I've been working through some #soroban exercises try to actually become reasonably proficient in its use. Interestingly enough, I'm doing much better with multiplicaiton/divison than I am with the addition/subtraction questions, but that's because the latter involve summing a column of values rather than just multiplying two numbers. There are more places to screw up.
Still, these questions seem designed to deliberately screw me up with things like multiple carries, changing the value on a rod just to immediately revert that change, etc.
I don't want this place to be a "Twitter replacement". I came here (in the pre-Musk era) because I wanted something better* than Twitter. The fedi certainly has its shortcomings, and we need to work to improve it (especially regarding the treatment of marginalized people), but Twitter should not be the yardstick we measure ourselves by.
Dear everyone on the Fediverse who posts anything political...
If you're not going to put your post behind a "political" content warning, then please at the very least use FULL NAMES instead of nick names like "Orange man" or "Kama" or "Vice Daddy" or whatever.
It makes it hard for those who are trying to filter out political content from their feed.
@falcennial I never asked anyone to change the topic. I only asked that people not use alternative names so that filters can work. Use “Trump” not “Orange man” and so on.
If someone chooses not to, that’s fine. That’s their right. I can just mute or block them.
People are free to do what they want. I’m just letting them know that there are people who wished they would make a different choice.
@DeadTOm :d20: Sometimes that's just what you have to do. Friendica (what I use) has an option to automatically collapse all of a given users' posts, essentially CWing them all. I don't know if Mastodon has this feature, but I've found it useful in cases where I don't want to completely unfollow.
I am neither for nor against AI, mostly because it's essentially a meaningless word. What does bother me is the number of people who are shoehorning it into their products because investors lose their minds and shovel boatloads of money at them.
It's not that I have a problem with fools taking other fools' money; I'm just really sick of them trying to sell me their magic beans.
Your SSH honeypot fakes a Linux system and logs the threat actor's commands.
My SSH honeypot hijacks the threat actor's terminal to play the music video of Rick Astley's 1987 pop hit "Never Gonna Give You Up" while ignoring Ctrl-C.
I fear that people have become desensitized to seeing teachers asking for help with wishlists.
Each year we are inundated with teachers essentially begging for help. I see it & feel it too.
I am one of those teachers who would not be able to run a classroom without the kindness of strangers.
I apologize & thank you in a single message, because I know many are struggling too. A boost is equally appreciated.The students are back & I didn’t lose anyone over the summer!
@EdCates You have zero (read zero) reason to apologise. The folks in charge of implementing a system that leaves teachers in such a predicament should be the ones hanging their heads in shame (I won’t hold my breath).
You exemplify everything that’s good in the system despite the system. I hope your students know how lucky they are to have you.
Sometimes I think being a teacher in Norway is hard and unappreciated by the masses. (Hah, I first misspelled masses as "asses", and found it quite fitting)
Then I think of the working conditions of teachers in the US and realize things could be a lot worse..
I really hope the US finds a new way forward soon, a way where teachers don't need to beg strangers for help to get basic equipment to do their jobs, and get decent wages..
In my day we had buttons. We had switches! Sliders! And what do we have now? Glass rounded rectangles of various sizes.
"We can make it do haptic feedback."
No just put me out of my misery. Send me to the farm upstate. Your haptic feedback is a mockery of the elegance of the latching switches and potentiometers I have known.
Robotics is hard. Mechanical engineering is hard. The glass rounded rectangles are magical, yes, and lovely, but they also prisons for the imagination.
after posting this brain.worm.pink/notice/AlVXRJZ… it occurred to me how aliens/successors looking through our layers of e-waste (somehow in chronological order? maybe they're deep chthonians digging their way up) would find all these buttons and gizmos of dazzling variety of aesthetics and ergonomics
then a flood of nothing but little black rectangles
i can't imagine them *not* panicking and sealing off the cave entrance thinking that our civilization had been wiped out by some kind of grey goo disaster
imagining the rats or bedbugs or whatever gains sapience after us digging up our stuff and staring in bafflement at just what happened a few decades after 9/11 like
> We realised, of course, the great decadence of the Old Ones’ sculpture at the time of the tunnelling; and had indeed noticed the inferior workmanship of the arabesques in the stretches behind us. But now, in this deeper section beyond the cavern, there was a sudden difference wholly transcending explanation—a difference in basic nature as well as in mere quality, and involving so profound and calamitous a degradation of skill that nothing in the hitherto observed rate of decline could have led one to expect it.
Sometimes you get a button, but it's a 1-in-all deal. Press and hold to turn on, press and hold longer to pair bluetooth, press once for play/pause, press long to turn off... Oh, you pressed it too long and now it's gone from on straight into BT pairing, or maybe off, I'm not sure. Just press and hold till something happens again.
I haven't read him but your toot made me think about him because here in Italy he's the example of a writer who "travelled" without leaving home (and made readers "travel" through his own books)
I eat peaches with the skin on, but usually rinsing them and rubbing them with a paper towel gets most of the fuzz texture off, since I'm also not a big fan of that
yeah lol i'd absolutely eat nectarines before i'd peel a peach
Unless I'm going to a farmers market where they have the good shit I end up buying nectarines more than peaches anyway just because supermarkets tend to have dogshit peaches but okay nectarines.
my university has converted our office telephones to Microsoft Teams. when i grumbled about this to a favourite sysadmin, this is how they responded 🔥
“Microsoft has actually brilliantly leveraged the lousy security landscape -- for which they are in no small part responsible -- to capture even larger market-share, as we now need commercial entities to produce the software required to protect us from their failures, and therefore need a more uniform environment to achieve the necessary scale. The uniformity then guarantees an ever greater scale for the inevitable conflagration. Monocultures guarantee one big fire instead of a bunch of small survivable ones. We really have no interest in learning from evolution, in no small part because it would produce fewer billionaires.
@BassRck5000 Your meme, exactly! It’s evidence of a breakdown in our standards and belief in a Democratic Republic. It’s a crisis, that has been heading in the wrong direction for 30 years, and approaching a breaking point, a point I believe will be arrived at if MAGA/Drumph succeed in Nov. If they’re trounced and The Head Liar is prosecuted after, then there is hope. Otherwise stand by for our National calamity to grow exponentially. 🤔
@BassRck5000 I think we’re on the same page, but it’s Trump’s creation. MAGA would be more accurately called Trumpets and Fascists, get rid of the word ‘great’. 😐
@BassRck5000 Agreed he’s a traitor. I’d call him a focusing lense, a powerful magnet for STUPID, and a useful tool for hardcore capitalists , monopolists , billionaires, and fascists.
@Huntn00 @BassRck5000 The Republican Party has been a personality cult in search of a leader since Reagan's day. Trump was just the first person to successfully step into the role.
@BassRck5000 @Huntn00 They really mean "Make America White Again", or maybe "The Confederacy Will Rise Again". I keep waiting for one to run on a platform of repealing the 13th Amendment.
@cavyherd @VATVSLPR @BassRck5000 There’s no way anyone can observe DJ and proclaim the man is a patriot or a rule follower. Constitutional rules are out. Donnie rules are in, one rule, “whatever benefits me and my power”. The most upsetting thing about this is his base. Millions functioning like a cult and have abandoned democracy because there are people who disagree with them in a democracy. They are a direct threat to our Democratic Republic. 🔥
I have long believed we humans are operating at the edge of the complexity envelope (the very limit of our mental capacity), and any vendor (Microsoft) promising a simple solution that requires no thought automatically has an advantage.
I wrote the help documents for Teams. Frequent directive was “There’s no way around this problem, so write it as if it’s a known issue being addressed.”
And, time to turn my phone off again to enjoy the trip instead of scrolling social media (which I can do at home). Also, I only have so much battery. 🙃
Fun fact, the cat can slip out of his harness when spooked by a passing car. We're hanging out in the tent with him until we can sort out this logistical wrinkle.
So I think that when I took off after Benny when he got loose I got into some poison ivy/oak. I'm normally careful about such things, but I had to be quick to catch him.
I washed my arms immediately after and slathered them with afterbite (which I figured was the most useful thing we had on hand) but there was some itchiness/rash shortly thereafter. Fortunately Benny seems to have been unaffected.
Well, we forgot to bring bug spray. Rookie mistake, but it's been a while. Ran off to the nearby pharmacy to pick some up, then we'll finish setting up camp.
In Afghanistan, the Taliban's Minister of Education has announced that girls' schools are likely to remain closed permanently.
As a Muslim let me be explicitly clear. This is apartheid, vile, & inexcusable.
Prophet Muhammad(sa) declared, "It is incumbent upon every Muslim male & every Muslim female to attain education." His wife Ayesha was a leading scholar & jurist. His final words were "women are your committed partners." Not servants—PARTNERS.
Doing some last minute checking of the #camping gear for our trip tomorrow. We haven't touched any of it in like six years. I was sure the batteries in our lantern would be dead. I tested them and they're fully charged. I'm impressed.
I just pulled some Energizer lithium AAs from an old set of FRS/GMRS handheld radios. The batteries have "expiration" dates of 2010, but they read 1.7 V on my multimeter, 14 years later. These batteries are rated for a 10-year shelf life, so they are 24 years old.
Ugh, I hate that. My current EDC flashlight has a parasitic drain like that, so I have to keep the tailcap partially unscrewed so the battery isn't dead when I actually need it.
Remember, no matter how much neoliberals will try to convince you:
Public services should not be required generate income.
Water, Power, Communications, Healthcare, Education, Public Transport, Mail, Firefighters, Police, Libraries, Swimming Pools, Roads, Generally all infrastructure, Military
None of these things were created with the idea of making big profits with them, they are meant to provide you with a service which is being paid for with your taxes. Privatizing any of them will make them worse, not better.
Though, companies are very good at pretending they are better for a while, by simply deciding to lose money for a few years. The bill always comes due before long, though.
In fact, they were often being done by the government explicitly because capitalism refused to do it well enough for the nation to function properly...ahem.
Okay, finally took the plunge and just booked a #camping trip this upcoming week instead of waiting for everything to just fall in place. We haven't been camping since before COVID.
I've got to go through all our gear to make sure everything's still in working order.
Just for fun, I decided to look into how to use an abacus the other day. I have no practical use for this whatsoever, it was just something I was curious about. Learning this of course made me want to buy an abacus. I know myself well enough to know that while it would probably be an inexpensive purchase, it'd only end up collecting dust on a shelf within a week.
Then I thought about programming a virtual abacus that I could then play around with. I know this to be an absolutely absurd idea, but that absurdity only kinda makes me want to do it even more.
Just started down the rabbit hole that is the Japanese electrical system. At a glance, it actually seems to make the North American system look sane. That's an impressive feat.
!Haskell Users Group (unofficial) Has anyone successfully cross-compiled a #Haskell project to .exe from a *NIX system (preferably Debian)? I've casually looked into it in the past, but never given it a serious try.
Weird question but here on Masto, are there any #LGBT people in #oklahoma — especially those located in the greater #tulsa area or rural parts of the state? I need your help if you’re out there! Please boost!!!
EDIT: could have included this in the main post instead of replying it to everyone but please drop your LGBT-friendly resources in the comments or my DMs (doctors, social groups, assistance programs, anything but a bar/restaurant)
They aren't quite as deterministic as we might like them to be these days. I think some CPUs have a quantum randomness source, and task-scheduling across multiple computation units often _feels_ non-deterministic to me.
Plus, I do believe the term "Heisenbug" can be applied to bugs that go away when you turn on debugging/profiling/tracing or any other type of monitoring system that might be useful to diagnosis, even if everything is perfectly deterministic.
I mean, there is a basement floor and there is a hallway we could use down there in a worst-case scenario. Fortunately, the storm seems to be letting up.
@erin (she/her) You know, it's funny (in a not funny way). We've had a number of tornado warnings in recent years. In my childhood, I can only ever remember that happening once.
I hate it when I make an official release of a program with an ugly snippet of code that I can't figure out how to write more cleanly, only to come up with a solution 10 minutes after pushing the release. I just make the change in the dev branch so it gets incorporated into the next version.
In my defense, the thing I was overlooking was that #Haskell's Maybe type is an instance of Foldable. It's not the kind of data type that exactly screamsFoldable, is it?
Side note: I should use Hoogle's search by type signature feature more frequently. I needed a function that looked like this: Monad m => (a -> m ()) -> Maybe a -> m (), which is literally just mapM_.
Hah. In a similar situation, I knew I wanted whenJust (which is provided by various libraries on hackage), but in the end, I realized I could just use for_ from base. It's amazing how many functions are just traverse (or traverse_).
@Kalamata Hari Yeah, any time I end up writing a case statement on a Maybe or Either and one of the branches is -> return (), I die a little inside, because I know there's probably a better way that I'm just not seeing.
When in doubt, always check to see if `traverse` matches the function you need. It's odd how often `traverse` (or some variant, like `mapM` or `traverse_`) is what you want.
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And for those of us who do care to engage with political content, we'd prefer to do so with adults, not schoolyard children using singsong insults.
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Unknown parent • • •@falcennial I never asked anyone to change the topic. I only asked that people not use alternative names so that filters can work. Use “Trump” not “Orange man” and so on.
If someone chooses not to, that’s fine. That’s their right. I can just mute or block them.
People are free to do what they want. I’m just letting them know that there are people who wished they would make a different choice.
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