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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 1d

gnu cowutils

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 2d

HOLD THE LINE EGGHEADS

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 2d

gotta say i am not enjoying seeing breaking news about american university professors successfully fleeing the country

David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING:

"Just landed."

Mark Bray confirms to me this morning that he and his family did, on the second attempt, make it out of the US and to Spain

www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

www.wired.com

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 3d

cowabummer

comic panel featuring Batman and a cow standing dramatically in the rain. Batman says "this is where I watched my parents die, cow tools cow."

The cow responds, her word bubble containing only the lump-with-handle cow tool.

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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 3d

🚨 NEW | Greens surge to 15% (2pts behind Lab)

➡️ REF – 32% (-3)
🔴 LAB – 17% (-2)
🔵 CON – 17% (+3)
🟢 GRN – 15% (+4)
🟠 LD – 12% (-)

Via @FindoutnowUK, 8 Oct (+/- vs 1 Oct)

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 4d

(sqlite integer primary key starts from 1)

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 4d

I correctly index from 1, which is where numbers start from

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 4d

I forgot how nice sqlite and nushell are to work together with when debugging

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 4d

Might mess around and make a PDS

John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 5d

I mentioned effect systems and was asked for more information instead of a blank stare 😍

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Butt Praxis @buttpraxis.bsky.social · 5d

The AI videos of dead people talking are just necromancy, a thing already roundly condemned by our society, right? Am I missing something here? Is reconstructing the dead to use as puppets ok now or

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 5d

The British government is Very Sensible and so can be trusted with the power to decide which protests have happened Enough Now and don't need to be heard from anymore thank you very much. It will be fine. When Reform get in they will be even more Sensible about all this.

inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Home Office could outright ban protests that risk ‘intimidation’ or ‘serious disruption’

The Home Secretary is considering giving police new powers to ban protests

inews.co.uk

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 5d

gist.github.com/uniphil/039b... doesn't seem completely unreasonable

A Full-Network Relay for $34 a Month (

A Full-Network Relay for $34 a Month (. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

gist.github.com

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 5d

One difference between me and many people in the 40k universe is that I would simply learn about chaos enough to understand its mysteries and make use of its powers without becoming corrupting myself.

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 5d

You could probably cut costs a lot by running on dedicated hardware somewhere with a compiled language, but I guess you'd need to be pretty zealous about invites

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 5d

How expensive would an ATProto relay be if you only served a small number of PDS and aimed for <10k users? I guess there's not much point Vs Mastodon in that case anyway at that scale?

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 6d

Hadn't heard of DSPy, but it seems interesting from the tagline

John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 6d

Jujutsu is actually very good though and I don't need other people to buy into it to get an advantage from it

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 6d

"how to avoid ending up like Haskell" has certainly one of the most vexing questions of my career that I've been struggling with since learning Haskell

Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me · 6d

i've seen this effect in a lot of places. a clearly superior technology is repeatedly passed over

- programming languages: Haskell
- databases: Riak
- version control: jujutsu

imo the lesson is to always account for the pressures on the user that they don't tell you about

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 6d

Sisyphus roguelike

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 6d

If 40k content isn't viewable in the UK then that's basically half our GDP gone right there

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 6d

You do also get more stuff in addition to the meta currencies once you unlock it in the cauldron, but then you have to remember which reward corresponds to more health etc

John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 6d

What counts as an encounter or a location seems a bit confusing to new players as well, particularly with some of the open areas.

I think some fights aren't considered encounters if they aren't associated with a specific reward

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah I've had a few runs where I've ended up in the 4th area and still haven't found a good attack boon for a weapon now that you mention it...

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 6d

Fair, yeah I guess I only really like the skull, none of the other weapons have really stood out to me in H2.