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mhoye, to random
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This is a remarkable graph.

You might have heard that "EV sales are slumping", "people are starting to avoid EVs", etc.

That's not what's happening.

What's happening is "Tesla is cratering so hard that it's skewing the aggregate market data."

mhoye,
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@ShredderFeeder Speaking as somebody who did that, the number of thousands of dollars it costs to install a decent charger in your garage is "0.7" and it pays for itself in a few weeks.

glyph, to random
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@mcc me thinking about using systemd: "I don't understand why people are so mad about this, launchd is better than sysv init, this is just launchd for linux, I guess they couldn't just port it because some low-level stuff is different but I'm sure it's basically the same"

me actually using systemd: "fuck fuck what is this shit what the fuck why didn't they just actually port launchd to linux, there's no excuse for this"

mcc,
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@glyph it's extra weird because whenever I read the description of how a thing is architected in systemd I go oh, that's pretty reasonable, that's a good way to do it. And then I use it and I just doesn't live up to what I expected, either because of some horrible gaping sore in the UX or because they constrained the functionality to some really narrow case (I assume, something RHEL asked for) and didn't anticipate even slight generalizations of the use case

dgar, to random
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Me: What are you drinking?

Them: Soy milk.

Me: Hola Milk, yo soy padre.

QasimRashid, to random
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WOW this is incredible & terrifying.

Israel spent over a decade spying on ICC prosecutors to "retroactively investigate incidents of interest to ICC to prove Israel’s legal system is accountable."

Meanwhile Israel has banned all journalists from Gaza and has killed 100+ journalists. This is totally what you do when you're not guilty of war crimes.

How much longer will the USA, UN, & the world enable this injustice?
https://www.972mag.com/icc-israel-surveillance-investigation/

waldoj, to random
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It's 2024, and Major League Baseball is finally integrating the record books, which will no longer protect white baseball players’ stats from the superior performance from Negro Leagues players. As a result, Ty Cobb is no longer recorded as the leading hitter, and Babe Ruth is no longer recorded as the best slugger—those titles both now belong to Josh Gibson. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/columnist/bob-nightengale/2024/05/28/negro-leagues-statistics-officially-incorporated-into-major-league-record-book/73882293007/

Nonilex, to Law
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Tues 28 May 2024 🧵 to Begin in

faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection w/a payment made to a porn star to influence the 2016 election. The case could be in the jury’s hands as early as Wed.


https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/05/28/nyregion/trump-trial-closing-arguments?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

Nonilex,
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says that ’s to could not be any clearer, arguing that Trump could have simply paid himself, but instead devised an elaborate scheme to pay Daniels secretly that required the involvement of at least 10 other people. “Everything Mr. Trump & his cohorts did in this case was cloaked in lies,” Steinglass says, adding, “The name of the game was concealment, & all roads lead to the man who benefited the most, Donald Trump.”

mcc, to random
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"npm ERR! Cannot read properties of null (reading 'matches')"

Gosh, sometimes I just really hate workign with js tooling

mcc,
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Oh, by the way, in case anyone ever comes across the above post by searching, it turns out what this completely baffling line actually means is:

"You ran 'npm install', and what you SHOULD have done was run 'pnpm install."

Obvious, right?

jenn, to random
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who are your favorite artists who use code as a medium?

jmsdnns, to random
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I'll never forget the way the tech industry was sacrificed to counter inflation

Nov 2022: The Fed minutes show they want increased unemployment to stop inflation (1st pic)

June 2023: Bernanke and Blanchard say the labor market will have increasing influence of over inflation, and the Fed should continue slowing the economy (2nd pic)

May 2024: Where we are now, and tech roles are still rare. The few openings that exist still receive thousands of applicants

The image shows highlighted text from the Bernanke & Blanchard paper published by Brookings, available here: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-caused-the-u-s-pandemic-era-inflation/ > To the extent that commodity prices stabilize and sectoral shortages moderate-processes that both seem well advanced as of this writing (June 2023)—the goods market component of inflation is likely to decrease in importance, and the labor market component to become more dominant. Looking forward, with labor market slack still below sustainable levels and inflation expectations modestly higher, we conclude that the Fed has to slow the economy to return inflation to target.

jmsdnns,
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@sqrt2 you think that's all they do? history tells a different story over and over and
over. you'll find important recent lessons both in the 2008 crisis and the management of SVB's collapse.

worth digging into, but without that there is no need for me respond further. ✌️

sqrt2,
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@jmsdnns If the American tech sector is uniquely vulnerable to making borrowing money more expensive that says a lot about the American tech sector and very little about monetary policy.

sqrt2,
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@jmsdnns Feel free to explain how think the Federal Reserve's monetary policy is specifically targeted at the tech sector. This should be good.

hollie, to random
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Sitting at my desk just now tidying up and outside I see a woman runner, totally decked out, Air Pods, Nikes, fancy long distance running vest, stop in mid stride and suddenly look down, then look around, then down again. I’m thinking is she okay? Did she hurt her leg or something? I start to stand up as she basically collapses to the sidewalk on her knees, and I realize she’s TAKING A PHOTO OF A SNAIL.

I mean I don’t know her but she is clearly a quality individual with excellent priorities.

atomicpoet, to random
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Anyone who thinks country music takes no talent hasn’t heard terrible country music.

And I really have heard bottom of the barrel stuff.

JonBaker, to random
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A lone swordsman roaming the countryside mastering his fighting techniques and challenging dojos for their honor, but it’s just me going from Waffle House to Waffle House in like Florida

atomicpoet, (edited ) to random
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People ask ask me, “Where’s the innovation in video games nowadays?”

Certainly, it’s not with AAA titles. It’s with indie games. And more likely indie games on PC.

Take, for example, Bots Are Stupid. This is as innovative as it gets. And it doesn’t come by its innovation through fancy graphics or sound.

Instead, its innovation comes through code.

This is a precision platformer starring robots. Rather than moving your robot directly through any keys, you must code your robot’s movement. That is, you must precisely type out the actions your robot must make in order to beat each level.

Putting an emphasis on code makes this a deep and rewarding experience. Half the fun is typing in variables and values and seeing what happens to your robot. Believe me, when you beat a level, you feel a huge sense of accomplishment because you wrote all the code to make it happen.

Bots Are Stupid isn’t only fun, it’s educational too. While it doesn’t teach you any specific coding languages, it nevertheless teaches you a pseudo-code that familiarizes you with the basics of programming. And the code is quite approachable too!

If you want to teach your kids how to code, getting them to play this game is a good entryway into the world of programming. Or if you want to learn how to code but do so in a fun and interactive way, you might very well love Bots Are Stupid.

What makes this especially engaging are the tutorials that familiarize you with the code. They teach you how to code step-by-step, and then show you demos for how your robots move.

The graphics are simple and adorable. The music is whimsical. And I found the interface to be incredibly friendly.

When I think of games that are only possible on PC – and when I say PC, I mean PC platforms in general – Bots Are Stupid comes top to mind. Because you need to code, a keyboard is essential. I don’t think this can be adapted well to mobile or console platforms.

This entire game was developed by Leander Edler-Golla, who programmed it by himself. To date, this is the only game he’s made. I hope he makes more because I love the idea of coding to play a game. Frankly, it’s an ingenious idea.

What’s even more awesome is that Bots Are Stupid comes with a level editor. Yeah, I’ve seen level editors in many games before. But it’s even more awesome when the game is controlled through coding. Giving me a level editor makes me feel that I have true ultimate power!

So where is the innovation in video games nowadays? It very much exists. If you want it, you got to explore indie gaming.

Indie gaming is where the innovation happens.

mycotropic, to random
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Opium season has started in Denver!

ottaross, to random
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Okay, a bit more on the printing front, in case you enjoyed my tootz and pics.

I received the cheap printer ($12) I wanted to play with. It's like the toy camera, but without the camera part. You can send things from your phone - text and images. Fun.

ottaross,
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So I printed a nice drawing of a Raven and the entirety of Edgar Allen Poe's poem, and it managed the whole thing.

ottaross,
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My friends, it is a very long result. A fine poem too.

sabret00the, to random
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Woke up because I felt myself doing that slow breathing thing you do just before you vomit. That was an hour ago and I still don't feel right! 😭

david, to random
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A pox on the entire advertising "industry”. May their armpits be infested with the fleas of 1,000 camels.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/28/paypal_ad_network/

I’ve run a business, I know how important advertising is, but dammit, agencies whose entire existence is based on selling advertising space, can get in the sea.

yurnidiot, to random
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cat accessible sofa design

:insta: @ sunriu_design

a modular sofa design with built in tunnel for cats. several pieces sitting next to each other form longer tunnels in zig zag formation.
a modular sofa design with built in tunnel for cats. cat sitting inside tunnel that forms the armrests and backrest.

harold, to random
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"The very first canon of nursing … is this: to keep the air [the patient] breathes as pure as the external air, without chilling him.” —Florence Nightingale, c. 1850

Our #PublicHealth systems have learned nothing in 175 years

https://www.fastcompany.com/90707516/the-secret-to-hospital-design-was-solved-150-years-ago-why-did-we-ignore-it

lightweight, to random

Many people think Bill Gates' story is a rags to riches tale. Those people are sorely mistaken. I know this because I spent a few years working next door to the Mary Gates III research hospital (a nearly kilometer long building) at the University of Washington, named after his well-known mother.

Bill was born with a multi-million $ trust fund. His company was both duplicitous and inept from its very first business transactions. Here's a great history of the early days: https://web.archive.org/web/20051013072349/http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS_1.html

br00t4c, to internet
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Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine Under DDoS Cyberattack

https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/05/28/2226221/internet-archive-and-the-wayback-machine-under-ddos-cyberattack

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