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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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mekkaokereke, to random
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If you got upset at me for pointing out that more people died of Covid under Biden than Trump, in large part because Biden rolled back common sense restrictions that were in place under Trump...

Then you'll hate me pointing out that Trump introduced a 25% tariff on Chinese EVs, and Biden is upping that to 100% tariff.

https://insideevs.com/news/719283/chinese-ev-tariffs-biden-quadruple/

We can't allow the US to get off of fossil fuels... unless US billionaires win! 🤡

Fear the BYD Dolphin! (an EV car for $12K)
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/T3nfyO_UHjk

pmonks,
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@jerf @mekkaokereke Yeah they’re rebuilding in on their “Ultium” platform. I’m nervous that they’re going to wreck it by trying to make it big. What I love about it is how small it is - it’s a fantastic city/commuter car.

RickiTarr, to random
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Hello! I want to do a Spooky Picture Prompt! So, find a picture in your camera roll that would represent the phrase:

Last Picture on the Camera Roll

This should be spooky, but completely up to your own interpretation. Here's one from me, with weird eclipse light.

pmonks,
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@RickiTarr Oh Cletus is not a ghost, let me tell you!

pmonks,
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@RickiTarr But in good news, apparently I have a “purdy mouth”. 🥰

pmonks,
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@RickiTarr Big “free hugs inside ⤴️” vibes tbh.

RickiTarr, to random
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You're not in the way, your body isn't taking up too much space. There is no normal, average is just the space between all the possibilities. You don't need to make yourself invisible, smaller, or less, because you don't meet some ridiculous criteria.

pmonks,
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@RickiTarr Me to my butt when I put on underpants in the morning.

RickiTarr, to random
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Okay, this might sound weird, but this is what I'm thinking of today. I'm assuming most of you know the idiom, "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth." I know it's about looking at the horse's teeth to check it's age and health, but in my heart I have an alternate history where it's about The Trojan Horse, which doesn't really even make much sense, but it's still living there rent free.

So, does anyone else do this, make up alternate histories for words or phrases? If you do, I'd love examples!

pmonks,
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@RickiTarr Every time I see or hear “at the end of the day”, this banger immediately starts playing: https://youtu.be/jIDmX2u3gHs?si=6BRnunPJr9_WRCIP

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.”

RickiTarr, to random
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Where do you live and how do you feel about it?

Obviously, don't tell me exactly where you live, no actual addresses please! You can be as vague as you like.

I live in Central Missouri in the U.S.

Pros:

This is an absolutely beautiful place, green rolling hills, lots of rivers, lakes, ponds, and natural springs, cool caves to explore.

Lots of farming here, so great access to quality fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, and dairy.

It's relatively inexpensive to live here compared with other states, because it's a "flyover".

I'm close enough to three major cities, that it's an easy day trip, and I'm about halfway to anywhere in the U.S.

We have one of the best Conservation departments in the U.S. and this is one of the few things that is a bipartisan issue. Lots of awesome nature programs that are free or cheap, state parks, conservation areas, bird watching, hunting, boating, foraging available to everyone.

Cons:

Yeah, it's a big one, it is a RED STATE, while a lot of the cities are blue, there is a large rural population, that votes red. Abortion is not legal here. People often vote against their own self interest.

While I'm not against responsible gun ownership, lots of people aren't responsible, and people have access to guns that definitely should not.

We have very few employee protections here, while the cost of living is relatively low compared with other places, it's taken years to get to a $12 minimum wage, and it's still not enough.

pmonks,
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@RickiTarr Northern California - moved here for “2-3 years” over 2 decades ago and can’t see myself ever leaving - despite all the idiotic stereotypes it’s an incredible place.

Pros:

  • world class and stunningly diverse natural environment
  • solidly liberal
  • great food
  • awesome climate

Cons:

  • way too many people
  • ludicrously expensive
  • has a higher-than-normal proportion of “horseshoe lefties” - people who are so far left they end up being more aligned with the far right (anti-vaxx, authoritarian, etc.)
  • Sillycon Valley techbro libertarians
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?!?!? 😳

RickiTarr, to random
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What is a little white lie you were told as a child, that you believed for too long?

I was way too old when I figured out a human couldn't actually get sucked down a drain or flushed down a toliet. I used to cling to my little brothers, and pull them out of the bath any time my Mum would pull to plug.

pmonks,
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@RickiTarr That you can safely wear your underpants for four days before washing them:

  1. Normally
  2. Backwards
  3. Inside out
  4. Inside out & backwards

It wasn’t until I got married that I was reluctantly disavowed of this misconception. 😞

RickiTarr, to random
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One time we went to this great cigar bar, and I convinced my husband to pose with a cigar, so I could get a picture, but then he said to not post a picture of him with a cigar, so I had to get creative.

My hubs holding a cigar to his lips, but I replaced the cigar with a cartoon banana

pmonks,
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@RickiTarr He escaped relatively unscathed imho.

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

catherine, to random
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Yesterday: I do not care for very much country music.

Today: I’m a little bit country.

pmonks,
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@catherine Counterpoint:

Yesterday: I very much do not care for country music.

Today: samesies.

(it absolutely doesn’t help that I grew up in my home country’s version of Nashville)

Mrfunkedude, to random
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A handy tip for those who can’t decide which to use.

video/mp4

pmonks,
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@Mrfunkedude @dan Reminds me of this classic: https://youtu.be/i6c4Nupnup0

pmonks, to random
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pmonks,
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@Lizette603_23 It’ll always be here for you!

simon_brooke, to random
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I've just pushed a git commit with the comment:

" Massive code clean-up, all tests still pass.

...but I'm still struggling to understand how it works and how I use it. Memo to self: document your code better."

https://github.com/simon-brooke/walkmap/commit/cb5041e684ebecf000926d81871b864cc70bfb05

pmonks,
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@simon_brooke I love how a huge commit in Clojure is ±250 lines, while in most mainstream languages that would be considered barely a change at all.

RickiTarr, to random
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Sometimes you realize what a dirty gossip you are, I saw this pop up on YouTube, and thought, "Yeah baby, tell me that Filthy Yarn Scandal."

Y'all I don't knit, I'm not involved in this, but now I kind of want to be. Please everyone guess what the drama is!

pmonks,
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@RickiTarr

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.

Binder, to random
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“John Smith just posted something that might be of interest to you”

scroll

John: exciting! a co you don’t care about made the Top One Thousand Cos on the Meaningless List of Cos List!

delete

pmonks,
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@Binder Did you accidentally open LinkedIn?

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

Binder, to random
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Finding it slightly suspicious that people only mention how cute I am when they want some systems administrated.

pmonks,
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@Binder hey there hot stuff do you do house visits to elderly parents ?

Binder, to random
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Got so annoyed at work that I lost my appetite for eating cookies.

pmonks,
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@Binder Do you need ads for cookies dropped straight into your inbox?

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 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

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