@ice I have one of these, a thing I really like doing is walking around town wearing these and seeing how the sound changes. I've experienced walking down a section and finding a two-meter space where I walk into this patch of sidewalk, bam on like a light is a loud hum, I walk out on the other side, bam it's off. Apparently I just walked over a buried power cable, I couldn't have known was there otherwise. It's like having an entire new *sense* for directly experiencing EM fields, it's amazing.
I’ve got a new "music player". As in "what kind of weird noise will this random object produce if I put that little black box next to it while wearing headphones?"
I’m not sure how to define the SOMA Ether. It’s a bit of a noise instrument, a bit of a detector. It’s described as an anti-radio, since it grabs broad unfiltered radio waves and electromagnetic activity.
Using it feels like ghost hunting. I now have no doubt that my washing machine is inhabited by some drill n bass spirit.
How do we think about aptitude, ability, performance and potential -- these are massive and complex arguments even in the areas of psychology where we have done the most work and have the strongest evidence to draw on. I've been reading a lot about "predicting programming aptitude" and this work here is better than a lot of what I've been reading, but in the entire area I see a lot of failure to integrate with modern education research.
@t36s hm, well you didn't technically ask, but i use a package manager so i can get upgrades to things i've installed without having to remember what it is i've installed
@kate O Plikenscribe, O Plikenscribe, O Plikenscribe, I prithee. 🎄 https://youtu.be/LC6F8wnYKkg #simlish
I’ve had folks I’ve been mutuals with forever unfollow me for saying that leveling Palestine and waging war against a population trapped within its borders is wrong.
That scares me. Because people I have respected for years, that have clearly respected me for years, are coming to the conclusion that saying that this act is wrong, is antisemitism.
That can’t be a line. It must be possible to criticize a literal atomic power that has already killed tens of thousands of civilians, and hurt tens of thousands more.
WP21
It seems like just yesterday WordPress was becoming a teenager, and in a blink of the eye it's now old enough to drink! 21 years since Mike and I did the first release of WordPress, forking Michel's work on b2/cafélog. There's been many milestones and highlights along the way, and many more to come. I've been thinking a lot about elements that made WordPress successful in its early years that we should keep in mind as we build this year and beyond.
But enough of the expletives, let's talk a bit of what to do instead?
I think good C library design is always built around some kind of opaque context object (possibly multiple), that all relevant functions provided by the library get passed in as first argument. This context object should be constructed by one library function and destructed by another, but key really is that the library is "dormant" until that constructor is explicitly called by its user, and "dormant" again…
code / data wrangler in Switzerland.
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