Notices by Bruce Elrick (virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca)

@evan I do hope.

@evan My wife and I are in two bowling leagues (32 weeks from early September to late April, each once a week) but I would not have called them clubs.

@evan I'm 56. It would take a huge provocation to invoke an emotion so strong that I would fail to self-edit.

@evan
The most valid and probably most accepted negative thing about the US government is that it takes a lot of work to improve it, and that's only after getting some level of agreement on what needs to be changed.

That, coupled with diffuse benefits/detriments being pitted against concentrated detriments/benefits means the general interest languishes while government policy serves special interests. That's OK for people who need help, but is bad when it's people who are already thriving.

@slothrop @RickiTarr
I'm a native English speaker and took two semesters of German in university.

I was amazed and delighted that I could just learn a small list of pronunciation rules for letters and a short list of letter combinations and that would be it, I'd know how to pronounce anything in German and stand a good chance of knowing how to spell any word knowing how it was pronounced.

@evan
The number of people with power I've seen treat wait staff as non-people is... disappointing.

@evan @Paulatics
Get this. Jesse Brown of Canadaland interviewed Preston Manning and Manning said Trudeau et al should have treated Trump's remarks as a joke. He seemed to think that would have made things different.

I can't (don't) believe he's that naive.
https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/1112-preston-manning-goes-beast-mode/

@evan Not me.

@evan I don't know how many times I've wondered "what were the values of the variables when this happened" and I can look at the code to find the condition. But I need to start looking for how be got into this unanticipated state which means working backwards.

@evan Yeah, saw it going. Good luck!

@evan LOL we both wave hands.

@evan This is why I want the graph algorithm.

Just like a tournament with 3 teams can have A beats B, B beats C, and C beats A, resulting in an inconclusive result, having the weights as well as a global graph algorithm is needed to get a more meaningful result.

Unfortunately I don't know what algorithm to apply (thinks back to undergraduate... source/sink, max-flow/min/cut, hands start waving).

@evan My gut wants to construct a directed graph with nodes being your letters and edge weights/direction being your comparitor function.

Then apply some graph algorithm.

@evan As someone w/ more than 30 years of UNIX, storage, plus a whole bunch of other infrastructure experience, I find many of the cloud technologies to be very inscrutable, almost like they are designed to obscure things. I really don't understand how developers think because it feels like they've never operated a computer system for someone else as a job.

Having integrated 100s of production systems using scores of related but different technologies (many proprietary) it makes me feel stupid.

@evan @quinn I'm pretty sure that the way the subconscious part of the brain, the part that plays patterns (walking, for example), reacts automatically to inputs (you hear or see 2+2 and I know what has popped into your head, or when someone tosses you a ball unexpectedly, try not to let your arm move) or the part that finds patterns, I think that part of the brain is a lot closer to how these artificial neural networks work than all the detractors think.

@dansup @hexaheximal
You seem to still think this was done in order to inflate stats. Yet the commit shows a very believable explanation that shows this is likely not the case.

While it is not good for the stats and you should absolutely prevent instances using the settings from skewing the stats, I'm not sure why you seem to be still interpreting the situation uncharitably.

@evan
In my mind intelligence is summed up as the ability to perceive the world outside ourselves (and ourselves) and make predictions about what-ifs to decide what one's own actions one should do to make things happen in a way that pleases us.

This ability requires a model of the world be in our brain and the basic building blocks of that model is knowledge, including rules for how things work (applying rules plus observation plus memory is the main engine of intelligence)

Bishop Rev. Mariann Edgar is has far more character and courage than any MAGA, including the ones that have served in combat.

https://www.latintimes.com/republican-lawmaker-calls-bishop-deported-telling-trump-have-mercy-scared-children-572949

@evan My family shares a number of AnyList lists.

Hey Fediverse, I'm looking to get #fedihired.

Honestly I would prefer to work in an office environment in Calgary because it would help me focus. I also am thinking I want to work for an organization that betters the world and I'm ok with making less if that's the case.

I have tons of experience building, operating, and optimizing IT infrastructure, in particular hypervisors, operating systems, and storage, both primary and backup. I'm also good at bridging business and IT

#calgary #FediHire