Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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New release of the #opensource #FPGA toolchain for Xilinx 7 series FPGAs, with added support for Kintex FPGAs. Now, for the first time, DDR3 is working on the Kintex high performance banks! And you can build bitstreams for Spartan7, Artix7 and Zynq7 too!
https://github.com/kintex-chatter/nextpnr-kintex-snap/releases/tag/v0.2.0
https://github.com/kintex-chatter/toolchain-installer
Fully agreed lets be the best we can be and help others do the same.
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I’m just here to try to reach the geeky kids, maybe LGBTQIA, maybe alt, maybe on the spectrum, maybe just a little weird - and tell them that you can be 40 and have a Star Wars living room, and you can decide to not have kids and still have a life full of meaningful relationships and not regret it at all, and you can be a gamer and learn work skills from it, and you can be single but still do everything and travel the planet, you can be covered in tattoos and piercings and still be a successful business leader & public speaker, you can know trans rights are human rights and still be retired from the military, you can do whatever you want to as long as you show up every day and put in the work and put up a good fight - don’t like the people around you, society, your family, crappy friends, lousy spouses, what “they” told you, or the entropy of it all drag you down. Life can be really unfair, but learn your own personal battles, find your own family, and find meaning in the goofy world.
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Time for a proper introduction. I'm a wildfire and climate change researcher who has somehow remained employed in academia for 6 years. I worked in government for almost 10 years before that. Before that I studied neuroscience and biochemistry, before that business and German. Public interest science. Outreach, industry engagement. Anything to deepen the links between science and society. Oh and reading, and basketball, and work-life balance, and frivolity.
Agreed, people can't learn or teach unless the are also in the right state of mind to do so.
Face to face contact in the same room is priceless, esp as you get to diverge from topic and discuss other topics that may be concerning people, esp given the state of everything.
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Saw my students today for the first time in a week (was traveling last week). Did an opening circle activity to catch up with them. Gave them an opportunity to ask me a question, they could pick the topic. 3/4 of the questions were students asking about how I was and how I liked my trip, 1/4 about content.
This reinforces my belief that human connection is the magic in a classroom. Learning cannot happen without a classroom space infused with humanity.
Would this normally be set in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab ?
@Viktoria Welcome to Mastodon
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Masto moderation stuff
If you as a user, open up a report - please do not assume that I am aware of every context of the report.
Provide context, provide links, provide enough information so someone "competely unaware" can process the report without having to spend 10-30 minutes for each one.
I know, i fully agree with him being prosecuted, i was just expressing concern as to what his followers may do as a result.
I agree with this, small traders are different from large corporates, and as people have also said, people need income for rent / food etc/
I am not too sure on Video as i generally upload to peertube and either manually share here, or let peer tube federate.
With regard to photos In some cases I try and reduce the resolution to say 640x480 as it seems reasonable for here and is less of a download issue for others.
Guidance on good practice for this would be good.
@rysiek Brilliant, i prefer this anyway, we need the sex pistols to reform and record a God save the King version.
I can talk to people at code club but that is a physical event, I am trying to reach out to local youth groups to promote a coding contest and appear to be going round in circles and not getting anywhere.
So how can the fediverse bring about changes,
One of the issues i have is that people are so tied in to corporate platforms, such as Microsoft, google etc, that trying to do anything or reach out to people is really difficult.
@juandesant Great news :)
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I am really glad that we can finally confirm that the Joint ALMA Observatory successfully returned to science observations after the infamous cyber-attack of October 29th, 48 days ago!
You can read more about it here: http://www.almaobservatory.org/alma-successfully-restarted-observations/
#ALMA #AtacamaLargeMillimeterSubmillimeterArray #CyberAttack #Resiliency
I would rather keep the NHS.
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Should all computer include a native BASIC capability with instructions? Yes argues David Brin in "Why Johnny can’t code"
@KaiserScience The raspberry Pi used to come with return to basic,
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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