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
@icedquinn I just use a recliner.
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Support For Climate Change Skyrockets After Computer Models Show It Will Flood California
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JUST IN - US Marshals conducting inspections at the DC jail where Jan 6 defendants are held after a judge called for a probe into the treatment of the inmates (NBC4)
@freemo
Obviously you can't do without regulation entirely, but every time you use it you divide people.
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FDA internal emails on horse tweet: https://rescue.substack.com/p/a2520b80-bcd1-4905-a913-68f6f6809779
@freemo @valleyforge
>(libertarian vs authoritarian are rarely considered to be definitions of left and right).
Yes, it's often orthogonal. "Left vs right" is mostly a distraction, it matters a lot less if you're not forcing your ideas on everyone.
@freemo @valleyforge Exactly, the "left" vs "right" thing really isn't that interesting anyway, much more interesting is the authoritarian vs libertarian spectrum.
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American farmers are having trouble finding replacement tractor tires amid escalating supply chain woes https://www.newstarget.com/2021-10-17-american-farmers-replacement-tractor-tires-supply-chain.html
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Physicians Asst. Whistleblower Reveals Hospital Intake With 90 Percent Vaccinated Patients and Hospital Administration Refusing to Report Adverse Events - The Last Refuge https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/10/17/physicians-asst-whistleblower-reveals-hospital-intake-with-90-percent-vaccinated-patients-and-hospital-administration-refusing-to-report-adverse-events/?
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"the hackers did not appear to have reached a Sinclair system called "the master control," allowing Sinclair to replace local feeds with a national one." The proof is that there were no surprise broadcasts of The Outer Limits this weekend. #hacktheplanet https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/18/sinclair-broadcasting-ransomware-attack/
@valleyforge That really depends on how you define "left" and "right."
The Nazis were pretty utilitarian IMO so that would make them "extreme left."
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College withheld exonerating evidence from student who went to prison for sexual assault https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/college-withheld-exonerating-evidence-student-who-went-prison-sexual-assault?
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NOW - Crowd chants "Arrest Bill Gates" outside Downing Street in London before a dinner discussing "Global Britain" with Boris Johnson and others.
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NEW - For the first time, the super-rich 1% in the U.S. has a larger share of wealth (27%) than the entire middle class (26.6%), according to Federal Reserve data.
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Biden Promises He Will Stop Being A Bad President If Everyone Gets Vaccinated
@icedquinn They want everything to come apart, it excuses something worse.
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> 6.66m covid shots given --bloomberg
why would you report it like that you're fucking with me
why would you report it like that you're fucking with me
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h1s6S4kotE
Tom Scott doing some rifle shooting
- 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
