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@antares@social.cleverlibre.org
- Pronouns
- It's complicated. IDK. Maybe ze/zim/zir https://pronouns.org/ze-hir
- Degree
- Physics, Cal Poly SLO
- Work
- I fix broken stuff
#Technology, #baseball (Dodgers), #politics, #religion (#Christian)
Joined Apr 2022
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If a public agency wants to create an official Mastodon server it controls (or use one the state has set up) — that's great! They should do that. I'd love to see a dedicated National Weather Service instance, for example.
But this shouldn't happen at the expense of having their web sites actually be **useful**. So start putting all this information on the web again. Get that stuff back into those dormant RSS feeds.
Then pipe that information wherever you want (including Mastodon)!
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I am continually frustrated by the number of people on social media who want to change democratic systems in a way that would be an obvious vector for abuse.
Most recent one was to require federally elected officials to pass a security clearance background inspection. They erroneously think that it would only filter out GOP demagogues like DJT and MTG. But lets be honest, would the DoD under Trump have done a fair background check or would any rumor or innuendo have been enough to disqualify all the serious democratic candidates.
Same thing with not allowing indited or convicted felons to run for office. You may thing this is aimed at Trump, but what happens when Pres. DeSantis (it could happen) convicts hundreds of Democratic candidates of illegally facilitating abortions and in that way has them disqualified from standing for office.
In Trump era of politics where honor and integrity no longer matter it is vitally important that our actions not be ones that can be turned against us by populists with no morals.
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Could we maybe stop shaming people for reading kids’ books? Adult books are full of sad people having affairs while kids’ books have magic wardrobes and worms driving around in apples; you tell me who’s winning.
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As a professional programmer, the number one rule is "don't trust programmers". They're not mega intelligent computer wizards. We spend half our time cleaning up the mistakes of the developers that came before us, and the other half making mistakes for future devs to clean up.
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“I’ll miss this place,” the graduating senior says.
“You’ll see it again.” I smile. “In dreams, whenever you have anxiety. It won’t be exactly the same… That’s why you’ll be lost. And late for class. Then realize you haven’t attended all year. There’s a test.”
“Wh—“
“You haven’t studied.”
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Note to self: It sometimes is useful to read the documentation 😁
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Do not seize the day. This will startle the day and may cause it to becomes aggressive and give you a nasty bite.
Instead approach the day calmly without making eye contact, pet it gently, and slowly enfold it in a careful embrace
If the day shows any signs of resistance to being engaged with, it is likely to turn on you. Back off and return to bed.
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For those calling for defederation of the .UA (Ukrainian) instances, know this:
Today is the anniversary of the war, and they have been experiencing Russian intel ops against their servers... moreover today than normal.
They are banning these accounts when they reveal themselves, but they are also in areas where power may not be consistent. They deserve more grace right now than most ever do.
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I've been wondering how long it would take for this argument to be made in a forced birth state...
#Florida Woman Seeks Jail Release On Behalf Of Illegally Detained Fetus
"'I am asserting the right of someone who is a person who has not been considered in the decision to incarcerate his mother.'” - attorney, William Norris
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California AG and state senators introduce bill to ban hidden fees
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Because a friend found this useful yesterday:
Before tackling a problem, figure out whether it's the sort of problem where when you've solved 80% of the problem, you've solved 80% of the problem, or the kind where solving 80% means you've solved 0% of the problem.
This is especially important in security and privacy because that last 5% might be impossible.
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My favourite *practical* use of a (non-t xtbook) monad in #haskell is xmonad. What's yours?
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The problem is a lack of calculus for conditionals. Yes we can easily calculate values from conditional formulas, but we have no way to characterized their behavior. No way to derived proofs when there is an "if" in the formula.
There is a fields medal and 50 years worth of mathematical and scientific advancements locked up behind a calculus for conditionally branching equations. #CollantzConjecture
I think that the story of the Eastern Ohio train derailment is not getting the national coverage an even of this magnitude deserves. Ignoring events like this when they occur away from major coastal media centers feeds into the narrative that the country and the media is run by and for "coastal elites" which is not good for the health of our democracy either.
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Your annual reminder that your monthly metrics will be down 10% in February because February is 10% shorter than January. Please do not contact your data team about it.
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#CollegeBoard's website is so shit that I Googled the CSS Profile codes of 5 colleges in the time it took to give me a list for "New York". Google's out there literally searching millions of web pages and extracting this number, and CollegeBoard can't even do a lookup of like a thousand name to number entries in their database </rant>
#collegeapps
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When was your earliest memory?
- Pronouns
- It's complicated. IDK. Maybe ze/zim/zir https://pronouns.org/ze-hir
- Degree
- Physics, Cal Poly SLO
- Work
- I fix broken stuff
#Technology, #baseball (Dodgers), #politics, #religion (#Christian)
Joined Apr 2022
