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- Pronouns
- It's complicated. IDK. Maybe ze/zim/zir https://pronouns.org/ze-hir
- Degree
- Physics, Cal Poly SLO
- Work
- I fix broken stuff
#Technology, #baseball (Dodgers), #politics, #religion (#Christian)
Joined Apr 2022
@wdlindsy Let's postulate this is accurate without conceding the point. In that case, what is the Biden campaign doing to speak to the concerns of NoLables and GreenParty voters. I mean if they really could make the difference in the election, I would expect the very smart people in the Biden campaign to have a strategy in place to engage these critical voters.
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Airbus open sourced their new cockpit font. Make it the default for all your embedded projects, because it's REALLY good and has real testing in difficult environments!
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In 2000, when we still had 56k modems, if your website took 10 seconds to load, you lost most of your users. Today, Outlook spins for 20 seconds on a 300 Mbps connection, despite being in cache, and everyone is somehow fine with this regression.
@robsonfletcher You park your car in the garage for 8 hours while you sleep. You do not need 200 amps. I can charge my Tesla M3 on a 40 amp (NEMA 6-50; 32 amp continuous load) circuit between midnight and 4 am usually with time to spare. On the rare occasions when I get home from a long trip with 2% left, it might not be back to full (80% for daily driving) but very easily enough to get me to work and back the next day.
@argv_minus_one@mstdn.party "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;[...]" US Constitution, Amendment 1
Yes in God's BAck Yard bill passes California Legislature
https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/yigby-housing-bill-18352986.php
#SB4 #Housing #affordableHousing #homelessness #CALeg #USPol
@freemo On a platform designed with commenting on strangers posts as a core function no less.
@barney@mas.to Wow! I have the power to alter the outcome of the presidential election by posting on the fediverse. I never knew I had such influence. I guess the Biden campaign (or maybe even the Trump campaign) will be contacting me shortly to discuss my concerns and ask what they can do to earn my support. It will be *amazing* - the first time a presidential candidate has come to California for any reason besides fundraising off the millionaires in Hollywood and Silicon valley.
Do you think we can talk about forest management or flood control? Maybe how to transition, Chevron, our states largest private employer away from fossil fuel production without destroying the economy in the central valley. Maybe we could make sure that California growers get included in the next Farm Bill, or maybe help with funding for the first high speed rail line in the US.
Too much to ask? Ok, how about just a plan to ensure women's health care rights in all 50 states or a firm plan to meet the US obligations under the Paris Climate agreement.
Do those GOP people have any more chance of succeeding that us Democrats who want someone stronger and more engaged that Biden?
@BigMcLargeHuge@mstdn.social @barney@mas.to I think you and Barney and George can work on this project. You can be the team lead!
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@freemo Unity isn't selling to my customers; I am. If Unity was selling to my customers, they'd get money from the customer for each Unity runtime license sold. Instead, they're demanding money from developers for each developer game installed. The difference is that if a consumer has three built-with-Unity games installed on their system, Unity would get one royalty if they were the seller, but they get three royalties if the developers are the sellers.... Then they get three more royalties when that player needs a new computer and reinstalls those games, even though the developers did not get additional revenue.
Unity has always charged a per-seat subscription for the use of the editor software. As long as they have been a company, rights to redistribute the runtime was offered free to anyone who had a valid license to the editor. Because the editor is built on the runtime and is useless without it.
No other game engine that I know of charges per-install, and very few APIs do.
This also opens up channels for abuse. Don't like a game company? You don't have to review bomb them anymore, you can just start a campaign to reinstall their game over and over to financially ruin them.
Plus you have to wonder what kind of spyware is being included to tally these charges up.
The whole thing is ugly top-to-bottom.
This article covers the topic well: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/the-death-of-unity?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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And [why](https://www.mindtools.com/a3mi00v/5-whys) are voters behaving that way?
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@realcaseyrollins So I guess I am the only vote. Here is some advice from someone who has been happily married for 19 years: Enjoy the magic of a fresh relationship, but know that what keeps it going is not how good they are at kissing, it is haw good you are at caring for and about each other.
Thank you for all the thoughts and good wished. Today I had a successful #firstDay of my #NewJob. Having a degree in #Physics means never really knowing where one is going to land, but when you find the right employer who needs a broad range of knowledge and does something amazing that no one else does, there are some really cool jobs out there.
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@petersuber @academicchatter I don’t regret earning the degree that allows me to do my job today (no way to do it without), but the cost was, imo, ridiculous and disconnected from reality. I have an enormous amount of student debt. I will never pay it off, and will likely die with it. I’m grateful that I feel a sense of personal/professional satisfaction in my chosen career, because financially, it will never have been worth it.
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Since I’m new to JavaScript, I wrote:
𝚒𝚏 (𝚌𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚋𝚊𝚌𝚔) { 𝚌𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚋𝚊𝚌𝚔(); }
…like an idiot. Then, I realized I should be adapting to JavaScript culture and make it inscrutable, so I re-wrote the line to:
𝚌𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚋𝚊𝚌𝚔 && 𝚌𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚋𝚊𝚌𝚔();
But I suspected there was something even more nightmarish, and sure enough, of course. This is how _real_ JavaScript developers do it:
𝚌𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚋𝚊𝚌𝚔?.();
And by “real JavaScript developers,” I mean “monsters”.
@BigMcLargeHuge@mstdn.social
We got Trump because HRC assumed like it was "her turn" and campaigned like a spoiled brat. We got Trump because too many people in this country felt like they were ignored and screwing over the political system was their only outlet. We got Trump because republican voters, even after seeing what a POS Trump was listed when their party told them "Politics is a team sport." and "Voting is like public transits; if there is not a candidate that gets you exactly where you want to go take the one that get you closest."
We are heading towards getting Trump again because Biden and the Dems didn't learn anything from 2016 because their minds were too clouded by winning the popular vote, but loosing the election and crying about third party candidates. Democrats cannot admit the reasons they actually lost and it is why they stand a very good chance of loosing to the Orange Monstrosity again.
@mike be cautious with that first one. 1100 sq ft is a pretty ideal sized for low income family housing. The consequence of this would be to have developers ensure that new units are 1200sq ft or far less then 1100sq ft. Laws like this have the effect of pushing development away from the dividing line because for marginally more cost they get far less restrictive assets.
@georgetakei So what I'm hearing is that if I am not in one of these six states, I can safely vote third party to register my disgust with both major party candidates and I will have no effect on the outcome to the election.
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I love my smart TV. I love the way it takes a long time to boot up because it's trying to refresh the advertisements on the home screen. I delight in the way it randomly restarts because it's downloaded an update without asking me, each of which makes the TV slower and slower with every subsequent install. I adore the way it buries the apps that I want to use, and that I use without fail every single time, below the apps that it's being paid to promote and which I have never touched in my life and would never use without the cold metal of a glock pressed hard against my sweating temple. I am infinitely thrilled by the way the interface lags constantly, due to the need to have one thousand unnecessary animations rendered on hardware ripped wholesale from a ten year old phone. I feel myself borne aloft on wings of pure joy when I am notified that my data will be collected and analysed to determine my useage patterns. Even now I am writing this from a field of beautiful flowers and soft luscious grass as I lie and look up happily at the bright blue sky, smiling happily to know that this is the future of technology
- Pronouns
- It's complicated. IDK. Maybe ze/zim/zir https://pronouns.org/ze-hir
- Degree
- Physics, Cal Poly SLO
- Work
- I fix broken stuff
#Technology, #baseball (Dodgers), #politics, #religion (#Christian)
Joined Apr 2022
