Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

Also, two bean soup this morning was particularly picturesque

The solar story is not substantially about the US, which is hard for some to grasp.

It's also not a story where there's much point getting fond of the manufacturer characters.

Regarding current discourse: The only maths you *need* to know to be a programmer is a little topological group representation theory. The rest is overemphasized and not important except to specialists.

Was there ever a job market for people to write serious applications in Emacs Lisp?

i know "stephen" is a common spelling of a name. i think "steven" is slightly more common, but that's beside the point. unfortunately, every time i see "stephen", i can't help reading it as step-hen.

like, imagine if chickens did marriage & family like humans currently do ... and a hen married into a family that already had chicks from a previous marriage, presumably. then that hen would be a stephen to those chicks.

Kitsune Tails is OUT NOW!! Run, jump, and dash across a land inspired by Japanese mythology and untangle the love triangle between three young women on a journey of self discovery. Explore the complicated relationships between kitsune and humans through classic platforming action.

get it now on steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/1325260 or itch https://eniko.itch.io/kitsunetails

we're a small underfunded team with a majority queer developers, and while we're punching way above our weight class we need the support of our community if this game is going to be a success. please boost this post, and if you can afford it buy it on steam and leave a positive review on the first day (the text doesn't matter, only the thumbs up, so "i like gay fops" is totally valid as a review)

i also want to prove fedi is powerful enough to make an indie game succeed, so even if you're not personally that into the game, please boost this post? 🙏

#KitsuneTails #QueerGames #GameDev #PixelArt

@ploum
En sport automobile, vous avez le droit à telle architecture moteur, et bien vous l'exploitez à fond.
En équitation, la question du sexe n'apparaît pas pertinente aux yeux des instances dirigeantes, et bien pas de souci. En basket, la taille n'est pas un sujet de catégorie, dont acte...

Bref, j'ai trouvé le raccourci de @ploum un peu rapide.

2/2

Je ne sais pas vous mais apprendre que certaines femmes sont disqualifiées des compétitions sportives car « ayant trop de testostérone », ça ne me semble pas tellement éloigné de disqualifier les noirs des épreuves de course parce que « c’est dans leurs gênes de courir vite ».

Je suis sans doute tordu et je vois le mal partout mais je n’arrive pas à me sortir cette idée de la tête…

And here's the podcast. It was so much fun to argue with Michael again. He's wrong about 1 cent/ kilowatt-hour solar, by the way.

https://www.cleaningup.live/the-solar-revolution-past-present-and-future-ep173-jenny-chase/

Working on the next XLConnect release. The master branch build can be installed the usual way:

install_github("miraisolutions/xlconnect")

or using r-universe:

install.packages("XLConnect", repos = c("https://miraisolutions.r-universe.dev", "https://cloud.r-project.org"))

#RStats #XLConnect #Excel #runiverse

@simon In reality the Enterprise computer requests were sent to cheap labour on Zargon V.

I'm fascinated by how difficult LLM-based AI systems are proving to use

Makes me realize that the Star Trek ship computers are actually a pretty good representation of this: you need to have a very high level of experience to know to say things like "Computer: reroute auxiliary power to the forward shield emitters"

Much like getting ChatGPT et al to reliably-enough perform useful tasks for you!

i’m definitely not against making big changes, quite the contrary, i just realize that i will always be me. no matter how much i grow, some things are unchangeable. i can see those as faults, or i can find a way to make them assets

Serious question to people born on 1970-01-01: Did you ever encounter weird IT related issues due to your dob?

Sharing encouraged, because I'm genuinely curious

Okay, this is part of my contribution to the idea of a monoculture on mastodon.

I'm Nigerian. Nigeria is about to go on a huge public strike, and I haven't heard anything about it here. Now, I don't blame anyone for that, obviously, but I think it shows the fact that perhaps there aren't as many Africans as I'd like.