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#Firefox 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.

#korean "trot" #music 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?

#systemsengineering #softwareengineering

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZBwsm6B280
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJyKM-7IgAU

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.

#math #philosophy #probability #numberphile

https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/media.blubrry.com/stemtalk/content.blubrry.com/stemtalk/033_STEM-Talk_Batalha.mp3
#astronomy #stem #podcast #exoplanets

@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

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.
#programming #softwarengineering

https://www.wolframphysics.org/questions/spacetime-relativity/what-do-your-models-imply-regarding-dark-energy-and-the-cosmological-constant/

I would be a lot more impressed with the Wolfram physics project if they could provide answers to questions like this without a lot of jargony crap. IIUC, he's saying their physics theory (?) is compatible an accelerating expansion which is currently called an effect of dark energy.

@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 #JWST 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)