Reach for the Stars @antares@qoto.org

Were you aware that JFK's Nephew (his brother's son) Is currently running against Biden for the Democrat nomination for President of the USA?

#USPol

Hamish's grumpy old man rant of the day:

This * is an asterisk

Asterix is a fictional Gaul.

😤

Prediction: If Elon starts charging to use Xitter, 90% of journalists will write long scathing articles and then imediately pony up the cash.

@CelloMomOnCars

I agree that I would find an urban area with fewer cars to have a higher quality of life than the equivalent area with more.

However after two decades away, this country bumkin is thrilled to finally escape the crushing, crowded, noisy, built up environment of the city to get back to having an acre(half a hectare) out on dirt road where I have the space to grow my own food, not have to fight my neighbors about the value of established trees that might hit their building, and can see the stars at night. At least for me this is a higher quality of life than any city no matter how well designed.

@AmyPetty

Having only 80 Assemblymembers for 40,000,000 Californians means we have a ridiculously high 500,000 to one ratio in the lower house of our state legislature. No other state legislature comes anywhere near that level of poor representation in its lower house.

I would support a nonpartisan, good government ballot initiative to expand our State Assembly to 160 members so that we have smaller-size districts for our lower house.

#California #politics

@w7voa This is actually quite a brilliant move by the #UAW. Striking workers get strike funding from the union and cannot get unemployment. Workers who are laid off get to collect unemployment from the state instead. The union, by striking at only one of two closely aligned plants, gets twice as much harm to the companies while the tax payer picks up half the cost for them

I've been in tech for a long time but I'm not a big believer in IOT. My house is going to be Battlestar Galactica style for the foreseeable future. No networked fridges, stoves, light switches or toasters 😉

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!

https://b612-font.com/

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.

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”.

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

@petersuber @chronicle @academicchatter

I’ve made a good living over the years ($100+) without having a college degree. I learned “on the job” and have been able to work my way into incredible and well paying employment. A degree shouldn’t mean a person is worth more $. How one does their job should be the reason for making a higher income.