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refusing to use floating-point numbers on moral grounds because their imprecision makes them technically a form of gambling

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Shout out to apple giving the iWork apps the worst names imaginable, because googling how to do something in an app called “numbers” is basically impossible

@HailsandAles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y8sZoi304I

@billinkc

That's very exciting!

This is a lot of the "magic" I try to teach to my team - your communication needs to reach your audience where they are (not where you are or where you want them to be) and you need to reduce the cognitive load for them to respond.

The only difference in my approach is that I try to have the question on line 1 with supporting context on lines 2+ when possible.

@billinkc

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Apparently, protesters have started throwing glitter at ICE agents. You can picture the scene at home.

Agent's wife: Why do you have glitter all over you?

Agent (sweating anxiously): I … I went to a strip club with the guys. And … I got a lap dance from a stripper.

Wife: Huh. I guess that's OK then. For a moment I was worried that you'd started working for ICE.

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I'm awake and ready to make that a problem. Happy Friday.

A crow holding a steak knife in its mouth.

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@oglaf I like this energy

Blue image with a drawn man holding an envelope.

The image is labeled : In the unlikely event you get accepted into Hogwarts

Blue image with the same man tossing the crumbled envelope into a trashcan. The image is labeled:
decline the offer. Wizards are pretty transphobic for people who can change into owls.

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https://www.patreon.com/posts/safety-briefing-131804344

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Going through my notes on There Are No Accidents by Jessie Singer (@JessieSinger), and I figured I'd share them here as I process them.

This is a book about how our systemic decisions make America a dangerous place to live. It really made clear to me that Covid is nothing new. We've always been needlessly cavalier with each other's lives - especially the lives of the poorest and most marginalized among us.

You can get the book here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/There-Are-No-Accidents/Jessie-Singer/9781982129682

@bookstodon #bookstodon non-fiction

@drfootleg @FreeCAD

(rotates image 90 degrees)

You're making The Camera Mount of The Beast!

@briankrebs @HoustonDog

You may be right. They say cheetahs never prosper, but this guy seems to be doing ok...

@HoustonDog @briankrebs

That's because you were playing by the rules...

...but this guy's a cheetah.

...

I'll show myself out.

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“Don’t tease me about my hobbies, I don’t tease you about being an asshole”

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#Iraq #Iran #WMDs

It's not ok to be an adult and fall for the exact same war propaganda they used in Iraq. It's just not.

@leyrer

I still get a rush of adrenaline any time I hit shift-backspace because this meant "delete the entire line" on the TRS-80 command line.

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I'm so old that I'm still kind of scared to put spaces in file names

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A chart that says "Avoid using anti-wetland language"

Instead of "You're getting bogged down in the details," say "You're frolicking in nutrient-dense mud."

Instead of "Let's not muck about," say "Let's not disturb the marshland."

Instead of "They're dragging my name through the mud," say "I'm journeying through soggy terrain."

Instead of "I'm swamped," say "I'm immersed in nature."

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Please share widely: I'm still looking for a postdoc in computational genomics to join my team in Oxford. If you want to help develop better ways to detect AML from epigenetic profiles in blood, then get in touch:

https://cutt.cx/analytics/masto1

Great team and environment, 3-year secured funding, ideal for transition to independence!

#jobs #academia #science #job #FediHire

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