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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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"What happens here. Will happen again in 2022" - Kamala's wise words when stumping for McCauliffe in Virginia last week.
Yup...Kamala the great reset was reset with Republican wins!
Let's go Brandon!
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Trump thanks McCauliffe 😂😂😂
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(1) It was a long day yesterday but I’m so grateful that I was able to be a part of one of the greatest election victories in the Commonwealth. The precinct I served in SoVa has approximately 1400 registered voters. We had 511 come through yesterday. Not bad actually from what others who served before said about this precinct. 2,800 people as of last week had early, in-person voted so it’s possible many from this precinct had already voted. Youngkin won our precinct 306R/204D/1LP.
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The Country Boys threw The City Boys an ass kickin' last night.
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If conservatives blab on and on about how great it is that a Republican candidate happens to be black, Hispanic, a woman, gay, or some other supposedly marginalized group... they sound like liberals.
Identity politics is stupid no matter who's participating in it. It demeans the individual's accomplishments and, ironically, his or her identity itself.
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Don't put your guard down with our election integrity. They may be just throwing us a bone.
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You know what Biden can't forget in his dementia?
Donald Trump.
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I can smell the freedom in Virginia all the way from Raleigh!
My mouth is watering...Cooper has got to go!
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Youngkin has people...whereas McCauliffe had Obama, Biden and Kamala. Those are not people...they are criminals...and the people knew this!
Power to the people!
Good morning Virginia and #fuckjoebiden
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RT @Foone
Web 1.0: the web is for sharing information!
Web 2.0: but what if we could make money too?
Web 3.0: the web is only for making money.
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People that do top-posting and then provide answers by going back and editing the quoted messages, maybe filling in gaps in provided tables, maybe add answers next to questions, best case making their text a different color, but it's not a guarantee.
Utterly confusing and apparently perfectly acceptable social behavior.
Utterly confusing and apparently perfectly acceptable social behavior.
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JUST IN - Police department in Minneapolis won't be replaced with a "Department of Public Safety," residents rejected the proposed amendment.
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JUST IN - Youngkin takes the early lead in the Virginia Governor race but results from Fairfax, the largest county, are reportedly delayed due to "ballot rescanning" (Fox)
Generally in PR you find a line that divides people into two groups where your group is the stronger one.
McAuliffe divided people but then told both groups to fuck themselves.
The only thing that's surprising here is that the race was so close.
Terry McAuliffe Baffled That Telling Parents The State Owns Their Children Wasn't A Winning Strategy https://babylonbee.com/news/terry-mcauliffe-b...
- 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
