Had seen these cartoons by Ron Cobb around for a while but never realized he also worked as a concept artist on a ton of blockbuster films including Back To the Future, star wars, alien etc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Cobb
Magnífico ejemplo de cómo despilfarrar dinero público para engordar las cuentas de empresas privadas. Alemania, como siempre, de cabeza hacia el futuro más distópico.
And that's why the 90s were the best decade!
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Today, let’s remember Dennis M. Ritchie, who was born #OTD in 1941. Ritchie received the 1983 #ACMTuringAward with Ken Thompson, for their development of generic operating systems theory and specifically for the implementation of the UNIX operating system. More, here: https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/ritchie_1506389.cfm
@bookstodon I love Tom Gauld's cartoons about books and book-lovers. This one hits a little close to home. https://www.theguardian.com/books/picture/2025/aug/31/tom-gauld-on-reading-to-survive-cartoon
#OnThisDay, 13 Aug 2014, Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani won the Fields Medal for her work on complex geometry. She was the first woman to win it since it began in 1936.
She died in 2017, aged just 40. Multiple awards and initiatives are named after her.
Un lector actual de Euclides las pasaría canutas para entender ideas que se enseñan en primaria. Eso se debe a que Euclides usaba lenguaje natural para explicar conceptos matemáticos.
Siempre me ha llamado la atención que haya tanta gente que vea el lenguaje natural como la opción más sencilla para comunicar ideas (o, en este caso, ejecutar tareas), porque lo cierto es que las notaciones científicas se inventaron por una razón. Lo mismo pasa con los lenguajes de programación.
Para crear un buffer, yo prefiero teclear C-x C-f y escribir un nombre. No me cuesta nada. Para algunos tipos de archivo, además, tengo plantillas que me rellenan campos por defecto. Si tuviera que escribir o decir lo que quiero cada vez, me moriría de asco.
Today I learned about this awesome metal band:
For a brief amount of time, I was the tech lead of a software project. Before that, I thought that leading was a matter of gently telling people what to do, being open to questions and suggestions from the team, and, generally, being patient.
But the experience left me with more questions than answers. How can some people lead whole armies to their death while I couldn't even get my points across (i.e., “I'm afraid you're doing it wrong. You have to do it this way.” Or: “If you have doubts, don't waste time we don't have: Just ask.”)?
My first instinct was to think: “Well, you need to surround yourself with people who share your vision or at least are experienced enough to understand it.” But that seems like an easy way out. You can't always be surrounded by like-minded people, right?
So, how do charismatic leaders do it? Is it just that they seek idiots to manipulate? Can they really do it without some form of coercion or propaganda? I don't know.
I don't like being a boss, it's just that I usually know better what must be done or where we should go, so being a subordinate frustrates me, too.
I love how the author apologises in advance for her cartoon (“It's not a call to Luddism, I promise”), but every comment is basically: “Yes! Luddism is the answer!”
(I'm a computer programmer and I agree: Luddism is the answer. Also, we need to cut out the middlemen. They're parasites.)
When I see people who aren't concerned about their data and #privacy in general, I get angry. Specially when they say, “I don't have anything to hide”. It's like you have to have something to hide to care.
A regular website, these days, shares your data with 500+ other websites and data exchanges.
If your data weren't relevant to them, they wouldn't jump through hoops and try to find loopholes to steal your data.
Grow the fuck up and pull your head out of your ass before it's too late
Seeing how #Slackware's LQ forum has become a cesspit of morons and gatekeepers, I have come to appreciate @alien's work and demeanor even more. He doesn't claim to speak for Pat and he gets very useful work done for the community. That's really something to admire.
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