ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

Paulingite-Ca
Vinařice, Kladno District, Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic
FOV = 2.0 mm
#8647

If Harry Potter characters were names of programming languages:

RON - Beginner-friendly language, nice clean natural syntax. Very poor performance, not suitable for production code.

MCGONAGALL - Formal logic language developed in the 1970s. Full of exotic punctuation marks that require a special keyboard. Average developer has two categories in category theory.

DOBBY - Tries too hard to be helpful, overoptimizes everything.

HERMIONE - Fast, performant language but hard to learn. Very strict typing and compile-time exception checking, with compiler errors to tell you that you're doing it wrong before you take someone's eye out.

DUMBLEDORE - Legacy language, missing many modern features and promoting practices now considered antipatterns. Important in its day, but there are better choices now.

DOLOHOV - Developed by the Soviet space programme in the 1960s, surprisingly advanced for its time and now seeing new applications in embedded systems.

PETTIGREW - Low level language, tons of security vulnerabilities. Would not use. Had much potential, but now universally hated.

SNAPE - Java.

GILDEROY - JavaScript.

POTTER - Annoying dev community who go on and on about how great this language is, despite its many shortcomings.

A valiant effort has been made by Little Tim this year, who for some reason has decided to change his name to Tim'); INSERT INTO [NiceList] SELECT * FROM [NaughtyList];--

HO HO HO! Nice try Tim. I don't use #SQL, I use several dozen interconnected #Excel spreadsheets, like a professional.

It's in the Apocryphal Gospels somewhere

Augite
Summit Rock, Klamath Co., Oregon, USA
FOV= 0.9 mm
#2384

Enstatite
Summit Rock, Klamath Co., Oregon, USA
FOV = 3.5 mm
#2384

Aaargh!. I've somehow managed to reduce my advanced view to three columns and would like to get back to four. After about a half hour of fruitless searching for an answer, I am empty-handed. I bet somebody out there knows; could I get a hand please please?

We have our orders to protect the EGGstar!

#academia #PhD #phdlife #science #xp @OpenAcademics @AcademicChatter

How is this comfortable #Rufus???

#Dogs
#DogsOfMastodon

twitter thread by jaketapper@twitter.com

https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1604128508476657664?s=20&t=6kvkZNqh-9Im9NXbncYL6A

it looks like #bigtech have bought themselves a Senate majority leader who intends to kill a couple of bipartisan (!) bills aimed at reining in worst monopolistic practices of #Apple and #Google. EU has passed similar legislation so I am hoping US will too eventually but Schumer's obstructionism is deeply troubling.
#antitrust

Unceasing grey skies
By day, streets leeching color
Oh! Such lights by night!

#haiku #poetry #Christmas

This metal plate was just installed recently. Emergencies are now prohibited on the premises.

“Tár is less interested in explaining the relationship between genius and cruelty than in showing how both collaborate with power—as derived from the brands, the institutions, and all their virtuous pretense—to create a shield against accountability.”

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/what-tar-knows-about-the-artist-as-abuser

"The opposite of woke is 'cunt' ".

💯% pure genius. The best sentence this century.

[Credit: @mistyswoman ]

Never bring an Occam's razor to a Chekhov's gun fight.

Nubian does not exist #TerranTradeAuthority #AIArt #midjourney

Well here’s my protest, lol. I haven't fully thought this through, but for now I'm only going to use Twitter for announcements, and will direct people here to Mastodon for conversations. Journalism can no longer reliably happen on Twitter.

hey I have a #meta #mastoadmin question. Can you think of any incident where „a Fedi admin can look at your DMs / Mentioned People Only Visibility Statuses(tm)“ caused an actual problem? Like, where an admin did that, and it caused harm? Because I sure can‘t. Is that my local bias here? Or is it just straight up, well, not much of a problem in practice?

No details just „yeah we had An Incident over here“

Mastodon please help me with something. I'm a #trans guy with practically no trans guy friends. I know nothing about trans guys. I only know about James.

I could really do with some transmasc and trans men friends so.... hi?

Boosts encouraged 💜