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Email mastodon+swiley@swiley.net (this makes all of my computers beep and turn on an indicator light and is always the fastest way to reach me.) I was on octodon a while ago but abandoned my account. I've never been a member of gab or parlor.
If you’d like to learn to program I would consider the SICP [1] more or less the peak of American CS pedagogy (at least as far as beginners go) along with “The Practice of Programming” once you get through that.
I play ukulele, I’m ok at reading music and decent at improv. I learned from Walter Piston’s “Harmony” and some of Adam Neely’s videos.
My main phone is a pine phone so if I don’t pick up when you call the battery is probably dead, the modem is probably dead, or I’m currently swearing at calls/pulseaudio/alsa. I’d strongly recommend sending an email instead.
Dispite what my web page says I’ve stopped uploading my scratch projects to GitHub once I started to understand the basics of collaboration with git. I was using the flamegraph as gamification/motivation but it doesn’t work as well with feature branch/squash merge workflows so I just keep most things on my VPS until I’m happy with publishing updates.
[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/book/book.html
Joined Jan 2021
@openscience TBQH: "'Empirical' Computer Science" sounds like nonsense but there's probably some context I'm missing.
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REDDIT KILLED A HEDGE FUND
I TAKE BACK SOME OF THE THINGS I'VE SAID
I TAKE BACK SOME OF THE THINGS I'VE SAID
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Another Sudo Root Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Got Patched, Update Now
https://9to5linux.com/another-sudo-root-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-got-patched-update-now
re: appreciationposting
@icedquinn Sometimes I just want to go full haskell but everytime I've tried I get nothing done.
appreciationposting
@icedquinn I really love the OCAML attitude of "there is no null, you need to come up with reasonable values for your types."
@icedquinn @orekix Yeah I spent my whole life home schooled in a really rural area and felt like college was my last big chance to socialize before going off to work so I put a ton of effort into it.
It's definitely doable and I *feel* like it should be doable afterwards but haven't quite figured that out yet.
@icedquinn @orekix The obvious solution is to not give "corpos" 24/7 attention and reject situations that would make avoiding this harder.
@icedquinn @orekix idk if you're tactful about it and take care of yourself they don't seem to mind. I wouldn't flirt with coworkers but I dated the girl I studied calculus with in college and she was an uber feminist.
@icedquinn The solution to this is better social mobility which is where the US is failing now (especially for men.)
@icedquinn The alternative is sufficiently unpleasant and women tend to like the empowerment.
@icedquinn Most models are predicting a shortage of kids in the US and similar things seem to happen when developing countries start educating women.
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what the @nytimes@twitter.com reports (1) vs. what happened (2, 3, 4)
the media is a disaster and keeps us divided
the web 3.0 revolution is one of unity, not division
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US Defense Intelligence Agency admits to buying citizens’ location data
The agency claims it doesn’t need a warrant to collect the info
@calculsoberic@mstdn.social Icecat.
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re: Censorship Google #bigtech
@icedquinn Some people call it "AI" but I would argue most of what google is doing is too probabilistic for that.
Censorship Google #bigtech
The pervasive use of #heuristics on public un-federated services people have no control over or transparency into is really the thing that's pushing everyone towards insanity.
Some of the stuff people are starting to say about #bigtech and especially #google is beyond even what I would imagine.
re: opining on car insurance
@icedquinn There are other situations where the government forces people to become customers (in some cases without even the choice of forgoing the use of some infrastructure like with cars.)
Tax preperation servers
Metro (or other transit operators)
Utility companies
The telephone company (which used to only have one provider and in most places only has one maintaining the connection to your house)
re: opining on car insurance
@icedquinn It's the same issue: if you run your boat into something and can't pay to replace it then everyone loses.
re: opining on car insurance
@icedquinn Yeah, boating regulations are another good set of examples:
You're required to wear a life jacket, you're required to have insurance.
- mastodon+swiley@swiley.net
swiley.net
Email mastodon+swiley@swiley.net (this makes all of my computers beep and turn on an indicator light and is always the fastest way to reach me.) I was on octodon a while ago but abandoned my account. I've never been a member of gab or parlor.
If you’d like to learn to program I would consider the SICP [1] more or less the peak of American CS pedagogy (at least as far as beginners go) along with “The Practice of Programming” once you get through that.
I play ukulele, I’m ok at reading music and decent at improv. I learned from Walter Piston’s “Harmony” and some of Adam Neely’s videos.
My main phone is a pine phone so if I don’t pick up when you call the battery is probably dead, the modem is probably dead, or I’m currently swearing at calls/pulseaudio/alsa. I’d strongly recommend sending an email instead.
Dispite what my web page says I’ve stopped uploading my scratch projects to GitHub once I started to understand the basics of collaboration with git. I was using the flamegraph as gamification/motivation but it doesn’t work as well with feature branch/squash merge workflows so I just keep most things on my VPS until I’m happy with publishing updates.
[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/book/book.html
Joined Jan 2021
