Ben Zanin @gnomon@mastodon.social

Just forgot the word "Brussels sprouts" and called them "brassica balls"

an IgNobel shoo-in: "If I fits I sits: A citizen science investigation into illusory contour susceptibility in domestic cats (Felis silvestris catus)"
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applanim.2021.105338 / https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/authShare/S0168159121001258/20210504T154400Z/1?md5=f7dce735ee3c921b72784640686a981b&dgcid=coauthor (free to read till June 23 2021)

via Twitter (https://twitter.com/Explanimals/status/1389623777781239816)

#science #cats #news 🐘

Also (look it's May and I'm excited) the raspberry rootstock I planted might have exited dormancy! It's made these iiitty bitty leaves like 2mm wide. Computer: zoom... Enhance...

Also the stone plantings I put in have started to establish and I'm just so thrilled for them

Absolutely obsessed with purple plants.

Oh, cool, apparently a rare meaning of "dragon" in #Unix is a daemon that is always sleeping, in the background, waiting to act, and wasn't explicitly summoned.

Dass man auf GitHub im Markdown mit ```<sprache> das Syntax-Highlighting manuell wählen kann, wusste ich schon lange. Also z.B. so:

```sh
cat foo.txt
```

Aber TIL, dass es nicht nur ```sh gibt, sondern auch ```console für interaktive Sessions:

```console
$ ls
foo.txt
```

Wasabi doesn't like it when I am listening to music and dance at her when she is trying to sleep

#DailyCatPic #CatsOfMastodon #MastoCats #cats

We're coming up on the three year anniversary of the Toronto City Council voting, and allocating budget, to open a downtown collision reporting centre. It never happened, but that budget went somewhere. So, Freedom Of Information Request it is. https://twitter.com/mhoye/status/1390102895538884612

Curious how far into the future people's calendars go. What year is the furthest event on your calendar?

(non-recurring events only)

So, suppose you've made git spit out a diff, like so:

git show <commit>

It's nice, but you'd like to exclude XML files. --exclude=<glob> doesn't work. This though does:

git show <commit> -- . ':(exclude)*.xml'

Somewhat confusingly this feature is documented in gitglossary(7). Which points out that the (exclude) part can be shortened to !:

git show <commit> -- . ':!*.xml'

My snap peas grew five inches in seven days!

things that are actually not bad about 5G:

- it doesn't boil your bones! it's not ionizing radiation! read a 10th grade physics textbook! aaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

things that are bad about many 5G rollouts:

- because range is short, it requires use of a LOT of land, some by eminent domain (womp womp)
- that spectrum could be WAY better used for other stuff
- it's a totally pointless technology

Retro game fans - hypothetically, if you were going to put together a collection of (emulated) all-time classic games, what (one) hardware setup would you run it all off?

As we are preparing for the release of #emacs #orgmode 9.5, we need your help: please go through https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contribute.html#types-of-contributions and see how you can contribute 🙏

RT appreciated, of course.