clew @clew@octodon.social
Math, soil, ecology, feminism, material history, literature of the long nineteenth, waltz, polka, leavened bread. Seattlite.
Getting a bit into the political philosophy these days. I keep telling everyone I know to read John Rawls’s “Justice As Fairness: A Restatement” because I think it’s the most logical way to describe how an optimized democracy works. 📖 #amreading #philosophy #democracy
renewable energy: hydroelectric
Dams mess with ecosystems. These little guys are a cool alternative.
@hummingrain @blackcap The planning is emergent? but yes, I think the biggest planned event near #Seattle is the Saturday one at the Fed Detention Center in #Seatac . 11AM, a brief walk from the Angle Lake station on LINK light rail.
(Am echoing the Facebook event from Indivisible Seattle: https://www.facebook.com/events/643894739286405/)
@blackcap @hummingrain Yup, mornings, theoretically reproaching the ICE workers as they arrive.
I think we mostly see immigration lawyers and their clients going to and from hearings. And commuters.
@blackcap , @hummingrain -- there's a vigil 8-10 outside the ICED offices in downtown Seattle every weekday, and a bigger protest planned on the 30th at the airport. See you at either?
@boobs_idiot Are there really not purple lipstick-gold sandals-short dress old ladies at boot sales where you are? I think of that as one of their natural habitats!
@swordjaw Also the entire city is congested by (a) being basically full (b) heavy construction all over (c) summer freeway repair. We mgiht even get (d) giant protests! Any plan that involves mostly getting around by walking and light rail, that plan is a good plan.
Look, Wiley E. Coyote Super Genius shell programmer, bash + awk is not the right combination for heavy duty statistical stuff, especially if you have to process a few thousand files of over 100MB each. And particularly don't fork each file's handling in an awk process inside a bash for loop. We've got languages & libraries intended for this sort of thing: octave and matlab and scipy and R and more, all installed and ready to use.
@swordjaw Car or no? Outside or inside?
Frex, Ada's Books; Seattle Chinese Garden; some kind of boating on Lake Union: electric party boat, or rowing a wherry from the Center for Wooden Boats, or kayaking, or paddleboarding; get something to eat at the Pike Place Market and ride the ferry to Winslow and back while you eat; Bernie Utz' Hat Shop; there's almost always an indie film festival somewhere.
"Join us for daily week-day (M-F) VIGIL FOR HUMAN RIGHTS in front of the Seattle ICE office, 1000 2nd Ave (between Spring and Madison in downtown Seattle)."
@brennen If a mathematician assures you that something is trivial, hold very still until you figure out which sense of `trivial'.
I'm seeing a bunch of posts today about how hosting a mastodon admin doesn't cost a lot of money, and first I want to say that this is true; you can run an instance on $10-20/mo entirely reasonably.
But I don't want anyone to forget that there is a labor cost in running and maintaining an instance. It's not just pushing a button and feeding in some money, it's also monitoring your server and keeping it secure and handling reports and doing upgrades and all fo that.
Anyone familiar with controlling multiple RGB LEDs with a #Raspberry Pi, where the total current probably exceeds what the GPIO can do? Any ideas what kind of extra circuits or controllers I need?
@susannah ... I knew Goodreads had been bought by Amazon, I didn't know about LibraryThing!! Thanks. (Gloomily.)
This is an interesting question about family tree software that isn't getting a lot of traction on ask.metafilter
"I have a sprawling Sudanese family, and I'm hoping to build a family tree that covers my relatives going back at least four or five generations... Sadly, I haven't had much luck with the software I've tried – everything out there seems to be really clunky and Western-oriented."
https://ask.metafilter.com/323334/Please-help-me-find-family-tree-software-that-doesnt-suck
Any #advice?
@susannah LibraryThing, to replace Goodreads?
Ahhh... it’s that time of year! The leaves are lush, the cherries are fat with a slight blush of red, hunting at the heady ripeness to come Show more
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Today somebody wrote me a really nice email about how they saw some open source software I published, how they were building upon it, and thanked me for it. It made feel really great. More people should send these kind of emails (myself included), it's really validating and made my week.
