Peter Amstutz @tetron@octodon.social
Free software developer on http://arvados.org and http://commonwl.org projects. Programming, politics and dad jokes. Pronouns: who/huh/what?
So the justice department just appointed a former director of the FBI to investigate, among other things, the improper dismissal of the most recent FBI director. Trump is epically fucked.
Yay octodon is back thanks @CobaltVelvet !
@shel Well, that's the thing, innit?
There's those who understand what science is, and those who think "science" is whatever propaganda they've been cultivated with.
Science and "science" are two very different things.
Status: replaying Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past. Still one of the best games in the series IMHO.
Every once in a while it's good to notice how fragile everything is and appreciate the fact that your life still hasn't been torn apart by entropy.
Most of the time it's better to pretend that everything is robust and permanent so you don't stress about it.
That's balance.
#My2¢
Had a great day at work, got something working that I've been working all week (and really the culmination of over a year of work) and then on my way home I read about the AHCA and now I'm so pissed off it ruined my mood. 😡😡😡
@bob @fallerOfFalls Trouble is assured either way.
Your "no rulers" utopia has no provisions to deal with assholes, let alone mobs of assholes who mobilise of their own volition to mistreat other people.
As soon as people start working together - whether on defense or offense or just creative projects, you get hierarchies and rulers, defacto or otherwise.
That's humanity.
Power exists when recognized
Laws exist when enforced
You can "have power" in title or constitution but if you aren't recognized by others when you try to enforce the paper that gives you power then it's meaningless and nothing happens.
This is how the State works but at also how power and structures in general work. Someone can write down that you "are in charge of X and can fire people" but if you try to fire someone and get just keep coming to work and getting paid then you have no power
I've seen some people compare Mastdon to IRC, I guess in the sense that IRC networks are (sort of) federated and anyone can run one. But IRC networks are closed and don't interoperate with other networks, so it's not a good comparison.
if i have to strace your program to debug a problem your program doesnt give sufficient error output okay thanks
So I hooked my old SNES and was playing Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past. I died like 20 time in the first dungeon. I don't remember it begun this hard. I guess I'm starting to suck at video games I my old age.
Finally starting to notice this striking inverse correlation between
- whether something is confusing
- whether you've read a book about it
This "google things as you need them" habit, I think, It's actually pretty bad
Somehow I taught myself this helplessness. Struggle over years. Feel like I'll never get it.
Have you read a book about it?
Well, no
when everything has to be a cautionary tale about that time you typed 'rm -rf *'
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Mastodon right now feels like LiveJournal circa 2002, except with fewer goths.
TFW you start looking into a bug and then find two more annnnnd actually the whole thing is broken and nobody noticed
"You know that feature that was marked as beta and use at your own risk, and people used it anyway?" "yea?" "there's a reason we wrote that..." #programming
As an undergrad comp sci student, one of my favorite professors was a scottish gentleman by the name of Robin Popplestone. I used to visit his office just to chat. One day we were talking about something, maybe the Church-Turing thesis, when I, in a momentary lapse of memory, blurted out "uh... the gay dude... Turing!" My professor, in perfect British understatement: "The. Gay. Dude. Hmmm."
because it rarely hurts to ask...
me: a fast learning, self-starting (no really), skilled front-end dev with a dangerous (that's a good thing) amount of backend knowledge including some clojure. (:tada:)
you: somebody with a full time position NYC or remote for same.
boosts welcome. :D
So the scary thing about US saber-rattling is that it is almost certainly backed up by a stack of contingency war plans for invading NK that are just waiting for the president's go-ahead.
