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unimportant Forth question (from someone who. does not get forth(s) (yet?)):
Why do Forths not appeal to my sense of symmetry and do strings, instead of like:
s" <string contents here>"
do them like:
s" <string contents here> "s
which would have the front and back still match?
And so it begins!
Today, Republican Massie brings articles of impeachment against Hegseth for
1. illegally waging war in Iran without approval of Congress,
2. failing to end the war on Congress’ orders,
3. causing death of at least 156 civilians at a school in Iran, by removing checks that minimize casualties,
4. killing 243 in the Caribbean,
5. attacking freedom of speech of Mark Kelly,
6. kidnapping President Nicolás Maduro, and
7. killing 224 civilians in Yemen.
https://massie.house.gov/uploadedfiles/hegseth_articles_of_impeachment.pdf
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@chris Happy birthday! 🎂 🥳
@SarahFrumento thanks Sarah! :)
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The FCC Card on the Studio Wall
@rostiger When I first saw it, I thought “That's clearly an A.”
Now I revisit my home feed and see it again, I think “Yep, I was spot on! It's so clearly a H.”
@alderwick I do believe it should be an A, otherwise the word doesn't really make sense, no?
Alot of famous things happened on November 9 other than my Birthday 😂
Here’s some music to accompany this random walk down random-coincidence-lane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuzTkGyxkYI
Today is Carl Sagan Day! He was born in November 9, 1934!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan
It’s not Edward VII’s day, even though he was born on November 9 as well, of 1841… maybe there are some Edward VII fans out there partying today.
Alot of things have happened in Germany on November 9:
November 9, 1918: The Kaiser abdicates and a Republic is declared as WWI grinds to an Armistice two days later.
Of course… exactly 20 years later, Kristallnacht (“the night of broken glass”) happened and was the one of the first extreme shows of genocidal Nazi behaviour on the road to the Holocaust.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/november-9/nazis-launch-kristallnacht
And then… exactly 51 years after Kristelnacht, the Berlin Wall fell. (I distinctly remember my 12th birthday… and watching this on TV.)
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/november-9/east-germany-opens-the-berlin-wall
And because there is just not enough bad things that happened to Jewish people on November 9 apparently… I just found out that November 9, 694 the Visigoth King in Toledo, Hispania accused Jews of aiding Muslims, and sentence all Jews to slavery. Gawd!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeenth_Council_of_Toledo
In other Spain related events, the Treaty of Seville ended the Anglo-Spanish war on November 9 1729… though apparently it didn’t really end much… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Seville
November 9 1799 was also the date that Napolean Bonaparte lead a coup and became leader of France before eventually declaring himself Emperor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_of_18_Brumaire
I almost didn’t live past the age of 2, probably anyway… because in November 9 1979, NORAD computers detected a possible nuclear first strike from the Soviets. Thankfully, the raw data was checked, nothing was happening, the alert was cancelled. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NORAD#False_alarms
November 9 1905: The Province of Alberta, Canada holds its first general election. A Liberal, Alexander C. Rutherford became the first elected Premier (he had been appointed Premier on September 1 when the province blinked into existence…. *cough* #canpoli #albertaSeparatists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1905_Alberta_general_election
But I think my ‘favourite’ November 9 history fact is weather, and Canada, related. This was the day in 1975 when the SS Edmund Fitzgerald left port for the final time. It left Duluth, Wisconsin with a load of iron ore it sank the next day off Sault St. Marie in Hurricane force winds and huge 35ft seas.
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It’s not like Mastodon; there aren’t superior communities. Outside of hexbear or .ml, there’s no meaningful difference between lemmy.social and lemmy.zip you just join one and follow what you want of all the options.
The part the general public isn’t ready for is curating their own feed.
There’s no AI shoving things at you so you can doomscroll. They want that.
There’s also no ads paying for the servers, so we keep is small and enough of us dontate to keep it runnings.
You get a couple million twitter/reddis assholes over here burning server costs up with not donating shit; the nice, quiet, pleasant community we have goes to shit.
Don’t borrow trouble.
@knowprose I wasn't aware of Publii. I should check it out. I rarely add to my personal web site, but do want to preserve it and add something every once in a while, so I'd be fine with something with lower overhead.
@SteveFoerster yeah, everyone is going toward complexity, I am looking at simplicity.
@mcc @Kishi I think it’s a bit of both.
XML element order is almost irrelevant (in the absence of DefaultTargets we will pick the first declared target).
Order in a DependsOnTargets attribute _is_ sometimes relevant . . . and sometimes not, if there are “stronger” dependencies.
Because that sentence came in the DependsOn section after an example with implied order in the DependsOn, I think the latter is more relevant in context.
Reading https://www.polso.info/why-i-will-not-be-using-llms-coding and this absolutely perfect pull quote hits it on the head
@camilla_hoel Ikke dumt forslag! Mye mulig jeg bruker det, takk!
@forteller Evt. "i en bisetning".
RE: https://mastodon.social/@siracusa/117524906671386747
Today is the FINAL DAY for the @atpfm holiday sale! See this thread for more details.
Starting the morning stewing about how incredibly fucking terrible Reflect Orbital is. I chatted with a relative over the weekend who has connections in the area where they did that stupid floodlight test https://www.backpacker.com/news-and-events/news/space-mirrors-search-rescue-test/, and apparently several people saw the light, thought it was a cry for help, drove up to provide help, and were told to stay away from the beam because it could burn them (?!)
They put up a spotlight so hot it could cause burns, in dry California mountains?!
I have uploaded photos I took at Saturday's Live Wire Radio show at the Alberta Rose Theatre on to Flickr.
https://flickr.com/photos/questionlp/albums/72177720336653636
Senate 2027 Majority Leader Whip Count Detail - Update 11/10/2026
Prospective whip count of 2027 Democratic Senators who are likely to support and oppose Chuck Schumer for Majority Leader. Those listed in opposition have either made public statements he should be replaced, waffled when asked if they would support him, or are known progressives. Those listed as supporters have either stated their support or are pretty solid moderates generally known to be in the Schumer camp.
Senate 2027 Majority Leader Whip Count Detail - Update 11/10/2026
Prospective whip count of 2027 Democratic Senators who are likely to support and oppose Chuck Schumer for Majority Leader. Those listed in opposition have either made public statements he should be replaced, waffled when asked if they would support him, or are known progressives. Those listed as supporters have either stated their support or are pretty solid moderates generally known to be in the Schumer camp.
@matthiasott @hdv This happened in a sci-fi book I read (and didn’t very much like, but that’s another thread) a long time ago. The Earth had been fully enclosed with a very high roof, and everywhere was set to be on a simultaneous light/dark cycle. Elegant! And yet.
@Meyerweb @matthiasott sounds perfect1
Student from intro in an office-hours chat just now, "I read your syllabus and thought 'I have found my people.'"
I hate that I'm considering early retirement (because sooooooo many reasons). I do important work and I don't do it badly.
@dsalo 💜
Used to say that no one every got fired for using Cisco, but even that is old as the hills.
@Rassilon My version of that was IBM.
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