🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

@freemo Ok I'm really jealous of this nyan cat set of emotes right now

One good thing is in QOTO instance, the number of political posts have been very very little. And I am really liking it!

A beautiful terracotta temple lying unknown and uncared for in Sonamukhi, Bankura, West Bengal http://blog.yantrajaal.com/2019/11/sridhar-mandir-sonamukhi-bankura.html

#toyprogrammingchallenge

I borrowed this one from codewars

Snail Sort
Given an n x n array, return the array elements arranged from outermost elements to the middle element, traveling clockwise.

array = [[1,2,3],
[4,5,6],
[7,8,9]]
snail(array) #=> [1,2,3,6,9,8,7,4,5]
For better understanding, please follow the numbers of the next array consecutively:

array = [[1,2,3],
[8,9,4],
[7,6,5]]
snail(array) #=> [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]
This image will illustrate things more clearly:

NOTE: The idea is not sort the elements from the lowest value to the highest; the idea is to traverse the 2-d array in a clockwise snailshell pattern.

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After an upgrade to the QOTO services all services are now up and running again. Downtime was ~5 minutes.

The following qoto services were updated:

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Hello world! I think social media attracts people because we want to be heard, and to feel that we are significant. A platform like this allows one's words to be shared, even for an instant, across time and space. I suppose this toot is exactly that. A cry to the cosmos. A scream that expresses my existence. So it goes. So, hello world!

def snail_sort(matrix):
new_list = []

while matrix:
new_list.extend(matrix.pop(0))
if not matrix:
continue

for i in range(len(matrix)):
new_list.append(matrix[i].pop())
if not matrix:
break
if not matrix:
continue

new_list.extend(reversed(matrix.pop()))
if not matrix:
continue

for i in range(len(matrix) - 1, -1, -1):
new_list.append(matrix[i].pop(0))
if not matrix:
break
return new_list

MATRIX = [
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
[16, 17, 18, 19, 6],
[15, 24, 25, 20, 7],
[14, 23, 22, 21, 8],
[13, 12, 11, 10, 9],
]

snail_sort(MATRIX)

Server Info

All services except for the main qoto mastodon instance will expiernce some brief downtime in about an hour as i upgrade the servers.

Shouldnt be more than 5 minutes but there will likely be a DNS update that may take a bit longer to refresh for some people locally.

3,912 accounts
+2 in the last hour
+241 in the last day
+1,052 in the last week

Will you be nominating someone in the upcoming moderator election?

Important Announcement

Today we are beginning a nomination for #QOTOs next moderator 🎉

Basically it works like this, any one of you can nominate someone from QOTO. The only restriction is the person you nominate must be active for at least the last month. You can even nominate yourself, but it usually looks better if you can get one or more people to nominate you, symbolically speaking.

The moderators will then select the finalists which if there is more than one person then the community can vote on them.

So for the next 2 weeks I will be taking nominations for the moderator position, and they can discuss their views as a potential moderator. Then we can pick who lines u with QOTO Ideals,

**Want to nominate simeone?**

Follow this link and pst your nomination: https://discourse.qoto.org/t/nomination-for-moderator-nov-2019/92

@freemo This is an example of a ceratopogonidae larvae

Some sort of segmented worm, i think, we just found in some pond water. Any ideas from anyone what species i might be looking at?

#science #biology #microbiology #worm #microscope #microscopic