Blaise Thompson @untzag@mastodon.social

I bet the Queen would rather draw her PCBs in mils than in thous, because that sounds stupid

going into emotional labor. giving emotional birth to a small feeling that will some day grow into a beautiful & strong big mood

Good morning:

[Ctrl-a] # Move your cursor to the beginning of the line. Faster than holding down left arrow. In screen, you need to press <Ctrl-a a>

man -k sound # Use -k to search for something in all man pages, like 'sound'.

Nurse Practitioners have more than enough training to open a general practice without oversight from an M.D. and all the doctors who come in complaining about "patient safety" are just being protectionist and territorial.

Hi Fediverse 👋

let me sum up the situation around #switchingsocial

Around September 20th, the original (anonymous) author of switching.social shut down its website and all related Social Media accounts, including mastodon 🤔

This info reached me (@tobias ) the next day via my German version @swisode .

As there hasn't been any sign of life since then, I restored the website and created this new account. Right now I'm out of spare time to work on it, but that'll change in a few weeks 🙂

> it's going to bring only marginal performance gains, the maintenance cost is huge, and it will introduce more bugs.

consensus: ACCEPTED

JIT in PHP 8
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/jit

~ yak-shaving as lifestyle ~

DANGIT IT UPGRADED MY SLACK AND NOW I HAVE A DICK SWASTIKA IN MY SYSTRAY

Apple to Deprecate Scripting Languages in Future Versions of macOS
https://tidbits.com/2019/06/25/apple-to-deprecate-scripting-languages-in-future-versions-of-macos/

(submitted by bryanrasmussen)

Say hello to the new Fairphone 3: the phone that cares for people and planet.
#DareToCare and be one of the first to pre-order: https://frphn.co/Fairphone3Preorder

Change is in your hands. #WeAreFairphone

WHAT PEOPLE THINK ETHICAL ISSUES IN AI ARE: wow.... we're creating... new life........

WHAT ETHICAL ISSUES IN AI ACTUALLY ARE: techbros worshiping the almighty algorithm, not caring to look at what bad patterns the machines are picking up (racism, sexism, etc) and how to avert them, and overreliance on neural networks meaning that said algorithms are treated as magical black boxes where nobody wants to (or can, really) point out exactly how the equation works (and why it may be faulty)

It's our birthday today! We are now the wise age of 22. 😋 Join us in reminiscing these past years by sharing some of your favorite GNOME memories!

I was near to my own Bed. It pleases me.

— Libash Tangathadil, bookkeeper

Dad's new favorite toddler game:

Sleeping dog.

Toddler is told a short story about a dog, walking home with its dad, finding its dog bed and then falling asleep.

Toddler says "vov vov" (danish dog sound).

Dad says "that's right, and now the dog goes to bed".

Toddler makes fake snoring sounds.

Dad says "yes, that's good, now keep practicing you're a sleeping dog".

Dad goes to the next door room to let toddler have some space.

--- 5 minutes later ---

Toddler is fast asleep.

Epstein found dead, what happens to the trial material?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49306032

(submitted by MobileVet)

One person's "yak shaving" is another person's "continuous improvement".

Change my mind.