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- Siva Afi
- https://tgc.link/siva-afi
- Cascadia 9.0
- https://www.cascadia9game.org/
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Joined Aug 2018
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The more I watch all this bullshit about "Biden should step down" (that was a conversation we all were trying to have 6+ months ago, it's too fucking late for that now) and the more I read from @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io (who is very generous with his time patiently explaining shit to people who continue to harass him), my biggest take away for this election season is we need to be donating to groups who are working on voter rights and voter access.
We need people who are on the ground in these battleground districts to have the funds and resources necessary to ensure that everyone who wants to vote can vote.
We're not gonna be able to convince our racist family to switch their votes (though please, ruin family dinners trying, they deserve to be miserable, as do the family that enables their bullshit), we need to ensure that the biggest tool that the GOP depend on to gain and keep their positions in government is stopped in its tracks.
So, who's doing the work in this space that I can donate to?
I'm getting this warning when running some Pandas code:
/home/labs/drake/tensorflow_gpu_11.7/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pandas/core/internals/blocks.py:2538: RuntimeWarning: invalid value encountered in cast
values = values.astype(str)
Of course, the "stack trace" is just one line deep in the internals, so I can't tell if it's (a) something wrong with my code, (b) something wrong with my data, or (c) something I can ignore. I also can't imagine what value would fail to convert to str; an empty Series or a Series containing None both seem to be fine.
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Every time I sit down to solder I hear a chorus of voices from every guy who has ever seen or heard me mention soldering and *immediately* given me unsolicited advice, suggestions how I could do better, immediate critique or (truly) offered to do it *for me*.
Which has been 90% of my interactions with men about soldering. Which is OFTEN.
I IGNORE this, in my my OWN HEAD, EVERY time I sit down to do my JOB.
It's not imposter syndrome. It's systemic oppression. It's insane.
What is the long end of the banana for?
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I've been reminded about 5 times in the last week that outside of the tech industry, unless someone already has a Mastodon account, nobody has heard of Mastodon.
I'm still confused by this #python oddity, originally posted by @driscollis:
x = True
y = False
print(x is (not y))
print(not x is y)
print(not (x is y))
print((not x) is y)
print(x is not y)
print(x == (not y))
print(not x == y)
print(not (x == y))
print((not x) == y)
print(x == not y)
Why is the last line a syntax error when the rest are fine?
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My energy levels are so low right now, I'm hoping they underflow and wrap around.
There's a camp of like 600 middle school(?) cheerleaders on campus, and really, if they don't assemble themselves into a single, colossal human pyramid, what's the point?
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Somewhere in Texas, someone is standing waist-deep in floodwater, holding a shotgun, ready to test the famous ease of "shooting fish in a Beryl".
NPR just dropped a few bars of "Hot in Herre" under a sponsor announcement.
Aha! It's not as bad as I thought. The framerate is much higher if I play maximized rather than focuses -- probably because otherwise the particle systems are being rendered in the scene view.
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It is easy to succumb to despair, when looking at US politics. I think that is the wrong attitude to take though.
Imagine: what if Trump _doesn't_ win in November? He will have lost twice in a row. And he will almost certainly not be a viable choice after that. He will be marked for what he is: a perennial loser, who got lucky once. And he will have lost decisively, despite the best efforts of billionaires and the Supreme Court.
Imagine how wonderful that day will be? Imagine the massive amounts of crow the news media will have to ingest? Imagine that feeling of hope, long forgotten, welling forth again?
Isn't _that_ something to go to the polls for?
Overheard: "I'm not sure where you get architectural pretzels."
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🤨 Is curing patients a sustainable business model?
“In the case of infectious diseases such as hepatitis C, curing existing patients also decreases the number of carriers able to transmit the virus to new patients, thus the incident pool also declines … Where an incident pool remains stable (eg, in cancer) the potential for a cure poses less risk to the sustainability of a franchise.”
From a 2018 Goldman Sachs report.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/goldman-asks-is-curing-patients-a-sustainable-business-model.html
- Siva Afi
- https://tgc.link/siva-afi
- Cascadia 9.0
- https://www.cascadia9game.org/
I have moved to peterdrake@mstdn.social. If you found peterdrake@qoto.org on a website, please let me know at my new account.
Joined Aug 2018
