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Had to verify. And yes. Kernighan and Ritchie really did this. TIL :)

tip: if you open the context menu with a right click and then another click to activate the menu item, you may find that Firefox will activate whichever menu item your cursor happens to be over when the menu opens. This is really annoying for me. I've worked around that previously with a userChrome.css modification to offset the location the menu opens in, but it stopped working. I've found that setting ui.context_menus.after_mouseup to "true"
also works OK for this problem: it opens the menu *after* you release the right click, so there's no unintended activation.

"trot" really does get boring quickly. Like, it's basically the same song over and over, but with different lyrics, and sometimes a different tempo.

Are software and systems engineering students still being taught Therac-25, I wonder?

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character density, n.:
The number of very weird people in the office.
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"I present you guys -4 space indentation"

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re: expanse S06 but not really spoilers 

@izaya nope. I'm giving the book version the benefit of the doubt until I read the books 😆

expanse S06 but not really spoilers 

@izaya watching ep 4. I was right. TV Holden is that stupid.

youtube.com/watch?v=mZBwsm6B28
youtube.com/watch?v=pJyKM-7IgA

I like this pair of videos. I remember someone was lamenting the prevalence of the claim that nothing is ever really true. They claimed that people who said such things were ignorant of mathematics. At the time, I had no response, but my understanding of mathematics has always been that it's a family of tools for reasoning towards things that are necessarily true *given certain premises*, and without that last bit, claims about truth are, at best, incomplete. Grant states essentially that succinctly in the second video, which is nice to hear from someone who is way more mathematically adept than me.

@PsychoCod3r on GitHub, yes, but also at work. at work it serves some of the same functions, although, since I'm doing less design and architecture at work, it's mostly writing up big reports. at work, the bigger advantage of our issue tracker is team coordination: I work with a relatively large team of folks in different subdisciplines (systems engineering, security, computer infrastructure) and we would be constantly creating ad-hoc systems of reference to identify work that needed to be done if we didn't use the tracker as a medium of communication.

@mzan maybe. in the past I read some summaries of GTD and I've figured out most of the tactical stuff just through working on actual problems with deadlines. the long term strategic stuff, where you're talking about life goals... yeah still working on that. tbh, I'm skeptical of pop psych claims that reading some book will get me to sort out my whole life though

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At #softwareheritage we are running our 1st ever end-of-year fundraiser. Goal is 100 donations by Dec 31st.

*You* chipping in will help a lot (in fact, exactly 1% 😬) and contribute to preserving software source code for future generations!

👉softwareheritage.org → Become a donor.

Issue trackers are a godsend. If I couldn't write up the various ideas I have while working on other things, I'd never get anything done. Either I'd be flitting around to lower-prio tasks or I'd be constantly tripping over issues that I happened upon earlier or I'd straight up forget to do things.

TODO lists help, but I've never managed to consistently review and clear my TODO lists. That's more often where tasks go to die.

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James Webb Space Telescope

We can now keep track of the Temperatures

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Webb Image Release- Webb Space Telescope GSFC/NASA

The Latest NASA Released Webb Image is featured on this page. The James Webb Space Telescope's revolutionary technology will study every phase of cosmic history—from within our solar system to the most distant observable galaxies in the early universe. Webb’s infrared telescope will explore a wide range of science questions to help us understand the origins of the universe and our place in it. Seeking Light from the First Galaxies in the Universe Webb will directly observe a part of space and time never seen before. Webb will gaze into the epoch when the very first stars and galaxies formed, over 13.5 billion years ago. Ultraviolet and visible light emitted by the very first luminous objects has been stretched or 'redshifted' by the universe's continual expansion and arrives today as infrared light. Webb is designed to “see” this infrared light with unprecedented resolution and sensitivity. Exploring Distant Worlds and the Solar System Webb will also be a powerful tool for studying the nearby universe. Scientists will use Webb to study planets and other bodies in our solar system to determine their origin and evolution and compare them with exoplanets, planets that orbit other stars. Webb will also observe exoplanets located in their stars’ habitable zones, the regions where a planet could harbor liquid water on its surface, and can determine if and where signatures of habitability may be present. Using a technique called transmission spectroscopy, the observatory will examine starlight filtered through planetary atmospheres to learn about their chemical compositions.

jwst.nasa.gov

Covid19 vaccine availability 

@JimG media in which country? it'll probably get picked up in a few days in the states. I'm thinking npr, cnn, fox. getting approval in India isn't the biggest deal here. even if the lack of parent means it gets more uptake, I've generally understood the problem to be of manufacture and distribution, which would still be problems with this vaccine. I could easily be wrong though as I haven't looked into the problem very deeply

Knowing launched 11 (plus?) years later than originally scheduled, I feel less bad about my projects that have taken years to reach a stable point. (Granted, I'm not fielding a multi-billion dollar space telescope, and I don't have an international team to manage, but that's not really the point)

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true zen of programming is realizing your problem doesn’t need to be solved at all

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