Andrew Kuchling @akuchling@octodon.social
Python developer; reader; information squirrel. He/him.
WashPost: This tiny skeleton might look like an alien, but her genes tell a different story
"And it was in this desert, near a church in an abandoned village, where a man reportedly found Ata's remains in 2003. The collector who now owns the skeleton purchased Ata from an archaeological black market, Nolan said."
“The great civil war... only the army survived.”
“Well, that sounds like a well-organized war.”
— Seth and Romana, in “The Horns of Nimon”
#TMBG's latest Dial-A-Song: the ominous "Tick Tick Tick"
"Wait forever for this tick tick tick tick / legs have fallen asleep tick tick tick tick"
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"Why Wikipedia works" – this is pretty good http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/03/why-wikipedia-works.html
hey everyone, @Penpen and I made a new Mastodon instance for discussing #automotive and #engineering related stuff! check it out if that sounds like your jam :)
#car #cars #mechanical #mechanicalengineering #literallywhichhashtagsshouldievenuse
That feeling when your boss from seventeen years ago calls you up out of the blue and asks you if you remember the root password to a server that you haven't looked at since 2001.
Eight jobs ago.
Seventeen years ago.
The hell?
Youtube: the Game Night crew plays The Mind , in which the players need to sort the cards in their hand... without communicating them! (44 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnIfCG2dga8 . #boardgame #cardgame
Youtube: The University of Maryland’s Gamer Symphony Orchestra in an hour-long performance at the Kennedy Center #music
@cwebber the discourse about codes of conduct in the oss spaces feels SO far behind the rest of the world in moderation. like, have none of these people ever been on an internet forum?
it's like trying to debate tort law and then walking into a room where a bunch of people are saying "maybe killing people .... is bad, actually".
anyway i don't agree with everything in this article https://eev.ee/blog/2016/07/22/on-a-technicality/ but it's a good starting point for where i'm at when i'm thinking about community spaces nowadays
web devs: semantic versioning is the only acceptable method for serious, professional developers, such as ourselves.
Knuth: TeX versions asymptotically approach pi because I think it is fun.
New blog post: The Mastodon Spring Creator’s Release: What’s in 2.3 for art and photography
https://medium.com/tootsuite/the-mastodon-spring-creators-release-65f60d0edb8c
Please share it around! ✨
RT @tomcoates@twitter.com
There is a substantial danger here that YouTube is treating wikipedia like a commons only in the sense of “tragedy of the commons” - ie. It is saving money itself by shunting the work onto a common good, potentially killing that good in the process.
The Guardian: Roger Penrose's #obituary for Stephen Hawking is excellent, and goes into a detailed assessment of Hawking's work in #physics.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/14/stephen-hawking-obituary
"Kirk Drift", a #startrek commentary by Erin Horáková: "There is no other way to put this: essentially everything about Popular Consciousness Kirk is bullshit. Kirk, as received through mass culture memory and reflected in its productive imaginary (and subsequent franchise output, including the reboot movies), has little or no basis in Shatner’s performance and the television show as aired. Macho, brash Kirk is a mass hallucination."
http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/columns/freshly-rememberd-kirk-drift/
Youtube: The
Art of Levitation, composed by Kate Moore, performed by Alarm Will Sound. (16 min) #music
It's a bit like John Adams' "Common Tones in Simple Time"; I like it!
Went to Third Eye Games tonight to play a demo session of the Starfinder RPG. #Starfinder is an #SF #RPG based on Pathfinder, which in turn is based on the older versions of D&D, so there are lots of D20 rolls.
I enjoyed tonight's session, though the game is a bit rules-heavier than my usual preference. And it was nice to find that I still enjoy role-playing, even though I haven't done it since high school.
The new default avatar has been submitted by @ConnyDuck
“Bitcoin Is Ridiculous. Blockchain Is Dangerous: Paul Ford - Bloomberg”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-03-09/bitcoin-is-ridiculous-blockchain-is-dangerous-paul-ford
Paul Ford is way more optimistic about the application of blockchains than I am.
