R. A. Dehi @radehi@social.cleverlibre.org

Hello new #API developers who've come here from Twitter.
I've written some guides to help you get started with the #MastdonAPI

Includes how to build #bots, grab conversations, and use search effectively.

Read them at: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/tag/mastodon/

#Underline text in different lightweight markup languages:

Emacs #OrgMode , Muse:
_this_

#DokuWiki:
__this__

#Textile, #Jira
+this+

There is no Markdown syntax for underlined text, but #pandoc's #Markdown reader treats the content of spans with class "underline" or "ul" as #underlined:

[important]{.underline}
[nota bene]{.ul}

I've been using #AnnotatedEquations in my recent papers. I think it really adds to the readability and understanding of the math.

Here are some examples. It uses #tikz in #latex.

Let me know if you like it. Happy for any feedback.

One of my pals told me my Twitter comments were as viscous as AOC and Nancy Pelosi. I though everyone’s were like that! I just got used to it. As much as you can. It’s nothing short of astounding to me that I can just post and engage on here and people respond in a way that seems normal and real. The Twitter comments world is distorted and dangerous. I don’t see how twitter can be fixed. We’re better off here. ❤️

Sad news from UNC Chapel Hill Computer Science — Fred P. Brooks, the founder and long-time chair of the department (and a major influence on my professional outlook) passed away a few hours ago.

@alcinnz Well, so, the effect of any finite-length string on a particular DFA is a finite map from possible states at the beginning of the string to resulting states at the end of the string. For the empty string it is the identity function.

You can compute the effect of a concatenation of strings by composing these maps. If you do this bottom-up on a long string, starting from all its one-character substrings and then consolidating them into a tree of substrings of length 2, 4, 8, etc., each exhaustively covering the original string, you have a log-time parallel algorithm for DFA evaluation on the string. The final step is to apply the finite map computed for the entire string to the initial state defined by the DFA.

Then, if desired, you can propagate the results back down the tree to find the state of the DFA at every character.

Is precisely the parallel prefix-sum algorithm, with the monoid operation being function composition rather than, for example, integer addition.

Does that make sense? I don't know how to evaluate the clarity of my explanation in part because I don't know how familiar you are with the background.

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are so full of doubt." – Bertrand Russell, paraphrased from The Triumph of Stupidity”, Mortals and Others: Bertrand Russell's American Essays, 1931-1935

https://twitter.com/MNateShyamalan/status/1592287177542696963

#quote, #quotes, #stupidity, #doubt, #impostorsyndrome

Switched out Serial for PPP and ... we can now also use all the on device internet tools like it's 1999. Can telnet to the host with Hermes, so nothing lost.

It's broken. Nothing works. Everything wants https and 50MB downloads.

However this all works the way I want it now. Another revision of the lid and I'll print the final version.

#Psion #Sidecar #BringBackTheOldWeb

Questions to ask about your infinite scroll / things that suck about infinite scroll

* can you navigate to the footer?
* can you use control/command f to locate elements on the “page”
* can you bookmark what you’re looking at
* does the URL automatically update to reflect the content you are looking at
* can you share what you’re looking at by copying and pasting the URL in the address bar?

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@BinaryUnit

This one is for all the new people on #Mastodon: did you know that the #fediverse has more than just a microblogging replacement? And that they can all interoperate with your Mastodon account?

Check them out!

Facebook replacement: Friendica
Instagram replacement: Pixelfed
YouTube replacement: PeerTube
Spotify replacement: Funkwhale
MeetUp replacement: Mobilizon
Reddit replacement: Lemmy
Podcasting replacement: Castopod
GoodReads replacement: BookWyrm

@radehi being at peace, now there's a skill worth having

#plan9 from Bell Labs is a research operating system developed at Bell Labs starting in the late 1980s.
Its original designers and authors were Ken Thompson, Rob Pike, Dave Presotto, and Phil Winterbottom. They were joined by many others as development continued throughout the 1990s to the present.

I just presented Art Spiegelman with the National Book Award Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, on the same day that PENAmerica put out a letter signed by Art and Margaret Atwood and me, among others, protesting the latest round of book bannings.
https://pen.org/spiegelman-atwood-sign-pen-america-letter-against-missouri-book-bans/

If you download your Twitter archive it arrives wrapped as a static HTML page, which is not very useful for doing anything with, and worse: it requires the original account to be still active to do useful things like enlarge the images since they use t.co links.

So here's a Python script to convert a Twitter archive to markdown or other formats: https://github.com/timhutton/twitter-archive-parser

Now you can archive your tweets in any way you want.

@mathew @alcinnz @BillSeitz

Layout is really counterintuitive.

Then, when you have an algorithm to do a "good enough" job at it (like an HTML renderer has), all the knobs for changing default behavior end up being even more counterintuitive, because other behaviors will interact with whatever you change in unexpected ways.

I worked on ZZOGL, which had a very simple layout system that I quite like, but it was tough to get grid-like patterns with it unless you created invisible objects that overlapped visible ones (which I introduced to the spec specifically to make these layouts easier).