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Notices by Jack Rusher (jack@berlin.social)

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    Jack Rusher (jack@berlin.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Mar-2025 02:26:57 JST Jack Rusher Jack Rusher

    (🧵 of memes we quote ~every day)

    Human: We named a color after you 😊
    Salmon: Cool! A shiny silvery blue?
    Human: …
    Salmon: Why is it pink? WHY IS IT PINK?!

    In conversation about 3 months ago from berlin.social permalink
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    Jack Rusher (jack@berlin.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 01:20:15 JST Jack Rusher Jack Rusher

    More #StrangelyAestheticDebugOutput, this time while adding some new functions to generate parameterized arc points…

    In conversation about 4 months ago from berlin.social permalink

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    Jack Rusher (jack@berlin.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 01:20:14 JST Jack Rusher Jack Rusher
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    “The trouble with computers is you play with them. They are so wonderful.” — R.P. Feynman, who probably wasn’t even drawing a geometric interpretation of a wave at the time

    In conversation about 4 months ago from berlin.social permalink

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    Jack Rusher (jack@berlin.social)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Dec-2024 17:55:20 JST Jack Rusher Jack Rusher
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    • David Wilson

    @daviwil Looking at your bio, you might be pleased to know this was livecoded in emacs 😊

    In conversation about 6 months ago from gnusocial.jp permalink
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    Jack Rusher (jack@berlin.social)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Dec-2024 17:26:09 JST Jack Rusher Jack Rusher

    In Bethlehem a vector field was born. Coded in #clojure. Happy holidays!

    In conversation about 6 months ago from berlin.social permalink

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    Jack Rusher (jack@berlin.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 08:09:44 JST Jack Rusher Jack Rusher
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    • Vivia ???
    • Andy Wingo

    @wingo @vivia “My predecessor told me that she used to pester the style editor, Hobie Weekes, who had been at the magazine since 1928, to get rid of the diaeresis. She found it fussy. She said that once, in the elevator, he told her he was on the verge of changing that style and would be sending out a memo soon. And then he died.

    This was in 1978. No one has had the nerve to raise the subject since.”

    https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-the-diaeresis

    In conversation about 6 months ago from gnusocial.jp permalink
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    Jack Rusher (jack@berlin.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 17:33:49 JST Jack Rusher Jack Rusher
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    • Jef Poskanzer
    • Panicz Maciej Godek

    @jef @PaniczGodek [Jef! As another prediluvian, I’m glad to see you here.]

    After 40 years with it, I regard emacs as a programmable interactive environment for implementing (primarily text) workflows. Using it to edit source code, read email, or manage one’s agenda are just applications of that engine. From this perspective, small editors with emacs keybinds (mg/e/&c) lack the Buddha nature.

    In conversation about 6 months ago from berlin.social permalink
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    Jack Rusher (jack@berlin.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 07:31:33 JST Jack Rusher Jack Rusher

    Excellent piece that applies as much to large software as to any other kind of engineering situation:

    https://landley.net/history/mirror/institutional_memory.html

    In conversation about 7 months ago from berlin.social permalink
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    Jack Rusher (jack@berlin.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 02:03:14 JST Jack Rusher Jack Rusher

    Scene: A man, on the 7th morning after heart surgery, rests in bed. He is experiencing obvious pain and sadness. Beside him is his partner, caring for him.

    “Are you thirsty?”
    “Yes, very.”
    “Then why didn’t you ask me to bring you something to drink?”
    “I hate myself right now.”
    “I don’t like to hear that!”
    “Being weak and dependent is very hard for me.”
    “But what if the situation was reversed? If I asked for water, what would you do?”
    Man begins crying.
    “I would bring you a river.”
    “See?”

    In conversation about 7 months ago from berlin.social permalink
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    Jack Rusher (jack@berlin.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 02:03:13 JST Jack Rusher Jack Rusher
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    Relatedly, I was talking with a doctor at the German Heart Center this week about how good (well trained, compassionate) the individual doctors and nurses in the German healthcare sector are, but also how terrible all the bureaucracy is. She basically said: “Good people trapped in a bad system? That’s Germany…”

    In conversation about 7 months ago from berlin.social permalink
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    Jack Rusher (jack@berlin.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 02:03:12 JST Jack Rusher Jack Rusher
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    Also: almost all nurses were either Turkish-German or foreign (Swiss German to Brazilian to Ukrainian); head of physical therapy was a gay Italian who spoke German so badly we often used a mix of English and Italian; guy who pushed my wheelchair between parts of the hospital was from Ghana; doctor who did my exit paperwork was a Dos Santos from Argentina.

    One question I carried away from this experience: have any of those “Ausländer Raus” AfD types ever been inside a German hospital?

    In conversation about 7 months ago from berlin.social permalink
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    Jack Rusher (jack@berlin.social)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Oct-2024 06:37:24 JST Jack Rusher Jack Rusher

    Doug McIlroy — Unix pipes, diff, spellchecking, macro pioneer whose work fed into Hart's impementation of Lisp macros, &c, &c — on driving to MIT from NJ to hear McCarthy give a talk on Lisp in 1959.

    In conversation about 8 months ago from berlin.social permalink

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    Jack Rusher (jack@berlin.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Oct-2024 20:36:50 JST Jack Rusher Jack Rusher
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    • D. Schmudde

    @schmudde All respect to him, but I don’t like seeing this BBS claim repeated. Five years earlier (1973) a group of Bay Area radicals created the first BBS in a Berkeley record store:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Memory

    In conversation about 8 months ago from berlin.social permalink

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    Jack Rusher (jack@berlin.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Sep-2024 02:29:01 JST Jack Rusher Jack Rusher

    “One iteration requires 110 logic gates, which were partitioned across 66 Escherichia coli strains, requiring the introduction of a total of 1.1 Mb of recombinant DNA into their genomes.”

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41589-024-01730-1

    In conversation about 9 months ago from berlin.social permalink
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    Jack Rusher (jack@berlin.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2024 01:49:23 JST Jack Rusher Jack Rusher

    Periodic thread of what I think of as extremely Berlin moments:

    Stopped at a red light on my bike while riding home from the gym yesterday, I hear a familiar beat slowly coming into audio focus behind me. Smiling, I look back to see a tall person of indeterminate gender piloting a speaker-laden cargo bike containing an extremely chill golden retriever. All three of us seemed to be bobbing our heads in unison to The Prodigy’s Firestarter.

    In conversation about 10 months ago from berlin.social permalink
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    Jack Rusher (jack@berlin.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2024 01:49:22 JST Jack Rusher Jack Rusher
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    Later in the day, while walking home with groceries from the nearby market hall, I see two skinny 20-something lads struggling to hand transport a very tall potted plant. Once I’m close enough I see that it’s a very healthy, leafy, and productive Cannabis plant (newly legal to grow for personal use). After our paths cross, I smell it for the rest of the block.

    In conversation about 10 months ago from berlin.social permalink
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    Jack Rusher (jack@berlin.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2024 01:49:20 JST Jack Rusher Jack Rusher
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    Today, while walking home from picking up fresh produce from a farm share delivery point, I met two women outside my building on stilts. They amiably agreed to pose for a photo.

    In conversation about 10 months ago from berlin.social permalink

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    Jack Rusher (jack@berlin.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jul-2024 21:39:14 JST Jack Rusher Jack Rusher
    • inconvergent

    I’ve finally convinced @inconvergent, one of my favorite computer artists, to bring his Lisp-powered creations to Mastodon. Follow him! https://mas.to/@inconvergent/112728097375506693

    In conversation about a year ago from berlin.social permalink

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      Attached: 1 image trying to figure out why my simd "accelerated" raytracer is slower than the non-optimized version so i can render even more voluminous light like this. and i am slowly losing my mind
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    Jack Rusher (jack@berlin.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 04:25:37 JST Jack Rusher Jack Rusher

    A reminder for anyone struggling with craft that Rembrandt once drew a woman with three arms. Het Ledikant, 1646.

    In conversation about a year ago from berlin.social permalink

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    Jack Rusher (jack@berlin.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Feb-2024 16:35:43 JST Jack Rusher Jack Rusher
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    • blaine
    • Boris Mann

    @blaine @boris “I’m going to put world-readable bytes on the public Internet and feel betrayed if the ‘wrong people’ read them” is quite a take… 🙄

    In conversation Tuesday, 13-Feb-2024 16:35:43 JST from berlin.social permalink
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    Former kernel hacker and Bell Labs/AT&T Researcher, currently making art and technology in Berlin.https://jackrusher.com

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