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scheidegger

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Recovering academic, building http://quarto.org at Posit (fka RStudio)

I'm on Signal, too. Same name.

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https://www.instagram.com/prefpoa/p/C6mrxHRu3_N/?img_index=1 just completely absurd https://mastodon.social/@scheidegger/112396022889859058

scheidegger,
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More here https://g1.globo.com/rs/rio-grande-do-sul/noticia/2024/05/06/temporal-no-rs-aeroporto-de-porto-alegre-suspende-voos-pelo-menos-ate-30-de-maio-veja-fotos.ghtml

scheidegger, to random
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This is the main airport of my home town right now :( 100k displaced, water levels expected to take weeks to recede

scheidegger,
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@regehr my folks are fine, but boiling water advisory for weeks, power expected to fail. Biggest flood in history - flood crested at 100-120ft above normal. Yea you read that right

scheidegger, to random
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The power move here is “Sorry, I’m swamped and it’ll be a while until I can get to you!”
https://botsin.space/@hannorein/112385705034792234

scheidegger, to random
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There are days that I truly enjoy hcr's newsletter. And then there are days where it's 2024 and it waxes poetical about confederate horses ahead of the kentucky derby and.. really?

scheidegger, to random
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So we have a yelling channel in the work Slack to blow out steam.

Friends, please lolsob with me today. I need to lie down a little as I realize I have been writing PR reviews into the void for the last couple of years.

regehr, to random
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I read the Foundation trilogy over the last month or two, turns out I really didn’t remember it well, has to have been well over 30 years since I first read these.

overall I felt kinda meh about it, like maybe the time period when people should read this has ended

scheidegger,
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@regehr the suck fairy is relentless with Asimov and Clarke

scheidegger,
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@regehr huh. Rama is my favorite novel of his and I reread it fairly regularly. Woo boy did we not go long before making completely pointless references to bouncing boobs. I liked 2010 too, so maybe not as bad as Asimov

scheidegger,
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@synlogic @regehr their writing styles are empty. Its a writing prompt turned into a novel, I don’t know how else to put it (and to be clear, I grew up on that stuff. It’s just pretty bad in perspective) And it’s not like people didn’t know how to write back then. Wolfe is right there, you know?

Even if old Gibson is mostly style (Peripheral is excellent through and through), at least he knows how to put a sentence together

scheidegger,
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@regehr @synlogic Stranger is absurdly horrible. It’s one I never read back then, but these days it’s 👀👀👀

regehr, to random
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did y'all know that "fdupes" is like really slow when you point it at an 85 GB directory tree? all I'm asking for here is good algorithmics

scheidegger,
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@regehr TIL! I have been fdupes’ing a 200GB folder and yeah annoying

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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Yesterday I had one person say I'm too so pro-tech pro-capitalist and one person say I was trying to force a leftist ideology, and both were responding to A City on Mars. All I can say is I wish people would stop trying to find the hidden motive and just read the words as plainly written!

scheidegger,
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@ZachWeinersmith I once heard of a heuristic judges use to award damage amounts in lawsuits: if both sides are unhappy, then they might have arrived at a fair assessment

Cmastication, to random
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Always carry a Sharpie and be the change you want in the world.

scheidegger,
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@Cmastication we got augmented reality at home

raganwald, to random
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Falling in love with flight in the 1960s, I grew up surrounded by British culture, including an obsession with the Second World War’s aircraft and their exploits.

I now have deeply mixed feelings about “warbirds” as a hobby, but I can’t deny that when I spotted the Horten IX / Ho 229 jet-powered flying wing for MSFS Flight Simulator, I felt a massive pang of nostalgia for my more innocent boyhood when such things were wondrous inventions.

scheidegger,
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@raganwald I live in Tucson where there's a pretty big air force base. I have precisely the same mixed feelings when I catch the weirder aircraft out in flight training, like the V-22 Ospreys. "Ohh those are so cool" followed by "Uh, this is all so not cool"

chrisamaphone, to random
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whenever i see posts about the past like “we didn’t know then that we were living in a golden age” (e.g. about the 95-00s-era web) i wonder what now is the golden age of, from the perspective of our nostalgic future selves

scheidegger,
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@chrisamaphone Anything that makes our future self become nostalgic for the present will be necessarily bleak, so I apologize for the extra-bleak answer. I think food is a good bet. Food has gotten so much better in the last ~30-40 years in large part because of global logistic networks that might not hold up well if climate+peace continues to go in the direction we're heading.

rightardia, to random
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Presidential tweet.

scheidegger,
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@rightardia I only wish. Only a day before, this: https://www.marijuanamoment.net/new-mexico-governor-presses-biden-official-about-spike-in-federal-marijuana-seizures-from-licensed-businesses/

18+ raganwald, to random
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I don’t know what triggered this, but for the last few days I’ve been inundated with recruiter cold calls and cold texts. Every single one has been generic, no sign they know my name, or experience, or are calling about a specific job.

I’m perversely tempted to answer just to discover if it’s a garden-variety recruiter, or a scam like pretending they’re a temp agency and asking me to sign up with my banking details so they can “expedite my pay.”

scheidegger,
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@raganwald literally 10 minutes ago

In true esprit d’escalier, I realized I should have sent a link to https://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/home/papers/remove.pdf instead

scheidegger,
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@raganwald update. It’s not going to solve anything but certainly made my lunch a tiny bit better

cstross, to random
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Embattled Harvard honesty professor accused of plagiarism

Academic chapter and two books authored by Francesca Gino appear to copy from sources including student theses, blogs, and news reports

(Note: she's a Harvard Business School prof. So nothing to see here, just MBA prof providing a role model for her students when they graduate.)

https://www.science.org/content/article/embattled-harvard-honesty-professor-accused-plagiarism

scheidegger,
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@cstross I don’t know how much you’re following her saga, but it is so, so much worse than just that.

Harvard did an internal investigation and, um, she sued the people who pointed out that a lot of the data in her honesty papers looks fabricated. I couldn’t make this up if I tried

regehr, to random
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I keep running across blogs that I should follow but I don't since I don't currently have good RSS+browser integration. do people have favorite (open source or free) options here? I used to use feedly but they seem to be pushing too hard to get me to pay

scheidegger,
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@regehr I went back to good old netnewswire, standalone macOS app. Not in browser though :/

regehr, to random
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TIL that in IEEE FP, -0.0 + +0.0 = +0.0

https://alive2.llvm.org/ce/z/jPi8ZV

scheidegger,
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Honestly, for the typical FP bullshit, this is better than I expected:

>>> (-0.0) + (+0.0)
0.0
>>> (0.0) + (-0.0)
0.0
>>> (-0.0) + (-0.0)
-0.0

Looks like they went for "preserve commutativity" instead of "preserve existence of identity"

scheidegger,
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@simonbyrne huh you're totally right. That's really wild

scheidegger,
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@simonbyrne do you know why they made this choice?

scheidegger, to random
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I feel this user's frustration in my bones

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254596387?sortBy=best

TIL spotlight searches the web automatically on any string you type. It is, of course, by default enabled.

You know, no one would ever want to use macOS's spotlight to search for a private string, right?

You know, SPOTLIGHT, THE FEATURE ORIGINALLY DESIGNED TO SEARCH YOUR LOCAL HARDDRIVE

scheidegger,
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@coatless I haven't tried it, but a number of macos folks swear by it.

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