timorl @timorl@qoto.org

Successfully using entirely self-hosted+federated Riot/Matrix/Jitsi/Etherpad/PeerTube to host lectures, teleconference with students, answer questions in chat, and collaboratively edit their code. Write-up is incoming. Once I take a nap.

tired: STARTUP cancels PRODUCT
wired: HASHTAG cancels CELEBRITY_CREEP
vired: COVID cancels work

"When the return is ‘#f’ it can be either KEY not found, or an entry
which happens to have value ‘#f’ in the ‘cdr’."

and this is why we use algebraic datatypes, kids.

#scheme

Here's a test:

I'll keep a webcam recording myself during work for the next hour, now.

I will try to remind myself not to touch my face and will keep a tally sheet of how many times I successfully restrained myself, and often I caught myself touching it.

Then I'll review the video material and see how many times I've not even witnessed touching my own face during that hour.

[Just typing this post, I've already touched my own face 7 times]

@xiroux @jacek we are indeed privileged to be able to pick our jobs as we do in IT. I would argue this creates a moral duty to pick jobs responsibly.

So, my experiment earlier escalated quickly 😂

You can now control the lighting in my office via the Twitch chat. It supports hex values, but also a wide range of color names. It does so by looking up the color name on Wikipedia, retrieving its RGB-value and converting it to the closest available color in the Philips Hue gamut.

Watch it here:
https://www.twitch.tv/codecereal

Just try it out, type in the chat:

"!color indigo"

or

"!color lime 210" (brightness value from 0 to 254)

Reminder that you, yes YOU can be abusive even if you aren't a Bad Person

We tend to think of abuse as something that only bad people do, but the truth is often more subtle than that. Abuse as a constant pattern indicates a bad person but we are imperfect beings.

Be sure that when you and someone else face a hard situation together that you aren't straying into DARVO territory, for example. Don't let yourself become someone else's abuser.

It does my heart good to know that this is published in a peer reviewed medical journal

conspiracies are a lie made up by Big Conspiracy to sell books and podcasts

Collisions with the windows of buildings kill more birds than wind turbines do, by some orders of magnitude. And that's before we get to cats ...

(Current numbers for the US; ~250,000 per year killed by turbines, ~1,000,000,000 per year by windows. 2.4 billion/year by cats. Numbers via Dunning, B. "Wind Turbines and Birds." Skeptoid Podcast. Skeptoid Media, 7 Jan 2020. Web. 12 Jan 2020. https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4709 )

So switching to Linux might reduce the use of Windows ... but probably increases use of cat ...

European Judges, join lawyers in Polish protests. In an age of autocratic Caesars, the rule of law, has to be supported on the street. Something that young Indian lawyers have instinctively grasped

https://www.euronews.com/2020/01/11/hundreds-of-judges-and-lawyers-join-warsaw-protest-against-polish-muzzle-law

has anyone tried to speedrun a theorem prover?

@pinkprius this is the response to it from Matrix https://matrix.org/blog/2020/01/02/on-privacy-versus-freedom/