Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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- 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.
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- 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
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What so so so many people in tech and media forget (or ignore because they simply don’t care) is that not only is it impossible to discuss something with “nuance” when the other side is literally out to destroy you, but trying to “nuance” something clear cut is capitulating to those advocating harm
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ukpol, pandemic as mass-disabling, benefits
they thought this would be better for "the economy", but in the long run it's turned out to be more expensive! this is because they are not good at economics! toryist neoliberalism is not an effective economic model!
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ukpol, pandemic as mass-disabling, benefits
(cost of disability benefits has increased significantly since the pandemic began) this is a consequence that the tories chose! they had several options and the one they went for was letting the population die and become overall more disabled!
*2025 edit since i've read more since i posted this: the cost of disability benefits hasn't even increased that much!
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@joepie91 hope and spicy comments is my favorite programming paradigm
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accidentally detached a tethered bottle cap. i am now the most wanted person in the european union.
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Whenever I go to the hospital in my N95, people back away from me
They sanitize their hands. Some use their sleeve to open a door I’ve touched
Many won’t share the elevator with me
They all share two things in common:
None are masked
They don’t want to get sick
Public health has failed.
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Meet Asher, such a distinguished soul, despite recently being found snoring in the sock drawer @PhoenixSerenity
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oops, accidentally infodumped about trains towards the correct kind of humans on this train. 
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When you're looking through an old forum thread and it hits you with the ol
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You don't need to use weird spellings or algospeak for any topics on the Fediverse ("unalived", "seggs" etc). There is no automated moderation or algorithm on here, moderation happens entirely through human beings and posts are shown in chronological order.
In fact it's better that you use the correct spellings for difficult topics so that people with genuine traumas related to them can filter them more easily.
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The ubiquitous cargo trikes of #Mexico are starting to electrify. #BikeTooter
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Random gamedev thought: I wonder what the easiest way to do Tetris is. One could treat each figure as three hardcoded offset coordinates * four rotations (the rotation point always being the 0,0 non-offset, not needing to be stored.
Then when the block moves L/R or Down, a point/cell collision check is run for the future position of point 0,0 and the three offsets (which vary by figure type and rotation).
Trying to save memory by doing dynamic matrix rotation just seems like unnecessary work.
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Every software application has become a website (with mandatory SaaS garbage), and every website has become an app (but still with mandatory SaaS garbage)
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Ran across the phrase "growth at the rate of trust" (h/t @kawaiipunk), and it summarizes my feelings about a lot of things (social media included) so well
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Protect your kids ears. If they can't wear ear protection for any reason, then they can't be at a concert. Or in any loud environment
And you don't actually need to *understand* any of the code. Just skim it, glance at function names, things that visually stand out, the general shape of the code. You can skim it at scrolling speed and it'll work!
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I feel like SNCF are taunting me. I need a reservation... but they won't sell me one 
Something I've learned through my dependency auditing work: "linearly skimming or reading a whole codebase in alphabetical folder/file order" is vastly more effective for understanding a codebase's structure than it has any right to be
- 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
