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

devopscats@toot.cat wrote:

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• Halloween meme with logical operators. Each of the images represent two intersected circles that form a pumpkin shape. Trick OR treat : both circles are filled with orange, forming a perfect pumpkin Trick AND treat : only the intersecting part is filled Trick XOR treat : Only the parts of circles that are not intersected are colored. Trick NOR treat : the background is colored, the circles and their intersection are empty Trick NAND treat : All is colored except from the intersection of the two circles. Trick XNOR treat : both the background and the intersection of the circles are colored. (remote)

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

carapace ("Simon Forman") wrote:

Stolen loot from Imgur, "via the geek strikes back". Now it's yours too...😜

"Share and enjoy!"

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• Movie poster. Title: STARGATE GALACTICA Subtitle: He Who Controls the Spice Controls the Universe Image: Capt. Jean-Luc Picard's head on the body of Capt. Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds. In the starry sky behind this figure is the Death Star. In pink swoopy letters at the bottom: The Dalek Wars. In the lower left corner in tiny letters vertically: via the geek strikes back

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Misread "voter turnout" as "voter burnout". Accurate.

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

It will never stop being absolutely fucking insane to me that we already know which candidate will get the most votes, and that it will be several million more than their opponent, but yet, that candidate might lose the election anyway.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

So @ErikUden made an unboxing and review video of the #plushtodon. If you want to see The Creature in action, here you go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69fgnoyBczs

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

cmconseils ("Laura-ween :bongoCat: 🎃🧙‍♀️") wrote:

People with dogs: "He likes everyone, so if he doesn't like you, there's something wrong with you."

People with cats: "I wouldn't get too close to him or make eye contact. He literally killed my mum. His name is Mr Muffins".

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

stefan@stefanbohacek.online ("Stefan Bohacek") wrote:

Hey, if you've enjoyed my work in the past, won't you sign my guestbook?

https://signatures.stefanbohacek.dev/signatures?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstefanbohacek.com%2Fsupport-my-work%2F

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

If you had told me a month ago I would be on the same side as DHH and WP Engine on *anything*, there's absolutely no way I would have believed you.

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acdha@thepit.social ("Chris Adams") wrote:

“Since the median US household wealth is about $190,000, half the population would be crammed into a microscopic red line 1/2500 of a pixel wide using the scale above. (The line would be much narrower than the wavelength of light so it would be literally invisible).”
http://www.righto.com/2024/10/wealth-distribution-in-united-states.html

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samfromtheus@tech.lgbt ("A Sweet Gentleman") wrote:

Did you know the government is directly asking you if you want them to regulate SUV so they kill less people, especially children?

"We seek to address the many U.S. variants and other models built upon uniquely American platforms.
This includes essentially the entire pickup truck and large SUV segments."

Take control back from car makers and pro-SUV by giving your feedback here⬇️ (and don't hesitate to retoot, thank you!).

https://www.regulations.gov/document/NHTSA-2024-0057-0001

#car #suv #regulation #carculture #regulation #pedestrian #children #walkability

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• Drawing in black and white showing at the top a classic car with a low hood and at the bottom an SUV with high hood and vertical front. Both drawings show measurement lines and numbers underlying the difference of angle therefore of impact for both types of hood. (remote)

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semiotic_pirate@mastodon.online ("Mx. Kat Terban, MSc") wrote:

Soviet linguist Yuri Knorozov was instrumental in deciphering Mayan script. His whole life he tried to be co-credited with his cat Asya but his editors always refused. In 2012, the Mexicans honored him with a monument that included his beloved cat.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #Catstodon

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• Image of the monument. Looks like the guy, holding the cat cradled in his arms, is walking through a doorway (remote)

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

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…but the original task is merely string concatenation! It's a basic task that shouldn't require any craftsmanship.

We shouldn't be celebrating hackers who can skillfully navigate these obstacles and call others lazy or unskilled when they can't. We should be questioning why so much skill and effort is wasted on useless problems.

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GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

> purchased a wireless headset
> plugged in the supplied USB dongle
> interactive installer pops up
> find way to get SYSTEM rights within 10 minutes from standard user
> end up not playing Flight Simulator as planned

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• eb99c225db15e546.png (remote)

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Concrete example: it takes a skill to choose the appropriate `str{pick a letter}cpy` function, and use it without messing up the edge cases.
It may need special include headers or compiler flags on various platforms, which needs more skill and effort to configure the build system and ifdefs appropriately.

It can be important and tricky to get right — an amateur could get these wrong, waste time on a project that doesn't build, or even cause a serious security vulnerability!

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

People often judge things by the skill and effort that went into making them. For example, hand-made things a valued, even when a laser/CNC/molding can make an objectively better item.

That's usually fine, except I think some of this affects how we judge software. Difficult-to-use tools/languages, projects that took a lot of pain to develop, clever hard-to-maintain algorithms — they take a lot of skill and effort, but may be overvalued compared to easy/lazy/automatic solutions.

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

ElectionCentral@flipboard.com ("The Politics Desk") wrote:

Montana GOP candidate who could flip control of Senate nagged by claims he lied about bullet wound
https://apnews.com/article/sheehy-bullet-wound-senate-montana-gop-election-83a25fec7af1276bb85541528c547bd5?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into The Senate @the-senate-ElectionCentral

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

ummmm… well yeah, actually

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• 0ab84fae5be4f9f8.mp4 (remote)

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

jcsteh@aus.social ("Jamie Teh") wrote:

I've complained about this before, but GitHub projects with a stale bot make me far less likely to want to take the time to carefully report issues. I think it's disrespectful of reporters' time to auto close issues they possibly put a lot of effort into filing. I don't often file bugs against Apple products for the same reason: the bugs just go into a void most of the time with absolutely no feedback, especially if they get closed as duplicates. What's the point of me investing possibly hours of my time writing thorough bug reports if they might just get closed and practically lost without a glance?

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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

My sister sent me a couple more photos of her cat Kolka, a former rescue she got from the cat shelter here in Hveragerði. A masterful blepper. #caturday

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• Kolka, a black and white cat, looking up at the photographer, blepping (remote)
• Kolka, that same black and white cat, blepping with her eyes closed (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

#Bleptember may be over, but we’re right within #Bleptober.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

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• A black cat (Jiji) with his tongue out.
• A black cat (Jiji) with his tongue out.
• A black cat (Jiji) with his tongue out.

nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

Both of my board games for iPhone, Piccolo and Runes of Ardun, are as of this morning selected as Essential Board Games on the App Store! Not bad for a hobby 🙂

Writing good board game software is so fulfilling. It’s like tending to a beautiful garden.

Runes of Ardun in particular is such a satisfying project due to both the intellectual challenge of writing a high performance strong AI in Rust that can beat pretty much anyone at shogi, with stuff like multithreading, plus the artistic element of designing the pieces, board, sound effects, etc.

If I was less busy with actual work I’d write even more board game software and try to maintain the same high level of quality throughout. Alas! Symbolic Software must also conduct security audits.

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

Progress on probate. Now exhausted.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/18/i-got-stuff-done/

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

Unixbigot@aus.social ("Kit Bashir") wrote:

We have to prevent Physics. Have you noticed that the closer we look at reality the weirder it gets? Keplerian dynamics. Newtonian mechanics. Relativity. Quantum theory. Quarks, Color Charge and Quantum Chromodynamics? (Statements dreamed up by etc..)

If it feels like the Universe keeps moving the goalposts, that’s because IT IS. We have shown that the mechanism of Anthropic Recursive Solipsism means that the rules which govern the behaviour of reality are a just in time phenomenon; they are not set until experiment forces them to crystallise. Every experiment just makes it worse.

Stop doing science. In this (final!) paper from our research group we will

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

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

AskNick ("Nick Francesco") wrote:

If the old convicted felon is "exhaused" from what little campaigning he's been doing, can he really perform in the high-stress 24/7 job of President of the United States? Maybe it's time for him to retire.

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ufwupdates@union.place ("UFW") wrote:

Farm worker kids are getting out to vote. Here are some of the reasons why.

Los hijos de campesinos van a votar. Aquí son algunas de las razones porque.

List of UFW election endorsements @ ufw.org/endorsements

#vote #voteblue

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

surPRISE:

“… said the former president overcharged the Secret Service and accepted money from officials and people who were seeking pardons and appointments”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/18/us/politics/trump-hotel-report.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&tgrp=bth&pvid=17BDB993-EB3B-469A-96ED-D80635B9E378

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CarlMuckenhoupt ("Carl Muckenhoupt") wrote:

We should apply the prefix "pen-" to more things. Like, instead of "the second row from the bottom", we could say "the penbottom row".

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

I wrote today's Puzzmo puzzle, a small (but tricky!) crossword with a theme set I was delighted to find! "🎬 Instant Film" https://puzzmo.com/puzzle/2024-10-18/crossword

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

It's always a pleasure to see a popular Threads account with fediverse-sharing enabled. Despite such a vast difference in the platforms, we can achieve a human connection. But fediverse integration in Threads is still in a sorry state over a year since launch. They need to be able to follow us back. They need to see when we mention them. Those are such basic things.

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skinnylatte@hachyderm.io ("Adrianna Tan") wrote:

I guess people who don't hang out on /r/Ramen don't know about this incredible ramen recipe resource on Google docs by this absolute legend

many ramen restaurants have spawned around the world based on this single Google doc (the author now has a restaurant in Chicago)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qLPoLxek3WLQJDtU6i3300_0nNioqeYXi7vESrtNvjQ/edit?tab=t.0

#Cooking #Food #Ramen