Sundar @digital_carver@social.cleverlibre.org
- Languages
- English, தமிழ்
- Some fiction I love
- Discworld, Mother of Learning, பொன்னியின் செல்வன், Dresden Files, HPMoR
- Buy me a Chai?
- https://ko-fi.com/digital_carver
Teacher, trainer, developer.
Interested in books, tech, pets, being less wrong, and having my mind blown every now and then.
I'm also @Sundar where I'll be posting Julia tips, resources, etc.
#programming #education #training #learning #julialang #julia
#science
#webfiction
#meditation
#fedi22
Joined Sep 2020
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On a good day, put together a little self-care package you can pull out for bad days. Include a few things you know will help.
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facemask shitpost
Lips that don't touch facemask shall not touch ours
Oh God Vimium feels so good to use.
I thought all I wanted from a Vim addon for Firefox was link hints (to open links from keyboard) and j/k navigation. But I was wrong, this is what I've wanted all my life.
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Meditate for 10 minutes. Try a guided meditation if you have trouble staying focused.
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🎉 duf v0.4.0 is out, a user-friendly alternative to 'df'!
What's new?
- Hide filesystems with --hide-fs
- Theme & styling options
- Auto-detects terminal theme
- Support for OpenBSD
- Support for Windows
Get this yummy tool here: https://github.com/muesli/duf 😋
Everyone knows William H Taft by now, precisely because everyone keeps calling him out as the least famous US president
@dredmorbius
I replied the Fediverse timeline, but mainly because I'm pretty new and don't yet have the curated Home timeline I'd like to have.
The Fedi timeline became so much more usable after I blocked a few users, and a couple of whole domains that were full of what you call "fuckwits" in your pinned tweet. #BlockFuckwits indeed.
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"Good Intentions, Bad Inventions," a new pamphlet by Amanda Lenhart and Kellie Owens from Data and Society takes aim at this story and three others, painting a more nuanced (and evidence-based!) picture of what's wrong with tech and how to improve it.
https://datasociety.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Healthy-Tech-Myths-DataSociety-20201007.pdf
Take the story about addictive tech. The story is grounded in a kind of evolutionary psych story about our caveman brains meeting high technology. That story is just...a story, devoid of any evidence.
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I did the "exit from social media site to home page, then absent-mindedly go back to the same site immediately to waste more time on it" thing, but with Hacker News today instead of with Reddit like I used to.
Looks like I've successfully weaned myself off of #reddit, feeling good about that.
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@BBCNews@newsbots.eu "the new test had 96% sensitivity and 98% specificity" Those numbers sound kinda low for a medical test, gonna be millions of false positives and thousands of false negatives. The article doesn't mention the rates of the current PCR test though, maybe those have comparable numbers too.
@BBCNews@newsbots.eu "the new test had 96% sensitivity and 98% specificity" Those numbers sound kinda low for a medical test, gonna be millions of false positives and thousands of false negatives. The article doesn't mention the rates of the current PCR test though, maybe those have comparable numbers too.
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@xyzzy look inside clay pot
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Snakes and ladders was originally a game about morals and karma.
"Here is the story of two game-boards in the British Library’s archives and how an Indian game designed to teach the workings of Karma and religion became the Snakes and Ladders that children play the world over, today."
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RT @dylanbeattie@twitter.com
Just saw a tweet that said "Stay at 127.0.0.1. Wear a 255.0.0.0" and I'm like... that's a class A subnet. That's a mask big enough for you and 16,777,213 other people. That's never gonna work.
Be smart, people. Stay at 127.0.0.1, wear a 255.255.255.248.
@xyzzy Observe Clay Pot
swearing, fictional violence
Sakamochi in Battle Royale is an asshole for sure - but I think anyone who's been a teacher can empathize with him when he shouts "No whispering!" and throws a knife at the whispering student. That's a knife-throw-worthy offense in class, or should be!
Late night munchies + poorly lit room leads to dog food looking like tasty grapes. Not recommended.
- Languages
- English, தமிழ்
- Some fiction I love
- Discworld, Mother of Learning, பொன்னியின் செல்வன், Dresden Files, HPMoR
- Buy me a Chai?
- https://ko-fi.com/digital_carver
Teacher, trainer, developer.
Interested in books, tech, pets, being less wrong, and having my mind blown every now and then.
I'm also @Sundar where I'll be posting Julia tips, resources, etc.
#programming #education #training #learning #julialang #julia
#science
#webfiction
#meditation
#fedi22
Joined Sep 2020
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