Something horrible happened triggering the creation of two parallel universes. One person will need to travel in time and risk their own life to set it right. #donnietrumpo https://x.com/ThayerAvenue/status/981278860305190913
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I get two desserts for dinner. !important
This is less than what minimum wage should be. They ought to at least give out $30 to $15 worth of pizza. https://x.com/chrisod/status/980881458435895296
Clear backpacks has got to be the dumbest policy response. https://x.com/lauren_hoggs/status/980812862162657281
What is a good name for a class that represents a message between IOT toys, say, robotic rubber ducks? https://x.com/vcsjones/status/980830675535319041
Fox News is missing an opportunity to get Russian brands like Aeroflot and Poljot on board to take advantage of the new audience. https://x.com/CompSciGuy31415/status/980806489848844290
pid 4032: "SIGKILL?"
pid 8731: "I promise, as soon as I'm done with this memory...in 6 billion years" https://x.com/msavichtweet/status/980634758584651776
You must change your 4 digit PIN
No repeating digits
It must have one odd, one even and one prime
It must not be a leaked PIN
It must not be a substring of any well known number, such as e, pi, or avogadro's number
It must not be the same as your last or last 999 PIN numbers
This is correct. Don't write a class if the class is only 2 methods & one is an init. That should just be a function. I was watching this with extreme skepticism because I usually see too few classes in python code.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZKvwuZSiyc&t=19s
This guy admits, if you got multiple functions with all the same first argument, it should have been a class.
♡ 2 ↻ 0And this guy is highly skeptical of code that is a stub, eg.
class MyBase(object):
pass
class MyException(Exception):
pass
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This is fine.
Ha! April Fools.
If alexa recommends the dot dash button, either she's lonely or making a morse code joke. https://x.com/complich8/status/979373187497676800
imho, these sort of critiques miss that these techniques are starting to work & are available to smaller players, even those who are incompetent or evil. https://x.com/richardball/status/979312828661358592
in sum, Data Science+Big Data for opinion manipulation is ubiquitous, used by all sides w/ enough money to do it, doesn't always work, all sides have been attempting it since the 60 forward with varying effectiveness, isn't a full explanation for the rise of neo-fascism in US, UK https://x.com/richardball/status/979312828661358592
productivity = f(self control, motivation, tooling)
probably multiplicative, so P = SC * M * T
I think it's the motivation and tooling that have the highest risk of being zero'd out.
Econ idea- If, because of extensive reviews, we are buying less stuff that turns out to be unusable crap, Amazon may have reduced prices on *everything* collectively by 10-15%, since it came into existance
The only honorable thing to do is to lie or skip the citizenship question in large enough numbers to make the question useless.
#fintech leads the way on gun safety https://x.com/CybeleCochran/status/978596805297475590
When I was younger I found this book in the library, "build your own digital computer" - I tried to make the encoder, which called for thread spools, paper mask, wires, tiny light bulbs. Disaster. Couldn't craft precisely enough. https://archive.org/details/howtobuildaworkingdigitalcomputer_jun67
I'd forgotten about this, too. https://x.com/realsshrestha/status/977954353712648192
Hmm, contract law! How much duress before your contract isn't enforceable? This porn show has taken a very legal-wonky turn that I wasn't expecting. And everyone is still dressed.
Extortion with threat of violence! How does a campaign filling in the FEC forms put a price on such a campaign donation? Maybe cite market prices on the darknet?
If you hate fat people, the trolley problem is actually quite simple.
Just saw my 1st voice injection attack in person. Someone this video delivers a, harmless, voice payload of voice code that ran on my Alexa. Fun to watch even if you aren't in ad-tech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHu8sjaMiPk
Homeopathic coffee. https://x.com/tall_chris/status/977918548453609472
#MarchForOurLives Huge crowds https://x.com/mistersql/status/977586291691982850/photo/1
My more of a bit stylist myself. https://x.com/flowchainsensei/status/977447803290095616
We should try everything because we've already tried doing nothing and it doesn't work.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/opinions/gun-control-that-works/?utm_term=.6afe7b612966
By the pictures on twitter, WMATA is keeping up with todays traffic- they are running extra trains. Still time to head out.
Huey, Dewey, and Louie then. https://x.com/dhh/status/976971127229636608
I only follow @StormyDaniels for the tweetstorms. Gotta stay informed about contemporary politics.
Why use Mastodon?
I've joined & I'm not impressed with the onboarding. Can't find anyone to follow. ref: https://mastodon.social/@mistersql
I have no idea what I'm doing.
Ha, funny. Every four years I come back to mastodon and make the same joke.
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You know you can make a #Region mess in .NET, python & Java?
#region I-Need-A-Class
…
#endregion
#<editor-fold desc="I-Got-No-Class">
…
#</editor-fold>
//region Never-Heard-Of-A-Class
…
//endregion
These are only good for generated code & large blocks of required legalese
Reading code, you'd think no one cared about coding style guides. Mouthing off on twitter & everyone has strong opinions. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If twitter was like pinterest or amazon, after you clicked "like" on one of the "gee weather forecasts confidence intervals are really wide" then that would be all you'd see in your feed for months, just variations on that joke.
IDEA: Facebook app that takes the birthdays of all your friends & family & forecasts when they will all be dead and you will be alone.
There were 2 systems for large roman numerals, apostrophus & vinculum (exponent notation for 10 & 1000, I think)-- not clear if they were used in ancient times, but were used in medieval times https://www.thecalculatorsite.com/articles/other/roman-numerals-deciphered.php?page=2
The largest roman numbers are delicious, MMMMMMMMMMM https://x.com/thedansimonson/status/976486756580319232
var in c#, java, c++ ruins code readability, should only be used for nasty generics T<G<Q>,<..etc & lines where the declr & type name are on the *same* line, e.g. var foo = new Bar();
This is industrial sabotage:
var foo = bar() where bar() has no visual clues as to return type
I think people who *really* like var are writing write once code that they don't expect to have to re-read themselves & they don't care if anyone else needs to be able to read it. That a compile can figure out the type and that types are still "strong" is irrelevant here.
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Harm-reduction for people who've put their retirement money into bitcoin: convert it all to Chuck E Cheese tokens. https://x.com/abachman/status/976451018400632834