🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

@freemo @cwebber hey there! Some info you might find helpful. The tools for independently hosting your own Guix packages and extensions get lots of love and there are already a number of well-maintained outside forks, including mine. Forking Guix is easy. I wrote recently about how its design intentionally frees users from dependence on upstream maintainers and provide an inclusive mechanism for all business models & licenses: https://www.ryanprior.com/posts/what-is-guix-really/#headline-10

It turns out there's an amusing anecdote behind the decision to split stdout and stderr:

https://www2.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/blog/20131211/index.html

@freemo First, let me say that this is my last response in this conversation. I see little point in continuing it, I said most of what I felt was useful, apparently it does not make sense to you and I do not care enough to change that - to me that pipeline decision is like Uzbekistan deciding to change their default timezone. I was just seeking some little sparring on Sunday evening, which I got. Thanks for that.

> Again since the axiom is still incorrect everything that follows it is likewise incorrect.

Well, now, when we together derived falsity, obviously I am banished into the void hell of inconsistency among all the other low beings (99% of humankind?) and shall never ever crawl back again to the daylight where the pure logic resides. What a lovely way to tell the conversation partner they are an idiot. 🙂

To question others is a great start. But it is just that. To teach ourselves (outside of technical fields, so politics etc.), it is vital to listen and deeply understand why other human beings think what they do, while assuming all along that they are at least as smart as we are (in this case Biden's administration, not me).

@tursiops

my kids convinced me to make a mashup of Go and Tetris in #tic80 this morning; welcome to a completely normal weekend here in my house

@Electronics
This is either a 250kW Automatic Tuner, or they take their Irish Whiskey production very seriously.

#HamRadio #RF #Radio #Electronics #EE @General

@koherecoWatchdog

Since I worked on this in a data science role I know the numbers intimately. To give you an idea of just how insignificant the price-demand curve is for consumers:

In 2008 we have the most telling data, the average national gasoline price shot down from $4 dollars a gallon to $1.75 a gallon (nominal price) before rising back up again to $4 dollars a gallon in the year or two that followed.

Despite the price having decreased by more than half there was no noticable difference in number of miles driven by vehicals in on the road (total across all vehicles). In fact it **decreased*** slightly from 3.275 trillion miles traveled per year to 3.2 trillion miles traveled per year.

Likewise as the prices rose again there was no significant difference seen either.

Definitively showing that an increase in gas price (or decrease as the case may be) has a negligible effect on consumption, even when the difference in price is extremely significant.

@Demosthenes @tursiops

So far I'm absolutely loving Mastodon! It it everything I looked to get rid of in Facebook/Twitter etc... The only thing that bothers me is there are too many people with anime profile pics and japanese nicknames posting furry/loli/borderline pedo content.

Hello #mastodon users! I'm here in a quest for a twitter alternative. I'm am engineering manager and interested in #tech, #programming, #management, #politics and #philosophy.

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@koherecoWatchdog

1) He isnt leading by example by passing a law and then breaking it

2) the speaker is not leading by example by reciting the law while breaking it

3) the law makes no exceptions for people who are vaccinated, this is no excuse

4) the law makes no exception for not having people near you at the time, this is also no excuse

Sorry but not a single one of those explanations are valid in the least.

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