Eubie Drew (QOTO 🦣) @EubieDrew@qoto.org
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Interested in #PlanetaryScience, #Exoplanets, #Astrochemistry, #Astrophysics, and #ClimateScience.
Sometimes send curated cross-posted content from my Twitter acct, #𓅪𐃘𓃰
Joined Nov 2022
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We all have to make decisions about who we are and who we want to be, and if we aren't mindful of how we treat others and why we do so, the decisions get made thoughtlessly and the environment becomes toxic. Mastodon is an opportunity for Twitter expats to reexamine and reframe our relationship with online life in hopes of leaving behind the parts of the old community that were harmful - but it's also a responsibility to do so. I truly don't want this place to become that place.
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I keep thinking about this 1995 passage from “The Demon-Haunted World” by Carl Sagan.
@freemo Sorry to be dense, but where do I look?
I set assignee to me; hope that's right.
Okay, I think I did it right. 😕
Not a member of gitLAB. I am a user of gitHUB. Should I make an individual acct on gitLAB, or join a team, to access gitLAB?
@freemo Yes, please instruct. 🙂
I don't think so, but they might have very limited federation. We'll see.
To oppose the #GOP is to oppose the #revolution, People fear the revolution because they fear #equality. Equality would a be change in #privilege -- a downgrade.
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The culture there is their only calling card, but a strong one. The tech is completely vanilla masto.
You may not have noticed. Currently, while still in beta, they are not federated with anyone at all. Wall is all the way up.
Liking it a lot, but not useful at this time as a homebase. It feels funny to be on the right wing of an instance. 🙂
@cpoliticditto@mas.to
Twice.
Virtually all of them lived short, simple, illiterate and unreflective lives. Very interesting on a broad study, or a handful of anecdotes, but as a bulk dataset, mind-numbingly repetitive.
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now ChatGPT seems really impressive and all but you have to remember that you can be tricked into thinking a rock has feelings by drawing a cute face on it
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When a superdense, concentrated mass forms a black hole, the laws of physics around it change, giving rise to an eldritch zone where the normal rules don't apply. When corporations form a concentrated industry, the laws of economics likewise change.
Take copyright: when I was a baby writer, there were dozens of comparably sized New York publishers. The writers who mentored me could shop their rights around to lots of houses, which enabled them to subdivide those rights.
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Remember, start your passwords with a comma to fuck up the CSV of the inevitable breach dump.
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Going to call them case #1, case #2 and case #3.
Within the ()'s of case #1 and case #3, you are multiplying a floating point number by an integer.
FP#'s are represented in binary, not decimal, so it is NOT EXACTLY 9.97 but just an infinitesimal bit more or less. Doesn't usually matter, but technically it's an approximation, let's say maybe 9.97000000000000004581.
(FP * integer) product result is always promoted to an FP. So then in my example, product would be 997.00000000000000458.
`ceil` (which results in an integer) takes that to 998. `round` takes it to 997, because 997.00000000000000458 is less than 997.5.
Unless a FP can be expressed in it's binary format exactly (examples: 3.5, 4.125, 7.50625) as a fraction with a power of 2 denominator(same examples: 7/2, 33/8, 121/16), it is always an approximation.
- Inactive 🐦
- http://twitter.com/EubieDrew
- Activist 🐘
- https://spore.social/@EubieDrew
Interested in #PlanetaryScience, #Exoplanets, #Astrochemistry, #Astrophysics, and #ClimateScience.
Sometimes send curated cross-posted content from my Twitter acct, #𓅪𐃘𓃰
Joined Nov 2022
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