Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@qoto.org

When I heard that there was going to be a book about software engineering and data science by Catherine Nelson, I was excited! I think it's a perfect combination, and as data scientists we can learn so much from software engineers about how to build reliable and good products.

📖https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/software-engineering-for/9781098136192/

#python #datascience #pyladies

It’s pretty cool that Paris has a larger copy of the Eiffel Tower from Las Vegas

I really enjoyed the 'Monk and Robot' duology by Becky Chambers ('A Psalm for the Wild Built' and 'A Prayer for the Crown-Shy') and am looking for more solarpunk book or book series recommendations.

#books #bookRecommendations #solarpunk #monkAndRobot #aPsalmForTheWildBuilt

@ai6yr not entirely relevant in this case, since he was hiking, but the realest SAR advice I read was, “Stay with the car. We always find the car. We don’t always find the person.”

This article by Elie Mystal is a great read and gives me, I dare say, hope. https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/america-is-ready-for-first-black-woman-president/

Did you know you can easily search through your own Mastodon posts?

Just include from:me in the search field.

Instead of this, you can include in:library to show posts you have interacted with or written yourself.

If you want to search through posts of a specific user, include from:username (e.g. from:@metin)

#mastodon #MastoTips #FediTips #tip #tips #information #knowledge #fediverse

I may have accidentally taken my Adderall twice. Am I in danger?

Seems weird that no one has pointed out the double standard of deriding childless cat ladies as having no stake in society but belonging to a church that’s run by supposedly celibate men pontificating on every aspect of how to run our society.
#uspol #JDVance

Some good climate news: the pace of decarbonization in the US is increasing (due in part to Biden policies); we’re on track to “reduce GHG emissions by 38-56% below 2005 levels in 2035”, which is 2-4X the pace from 2005 to 2023. https://rhg.com/research/taking-stock-2024/

Cocaine Bear is getting a sequel

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cek9mr43x1xo.amp

@kdw @aetataureate

There are almost no Black people on Mastodon. There are white trans people, but there are almost no Black trans people. There are scientists, but almost no Black scientists.

When I'm done, Mastodon will be ~20% Black, and ~20% of the trans people on Mastodon will be Black.

This is going to "destroy" the culture, or it's going to "change," the culture, depending on how racist you are.

Mastodon is better social media. More people should have access to it. Black people.

A take that we consider to be mayonnaise but which many c-suite dipshits would consider ghost-pepper spicy:

Adblock is a necessary component of a standards-compliant organization. Failure to block ads is a finding.

My mum (bless her!) used to say, "I'm not racist, but I don't want a black family to move in next door; it'll bring down the property values."

That's not very different from all the people who say "I'd vote for Kamala Harris, but there's too much racism for her to get elected."

People "outsource" their racism to others.

If you're not actively supporting people from ethnic minorities, rather than creating problems for them, you make yourself part of a racist system.

You can make an ellipse or hyperbola by drawing two sets of concentric circles and joining the points of intersection. Why?

Ellipse: the sum of the distances to the two focal points is a constant.

Hyperbola: the difference of the distances to the two focal points is a constant.

tv and movies from my youth lead me to believe there would be a lot more muppets around to help me with things