Brian Beach has moved @bwbeach@qoto.org
- GitHub
- https://github.com/bwbeach
- Lame website
- https://www.beachfamily.net
Now at: @haiku_brian
Proud papa/dad/husband. Choral singer. Aspiring linguist. CTO at Backblaze. Usually in Indiana, sometimes on Maui. He/him.
Joined Nov 2022
Found this note from the Dean of the Boston School of Public Health on when you need to restrict speech so that you can actually have a free exchange of ideas in an academic context. Very insightful.
He lists three valid reasons to block speech in a public arena, so that all voices can be heard:
1) We have no obligation to provide a platform to speech that is not open to responses and rebuttal.
2) We can curtail speech that endorses or incites violence.
3) Academic speech can be limited when it traffics in well-established falsehoods.
His argument for the last point draws a careful line between controversial speech and promoting known falsehoods.
The jupyter notebook with the details is here: https://github.com/bwbeach/puzzles/blob/main/pairwise-sums/pairwise-sums.ipynb
I came across a math puzzle here in the fediverse, and puzzled about it for a while. (Lost the link to the original post; if it's yours let me know.)
Here's the problem:
```
Bob was given 30 distinct natural numbers. He wrote down all the 435 pairwise sums. It appears that among those sums, 230 are divisible by 3. How many of the original 30 numbers are divisible by 3?
```
I was able to find the answer after playing with it for a bit. Then I made this cool visualization. (It's a spoiler, of course.)
@corbden Had not heard of the podcast before. I'll definitely check it out.
@nazgul We picked Indiana as home base for a variety of reasons. The main reason was proximity to family. Two of our three kids are there. And Sharon’s extended family is there.
Indiana is projected to remain habitable by humans for the rest of this century, unlike some hotter places. And it’s expected to be able to grow food. Hawai’i is not even close to being self sufficient on food.
Indiana has better health care than Hawai’i, but is leaning more towards fascism.
Many trade offs, but no ideal solution.
@nazgul We moved from Bloomington, Indiana to Ka‘anapali in 2014. But then COVID hit, and we couldn't go back to see our kids and grandkids. Our new plan is to winter here, and spend summer/fall on the mainland.
We're not right on the beach, but there's a nice beach just down the hill. And we're high enough we don't have to worry about tsunamis or rising sea levels.
@nazgul We're here in Ka‘anapali through April, then back to Indiana to see the kids/grandkids, and probably a couple camping trips.
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Just a friendly reminder!
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If Mastodon diehards want this to be The Next Place after Twitter, the move is to bend over backwards to listen to disabled and Black community about what they do and don't need in social media space.
Even if it's challenging.
Even if it makes you uncomfortable.
These are power user communities, whether folks like it or not.
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Want to work on Mastodon full time? I’d like to pay a Rails dev for the next 3+ months to implement some auth improvements that matter to me but also just burn down bugs, make perf improvements, whatever is needed as this place grows. Remote 100% ok but need 3-4 hrs of Pacific time zone overlap, fair pay, meaningful work. #fedihire #ruby #rails #job
@m_clem Thanks for posting. I especially liked reading the linked note on the reasons for limiting speech in an academic context.
@totalclaireity@mastodon.lol @therotund Thanks for the script. It saved me a bunch of time today. Now I can focus on catching up on Advent of Code. 😀
@nazgul Aloha from Maui. Sunset over here was nice, too.
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Believe me, I would much rather talk about happy things like butterflies and zebras and moonbeams and fairy tales, but I kinda need people to get on board with this whole stopping the fascists thing.
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Hi Mastodon, sorry it took me so long to get here. Not big on words, prefer to let my photos do the talking. Here for the #bees and #nature. Up to my neck in this with @thebeeguy Let's save the bees together.
#bees
#nature
#wild
#photography
#naturephotography
#beesofmastodon
#sanctuary
#wicklow
#ireland
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Only in America do we call working people ‘essential’ but deny them paid sick leave.
We don’t need to treat essential workers like heroes. We need to treat them like human beings with dignity.
Raise their wages. Give them hazard pay. Guarantee health care and paid sick leave.
@finity @sbfclt So far it's going well. First four days are done in Haskell. https://github.com/bwbeach/advent-of-code-2022
Today is going to be busy, and I won't get started until tonight. I think I'll take my time and learn how to build an ADT in Haskell to model the dock with all the crates on it.
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This amazing map shows travel time from London to the rest of the world in 1881
@histodons @geography
Unexpected blast from the past listening to @shanselman interview Mekka Williams. She and I both used the SL-1 language in our first jobs out of college, and we both used it to program telecom equipment.
I was a Bell Northern Research from 1979 to 1983, programming the SL-1 private branch exchange (PBX). I remember debugging by setting breakpoints using a hardware debugging card with 16 red LEDs and 16 switches to specify the address.
https://hanselminutes.com/869/do-i-stay-or-do-i-go-tech-career-advice-with-mekka-williams
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Really fascinating story that is a good reminder that slavery was not that far back in American history. Many families today are still grappling with its aftereffects.
#histodons #genealogy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/12/01/coles-hill-virginia-slavery-uranium/
- GitHub
- https://github.com/bwbeach
- Lame website
- https://www.beachfamily.net
Now at: @haiku_brian
Proud papa/dad/husband. Choral singer. Aspiring linguist. CTO at Backblaze. Usually in Indiana, sometimes on Maui. He/him.
Joined Nov 2022
