Ellie D. @diodelass@mastodon.social

this article is suggesting that we make welfare a reward for allowing the government to openly watch your every move.

Nice how we get from "let's make more money for the government through dubious means" to "actually this is radical and helps the poor" through the magic of assuming that poverty exists because of a shortage of money in the US government

Basically "how about we have an aggressive surveillance state that focuses on poor people that big corporations can pay to access the data from" wow amazing, I'm sure Marx would have loved this, how radical

This article is some of the stupidest filth I've read in a while, and I read that Atlantic trash about trans kids not too long ago.
Basically it's suggesting that we reduce poverty by making companies pay the government to use data about people's behavior, which the government then, uh, uses for welfare or something

*GAMESHOW BUZZER*
Nope! Better luck next time

SPACEX PUBLIC COMPLAINT FORM SX034
DATE OF INCIDENT: 2018-06-28
NAME OF CLAIMANT: Ellie Diodelass
COMPLAINT TYPE: personal injury
INCIDENT DESCRIPTION: spent stage from Falcon 9 Block 4 struck my boat and killed me
REPARATIONS SOUGHT: new boat

man I just fuckin hate it when that happens

ME: my head per second
MY BOYFRIEND: what
ME: my head, it per second
BF: what??
ME: it hertz!
BF: I am going to kill you

in the other news, don't ever go on Know Your Meme, even if (especially if) you have a ton of RAM

I really need to figure out how to make my systems just kill processes when I run out of memory. Trying to swap many gigabytes to a spinny disk is madness.

today is blacked out on my weather forecast widget for some reason

MICROSOFT: Edge is 33% faster than Chrome and Firefox. Edge is fast. Edge is better because it's faster. Use Edge.
ME: have you possibly considered the idea that I don't select my primary browser purely on speed

I made my friends a reset button for the pick&place machine they're assembling at my uni

So I was just gonna not read that bullshit Atlantic cover story (the "your child says she's transgender, she's 13" one by Jεssε Sιngαl) but then I remembered that my parents are avid readers of that rag and are probably going to try to talk to me about that article when I move home.
And yeah, it's as bad as I expected.

00:00 ~% ./helloworld.py
00:00 waiting for UIL [#29472 in queue]....
00:53 waiting for UIL [#4582 in queue]....
....
21:57 Hello world!

21:57 ~%

Tired: Global Interpreter Lock (only one thread per process can execute code at a time)
Wired: Universal Interpreter Lock (only one thread in the world can execute code at a time)

I would probably never be mean to someone for not knowing that in real life but in the dream it was some satisfaction because I think they'd just been mansplaining Python to me moments before

I had a dream last night that this person I really didn't like was giving a presentation on improving performance in python using multithreading, and I was like "wow, that's silly, the global interpreter lock means that won't do shit, I can't believe they aren't using multiprocessing instead"

New journalism rule:
Articles containing "while it isn't really [pop culture thing]," aren't allowed to be titled "[pop culture thing] is coming!"

I really like what Redox OS is up to, I really hope I can be competent enough with Rust to help them out someday