@mcc was on a flight, and seeing the screens ahead of me, MSNBC and CNN were talking heads about the verdict. Fox was pointedly ignoring it for the most part.
An interesting statistical quirk: Notice the disjoint in these two posts. This is not rounding; Godfrey, on the left, is counting Grover Cleveland twice
@dogfox@Catawu And you can trace "why does it work that way?" directly back to slavery. American governance is just horror stacked on top of horror on top of horror for centuries
@lambdageek Hey, hope you don't mind me asking but you seem like the best person to ask about the state of the art— is there a "good" way in VS Code on non-Windows machines (such as Mac) to do step debugging that can pass between C and C# stacks (for example when p/invoking)? Christine's got this awkward "lldb attach" vscode Task she can launch after program boot, but she can't get lldb to attach automatically.
This seems like the kinda thing Xamarin Studio used to do but that's discontinued…
@mcc AFAIK there's no nice way. the mixed mode debugging story on non-Windows is non-existent
if you have the CLI LLDB and the "SOS" plugin, you can get a view of the state of the .NET runtime if you're paused in C code. but I don't think there's any support for stepping between them. but at least you can look at the stack frames.
A thing I hate hate hate (but always happens) is when a company distributes "Sample Code" for their API, and you open it up, and what they did was make a series of "Helpful" wrapper classes for the API then write code using the wrapper classes. Now suddenly it isn't sample code for the API, it's sample code for the helper classes. You can't just paste the sample code into your own project, unless you copy the helper classes into every project, in which case why aren't the helper classes the API?
@mcc that's so annoying. Especially when the helper stuff is like "my first OO project"
I remember stopping this kind of thing at Apple ~ 25 years ago.
@mcc makeship's captcha don't like my setup at all. They asked me 3 round of "is it a duck or a turtle", gave me a green check then when I pressed pay the captcha got a red border but still showing a green check and that it. I'll need to use a computer if I really want the plushie :(
Axios specifically says all states will be "invited to participate" so not clear to me if states can choose to opt out. Also not clear, do you have to be a U.S. resident. In the pilot, expatriates could not participate even if our state of last residence was in the pilot.
@mcc I wasn't able to use the pilot because I had income as an independent contractor (that is, 1099-NEC income). There are a lot of independent contractors in this country. It's not clear from that article when, if ever, the "direct free file" program will support them.
Long shot: Can anyone recommend me structureless harsh noise. I'm doing a really mind-numbing code maintenance task and I need something to blast all thought out of my head
Currently I'm listening to https://impermanence.bandcamp.com/track/ii and if I can't find a good thing to switch to after that I'm going with this YouTube asmr recording of a washing machine
@vitriolix Wait I'm from Houston so this is like comforting sounds from my childhood. I wonder if they have any field recordings of Galveston checks oh my god they do
A cool thing about alt text on Mastodon is that it works with the translation feature. Once you've translated a post the alt text beneath will change to your preferred language also.
So by adding alt text to your images not only are you adding accessibility for visual impairments, you're also adding language accessibility. Neat!
Another nice bonus: Alt text is searchable. (And even if you've turned full-text search off in the privacy options, this will still help you because it makes it easier to find your own old posts.)