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tsdower, 2 months ago to random

Meant to post more on in-person/remote soft skills events thread but then our train got to #Artomatic and I got distracted.

DC Artist Robin Bell's "Swamp HQ" room at Artomatic with found office furniture, a mannequin in an eagle mask typing at the desk, and letters in the window reading "END ALL WAR"
Reflected window selfie of OP and partner, showing Artomatic event in progress behind them, artist Dorothy Hickson's trash art in the window, and lights of other buildings in the distance

inthehands, 2 months ago to random

Yesterday a student came to me with project questions. She was trying to learn some ground-level tool basics (how useState works in React, but details don’t matter), and she was just hopelessly confused: the pieces were there, fragments of nascent understanding littered all around, but somehow it just wasn’t coming together for her.

She walked me through her fragments of non-working code, and as I was trying to figure out how she’d got so lost, she popped back to her documentation source:

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astronomerritt, 2 months ago to random

Every so often my brain likes to make me remember that I never completed high school by giving me dreams where I have to go back to school and finish my GCSEs.

I have a PhD. Nobody CARES that I don't have any GCSEs. BRAIN PLEASE STOP

flexghost, 2 months ago to random

Dems are usually terrible at messaging

But this: this is a home run.

🇺🇸

Video answering trumps question are you better off than you were 4 years ago illustrating trumps failure with the pandemic

gabrielesvelto, 2 months ago to random

So I just learned what "The Stack" is today: an aggregation of GitHub repos for machine learning from which I can opt out.

But I won't.

I won't because they scraped some hot garbage I wrote in bash and Python that would make you faint. Bottom-of-the-barrel throw-away scripts full of coding crimes. Stuff like

find | grep | awk | xargs | ugh

...invoked via subprocess.run() then fed into more garbage.

I want "artificial intelligence" to learn this. It's going to be fantastic.

berkes, 2 months ago to random

Holy crap, why did I only learn today that I can select multiple paragraphs in Firefox by holding CTRL?

I'ts so rediculously obvious, yet I never knew this.

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BaltimoreBanner, 2 months ago to random

Second Chance offloads chunk of property for $15.5M as it seeks to fund expansion https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/economy/real-estate/second-chance-fund-expansion-DDVRWDPGMREL7CUP3EKYR4YHQI/

hembrow, 2 months ago to random

We just received our "jaarafrekening". This is the final yearly invoice sent by our energy company. They are about to pay us €252, and we will continue to pay them €5 per month next year, just like last year. i.e. overall our energy company is paying us about €200 for last year's electricity. Everything in our home is powered by electricity. No gas connection. No wood burner.

Nothing that we've done to achieve a negative energy bill was especially expensive. In particular, our installation of a air-air heat pump and a couple of extra solar panels cost far less than several of our neighbours paid for the wood burning stoves they've installed, which stink up the neighbourhood all through winter.

We also don't have to buy wood to burn.

People concerned about the cost of heating with gas buy woodburners at a higher rate than heat pumps largely because they have no idea about the relative costs. If they knew, perhaps we could have clean air.

I'll write a comprehensive blog post at the end of March about energy consumption, costs & emissions due to the heatpump vs. gas this winter. I can tell you already that we using a lot less total energy now.

Read more:
https://davidhembrow.blogspot.com/search/label/house
#gas #vanhetgasaf #jaarafrekening #energybill #energycost #nulopdemeter #heatpump #warmtepomp #costofliving

dnalounge, 2 months ago to SanFrancisco

♬ HUBBA HUBBA REVUE: ST. PATRICK'S DAY at DNA Lounge tonight: Sun Mar 17, 7pm!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2024/03-17a.html
#dnalounge #hubbahubbarevue #burlesque #sanfrancisco

TechConnectify, 2 months ago to random

As we do our silly Chicago tradition of dyeing the river a violent shade of green, I think it's a good time to remind people that our ancestors reversed the flow of the river to provide safe drinking water from Lake Michigan and earlier, in the 1860's, lifted the entire city to improve drainage and public health.

Remember that any time someone says heat pumps and renewable energy are hard.

encthenet, 2 months ago to random

Does anyone have a recommendation for a book on #Metadata? More specifically about how to design systems managing metadata?

linear, 2 months ago to random

i need to find literally any device that:

• i already own
• can run netbsd
• can run firefox on netbsd
• can drive a 3440x1440 monitor
• is not already in use

ErinFia, 2 months ago to baltimore

Just an early spring #baltimore appreciation post. (Photo taken yesterday, early evening)

Ede, 2 months ago to random German

Ne #VAX mit #netbsd. Auf dem #ChemnitzerLinuxTage 2024.
#clt2024

jwildeboer, 3 months ago to random

I see more and more often that people post bit.ly links here. Please don't. First and foremost — it hides the real URL, so I don't know where I am sent to. Second: you force me to use a service that collects, aggregates and shares data on who clicks what when, which I consider very bad practice. Finally, no matter how long your URL is, it only counts as 23 characters in your post, so no need to "shorten" links [1]

TL;DR post real links and don't spy on me. #kthxbai

[1] https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/posting/#:~:text=All%20links%20are%20counted%20as,link%20shortener%20to%20save%20characters.

freakonometrics, 3 months ago to random French

naïve #GIS question: are there any websites where we can download shapefiles (shp) of fictional worlds ? Middle-earth, Discworld, Oz, Alagaësia, Known World, Westeros, etc

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rhipratchett, 3 months ago to random

Dad… it’s been 9 years. In our family collection of blurry, squinty and poorly composed photos around the world, I found this - a typical Pratchett shot since we are 1)Not looking at the camera 2)focused on food and 3) embracing hat wearing. The trifecta. Miss you always. ❤️

auschwitzmuseum, 3 months ago to random

12 March 1912 | Polish Jewish woman Ala Gertner was born in Będzin. She was incarcerated in Auschwitz in August 1943. She worked in „Union” munition factory from where together with other women she smuggled gunpowder to Sonderkommando resistance. She was hanged on 6 January 1945.

coderbyheart, 3 months ago to Norway

In January 2024 there were only 14 (fourteen) new cars sold in #Norway that had manual gear box.
https://www.tv2.no/nyheter/innenriks/salget-har-kollapset-fullstendig-ingen-tenker-pa-det-i-dag/16509166/

qgiscloud, 3 months ago to random German

Some QGIS Cloud users have recently complained about an SSL error that appeared when logging in from the QGIS Cloud plugin under Windows. With the new plugin version 3.9.6 this problem should be fixed. Please upgrade.

yurnidiot, 3 months ago to random

struttin' down nature's catwalk

#Caturday

cats walking across a tree branch from a brick wall towards the camera across snow covered ground. "i'm too sexy" by right said fred playing

Patricia, 3 months ago to random

Sometimes I see code so beautiful I feel honored just to read it and I hope I will be able to write code like that one day. But I think maybe to get that kind of beauty you need at least two iterations past where my restless brain says “it’s good enough”.

clashmtl, 3 months ago to random

OYÉ OYÉ! Stay tuned for more deets!

thorpej, 3 months ago to retrocomputing

Oh great #retrocomputing Tooters, I am in search of technical documentation for the #DEC KZMSA #XMI SCSI controller. It was known as "XZA_SCSI" in VMS and I believe "skz" in OSF/1. Anything helps! Merci!

modev, 3 months ago to random

C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.

© Dennis Ritchie