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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"Supermarket chain Kroger announced Tuesday it will eliminate paid emergency leave for unvaccinated employees who contract COVID-19 in addition to requiring some of them to pay a monthly $50 health insurance surcharge starting in 2022, according to a company memo."
https://dailycaller.com/2021/12/14/kroger-vaccine-covid-19-benefits-employee-mandate/
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All the files in /etc/X11 are technically The X-Files.
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Death by a thousand cuts.
"Amtrak has suspended their vaccine mandate just days after the railroad service began cutting services due to vaccine related staffing shortages, according to Reuters' David Shepardson."
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/amtrak-suspends-vaccine-mandate-days-after-shutting-down-routes-over-staff-shortages
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Bird’s eye view of the effectiveness of defunding police https://twitter.com/EddieZipperer/status/1471085941989257219
#DefundThePolice
#Liberalism
#Progressivism
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FDA Works With USPS To Hold Packages Containing Ivermectin - UncoverDC https://uncoverdc.com/2021/12/13/fda-works-with-usps-to-hold-packages-containing-ivermectin/
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URGENT: A huge Israeli study shows natural Covid immunity is far superior to the vaccine-generated kind https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-a-huge-israeli-study-shows?
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‘Men Aren’t Women,’ Says Dangerous Far-Right Extremist
https://babylonbee.com/news/men-arent-women-says-dangerous-far-right-extremist/?utm_source=fediverse
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Yeet or becometh yote
@matrix I feel like I can actually compete on the Canadian Xonotic server but when I get on the Euro one I'm usually dead last in terms of points.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/hvhMy4klTzp7/
Police arresting #Santa in #Germany for not wearing a mask.
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JUST IN - U.S. producer price inflation jumps 9.6% year over year in November, much higher than expected and highest increase on record.
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Great failures of history:
* Equality
* Socialism
* Rent control
* Diversity
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Things that are threats to "Our Democracy"
1. Free speech
2. Reading books
3. Questioning forced medical treatments
4. Voting against the party in power
5. Not wanting to fight wars overseas
6. Not wanting the government to spy on you
7. Indifference to media's moral crusades
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Twelve U.S. cities, all led by Democrats, broke annual homicide records in 2021 | https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/twelve-us-cities-all-led-democrats-broke-annual-homicide-records-2021
- 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
