Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
My least favourite part of libraries: the late fees
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i don’t mind people who use “how are you” as filler because, you know, even if they’re expecting a non answer i still have freedom to drive that any direction i want
but people who say “how’s it going” walking by without slowing down
what
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It is disappointing that computers no longer come with quality manuals or documentation.
All of my old computers have manuals that basically say, "wow, look all the cool shit you can do! Colors!"
Now it's just consume, consume, consume.
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Edit: I have signed a lease on a place that seems pretty close to ideal! So many friends within a 2.5 km radius! 🎉
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I'm looking for an apartment in #Ottawa and I would like to ask the community for help.
I'm an excellent tenant. I've never missed a rent payment. I’m quite quiet, except I do on occasion like to sing.
My absolutely ideal setup would be:
- in Centretown / Little Italy / Hintonburg (within walking distance of many friends),
- tenant control over HVAC (including a/c, because I overheat),
- dishwasher and microwave and space for more kitchen appliances (so I can cook and share),
- two bedrooms (so I can host people on occasion, e.g. if there is a power outage elsewhere).
If we're getting crazy fanciful, I would love to have access to a tiny garden and space for a solar battery.
The reason I'm asking the community for help is because I'm having a lot of trouble with corporate landlords. Many of them, experienced tenants advise against. Some landlords say they have available units but refuse to answer phone calls or emails. Some may be perfectly nice but my life circumstances don't fit within their corporate forms and therefore I'm out of luck. (This is a recurring #ActuallyAutistic experience.)
I would love to find a long-term rental from someone who appreciates a reliable if somewhat unusual tenant.
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Need a hopeful story? 22 students at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, 4 years ago, set out to "really inspire people and the market and society to accelerate the transition towards a more sustainable future. What we’re trying to do is to show people and show companies what’s already possible.”
So they made a #solarpunk campervan fully equipped with living essentials including a double bed, sofa, kitchen area and a bathroom with a shower, sink and toilet. It can fit two people, who can drive, cook breakfast and watch television using just the vehicle’s solar-charged battery.
Then they took it on a tour of Europe driving 1,200 miles without stopping for fuel or plugging in to charge. https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/stella-vita-solar-campervan-netherlands-spc-intl/index.html
lmao Emby is still calling itself an 'open media solution'
@flesh I feel like there's kind of an important distinction between "reducing depth" and "streamlining" too, though.
I find that a lot of the accessibility of the game isn't in how many gameplay systems or how much complexity there is, but rather in how those systems are introduced and explained.
You can have a highly complex game that takes care to teach you one system at a time, as a part of normal gameplay, with plenty of time - or you can have a typical asset-flip simulator game with almost zero depth that nevertheless takes two hours of frustration to figure out how to buy a thing somewhere.
I wonder if the underlying problem here really is that a lot of game developers just don't really understand how to make things accessible (which is more didactic than technical), and so they use "complexity reduction" as a poor stand-in because that's what they know.
This is an excellent summary of the very sketchy election procedure at the OSI (Open Source Initiative): https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1014603/c791efdd5a4ca47c/
health, -
It's official: all 4 of us tested positive for COVID-19. That's the whole household.
"Less infectious now" my ass.
@rallias Inspired by, but definitely not a subtoot :p
@gsuberland@chaos.social Ah right, I didn't realize it was meant as a chunking mechanism rather than termination mechanism
The domain registration industry is like gambling except the whales are nerds who have too many project ideas and not enough time to finish them
@riley (Thinking about this for a while)
@gsuberland@chaos.social The problem with a memory limit is that the algorithm must be guaranteed to successfully complete; it cannot just throw up its hands and give up once a limit is hit, unless that limit is directly encoded as part of the system that produces the graph (and is statically verifiable without doing the actual sorting process itself)
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Normalize calling Native Nations what they call themselves.
Chahta, Tsalagi, Numunuu, Wazhazhe, Lakota of the Oceti Sakowin, Tsistsistas, Diné, Hopituh Shi-nu-mu, Ka'igwu, Mvskoke, and Semvnole Nations.
They stole our land. Don't let them steal our names or sovereignty anymore.
Question: say I have a graph (DAG, specifically) of arbitrary complexity. I want to turn this into a sequence through a deterministic(!) topological sort.
However, new parts of the graph may be discovered at any point in time, in which case the sequence needs to be updated to reflect this new part. But the full sequence is not present in memory; it is stored in a flat database, such as an RDBMS or key/value store.
What would be a reasonable sorting approach and storage format that would allow for doing this sort of 'incremental resorting', without needing to load potentially unbounded-in-size parts of the graph into memory to do so?
@clarfonthey @rail_ I mean, there's definitely better cleaning formulations than that, though I agree that you probably won't find them (at a reasonable price) in standard consumer stuff.
Often a more practical option is just to get the commercial stuff as that tends to be more concentrated and less full of marketing garbage (and water).
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
