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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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Just traded some cash for some food produced by my neighbor. #cashfriday... except on a Wednesday!
I encourage you to do more than buy local: befriend your neighbors and buy from them. It builds a good network and then they are more willing to help you or buy things from you or support your business.
Being too liberal for John Cleese sounds like quite the achievement.
Wow last sprint was awful. All the teams we depend on essentially stopped working and our tickets are all blocked.
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Sharyl Attkisson - "Maybe we're not that smart, but if we wait for the Einsteins who have led us so far to figure this out, it might not end well."
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There goes China.
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White House Tells Businesses to Ignore the Federal Court Order That Halted Biden’s Vaccine Mandate Over “Grave Constitutional Issues” https://www.activistpost.com/2021/11/white-house-tells-businesses-to-ignore-the-federal-court-order-that-halted-bidens-vaccine-mandate-over-grave-constitutional-issues.html
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More Than Half Of Unvaccinated Americans Say Nothing Will Change Their Mind https://summit.news/2021/11/04/more-than-half-of-unvaccinated-americans-say-nothing-will-change-their-mind/
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JUST IN - YouTube to hide dislike counts on all videos.
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"School System Asks 12-Year-Olds About Sex Life & Bans Mom From School Library After She Exposed Them"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6dsjRQ8vMU @Kelly_NAproducR @adam
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Apple's talking about sideloading this week to shift the discussion away from App Store competition. If it had to compete with other secure iPhone app stores (like ones dedicated to gaming) it would have to lower its fees and improve its policies. It's about control not security.
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Kamala Harris is in France...offering her worldly advice on The Libyan Immigration Crisis....I repeat "immigration crisis".
😂 What in the world???
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This is the kind of telemetry you get with an Amazon fire tablet (it has a modified android version called Fire OS). The device is literally used by Amazon for showing ads more (if you don't block them) than you use it for your personal use. This tablet hammers the internet even if you do nothing on it. This kind of behavior should be catalogued as malware.
- 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
