Parienve @Parienve@qoto.org

@kream @skye
Haskell: you have a PhD in mathematics.

PureScript: you are using your PhD in mathematics for webdev.

F#: since learning about the Mars Climate Orbiter mission failure, you use a language with static checking for units of measure.

Clojure: you are doing this for more money than the Java developer.

@TidalFlats
This one looks more like plain old speech transcription software. Look at the commas: they're at natural pause points if someone said this run-on sentence out loud. Oh, and the speaker probably took a small breath after the word "pocket". The software then added a sentence boundary there, which the speaker went back and manually removed, accidentally keeping the double space.

@12thRITS

@EricLawton
Linux Mint comes with a built-in system restore utility, Timeshift. This alone is enough for me to recommend Mint as a first distro for basically everyone.

That said, Ubuntu and Linux Mint have very high cross-compatibility - you can install Timeshift on Ubuntu.

@WillA763@mastodon.social

@biplanepilot
My lay opinion:

It's a violation of RCW 29A.84.250(2) to pay workers based on number of petition signatures they get.

I'm guessing that particular law isn't being broken here, so why does it matter? Well, the legislature indicates in RCW 29A.84.280 that allowing that kind of payment would encourage, among other things, "misrepresenting the nature or effect of a ballot measure". This clearly shows some intent by the legislature to prevent such things.

Also, it's a violation of RCW 29A.84.250(4) to use any "corrupt means or practice" to "interfere" with a voter signing or not signing a petition. Manipulating a voter with blatant lies certainly seems corrupt to me, but it might be difficult to convince a judge that it's "interference".

On the plus side, I bet they'll fail to get enough signatures by the 90-day deadline if they keep getting shooed away fast enough.

@b_cavello

@daveystew@mstdn.social
Parents & students stand
up for trans tennis coach
targeted by Moms for
Liberty for firing

@aeva
my current browser is an independent but caucuses with mozilla

@aarpar@mastodon.social
Adjusting for inflation, Smaug's hoard would be worth about US$72 billion in 2023.

With that in mind, Forbes's list of richest people in the world could be written in more appropriate units of wealth - smaugs and millismaugs. I give you:

The "Smaug Check" 20

1 🇫🇷 Bernard Arnault & family
2.93 🐉

2 🇺🇸 Elon Musk
2.5 🐉

3 🇺🇸 Jeff Bezos
1.58 🐉

4 🇺🇸 Larry Ellison
1.48 🐉

5 🇺🇸 Warren Buffett
1.47 🐉

6 🇺🇸 Bill Gates
1.44 🐉

7 🇺🇸 Michael Bloomberg
1.31 🐉

8 🇲🇽 Carlos Slim Helu & family
1.29 🐉

9 🇮🇳 Mukesh Ambani
1.15 🐉

10 🇺🇸 Steve Ballmer
1.12 🐉

11 🇫🇷 Francoise Bettencourt Meyers & family
1.11 🐉

12 🇺🇸 Larry Page
1.1 🐉

13 🇪🇸 Amancio Ortega
1.07 🐉

14 🇺🇸 Sergey Brin
1.05 🐉

15 🇨🇳 Zhong Shanshan
944 m🐉

16 🇺🇸 Mark Zuckerberg
894 m🐉

17 🇺🇸 Charles Koch
819 m🐉

17 🇺🇸 Julia Koch & family
819 m🐉

19 🇺🇸 Jim Walton
816 m🐉

20 🇺🇸 Rob Walton
800 m🐉