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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
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it is up to a candidate to campaign for votes. that is pretty much the core of democracy.
commanding voters to show fealty regardless of absolutely heinous and terrifying politics is moving in a direction away from democracy and toward fascism
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Woman: Women should be allowed to show their breasts in public if they're breast feeding.
Me: I agree, I am a big supporter of women being able to show their breasts in any situation, regardless of if another person is sucking on them or not.
Woman: ::stares at me:: What?
Me: You heard me.
A hypothetical: Pres. #Biden needs a minor medical procedure between now and election day. He should:
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Disproportionate force "with the intention of achieving a sustained deterrent impact": a war crime. IDF: 1 in 3 of those killed: Hamas. >6,500 are children💔.
WSJ: “Mon a snr Israeli official said at least 5,000 militants have been killed.”
Total of 16,000 Gazans killed so far, 1/3 men. So Israel continues to claim every adult male killed in Gaza is a Hamas soldier? Again with no follow-up questioning this unbelievable number.
-Kurt Anderson
#IsraelHamasWar #Netanyahu
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israel-hamas-engage-in-some-of-fiercest-fighting-of-war-30edb859
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bloomberg:Reports of an Electric Vehicle Slowdown Have Been Greatly Exaggerated #ev
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@isagalaev I 100% agree with what seems to be @mitsuhiko 's main point there: that trying to bolt typing onto Python is not a great idea, and has led to *far* less readable Python, overall.
If you want a strongly-typed language, there are plenty to choose from.
#python #haskell
(I too don't want to re-hash all the argument for or against types, and I do know C++, Java and at least enough Haskell to be dangerous)
How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, and how many times must the cannonballs fly
Before they're forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
Yes, and how many years must a mountain exist
Before it is washed to the sea?
And **how many years can some people exist**
**Before they're allowed to be free?**
Yes, and how many times can a man turn his head
And pretend that he just doesn't see?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
Yes, and how many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky?
And how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, and **how many deaths will it take 'til he knows**
That **[too many people have died?](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/israeli-offensive-moves-south-in-gaza-driving-up-death-toll-a-day-after-truce-with-hamas-ends)**
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
Hat tip: [Dr. Monica Gandhi MD, MPH](https://profiles.ucsf.edu/monica.gandhi) of UCSF medical center on [the X-bird thing](https://twitter.com/MonicaGandhi9/status/1731211316398841960)
[Child mask mandates for COVID-19: a systematic review](https://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2023/12/02/archdischild-2023-326215) -"current body of scientific data does not support masking children for protection against COVID".
#adventOfCode day 2 in the bag. I usually make it to day 12 or so before my lack of formal CS training catches up with me. Using #Haskell as usual because #Python is just not as fun.
Also, I did in fact use a complete Parsec parser today because I know I will need it on future days and I wanted to knock the rust off those skills.
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Despite sensational media about EV fires, the data says EVs are much less likely to catch fire than their gasoline counterparts:
"The Guardian compiled a list of reported data sets from several countries, including Norway (the country with the highest concentration of electric vehicles in the world), Australia, and from Tesla's global fleet. In every case, the numbers are conclusive: EVs are much less likely to catch fire than gasoline or diesel vehicles."
https://www.autoblog.com/2023/11/23/electric-cars-are-less-likely-to-catch-fire-than-gas-cars/
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#auto #EV
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Watching a mutual ask for printer recs and receive a chorus of tired tech folk going "Just get a Brother, they're fine" and man
MAN
Like this is actually kinda fascinating honestly, Brother is now the best printer brand, the one that every Computer Person recommends, and is it because their printers are good? Their printers are fine, they print, whatever, no, it's because everybody else's printers have gotten Innovated out the wazoo, every innovation making them way worse, until it's gotten to the point where I wouldn't have one in the house even if it were free, and meanwhile Brother's have remained consistently Fine I Guess, which now makes them the best printer manufacturer simply by virtue of them opting out of the Who Can Get Crappiest Fastest race
Brother have gotten to where they are now, by NOT innovating
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in a way, the past five years have been a gradual process of going through these stages:
1. i'm a computer programmer.
2. why am i so exhausted all the time?
3. i just need to find an employer who doesn't burn me out.
4. i have ADHD and ASD diagnoses now.
5. the medications are doing bad things to me.
6. loss of family member, burnout, mental breakdown.
7. every programming job seems to burn me out.
8. the job i had wanted since i was a kid was the wrong job for me.
9. i have no career now and i'm also unemployable.
10. you know, i never developed a social life and i never started a family. it wasn't important to me at 20 or 30 but now, at 40, it feels like something's missing.
11. i'm an adult now and i'm no longer very interested in the hobbies i had at 20. there's nothing to do now.
12. i have a drinking problem.
13. why could i never do housework properly? oh, right, the AuDHD...
14. i have nothing to lose, so i guess i'll try to ask the government to help me.
15. practical home assistance granted. admitted to back-to-work programme. applies for a social support contact today, to give myself more to do.
16. i'm nothing at the moment. i have to create a new me, from scratch.
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If God wanted us to have unlimited free energy He’d have put a giant fusion reactor in the sky.
I know there are ways to set up college savings account for children, but is there a way to set up a therapy fund. I feel like my nephew will need years and years of therapy to work through the issues his dad, my brother, is creating for him this weekend.
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Dear Microsoft. Here is a list of things I want the Start Menu to do:
* Show my installed programs
* Search my local files
* Provide access to system settings
Here is a list of things I do *not* want the Start Menu to do:
* Show the weather for a randomly-selected town near my network's public IP infrastructure
* Show tabloid headlines
* Show programs I *don't* have installed
* Search the web via Bing
* Show adverts(!)
* Attempt to engage me in conversation with a hallucinating LLM
Thanks.
According to the social security administration there is a **7.2%** chance that an 81 year old man living in the US will die in the next 12 months. I share this for no reason what so ever.
I have no why I felt like sharing this today, but the thought occurs to me that if I had a 7.2% chance of dying on my way to thanksgiving dinner I probably would not go, and might look for a safer *alternative*.
I'm so frustrated with old, out-of-touch politicians who cannot see past their own party politics of longer than the next election cycle. It seems more and more like even a year out form the election it is already too late to get younger more broad minded candidates on the ballot.
I think I want to start a movement right now to support candidates in the 2028 election who were born after 1978. I feel like it will take 5 years of hard work to wrench control away from those who will not live to suffer the worst effects of the climate crisis.
- 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
