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wrog

@wrog@mastodon.murkworks.net

genuine Internet Old Fart (if you're under 40, I have email that's older than you are).
sometime Democratic activist/party-hack & professional clueless, middle-aged white guy. He/him.
Math/computer-science degrees + physics courses. Music theorist by marriage.
Seattle area resident; orig. from New Jersey. Former Microsoft.
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scubbo, to random
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Wake up babe, Godwin's Second Law just dropped

wrog,
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@scubbo

ouch. I can't wait for the 3rd law.

. o O ( "A woke Hitler shall not injure another woke Hitler, nor, through inaction, cause another woke Hitler to come to harm.")

ned, to random
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So I said, "What the entire fuck".

That implies the existence of fractional fucks. It's better to say, "what the absolute fuck".

That would imply the existence of positive and negative fucks.

How about "what the actual fuck"?

That depends if you'd consider the possibility of imaginary fucks.

One must therefore conclude fuckery is isomorphic with the complex field.

I'm afraid I'm gonna have to ask you all to leave the bar.

wrog,
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@TazPoltorak @ned

the projective fucks would include all of the fucks at infinity

Conan_Kudo, to random
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All this talk about over the weekend, I want to also point out that it's important to remember that the "software supply chain" largely does not exist in regards to open source, because most people have no real relationship other than parasitic consumption with the project.

@Di4na's great blog post on this topic explains it quite well: https://www.softwaremaxims.com/blog/not-a-supplier

wrog,
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@Conan_Kudo @Di4na

"You are not buying from a supplier; you are a raccoon digging through dumpsters for free code."

lowqualityfacts, to random
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We made a comic about Achilles.

wrog,
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@fkamiah17 @DaPickle @lowqualityfacts

wait, what?

(I was talking about Achilles & Patroclus; no idea how one squeezes Biden into this one;

in fact, ew...
)

wrog,
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@fkamiah17 @DaPickle @lowqualityfacts

THEY WERE JUST COUSINS!

wrog,
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@fkamiah17 @DaPickle @lowqualityfacts

ok, educate me: where does Biden show up in the Illiad?

(I know he's old, but...)

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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If you could have a new sense which of the following would you choose?

Magnetic Fields: You know which way is North at all times, you can feel a tingle from magnets.

See Heat: You can see warm objects in the dark by heat gradient

Infrasound/ultrasound: You can feel/hear very minor earthquakes and subsonic sounds. You can hear mice.

Deadly Radiation: you can sense how radioactive things are.

You can also tune these things out, it’s not annoying.

wrog,
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@futurebird

How about:

Neutrinos: You'd always know where the sun is, even in the middle of the night or bad weather (but not really useful for seeing stuff since pretty much nothing blocks them). Also early warning on supernovas.

Voltages: Any hotel room you'd immediately know where the outlets are. Or if there's been a power outage in the middle of the night, you're not having to look for clocks that have gone out. Never get electrocuted by anything (you could safely do fractal woodburning).

Gravity waves/tides: buh. Always know where the sun and Jupiter are? Maybe you could find oil?

johncarlosbaez, (edited ) to random
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"Nature in Descending Regions" from Levi Walter Yaggy's 1887 𝐺𝑒𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝𝘩𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑃𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑜—𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑃𝘩𝑦𝑠𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙, 𝑃𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙, 𝐺𝑒𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐴𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝐺𝑒𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝𝘩𝑦. This popular set of maps and charts was intended for use in classrooms. Each page was 2 feet by 3 feet in size!

(1/3)

wrog,
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@johncarlosbaez

wow, that's....

... way more crowded than the actual Artic

cdarwin, to random
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New York Times editor Joe Kahn says defending democracy is a partisan act

and he won’t do it
https://presswatchers.org/2024/05/new-york-times-editor-joe-kahn-says-defending-democracy-is-a-partisan-act-and-he-wont-do-it/

wrog,
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@cdarwin

"NYT fully believes they have no obligation to stop the fascist attack on America. They’ve finally said so explicitly."

It should be noted they did this the last time around, too (lots of glowing articles about Hitler in the mid 1930s).

daylightatheism, to atheism

The rapid, unprecedented growth of the "nones" continues apace.

The nonreligious are now larger than any single religious group in America, including evangelicals and Catholics. What's more, they've become an outright majority in multiple states:

https://onlysky.media/alee/new-map-captures-explosive-rise-of-the-nonreligious/

wrog,
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@daylightatheism

I'm thinking there's a potential category error here, or maybe too much jumping to conclusions about what a "none of the above" response to a survey question actually means.

Just because someone doesn't want to be associated with existing organizations of a particular type doesn't always tell us much about what they believe or even necessarily that they've given a whole lot of thought to it.

Could be a rise in secular humanism / rationalism / atheism (hint: these aren't all the same thing). ... or a vacuum waiting to be filled by Something Else. Nor are these mutually exclusive.

(eg, QAnon + antivax woo peddlers gaining traction worry me)

(sure would be nice if a survey could drill down on the "none"s)

wrog, to random
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The justifications for pretrial detention and solitary confinement, as I understand them -- not that I necessarily agree --, are, respectively, flight risk (the usual problem) and preventing further compromise of classified info even if just to other prisoners (i.e., national security outweighs presumption of innocence)

Now compare (1) relative volumes and sensitivity of documents stolen (RW leaked a single report on 2016 Russian election interference), (2) that we have testimony from folks like Pratt that Trump has blabbed about Actual Military Secrets (submarine specs, nuclear weapons specs, plans for attacking Iran) to foreign nationals,

and pre-trial orders generally don't require proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

wrog, to random
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Proving the 3 altitudes of a triangle have a single common intersection is surprisingly subtle -- not the Hardest Problem Ever, but it's not the obvious "everything on a bisector is equidistant from the two (whatever), therefore the place where the bisectors intersect is equidistant from all three" argument that takes care of both the in-center and the circumcenter.

It takes longer than 5 minutes.

Or rather, I took longer than 5 minutes -- I won't embarrass myself and say exactly how much longer; and maybe this is more a measure of senility than subtlety, but still...

(go ahead; waste time today. I dare you).

... I'm now less surprised at this one getting deferred to the back of the geometry book.

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wrog, to random
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so... what pissed me off the most about the JJAbrams Star Trek movies:

seeing the trailer for the 2nd movie with Benedict Cumberbatch and Alice Eve, realizing that JJ had found the perfect re-casting for Gary Mitchell + Elizabeth Dehner and that this was obviously going to be a re-imagining of "Where No Man Has Gone Before."

Note that, generally, a pilot is made before the showrunners have fully figured out the worldbuilding/etc. There'll always be mistakes + stuff that no longer makes sense in the series context that eventually develops.

This was especially true of WNMHGB.

For a reboot/reimagining, that's what you need to re-do. Good episode, but so much to fix: Middle initial on the tombstone is the least of it.

1/4

wrog,
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And of course, dropping a rock on Mitchell would never have been enough to kill him.

That was clearly all staged for Kirk's benefit, to get him to go away and never come back so that they could enjoy their super-powered utopia in peace or fuck off to infinity and start the Q or whatever it was they were supposed to have done.

Naturally, there turns out to be Something They're Missing and they have to come back to get it … with suitably horrific consequences for humanity if they should succeed.

The plot writes itself.

2/n

wrog,
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And ALL of the property destruction you see in that trailer is completely explainable in terms of Mitchell's powers (Dehner's too; even in the original episode, once she gets her shit together, she goes from 0 to 60-Full-Ass-Beam-of-Death in no time, even if the 1966 special-effects/budget couldn't do it justice -- really needed to be detonating half of the landscape behind him whenever she missed).

Even if the movie were to end on a single half-destroyed ship fleeing the multi-solar-system battlefield with a message,

"Dear Organians/Metrons/Treylane's-People/ANYBODY:

We've well and truly fucked ourselves now. PLEASE HELP.

kthnxbye,"

it would still have been magnificent.

I was so looking forward to that movie.

3/n

wrog,
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Instead we got this completely lame rehash of Wrath of Khan, the original version of which, I might remind, was basically the culmination of TOS -- one of the best things they ever did with that cast + Ricardo Montelban in top form.

(I will still put Doomsday Machine in 1st, but that's me...).

I mean, maybe JJ could have found a way to make it better, but the odds were so stacked against that happening, it was ridiculous.

A complete waste of opportunity.

ok, I'm done.

4/4

moira, to cycling
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I was really pleased with this cleanup filtering until I noticed what it was doing with diagonal roads. :(

(Yes, this is part of the redo project with better tools. I'm also taking the opportunity to improve the background King County map.)

wrog,
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@moira

also looks like whatever filter you used for versions 2 and 3 was effective at getting rid of those annoying bike paths. Good job.

(maybe I should write a Lake Forest Park filter)

wrog,
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@moira

Problem with all of these is they have "Lake Forest Park" in them. I'm now officially tired of cities with 3 nouns in their name that aren't actually any of them. Please do something about this. kthxbai

Lazarou, to random
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so many purple cars.....

wrog,
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@Lazarou

"so many purple cars....."

Colorization Fail.

ColinTheMathmo, to random
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Space I can recover. Time, never. -- Napoleon Bonaparte

wrog,
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@ColinTheMathmo

probably just as well Napoleon didn't know about String Theory

ColinTheMathmo, (edited ) to random
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EDIT: Problem diagnosed, a plan has been formulated. Further suggestions and comments welcome, but please read the thread first.

Time for today's adventure in understanding why things don't work the way I think they should.

Please feel free to boost this for reach, or ignore it if you have no interest, and think none of your followers can help.

Today ... a USB disk mounted on an Ubuntu machine.

1/n

wrog,
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@ColinTheMathmo

so is this a case of

(0) we can rebuild the inode table without having to mess with the rest of the disk
(1) we need to reformat the disk (copy everything out and back)
(2) we need to recompile the kernel to allow bigger inode values
(3) we're fucked because inode_t is int32 and we have more than 4 billion files in the same filesystem

?

wrog,
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@ColinTheMathmo

(apologies in advance for stupid-question):

Do we know the cd command didn't silently fail?
(i.e., are you in the directory you think you are? There might also be some special treatment for // that differs between commands. These are not URLs.)

(admittedly it's been a couple decades since I last had that kind of fail -- these are more NFS-ish kinds of problems)

moira, to random
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

!!! !!!!!!! !!!!!!! !!!!!!!

https://journa.host/@chrisgeidner/111609597286770076

wrog,
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@moira @FlipperPA @shonin

(2) for the general election, you're voting for Electors, and unless the "faithless elector" rules can actually be used to prevent electors from casting particular votes (as opposed to punishing them if they vote the wrong way -- which I believe is the only bit that's been tested; not sure about this), again, I'm not sure what leverage the state has here.

wrog,
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@moira @FlipperPA @shonin

Things get really weird for a number of reasons. (1) primaries are intra-party functions that the state runs as a courtesy; it's up to party rules to determine which candidates can be listed on the ballot and how; primaries are used to elect delegates; some states, you vote for delegates directly, and it's also up to party rules whether the primary actually counts for anything. State can't actually tell the party how to select its delegates because that violates Freedom of Association.

wrog,
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@moira @FlipperPA @shonin

Even if SCOTUS declines to hear the case or upholds the COSC ruling, the CO Republican Party could just amend its Delegate Selection Plan to stipulate that all delegates will be Trump delegates and ignore/cancel the primary entirely. A number of other states have effectively done just this.

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