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Brian Walsh

K&R The C Programming Language 1978

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Addy Osmani

"Developers: stop moving things that I’m about to click on" is a great reminder to reduce layout shift on the web 👇

medium.com/@stephenjayakar/fro

#webperformance

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Phoenix

The Milwaukee airport has my favorite airport sign in the country, hands down.

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Widdershins Smith

Apparently, it’s rude to poke someone in the forehead and say, “skip intro,” when they start talking to you.

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R. L. Dane

@RS_Naifeh

"You were the Chosen One! It was said that you would destroy the VCs, not join them! Bring balance to the Web, not leave it in darkness!"

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RS_Naifeh

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I'm impressed by a Google Maps feature I just used for the first time. Walking around Manhattan, and it complained that location accuracy was low. Usually that's followed by it instructions for calibrating the accelerometer, involving a complex pas-de-deux with your phone.

This time it just asked me to point the camera at... basically anything. It instantly recognized my position from a random view on a random street.

While clearly it knew my approximate location, so the search space isn't unlimited, there could be different cars going by, etc. etc., not to mention an arbitrary field of view. I'm impressed.

Anyone have any details on how this computation is done?

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Is there an easy way to filter my feed(s) to include only toots written in English?

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Joshua Marshall

I’d been away from here for a few days. And the increased energy, critical mass is palpable

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planet4589 (Jonathan McDowell)

So true

RT @KylePlantEmoji@twitter.com

"the secret scientists don't want you to know!!" Dude have you ever met a single scientist? My scientist friends are desperate for me to know about the changing mating habits of Brown marmorated stink bugs. They're screaming at the top of their lungs to tell you EVERYTHING.

🐦🔗: twitter.com/KylePlantEmoji/sta

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Pecan pie is nature's most nearly perfect food.

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I'm not a paleontologist. I'd like to buy a trilobite fossil, just as a curio/conversation piece.

What's a good place to buy one where a complete n00b won't be ripped off?

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Eric's Risk Assessment

8. THE ALGO. Spend some time on mastodon instances. You notice its different. Ppl are polite. You interact, not yell. Its not combat. Its like the old Internet.

I withdraw from being a rage farmed engagement crop for eyeball monetisation

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Tom Lyon ✅

Belated #introduction #ComputerHistory

I'm a retired (3rd time) techie with an incredibly lucky career and family.

I'm most famous as being employee number 8 of #SunMicrosystems, and I got to work with the Bell Labs #UNIX team for a summer during the birth of V7 #UNIX.

My Silicon Valley career started with #Amdahl in 1978, followed by Sun for 12 years. I've since founded 4 startups (see profile).

I toot about #ComputerHistory; I've been there for much of it.

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PaulWrightyThen

Some random pieces #ConceptArt #MastoArt #Blender3d #SciFi

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pivic

:heart_fire:

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Former justice resigns from the SCOTUS Bar with a scathing rebuke of Roberts.

slate.com/news-and-politics/20

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Jason Weiser

“Then the spaceman took over the bird site so we all started tooting at the elephant place.”

“Oh…ok grandpa. Let’s get you back to bed.”

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Mastodon Migration

Mastodon Day

Friday November 18, 2022 - An Incredible Day In Internet History

You were here.

It started with the Twitter lockout. 10,000 new users an hour. Almost a quarter million migrated to Mastodon in one day. The servers struggled. Remarkably, admins all over the world built up capacity in real time. New users were patient. The system held.

It's running better now. There will be more hard days ahead, but people powered social media has arrived.

#twittermigration #NewUsers #Welcome

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A Concerned Scientist

@freemo

This sounds like something I talk about a lot, actually. Scientists, generally speaking, will have a method on how to do things. We're used to SOPs and process is often our thing.

The majority of the world doesn't think like that. If your instant and immediate reaction isn't what they want, then you're automatically against them.

I'm not going to write a novel, but look at how the non-scientists in the world handle information on things like COVID or climate change. If it changes, it's inherently bad in their opinion. Only the first opinion they heard matters, to a large number of people, and they'll go to the grave believing it.

TLDR; scientists and non-scientists often struggle with communication. Thank you for coming to my TED talk :)

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