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

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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?

ai6yr, to climate

NY Times: Ocean Heat Has Shattered Records for More Than a Year. What’s Happening? https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/10/climate/ocean-heat-records.html?ugrp=u&unlocked_article_code=1.j00.X-K8.qJtpSzYvlIlF&smid=url-share

pmonks,
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@ai6yr @douglasvb Stoicism is the way.

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 Knitters weren’t invited to the cigar bar with Mr & Mrs Tarr? 🤔

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.

cfiesler, to random
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The first rule of etiquette on Reddit is "remember the human" - this should apply to researchers, too! This blog post is a summary of our (myself, @michaelzimmer @profprof @sarahgilbert and Naiyan Jones) recently published paper (in PACM-HCI as part of the ACM GROUP conference) about research ethics for Reddit and public internet content more generally. https://cfiesler.medium.com/how-to-remember-the-human-recommendations-for-ethical-reddit-research-8fe34e30e21d

pmonks,
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@cfiesler @inthehands @michaelzimmer @profprof @sarahgilbert I very much don’t think Reddit should be used as a role model for etiquette.

pmonks,
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@cfiesler @inthehands @michaelzimmer @profprof @sarahgilbert It’s Reddit Inc.’s stated preference for behaviour on the platform, which is absolutely not the same thing as actual user behaviour on the platform (and tolerated by Reddit Inc.).

Source: I happen to be a moderator on a reasonably large Reddit sub (~150K members).

pmonks,
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@cfiesler @inthehands @michaelzimmer @profprof @sarahgilbert I guess I’m just pointing out that appealing to Reddit as an authority on such matters is not particularly compelling.

pmonks,
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@cfiesler @inthehands @michaelzimmer @profprof @sarahgilbert I did read it thanks, and do appreciate and agree with your general point about conducting research ethically. I’m simply pointing out that specifically appealing to Reddit’s “remember the human” guideline (as the title and first paragraph of the post do) as a source of authority on ethical behaviour, is not compelling given the actual behaviours exhibited (and tolerated) by Reddit. In my opinion it undermines your (valuable!) argument.

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. 😞

stefan, to Dash
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Instead of penalties what if they face off in Teqball?

pmonks,
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@stefan I reckon they should have multi ball in extra time. A new ball enters the field every 5 minutes.

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 Big “free hugs inside ⤴️” vibes tbh.

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 @friscolala bad free hugs ? 🤔

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.

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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@amiserabilist @Ultramundane @Alice this is art

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