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jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

"Senator, we run ads"

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coachgowron@tenforward.social ("Coach Gowron") wrote:

If hopelessness has made a home in your heart, it cannot be dislodged easily or all at once. Chip away at it with small victories, moments of hope and defiance. It is not easy and it will take time and effort, but strive to make it an uncomfortable home, a place where despair is no longer welcome.

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
slava@mathstodon.xyz ("Slava Pestov") wrote:

Collatz semantic versioning: pick some integer to be your first version number. If it’s even, divide it by two to get the next version number, otherwise multiply by three and add one. When your software reaches version 1, proclaim it to be finished.

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cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right") wrote:

Can I interest you in some soothing car alarm music in these trying times?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be-VPHuc254

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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Utterly depressing to see UK press ask "but why shouldn't we drill in the North Sea?", as if petrol and gas prices are not set on a global market. In 2026.

🤦

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
bascule@mas.to ("Tony “Abolish ICE” Arcieri🌹🦀") wrote:

PBS did a documentary showing infrared/thermal drone footage of the massive gas turbine plants being built next to AI datacenters.

As I’ve pointed out in the past, despite greenwashing these massive datacenter campuses being built by so-called “hyperscalers” are being primarily fueled by on-site gas turbines, which in addition to climate crisis-causing CO2 also emit high amounts of NOx and particulate matter.

https://youtu.be/5p426fSlYH4

#climatecrisis

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jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

This star stuff needs a nap, thank you

RE: https://www.threads.com/@nasa/post/DZGfdRVAds%5F

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I haven't thought twice about where "lorem ipsum" was from. It's fascinating how much history there is behind something so inconsequential. And I'm glad that some people still dig for answers when most just parrot falsehoods.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL1PDqzqhM4

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jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

The difference between the former Twitter and Threads is that over on the former Twitter, dudes are outraged I am wearing a dress, while here on Threads the major controversy involves my wearing of Crocs

RE: https://www.threads.com/@jscalzi/post/DZDVuLGFLoC

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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
miyotehew@turtleisland.social wrote:

Crow sunbathing

#birds #birding #birdwatching #crows

A fledgling crow with beak open sun bathes in long grass. With birds, sun bathing is known to have physiological benefits beyond temperature regulation.
Another crow beak open in sun shine. Bacteria and mites are literally cooking off the crows black feathers.
A fledgling crow sun bathes on a log with one wing open. Sun bathing is known to prevent feather degradation, release oils for preening, relieve molt discomfort and plain feel good.
A fledgling crow lays down with wings open, sun bathing for enjoyment.

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jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

What I think about is the guitarist's poor back, a doublenecker ain't exactly light

RE: https://www.threads.com/@witz/post/DZFPVnoE9xi

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jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

me: "hey mypy, i want to understand how you work because i'm writing a plugin and your api is sort of a maze, do you have any docs"
mypy: "here is the wikipedia page for parsing and a few textbooks about compilers"

Mypy Development Learning Resources: What to read if you want to understand mypy internals.
Learning Resources Jukka Lehtosalo edited this page on Jun 27, 2022 · 3 revisions You'll probably need to know a little about compilers and/or type systems to be effective working on mypy internals. In particular, understanding ASTs, parsers and symbol tables would be useful, but code generation and various optimizations less so, unless you are working on mypyc. Books Introductory texts: The Dragon Book Modern Compiler Implementation in Java/C (Appel) More advanced books: Types and Programming Languages (Pierce) This is heavier on theory Online Resources Parsing (Wikipedia) Abstract syntax tree (Wikipedia) Symbol table (Wikipedia) PEP 484 - Type Hints PEP 483 - The Theory of Type Hints

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crimson_clouds23@normal.style ("human posting weapon") wrote:

the next person who buys twitter should try to re-name it to 'wayland'

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Twelve vast and brutalist tubes of stone
Stood in the plaza.
And on the plaque these words appeared:
“Vaillancourt Fountain
1971
precastaggregate
concrete"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level multi-use area stretches far away.

ruins of the Vaillancourt Fountain

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
Tealfuleyes@mastodon.art ("Tealful Eyes") wrote:

Welp add me to the unemployment list. Weee!

Ah well their loss. If you're lookin for an illustrator, front end web dev,
Email communications manager, or just a friendly secretary that can make a good curry hit me up lol

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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
JulianOliver ("Julian Oliver") wrote:

Researchers found that writers using biased AI agents to auto-complete suggestions had their sociopolitical values shifted without their knowledge it was happening.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw5578

We worry about cognitive capture, what the LLMs of big tech are doing to our ability to identify and think through problems. We should be equally worried about them making a grab for our ethos, what we care about, and at population scales.

#ai #bigtech #ethics

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Thoughts, anyone? https://github.com/glyph/DBXS/pull/105/changes

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chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

It feels a little awkward to be simultaneously thinking “well, work is ending soon, I should tighten up my finances” and “better buy supplies for the long expensive trip I’m about to go on”.

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oldbookillustrations ("Old Book Illustrations") wrote:

Buer.
Louis Breton, from "Dictionnaire infernal" by Jacques Collin de Plancy, Paris: 1863 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/buer/

Depiction of Buer, rendered with a lion’s head and five legs splaying outward like spokes from a wheel. The author describes him as a second-rank demon and “president” of Hell. He instructs in philosophy, logic, and herbal medicine, while also promising loyal servants and cures for the sick. He has fifty legions under his command.

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

Bonus horsie

Horse in a field. Behind it is a line of trees.

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

This common redshank was very dissatisfied with my presence, which most likely means the nest was nearby #bird #birds #nature

A small bird with a two-coloured beak staring down the photographer while near some grass
That same bird staring down the photographer while on a gravel path

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I don't want to read all this shit, can someone please just summarize to tell me whether I need to do another panicked migration away from some private equity compromised cloud service https://www.harness.io/press-and-news/harness-acquires-codecov

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

Might as well do an early/late #caturday while I'm at it #cat #cats

The corner window at the local cat shelter. On the left side is a distracted ginger cat. On the right side is a very serious looking grey and white tabby
A black and white cat by a pallet.

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

Since I'm guessing many of you have had a somewhat stressful day like I did, here are a few photos of a redwing out and about doing its thing #photos #nature #birds #iceland

A redwing, a small orange-brown bird with a bit of red on its wings, stands by a path with a worm in its beak.
That same redwing on a pile of wood chips with a grub or small insect in its mouth.
A motion-blurred redwing running across gravel with an insect in its mouth.

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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
dumpsterqueer@superseriousbusiness.org ("tobi is writing bugs :terminal_cursor:") wrote:

as part of our drive to minimize the amount of "ai" / LLM bullshit in #GoToSocial dependencies, @kim has gone hog wild and basically rewritten our entire HTTP handler + routing stack to remove Gin:

https://codeberg.org/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/pulls/4847

please join me in saying "thanks kim -- thim"

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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Eniko Fox") wrote:

i want smaller applications with fewer updates made by people who are paid more to produce less code and i'm not kidding

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

"what is a bomb? a miserable secret of piles"

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

I found it. The deepest a boot has ever been down someone's neck.

LinkedIn brain must be studied at the university level. We need a vaccine. This is an epidemic.

Ford lack of self education is what makes inferiority complexes. So when you face a boss that is a billionaires. Dont let it scare you ir link pain to thinking you cant add value! If you want to think like a billionaire, self educate, start having an idealized version of who you want to become, find positive role models that carry the strength you may lack. Who have succeeded in the venture in which you seek to attain. Thats the most important question one can ever ask themselves for the journey of life. Who am I becoming. You will not be able to sit at a dinner table and have a meal with a multimillion or billionaire, especially if you're thinking in the Newtonian model of living. Operating on cause and effect. education doesn't end in high school or college. In fact, an educated person is not one who holds an abundance of specialized or general knowledge. Specialized knowledge can be found just around the corner, any corner. An educated person is one who has built the faculties of the mind in such a way where they can attain anything they desire or it's equivalent without violating the rights of others.

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TheEntity@treehouse.systems ("Entitas") wrote:

@wtay @lu_leipzig @downey

The morally acceptable amount of unethical plagiarism machine usage is zero.

Using the unethical plagiarism machine that undermines software freedom "only for simple bugfixes" is still being a user of the unethical plagiarism machine that undermines software freedom. It is continuing to use the evil box that does evil things and has evil consequences.

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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Michigander@toad.social ("Michigander :toad:") wrote:

TikTok: Look! I discovered hot water melts frozen food faster!

Twitter: Look at this TikTok video showing how to defrost your food faster!

Yahoo news: Millions of Twitter users view TikTok video showing new life hack for melting frozen food!

Mastodon: Please read my academic white paper describing the impacts of public school system underfunding