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
As someone Who went to university.
Yeah sink or swim. You've gotten all the support you need.
swiley
boosted
swiley
boosted
Congress drops proposal to require women to register for the draft https://justthenews.com/government/security/congress-drops-proposal-adding-women-draft?
Maybe one day I can go back to bitching about Unicode encodings.
Federal Judge Blocks Biden Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate Nationwide https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/12/07/federal-judge-blocks-...
swiley
boosted
Federal Judge Blocks Biden Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate Nationwide https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/12/07/federal-judge-blocks-biden-federal-contractor-vaccine-mandate-nationwide/?
@matrix Fight some.
@yes It's in my emacs diray.
@bakubased
Yeah that sounds rough.
@matrix
swiley
boosted
Huggable Idiot 
@Johncdvorak
Like the FCC, the original motivation behind the FDA was noble. The modern form it's taken is something terrible though.
swiley
boosted
Since the public does not care and the gov agencies work for the drug companies, let's go berserk with public experimentation and start injecting whatever we can dream up. What's the worst that can happen? https://news.mit.edu/2021/vaccine-immune-nanoparticle-1203
@Hyolobrika
>How do you show intent?
That's why Judges and lawyers haven't been automated away yet.
@p
@bakubased
It really depends on who you're flirting with.
@matrix
swiley
boosted
@sirJoho Poland might be the singular remaining sain nation on this planet.
swiley
boosted
From twitter:
Aaron Ginn @aginnt
While Germany is locking down and forcing people to get vaxx’d, Poland has a normal Christmas.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1468116760645693444
Are ideas that correspond with reality making a comeback in our Federal Government?
JUST IN - Fauci: #Omicron "almost certainly" not "more severe" than Delta.
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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
