⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@social.cleverlibre.org

There's some C code in the wikipedia page for "Hilbert Curve" and I would like to propose this code be removed from the "Hilbert Curve" page and moved to the "How Not to Comment Source Code" page

the eu is fucking wild man
“hey, we just passed landmark privacy regulations!”
“oh by the way we’re trying to mandate backdoors into every encryption scheme”
“we are forcing google, apple, and microsoft to stop locking down their ecosystems!”
“oh yeah we’re also trying to mandate backdoors in all browsers’ certificate stacks”
“anti-adblock is spyware ^_^ we’re suing youtube”

sudo !! #Linux #Unix #macOS #FreeBSD

Since I started streaming I am AMAZED at the extent to which if you have one three hour period per week you need your computers to work precisely on time, your computers will find ways to break in the ten minutes before that three hours begins

Since the usual mob of foaming-at-the-mouth idiots are banging on again about leaving the ECHR:

Breaking: “Elon Musk successfully rains hundreds of tons of debris and rocket fuel into Atlantic Ocean. Again.” #SpaceX #Starship

Well, that was a spectacular RUD! (Made most of their goals for the test flight first, though.)

SpaceX’s second Starship flight test ends in an explosion minutes after launch https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/18/23965728/spacex-starship-flight-test-explosion-super-heavy-booster?utm_content=buffer00f9e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bufferapp.com&utm_campaign=buffer

🚀 #Starship made it through #MaxQ and #HotStaging, to > 24000 km/h at a height of 148 km https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/spacex-starship-launched-test-flight-texas-after-last-one-blew-up-2023-11-18/

The Digital Solutions Hub (DSH) will integrate more than 40 petabytes of NERC's Environmental data with UK wide socioeconomic, health, and environmental data.

We are hosting a webinar, in partnership with the University of Manchester, to discuss the outcomes of our user engagement workshops and how this feeds into the development of the DSH.

We also provide user case examples on how the DSH can support policymakers in making evidence-based interventions.

Full details>> https://buff.ly/48VlA0r

What is missing/broken/incomplete/irritating about the BBCs RSS feeds?
I've been asked loads about it quite a bit so I have raised it on our fortnightly leadership meeting for 2 weeks time. Keen to make things better!
#RSS #BBC

Youtube cracking down on adblocking software to force people to watch ads and in the process making ad blockers better and still not getting people to force-watch ads is the most predictable outcome ever

USS Enterprise NX-01 🖖

(2/2)

#LEGO #StarTrek #LEGOStarTrek
#ENT #Enterprise #MOC #AFOL
#RestoreTheBakukaTime

Ministers could have made the Rwanda policy legal. They chose not to do so.

The government has only itself to blame for this week’s Supreme Court outcome.

By me, at Prospect

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/63942/david-allen-green-rwanda-asylum-supreme-court

Happy Partially-muscled-skeleton-stands-by-the-perimiter-fence-and-screams-for-thirty-seconds-before-vanishing Day to those who celebrate!

I've been following some of the Post Office Horizon Inquiry. I came across a report used in evidence to 'showcase' the level of programming used in that system.

The example they used in evidence was the code devised to reverse the sign of a number (equivalent to the command :- d=-d )


Public Function ReverseSign(d)

If d <0 Then
d=Abs(d)
Else
d=d-(d*2)
End If

ReverseSign = d

End Function

Smart Quotes and Coding Examples

Every so often, I copy and paste some code from a website and it utterly fails. This is probably a good reminder not to practise ✂️ & 📋 development, but it is also a reminder that "smart" formatting often trips up new students.

Here are a few examples I've seen recently - produced as a result of computers trying to be cleverer than humans, and huma

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/11/smart-quotes-and-coding-examples/

#/etc/ #code #education #NaBloPoMo

Remember the Cant!
The Expanse (Season 1, 2015): In-universe advertising, art by Jonathan Hunter

Before being an ice hauler, the Canterbury was a colony ship.
#scifi #tvshow #theexpanse #spaceship