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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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"Are iPhones Really Better for Privacy? Comparative Study of iOS and Android Apps"
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#Foundation is a very good series, judging from the first episode. It takes Asimov's grand galactic imperial scope and vision add three-dimensional people with motivations and purpose. Beautifully shot, acted and rendered, of course.
People are making so much cool stuff now that has finally become technologically possible.
People are making so much cool stuff now that has finally become technologically possible.
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"Colemak is now the 3rd most popular keyboard layout for touch typing in English"
So what you're saying is that of the three layouts that anyone might have possibly heard of it's the least popular one, falling behind the fringe one.
I'm not saying popularity is a good proxy for validity, you're the one making statements within that frame.
So what you're saying is that of the three layouts that anyone might have possibly heard of it's the least popular one, falling behind the fringe one.
I'm not saying popularity is a good proxy for validity, you're the one making statements within that frame.
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Python 3.10 came out last week.
The most interesting feature included is PEP 622 -- Structural Pattern Matching , similar to Scheme's
The most interesting feature *not* included was PEP 563 -- Postponed Evaluation of Annotations, which was slated for inclusion but was pushed to 3.11 to sort out some details regarding libraries like Pydantic that rely on reflection on declared types.
#python #python310 #python3100
The most interesting feature included is PEP 622 -- Structural Pattern Matching , similar to Scheme's
(match), but a bit less powerful and spelled in Python. That's worth an #HPREp.The most interesting feature *not* included was PEP 563 -- Postponed Evaluation of Annotations, which was slated for inclusion but was pushed to 3.11 to sort out some details regarding libraries like Pydantic that rely on reflection on declared types.
#python #python310 #python3100
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NEW - "Fauci" movie gets only 2 stars on IMDb.
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Facebook Harms Its Users Because That’s Where Its Profits Are
https://jacobinmag.com/2021/10/facebook-whistleblower-haugen-profits-addiction-public-utility-regulation-censorship-moderation-zuckerberg/
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"Joe and Obama vs Trump"
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_Fg0dLYP2SM
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> pocket news
> nbc: why are jobs down in september
i'm sure it has nothing to do with the part where you fired people
> nbc: why are jobs down in september
i'm sure it has nothing to do with the part where you fired people
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> suffocate small businesses by calling them not essential
> give bailout money to big corpos who were never subject to shutdowns
> fire people on medical discrimination
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why da joj market is fucked???"
> give bailout money to big corpos who were never subject to shutdowns
> fire people on medical discrimination
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why da joj market is fucked???"
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#TIL Ken Thompson's "Trusting Trust" compiler Trojan attack is not just a thought experiment. In fact, it was actually what he really did in real life. In a 1995 mail, he said he was able to successfully compromise the Unix Support Group at Bell Labs.
I first learned this Unix computer folklore at an free software meetup, and later shared it online. I was immediately corrected by someone, saying it's just a myth. I went to read the original paper and it seemed to be the case. #TIL there's actually more into this. The folklore is basically true. #retrocomputing #unix #infosec
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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
