🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

There is a problem with America.

Trying to write a subinterpreter-compatible, subclassable Python C extension type that stores data on the class itself.

Do what you want.. I’ve already won

sneaking a fry...

#sneaky #sneak #dog #frenchfries #animatedgif

Thoughts on the day...

So it would seem that there is a huge push to get girls/women/ladies/female persons into STEM and programming specifically. There are people working on "scholarships" or "free tickets to cons" and such for them as underrepresented class of persons. I am wondering the actual specific reasons? Is it because we have an actual shortage of programming persons? Or because this class of persons desires to be in programming, but is somehow being shut out? There doesn't necessarily seem to be lack for this class of persons in other STEM fields. Could it also be due to the fact that this class of persons is traditionally paid less than their boy/man/dude/male person counterpart performing the same job as an attempt to lower the cost to businesses employing such? I am curious of the pushes that are being done, because I never trust the motivation given for anything that affects so many aspects of something.

Without turning this into an essay, I want to raise a few more questions?
Does the industry gain anything in the field from diversity itself? Does a programming team benefit from having a person of a specific gender, race, religion, national origin <insert the rest of the eoe protected classes> from the fact that they are in fact a member of that class.
Should the industry and its players change itself, (customs, culture, mores, language, and so on) to allow for such integration, or would the marriage of such new culture to an existing culture naturally change it organically?
Is this done in other industries where they are made up lacking a certain class of person and strong encouragement, support etc. is made to interest, entice, or otherwise bring members of that lacking class into it?

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Too many Bad News, can't stand looking at my fave news sites lately.

Time for some nice Cat pictures? This one just found on FB, by Ines Dias from Portugal. Great looking kitty.

#cats #mastocats #meow #CatsOfMastodon

Now I've seen everything.
https://youtu.be/nULLslguF6A

Transmitting Power thru the Body for Wearable #IoT sensors...

"SkinnyPower: enabling batteryless wearable sensors via intra-body power transfer"
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3356250.3360034

@freemo That makes a certain amount of sense in my warped mind. Weird crap happing all over the world, people start to panic, they turn to "mainstream" systems that everyone is familiar with to try to keep up with everything.

I'm a nerd girl... still skimming under the surface of the net with irc and gopher and even I didn't know about the fediverse until very recently.

Now that the initial wave of panic has passed, the weird is a little more normal, boredom is settling in, people are exploring again.

I like the ice berg image of the internet. The tip being what everyone thinks of as the internet, the deep web being all the systems and routes and servers that make the internet run, the darknet being places you find on Tor...

With that imagery, the "known internet" really is like surfing. The deep web is like scuba diving, and the darknet means learning to pilot a sub. It seems to me like the fediverse is like snorkeling.