Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

TIL that #Python has a special function for summing floats (https://docs.python.org/3/library/math.html#math.fsum).

Markdown support would be cool but what i really want is to be able to illuminate my toots with elaborate uncial capitals of gold leaf and vermilion

Listen, you're very cute, but if you rearrange the alphabet to put U and I together it will RUIN the spacing!
https://xkcd.com/2794/

If I can give one piece of life advice:

Whenever someone geeks about something in front of you, or admits an 'embarrassing' interest, just say:

"That sounds AMAZING. I don't know anything about that. Tell me about it."

Then just listen.

Not once in my life have I regretted it.

Oregon voters will soon get to decide whether to adopt ranked choice voting statewide

A victory for the RCV campaign in November 2024 would be a significant breakthrough for voting justice, as it would liberate voters in Oregon from being required to vote for just one candidate.

https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2023/06/oregon-voters-will-soon-get-to-decide-whether-to-adopt-ranked-choice-voting-statewide.html

#FairElections #OR-Ballot #RankedChoiceVoting

The most common form of propaganda is making you think that voting doesn't matter. If it did not matter, voter suppression and gerrymandering would not exist. Vote in every election you can as if your life depended on it.

What else would you use them for?
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

Stop eating what you're eating and throw it out the window right now! It'll be fun!

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Miss Ellie potted herself in my wife’s herb pot. #puppy #goldenretriever #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #MissEllie

Snickers and Oreo shown here demonstrating perfect pike sleeping position as they prepare for the Synchronized Sleeping competition in next year's Cat Olympics.

#cat #cats #Caturday #Saturday #pike #dive #diving #Olympics #sleep #sleeping #catsofmastodon #mastodoncats

wikipedia editors hard at work on the article about the titan submersible implosion

You can change the values of numbers in python:

#python #programming #code

I take no responsibility for damage caused

I asked ChatGPT about primes ending in 2 to make it prove a point and it proved the point far better than I could have hoped for.

Please do not be a fool who trusts ChatGPT with anything outside your field of expertise, and even then double or triple check what it tells you if you must use it.

they’re just begging for a car chase

Most people have probably already forgotten that several months ago, the Biden admin stopped a nationwide rail strike (over sick days) that might have screwed the economy. This made unions and union supporters very unhappy, and few believed the President when he said he’d get them their sick days. But with the help of Bernie Sanders, he has done it. They got the RR workers what they needed AND avoided a crippling strike. This is a big win for everyone that will probably go unnoticed. http://www.ibew.org/media-center/Articles/23Daily/2306/230620_IBEWandPaid