Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@qoto.org
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
Politically moderate, but a registered Democrat since January 7th 2021.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
@katebranden @gregpak There are some extenuating circumstances that could thwart that, but what you said is mostly true.
That said, though, most of the vocal critics who are closely following Florida politics... are in Florida.
@JenX @gregpak Don't need it. federal district courts have already shut down several other unconstitutional laws DeSantis & the FLGOP have passed. The system is still working as it should.
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/18/1137836712/college-university-florida-woke-desantis-1984
@mattmaison @gregpak They are. It would just be difficult to prove in court and a PR disaster for Disney who just wants to sweep the whole thing under the rug.
@gregpak If that law passes, I'll be morally obligated to start an anti-DeSantis blog just to violate it.
Louis Ingenthron
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Not to be an alarmist, but this is fucking terrifying. https://www.wfla.com/news/politics/florida-bill-would-require-bloggers-who-write-about-governor-to-register-with-the-state/
It's amazing how many people with money want to waste that money failing to replicate someone else's success.
On a related note, it's amazing how many brilliant ideas will never be executed because they didn't have the capital to back up the concept.
@jeffjarvis Ambition does not equal speculative overinvestment.
Louis Ingenthron
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@D_J_Nathanson I'm no expert in that subject, so I have no way of knowing for sure.
But, humans are the only species we *know* to be self-aware, so it stands to reason that closely-related apes would be the most likely candidates to share that property, and it would get less likely the further away you got on the evolutionary tree.
I am pretty confident in saying, based on personal interactions, that the cats and dogs I've met and cared for are not self-aware.
@D_J_Nathanson "Sentience" means something different with AI, though; something closer to "self-awareness" or "sapience". Apparently due to the misuse of the word by scifi writers.
Were any of those animals capable of that definition of sentience, people might care more. Until then, they're just another part of the food chain.
(Also: chickens, really? How are those pea-brained ground-peckers sentient? I thought they operated purely on instinct.)
Spilled some beverage on my mechanical keyboard yesterday and I'm using a regular one now temporarily and I do not understand how people work like this.
Idea:
A website called "StackUnderflow" where all the newbie programmers can ask the stupid questions that aren't allowed on StackOverflow.
Anyone convicted of hacking-related crimes would be required to work at the site answering questions for the duration of their sentence.
Louis Ingenthron
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if you want to make a list or host a panel that includes the whole spectrum of people who aren't men, that's totally cool! just for god's sake don't call it "women in [x]"
and PLEASE avoid those "clever" terms like women*, i am begging you
p.s. maybe no one's told you this but you are totally free and welcome to highlight exceptional people who aren't men all 12 months of the year!
@NatlSecCnslrs@mstdn.social @mmasnick It's caching. It always did that for really old tweets (even the API only allows you to go so far back) but it's gotten much worse since Musk fired all the guys running the cache servers.
Louis Ingenthron
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Good policy is not partisan.
Repealing a grocery tax puts more food on every person's table, continuing to tax groceries takes food off of every person's table.
The effects of the policy are the same regardless of political party.
The path forward for our country is to get back to discussions of policy and away from arguments over political party.
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@shayneoneill From what I understand, SpaceX has formed a culture specifically around "handling" Musk. They have learned to distract him with bright lights and pretty colors so the real work can get done in the next room.
Louis Ingenthron
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"We don’t need more hyperventilating about TikTok: we need strong privacy and transparency laws, and antitrust action to break up the companies getting rich off their data empires"
@team https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/02/resistance-tiktok-ban-is-growing-washington/
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
Politically moderate, but a registered Democrat since January 7th 2021.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
