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Nonviolent ukulele player who codes

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djsundog, to random
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Noticing that the schmuck CEO of Spotify is playing pretend economist again (to wit: https://www.loudersound.com/news/spotify-ceo-sparks-backlash-after-social-media-post-that-claimed-the-cost-of-making-content-is-close-to-zero ) I would like to point out that the nominal cost of producing a CEO is a mere five minutes of effort from two real fuckers.

hugoestr,
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@djsundog @poiseunderchaos the contempt for workers and customers is a defining trait of our modern business leadership

StillIRise1963, (edited ) to random
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If white people can’t convince other white people to not vote for suicide, I suggest you beef up on how to live under oppression. Ask Black people for tips on how to mentally, emotionally, spiritually and physically survive.

hugoestr,
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@StillIRise1963 Judging by the behavior in airplanes and with masking, it won't be pretty

Binder, to random
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They hired someone who came from $goog. Again. Time for us to abandon all our working processes to try to adopt $goog’s processes. Again.

hugoestr,
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@Binder As a person who worked on an integration project with one of their services, I wouldn't want to adopt goog processes

hugoestr, to random
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It is time to read math again

sarahtaber, to random
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Y'all know what day it is 🍀

In the US, St. Patrick's Day is strongly tied to the event that led so many Irish people to emigrate here: the famine of 1847.

Food systems & supply chains make history.

hugoestr,
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@EricLawton @sarahtaber This is common when reading about the suffering that colonialism brought go our ancestors. Makes one wonder how one is alive at all

Binder, to random
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$AWS Product or Pokémon would be a challenging quiz

hugoestr,
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@Binder There might be less pokémon

hugoestr, to random
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A thanks to the gcc developers, whose free software compiler gave access to C to this poor student in the 1990s.

A thanks to DJ Delorie who wrote DJGPP, the DOS port of gcc, which was how I could access gcc.

Your work changed my life for the better. I wouldn't have been able to learn and practice programming without your software. So grateful

hugoestr, to random
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Imagine if all the money and effort going to train LLM was used for developing better solar technology and to create tools that were more energy efficient #Imagine

hugoestr, to random
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#FreeWriting

Retro computing is alluring because it comes with the technical optimism of the 80 and 90s.

Going back to that technical empowerment, creativity and possibilities of that era is a good thing. We need that in our world

SallyStrange, to climate
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An article I'm not going to link to: "The way humans evolved may be stopping us from solving climate change"

No doubt it's got some observations from psychology about humans' tendency towards short-term thinking and planning. That may be true, but what's really stopping us from solving climate change is rich and powerful people who simply refuse to do so and instead devote ridiculous amounts of energy and money towards stopping anyone who tries.

hugoestr,
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@SallyStrange @davva23 @magitweeter @eldubuu The powerful claim that their behavior is "human nature" when in reality is a social aberration. We don't friend people who are aggressively selfish.

Casting the behavior of a minority of people as "human nature" is such a great way to avoid responsibility.

hugoestr, to random
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PHP is a remarkable language. The DSL for web pages. The little template language that could. It is the web version of AWK: a language crafted for its task, making them easier than using a general programming language.

Also great documentation. I am grateful to those who made PHP so learnable

mekkaokereke, to random
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If every Arab, Palestinian, and Muslim voter stayed home on election day, Trump should still not win. But he would win.

If every Black voter joined the Arab, Muslim, and Palestinian voters in staying home on election day, Trump should still not win. But he would win, by a landslide.

Please stop angrily telling people whose families are being killed, that "Trump is worse!" Please focus that energy on your own family members who you know will vote for Trump, and who outnumber those that won't.

hugoestr,
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@mekkaokereke This. So much. People should focus on getting their friends to vote and leave people they disagree alone

hugoestr, to random
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Another gratitude post. Thanks for sharing your ideas and opinions. Functional Cafe has been this place where have learned so many things. My life has become better because of it. Thank you

hugoestr, to random
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Using #biwascheme to write a slot machine video game. I love it so much. It has been a lot of fun. ano build step; no npm dependency jenga. If I need to try something out I can fire up Racket, fiddle there for a bit, and then do a quick translation.

I wish we had gotten scheme rather than JavaScript in the browser. Still, biwascheme fulfills a great niche

hugoestr, to scheme
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Asking here since google is broken.

Can I write a function in #Scheme with a series of expressions in them? As in do a, then do b, then do c?

hugoestr, to random
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#FreeWriting
Wrote a micro fiction. My eldest child said it was cliché, but I don't care. The obsession with originality has killed so many writers who never mature aa writers because they obsessed too much on "originality."

hugoestr, to random
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#FreeWriting

Writing silly goals for winter. Then wrote a microfiction to meet one of those goals

hugoestr, to random
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"Gamification", because "inducing addiction" may turn off people from trying our apps

hugoestr, to random
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I want to present a paper for papers we love. I don't know what. I usually present historic papers.

Any suggestions?

hugoestr, to random
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#FreeWriting

Thinking of doing namowrimo. I need write out the plot before November starts. I may need to start early since for about four days I won't be able to write. No story yet

hugoestr, to random
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@loke I started working through your tutorial. So far, it is pretty good. There is a minor detail that can be improved so far, which is saying how to type the negative character. I can do the edit if you are open to pull requests.

Again, very pleasant. I have been burnt out from learning programming this year due to the AWS dev cert, and your tutorial has been a delight to work through

hugoestr, to random
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#freeWriting
Writing again about how tech operations is a different job than developer. How some business leaders think devops is a way to hire less people and make those they hire work for free.

hugoestr, to random
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#freeWriting
Reading "Beyond Good and Evil." So far, Nietzsche is a standup comedian performing for an audience of one, himself. Luckily he his book eventually found his audience.

I enjoy the dissing of other philosophers, but I don't get what his point is

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#FreeWriting

A good exercising in listening to other ideas. Wrestling with Freudian's concept of the Oedipus Complex, which I find to be the weakest concept in Freud's ideas. I tackled it as a concept.

I explained it in my own words, and I could see how the term and the metaphor can stand for this complex experience between a child and their mother, and the mother having to pay attention to some other third person. Using philosophical methods, one can deduce how a child-mother is the first relationship we have, how the father stands for the first other person who can take the love away from the child, producing hurt, envy, anger, and aggression. Accepting the mother paying attention to others solved these problems. So the concept provided a good framework to explore the nuances of human relationships, desires, disappointments, and acceptance. I can see its usefulness. I will explore it more, especially as I read other Freudians take on it.

I also write down some objections on it too. I understand it, but I still reject it for a variety if reasons

hugoestr, to random
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@ianbetteridge We find ourselves in the strange position where corporations will use open source software without contributing, yet if they contribute there is often a monopolistic agenda behind it.

History is proving that free software's critique on corporate friendly open source was right

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