Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Hey, Mastodon: I’m still slowly working my way into this platform.

Who are some of your favorite and/or most informative follows on here?

Today in 1822, William McDougal was born. A close friend of Abraham Lincoln, he was with him when he gave the Gettysburg Address.
He then became a Father of Confederation & the Lt. Governor of Rupert's Land from 1869-1870.
He also served in Parliament from 1867-1872 & 1878-1882.

#Canada #History #UnitedStates #President #AbrahamLincoln #Canadian #Histodon #Histodons

NEW: A group of clergy in Missouri have filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s abortion ban, arguing it violates the Missouri constitution by imposing one set of religious beliefs (regarding abortion) on all citizens.

The Rev. Traci Blackmon: “Our elected officials have violated their oath to uphold that constitution by weaponizing religious beliefs to deny abortion access.”

https://religionnews.com/2023/01/19/clergy-file-suit-over-missouri-abortion-ban-arguing-it-establishes-a-religion/

@zleap @juddlegum here’s a good article discussing which other states and how they’re going about it. Texas and Pennsylvania are two I’ve heard the most rumbling about so far https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/01/22/students-want-new-books-thanks-restrictions-librarians-cant-buy-them/

@zleap Much better! And I can even paste an HTML table to the EtherCalc clipboard as tab-separated text and it then pastes correctly as cells in the spreadsheet. Very cool.

This is exactly what I should have used last week to resolve the topic of a frivolous tangent in a conversation. 😃

Maniac Mansion exists because Gary and I were too stupid to know it couldn't be done. As I get older and more experienced I am losing the ability to be too stupid to know things can't be done. Experience can be a curse.

Nice overview of the various ways to determine the neutrino's mass.

"“If you want to learn more about neutrinos, you need to be creative, to find an original and clever method that allows you to really learn something about them,” she [Loredana Gastaldo] says. “The neutrinos don’t give anything up as a present, so you need to sweat a lot to gain a little bit more understanding.”"

https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/ways-to-weigh-a-neutrino

#Experiments #Research #Physics #Particles #Neutrinos #Science

Dipotassium Diboratapentacenes Isolated: First fully aromatized diboratapentacene structures with boron atoms in separate rings

https://bit.ly/3H5Rfz4

#chemisttry #chemistryviews #chemviews #chemivere #scicom #research #synthesis

Determining exact mem usage of an app in Linux is nontrivial, esp. for multithreaded/multiprocess apps.

Here's a bash oneliner to do it:

for pid in $(pidof app); do cat /proc/$pid/smaps; done | awk '/Private_Dirty:/ {x = x + $2} END {print("Used memory: " int(x / 1024) " MB")}'

(replace "app" in "pidof app" with the actual app name, like "vim" or "code" or "chrome")

This sums up all the allocated and written to ("dirty") memory of the app, ignoring code and shared libs it loads.

Musk and his minions have reinstated the account of one of the nation's most prominent bigots. This is not remotely surprising to anyone who's paying the slightest attention.

I remain surprised, and disappointed, that so many people in the journalism world still choose to use that platform -- knowing that they are supporting people who want to see the U.S. become a right-wing dictatorship.

Journalism has options, but most journalists ignore them.

A true open standard (see https://openstandards.nz/definition) allows for *permissionless innovation*. Literally anyone can both study the open standard in its entirety, and implement it without fear of patent extortion or the need to pay up front or have profit drained by royalties.

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