swiley @swiley@qoto.org
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Email mastodon+swiley@swiley.net (this makes all of my computers beep and turn on an indicator light and is always the fastest way to reach me.) I was on octodon a while ago but abandoned my account. I've never been a member of gab or parlor.
If you’d like to learn to program I would consider the SICP [1] more or less the peak of American CS pedagogy (at least as far as beginners go) along with “The Practice of Programming” once you get through that.
I play ukulele, I’m ok at reading music and decent at improv. I learned from Walter Piston’s “Harmony” and some of Adam Neely’s videos.
My main phone is a pine phone so if I don’t pick up when you call the battery is probably dead, the modem is probably dead, or I’m currently swearing at calls/pulseaudio/alsa. I’d strongly recommend sending an email instead.
Dispite what my web page says I’ve stopped uploading my scratch projects to GitHub once I started to understand the basics of collaboration with git. I was using the flamegraph as gamification/motivation but it doesn’t work as well with feature branch/squash merge workflows so I just keep most things on my VPS until I’m happy with publishing updates.
[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/book/book.html
Joined Jan 2021
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Our beloved Captain Kirk @WilliamShatner turns 90 today!!!
😂❤🍰🎁🎉 LLAP
nitter.twitiverse.com/WilliamShatner/status/1373682087480369154#m
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Hmm, why did Curve448 got a lot of promotions and standardization in the end, meanwhile nobody did anything with Curve41417? Is there any reason to prefer one over another? They look like the same thing to me, both are just a stronger Curve25519. #cryptography
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Popular remote lesson monitoring program could be exploited to attack student PCs
@clacke yes, I doubt the pinephone does though. I'm not sure it would run a mainline kernel either, most OSes use megi's fork.
Plus there's no GUI in that, I really wonder what that guy is doing.
@clacke "(kernal linux)" hmmm I wonder what's going on there.
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@metalune@fosstodon.org When my parents had a connection like that windows was banned from the house because it would just pull down massive amounts of data without warning and there was no way to turn it off.
@deutrino You might give jmp.chat a try. I don't use the voice but the sms is awesome. You'll need a jabber ID somewhere.
@deutrino Oof, jami is the only one I've gotten to work at all. It's not great.
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ST USBLC6-2 ESD protection chip, 4 diodes and 1 Zener to protect your USB port. Dieshot by Zeptobars (Mikhail Svarichevsky). https://zeptobars.com/en/read/ST-USBLC6-2-USB-protection-diode-zener
Ah, I used countless units of this chip on my boards. Finally know what does it look like. #electronics
@fribbledom I'd vote scheme over assembly but I'm not a huge fan of the other lisps.
@stux This is why I have an arm chair instead of an office chair.
@metalune@fosstodon.org Really? I can't stand it. No menu bars and forced thick window decorations plus tons of whitespace is awful IMO. I've never particularly liked gtk but gtk3 is definitely a downgrade.
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pronunciation flamebait
I think the gif vs gif debate is settled: The author of the term thinks it's jiff, and they're wrong.
Now, the regex vs regex debate:
Your regex, pronounced like the truncated words reg(ular) ex(pression), is your regular expression.
Your Reg ex, pronounced like Reg(gie) ex, is that guy you used to go out with.
Now, the regex vs regex debate:
Your regex, pronounced like the truncated words reg(ular) ex(pression), is your regular expression.
Your Reg ex, pronounced like Reg(gie) ex, is that guy you used to go out with.
For some reason even on an iPhone I was almost never given AMP pages from search results (maybe I wasn't using google) but I remember ending up on them a couple times. They were far slower, less usable, and less information dense than well designed sites. If Google truley cared about usability they would just measure that for the ranking.
Google AMP — A 70% drop in our conversion rate https://www.rockstarcoders.com/google-amp/ | https://lobste.rs/s/ttkvxi #web
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@linmob It uses a lot of power and is absolutely not a replacement for a physical keyboard.
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the server sent events enjoyer:
the poller:
the poller:
@icedquinn @kaia I'm pretty sure dating everywhere kinda sucks. That's just dating.
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"Police are warning students and universities not to access Sci-Hub, an "illegal website" that allows users to download scientific research papers normally locked behind expensive subscriptions."
Very bad indeed. That name again: Sci-Hub. Remember it so you can avoid it. Ahem.
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swiley.net
Email mastodon+swiley@swiley.net (this makes all of my computers beep and turn on an indicator light and is always the fastest way to reach me.) I was on octodon a while ago but abandoned my account. I've never been a member of gab or parlor.
If you’d like to learn to program I would consider the SICP [1] more or less the peak of American CS pedagogy (at least as far as beginners go) along with “The Practice of Programming” once you get through that.
I play ukulele, I’m ok at reading music and decent at improv. I learned from Walter Piston’s “Harmony” and some of Adam Neely’s videos.
My main phone is a pine phone so if I don’t pick up when you call the battery is probably dead, the modem is probably dead, or I’m currently swearing at calls/pulseaudio/alsa. I’d strongly recommend sending an email instead.
Dispite what my web page says I’ve stopped uploading my scratch projects to GitHub once I started to understand the basics of collaboration with git. I was using the flamegraph as gamification/motivation but it doesn’t work as well with feature branch/squash merge workflows so I just keep most things on my VPS until I’m happy with publishing updates.
[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/book/book.html
Joined Jan 2021
