szescstopni @szescstopni@qoto.org

Valley Garter Snake from Whistler BC

Any experienced programmer worth their salt will tell you that •producing• code — learning syntax, finding examples, combining them, adding behaviors, adding complexity — is the •easy• part of programming.

The hard part: “How can it break? How will it surprise us? How will it change? Does it •really• accomplish our goal? What •is• our goal? Are we all even imagining the same goal? Do we understand each other? Will the next person to work on this understand it? Should we even build this?”

Protip: Even worse than generic non-descriptive variable names are misleading variable names.

Don't do that.

#Programming

To mówicie, że robale nie potrafią w matematykę? No nie wiem… rozkręca się projekt urządzenia do wytłaczania węzy pszczelej czyli zaczątka komórek z pszczelego wosku który dalej rozwiną robale i który potrafią zrobić same.
Co z tego wyniknie, pojęcia nie mam, ale zabawa przednia.

#OpenSCAD #3Dprinting

was next in line at a multi-register store the other day, so decided to ambiguously stand in no-mans land hoping humanity would self organise into a single serpentine queue behind me. someone had the hide to ask which line I was in. it's like no-one read my queueing theory blog post from 5 years ago 🤬

On an epic photo meetup at the beach, someone brought and handed out little plastic dinosaurs (I still have mine in my camera bag). Below you'll see the group of dinos at the water hole as well as the silly number of people holding cameras. I'm still amazed I could get the shot without any photographers in it!

Who among us haven’t participated in a scheme to pay hush money to a porn star on the eve of a national election and then hide those payments illegally?

If they can come for Trump, they can come for you!

lol Google wants to sell* me the Anarchist Cookbook for $7

*Technically license the right to read, as it is DRM-laden and they could remove it from my library at any time…

Left: White male Trump supporter named Larry Brock violently stormed the Capitol w/zip ties
•2 years prison

Right: Black woman named Crystal Mason filed a provisional ballot on the advice of a poll worker
•5 years prison

The system isn’t broken—it’s working as intended.

Crazy numbers from #Anthropocene Earth:

Weight of all wild mammals on land: 22 million tons

Weight of all wild mammals in ocean: 40 million tons

Weight of all humans: 390 million tons

Weight of all land animals domesticated by humans: 630 million tons

New Study in PNAS:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2204892120

Article in Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/18/a-wake-up-call-total-weight-of-wild-mammals-less-than-10-of-humanitys

The Hungarian Entomological Society recently posted this image highlighting the importance of diverse yards and the decline in insect diversity when shifting to monoculture

#solarpunk #nolawns

Two pictures that both show about 30 people getting a coffee.

We have to break #carculture

#BikeTooter #ebikes #ebike #waroncars

The award-winning Markup investigation has sparked newsrooms to report on their local internet service disparities, including this piece by MLK50.

Read more about how the disparities impact Memphis here: https://mlk50.com/2023/03/16/low-income-memphians-receive-worse-internet-service-for-the-same-price/

Walking through the damp woods, we spotted this unique shaped very large #mushroom on a wet dead tree. I had no idea what kind it was and after days of searching for what it could be I finally had to ask a friend who is an Interpretive Naturalist. After a couple days of searching he had finally narrowed it down to a #BlushingRosette as they come in many shapes.
Blushing Rosette Mushroom here
https://debbie-oppermann.pixels.com/featured/blushing-rosette-mushroom-debbie-oppermann.html
#FungusFriday #FungiFriday #BuyIntoArt #nature #fungus #artwork #NatureLover