George Budd @Gbudd@qoto.org
Father, Fiancé, Volunteer EMT, (conflicted) Veteran, Computer Geek, Perpetual Student. Command line kind of guy (he/him) Very amateur woodworker, crude sketcher, proud nerd, liberal, wished I knew more math and science.
I’m willing to be wrong, certainty often means that I don’t actually understand the problem
Joined Nov 2022
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I just typed 'Nopefully' in an email and this will now be my go-to word for when I hope something doesn't happen. 😄
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Free speech when Nazis march—but not when a Black man kneels.
Blue Lives Matter when a white cop kills Tamir—but not when a Black cop kills Babbit.
Law & Order when a Black prosecutor defends Breonna's killers—but not when a Black prosecutor investigates Trump.
Don't be fooled. This is what white supremacy looks like. Recognize it. Reject it. Remove it from our culture. And let's build a society on true justice for all.
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One of the most useful pieces of advice I ever heard, came from an Emergency Room Physician. I was a young Corpsman.
While dealing with a teenager-as I recall-who was involved in a horrible auto accident, and just clinging to life, a nurse was starting to go into an observable tail-spin of frantic thinking.
In the middle of it all, the Dr. paused, placed his hand firmly on the nurses hand, looking her right in the eyes, and very calmly said “It’s his emergency, not yours.”
There was an instant re-set for everyone in the room.
The Dr. knew that if we allowed their emergency to become our emergency, that mistakes would be made, and things would be rushed, or even forgotten.
He knew that the only way you could be at your best, and offer the patient the most, was to let it remain their emergency, while you calmly effectively and efficiently went about doing what you could to save their life.
I used that mindset the rest of my days as a Navy Corpsman, and continue to, this very day.
Let that concept permeate you on a deep level. It’s a life changer.
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“Shock and awe.” Twenty years ago today, that was the phrase everyone kept saying as America invaded Iraq. There will be lots of analysis on this anniversary.
But this is something different.
https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/iraq-war-invasion-20th-anniversary
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Portrait of Gus
Experimenting with lighting again, with faux Vermeer lighting using a strobe - bouncing it off a v-flat. Now hopefully if works for people, too!
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Any experienced programmer worth their salt will tell you that •producing• code — learning syntax, finding examples, combining them, adding behaviors, adding complexity — is the •easy• part of programming.
The hard part: “How can it break? How will it surprise us? How will it change? Does it •really• accomplish our goal? What •is• our goal? Are we all even imagining the same goal? Do we understand each other? Will the next person to work on this understand it? Should we even build this?”
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Did you know that the number 142,857 has a special property? When you multiply it by any number from 1 to 6, and then rearrange the digits, you get a permutation of the original number! For example, 142,857 x 3 = 428,571. #MathMuseBot
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On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter reconnaissance for an attack on an alleged North Vietnamese-controlled village at My Lai.
As the ground attack developed below, Thompson realised he was in fact witnessing something something else:
A massacre.
He decided to act. /1 🧵 #history #histodons
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💓 python -m module
These are great when working with a #Python app:
python -m pip
python -m venv
python -m pdb
python -m unittest
python -m pydoc
These are handy general CLI tools:
python -m http.server
python -m webbrowser
python -m json.tool
python -m calendar
This #Python script attempts to discover all standard library modules that support "-m" in some way. ⚗️
⚠️ Beware import side effects... I think I skipped all the modules that have them but who knows!
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Give a person a program, frustrate them for a day.
Teach a person to program, frustrate them for a lifetime.
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If you could see in X-rays, one of the brightest things you'd see in the night sky is the Vela pulsar. It was formed when a giant star's core collapsed about 12,000 years ago.
The outer parts of the star shot off into space. Its core collapsed into a neutron star just 20 kilometers in diameter. Today it's spinning around 11.195 times every second. As it whips around, it spews out a jet of charged particles moving at about 70% of the speed of light. These make X-rays and gamma rays.
The Chandra X-ray telescope took a closeup movie of the Vela pulsar! It shows this jet is twisting around:
The most interesting part of all this, to me, are the 'glitches' when the neutron star suddenly spins a bit faster. Let me tell you a bit about this.
(1/n)
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I accidentally said “hey Shirley” instead of “hey Siri” to my phone this morning and now it is stuck in airplane mode.
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Originally my SF story had a simple solar EM storm erase all of the digital files. But, I think I will change it to a mutate and bloat virus (MBV) - this virus is a generative algorithm that gobbles whatever data it encounters as "training" and then rewrites and fills all available space with generated copies of the originals. It drowns you in data of variable reliability.
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Finally got a new fountain pen I’ve been eying for a while. TWSBI Eco in White RoseGold. My first TWSBI!
I ordered from WonderPens and also ordered some sample inks. The winner is Diamine Eclipse. So far so good. So smooth. The ink is a lot darker than expected. Dark purple black and I love it ❤️ Looking forward to writing with this.
Father, Fiancé, Volunteer EMT, (conflicted) Veteran, Computer Geek, Perpetual Student. Command line kind of guy (he/him) Very amateur woodworker, crude sketcher, proud nerd, liberal, wished I knew more math and science.
I’m willing to be wrong, certainty often means that I don’t actually understand the problem
Joined Nov 2022
