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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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RT @emilyst@twitter.com
Want something like Discord that can never be acquired by a FAANG company? Try Matrix! :D
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> our computations were carried out a single machine running Ubuntu with 24 cores at 3.40 GHz (4 Intel Xeon E7-8893 v2 processors), 3 TB of DRAM, and 4.9 TB of swap built from enterprise SSDs.
Hmm, I think the machine should be just fast enough to browse the web with several Electron apps running.
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So, uhm, Microsoft wants to buy Discord for $10 Billion.
Just comes to show how much your data is worth to Surveillance Capitalists.
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U.S. Supreme Court rebuffs Facebook appeal in user tracking lawsuit | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-facebook/u-s-supreme-court-rebuffs-facebook-appeal-in-user-tracking-lawsuit-idUSKBN2BE1TX
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+bonifartius 𒂼𒄄
people cancelling #fsf because #rms is back on board: don't expect my sympathies if you are next.
half a century ago people have lost their job and public life because someone accused them of being communist, with show trials and everything. a bit farther back in time they were even killed. all in the name of the "good cause".
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Schools should not be giving student grades and disciplinary records to police that use the information as a justification for harassment. It’s about time people pushed back against Pasco County’s targeted policing program.
Maybe I should shut down everything using OpenSSL until after tomorrow.
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Singapore: "Yes please, let’s talk about 'cancel culture'"
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Synapse 1.30 is out, focusing on addressing a few known inefficiencies with federation performance... and ending up with an order of magnitude improvement to the /_matrix/federation/v1/state_ids/ endpoint.
Read all about it at https://matrix.org/blog/2021/03/22/synapse-1-30-0-released
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Our beloved Captain Kirk @WilliamShatner turns 90 today!!!
😂❤🍰🎁🎉 LLAP
nitter.twitiverse.com/WilliamShatner/status/1373682087480369154#m
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Hmm, why did Curve448 got a lot of promotions and standardization in the end, meanwhile nobody did anything with Curve41417? Is there any reason to prefer one over another? They look like the same thing to me, both are just a stronger Curve25519. #cryptography
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Popular remote lesson monitoring program could be exploited to attack student PCs
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ST USBLC6-2 ESD protection chip, 4 diodes and 1 Zener to protect your USB port. Dieshot by Zeptobars (Mikhail Svarichevsky). https://zeptobars.com/en/read/ST-USBLC6-2-USB-protection-diode-zener
Ah, I used countless units of this chip on my boards. Finally know what does it look like. #electronics
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pronunciation flamebait
I think the gif vs gif debate is settled: The author of the term thinks it's jiff, and they're wrong.
Now, the regex vs regex debate:
Your regex, pronounced like the truncated words reg(ular) ex(pression), is your regular expression.
Your Reg ex, pronounced like Reg(gie) ex, is that guy you used to go out with.
Now, the regex vs regex debate:
Your regex, pronounced like the truncated words reg(ular) ex(pression), is your regular expression.
Your Reg ex, pronounced like Reg(gie) ex, is that guy you used to go out with.
For some reason even on an iPhone I was almost never given AMP pages from search results (maybe I wasn't using google) but I remember ending up on them a couple times. They were far slower, less usable, and less information dense than well designed sites. If Google truley cared about usability they would just measure that for the ranking.
Google AMP — A 70% drop in our conversion rate https://www.rockstarcoders.com/google-amp/ | https://lobste.rs/s/ttkvxi #web
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the server sent events enjoyer:
the poller:
the poller:
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"Police are warning students and universities not to access Sci-Hub, an "illegal website" that allows users to download scientific research papers normally locked behind expensive subscriptions."
Very bad indeed. That name again: Sci-Hub. Remember it so you can avoid it. Ahem.
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#GNU #Guix is now available on #Grid5000, a federation of #HPC clusters in France:
https://www.grid5000.fr/w/News#Guix_package_manager_available_on_Grid.275000
Really happy and hopeful this will help ease the path to #ReproducibleResearch!
- 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
