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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As someone Who went to university.
Yeah sink or swim. You've gotten all the support you need.
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Congress drops proposal to require women to register for the draft https://justthenews.com/government/security/congress-drops-proposal-adding-women-draft?
Maybe one day I can go back to bitching about Unicode encodings.
Federal Judge Blocks Biden Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate Nationwide https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/12/07/federal-judge-blocks-...
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Federal Judge Blocks Biden Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate Nationwide https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/12/07/federal-judge-blocks-biden-federal-contractor-vaccine-mandate-nationwide/?
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Huggable Idiot 
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Since the public does not care and the gov agencies work for the drug companies, let's go berserk with public experimentation and start injecting whatever we can dream up. What's the worst that can happen? https://news.mit.edu/2021/vaccine-immune-nanoparticle-1203
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From twitter:
Aaron Ginn @aginnt
While Germany is locking down and forcing people to get vaxx’d, Poland has a normal Christmas.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1468116760645693444
Are ideas that correspond with reality making a comeback in our Federal Government?
JUST IN - Fauci: #Omicron "almost certainly" not "more severe" than Delta.
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NEW - Pfizer CEO Bourla claims it is not good for #Omicron to be "more transmissible but milder" because mutations could "arise" if it spreads to "billions of people" (WSJ)
I literally don't have enough rum to deal with #infosec today.
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Check out @kde #PlasmaMobile Gear 21.12! This release packs tons of new features and apps, improvements to performance and stability, revamped interface designs, and much more.
https://www.plasma-mobile.org/2021/12/07/plasma-mobile-gear-21-12/
Highlights to look forward to: gPodder syncing in Kasts, MMS support in Spacebar, and the migration from oFono to ModemManager.
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Is it safe to be around "unboosted"? They make up words as they divisive lies continue.
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Doctor Banned For Questioning Efficacy of Masks Wins High Court Case https://buglecall.org/?p=56605
- 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
