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A capable software engineer and aspirating (sic) cook. Also posting about space stuff (mostly NASA) occasionally
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エボシクラゲ I was surprised how relatively simple the decision was for Janeway to destroy #Voyager in S2 E21. Like, there was just a throwaway mention by Harry of the weirdness of essentially occupying an alternate reality. It *does* make sense though that they're used to that kind of thing with transporters.
#startrek
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lol found out who cost me ~10 hours by (wrongly) changing an equation on wikipedia 6 years ago, and I feel like I have a new enemy
drives me nuts when software engineers say "divide and conquer" and then split up to each work on the (usually still fairly complex) parts of a problem. Like, you know you're interpretation is exactly wrong, right?
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@2ck there, this confirms the Rust team being axed completely, and that MDN was gutted:
https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/14/mozilla_google_search/
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@2ck some info here: https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/11/mozilla_staff_layoffs_products_revenue/
Seems to somewhat confirm developer tools team, MDN, and Rust team are affected:
"we are reducing investment in some areas such as developer tools, internal tooling, and platform feature development"
my mask smells like ass... #COVID19
@coldwave right there with ya bud
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Today, I was trying to find (using commercial search engines) information about a topic. Maybe 9 out of 10 or more "relevant" results was about purchasing items related to the topic. Not ads placed in the result page, no, the actual results.
I remember how, when I was younger, I used to marvel at all the information out there on the web. How it was like a giant library.
I scarcely recognize the place now. If you want to search information about a topic you don't go into a mall. But that's what it feels like I'm forced to do.
I remember going to the library and pulling out drawers of index cards to locate the relevant non-fiction shelves with good content on topics I wanted to learn about. Imagine if those index cards had been mixed with cards with advertisements on them. Increasingly diluting the content with junk. That is the web of today.
@rysiek how do you know the composition of the layoffs? you've talked to Mozilla devs?
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Plan your flag (register an online account), before a bad person does on your behalf:
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/08/why-where-you-should-you-plant-your-flag/
For US citizens:
-SSA.org
-IRS
-Credit bureaus
-UPS
And a few more good recommendations on the article.
@esvrld @TeethTeethTeeth reminds me of journal club in undergrad. I didn't understand most of the paper we were on, but my professor showed how it was OK that I hadn't understood everything. In retrospect, I realized he was teaching us *how* to read a paper in his field, though I mostly felt embarrassed for not knowing what to pay attention to at the time.
Did the universal translators ever get updated to translate Tamarian or is the language just too contextual? imagine, Starfleet diplomats taking a history course just to talk to those guys #startrek #darmokandjalad
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A capable software engineer and aspirating (sic) cook. Also posting about space stuff (mostly NASA) occasionally
pronouns: he, him
Joined Apr 2020
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