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bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Today is the day of dtrace.conf(24), our quadrennial DTrace conference! It's online and it's free -- join @ahl and me and a terrific slate of presenters starting at 9a Pacific!
https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2024/12/05/dtrace.conf24/

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

Common sense about American health care mismanagement.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/11/two-wrongs-dont-make-a-rightbut-also-a-pox-on-both-your-houses/

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VGgQD5G8jD0

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

The skeptics are going to disown me, because I don't think tagging logical fallacies is an argument.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/11/do-we-really-need-a-taxonomy-of-idiots/

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UncleDuke1969@universeodon.com ("Uncle Duke") wrote:

"Are you going to take off those headphones so we can discuss this like mature adults, Harry? Or, are you just going to sit there like a petulant child?”

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Generative AI is an abomination.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY2x0TyKzIQ

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bluebabbler ("Bluebabbler") wrote:

Solo per oggi nella casellina del Calendario dell'Avvento #Indie trovate 'Terrestre non umana' in download gratuito.

https://app.myadvent.net/calendar?id=d4cdr5z8z71fz0rz2u135g618ivy7m0w&door=10

(e ringraziate @Scaffarini, porca miseria!)

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Welcome to The Computational Web (a short note)

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/the-computational-web/

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leaverou@front-end.social ("Lea Verou") wrote:

Looking at the candidates [1] and considering the needs of the TAG, these would be my top 3 recs for those voting:

1. Dan Clark: the TAG desperately needs folks with JS and UI expertise

2. @christianliebel We need people who believe the Web can be a viable alternative to proprietary native platforms, and he also seems to have the kind of energy the TAG needs.

3. @marcosc Marcos Caceres: his past TAG tenure and extensive standards experience make this a no brainer

[1]: https://www.w3.org/2024/10/tag-nominations

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

Ben Folds released a Christmas album back in October: "Sleigher". Or as the description on the bandcamp page says:

"The result is not so much a Ben Folds Christmas record as it is a Ben Folds record set at Christmas..."

Anyway, if you're interested:

https://benfolds.bandcamp.com/album/sleigher

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davidsirota@mastodon.online ("David Sirota") wrote:

UnitedHealth recently helped kill single-payer health care legislation in California.

Gov. Gavin Newsom backed off his previous support of the idea -- after he & Dems received huge money from UnitedHealth donors. https://buff.ly/3ZPLOPu

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senficon@ohai.social ("Felix Reda") wrote:

Today marks the entry into force of the EU Cyber Resilience Act, all its obligations will be applicable 3 years from now. On the GitHub blog, I’ve shared what the #CRA means for #opensource developers: https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/what-the-eus-new-software-legislation-means-for-developers/

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

“Cold Cold Ground (2023 Remaster)” by Tom Waits

https://pandora.app.link/5uolx6jcePb

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

How is she so cute?! 😭

#CatsOfMastodon

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robdaemon@tenforward.social ("Rob") wrote:

Billie Eilish got it right when she sang 'Things I once enjoyed, now just keep me employed"

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jamesthomson ("James Thomson") wrote:

Love this annoying window inside Photoshop which has all the design sensibilities of a malicious popup on a porn website.

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

#formulae what a first race!!! Chaotic sure, which I don't normally like. But with the attack mode being a much bigger differentiator now I can't wait to see what strategies are going to emerge as the season goes.

Schadenfreude P.S.: Glad Rowland got punished for his cockiness again.

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ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt ("Snow Jo ❄️ :v_enby: 💫") wrote:

🏥 :neocat_floof_explode:

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niebuhr@social.coop ("Niebuhr") wrote:

Our Routledge Handbook of Cooperative Economics & Management is now freely avaialable as a PDF for anyone to read and download: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003449850/routledge-handbook-cooperative-economics-management-jerome-nikolai-warren-jamin-h%C3%BCbner-lucio-biggiero-kemi-ogunyemi

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wim_v12e@octodon.social ("Wim 🅾") wrote:

I've now published all ten instalments of my novella "Running AMOC", a hopeful climate story .

Please have a read: https://selfedge.org.uk/fiction/running-AMOC/

#RunningAMOC
#ClimateFiction

#writing #fictionwriting #fiction #story #climateChange

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

Shut up everyone, that good Christmas carol is playing.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/10/sing-it-on-every-street-corner/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3FMV3iugeI

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

Richard Lynn never got the fate he deserved, and he still poisons the discourse.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/10/good-riddance-richard-lynn/

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freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:

Find out how Freexian Collaborators contributed to Debian this November - read about OpenMPI transitions, cPython 3.12.7+ update uploads, Python 3.13 Transition, discussion on building packages with constrained RAM and more!

https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-11-2024/

These contributions are made possible by organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts (https://www.freexian.com/lts/) and consulting services (https://www.freexian.com/services/).

#debian #freexian

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

I know a bad guy when I see one.

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

Today in History: Oliver Messiaen born Avignon France, 1908

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

Today in History: Morton Gould born, Richmond Hill NY, 1913

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

Today in History: Metric system established in France, 1799

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

Today in History: Emily Dickinson born, 1830

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

Are the proletariat rising? Things look ominous for the American system of predatory health insurance.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/10/sowing-the-seeds-of-revolution-and-they-dont-even-know-it-yet/

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tj@howse.social ("tjhowse") wrote:

In the past two days I have discovered that two senior developers at work didn't know that python type hinting does not affect runtime execution. Is this not common knowledge?

Just in case:

Python type hinting does NOT provide any runtime type guarantees!

Type hinting helps your IDE/linter/static checker interpret developer intent, and can be excellent documentation, but does absolutely nothing at runtime.

#python #software #devops