@inthehands figuring out what to do has never been the problem, it’s deciding to do it. 1) stop extracting fossil fuels, 2) start refossilizing greenhouse gasses. There’s enough buffering in the system that we wouldn’t need much more mitigation than to ban renewal of any fossil fuel extraction permits or international trade contracts (along with canceling all of the subsidies and unused permits). The engineers have been prepared for a decade, they’re waiting on the politicians
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ShadSterling (shadsterling@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2023 03:55:31 JST ShadSterling -
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ShadSterling (shadsterling@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 12:05:56 JST ShadSterling @inthehands “concrete” may not be the best word, but I mean operations that act on bits, roughly machine instructions, or the lowest level where you can talk about data rather than physics. Sure, it’s an abstraction, but it’s the boundary between CS and CE
Not sure what you mean by “projects”; when I got my BS in CS we did plenty of projects, but since we only used the standard library we never had to think about dependencies
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ShadSterling (shadsterling@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 11:44:26 JST ShadSterling @inthehands interesting. One thing I’ve been thinking is that CS programs fail to teach how computers work - how data is composed of bits and how abstract operations are composed of concrete operations. I think I agree that treating abstractions as the “trunk” would be good, with the caveat that they also have to cover what it is that’s being abstracted
(And they need to do a much better job of teaching practical skills like dependency management)
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ShadSterling (shadsterling@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jul-2023 09:35:34 JST ShadSterling @mekkaokereke I hadn’t heard of the cough method before, but at some point I switched to these “alternative swabbing instructions”, based on reading about what was getting fewer false negatives as the new variations were gaining prevalence:
cough 3-5 times, then swab on the inside of both cheeks, above and below the tongue, on the gums and hard palate, for a minimum swabbing duration of 30 seconds
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ShadSterling (shadsterling@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jul-2023 21:28:19 JST ShadSterling @smallcircles @Blort @hrefna if lots of companies join the fediverse to compete or connect with Facebook, won’t that make it harder for Facebook to extinguish other providers?
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ShadSterling (shadsterling@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jun-2023 08:49:23 JST ShadSterling @feld @mcc every time I see this sort of thing I wonder, what if we could spend more of that time and attention on feeding the hungry, healing the sick, housing the homeless…. Not that other pursuits aren’t worthy, just that if we can solve such tiny obscure technical things, why can’t we also solve the big obvious social things?
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ShadSterling (shadsterling@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-Jun-2023 07:11:34 JST ShadSterling @ariadne so next time their ISP changes their IP address they’ll lose access to their bluesky account? And another customer could take it over?
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ShadSterling (shadsterling@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Nov-2022 10:09:59 JST ShadSterling @Gargron I don’t care about the difference between toot, post, share, or publish, but the misuse of the term “boost” bothers me. It doesn’t increase(boost) the weight of that post in decisions about what to show, it adds that post to the timeline of your own posts - it should be called retoot, repost, reblog, or similar