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“Incredibly mediocre” dude. Programmer. Bad with words. Enthusiastic cat-botherer.
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futurebird , to random
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Story Concept: A secret society of paleontologists and archeologists who make a pact that when each of them dies the others will go to wild lengths to stage burial circumstances most likely to be preserved, even fossilized to confound the intelligent life of the far future. This includes weird burial objects, suggestive poses, etc.

They make the pact when young & silly, but as they grow old and carry it out it becomes a much more serious & momentous thing. About keeping promises & friendship.

c0dec0dec0de ,
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@futurebird epilogue: one of the last surviving members notes that they’re deleting this memoir, the author is “dealt with” and, despite their betrayal in writing this down, the preparations are already underway to inter them in the mausoleum.

ireneista , to random
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so you remember Neuralink, the brain implant that we can't really call experimental because there doesn't seem to have been any sort of, like, science going on? with the lab that was investigated for animal cruelty?

c0dec0dec0de ,
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@ireneista audio compression relies on being lossy and having a well-understood model of typical human auditory sensitivity.
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dosnostalgic , to random
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System Shock's manual goes out of its way to not mention the gender of the hacker, referring to them as "person" or "friend" instead. The only time a pronoun is used in such a way in the entire manual is to identify SHODAN. And even in the CD version, it's still "him".

Entering Cyberspace It takes a while to get a feel for cyberspace, so take your time and don’t get too zoned your first few times. Jack in to cyberspace by double-left-clicking on any cyberspace terminal. After a moment of static, your neurosensors will register glowing lines and floating geometric shapes — the nervous system of the Net. Citadel’s Net is divided into three primary realms: research, military and the security platform that houses SHODAN, the omnipresent computer that regulates all of the station’s systems. If you’re not careful, you’ll get kinked by his cyberspace watchdogs.
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    • c0dec0dec0de ,
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    @vampiress @dosnostalgic Receiver from Wolfire Games is very like that.

    futurebird , to random
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    The least enjoyable part of coding is getting the IDE setup, the folders named, the correct libraries installed and trimmed down so they have what you think you will need.

    If the language is java then the least enjoyable part is deciding if you want to store a number as a float or an int (formatted if you need decimals) ... then always changing your mind and having to go through and fix the numbers so they work.

    I know python is lazy, but strict typing still feels like a drag to me.

    c0dec0dec0de ,
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    @futurebird @phryk reminds me of some Python code that has flummoxed the C++ devs I was working with at the time.
    “It doesn’t round consistently! Sometimes it goes up and other times it rounds down [on .5]”
    Me: “so, statistical rounding? It does that to prevent systematically biasing your data away from zero. Use this other round function instead of the one built for stats and data.”

    c0dec0dec0de ,
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    @dr2chase @futurebird @phryk “For values exactly halfway between rounded decimal values, NumPy rounds to the nearest even value. Thus 1.5 and 2.5 round to 2.0, -0.5 and 0.5 round to 0.0, etc.”
    https://numpy.org/doc/stable//reference/generated/numpy.round.html

    c0dec0dec0de ,
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    @dr2chase @futurebird @phryk actually, we may have just done lambda x: floor(x + 0.5)

    c0dec0dec0de ,
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    @futurebird @dr2chase @phryk software engineers: we know better. Yes, particularly when you show us that we don’t know shit.

    hrefna , to random
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    This is amazing.

    #politics #scotus

    https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4749322

    c0dec0dec0de ,
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    @hrefna I hope Justice Jackson cites it next time she skewers the practice.

    keyrover , to random
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    Caturday #catsofmastodon #caturday https://wp.me/pMl1-2I7 Magnus is all eyes and often lies around with his paws up, waiting for a belly rub.

    c0dec0dec0de ,
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    @futurebird @keyrover teefs

    pluralistic , to random
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    Today's threads (a thread)

    Inside: The credit card fee victory is a defeat; and more!

    Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/28/concentrated-benefits/

    #Pluralistic

    1/

    c0dec0dec0de ,
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    @pluralistic love the ending ‘graph:
    The lesson of 40 years of pro-monopoly policy couldn't be clearer: you can either have an economy that is regulated by lawmakers who are at least nominally transparent and democratically accountable, or you can have an economy regulated by totally unaccountable and opaque monopolists. Fail to do the former, and you will always end up with the latter.

    18+ futurebird , to random
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    If, like me, you are a bit of a fiend for Christian Lore you will enjoy this tumblr thread about how some MAGA folk on twitter have accidentally started a whole new heresy.

    (I think Christian Lore Fans are formed by learning a LOT about Christianity growing up, but never developing the idea that you know the one true way.)

    https://www.tumblr.com/neon-draws-sometimes/745841773397655552/inneskeeper-this-seems-relevant-to-your?source=share

    18+ c0dec0dec0de ,
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    @futurebird I. What. He died relatively quickly. It’s in the text! It’s possibly important to some folks because when the Romans got tired of waiting for you to die, they broke your legs so you couldn’t force your self up to a position where you could breathe or something.
    sigh I don’t even believe this stuff anymore, why do I care?

    futurebird , to random
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    One of the downsides to connecting your nests using long tubes is "ant loitering" some ants like to just hang out in the tubes because they retain a little moisture and it's near everything. This will cause the tubes to get dirty and less attractive... hence my new invention of a "mid tube fan"

    c0dec0dec0de ,
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    @futurebird what do they make of the Boston Museum of Science’s leaf cutter ant habitat, I wonder.
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=domGDg2t7ic
    Their tubes seem pretty clear of condensation. Other than that whole space being uncomfortably warm, I don’t see any mitigations to explain it.

    futurebird , to random
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    I love Ian Banks' books because he frequently takes the time to imagine a utopia, not as an allegory for why utopias are impossible (and in the extreme sense they are, we all get that, it's not interesting) but rather as an exercise in seeing how close one could get to a society with real freedom and few contradictions.

    I think it's a good exercise. OK fine so how would a world without hunger or unwanted suffering work?

    He took on the topic of gender in this spirit and it's glorious.

    c0dec0dec0de ,
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    @futurebird flawed, realistic attempt at utopia also makes me think of LeGuin’s The Dispossessed.

    fluffypaws , to bookstodon group
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    are there any books with a trans mc who carries a baby? not mpreg or abo, but a trans man, who decides with his partner to conceive.

    #trans #books #reading #bookstodon @bookstodon

    c0dec0dec0de ,
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    @fluffypaws I thought that there was a partial match in one of the Culture novels, but not really. In Excession, a character has a suspended pregnancy that they decide to bring to term finally, and they had been both male and female at various times, but the whole of the pregnancy was in a female form. @bookstodon

    c0dec0dec0de , to random
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    “Something shared,
    Something due,
    Something secret,
    Something you”
    authenticator rhyme, Glasshouse, @cstross
    #SciFi #InfoSec

    c0dec0dec0de OP ,
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    @cstross Authentication in a world with on-demand atom-level reconstruction and memory editing is just a totally fucked problem. Also, any book that measures time in kilo-, mega-, and gigasecs is up my alley.

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