations of Seneca, Euripides, and Sophocles, I wanted to make Homer in my translations sound different from any of them—just as the originals are composed in wildly different styles of verse. In Homer, there is none of Euripides’ allusive, witty cleverness, Seneca’s rhetorical bombast, or Sophocles’ densely metaphorical, riddling phrasing. Homeric Greek has a limpid clarity and freshness that needs to sparkle in the English, like the clear, almost painful brightness of sunlight on bronze. My task was to make this ancient poem about death feel vividly, unarguably alive. I wanted to echo its rumbling, regular musicality, its proto-dramatic array of characters, and its noble simplicity. (remote)
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Nothing about that process is improved by React denying teams of experience with the platform they're *actually* programming to.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The solution to these issues is always the same: learn the event loop, learn the DOM, learn what causes recalc and layout. Then apply discipline in your codebase about who's allowed to do what, while moving as many instances of these things to modern APIs that avoid layout (Resize Observer, Intersection Observer, etc.).
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
This toot brought to you by the letter "Y" and a pile of code that can charitably be described as "confused".
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The handwavey sales pitch for React was that "DOM is slow" (it's not; never was).
This was always a bad summary of a real issue: when you don't understand which DOM APIs induce the costs of layout, it's easy to find yourself with "weird" performance, and DOM API names don't make that clear.
But React didn't solve the problem, it only made it *look* solved until a codebase gets large enough, simultaneously depriving teams of the experience they need to diagnose and solve these issues.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
let us never forget these brave French citizens, who stepped forward and fought and died for their freedom while many sat passively waiting for others to liberate them.
Long Live France! 🇫🇷 America’s first ally
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Devilstower@mstdn.social ("Mark Sumner") wrote:
Many of the "institutes" and "think tanks" publishing papers denying climate change were just a couple of (quite nice, actually) women in an office on the sixth floor of Peabody Energy, the world's largest coal company. They make all those "CO2 is good for plants" products, too.
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Spider destroys winged pest!
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/05/better-than-a-cat/
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
May a thousand egg sacs flow into my domain.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/05/oh-look-egg-sac/
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
jollyorc@social.5f9.de ("JollyOrc") wrote:
I did not know I needed this in my timeline. You certainly should have it in yours!
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anthrocypher@hachyderm.io ("Ana Hevesi") wrote:
Last week I got to prove one of my longest-held convictions:
it's still possible to have constructive, prosocial online experiences. It just takes work, planning and imagination.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
evilchili@linernotes.club wrote:
New Illuminati Hotties album august 24! woooo!
https://illuminatihotties.bandcamp.com/track/didnt-feat-cavetown
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AsahiLinux@treehouse.systems ("Asahi Linux") wrote:
To answer one question that keeps coming up: No, our GPU driver work cannot be ported to macOS in a useful manner.
While it is theoretically possible to run our Mesa OpenGL and Vulkan drivers on macOS, doing so would rely on an undocumented and unstable low-level GPU kernel API. This API changes with almost every macOS release, therefore making this a non-starter for production use. Your apps would break with every OS update.
There is, however, one entity that could take upon this effort: Apple themselves. As the drivers are permissively licensed, nothing stops them from integrating Mesa into macOS, and keeping the kernel API integration up to date with macOS releases.
So, if you want conformant OpenGL 4.6 and Vulkan 1.3 on macOS, look in Apple's direction. We're doing all the hard work for them, they just have to take it and use it. 😉
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Saw someone comment "AI is a tool being marketed as a solution," and yeah, that sounds like maybe the most accurate summary I've read so far.
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jacqueline@chaos.social wrote:
using linux will save u from microsoft recall, but only in the sense that microsoft's best engineers can't work out how to record your screen in wayland
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
The FtB Podish-Sortacast on Saturday will be all about the compatibility of skepticism and woke thought.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/05/can-skeptics-be-woke/
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j2@tech.lgbt ("Jeroen :verified_gay:") wrote:
@justafrog @breadandcircuses
I really think of this one a lot.
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Mastodon Feednadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
🚨 New very cool public cryptography audit!
I'm very excited about this one. Big collaboration between Symbolic Software and 3MI Labs to audit a novel threshold ECDSA protocol by dWallet Labs geared towards MPC.
We conducted a functional correctness assessment, tying the paper to the specification. Our assessment provides higher assurance for code correlation to spec and acts as groundwork for future engineering.
We also security assessment which identified a small number of security vulnerabilities, including a critical nonce reuse vulnerability in the protocol's presigning step. Findings were shared with dWalletLabs and addressed prior to publication.
Read more and download the full audit report: https://symbolic.software/blog/2024-06-04-2pcmpc/
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
I should be able to follow #Cara users from my Mastodon account. You can't convince me to make yet another account in a yet another silo, but I'd love to see and share more art in my home feed. Anyone have a connection to their team? Would love to chat about the #fediverse.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
That is one beautifully timed photo.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/05/americas-gain-is-the-uks-loss/
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
just how corrupt does it have to get for charges to be brought? this is disgusting.
https://www.propublica.org/article/donald-trump-criminal-cases-witnesses-financial-benefits
Mastodon FeedReblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):
grrlscientist ("GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ") wrote:
after the 34 guilty verdicts, a NY deli is offering this new sandwich
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
It's frustrating to see Islamic apologists torture all of modern biology to make it fit into a couple of lines in the Quran.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/05/islamic-embryology-is-my-curse-now/
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
I started up Birthdays: The Beginning but it's not really holding my attention. It's a SimLife-type game by NIS
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
And yet more from the Big Basin Redwoods State Park.
📷 Canon AE-1 Program
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Canon FD 50mm/1.4 S.S.C.#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #SFBA
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LRRRonEarth@beige.party ("LRRR :bc:") wrote:
WHIPPING OUT MY RULER AT SUBWAY TO LET THESE HACK SANDWICH ARTISTS KNOW I AM NOT TO BE FUCKED WITH.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins"):
"Naming things" is just a semiotic proxy metric, the two real hardest problems in software are understanding yourself and understanding other people.