Wietrzychowice. Ot taka kamieni kupa, ale sprzed 5.500 lat. Wiosna idzie, czas na zieloniutkie zdjęcia.
Więcej o Wietrzychowicach na moim blogu: https://kujawskiehistorie.wordpress.com/2022/08/18/tomb-raider-wietrzychowice/
Shamelessly reposting this because it is hilarious, but the toot making the rounds didn't bother with adding alt text.
I went to #VinoKilo today, this international traveling #vintage clothes sale that advertises itself as fast-fashion free and high-end, and it felt like a bit of a scam: around 50% of clothes were made of acrylic or polyester, and around 5% did come from fast fashion brands. Finding a sweater *not* made of oil was a challenge. 😮💨
I once had to fix a program in 370 Assembler language.
The variables were called
INT001,INT002, …
FLO001,FLO002, …
CHR001,CHR002, …
…
To be fair, there was a comment where they were declared to say what they were used for, though some were dual purpose to save memory.
The programmer did not sign their work.
I still remember and 🤬, 40 years later.
Any experienced programmer worth their salt will tell you that •producing• code — learning syntax, finding examples, combining them, adding behaviors, adding complexity — is the •easy• part of programming.
The hard part: “How can it break? How will it surprise us? How will it change? Does it •really• accomplish our goal? What •is• our goal? Are we all even imagining the same goal? Do we understand each other? Will the next person to work on this understand it? Should we even build this?”
Protip: Even worse than generic non-descriptive variable names are misleading variable names.
Don't do that.
To mówicie, że robale nie potrafią w matematykę? No nie wiem… rozkręca się projekt urządzenia do wytłaczania węzy pszczelej czyli zaczątka komórek z pszczelego wosku który dalej rozwiną robale i który potrafią zrobić same.
Co z tego wyniknie, pojęcia nie mam, ale zabawa przednia.
was next in line at a multi-register store the other day, so decided to ambiguously stand in no-mans land hoping humanity would self organise into a single serpentine queue behind me. someone had the hide to ask which line I was in. it's like no-one read my queueing theory blog post from 5 years ago 🤬
On an epic photo meetup at the beach, someone brought and handed out little plastic dinosaurs (I still have mine in my camera bag). Below you'll see the group of dinos at the water hole as well as the silly number of people holding cameras. I'm still amazed I could get the shot without any photographers in it!
Crazy numbers from #Anthropocene Earth:
Weight of all wild mammals on land: 22 million tons
Weight of all wild mammals in ocean: 40 million tons
Weight of all humans: 390 million tons
Weight of all land animals domesticated by humans: 630 million tons
New Study in PNAS:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2204892120
Article in Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/18/a-wake-up-call-total-weight-of-wild-mammals-less-than-10-of-humanitys
If you're interested in this stuff, I highly recommend @histoftech 's "Programmed Inequality" and #nathanensmenger 's "The Computer Boys Take Over".
I genuinely believe that for those of us interested in #retrocomputing, it's important to be aware of how the field of computing got to be as amoral and unethical as it is. Retrocomputing isn't just about clever but forgotten technical ideas.
The Hungarian Entomological Society recently posted this image highlighting the importance of diverse yards and the decline in insect diversity when shifting to monoculture
#solarpunk #nolawns
Two pictures that both show about 30 people getting a coffee.
We have to break #carculture
Living in the #wetlands of #Polesia (also spelled #Polesie) in #EasternPoland. Surrounded by #bogs and #forests, trying not to fuck up surrounding nature too much.
Taking care of a small pack of #dogs – #IdąPsięta.
Luddite working with hi-tech.
#RuralBroadband provider by accident. Starting a small LoRaWAN project to monitor our wetlands. Coding in #Python. Dealing with dirty data, cleaning them when time allows.
#Atheist. I don't *believe* in #science – science is the *only* thing that protects us from belief.
Fuck nazis.
My account on Twitter is still up, for good reasons. https://twitter.com/szescstopni
I check facts before I toot.
I sometimes toot in Polish.
Zdolny, ale leniwy.