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thatandromeda

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Hi! I’m the same thatandromeda you may know from elsewhere online. Studied #math, taught #Latin to middle school boys, trained as a #librarian, ended up writing #software for a variety of libraries and adjacent organizations. Things I’ve obsessed over include nonprofit governance, #weightlifting, #knitting, #singing, my cats, and #planes (working slowly on my pilot’s license). Married, mom to a teenager, extremely online for a long time. #introduction

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mekkaokereke, (edited ) to random
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Some of my friends that are convicted felons are 100% innocent of what they were accused and convicted of. Some of my friends that are convicted felons are guilty, and absolutely did what they were accused of. I don't make fun of people for being convicted felons, and I don't ostracize them. Instead, I don't let bad people around me. My definition of bad focuses on the choices that a person made in the past, and the choices that they make now. Some of the worst people, will never be felons.

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thatandromeda,
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@juergen_hubert @mekkaokereke It is extra fun when people COUNT incarcerated people for the purposes of determining population/representation, but then they don’t get to vote in those elections. If you were to guess that prisons are disproportionately located in places with voters hostile to the interests of, and from different demographics than, incarcerated people, yeah I’m pretty sure you’d be right

thatandromeda, to random
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Well as the mom of a high school junior looking at colleges I guess I have some Questions to ask because I can't say I feel great about funneling $70K a year to people who send riot cops after their own students

arstechnica, to random
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You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000

Thermonator, the first "flamethrower-wielding robot dog," is completely legal in 48 US states.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/you-can-now-buy-a-flame-throwing-robot-dog-for-under-10000/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

thatandromeda,
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@arstechnica OMG and they actually suggest snow removal as if we are not out here living on former MIT President Karl Compton's green earth https://alum.mit.edu/slice/1948-mit-president-mayor-try-salt

dsalo, to random
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I want to do a content analysis of hype followers in the LIS literature. I need to pick phenomena where the bubble has burst and it's clear there was never any there there.

From the world outside libraries, I've got Second Life, MOOCs, and NFTs. Anybody got ideas for phenomena internal to libraries?

(Not hype-y enough or too substantive: IRs, FRBR, linked data, DH, third places. I'm talking TOTALLY bankrupt here.)

thatandromeda,
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@dsalo (i don't have any purely internal but: blooooockchaaaaaain)

thatandromeda,
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@dsalo also tbqh I'm interested in the opposite case of QR codes, where there was so much assumption at the time that there was no there there (to be fair they have an inexplicable miasma of embarrassment), but it turns out they're actually totally useful. I wonder if there's anything to be learned from the juxtaposition.

CSLee, to seresearchers
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"What leads to review anxiety? Our model shows that we can intervene on code review anxiety by targeting the cost bias (when we overestimate the "cost" of a negative outcome) and anxiety self-efficacy (our belief in our ability to tolerate and manage anxiety), with anxiety self-efficacy being the strongest contributor to code review anxiety."

Summary: https://mastodon.social/@CSLee/112281177521690736

Full Paper: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/8k5a4

@seresearchers

thatandromeda,
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@tim_abell @goleztrol @CSLee @seresearchers i have 10+ years of dev experience and pairing sounds like hell on earth to me, actually. I know some people love it and get a lot of value of it out but shudder

thatandromeda,
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@tim_abell @goleztrol @CSLee @seresearchers It is great that you thrive on it! I have declined to interview at a company that was very pair-programming-oriented. I respect that it can produce better output for many teams but for me personally I would shut down and produce essentially nothing at all.

thatandromeda,
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@tim_abell @goleztrol @CSLee @seresearchers (I should clarify that I love working in teams. Just not in this way.)

thatandromeda, to random
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Oksana Chusovitina is OLDER THAN ME and just won, again, the Uzbek all-around title in freaking GYMNASTICS https://olympics.com/en/news/48-year-old-oksana-chusovitina-wins-uzbek-national-title-holding-off-a-challenger-more-than-three-decades-younger

absolute legend

waldoj, to random
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NYC's chatbot tells me that you must wear long pants to the DMV, so that's good to know about.

thatandromeda,
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@waldoj <pedant>Technically it did not say that. It might have been advising you that you must wear a skirt, or a kilt, or perhaps nothing below the waist. (Was this response helpful?)</pedant>

thatandromeda, to random
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i got a new shredder

thatandromeda, to random
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At breakfast this morning with Mx17, and they said a lot of anti-AI arguments bother them because they’re exactly the same as anti-immigrant arguments 🤯

thatandromeda, to random
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Honestly, E.F. Codd's “A relational model of data for large shared data banks” is delightful.

mhoye, to random
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The thing about Facebook is that the people who work there just do this shit. They make a plan to do it, they agree to do it and they do it. Sometimes they say "this is very bad there's no way we can justify this" and then they do it anyway.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/

thatandromeda,
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@mhoye “Inside Facebook, there wasn’t a consensus on whether Project Ghostbusters was a good idea.” Uh that seems like something that should be easy to get consensus on tbqh

hazelweakly, to random
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as a USER OF CALENDARS I want EVERY CALENDAR SYSTEM TO BE INCOMPATIBLE so that I can

CONTINUE TO LOSE MY FUCKIN MIND SYNCING CALENDARS MANUALLY

thatandromeda,
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@mhoye @hazelweakly is this the package that also has guillotining the aristocracy or nah

skinnylatte, to food
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Being from where I am in the world, my words for ingredients are in Malay, Teochew, Hokkien, Tamil (there’s no order to which food items are in which language. They simply.. are. Some fish we use the Malay names, some fish we use the other names. Same with veggies)

And now that I am in N America I am re-learning some words in Cantonese

I thought I couldn’t get ‘kang kung’ here but learned it’s actually called ‘ong choy’

This is a fish table at a fishmonger in Singapore

thatandromeda,
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@skinnylatte omg I love that web design. it's like a trapdoor into an alternate-world internet where the geocities joy of making stuff in HTML still gets to breathe, where google didn't take over everything.

cfiesler, to random
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It is - the big ACM computer science education conference! There years ago I made this YouTube video about my thoughts about ethics integration across computing curriculum - I have a lot more thoughts on this since then, but if you've never seen me give a talk on this topic, this is a good introduction! https://youtu.be/LYRKqnLeIDo

thatandromeda,
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@cfiesler I'm kind of surprised (and heartened??) to see AI so low!

skinnylatte, to random
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My other thoughts on car dependence:

I didn’t feel constrained by not having a car or driving license, growing up somewhere with excellent transit, because that was freeing. No one had to pick me up from school. No one had to send me to school. As a kid I could explore malls and food with friends after school. Some days I even took the bus to another country (Malaysia) for lunch before returning. I could work any job, stay super late, go anywhere, almost any time.

thatandromeda,
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@skinnylatte one of the things I really like about living somewhere with good-for-America transit is my kid has gotten to have freedom of the city, starting pretty young. Not bus to another country (WOW) but at least independence.

thatandromeda, to random
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Hi y'all! I would love it if you could chip in to help out my favorite archival collection, the small-but-scrappy WV Feminist Activist Collection, preserving progressive history in a red state in the aftermath of a widely-publicized university financial bloodbath. https://dayofgiving.wvu.edu/giving-day/82562/department/88189 ; search for fund name WV Feminist Activist Collection, or enter fund number #2W1553.

It's my favorite collection because they accessioned my mom's papers. 1/

thatandromeda, to random
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OK so we just tossed an empty bag of cat treats and foolishly did not memorize it; now MsCat spurns their replacement. Olive-ish green bag (no, it's not Greenies; not a bright green). Small cylindrical treat pellets. Some exotic flavor we can't remember. Any ideas???

grimalkina, to random
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More followup, more work I've been influenced by. This is from 2020 but it's the funniest headline I've ever seen*

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/math-intensive-fields-have-a-gender-problem-the-men-are-worse-at-math/

*for a very serious finding about how biased evaluation actually MASKS us from accessing achievement that might look the opposite to what we (stereotypically) expect. Aka, we need good math work done, and high achieving women could fill that demand, but our biases are directly sabotaging us from seeing the achievement of women in math skills.

thatandromeda,
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@grimalkina went to engineering school, can confirm

thatandromeda, to random
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Me: When I try to master a programming language, it's important for me to understand what constitutes elegance in that language.

JavaScript: "Spread syntax looks exactly like rest syntax. In a way, spread syntax is the opposite of rest syntax." https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Operators/Spread_syntax

goddammit

thatandromeda,
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I mean look on the one hand I find a lot of ragging on JS is deeply distasteful because it has these huge olds-vs-youngs, backend-vs-frontend, & misogyny elements

but on the other hand wow I have been trying for YEARS to figure out what idiomatic, aesthetically pleasing JS looks like to its community and no one can tell me

thatandromeda,
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@gvwilson I am definitely getting this vibe! People seem in general to have a primary allegiance to Vue, or React, etc., not to JavaScript, so I should probably be just looking for Vue aesthetics. But I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. It's probably still murky to me!

mekkaokereke, to random
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Yesterday, Xavier Worthy ran a 40 in 4.21 seconds, setting a new NFL combine record. That is really fast!

Xavier:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M1xhUAMEA2E

But then NFL commentators said that he's faster than Usain Bolt, because Bolt ran a 4.22, and just... No.🤡

Usain Bolt ran the 40 in 4.22 in his late 30s, after he retired, without training, in sweatpants and street shoes!🤯

Bolt:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ADoySgg-njI

A top track athlete running a 40 properly, gets a time closer to 4.12

Coleman:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mF_yoRayOIA

thatandromeda,
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@mhoye @mekkaokereke omg I couldn’t stop laughing

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