If your car has blue smoke, that's coolant burning.
If your car has white smoke, then it has elected a new pope.
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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)
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Just received an emergency tornado alert recommending to take shelter in a basement.
I live in an apartment. We don't have a basement.
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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 screams Foldable, 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_.
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FFS.
There's a notice posted on the front door of the building. Apparently the landlord is bringing in an exterminator tomorrow and we have ~24h to empty out all the cabinets, pull appliances away from the walls, etc. in preparation for their arrival.
Welp, I did have other plans for today, but I guess not any more. ಠ_ಠ
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!Haskell Users Group (unofficial)
So, I created a #Haskell #TUI program using brick. I wanted to have it support cursor keys, as well as vim and Emacs-style cursor movement, but for whatever reason I can't get it to register C-n and C-p keypresses. C-f and C-b worked fine though.
Anyone have any ideas as to why this might be?
The repository is at: git.fingerprintsoftware.ca/jla…
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So, my partner who's "not into anime" and insistent that she dislikes the fantasy genre may or may not have spent the past three days binging on Frieren.
Now she wants more anime recommendations.
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Weather report for today said no chance of rain.
I should not have left the car windows rolled down...
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I think centralized social media is the reason we fucked up a lot of decentralized social media.
I was thinking earlier about Lemmy, and how when Reddit did their API changes everyone tried to rush to Lemmy. Which would be fine, except everyone tried to just recreate reddit. Everyone tried to make Everything servers. Do we need ten thousand Technology subs? Not really. But people just tried to all make large general purpose instances with all the generic subs. Because they feel like they have to recreate reddit--ALL of them.
Nobody needs to run a Whole Reddit. Something like Lemmy would have been better if 99% of instances were single or limited topic. Keep the scale small, keep the moderation focused and knowledgeable.
I remember checking out Revolt, which is a discord alternative, and I think it has the same scale problem. Discord has three basic levels: channels, servers, and Discord itself which is a collection of servers. Revolt assumes that you don't want to self host a server, you want to self host a Discord. You want to self host All Of Discord. I don't think that's the case for most people! They want to run their one server!
Decentralized social media can't take a centralized approach, you can't try to recreate these horrible giant bloated behemoths but now with less budget and less moderation. You have to relearn to think at a smaller scale, the beauty of decentralization is that we can link all these smaller scale projects together.
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@Dobody @lori See, that's the thing that I like about the fedi. If I don't like a server's policies, I can migrate to another without being totally cut off from my contacts.
These days I self-host, so I don't have to worry so much about disagreements with my admin though. This also would not be an option elsewhere.
@Eniko | Kitsune Tails out now! I noticed on the official trailer for Kitsune Tails that it's coming for the Nintendo Switch. I have two questions:
1) Is there a planned release date for this? (I couldn't find it in the Nintendo store)
2) Does Nintendo take a less drastic cut than Steam does?
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I have a stainless steel travel mug that I have my coffee in (almost) every day. It's supposedly dishwasher safe, but I still usually hand wash it.
A few months after I got it, the paint started peeling. Within a year, it had all completely peeled off... except for the logo, which is painted over top of the said peeling paint and still in pristine condition.
I feel there's a lesson in this story somewhere.
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@Celeste Ryder 🐾 🐀🏳️🌈 Apparently, it's because we've gotten a "loyalty discount" for being with them so long.
We actually had this discount with them before, but lost it because they dropped us briefly, and forced us to go with another company.
I love insurance.
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@Foone🏳️⚧️ I may or may not currently have an ongoing project where I'm designing a CPU from scratch*.
* I am allowing myself the luxury of commercial RAM/ROM chips.
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High demand groups must always have an enemy. This enemy must constitute an existential threat to the group (real or imagined). It's what enables the group to make the demands it does of its members. The ends need to seem to justify the means, though actually achieving those ends are unnecessary. In fact it's not even desirable, because once they do, they need to manufacture a new enemy.
This understanding gives interesting context to the Mormon obsession with the quote "there needs be opposition in all things." There literally does.
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It should come as no surprise to anyone who's been paying attention that I've grown disillusioned with capitalism over the past several years. What's interesting to me though is that any time I express this publicly, there are no shortage of capitalists who falsely assert that I am claiming that communism is the ultimate solution to everything. This is a false dichotomy.
I am not saying I have the answers to the world's problems. I just have eyes to see that the emperor has no clothes.
Edit: typo
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6 lines free for anyone that wants to play on this PDP-11/70 running Version 7 UNIX.
ssh misspiggy@tty.livingcomputers.org
Drop in "com" to have messages displayed on the terminals.
#retrocomputing #unix #vintage
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Hey #Unix folks recommend me your favorite games that can run in the terminal that aren't:
1) the most basic boring arcade stuff like snake or missile command
2) roguelikes/dungeon crawlers (love em but there's no lack of those)
3) chess, backgammon, etc., more meaty board games sure but there's already a million easy to find ways to play chess in a terminal
edit: 4) IF, I know where to find plenty of that, forgot this one
This is for my machine with no gui so when I say terminal I mean terminal not just like "text based and looks like it'd be in a terminal maybe".
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are you certain? It could last I checked!
[PRINT_MODE:TEXT] in data/init/init.txt
@via unreachable I didn't have an init folder under data. I added it and got the following when I launched it, I got the following error:
Display not found and PRINT_MODE not set to TEXT, aborting.
@me it looks like Debian moved stuff around; try editing /usr/share/games/dwarf-fortress/gamedata/data/init/init.txt
Change [PRINT_MODE:2D] to [PRINT_MODE:TEXT], and you should get curses output.
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •There's so such thing as a Heisenbug on deterministic computers.
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Jonathan Lamothe
in reply to Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. • •@Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. Intellectually, I understand this.
I think that computers just trick us into believing them to be deterministic.
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •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.
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