Marie Helene @mhka@bsd.network

I could totally do this.

It would be evil, but I could.

And amusing, yes. But evil.

Evil... amusing... evil... amusing... #thestruggleisreal

AMAZON. Go to your room and think about what you've done.

@aag I have that same problem, and what helped me a lot was to be disciplined about "2 major projects, and 1 minor project". That is all I allowed myself to work on. Everything else went back on a TODO list.

The major/minor split was basically "could I finish it today", so around 10 hours of effort.

I found that that kind of split let me work on something else while I was stuck, and let me get small things done without needing to finish a big project first.

the lab’s management wasn’t about to allow any more research on operating systems

https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-strange-birth-and-long-life-of-unix/

“The current political situation is a situation of constant surveillance. Not only are we constantly watched and monitored, we are also constantly being recorded. Any collection of data becomes a treasure trove of information. A target.”
A long time ago, Sunil Shah convinced me that Kept Pages are better than keeping old revisions of wiki pages forever. This is unlike a source code repositioned. We don’t need version control software for conversation.
https://oddmuse.org/wiki/Kept_Pages
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hi all, here's a reminder that your experience on the fediverse is largely based on the people you choose to surround yourself with, and no one instance or software can change that.

have a great day and a great life. i love you,

My Mastopeeps will be the first to learn that I have a Patreon video.

I'm told it doesn't suck.

https://www.patreon.com/mwlucas

So Elon Musk is refusing to pay an artist for art he used in Tesla marketing materials, claiming he 'promoted' his work by using it.

I am the furthermost thing from an advocate of copyright, but what I find amazing in these cases is that professed capitalists like Elon, who claim that is the best, most fair model to run a society, (because it rewards people who work hard and create value), then refuse to compensate people for their hard work and the value that they clearly provided.

If that was the case, you wouldn't necessarily see that fictional manuscript's list start at the same place as your's, but you would see that list contain your list in sequence.

Because in any pseudorandom number generator there's always the possibility of it returning to the same state it was in before, and at that point the sequence of numbers repeat and you need to add real randomness.

One can think can of how the aliens could defeat these tests, but there'd always be some pecularieties.

Interestingly this concept was part of the reveal in a recent Doctor Who episode.

Where an old manuscript was found in the Vatican and emailed to CERN & the US President (who wasn't Trump). Everyone who read it committed suicide.

Turned out the manuscript told you to write out as many random numbers as you can think of then turn the page. Then used that as proof that your part of computer simulation run by aliens who want to conquer earth.

That episode is backed by real Computer Science.

"There are entire serieses of horror movies [among #StarTrek non-human cultures] where the premise is “We stopped paying attention to the human and ey found the technology.”"

Republican: *punches Democrat in the face*

Dem: Hey! What the F--?!

Rep: Whoah, aren't you the party of tolerance? Shouldn't we talk about the underlying socio-economic pressures that led to me punching you in the face?

Dem: Oh, yeah, good point, I'm so glad you--

Rep: *punches Dem in face* *snickers*

ive noticed adding image descriptions is unnecessarily difficult, which could discourage people from actually adding descriptions

1. you can only add descriptions to the tiny cropped thumbnail image, so generally i have to open the image up in a separate tab and put them side-by-side while writing the image description. if you could click the image for a full-res preview while typing the description, that would be magnificent