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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
And they did a performance for KEXP!
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tomgauld.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Tom Gauld ") wrote:
A horrifying cartoon for Halloween (originally for Guardian Books).
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- Halloween horror! Horrifying: 1. Floating skull 2. Evil fog 3.Slime fiend Utterly horrifying: 1. Floating skull who borrows books and never returns them. 2. Evil fog with some really awful opinions (it is saying we've got the internet so we don't need libraries") 3. Slime fiend who browses bookshops then buys online (remote)
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garbados@friend.camp ("crows call me breadlady") wrote:
new essay
# Why I Love PouchDB
> Like the form of a sonnet, ethics demand and inspire cleverness. I write this essay because we need better tools than we have. The best tools we do have are either insufficient or captured or, realistically, both. PouchDB, to me, is the best option out there for solving a problem at the heart of what makes the internet suck at every level, and I hate that because it is not good enough. So here's why I love it.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Instead of screaming into The Void about uspol this morning, I will simply tell The Void that I stumbled across Ora the Molecule's "The Ball" in my music collection. Its mood is a perfect accompaniment to the dark, rainy morning I'm having over here.
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DoctorDeathray@retro.social ("Doctor Deathray") wrote:
Sometimes we feel unstable. Sometimes we feel like we're going to explode. Sometimes we have exploded.
I've caused a lot of damage in relationships over the years. Mania is a beast. But also, we are powerful.
That's what this song is about.
New single - "Back Away"
Happy Halloween!
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
We all watched Game of Thrones for like four seasons, every Sunday, hoping *this* episode would *finally* be the one where Joffrey got what was coming to him. And honestly, that's what life in America has felt like for the last eight years.
Let's end the character arc of our real-life child tyrant shitweasel at the ballot box this week, eh?
Mastodon FeedReblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
Monday’s Oxide and Friends was our 4th installment of book recommendations from me, @bcantrill, and the Oxide Friends. A big thank you to everyone who joined us live, and particularly to those who shared recommendations. https://youtu.be/FDPaPU5aRd0
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I want to know which horror movie monster you most identify with. Here's mine:
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/31/what-horror-movie-monster-are-you/
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wryl@merveilles.town ("(hallowryl)") wrote:
I'm incredibly pleased to announce that I'll be giving my first talk in a long, long while at Handmade Seattle this year, titled Democratizing Software.
We'll be covering the widespread, unanticipated effects of the software crisis, and talk both social and technical solutions to it.
We'll talk about how we, as an industry, have been pulling up the ladder behind us, and how to build new ladders for the curious.
Let's go flatten some mountains. See you there.
https://handmadecities.com/seattle/
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Mastodon FeedIf you've ever needed to spin up resources outside your rust process that you want to share _between_ tests via static bindings that need to be cleaned up and run into the "`drop` doesn't just work with static" problem ...
This concoction with ctor and channels might help:
Credit goes to those who pointed out this pattern in the testcontainers-rs repo.
It does lean a bit more to the "chaotic good" side, if custom test harness is "lawful good" 🤣.
Mastodon FeedI don't always adjust my slicer settings, but when I do, I prefer to use gyros infill and garlic supports.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
How to scare a spider on Hallowe'en.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/31/do-spiders-dream/
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Reactors debating performance have the energy of boomer "car guys" that want to tell a working mechanic, in 2024, about how much better carburetors were.
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geekysteven@beige.party wrote:
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
(Me flirting) read any good blogs on the existential dread of being chronically online lately?
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Realized that the piece of paper that separates the cheese made it into my sandwich and I didn't stop eating it right away
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gleemie@social.coop ("Lilly Irani") wrote:
Princeton is up to it's 70% fall sale again. My book Chasing Innovation about what's wrong with #innovation in building towards social #justice is $10.50. Discount code: FALL70
I just bought Carl Frey's on Power and #Labor In the Age of #Automation myself!
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691175140/chasing-innovation
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Relative Activity & Testing Costs (gpt-4o vs gpt-4o-mini) October
gpt-4o
API Requests: 58
Tokens: 36,669
Dev Spend: $0.33 ($0.005689/Request)gpt-4o-mini
API Requests: 258
Tokens: 172,037
Dev Spend: $0.09 ($0.000346/Request)gpt-4o-mini used
~4.45 times the API Requests
&
~4.7 times the Tokens
but cost ~27% of using gpt-4oTLDR:
about 6/10ths of 1 cent per w gpt-4o
&
about 4/100ths of 1 cent per w gpt-4o-mini
&
no noticeable degradation in story quality
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
My granddaughter gets to play a fun game at school.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/30/modern-education/
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
fixed some service-side stuff, which of course broke some client-side stuff. mañana, I’ll fix what I broke mañana
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
As a comic, if you're invited to a room of powerful people, and your instinct isn't to speak truth to power, but rather punch down at a group of people who statistically aren't even in the room, you're a hack and a coward.
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garbados@friend.camp ("crows call me breadlady") wrote:
i'm preparing to publish some new essays soon so here's a thread of some essays from the past few years that i'm kinda proud of
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Society if white male comics defended anything as much as they defend other white male comics.
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Here's the "I Can't Believe It Can Sort" algorithm for sorting in *increasing* order, from https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.01111:
for i in range(n):
for j in range(n):
if A[i] < A[j]:
A[i], A[j] = A[j], A[i]I still can't believe it can sort!
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anirvan ("Anirvan Chatterjee") wrote:
Seeking advice:
A friend wants a website where people can support her art project, and we’re looking at options!
What’s the easiest way for a regular user to launch a website with a simple donation link, preferably with easy Apple/Google Pay and credit card options?
Free support for mapping a domain name is a bonus. This is in the U.S. in case it matters.
Thanks!
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ElleGray@mstdn.social ("elle") wrote:
found a new muppet 🙂
(bdelloid, a type of rotifer, under electron microscope)
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eled_nil@mstdn.social ("Alina") wrote:
Cartoon by Jim Benton
#Meme #spookyseason
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- In this comic by Jim Benton, Alice, a character with blue hair and a pentagram hoodie, is seen setting up a ritual circle with candles and a red pentagram. In the second panel, she summons a green demon-like creature. As the ritual continues, more strange and demoniac creatures appear in the circle. In the second-to-last panel, a purple creature realizes something's off, saying, "Wait a second… These are birthday candles!" In the final panel, the creatures, now joined by Alice holding a birthday cake, look happy. The last character now touched says:"You guys" (remote)
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picardtips@botsin.space ("Picard Tips") wrote:
Picard civics tip: Elect leaders the way you would hire crew members. Seek calm, control, and familiarity with how to operate the ship.
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djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab") wrote:
as a friend pointed out in a followers-only post, @bob 's Epicyon activitypub server is a non-toy implementation that does not use a database but renders posts as flat files on disk!