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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.
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Lately when I wake up in the morning there's a 50/50 chance that the internet has died during the night and I need to reboot the modem.
This is not good when you're self-hosting stuff from home.
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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.
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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.
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So it's fun to use and all, but it's way too easy for a fumble with the keyboard to mess the whole thing up.
Besides, now I'm looking into soroban-style abacuses (abacii?) They seem more interesting. I'm probably going to break down and actually buy one.
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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.
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I'm of the understanding that it can perhaps be done with Haskell.nix?
Edit: typo
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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@Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. Intellectually, I understand this.
I think that computers just trick us into believing them to be deterministic.
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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.
DFTBA
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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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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This really shows when you search for any kind topic and get 100s of communities called exactly the same, all with like 9 subscribers. All abandoned of course.
A good counter example is startrek.website that only does Star Trek related stuff
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@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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@jeremy_list Insurance, maaaan! 🤷♀️
I live in an area where I can safely leave while leaving the door wide open and nothing happening(1), no thefts, no fires, no flooding (top of the mountain, no public works), no tornadoes, no nothing, but seeing the rates go up every year, you’d never know that!
(1) Literally did that once, unknowingly
I never got a discount after 20+ years!
I did switch this year because by doing so and getting both cars and the house on the same one (previous best deal had them separated), I ended up saving some $1,000 a year…
… I was like, wut? Yes please! And took it before they changed their mind 😅
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the fun bit of “how do I get enough dopamine moving around my brain to function” problem. And what work you actually do to solve that in addition to the technical problem.
I like being able to hyper focus, but I hate not being able to go “I’m going to do this now” and actually do it.
@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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Whoops!
Accidentally left my #sourdough starter unattended for just shy of 48 hours. I had intended to refrigerate it.
It got a bit runny and had a bit of a vinegar-ey smell to it but no mould, so I think it's salvagable. Just fed it and we'll see how it fares.
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It’ll be fine, I leave mine weeks without feeding sometimes.
Treat it mean, keep it keen.
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Pi is an irrational number. This means that its digits continue indefinitely without ever repeating. Every possible finite combination of digits is therefore contained therein. This would technically include a digital representation of every possible copyrighted work.
Does this constitute prior art?
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I'll bite, but not about the IP part.
Just because an irrational number's digits continue indefinitely without ever repeating, does that necessarily mean that it contains every arbitrary finite sequence of digits?
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Is there at least one finite sequence of digits that isn't represented in pi? If so, there are probably an infinite set of finite sequences of arbitrary numbers not represented in pi.
*something something* Cantor's infinite set of infinite sets...
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OTOH, if every finite sequence of arbitrary digits is represented in pi, then we should be able to find in pi a representation of, say, Euler's number to any given precision...
3/3 Enough for now. I don't have the math-fu to know if I'm being rational.
@bobjonkman No. Consider 1.0100100010000100001..... This is irrational but it doesn't contain any sequence of digits containing digits other than one or zero.
As for the irrational number pi, I think maybe it is unknown whether it contains all sequences of digits, but I don't know where to quickly check that.
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@soaproot ...though could it not then be argued that this number contains a binary encoding of all possible sequences?
Edit: actually, not necessarily.
Edit 2: Okay, I see the pattern now. Definitely not.
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Mind you, it's a simple enough device where "off" actually means off, not some low-power standby mode.
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