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territory mapper. 💉did @ca_covid . 🗣️ likes languages. ✈️ Repatriate/ABCD. 👨🔬 Formerly physics. he/him
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someone please explain to me why the YouTube office has a 3 4 2 W̵ diamond
what do they have in there
i drank the water should I be worried
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@eevee
A small fraction of people can voluntarily flex a muscle in their ear and rumble their tympanum (sounds like thunder). They can also often use this to equalize pressure without yawning.
People with this ability (me) usually don't know it's special and think everyone can do it.
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This is a PHENOMENAL little paper
The general point is that tests educators were using to evaluate linguistic competency were highly artificial (e.g. ordering the child to talk), and therefore didn't capture the creativity & complexity within the children's language
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spam call: (indian accent / hindi) hello?
me: hola!
caller: ...
caller: (exasperated voice) sir I don't speak ola language >>cut<<
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ever think about how animal life never figured out how to move past "embryogenesis happens in the ocean" phase so oviparous land animals make eggs that "contain ocean" and viviparious animals have pregnancies where they simulate an ocean inside themselves
... me either
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i have literally never seen an nfpa diamond this spicy on a tech company office I'm legitimately stumped what it could be
it's not cooking or cleaning chemicals
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a very good guess for the bio 3: ammonia cooling loops for servers (the pipelines might go through non-server areas so the building needs the sign)
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@DylanMcD8
they tell you (and really, they tell firefighters) the dangerousness the chemicals one may encounter
blue: health hazard
red: flammability
yellow: chemical instability
scale goes up to 4
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reminder for your multilingual "welcome" signs: if you don't handle Arabic directionality correctly, you're liable to say "forbidden daddy" instead
scores of airports and such across the world telling folks about the forbidden daddies
(examples from )
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illustration of how ridiculous this is when you start thinking about cetaceans
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sometimes there's a Bad Take and you never actually saw the Take but you see the third order subtweet ripple and logically work backwards to guess the Take
anyway this is basically how we detect most uncommon particles in accelerators and cloud chambers
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@xoxogossipgita
someone effectively named their kid Wolfy McWolf and he got bitten by a werewolf as a kid
the werewolf who bit him? Also kinda named Wolfy McWolf (Fenrir is the Norse wolf), also not canonically born a werewolf
so the thing that predicts a werewolf bite is probably your name
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@redditships
she's 100% got a painting up there of herself that gets old while she stays young
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i have always wondered how the dutch residents of the hague feel about their city being globally synecdoche'd as "the place you go for doing war crimes"
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is your child texting about POLICE ABOLITION?
FTP: Fuck The Police
SSH: Stop Shooting Humans
SCP: Suspend Cop Pay
SMB: Sabotage the Men in Blue
SFTP: Seriously, Fuck The Police
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as someone who reads tweets in 4-5 languages, i don't want this
as someone who occasionally tweets in multiple non-english languages, i don't want this
as someone who has significant amounts of tweets in languages I don't speak on my TL, I don't want this
#Twitter
is testing automatic translations for tweets, meaning that they will force all tweets to be displayed in the
#language
set by the user. (Which is, in my frankest opinion, both invasive and unnecessary):
#xl8
#MT
#t9n
#translation
#socialmedia
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the fact that diatomaceous earth gets rid of bedbugs is one of the most occult-sounding useful facts I know
"the way to get rid of a plague of miniature vampires is to surround them with skeletons from eras long past"
getting rid of them isn't actually that hard—they can't take temperatures above 49°C/120°F (a clothes steamer gets hot enough) and diatomaceous earth wipes them out
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you know how folks on insta/tiktok censor their captions by misspelling, using asterisks, or subbing in other words?
just saw this person use 艹, radical form of 草 (cǎo, "grass") to caption the word she actually spoke, 肏 (cào, "fuck")
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firefox: our js objects are managed by not one but two separate kinds of garbage collectors
firefox: the way you tell them apart is that one of them was written by Canadians
Starting the new year in a productive fashion by correcting the spelling of "grey" to "gray" in a patch review. (The garbage collector uses "gray" for one thing, and the cycle collector uses "grey" for another thing, so it is good to keep them distinct.)
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describing indo european languages as "gender is stored in the vowels"
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Exciting news! I'll be starting a new job at Google in December!
I'll be joining the main internationalization team, primarily doing Rust internationalization stuff as a part of ICU4X.
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As many of y'all have already guessed, I'm one of the people laid off in yesterday's Mozilla layoffs.
As far as I understand it,
@ServoDev
is no longer being funded by Mozilla.
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i'd just like to interject for a moment. what you're referring to as Chrome is in fact Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/88.0.4324.190 Safari/537.36 or as I've recently taken to calling it, Mozilla plus AppleWebKit plu
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got answers!
the W is from sulfuric acid in UPS batteries
the red is from propane grills or diesel generation
the blue is from pool chemicals (this was a guess i had advanced and had it confirmed)
san bruno also has specific regulations on what gets posted outside
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The safest program is the program that doesn't compile
-- ancient Rust proverb
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and we now have ocean mammals like whales who live in the ocean but also need to make a mini ocean inside themselves to have babies
Animalia literally doesn't know how to make babies without drowning them first
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when I first learned programming as a kid I only knew if/else and variables and thought games were just written in a giant nested if/else blocks, anticipating all possibilities of game state
now I know better: games are actually written as giant switch blocks
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i'm tired of just hearing about tech debt. what about tech leverage. tech debentures. tech collateral. tech derivatives.
why is there no secondary market of tech debt swaps and options.
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man goes to a software doctor. says he doesn't know how to build his C++ compiler. doctor says "solution is simple. great compiler clang is in town. go use that." man bursts into tears. "but doctor,"
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you: japanese has a pronoun only used by octagenerian men on the Tuesday after a new moon
me: English and many others have a pronoun sense only used by doctors, waitstaff, and the carers of toddlers
pointing out that Marathi inclusive "we" being formal "you" actually makes sense when you remember that we do this in English with small children (and doctor-patient scenarios) all the time
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the funniest thing was that he made it sound like it was my fault
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this is anachronistic
because, as we all know, cuneiform was written on tablets
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who decided to call it the lambda calculus instead of "the separation of Church and state"
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@Devon_Wiersma
also uh an item with a 5% drop rate of which there are only 4 in existence?
either this person doesn't game or this fantasy gameverse has like ... ten players
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every time you reimplement a browser feature in JS you typically kill accessibility, internationalization, or other crucial features most cannot be bothered with
@stommepoes
They are using a jQuery plugin called smooth scroll which kills keyboard scrolling on the <body> element. If you remove the listener on the window, it works.
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a thing that legitimately worries me about the (often reasonable!) reaction people have towards AI stuff is that the copyright maximalist attitude coming out of it is not going to be good for society at all
"people should have indefeasable property rights in purely factual matters" fuck you absolutely not
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the chinese language when describing other countries: beautiful! lawful! virtuous! heroic! safe! (美，法，德，英，泰)
the chinese language when describing china: mid (中)
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wtf people stop gushing about how "well done" stripe's layoffs are, it's disgusting
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@FiloSottile
@tqbf
@mveytsman
@matthew_d_green
been meaning to do it anyway, might as well use it to incentivize shenanigans
i'm in for 300
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@jgerity
help() is calling locale.setlocale() to set the locale to the terminal locale
setlocale() recomputes string.uppercase/lowercase and string.letters. it does the last one wrong. I'll file a bug :)
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ooh i now have the distinguished honor of having invented a new PL keyword
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i seem to get a lot of scam calls in Hindi these days and I've found that speaking spanish¹ is the best way to get rid of them short of just cutting the call
they are incredibly persistent otherwise and have zero boundaries
¹ I don't speak Spanish. But I can pretend.
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so in English we call the digits 01234... "Arabic numerals", right
except they're not primarily used by Arabic speakers, who use ٠١٢٣٤...
well I just discovered that in Arabic *those* numbers are often called الأرقام الهندية, i.e. "Hindi numerals"
except Hindi uses ०१२३४...
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@alicemazzy
fun fact: the australians keep losing MPs when they discover that the MPs are dual citizens
and I think there was some drama when NZ was planning on handing out default citizenship to aussies
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oh hell yeah the Rust training course that the Android folks have been working on got open sourced
it's very good!
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@eevee
- some can also use this muscle to "turn down the volume" of the Outside a little bit. that's the actual purpose of the muscle, it's kinda like an iris for the ear. voluntary control is less precise so this is hard, though
- /r/earrumblersassemble
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today i learned about the eieio powerpc extension
stands for "Enforce In-order Execution of I/O"
so, you know, a fence
like you might find on a farm
say, one owned by an old farmer named Macdonald
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did...did this person threaten an open source project with nukes when they asked to be paid?
“The customer has nuclear weapons” is an unusual argument when inquiring whether a bug has been fixed yet, in an open source project.
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"people say the primary function of the compiler is to take well-formed code and produce output. i think its primary function is to take _malformed_ code and produce diagnostics" --
@ekuber
WOOOOOOO
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This is what i've been working on these past few years and I'm excited it's finally 1.0!
Both because it's a new internationalization library for Rust, and because it's got a bunch of cool things about how it's very flexible when it loads data
We're excited to announce the 1.0 release of our new internationalization library, ICU4X!
ICU4X is modular, usable on low-resource devices, and can be used in many environments including Rust, C++, and JavaScript.
Read more here:
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The compiler was forcing me to document these, so I did
(referencing )
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the python programming language is lazily typechecked and therefore it embodies the haskell philosophy better than haskell itself
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Me writing specification: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Me implementing specification: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
Me sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Me reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
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writing some c++ stuff again after basically only writing rust for ages
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tired: humans only use 25% of their brain
wired: computers only use 75% of their bits
the day i lost my innocence was when i learned that "64 bit" computers are really 48 bit
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this is the exact opposite of my strategy for dealing with Chinese pig butchering scam texts I get, which is to use them for Cantonese practice and if they ask me my name pick some old chinese philosopher
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On a whim I looked something up and...
microsoft uses cargo-clippy
I CREATED A RUST LINTER NAMED AFTER CLIPPY ON A WHIM AND IT ACCIDENTALLY BECAME POPULAR AND NOW MICROSOFT USES IT
welp.
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I'm joining the Rust Core Team!!
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here at Mozilla we've worked hard to defeat regressions, so much that the concept is no longer defined
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there should be a "Why We Can't Have Nice Things" resource for each programming language that documents the challenges and tradeoffs involved in adding commonly-requested but nuanced features
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modern breaking bad, where a laid off software developer with a chemistry background starts synthesizing adderall to shore up supply during the artificially introduced shortage
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@eevee
since this is getting traction, a couple things:
- I *think* anyone can teach themself to rumble with a large jaw movement (and divers learn this technique?)
- a lot of people seem to be able to rumble both ears or one specific one. i'm a "lefty".
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fun fact: the saying "let him who is without sin cast the first stone" refers to the notion that basically all functions can be represented as a Fourier series
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je m'alloc
tu t'allocs
il/elle s'alloc
nous nous allocons
vous vous allocez
ils s'allocent
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okay i have contributed to multiple projects that use patch email (git, gdb, i even have commit on gdb), and it absolutely is a barrier. can take multiple hours to properly set up depending on your system
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if you think you've never seen programmers who don't speak much English write code: of course you haven't, most of them don't interact with Anglophone communities. obviously
The diagnostics working group is looking for your help adding support for internationalization of error messages to the Rust compiler. If you're interested in contributing, check out the blog post for more details!
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turning red is a movie about waking up one morning and finding yourself transformed into a Mozilla employee
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I was today years old when I realized the name "Raft" comes from it being a distributed *log* protocol
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sometimes i see a memory safety bug and think there's no way someone could exploit that and then i see someone skipping the barrier in wind waker by filling up the heap with leaked grappling hooks
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So I'm seeing a lot of misunderstandings around voting systems, especially when it pertains to voting machines. It occurs to me that people may not have a clear idea about how they actually work, and what properties they try to uphold, and how they try to be fraud-resilient.
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it occurs to me that this style of metal band logo is the western equivalent of fancy arabic calligraphy
@depthsofwiki
Which explains the lovely creation of the Fernando Colunga Ultimate Experience Band.
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a thing i am suspecting will be true is that use of LLMs is going to be the "don't use Wikipedia" of the next few generations
by which I mean they're a tool that *can* be "used right" but older people will tend to focus on the potential for misuse and write them off entirely
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