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- 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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I'm gobsmacked! The more I'm learning about Forth, the more I'm loving its simplicity, and its extensibility,... and dare I say it... its elegance.
Yes, it can be quite cryptic at times. But the way you take little blocks of functionality to make slightly bigger blocks. And then expand on those blocks to bend to your will.... It's just a joy.
It's real programming on a rudimental level.
It's no wonder that there are passionate fans of this language.
my repeated failed attempts at answering this question without snark indicate that I should remain clear of counselors and 10 year olds.
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Don't believe the horror stories about electric vehicles! Here's an honest review of a recent holiday we took in one. The conclusion? It was perfectly uneventful.
#EV #electricvehicles
https://samharrison.science/posts/ev-holidaying/
I have a co-worker who is on a solo crusade to eliminate abbreviations from written language. I am new employee who has to ask every time I encounter a new abbreviation in a field I have not worked in before. Stay tuned this solo crusade may shortly turn into a dynamic duo of just-write-it-out crusaders. #work #WorkStories
Just like the vehicles, hydrogen fuel stations require a LOT of continuous and costly high precision maintenance. Without that they become unsafe to operate. With no real market to serve they quickly become an expensive white elephant.
Hydrogen is hell on metal components and these super high pressure systems need to be re-certified every 24 months. The expense of certifications is quickly becoming uneconomical
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Once more: Batman: one word. Iron Man: two words. Spider-man: hyphenated. This is important to me and also doesn’t matter because language is made up and we all know who you mean. But, y’know…
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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?
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Hamish's grumpy old man rant of the day:
This * is an asterisk
Asterix is a fictional Gaul.
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Prediction: If Elon starts charging to use Xitter, 90% of journalists will write long scathing articles and then imediately pony up the cash.
I wan to make a request to #Science #Teachers: When you design labs please design some (most) without step-by-step instructions. The chances of your students needing pipette skills in 10 years is remote. What will serve most student better will be the ability to identify a problem, design and experiment that might explain that problem, setup and run that experiment, then interpret the results. Perhaps followed up by design a second experiment if the first didn't help.
Save the "follow the recipe" skills for home ec. The most important thing you can teach your student at any level is experimental design.
#rant #edutooter #education #scienceEducation #Teaching #teacher @academicchatter
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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.
Help a person out. I have a bachelors degree in #Physics that a am very proud of and a Masters of Divinity that is from a different time in my life. Professionally, I would now really benefit from having a solid formal education in #ElectricalEngineering. What are some options for getting a formal degree (either BS or MA level) while continuing to work full time?
I would appreciate boosts for wider reach if your followers are knowledgeable in this area
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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.
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@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
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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 😉
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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.
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
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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
- 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
