Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

I find the etiquette of Calendly (and other appointment booking things) really interesting

I've heard some people are offended by the suggestion that they use that to book a slot rather than doing a back-and-forth to find the right time for both parties

I see it as respectful of my time when someone suggests Calendly rather than having us back-and-forth over several cycles

I'd love to understand this dynamic more

• An Oxford comma walks into a bar where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking cigars.

• A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.

• A bar was walked into by the passive voice.

• An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening.

• Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.”

• A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite.

• Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything.

• A question mark walks into a bar?

• A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.

• Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Get out -- we don't serve your type."

• A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.

• A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.

• Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart.

• A synonym strolls into a tavern.

• At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar -- fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack.

• A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment.

• Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor.

• A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered.

• An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel.

• The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known.

• A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned a man with a glass eye named Ralph.

• The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.

• A dyslexic walks into a bra.

• A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines.

• A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert.

• A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget.

• A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony.

The rotation of Nesman.

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Sabey in motion.

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Recently places like @SIDN (Dutch national operator of .NL) have been claiming that nobody in Europe can deliver their computer needs, and that they are therefore forced to outsource operations to American cloud providers. Meanwhile our own IT industry denies this. Here I delve into what's going on, and how Europe is being Cloud Naïve instead of Cloud Native.

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/cloud-naive-europe-and-the-megascaler/

Help, I’m in a Trader Joes and I’m looking in up the face of capitalism and I’m not sure which chocolate covered snack I want.

I am so sad and angry about being increasingly shut out of most communal Jewish life, starting in 2016 thanks to Trump, seguing into the pandemic, and more recently escalating thanks to the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
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Fun thing I learned today. To normal people "ethernet" sounds like some kind of wireless network. And they will tell you that the wifi isn't working after selecting ethernet in the Windows 11 installer (since they don't know ethernet needs a cable). I can't even blame them, "ethernet" does sound like some kind of radio thing ("in the ether").

This week, we talked about the Embedded Online Conference and our experience learning Zephyr.

Listen to episode 475: https://embedded.fm/episodes/475.

We also talked about writing vs reading code.

Here's Chris' take:

#zephyr #embedded #engineering #conference

it's so strange that despite being fairly tired (after a 3h train trip today) i'm... not in acute pain? even at the trough of the painkiller concentration? (i am not actually confused) how is this possible?? is this real??? did someone substitute the universe around me with a fake one that's inexplicably better????

Neural Networks on #RISCV CH32V003

https://cpldcpu.wordpress.com/2024/04/24/implementing-neural-networks-on-the-10-cent-risc-v-mcu-without-multiplier/

#STS and adjacent people, I'm looking for reading recs on scifi + "capital S monolithic Science" as religion/pseudoreligion

not looking for the actual historical ties between religious institutions and research disciplines (tho I won't be mad if you share those too)

looking more for stuff like... how we went from early scifi tales and allegories at a time when many disciplines and methods where only starting out, to the rampant Scientism and TESCREALism of today... how that's played into technocracy and modulated colonial narratives and education and actual R&D initiatives and etc...

there's tons of individual connections to make between religious narratives and contemporary scifi-treated-as-reality, like general AI as both gods and eschatological prophecy. interested in that sort of thing too

For context: A lot of R API stuff got marked as "non API" or "internal", which then precipitates a lot of new NOTEs for established packages.

See for example the CRAN check page for {rlang}: https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_rlang.html

Lots of packages are using SETLENGTH() (for example) - should it be part of the public API since people need it to write packages?

#RStats

Some days ago, the CRAN check with R-devel started to raise "Found non-API calls to R" NOTE. I'm not sure if they are serious on disallowing these not-so-minor APIs, but what should I do? Do you take some action or just wait? #stats

For example, rlang package now has these NOTE:

File ‘rlang/libs/rlang.so’:
Found non-API calls to R: ‘R_ClosureExpr’, ‘R_PromiseExpr’,
‘SETLENGTH’, ‘SET_ENCLOS’, ‘SET_ENVFLAGS’, ‘SET_TRUELENGTH’

https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_rlang.html

I really do miss Swiftkey which was superior in almost every way, but I'd rather use subpar software than live in fear of more Microsoft "AI" features being turned on one day without me knowing it

It orders a beer.

A negative leap second walks into a bar.

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I have my first of three content reviews for my Figma Config talk today. My first draft uses the Humane Pin as a negative example of product strategy and execution.

If it doesn’t survive the content reviews and two rehearsals, would anyone be interested in a post on the topic?