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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Happy first day of #JingleJam to all who celebrate.

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linuxgal@techhub.social ("🌈 ☯️Teresita🐧👭") wrote:

#LGBT #Friends #AB

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futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

@ajsadauskas @benni

I love this post. However I once said that all one needs to do is whisper the words... nay, think the words "is mathematics created or is it discovered?"

And you could do this while all alone... deep in the empty taiga... or on the moon after earth was laid to waste by nuclear winter. And then?

The moment those words are spoken, nay, contemplated: sixteen mathematicians will pop out to start debating. (and I will be one of them)

Anyway... you are NOT proving me wrong.

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admin@mastodon.ai8w.ddns.net ("Some Internet Person ✡︎ :ally:") wrote:

@jsonstein

Why not include an Atari 2600 emulator and make the user find the easter egg in "Yar's Revenge"
???

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ajsadauskas@vivaldi.net ("AJ Sadauskas") wrote:

@benni @futurebird Or is it discovered, but with invented conventions?

And if you doubt that the conventions we use to describe mathematics could be different...

Then the Dozenal Society is ready to tell you why a base-12 number system is clearly superior to base-10.

I wish I were making that up.

But no.

There's actually an organisation, with periodicals and meetings and podcasts, advocating that the world should drop decimal numbers and move to base-12 numbers.

Just think.

All those times you've tried to divide things by thirds and been left with a recurring 3 in your fraction.

And really, all you had to do was persuade the world to just completely change the numbering system for everything, and thst equation would have been marginally simpler.

I'm not quite sure if this is like Esperanto for mathematicians, or just some nutters with too much time on their not-quite-10 (in base-12) fingered hands.

The website is here: https://dozenal.org/index.html

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dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz wrote:

Christian Nationalism’s First Item on the Agenda: Repeal Women’s Right to Vote - Ms. Magazine https://msmagazine.com/2024/11/29/christian-nationalism-project-2025-women-right-to-vote-suffrage/

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dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

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mcc wrote:

Me: Okay so due to a performance-optimizing hack in my music-making tool, if you hold a rest for longer than thirteen and a half hours, the engine will glitch and there will be an audible clicking noise. No one will ever run into this case

The Ghost of John Cage, watching me with disapproval: 😐

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ricmac ("Richard MacManus") wrote:

Part of the response to #Enshittification, I believe, is to make NEW things on the web. When things you used to run are no longer under your control, you can a) make sure you leave a record of how it used to be, and b) start a new thing and create what you want to see on the internet. That is what I’ve been trying to do in 2024, in any case. #OpenWeb

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

“Trump Names El Chapo Ambassador to Mexico”

https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/trump-names-el-chapo-ambassador-to

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

I love this thread

https://digipres.club/@foone/113542498387091820

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foone@digipres.club ("Foone🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Bad idea: build a captcha library that embeds DOSBox so it can make you beat levels/puzzles from DOS games to continue.

Prove you're a human! Beat Lifewater Oasis from Commander Keen 4! Defeat the Yeti in Kings Quest 5! Make sure 15 lemmings survive! Get the sword in Prince of Persia!

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foone@digipres.club ("Foone🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

that can't be right. I'm on a 64bit system. those DLLs shouldn't even load.

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

I remember having to make serious things run in 64 fooking k of ‘transient memory’… I still have the scars

https://digipres.club/@foone/113542674069944556

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HourlyOtters@botsin.space ("Hourly Otters") wrote:

Hello, here's an #Otter!

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

sentenced to three months in hell

https://mastodon.world/@auschwitzmuseum/113577453527544527

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chainq ("Charlie Balogh") wrote:

I've never been so insulted by something I 100% agree with.

(From X: https://x.com/forrestbrazeal/status/1797643911516786986 )

#softwaredevelopment

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• A cartoon/chart comparing blockchain, gen AI, and a senior software engineer. Technically they're all just a slow database.

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stilgherrian@eigenmagic.net ("Stilgherrian") wrote:

NEW BLOG POST: “Weekly Wrap 757: Welcome the Parrots of Productivity” https://stilgherrian.com/weekly-wrap/757/ Covers 25 November to 1 December 2024, and contains the usual bunch of links to Interesting Things.

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• Two tree stumps. On the left one, the taller of the two, are two Australian king parrots. The male has a bright red head and belly with back and wings in various shades of green. The female is a paler green with olive sections, and a red belly, although overall she is more drab. (remote)

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markmccaughrean ("Mark McCaughrean") wrote:

Coming up this afternoon – the fifth Mercury flyby of the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission 🛰️🌚

Closest approach is at 14:23UTC, but at 37,630km, it’s 200 x further out compared to September’s fourth flyby 😬

So no spiffy close-up pictures or movies this time 😢 but several science instruments will be on taking data, including the MERTIS thermal-IR camera 👍

Next & final flyby is on 8 Jan 2025, before Bepi enters orbit in Dec 2026 🙂

More info: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/BepiColombo

#SpaceScience

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jwz wrote:

Imperial Legal in the house. "The Stark Fist of Legislative Compliance"
https://jwz.org/b/ykds

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isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Starting today, I'm on a quest to make a… pomegranate dusting sugar. What's that? Something looking like granulated sugar of red color, to dust over whipped cream on top of a cup of festive hot chocolate.

Today's attempt: tried to reduce pomegranate juicy with sugar but let it boil for too long, so sugar caramelized and almost burned. Trying again tomorrow!

#cooking

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MichaelPorter@ottawa.place ("Michael Porter") wrote:

I have determined that the object in the "risk of explosion" safety symbol does not obey conservation of area.

I will not be taking questions at this time.

#BreakfastActivities #WHMIS #GHS #LabSafety #ADHD

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• The "risk of explosion" symbol, an inverted trangle containing an image of an apparently circular object exploding, with half the object disnintegrating into small chunks that are being propelled to the right and up. There are thin triangular wedges emanating from the object, to suggest projectile motion and perhaps force. Next to the symbol, all of the bits of the object have been reassembled to show that the sum total is greater than the circle suggested in the original picture. (remote)

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

my friend (wa2mzg) builds beautiful artifacts… this one is a 3-5 W 40m CW rig that runs off a cell phone battery pack

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

but of course...

The Borowitz Report: "Trump Names El Chapo Ambassador to Mexico"

https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/trump-names-el-chapo-ambassador-to

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orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

"TUIs should be minimal and practical" — but what if every single state change had a smooth transition effect (without JavaScript)?

Powered by @ratatui_rs and TachyonFX behind the scenes.

#rustlang #ratatui #tui

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

I'd invite you all to join me in my lonely empty house for a party, except I have no refreshments and the cat hates you all.

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

I did it. I made the frigid trek through the dark empty to arrive at the theater…only to discover it was completely sold out tonight. So I trudged back through the cold dark empty to my empty house. My wife is working a double shift tonight, so it's just me and the cat.

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evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou") wrote:

I should be clear that I admire and respect people who set up Fediverse servers and let strangers join. That is an amazingly generous and thoughtful thing to do. People who take on this and other tasks for running Fediverse servers deserve our gratitude and support.

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

@croyle everybody needs a decent sized power supply, amirite?

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croyle@wandering.shop ("David Croyle") wrote:

#Caturday Princess wonders if she could eat all the little people staring at her. #cat #CatOfMastodon

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