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
@watson Either Biden is an idiot or he's not listening then. The games he's playing with the vaccine will push us over the edge.
@pensees I've always thought of the Amish as authoritarian, collectivists, and racially homogeneous.
They have more in common with 1930s Germany than Somalia IMO.
swiley
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"Nearly a quarter of Singapore workers intend to quit their jobs in first half of 2022"
@itouchu Good morning.
swiley
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US ‘closer to civil war’ than most would like to believe, new book says https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/20/us-closer-to-civil-war-new-book-barbara-walter-trump-capitol-attack
Academic and member of CIA advisory panel says analysis applied to other countries shows US has ‘entered very dangerous territory’
It comes amid growing concern about jagged political divisions deepened by former president Donald Trump’s refusal to accept defeat in the 2020 election. 👈 😂🤣
swiley
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The funny thing about COVAIDS-19 is:
1. The people who are not affected by it are unlikely to get tested
2. Those who are likely to have it are about the only group that gets tested
3. We know who is at risk: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01773-7
4. We refuse to acknowledge genetics, prefering *equal panic* to protecting those actually at risk
@pensees Yup. IME they all just come to Virginia and other sane states though.
@pensees It's almost like California and New York want their states destroyed.
@pensees Why would you call it anarchy?
swiley
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Things caused by climate change: Islamic terrorism, Mexican drug cartel violence, forced integration of migratory populations.
swiley
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"Inside China’s underground crypto mining operation"
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/18/chinas-underground-bitcoin-miners-.html
@cyberanathema Yeah we haven't seen this one before.
I'm sure it will have a happy ending this time though.
swiley
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JUST IN - Israeli Prime Minister says the fifth COVID wave has begun, "new regulations" will be announced in the near future.
swiley
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JUST IN - Germany's Covid "expert panel" calls for prompt nationwide contact restrictions (Tagesschau)
swiley
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> australian government using strike-breaking tactics on civilians
:ablobcatuwucoffee:
:ablobcatuwucoffee:
swiley
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China 3, USA 0. But it's OK, because the Air Force recently approved the use of pronouns in official memos, and is flying LGBT rainbow flags.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/43575/third-test-of-the-air-forces-hypersonic-weapon-has-failed-like-the-ones-before-it
swiley
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Too many ppl red-pilled. They are losing control of the narrative.
https://thehill.com/policy/international/europe/586483-paris-cancels-new-years-eve-fireworks-due-to-omicron-concerns#:~:text=Officials%20in%20Paris%20have%20canceled,restrictions%E2%80%9D%20due%20to%20increasing%20caseloads.
@fluffy Me too.
- mastodon+swiley@swiley.net
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
