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You ever think about how fucked up it is that the tarot deck you know the pictures from, even if you don't know tarot, THE deck everyone knows... is called the Rider-Waite Deck after the company that published it (Rider) and the "ideas guy" (Waite) who commissioned an artist to draw it

And not named for Pamela Colman Smith, who actually drew it

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela

Long-ish, Teaching programming, not code shaming. Non-intuitiveness of Git and PR workflows. 

Ok so I did a live code review with my masters student im teaching last week, made changes in a branch in multiple commits, opened a PR so they could read through and digest later, so far so normal.

During lab meeting they said "I got some good feedback from jonny, and ill be working through that, but there are like 15 commits so it might take me a bit" which made me go ??? a little but shrugged it off. I was trying to model committing often with each change having a descriptive commit message, but the PR was relatively small and this is not a live/public project, so I figured they would just merge it to main and keep working on it there. We're still working our way up to a stable main/work on feature branches git flow.

It appears as if they thought they had to go through and manually re-apply the changes I had made in each commit in order, not rebasing or cherry picking, but copy and pasting code in their editor. The idea of merging was new to them, as was the entire PR interface. I had made a guide for code review a few months ago with lots of annotated screenshots and etc., but there were enough strange terms that they couldnt really parse it - what the purpose was, what the start point of work done on a branch and end point of merging meant.

Always a reminder that you need to go back further than you think when teaching. I dont know how to balance allowing for self-exploration with scaffolding well, and teaching git is harder than teaching programming sometimes because it's "invisible" and happens between the code, but the code is something you can look at and see.

#Git #Teaching

Thanks to a donation from Clonelocker, the #LG LG535 on TELUS has been dumped!
This is firmware version CX535V13, the last known firmware released for the LG535.
As usual, the firmware dump and corresponding pinout is available on the Dumbphone Repo.

Just writing a memory allocator in JS, for Wayland reasons

We've just woken to an empty house after having a friend visit for 2 weeks and I'd love to know if a word exists in any language for the contradicting feelings of:

"Extreme relief to have your space back so you can be a feral gruntle beast again and missing someone intensely and wishing they'd stayed longer."

Serieuze vraag: zijn er hier mensen met kennis over de politiek van Cyprus? Het gaat me specifiek om de opdeling in twee delen (Cyprus vs. TRNC) en de huidige relatie daartussen. RT = fijn. Tips waar dit soort informatie te vinden is: ook welkom.

Gnomes use treasure maps as currency, as none of them want to walk long distances with bags of heavy coins.

Humans who use these maps to hunt down the treasure are always disappointed, as they lift the treasure-chest's lid, and find it's full of maps. This is because, as covered earlier, gnomes use treasure maps as currency, as none of them want to walk long distances with bags of heavy coins.

is there any game that has a "you have to make the room look nice" mechanic that isn't defeated by just spamming the most expensive (or most whatever) object

personal 

I change my mind on things carefully and deliberately, after ensuring I understand the reasoning well enough, specifically to avoid falling into reactionary traps - but I think this just looks like stubbornness from the outside?

: If you are (sometimes) without a reliable internet connection on at least one of your devices, or know someone who is: if you could describe your ideal way of installing new software, and it would magically exist overnight, what would it be? :boost_requested:

I'm particularly interested in perspectives from the Global South, although if you fit the definition above for some other reason, you can also respond! And if you only have internet on some devices or locations (eg. on phone but not on laptop), I'd like to hear your thoughts too.

(If you have not met any of this definition in the last, say, 10 years, then please do not reply - boosting for reach is appreciated, though!)

went on steam to see how expensive an indie game was now that i have a desktop and remembered no everything is way too expensive now because rich fucks vpnd into the country i live in too many times so they could buy games for cheaper

Server transport part 3 :

#3 shrink it

Status : offline, taken apart for transport

And this is how you minimize downtime.

My matrix in online again btw.

I found a photo of the family PC we got in 2000

Does anyone think they could help me identify the case or joystick or really anything going on here (minus the stereo system, I still have that one)? Cause I loved that computer

This is why we need #degrowth, so much energy and material and economic activity is wasted on shit like this that doesn't actually improve anyone's life in any way. Any challenge to economic growth gets dismissed as "you just want people to go back to living in caves" when in reality we don't need to reduce everyone's living standards to miserable drudgery we just need to stop doing this sort of nonsense

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