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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
@icedquinn It's just another form of credit. Without financial instruments everyone would have to deal with the inability to predict the future themselves and wouldn't be able to handle moderate surprises.
It's a lot like the insurance thing.
@finlaydag33k @fluffy You really have to have a VPS (or at least a business class ISP connection) anyway.
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@icedquinn If you didn't have a market for them they wouldn't be worth anything (and because of the market you get speculation and financial instruments.)
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We know you have been waiting patiently, but the wait is finally over.
Manjaro ARM 21.04 has just been released, with a slew of new images for your devices!
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-arm-21-04-released/61974
@niconiconi Decade old chips are underrated. I have a phone with one and it runs fine as long as I'm not stupid with it.
Maybe it will be a good thing, electron will finally be unusable even on developer machines.
@icedquinn I've never looked closely at IPOs but I was under the impression that people who got shares during an IPO had involved themselves in some way with the formation of the company which is more or less the same thing.
>They do nothing useful
The economic justification is that they're providing unsecured debt to finance improvements to businesses.
Also I think a slight majority of the trading (in the US anyway) is retail people like me who have a day job and just like getting drunk while clicking on all the buttons in the brokerage app.
@icedquinn Last time I looked the biggest things killing younger people where drug overdoses and car accidents. I'm surprised we haven't banned cars yet, it would have had a much better cost/benefit ratio than the covid lockdowns IMO. (plus driving all the time is really unpleasant.)
@icedquinn I think the argument is that successful stock traders posses some kind of oracle that allows them to plan for the future and keep markets liquid. Most people are sure that's impossible but we wouldn't want to stop an oracle if it ever appeared. :p
@icedquinn The story of my life.
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Using, re-using, and re-implementing software interfaces is the industry standard. EFF will keep fighting to make sure it stays that way. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/04/victory-fair-use-supreme-court-reverses-federal-circuit-oracle-v-google
@craftyguy guix home looks neat, that's definitely what I'm doing after people are done testing it.
@brad Hearing about this might be enough to get me to dump firefox.
@icedquinn I still prefer editing in vim but emacs has some killer PIM features.
@rune Calculate percentages from what?If you already have a ratio just divide 100 by the denominator and multiply both the top and bottom by the result.
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500 million #LinkedIn users' data is for sale on a hacker site
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/08/tech/linkedin-data-scraped-hacker-site/index.html
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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
