Ya know what? I'm gonna toot my own horn today On Here Specifically.
I have already received at least a dozen thankful comments/replies for letting people know they can slow down door closers. A lot of people have been living with irritating bangs in apartment buildings and whatnot.
And thanks to watching a YouTube video, their life is now better. I didn't sell anything to them, I just decided to share some knowledge in my own (hopefully entertaining) way.
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Via @ottocr.at on Bluesky:
Putin, after 10 days of Kursk catastrophe, summons Stalin’s ghost:
Stalin: “What’s happened?”
Putin: “Nazis are at Kursk! My army is beaten! What should I do?”
Stalin: “Do like me 1943. Send best Ukrainian troops to the front, and ask the US for arms!”
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So in a root cause analysis sense, I'm having trouble deciding if the root cause is (a) invading Ukraine or (b) consulting Necromantic Stalin for advice.
Both pretty bad moves, honestly.
Great article, thanks for writing it!
Though I'd like to ask about an edge case: what do you do if it's a senior dev reviewing a junior dev's patch?
Does that count as permanent or temporary authority?
Is "I want you to learn" a legitimate purpose of it, or an "other goal" ?
Is that an okay situation to criticize based on design principles, or what features should go in the code at all?
this is a great list of anti patterns, fortunately we have tools and processes to help with many of them!
Like: make it clear which changes are deal breakers and which aren’t - some projects use the “nit” word.
Batch up the review comments and submit in one go when all the changes have been reviewed.
Use code suggestions so the submitter can easily apply small changes.
Normalise putting non breaking changes in a follow up PR.
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The Helm Wind
The Helm Wind is a strong north-easterly wind hitting the southwest slopes of Cross Fell in Cumbria.Met Office
New cool brand ideas for bathtub brewers:
- ESTRADIOL…. FOR MEN – MILITARY GRADE – XTREME PURITY (Picture of Usain Bolt operating a rotary saw)
- My Happy Little Testosterone 💮 For Women 🤗 (vial is soft wrapped in hand-knit pastel satchel)
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Final* update on my Visualising the #Hugos thing: now has a proper web page at zoeimogen.github.io/hugo-sanke… which includes all the nomination graphs as well as final round voting.
Camestros Felapton has some more statistics covering the awards too, over at camestrosfelapton.wordpress.co…
*I may add second/third place runoffs at some point as well as previous years but all the copy-pasting has become a bit tedious for now.
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hugo-sankey/2024/best-novel-2.txt at develop · zoeimogen/hugo-sankey
Convert Hugo voting data into sankey graphs. Contribute to zoeimogen/hugo-sankey development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Colombia 1991 (rev. 2015) Constitution - Constitute
Colombia's Constitution of 1991 with Amendments through 2015www.constituteproject.org
In meeting reviewing bugs from our backend testing system.
<Me> This is the class of bugs I was talking about last week. This whole codepath is dead and not used by anyone. We're testing functionality we don't care about. NUKE THE SITE FROM ORBIT.
<coworkers> So.... that's you volunteering to delete this?
<me> (Realizing my hype level) Yeah! Got that Red Diff Energy, baby!
I need that on a Tee shirt.
Red Diff Energy
Let's delete some code
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Absolutely, delete the things! Then delete the !@$$@ codegen for some extra meta-deletion energy.
My one last work goal is that my total LOC contributed to the repository is negative.
OpenTTD | News | OpenTTD 14.0
An open source simulator based on the classic game Transport Tycoon Deluxe. It attempts to mimic the original game as closely as possible while extending it with new features.www.openttd.org
Blatant nerdsniping bid. Given any two railway stations, you can compute p, the cheapest price of a return ticket between the two, and d, the Levenshtein edit distance between the names of the stations. Find two stations which maximise p/d. And no, "Queen's Park" and "Charing Cross" do not get to omit their "(Glasgow)" and "(London)" disambiguators.
A super off-peak return between Nottingham and Mottingham is ninety quid, but we can surely do better than that?
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These are good for showing what’s going on with Hugo voting. (And why ranking things matters) zoeoconnell.co.uk/@zoe/1129500…
OK, here we go: Visualising the #Worldcon #Hugo2024 voting results.Alternative Title: Why ranked voting matters.
As a quick explanation, the last placed candidate in each round is eliminated and their votes transferred to the next candidate on each ballot.
This is the first place ballot only, the second place is calculated by treating the winner as eliminated and rerunning the election. I have not included the final round runoff against "No Award" as this year that's all uninteresting.
Visualising the #Worldcon #Hugo voting - still working on this, but first pass for the Best Fancast voting.
Coode Street Podcast transfers won it for Octothorpe, after a late surge for Worldbuilding for Maschocists fuelled by Publishing Rodeo transfers #Glasgow2024
Original data at glasgow2024.org/wp-content/upl…
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Little Moorhen (Song for Beatrice)
A song by James Baillie, about small creatures growing up. Dedicated to Beatrice Catchpole-Simmons.Chords and lyrics: https://exilian.co.uk/forum/index.php?t...YouTube
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then do it!
Passing random felicitations of (to him) strangers might increase his “mother is weird” level.*
*all teenagers have a parental weirdness gauge
With time a transnational facility might include this structure that has been gaining traction slowly against the will of fascists and empires
You need a tachograph if you are driving under UK/AETR working hours rules UNLESS you are collecting sea coal. You still need to keep to the time rules, but don't need the tachograph.
There are similar exemptions if you're going to repair a lighthouse, or are transporting a circus, or carrying live fish to an entrepreneurial activity within 100km(*), or returning milk containers to a farm...
But strangely, while all those exemptions are given in a schedule to the act, but sea coal is included in the main statute, ie roughly, "if in the schedule (lighthouses, circuses, entrepreneurial fish, etc) OR sea coal".
As far as I can tell (it's complicated; I'm not sure), a lighthouse repair person or their friend taking fish to an AGM doesn't have to *follow* the rules.
The unique thing about sea coal hauliers is that they (and only they) *do* have to follow the rules, but don't have to prove it.
But why? Delving into it further ... 🧵
(*) I assume these are entrepreneurial fisherfolk, not entrepreneurial fish.
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As far as I can tell this is because sea coal transport, uniquely, was included in exemptions to "Community Recording Equipment Regulation" (EU 3821/85) but not in exemptions to "Community Drivers' Hours Regulation" (EU 4820/85).
Sadly, I've been unable to navigate these regulations but, as I currently have no proximal intent to transport sea coal, I will leave it here, unless inspiration strikes.
My mental image of sea coalers is a romantic one, of rugged men with horse and carts in the waves. Now I mention it, I've never seen a horse with a tachograph.
The attached (~2min) video includes not only Hartlepool sea-coalers, but some fencing in St Moritz, and a man from Sunderland who survives bricks being smashed on his head.
Caught By The Camera No. 27 (1935)
Titles read: "Caught By The Camera".Various locations of events.Various shots of a fencing demonstration in a nightclub in St Moritz. The diners in the club...YouTube
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@pseudomonas Maybe even 'as opposed to pickled with vinegar or lactic acid'?
The Dutch word for hydrochloric acid is 'zoutzuur' (literally 'salt acid').
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If Kamala Harris picks Josh Shapiro to be her VP pick, understand that this is who will be on the ticket with her:
"Palestinians will not coexist peacefully. They do not have the capabilities to establish their own homeland and make it successful even with the aid of Israel and the United States. They are too battle-minded to be able to establish a peaceful homeland of their own.” - Josh Shapiro.
Josh Shapiro volunteered to serve in the IDF.
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I always forget who said "my feminism will be intersectional or it will be bullshit", but it seems really applicable here. (I know it from Flavia Dzodan but IIRC she's quoting someone else).
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I know much of the commentary around the Olympic a boxing thing is well meaning, but please avoid using or boosting the term “biological woman”.
“Cis woman” is more accurate. “Biological woman” is meaningless. Which bit of someone’s biology do you mean? Hormones, primary sex characteristics, secondary sex characteristics, chromosomes? (Bear in mind most people don’t know what their chromosomes are)
The term comes from transphobic efforts to other trans women and has no other value.
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My submission for Slanted - Experimental Type 3.0:
Unicode Spaces
There are invisible characters in the UTF-8 unicode character encoding standard. This experiment measures the width of each invisible character with p5.js to dynamically manipulate the kerning of single characters. By analysing the brightness of pixels of an image and inserting white spaces at the corresponding lines and characters, image patterns are emerging in the text through white space.
#utf8 #typography #p5js #slanted
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British Medical Association Calls Cass Review "Unsubstantiated," Passes Resolution Against Implementation
The British Medical Association, the professional organization representing doctors in the United Kingdom, has called for a public critique of the review and to bar its implementation.Erin Reed (Erin In The Morning)
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British Medical Association calls anti-trans Cass Review “unsubstantiated”. bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/bm…
This is major: the BMA is the major union for doctors in the UK and not a niche group, most doctors are members.
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Cis people: Here’s a fun thought experiment! What would it be like to live as the other sex?
Trans people: Well, we might have …
Cis people: There’s no way we can ever know, lol!
Trans people: Er, hello?
Cis people: It will forever remain a mystery
Trans people: We’re right here
Cis people: So unknowable
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@Eric the Cerise I’ve read accounts from cis people who tried, gave themselves gender dysphoria, and got suicidal.
Caveat emptor
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in reply to Technology Connections • • •knowing that someone out there found your work useful and being able to truly enjoy that and be unabashedly proud of yourself for that is based!! being able to unironically, truly take pride in your work is great, actually!! :>
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Unknown parent • • •Yes! Such a great point about discovery there.
And especially when it comes to "things that people can do themself that they haven't realized they can do themself," a video does a much better job of showing that you can, in fact, do it yourself.
Things have a way of always sounding a little more technical when they are written down.
James
Unknown parent • • •It's the front door to my house and I don't want to have to wait to lock the door.
Yes it's a fire door. It's the GOD of fire doors that is also automatically secured by bolts at 6 positions.
I loved that door.
I don't live there anymore.
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Be More KindMoof! 🏳️🌈
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