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@lupyuen oops, he was lead author 😆 so, doubly recommend

@lupyuen very cool. Somewhat tangential, but Josh Bongard, a researcher (not who did the xenobots) quoted in the article is co-author to a very interesting book, "How the Body Shapes the Way We Think" that I recommend to anyone interested in this kind of thing.

I get that doing a comedic strip isn't trivial. it's hard to be consistently funny. are there any Diesel Sweeties strips that are funny though? I clicked through about 20 and couldn't find one.
#comics #webcomics #dieselsweeties

The Mandela Effect

"Yeah, the sim module has this crazy bug where if this one kid in *one* galaxy, on one f*cking planet dies, the process runs at like 95% CPU, then crashes"

"weird. can you patch the state array before it dies, so it stays alive?"

"no, it still crashes; just takes a few more cycles"

"you tried just running it from an earlier snapshot?"

"yeah, it works--"

"fixed."

"--sometimes, but I want to *actually* fix the problem so it doesn't crash in prod."

"blah. just re-run it from the start. it'll only take, what...a day?"

"mmm. yeah I guess. still f*ckin weird though: like who the f*ck is this kid?" *restarts the program and stands up from his desk*

"probably sim baby Jesus. you killed sim Jesus, dude. you're a monster"

"shut up. let's get lunch"

#movies #programming

@dredmorbius I've heard of that with mosquitoes. I've always felt that scientists could be fudging it a bit when they say there wouldn't be any adverse effects to removing disease carrying mosquitoes. like they just don't like mosquitoes, so they're minimizing the downside risks
@humanetech@mastodon.social @cwebber@octodon.social

I've encountered Ciro Santilli's pages on Github (https://github.com/cirosantilli#brainwashed-by-usa) and StackOverflow (https://stackoverflow.com/users/895245/ciro-santilli-%E6%96%B0%E7%96%86%E5%86%8D%E6%95%99%E8%82%B2%E8%90%A5%E5%85%AD%E5%9B%9B%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6%E6%B3%95%E8%BD%AE%E5%8A%9F%E9%83%9D%E6%B5%B7%E4%B8%9C) and I don't have anything to say about the politics, but this is the most radical use of the fairly constrained medium of a profile page that I've seen on our modern platforms which I think is impressive for that alone.

@lunch as a member of a small FOSS community that, as yet, hasn't had any issues like this, I'm taking so many notes.

@lunch "messy" is exactly the word I was thinking.
like, that post started with some facts about this wasm-pack project and the Rust community and ecosystem, but then took a disappointing turn to character attacks and opinion.

(Disclaimer: This is the first I've heard anything about the Rust community and have no interest in these shenanigans other than as an object lesson in the importance of FOSS governance and moderation)

@jakob

@lunch I still have to look for the numbers sometimes and would definitely need to check what I had typed, but otherwise I can with my eyes closed.

@freemo it's broader than that though. Walk around an old city with a historian. Take a stroll through the forest with a medicine man, or a poet.

@izaya I loved her in Orphan Black. What's this from?

I don't really notice it when I'm in the middle of it, but that smell of yeast fermentation is *all* I smell when I come leave and come back in.

I think we're closer this time #bread #baking