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Nonviolent ukulele player who codes

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chris__martin, (edited ) to random
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Accepting poor quality in test code is such a big common mistake. "This code is less important therefore we're going to make choices that make it expensive as hell to maintain"

hugoestr,
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@chris__martin Sadly just having tests is usually an improvement

juliobiason, to random
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Xitter solution for the constant "My nudes in bio" spam: Allow porn.

hugoestr,
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@juliobiason I love how you call it Xitter. I enjoy guessing the right pronunciation of that X

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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@poiseunderchaos @djsundog These people believe we will pay a premium for AI nonsense?

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

juliobiason, to random
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I used to read a lot of books, usually when I was in bed, getting ready to sleep.

Nowadays I don't feel like reading at all. Dunno what changed.

hugoestr,
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@juliobiason Too tired? That happened to me at some point. I kept falling asleep in the same page

StillIRise1963, to random
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It’s clear journalism’s present day mission is both to NOT find out anything important and if they do find out, NOT TO TELL YOU.

hugoestr,
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@harmonygritz @StillIRise1963 Pathetic because they never see them as equals. Best case scenario, they are the beloved butler

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

hugoestr,
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@StillIRise1963 The best propaganda achievement is having convinced them that they belong to the ruling class. "What? That draconian law is being applied to ME?!!!!"

haskman, to stackoverflow
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is dead. What is the alternative?

hugoestr,
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@haskman going back of starting new online forums

johncarlosbaez, (edited ) to random
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Lately I've been obsessed by Paul McCartney's song Jet. Pop music critics focus on lyrics because they're writers and they understand words better than music. So there's a lot of talk about what the lyrics mean in this song - though they're essentially nonsense designed to sound great - and not nearly enough about the startlingly abstract descending melodic line that's the centerpiece. You'll hear it in the first phrase:

I can almost remember their funny faces

and then, in a more elaborated form, in the second:

That time you told them you were going to be marrying soon

If you try to sing these lines getting the melody and rhythm exactly right, I think you'll find it hard! Or maybe I'm just bad at singing... but I don't think so - I think they're rather slippery. And so he put this melody in several extremely catchy frames:

  1. Starting the song, a repeated ominous 4-note theme. This should remind you of the phrase "band on the run" from the title song of this album.

  2. A recurring bump-and-grind thing on rhythm guitar, which anchors the whole piece. This is actually reminiscent of a reggae rhythm, since it plays the 3rd and 4th beats while leaving the 1st and 2nd silent.

  3. Most obviously, the shouted chorus of "Jet!" The whole band sings this, and its intense while still sounding cheery. They do it 3 times before the main lyrics come in with that descending melody. From then on, the first 2 of the 3 are followed by an insanely catchy "woo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo". This instantly grabs everyone.

  4. A chorus with a different type of melody:

Ah Mater want Jet to always love me
Ah Mater want Jet to always love me
Ah Mater, much later

(1/2)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwRXxtwcJus

hugoestr,
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@johncarlosbaez I should listen to that album today. Paul McCartney has so many interesting songs

hugoestr,
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@johncarlosbaez I listened to the album. A really nice one. I also like Ram. A couple of nice albums

brood, to random
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download everything. that service is going to die. be your own librarian.

hugoestr,
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@hazelnot @brood It probably is cheaper to buy drives or CDs/DVDs in the long run. I think most of us end up singing up to different streaming services chasing the small collection or movies and show we watch over and over again

jensorensen, to food
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Latest comic on microplastics and PFAS getting into food. Yum!

#food #cartoon #environment #pollution #pfas #farming #gardening

hugoestr,
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@jensorensen I want to tell you how much I like your work. I like the concepts and the art. Thanks so much for sharing it

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

mcc, to random
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2008, me: I love the idea of cryptocurrency

BITCOIN: The word "cryptocurrency" now means "financial scams based on inefficient write-only ledgers"

2018, me: I love the idea of the metaverse

FACEBOOK: The word "metaverse" now means "proprietary 3D chat programs with no soul"

2022, me: I love the idea of procedurally generated content

OPENAI: From now on people will associate that only with big corporations plagiarizing small artists and turning their work into ugly content slurry

hugoestr,
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@mcc @pinkdrunkenelephants @datarama In reality no, it is not in the air. OpenAI and the rest are in violation of copyright. If it were you and me, the media companies would be getting ready to make an example of us.

It is only "up in the air" because the laws don't apply to wealthy powerful people

categulario, to random Spanish
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hoy mis hermanos y yo estuvimos haciendo un poco de albañilería y ahora tengo una necesidad imperiosa de comprar una coca de 3 litros, un kilo de tortillas y tener una mochila de Dora la exploradora

hugoestr,
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@categulario Me imagino que el soundtrack es puros cumbiones

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

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

baldur, to random
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Putting together the blog post collection has meant trying to find old links in the Wayback Machine

One was this one by the legendary Kathy Sierra in 2004. It’s both inspiring and depressing, because we all know what happened in the intervening two decades

“A Computer Book Author’s Manifesto” https://web.archive.org/web/20120118171954/http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/news/ksmanifesto.html

hugoestr,
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@baldur I didn't know any of this. :(

That said, I still think what she said in that post is true. The current retro computing shows how many people do learn strange technology for fun

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

StillIRise1963, to random
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You could never have told me when I was young that later in life, I'd like waking up at 7am. I used to be a night person.

hugoestr,
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@StillIRise1963 same. I want to go to bed around 8:30

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

StillIRise1963, to random
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The man who runs the DOJ is FUCKED UP.

hugoestr,
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@StillIRise1963 What happened?

fulanigirl, to politics

@blackmastodon The second part of the ThoughtExperiement asked you all to assume Trump was a distraction and to indicate what you thought the underlying root complaint is for the MAGAs. I asked Europeans not to reply, because their underlying causes of right wing discontent are different from ours AND because they are more willing to critically look at systems than Americans are. I wanted to hear from the people who live here. 1/7

hugoestr,
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@fulanigirl @blackmastodon Ending abortion rights is their legal step towards resegregation. The hack supreme court will use their own ruling to show how constitutional it is to have lower tiers of citizenship for different groups of people

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