@startrekgifs @HippieScubaSteve All I could make out was Ezra Bridger. Good job.

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@lowqualityfacts
Lmaaaaoooo

I'm thinking about this because I'm having to add to that code right now and it's miserable. I'm not sure why I'm telling you this. I guess I want to stress there are reasons I'm now on team "Nothing but Rust. Nothing but Rust forever. No more C/C++. Rust. What? Okay, Go or Zig are probably fine. Just no C"

@VeroniqueB99 💕

Awhile back, I wrote some C# code that interacts with C/C++ code by reading struct layouts directly. This is unsafe because C structs don't have guaranteed layouts unless you use nonstandard pragmas. So I had the C code bypass regular struct {} and lay out data manually by pointer arithmetic, making it consistent and safe. This worked great, until I discovered that booleans are a different size in C and C++. I fixed this too, but only by doing horrible things I'm only 95% certain actually worked

Society is starting to look exactly like what happens when we spend decades treating STEM as the only path worth investing in, while sidelining the humanities.

This isn't a criticism of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics. We need them. Desperately. They should be well supported.

But we also need philosophy, history, literature, languages, ethics, the arts, and every discipline that wrestles with what it means to be human. We need people who can understand the human condition, recognise propaganda, interpret context, think critically about power, engage with complexity, and ask not only how the world works, but what kind of world we ought to build.

A society built only to solve technical problems eventually forgets how to solve human ones.

#Humanities #STEM #Education #CriticalThinking #Ethics #Democracy #Society

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Pixelfed is for humans.

Your Z-machine interpreter isn't complete until it can play Tetris.

No, really. For the game "Border Zone," Infocom added the concept of timed command input, whereby if you don't press a key in a certain amount of time, the game code gets control again. So obviously as soon as people reversed engineered the Z-machine in the 1990s, @zarfeblong implemented Tetris.

#AppleII #retrocomputing #interactivefiction

People build skill against resistance. A woodworker improves by working hard grain; an athlete builds strength on the mountain.

Tech companies now design daily life to ask nothing of us. A meal, a driver or a dopamine hit shows up when we slide a thumb. In Friction I argue that we have mistaken that ease for progress, because it leaves us fragile the moment life stops being easy.

I wrote it as a case for choosing the difficult path on purpose.

https://onfriction.com/

Nevada's Governor-elect Aaron Ford said earlier this week that
he had changed his mind on joining an effort to change how the Electoral College works in presidential elections.

Speaking to local outlet KOLO 8, Ford, a Democrat, said
he had not initially supported an effort known as the "National Popular Vote Interstate Compact" ( #NPVIC ),

⭐️but after doing more research had decided the Electoral College needed to be abolished.

"I didn’t initially support it frankly because I hadn’t done enough research on it, but I have researched it and looking at the Electoral College, understanding the, frankly,
racist underpinnings of it in the first place leads me to believe that we need to get rid of it," Ford told the outlet.

"Not only for that reason but because we’ve seen several times now the person who wins the popular vote
doesn't win

https://www.newsweek.com/incoming-nevada-governor-changes-his-mind-on-electoral-college-reform-12711800

Vulcan rocket fails during launch, dealing major blow to SpaceX competitors

This was the first total mission failure in United Launch Alliance's 20-year history.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/11/vulcan-rocket-fails-during-launch-dealing-major-blow-to-spacex-competitors/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

You're right @HippieScubaSteve

Kobayashi

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@jonny like everything about Garron his California Whitebread accent is DELICIOUS

@futurebird

Could actually be good, if somehow the scenarists are able to go beyond palace intrigues and avoid the commentariat's needs for substance-less politics¹.
To show both the goofiness, but also the actual issues at stakes.

¹https://bsky.app/profile/zingherpolisci.bsky.social/post/3n225rdlqgc2r

@jesse

Art in seed envelopes.

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@dominik @Scorpion8741 No, they're not much different in regards to battery life. Motorola Signature 27 will easily have over double the battery life of a Pixel 11 Pro XL due to the carbon-silicon battery and far more efficient best-in-class Snapdragon radios. That's going to be the no compromises flagship option including the best cameras and best battery life. CPU and especially GPU performance is the biggest difference from the Pixels. GPU performance can be over 2.5x higher.