English is a hoot.
Many things are hoots when you're an owl.
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dredmorbius@toot.cat ("Doc Edward Morbius ⭕") wrote:
All the vowels, including 'y', once each, in order.
I need more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHENRaquRHo remixes
https://uproxx.com/movies/modern-movie-endings/ more things should just end. Not gonna say which things though!
Oh no, I've replaced venlafaxine with alcohol.
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dantheclamman@scicomm.xyz ("Dr. Dan Killam") wrote:
Scientists introduced a butterfly to an island.
They are happy to report the butterfly brought with it chestbursting endoparasitic wasps.
They're also happy to report those wasps contain another smaller parasitic wasp.
Their even happier to report those larger wasps also contain a Wolbachia bacterium that appear to be bros with the smaller wasps and help them get in.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/14/butterflies-finland-parasitic-wasps
Kind of disrespectful to your foods to mix them up on your plate.
Even after looking at the product page I'm not sure what the selling point of iPhone 13 is vs the 12
isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev") wrote:
In my defense, the code *is* in desperate need of refactoring, and in hindsight, I've been working up courage to tackle it for more than a year now :-)
isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev") wrote:
What I like about my team is that while talking about a task which was supposed to take 3 days but has been dragging on for a week already, I can ask to sink 3 more days on a deep and scary refactoring and they'll be like, yeah let's do it!
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I give up. Humanity isn't that smart.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/14/i-regret-asking-the-question/
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Algot@mastodon.art wrote:
*Attention Retailers*
You may think that I'm a sap
But I don't care about your app.
I would rather take a nap
Than deal with all that crap.
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niconiconi@cybre.space wrote:
Reports of WireGuard blocking in Russia, September 3–8, 2021 https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2021-September/007050.html I'm surprised to see Russia did it before China. Still a wake-up call for me to get a backup plan... #wireguard #censorship #vpn
beauty is stored in the eyeballs of the beholder
Someone get me some meth so I can work on these boring tasks before I lose my job.
Someone really needs to give Glinner the Richard Spencer treatment.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
These anti-vax nuts are simply unbelievable.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Facebook knows, but the humanoid in charge doesn't care.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/14/facebook-has-been-lying-to-us-say-it-aint-so/
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ds@social.bau-ha.us ("ds ✅") wrote:
I will teach the use of free and open source software in #art and #Design to students of Bauhaus-Universität Weimar next semester.
I have some ideas about it, and one of them is, sharing my ideas about teaching free software here in the Fediverse, in hope and appreciation for your feedback and thoughts… =)
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ak_asyl_ettlingen ("Arbeitskreis Asyl Ettlingen") wrote:
RT @ak_asyl_ettlingen Jemand hier aus #Karlsruhe oder #Ettlingen? Am Samstag, 18.09.2021, 10-14 Uhr, findet unser 1. Ettlinger Schraubermarkt statt vor dem Jugendzentrum Specht. Wir müssen und wollen unsere umfangreichen Bestände an gebrauchten und technisch hergerichteten Fahrrädern allen Menschen aus Ettlingen und Umgebung zu kleinen und fairen Preisen anbieten. Die Erlöse werden humanitären Projekten zur Verfügung gestellt.
https://www.asylettlingen.de/2021/09/1-ettlinger-schrauber-markt/
So rainy in Cambridge today it’s almost like being back in Glasgow.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Another factor to consider when comparing Zeiss to Leica.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/14/german-engineering-also-german-history/
NTs: You're always doing ; you can't just do all the time.
NTs, later: How can you be so good at , must be some innate talent.
Tech tends to have duopolies: #insightful
> Google and Facebook jointly dominate digital advertising, Microsoft and Google jointly dominate productivity applications, Microsoft and Amazon jointly dominate the public cloud, and Amazon and Google jointly dominate shopping searches.
cmiksche ("Christoph Miksche") wrote:
I think in 20 years from now the best self driving system will be an App which you install on your Car. Not Tesla's System.
The Car industry is now at a point at which Tesla is similar to Apple in its early days and the Microsoft of Cars, which will supply the rest of the manufacturers isn’t decided on yet but will definitely exist.
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emsenn@ecosteader.com ("emsenn says end food apartheid") wrote:
STOP
programming computersSand was never meant to think
this is very cruel to rocks
technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:
@isagalaev it's bad if it's confusing! when you say "asian food" you're talking about China and Japan but when other people say it they include Malay and Thai, and when other people say it they just mean "food that has spices in it" so no one actually communicates what they intend. it's better if you say what you actually mean.
isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev") wrote:
@technomancy but why is it "bad"? It's simply how people are used to talk, there's no pejorative/negative connotations to any of it. Details will always get lost in how people adopt terms across cultures.
The point of the term "asian food" is to distinguish flavors brought by immigrants from China and Japan into Western diet from those adopted from French and Italian cooking (I'm simplifying). The term makes sense and serves a purpose.
technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:
@isagalaev actually I do think that using "American" to mean "from the USA, excluding every other country on the hemisphere" is almost as bad.
(and Lao food has next to nothing in common with Korean food or Indian food)
isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev") wrote:
@technomancy but it's just a shorthand name for a particular set of techniques and flavors that makes sense to western people. Nobody thinks about, say, Central Asian cuisine, when talking about "asian food". Same as when people talk about "American music", nobody thinks about South America. I don't think it's a problem. Natural languages don't have to adhere to precise taxonomies.
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uint8_t@chaos.social ("Z̈oé :antifa:") wrote:
@technomancy the same even with "Indian food"
it's so different across India
technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:
me when people make generalizations about "asian" food
Glad there are people out there doing things way better than I could and sharing it.
https://zig.news/kprotty/resource-efficient-thread-pools-with-zig-3291
It's clear enough that I can capture some stars with the phone.
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mhoye wrote:
RT @mhoye I love this: hazmat warning labels for data science. https://very-good-science.github.io/data-hazards/index.html
technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:
periodic reminder to take care of yourself
Planning to do things: amazing, uplifting, the joy of life.
Actually doing things: kill me now
I have to wait for around 10 days to get them fixed but at least it didn't cost anything.
cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:
Huh. An assert that actually caught an apparently invalid assumption. Well, I'm glad I put that in there.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
They're easier to appreciate when they're fading away into winter.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/13/im-going-to-have-to-appreciate-dandelions-more/
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selfsame@tiny.tilde.website wrote:
thinking about a sandwich with 3 slices of bread
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
“They aren’t shooters. They are poseurs.”
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/13/they-arent-shooters-they-are-poseurs/
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I was already mad, now I'm getting madder. At least my anger has a focus: Trump Republicans and Republicans in general.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/13/im-mad-as-hell-too/
IN FULL: Nicola Sturgeon's keynote speech to the SNP conference https://www.thenational.scot/news/19576962.nicola-sturgeons-full-keynote-speech-snp-conference/?ref=twtrec
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mhoye wrote:
RT @mhoye Well, time for me to re-up this thing I made a while ago, as a public courtesy: https://flic.kr/p/eaBKeQ
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freebliss@post.lurk.org ("Simon Repp") wrote:
FOSS vector graphics application "VGC Illustration" is now 100% funded for a 1.0 release in july 2022! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vgcsoftware/vgc-illustration-the-drawing-app-of-the-future Thanks everyone for spreading the word, I'll cut back on commercial content now again. (*/▽\*)
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
It's an exam day! Over Zoom! Neener, neener, you can't get me.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/13/one-of-the-few-advantages-to-teaching-over-zoom/
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alexandria@cybre.space ("Lisp Witch") wrote:
pumpkin spies are at it again, be vigilant
cmiksche ("Christoph Miksche") wrote:
xcode-select --install seems to be the solution for everything
"This plus.... if you mute your audio prior to opening solitaire, the ADs don't care and bypass your mute so you can still hear them. What the actual f***? And even though it can bypass your mute, it still opens up a new device listing in your volume mixer every time it plays an AD to make it even harder to turn the audio off."
Is this real?
https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/pk7vhz/theres_unskippable_video_ads_and_a_premium/
In the month overview, Outlook shows the recurring morning meeting on every workday, and nothing else, because there's no more space.
So I can see the one thing that's easy to remember.
It's windy and shed leaves are knocking on the window.
Imagine how much surplus value would be lost if everyone was just getting all the sleep they need.
Good thing I have a contraption that will abort my sleep prematurely so that I can work instead. Fine and normal.
Glistening grass and cat.
It's darker than it appears in the photo.
"But then you would add infinite days" yeah so what
I need a day between every day to recover from the day before and to prepare for the day after.
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vortex_egg@hackers.town ("∨∅ℝ⊤∈× ∃ĝĝ [ 🌀🥚 ]") wrote:
"Back in my day our search engines worked with sentential logic instead of trying to guess what you meant with magic statistics."
"Grandpa, nobody searches with statistics anymore. All the answers are already registered on the blockchain as NFTs. Did you lose your wallet again?"
technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:
I wrote a blog post about how the code behind the #fennel survey I made last month uses static HTML and a tiny CGI script and SVG charts to do a lot with a little: https://technomancy.us/196
isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev") wrote:
So it happened. For the first time in the past 5 years I forgot to clean my kitchen range before going to bed. It's a corner stone of my nightly routine, but somehow yesterday it slipped my mind.
cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:
Well, shoot, that went better than anticipated. I didn't even need additional trips to the store. Hopefully the repair will hold up for a while.
There is a very loud & sad baby two rows down, sleep seems distant
The easiest/cheapest thing they could do would be to reuse those engines from other products, and slap a different UI on top, so I'm almost certainly it's fully programmable somehow. OS updates have also added more patches, so...
My flight is 45m late departing and counting, and I have to drive home when to my destination
I think I'm settled on the Yamaha YC88.
It has a very nice keybed, and I want to practice playing more than I want to program sounds.
But also it has AWM2 and FM-X sounds in it, so one can probably figure out a way to load custom patches into it, and make it fully programmable.
Studying the characteristic customs and conventions of viking society, Old Mores
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isagalaev@social.seattle.wa.us ("Ivan Sagalaev") wrote:
The wet season is back!
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
The deliberations over tenure decisions are supposed to be confidential, but since this was a resignation rather than a tenure debate, I'd be interested to hear what his PSU colleagues think of his exit.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/12/outta-here-silly-controversialist/
Studying primitive telecommunication technology, Old Morse
Studying the footwear of vikings, norseshoe theory
cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:
Welp, time to go attempt a repair on my folks' ramp. Wish me luck!
Mushrooms are popping up like mushrooms out here.
new sexuality
Should check out the shared sauna back home. Haven't seen it yet.
A little bit envious of the shared sauna over at our friends' place. 😏
cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:
Well, this song was a nice way to start my day. "Cure For Me" from Aurora.
I've found a shop that sells #crypto currencies!
cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:
Oh wait, or is that four competing standards? I never followed the development history of RSS, but I seem to remember there's a schism somewhere in its development.
cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:
I'd invoke XKCD #927, but three competing standards doesn't seem so bad.
cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:
Oh no:
"We — Manton Reece and Brent Simmons — have noticed that JSON has become the developers’ choice for APIs, and that developers will often go out of their way to avoid XML. JSON is simpler to read and write, and it’s less prone to bugs.
So we developed JSON Feed, a format similar to RSS and Atom but in JSON. It reflects the lessons learned from our years of work reading and publishing feeds."
Why am I only just learning about Corinth? Slaughterhouses and naked portraits, what more do you want?
I don’t think Warhammer 40k architecture is that over the top anymore
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dirtycommo@anticapitalist.party ("LⒶMBDA GANG") wrote:
> vidak, disheveled, emerging from the wilderness, twigs in his hair, covered in his own blood:
UHHHHH--!!!
ATTEMPTING TO CREATE A MAILSERVER....[loud static]
...ERASED AWKWARD DOT COMPANY
MADE A BACKUP BUT FORGOT TO DOWNLOAD IT
PLEASE LET INSTANCE USERS KNOW I AM SORRY
CURRENTLY RE-ESTABLISHING INSTANCE
vidak collapses, exhausted
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humanetech ("Humane Tech Now") wrote:
RT @humanetech Just now on HN:
"FB censored me for mentioning open source social network #Mastodon "
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
It looks like the Aubrey de Grey investigation is over…except, like the Black Knight, he hasn't noticed yet.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/11/aubrey-de-grey-exonerated-not/
Preaching to the choir here but it's incredibly frustrating how it's impossible to link to a full thread on Twitter. Parts of it are always hidden in increasingly opaque ways.
This is what I have to deal with over on that site :thinkhappy:
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Mary's birthday ritual: deny everything until the day passes. Then I take over.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/11/a-husbands-revenge/
Suddenly there's only one glass in my glasses and the other one is nowhere to be found.
I don't want to deal with this. 😑