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drwho@hackers.town ("The Doctor") wrote:

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• One of many examples of why an 80's kid will never trust AI. It's a screenshot from Wargames listing all of the games that Joshua knows how to play: Bridge Checkers Chess Poker Fighter Combat Guerrilla Engagement Desert Warfare Air-To-Ground Actions Theater-wide Tactical Warfare Theater-wide Biotoxic and Chemical Warfare Global Thermonuclear War (remote)

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

TheTempleMom@pagan.plus ("Laura Perry") wrote:

One of the most delightful aspects of gardening is going out to the vegetable garden very early in the morning and finding bumblebees still asleep in the squash blossoms. ❤️🐝❤️🐝

#bee #bees

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• Closeup of the center of a bright yellow squash blossom, with two bumblebees fast asleep, curled around the pollen-bearing parts in the center of the flower. (remote)

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

hejsna@ruby.social ("Johan Halse") wrote:

“However. VC money is like rocket fuel, and you don’t get rocket fuel just to continue grocery shopping every day. You have to get to space.” https://aras-p.info/blog/2024/08/11/Random-thoughts-about-Unity/

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

eosfpodcast@universeodon.com ("Rod Faulkner") wrote:

Songs like this make me wish I could sing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPa7bsKwL-c

#music #ladygaga #brunomars

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

esa@squeet.me ("ESA (unofficial)") wrote:

ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) has successfully completed a world-first lunar-Earth flyby, using the gravity of Earth to send it Venus-bound, on a shortcut to Jupiter through the inner Solar System.
Juice rerouted to Venus in world’s first lunar-Earth flyby

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

The most important thing about a performance remediation effort isn't making the system faster, even though that's the most visible outcome.

Remediation is a chance to learn *why*, and then teach the team.

*Why* was this system performing the way it did? *Why* was it designed that way? *Why* wasn't there observability in place to catch this? *Why* will these changes make the system faster? *Why* will we avoid regression in the future?

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Names and dates on documents. Every time. Don't forget.

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

mattbors@mstdn.ca ("Matt Bors") wrote:

A lot of people forget, or are simply not taught by their parents or health care providers, that they can listen to Parliament/Funkadelic and instantly feel better. Immediate effect. Results do not vary.

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

I want a version of MIRI (the #RustLang interpreter/checker) that makes noise whenever it executes undefined behavior. So I can listen to the silence... of soundness.

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5t3ph@front-end.social ("Stephanie Eckles") wrote:

I'm learning that a hard thing for folks to accept about web components is that they are just codifying *existing web capabilities*

We've been so conditioned that framework components twist things to fit invented APIs that we've genuinely lost touch with how the web actually exists 😫

This leads to unwarranted fear that to adopt even one web component is equivalent to taking on a burden equivalent to a new JS framework, including performance hits.

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

Losing it over this title/poster combo

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• A poster for "Bullets Don't Argue" (1964). Clearly something cobbled together pretty recently from a cropped film still. The title has cheap-looking gradient and dropshadow effects applied. The image is of a man and woman leaning out of a covered wagon. The man is grinning and pointing a pistol at something offscreen. The woman is wearing a gingham shirt, overalls, and has her red hair in an extremely 1960s bouffant. She's smiling and plugging her ears, anticipating the gunshot.

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

Day 1 of the 2024/25 school year.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/21/today-is-the-start-of-claaaaaaaaarghh/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEcvSq4SDkc

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

I am so jealous. Nature didn't make me pretty.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/21/i-wish-my-butt-was-this-pretty/

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• Maratus lobatus, a jumping spider (remote)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I do believe this is the epitome of the US approach to medicine and health:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/08/as-hospitals-failed-and-patients-died-ceo-reportedly-netted-250m/

(Reading until the end, I see I Bernie Sanders agrees with me. 😆 )

Doctorow previously wrote about this situation as well:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/28/5000-bats/#charnel-house

I hope those places facing pressure from assholes to privatize their healthcare systems pay attention to this sort of thing.

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

So many crabs…

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/21/crabby-destiny/

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• Summary of phylogeny and divergence time estimates for Brachyura (88 brachyuran families, 263 genera, 333 species, 338 individuals plus 6 outgroups). Posterior ages were estimated in BEAST2 using a fixed topology resulting from the concatenated ML analysis in IQ-TREE, 36 vetted node calibrations, a birth–death tree prior, and relaxed lognormal clock model. Shaded circles at nodes represent ultrafast bootstraps. Pie slices are colored by superfamily, with the outermost ring colored by taxonomic section. Line drawings, one representative per superfamily (numbers corresponding to taxa in Supplementary Table S7), by Javier Luque and Harrison Mancke. (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I love the look of dusty glass.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Ilford Delta 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #BlackAndWhite #MonochromePhotography #35mm #Bristol

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• A windowsill with two framed artworks facing inwards. The dust on the window reflects sunlight in an appealing way.

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

Kids in _Terminator 2_ are a bunch of fucking narcs.

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• Movie still from Terminator 2: The T-1000, disguised as a cop, leans out of a patrol car to talk to two girls. One is saying, “You just missed him.” (remote)
• Movie still from Terminator 2: The T-1000, disguised as a cop, shows a photo to a teenager in an arcade, who responds by pointing toward John Connor. (remote)
• Movie still from Terminator 2: The T-1000, disguised as a cop, shows a photo to a two boys in a shopping mall. One of them responds by pointing across the mall. (remote)

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

Did you know your mortgage payment can just go up by $500 per month out of nowhere?

I didn't either!

Turns out, predicting the future is somehow a normal part of this system, and when somebody in an office somewhere does an oopsie guessing what your taxes and insurance might cost multiple years in the future, that's on you and not them!

The entire American housing system is such absolute garbage.

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

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

🔥

“Take it from an actual billionaire, Trump is rich in only one thing: stupidity."

- JB Pritzker

🫳🎤

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

I think I want to be excited about uv but man, idk

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ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

Lots of engineering decisions get made on vibes. Popularity, anecdotes—they can lead to expedient decisions rather than rigorous ones. At Oxide, our choice to go with CockroachDB was hardly hasty! @dap joined me and @bcantrill to talk about why we choose CRDB… and how Cockroach Labs' recent switch to a proprietary license impacts that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNHMYp8M40k

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

You chumps keep dropping iron for the coming summer while I'm out here working on my bod for Sweaty Boy Autumn.

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

OMG, the hash closed captioning is making of the national anthem singer at the DNC is hilarious

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

TIL there's an on-device network link conditioner for Android, saving tons of time in helping people understand how slow the internet actually is for many people. Easiest $3 I've spent in a long, long time:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.twocities.throttly.paid&hl=en_US

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mnot@techpolicy.social ("Mark Nottingham") wrote:

Hey legal people:

https://www.w3.org/news/2024/hiring-w3c-director-of-legal-and-compliance/

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

When you need to debug something in:

CHROME:
Just install it for free on any platform

EDGE:
Just install it for free on any platform

FIREFOX:
Just install it for free on any platform

SAFARI:
Buy a $1000 Apple device or go fuck yourself

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

chessert@mastodon.online ("Chris Hessert 🇺🇸 🇺🇦") wrote:

@mastodonmigration @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews

May I suggest adding the Meidas Touch live feed link?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKPupCln3z0

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Yoav ("Yoav Weiss") wrote:

I think language negotiation on the web can be both better *and* more private. So I wrote up a few words https://blog.yoav.ws/posts/improving_language_negotiation/

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

AaronDavid@beige.party wrote:

If you follow me, you have a sense of humour. If you're reading this, you're a reader. I’ve put this story online, free, gratis and for nothing, it's a twelve minute read. If you like it, maybe you’ll be curious enough to risk 99p for one of my short story collections. Maybe you’ll be smart enough to save some money by buying a compilation. Maybe you’ll be brave enough to buy my novel. Whatever happens, I hope you enjoy ‘Vincent'. http://aarondavid.co.uk/Vincent.html #freeread #shortstory #funny #pleaseboost

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mizblueprint@mastodon.online wrote:

Summertime, and the shady spot gets smaller.
#DogsOfMastodon
#BerneseMountainDog
#GoldenRetriever
#Blep
#BloomScrolling
#Hydrangeas

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• A Bernese Mountain Dog and a Golden Retriever lie on the grass in the shade of a garage next to a blue, purple, and green hydrangea. (remote)