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- Pronouns
- It's complicated. IDK. Maybe ze/zim/zir https://pronouns.org/ze-hir
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- Physics, Cal Poly SLO
- Work
- I fix broken stuff
#Technology, #baseball (Dodgers), #politics, #religion (#Christian)
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How do you access the Fediverse?
If you use more than one method, choose the one you use the most.
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What’s the object-oriented way to become wealthy? #dadjoke
Inheritance.
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This is hilarious
RT: https://brands.town/users/mastotips/statuses/109502281005072667
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About quote posts, please also consider the possibilities of abuse they enable. There are actually a few rogue instances on the Mastodon Network th...
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In April, I went to Carrizo Plain to see the flowers. My photo album https://bit.ly/3W85gU4
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@freemo @feld@bikeshed.party @VeeRat everything you've written here was workshopped by right wing think tanks for you to think. Then a huge amount ...
A question for those a decade or two younger than me: When I was in school history stopped with the end of the Vietnam conflict. Everything after the fall of Saigon was still "current events." What I would like to know is what you learned in your history classes about the US involvement in the Middle East, and The September 11th attacks.
I know the history of these event as I live through them, and read the first draft of history in the news. I guess I wonder what the second draft looks like.
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Gonna start selling a brand of spiced tea called Chai Hulud.
Space barista: Red Bull "gives you wings"? Bro, this stuff lets you fold space!
Note the so called trillion dollar coin is found in Monetize the Debt. Trying to invoke the 14th amendment and having SCOTUS shoot it down as absurd is found under Default.
Debt ceiling pool round 2. Biden has said he will not negotiate on a debt ceiling increase, McCarthy has said he cannot pass one without spending cuts. What do you think will happen:
It is time to write this again. The *Five Paragraph Essay* saved my life.
While roundly hated by "true lovers of the written word," as a student who struggled with #LanguageArts, the #5PE let me break the daunting task of 1500 words into a task that could be taken one part at a time; one sentence at a time. It let me use the problem solving skills that made me successful on math and science to tackle academic writing. Most importantly it was good enough to get a C or better whenever I applied it and kept me from failing out of first high school then college. The grades were not stellar but sometimes C is for complete and even D can be for Done with that s**t.
If you are a hater of the 5PE, my challenge for you is to name an alternate tool that a poor writer - esp a poor writer with diagnosed cognitive challenges - a way to break a huge writing task down into bite sized pieces, very small bite sized pieces.
#edutooter #english #EnglishLanguage #writing #writingtips #pedagogy
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Ironically, the Duning-Kruger Effect is present in what we thought we knew about the Duning-Kruger Effect.
Recursion! https://newsie.social/@TheConversationUS/110334120585649962
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One of my favorite 2011 memes is relevant again so yay but not really?
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Haskell in Production: Standard Chartered
Link: https://serokell.io/blog/haskell-in-production-standard-chartered
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35801293
Loneliness isolation and a lack of time spent with peers is quite literally killing teenagers in the US. Parents should be doing everything possible to ensure their teen spend time with their friend IN PERSON. This includes modeling this behavior themselves. Let's make this the summer we all get together again. #teens #lonliness #isolation #COVID19
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Yay, Ars Technica now has an official Mastodon presence! @arstechnica
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If Star Trek were real, the Borg would have gone extinct after a disastrous firmware update.
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re: Announcing the Oliphant Social BlocklistS (plural!)
@oliphant@oliphant.social we are mostly in agreement about needing a good block list for most new servers..
What gets me is the very low quality choices on the council, nonrequirement for receipts or any way for users to effectively research blocks, and the fact that notorious instances like rage.love known to lie and manipulate to encoirage their block list on others, makes for a bad aggregate list.
Getting 50 servers on the council could potentially address the server, but if a list of 50 servers has the same poor quality members as the 10 you have now then you will have the same problem.
I think if you want to solve the problem then the solution is not to simply have more servers on the council but rather have criteria for what servers can be on the council. Id rather have 3 server council that has well maintained receipts and transparency around their receipt process than 100 servers all hand picked to look like rage.love with few receipts and a bad reputation for abusing their block list.
The best solution is to build a receipts database and ensure any participating server must have receipts on a block throuvh the receipts server in order for the bloxk to be calculated at all. At least then users of thr blocklist will have the tools to do their own due dilligance
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It's interesting how reading USENET newsgroups was such a big part of the early Linux history. It actually makes sense now that it is pointed out. This was the late-1980s/early-1990s equivalent of "social media", where discussions happened digitally, etc. Before the web it was also a huge source of information that was otherwise much harder to come by. Either way, a great post by Lars Wirzenius reminiscing about the pre-1.0, the very first time Linux was ever installed, and even pre-Linux days going all the way back to Linus's first multi-threading x86 assembly program. What I'd love to see is a demo of Linux from that era :). #linux #ComputerHistory #RetroComputing #LinusTolvalds lwn.net/Articles/928581/
- 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
