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noisedeck@genart.social ("Noisedeck") wrote:
Multi-neighborhood cellular automata following scrolling stripes
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oneunderscore__@threads.net ("Ben Collins") wrote:
Every election post now is like "Wow the Democrats won the mayoralty in Racismville. Trump didn't just win Racismville but all of Klan-Guntruck County by 42."
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Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:
How To Negotiate Like A President
TRUMP: Surprise! I have murdered your leader and also 160 schoolgirls.
IRAN: Cool cool cool hey go fuck yourself. The Strait of Hormuz is closed now.
TRUMP: You have one day to open the Strait of Hormuz or else.
IRAN: Go fuck yourself.
TRUMP: You have three days to open the Strait of Hormuz or else.
IRAN: Go fuck yourself.
TRUMP: You have two more days to open the Strait of Hormuz or else.
IRAN: Go fuck yourself.
TRUMP: You have one week to open the Strait of Hormuz or else.
IRAN: Go fuck yourself.
TRUMP: You have 24 hours to open the Strait of Hormuz or else.
IRAN: Go fuck yourself.
TRUMP: You have two weeks to open the Strait of Hormuz or else.
IRAN: Go fuck yourself. Also, here is a list of 10 demands where you give us everything we want and the Strait stays closed.
TRUMP: Deal!
TRUMP: I am the smartest and best negotiator that ever negotiatinged.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
I sometimes still get stupid comments.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/08/the-dumb-ones-keep-coming-back/
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
the first shoe designed for surfing the internet
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
"Why Abstinence-Only Sex Education is a Bad Metaphor for Generative AI Refusal"
> While people often misconstrue generative AI refusal as an ignorant, avoidant, fear-driven position, generative AI refusal builds on accurate research about the various ethical harms associated with generative AI, as well as disciplinary principles in writing studies.
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tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:
"On the acceptance of GenAI"
https://smallsheds.garden/blog/2026/on-the-acceptance-of-genai/
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jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:
"This public push for the 25th Amendment comes with real downsides.
First, it raises expectations for something that absolutely will not happen. I think it’s cheap to push an idea we know won’t lead to the desired outcome. It’s a gimmick for engagement and fundraising.
Second, J.D. Vance and Trump’s cabinet will face their judgment in the history books — and the afterlife — for the ways they’ve sold their souls to Trump. But they are not accountable to voters. We need voters to understand that Trump is only able to act like this because Republicans in Congress let him."
https://www.messageboxnews.com/p/the-25th-amendment-isnt-coming-to
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bascule@mas.to ("Tony “Abolish ICE” Arcieri🌹🦀") wrote:
Whenever electricity prices go negative (because legacy thermal generation which isn’t designed to be load following pays to stay on because it’s cheaper than curtailing) people wonder what could be done with that electricity to take load off the grid…
How about make ammonia?
World’s first dynamic green ammonia plant starts operations in Denmark
https://www.topsoe.com/news/worlds-first-dynamic-green-ammonia-plant-starts-operations-in-denmark
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
- this is the most obvious example of a category of "ugh, we have to fit this shape" bugs. see also for example a smart pointer where you want to deallocate, but you don't want to embed the pointer to the allocator into the smart pointer lest you double the size.
- must_use is of course for a warning not an error
Mastodon Feedadele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁") wrote:
#SmolFedi 1.0.7 manages user defined Lists of profiles. A new entry in the menu for each list. And possibility to add/remove a profile in lists.
(at the moment, you can only use existing lists, nothing to create or delete one)
Mastodon FeedNfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️🌈") wrote:
@dysfun what things can’t you explore with RAII?
The main complaint I hear about rusts RAII is that Drop::drop() can’t return a Result, so any errors in cleaning things up (ex: File.close()) either get swallowed or have to become panics.
Rust lets you mark some types (ex: Result) as must_use.
I feel like a must_drop (manually) annotation would be a great addition to help remind folks to manually clean up and handle errors.
Mastodon FeedNfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️🌈") wrote:
@dysfun what things can’t you explore with RAII?
The main complaint I hear about rusts RAII is that Drop::drop() can’t return a Result, so any errors in cleaning things up (ex: File.close()) either get swallowed or have to become panics.
Rust lets you mark some types (ex: Result) as must_use.
I feel like a must_drop (manually) annotation would be a great addition to help remind folks to manually clean up and handle errors.
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
the ones in my head don't have names. they are basically given a meaningless unique identifier which i'm not actually aware of but nonetheless can compare for equality
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MtKanjon@meow.social ("Mt Kanjon") wrote:
ok, you can have a little macro kanjon, as a treat
https://youtube.com/shorts/iPoJgxTygXU
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
you know the metasyntactic variables?
no? well i mean you do, but they're the ones called 'foo', 'bar', 'baz' etc. yes it's a silly name, i didn't make it up.
how many of those do you have in your head for solving problems where you don't have names of all of the constituents?
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
What a really great idea
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beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com ("Ethan Marcotte") wrote:
“In support of the 24-hour work stoppage, the union is asking readers and audiences to not visit ProPublica, click on stories, or otherwise engage with ProPublica content on other platforms and partner organizations.” — https://www.theverge.com/news/908401/propublica-union-strike-negotiations-ai-layoffs
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
other answers i would have accepted included "try whistleblowers"
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
(Also, they will never apologise for lying to you. You’ll still be waiting for an apology at the heat death of the universe.)
Mastodon Feedaugghhh why won't they just take my money https://keeb.io/products/sinc-lm-kit
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
how boeing strategically killed the A380?
the A380 was just a really bad idea, you want to talk about boeing killing, try the 737 MAX
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
Some of y’all are middle-aged. You should remember hearing outright falsehoods from an authority figure about a financial bubble at least once in your life before. This bubble’s bigger than the others which means a lot more people will fool themselves into thinking that this time it’ll be different
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
The one iron rule of late-stage financial bubbles is that with massive amounts of money at stake, a lot of people will be lying a lot of the time and many of the lying liars will be people you’d trust in normal times because the first person they fool is themselves
Be extra sceptical.
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
Ice-cooled PCs have one major challenge
yes, heat.
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Rairii@labyrinth.zone ("Rairii :win3_progman: :win3: ") wrote:
a second osx port has hit the nintendo wii
(the first one is still unfinished)
https://bryankeller.github.io/2026/04/08/porting-mac-os-x-nintendo-wii.html
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
legendary czech car brand skoda is back.
with a bike bell. obviously
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
is simplified chinese actually simpler?
oh god. i am prepared for it not to be simple, but simpler, is that not a thing it achieves?
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
no, no, i said "get clawed"
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
polonium: russia's favourite element
you don't need to finish that sentence actually