swiley @swiley@social.cleverlibre.org
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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
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I don't really understand why people are talking about Clubhouse at all. Has their use case not already been long solved by Teamspeak, Mumble, Discord, Zoom, Skype, Jitsi and so on?
@echo_pbreyer This kind of crap is probably why brexit happened and I wouldn't be surprised if more countries left because of this.
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🇬🇧 With #chatcontrol, the EU wants #masssurveillance of all your private online communications in real-time. What is it about, what will happen next and what can you do?
@ZySoua The mess on the left probably isn't mentally healthy anyway though. That kind of thing can exacerbate ADHD.
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My friend, Friday Kinoti is looking for her sister believed to have been locked in jail in Abu Dhabi, UAE. No information regarding her whereabouts....Kenyan embassy in UAE is not responding.
uspol, covid
@deutrino I'm surprised by how quiet the real estate bears have gotten. I guess they expected something to happen last year and now they're not too sure.
TFW your girlfriend won't snoop on your emails because she doesn't know the keyboard shortcuts for mutt and thinks no one sexts over email.
@icedquinn Oh you should see what Thailand is doing.
TFW your girlfriend calls you concerned about the Satina gifs she found on one of your computers.
>Oh we'll just fix it with ECMO
Half the stuff in "The Good Doctor"
I'm not a doctor but I'm pretty sure it doesn't work that way.
It turns out google is an even worse steward of the infrastructure many communities depend on than most of us thought.
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.c
@wishgranter14 @2ck @freemo @johnabs At least personally: my girlfriend is an immigrant. So *I've* certainly benefited. And from experience I would definitely recommend immigrants over American girls.
IMO: being anti immigration is just a bizarre a-social position to take. Why *not* have open borders? The mess we have now just makes everyone's lives more complicated.
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Chinese #SupplyChain Attack on Computer Systems https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/02/chinese-supply-chain-attack-on-computer-systems.html
@COOL_FREE_RINGTONES @2ck @johnabs @freemo But we have the resources to build expensive robots to kill kids in Asia?
@rlamacraft I'd be willing to bet this is users not understanding that SVG is a vector format and stumbling on a button/filter that wraps the bitmap in an SVG.
@freemo Large groups of people in the US being nationalist/anti-immigration isn't really a new thing. There used to be serious hate for Irish and Italian immigrants.
@onlmaps I've never gotten the whole "Americans don't take their shoes off" thing. Almost everyone I know does this.
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#2424 Normal Conversation
"I think I'll pass. These days I have a hard time feeling comfortable in crowded bars with loud music and lots of shouting." --me, after the pandemic, but now for a second reason
- 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
