Carey 🇳🇿 @carey@mastodon.social
Web dev and programmer in #Java, #Kotlin, #JavaScript, #Rust, #Python, etc. Dad of two and husband of one. Fan of #KTTunstall, #Chvrches and #Paramore.
#introductions Hi federated social web, I’m Carey from 🇳🇿 . I’m a mythical full stack web developer 🦄 in Java on Windows and Linux.
In my spare time, I read, play Euro Truck Simulator and Skyrim, listen to not-quite-mainstream pop music, despair about the waste inherent in Bitcoin, and try to think of something to use #rustlang for.
I’m no good at social media, and I don’t expect Mastodon to change that.
“Well-Kept Gardens Die by Pacifism” by Eliezer Yudkowsky
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tscc3e5eujrsEeFN4/well-kept-gardens-die-by-pacifism
I believe this also ties into Popper’s Paradox of Tolerance.
Getting left out of new memes because your phone doesn't receive unicode updates like
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Today I realized that I cannot expect people on the Internet to have heard of the Geek Social Fallacies any more.
The Geek Social Fallacies are five things that geeks often believe about How Socializing Should Work, that cause a lot of conflict. I've found them to be pretty useful as a way to put a handle on certain concepts, and maybe even avoid going into bad situations.
http://plausiblydeniable.com/opinion/gsf.html
(Looking at them in 2017, I find myself wondering how many of the GSFs the design of most social networks is running straight into...)
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This can’t be good https://mastodon.social/media/kk9Z4gSUlSsTC-HEPT0
(from https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/cyclone-gita-to-blast-new-zealand-with-damaging-winds-flooding-rain-tuesday/70004156 — warning, autoplaying video)
Nice post from one of the Gnome devs about how Rust has changed how he thinks about programming.
#programming #rust #c #gnome
Web designers need to know of this exchange between my parents:
Father: Ah - they've updated their web site!
Mother: Oh no.
Father: It looks good ...
Mother: Can you find the things we need?
... (long pause) ...
Father: No ...
It’s not AI vs people
It’s not Big Data vs people
It’s not robots vs people
It’s corporations vs people.
https://anticapitalist.party/media/0IDz8pAunq7R3fAvthA
FUN FACT: Uber lost about $5B last year. If fares were set high enough to just break even they would cost more than a traditional taxi. Every rideshare you take is subsidized by the finance industry in a ploy to profit off the destruction of unionized companies and public transit
Now reading “Containers Will Not Fix Your Broken Culture” by Bridget Kromhout @bridgetkromhout@twitter.com in #ACMQueue.
Today I taught my daughter to use Vegas Pro Edit from last year’s #HumbleBundle, to edit a story told with her and her brother’s toys into a single video. (Not quite #TIL.)
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Actually #Chvrches’ new video for Get Out is pretty damn weird too, and the phone number in the video works and is a bit creepy
Wooooo new #Paramore video for Rose-Coloured Boy https://youtu.be/cW5ueE2vUm0
Really weird new Paramore video
Super Bowl Sunday, the magic day where websites try to be #1 for the query "what time is the super bowl" without actually revealing the time in the snippet. https://lgbt.io/media/QDrk-x0f3BeRDDNv74I
Today I finally got a copy of The Chronicles of Morgaine, from a second hand bookshop, and learnt that it’s connected to the Alliance-Union Universe. #Books #TIL #CJCherryh https://mastodon.social/media/P1SKCzL0BK_SxZEmRwQ
Noëlle the 8-Bit🏳️🌈🎄
There are a whole lot of alarming indications that Elon Musk is trying to become Cave Johnson.
Today I learned that the square of the standard deviation (variance or second moment) is equivalent to rotational inertia. #TIL
