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
Pathetic. #Minnesota #Wild players too scared to wear a rainbow. Is this what modern white heterosexual masculinity looks like? A bunch of grown men scared of a shirt?
https://www.outsports.com/2023/3/7/23629942/minnesota-wild-pride-jerseys-lgbt-gay-homophobia-nhl
@maegul Pretty sure it's just a limitation of the platform. But there's an easy workaround! When you're on their profile, click their profile picture. That will take you to their profile on *their* server. So, at least for non-protected accounts, you should be able to see the full lists there.
I made the transition to #Mastodon the day Elon closed his deal. Looking back, the difference is surreal.
On Twitter, my feed was full of political trolls pushing my buttons and pissing me off and making me question my faith in humanity.
On Mastodon, I get to read opinions from many of the same people I respected over there... but also I get brief, random windows into subcommunities like #Mosstodon, which is a delightful group of nature weirdoes and scientists posting pictures of moss they see out in the wild. It's so wholesome and positive that it restores my faith in humanity.
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It’s very difficult and almost never economically viable to make technical systems resilient on their own. That’s why we focus so much on sociotechnical systems.
When Elon laid off most of the company, he destroyed the “socio” part of the sociotechnical system that kept it running. And unless I missed the Erlang rewrite, Twitter isn’t built for unattended five-nines reliability.
This “complete rewrite” is a fool’s errand. You can’t solve much of anything with code by itself.
I'm trying out a new #gamedev concept... Well, not really a new one, but new to me.
I'm trying to build a world entirely in code. Nominally a "text-based game", the idea is to take the Dwarf Fortress route of enabling development of a deep simulation by eschewing design and art concerns completely. In this case it's a space ship captaining RPG.
Even if it never goes anywhere, it's still a really fun and challenging exercise.
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Today I had to ask for a hearing to be delayed for 2 weeks because opposing counsel hadn't sent us some necessary files. For a split second I thought about being self-righteous about it before the judge, but of course I decided not to. That's not a good look.
And a good thing, too. Turns out opposing counsel DID send the files a month ago, & our office somehow missed it. Oops!
A good reminder not to be a jerk about opposing counsels' errors, lest you find out the errors are actually your own.
@jbe Can confirm. I've been on both sides of that and the crow I had to eat when I was originally uppity was brutal, but well-deserved.
Is referring to sea-or-spacefaring vessels with #feminine #pronouns #sexist?
I've always thought it was respectful with a bit of snark, like "She can be temperamental, but love and respect her and you'll go far together" kind of thing.
But I would prefer to hear the opinions of some actual #women on the matter.
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@interfluidity TBH, even at the SCOTUS level, I'm pretty happy with 1A jurisprudence at the moment. Kavanaugh has been on the record as understanding why S230 is important and Thomas showed serious reticence to mess with it in the Gonzalez v Google hearing. If anything, I'm more worried about some of the more liberal justices on that particular issue.
And the lower federal courts have not been pulling their punches, especially the one with the Stranger Things paragraph.
@interfluidity At least the federal courts have had a pretty good history lately of slapping down Florida Republicans' more egregious attempts to subvert the constitution.
Pretty sure this is just going to keep getting worse until November 2024. Then it'll either start getting better slowly... or get much, much worse very quickly.
Until then, they're just going to keep putting on a big enough show to generate enough outrage to make the national media to raise his profile.
@interfluidity That's an interesting perspective. So, essentially, because they're being held accountable for lying on purpose, they want to hold their opponents accountable for "lying" by accident. It's like a more egregious repeat of the "Twitter is banning more conservatives" outrage.
In my mind, the motivations for this move seem much simpler, though... Republicans don't think Dems are competitive in our state, so they have no fear about consolidating power, because they don't think they'll ever have to give it up again.
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A thing about Mastodon that I didn't realize I'd missed from pre-algorithm Twitter is the sheer randomness of the content. No longer honed to be hyper-engaging (usually by being scary or enraging) I now see weird experiments, fun scientific papers, random shitposts. Of course it's not all exactly in my wheelhouse, but that makes it simultaneously more *interesting* while being less *addictive*. The whole experience feels a lot healthier for my brain.
@interfluidity I'm familiar with what the "actual malice" standard is, but I'm struggling to understand what you're trying to say here. Can you please expound?
@BillCamp I mean, that might bring the ratio down a notch, but I'd argue it's still much harder to read good code than it is to write it.
The sandwich that's guaranteed to keep you single for at least a few more days:
Braunschweiger liverwurst, raw onions, and spicy mustard, on a whole wheat roll.
Yum.
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@jeffjarvis @mmasnick Yup. It all comes down to one simple truth: writing computer code is 10x easier than reading computer code.
And people like Musk simply aren't willing to put in the work. Which makes his decision to not pay people who already put in the work twice as insane.
@Green_Footballs All of what exactly? Obliterating his net worth? What, did he decide he was too rich and the best way to fix that was to piss it away by ruining something millions of people enjoyed?
@jeffjarvis @mmasnick Yup. It all comes down to one simple truth: writing computer code is 10x easier than reading computer code.
And people like Musk simply aren't willing to put in the work. Which makes his decision to not pay people who already put in the work twice as insane.
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
