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pmonks

@pmonks@sfba.social

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Living on Yelamu Ramaytush Ohlone land (#SanFrancisco)
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This is an authoritarian (both left- and right- flavours), bigot, MAGA, TERF, tankie, anti-vaxxer, climate-change-denier etc. free zone. Conservatives and libertarians should be on their best behaviour too - I have a small amount of patience for your nonsense, and a large block button.

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Binder, to random
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“You can’t have an eclipse w/o the sun, the moon AND the Earth”

Sheesh, earth exceptionalism much? Any occlusion can be an eclipse if you look from the right perspective.

pmonks,
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@Binder Case in point: I just made an eclipse using my thumb.

GottaLaff, to legal
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Via Lisa Rubin 🧵1/…

Tonight, 's team released their 37-page recusal motion. That means that Merchan -- who ordered last month that both sides need his express permission before filing further pre-trial motions -- allowed them to do so.

Trump's justification for a second recusal motion, after his first motion was denied last August, is that there are both changed circumstances and newly discovered evidence.

pmonks,
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@GottaLaff Sounds like Twitler’s lawyers are getting desperate and clutching at straws.

simon_brooke, to gamedev
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I've spent some of today finding bottlenecks in my world-simulating cellular automaton, and I can now simulate 10,000 years of history from the middle of the Ice Age to the middle of the Iron Age over 40,000 square kilometres (at kilometre scale) in slightly under two minutes of wall-clock time. It's utterly caning my poor computer, but it doesn't crash.


The state of my poor computer in the middle of a simulation run. Memory is maxed out (garbage collection is clearly the major bottleneck) and eight of my twelve processor cores are also maxed out.

pmonks,
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@simon_brooke makes it so easy to burn down a CPU. And I don’t mean that in a “it’s inefficient” way, I mean it in a “it makes it trivial to write highly concurrent code” way.

pmonks,
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@simon_brooke Just out of interest, are you using virtual threads for this? May not help much if it’s CPU-bound, but I’ve found them to give substantial speedups for I/O and mixed workloads.

pmonks,
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@simon_brooke The JVM is a work of art, and Clojure makes it pleasant to use!

pmonks,
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@simon_brooke I use pmap quite heavily for (often good enough) naive parallelism, and wrote a virtual thread version that doesn’t chunk that’s even better on JVMs that support it: https://github.com/pmonks/embroidery

RickiTarr, to random
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Please everyone, do not send your opinions about history to @theropologist HE DOES NOT HAVE TIME TODAY!

Please bank them, and send them on the weekend.

pmonks,
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@RickiTarr I have a proposal for a new book, entitled “Re-centering ‘history’ as ‘his story’
How patriarchal misogynists can erase everything except white male Christian cishet history.”

Would @theropologist like to be a co-author?

RickiTarr, to random
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Someone is waiting in the Fediverse to fight with you about some point in history at all times.

pmonks,
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@RickiTarr “Dear sir please let me know when your alt-history novel is published. It sounds like it will be some fine fiction.”

pmonks,
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@KatM @RickiTarr @benroyce “Folksplain”?

Alice, to random
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I believe in karma and I’m going to laugh so hard when Elon's space Tesla comes crashing down on him.

pmonks,
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@Alice Hopefully followed by that Mexican artist dropping a 5 ton Olmec head sculpture on top of the entire mess.

pmonks,
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@amiserabilist @Ultramundane @Alice this is art

anderseknert, to programming
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What's your / of choice, and why is it so? Do you use that for all tasks and languages, or do you switch between editors depending on what you're working on?

I mostly use / for large projects, and for simpler ones. But tbh, I find myself increasingly using VS Code even for projects where I'd previously would reach for IntelliJ. And their poor story around language server integrations makes them feel less relevant today than they used to be.

pmonks,
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@anderseknert I use Sublime Text + Sublime Clojure, since most of my work is in Clojure and it’s such a straightforward language I’ve never really seen in the value in a “real” IDE. I also use Sublime for all other text editing needs (shell scripts, markdown, etc.).

On the odd occasions I have to head down the Java mines, I reach for IntelliJ, though I usually find myself fighting it more than enjoying it tbh.

pmonks,
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@anderseknert It does, but I don’t use it myself. I’m fine with “copy & paste” into a REPL running in a terminal window and/or (load-file "scratch.clj") for that use case.

RickiTarr, to random
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You are Entangled with someone, you'll see them throughout your life. You are connected in some way that always brings you back to this person. There's a good chance you don't like each other at all.

pmonks,
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@RickiTarr I can’t think of anyone like that. 🤔

Wait. Does that mean it’s me?!?!? 😳

Private
pmonks,
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@simon_brooke Or fork and push to Clojars yourself? Obvs far from ideal ofc…

pmonks,
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@simon_brooke Yeah it’s an absolute last resort for me, but at least this option exists (though I don’t recall the last time I took it).

Another possibility is to checkout the project and lein install it locally, though that’s super brittle and non-reproducible elsewhere.

RickiTarr, to random
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Who is the best Batman villain and why?

pmonks,
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@RickiTarr Heath Ledger. What a wonderful actor and such a huge loss. 😭

dgar, to random
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I tuck my knees into my chest and lean forward.

That’s how I roll.

pmonks,
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@dgar I move my peepers in a circular motion.

That’s how eye roll.

dgar, (edited ) to random
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I’m still not sure if I’ll do an “album” because I have too much fun sharing songs as I finish them, as singles. All the same, if I do, I’ll need a good name for it. So, just for fun…

https://on.soundcloud.com/6kQvAVc5wjgCHy1R7

pmonks,
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@dgar Dgar from Dgosford - that’ll test their grey matter!

skinnylatte, to random
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There’s a discussion on LinkedIn where a few people are saying they feel a 150K salary is enough for private schools for multiple kids and nannies and mortgages in the Bay Area and… that’s when you know those are the people with inherited wealth because, absolutely not

The math doesn’t math (after taxes? in this economy? Of 6-15K monthly mortgages? 3-5K childcare bills?)

pmonks,
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@skinnylatte Maybe they meant two incomes at that level? 🤔

pmonks,
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@skinnylatte Yeah. Just trying to think creatively about how someone could up with such a boneheaded hot take. I’m at a loss tbh.

pmonks, to Bloomscrolling
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OMG WILDPHLOWERS!!!!!!!!!!!!11111 😍😍😍

pmonks, to Bloomscrolling
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OMG LUPINES!!!!!!!!!!11 😍😍😍

pmonks, to foss
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One thing I have yet to see much of in this debacle is much if any empathy for the original project maintainer. From what I can gather they’ve been toiling away on this project for at least 2 decades, have faced mental health issues in that time that required them to take breaks from it, and that the alleged hacker potentially conned their way into a position of authority for the project.

I can’t imagine how awful they must feel right now, likely compounding their mental health challenges, and really hope that no one is piling on them. Working on can be a thankless job, and a small minority of users can be unreasonably entitled and vocal about it - I really hope those toxic types aren’t piling on.

fraying, to random
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Every time I make a post here, get a pile of annoying replies, and then make a followup post to complain about the replies, I get one step closer to abandoning this place altogether.

pmonks,
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@fraying Hope this isn’t an annoying reply, but have you seen https://donotreply.cards ? It’s a shame this approach puts the onus on the poster, but it seems to me to be better than nothing.

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