THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent goats I have met during walks in the British countryside. You will find the all-important captions to each photo in the alt text.
Simply Typed Gender Calculus only supports genders that have one fixed set of pronouns. This cannot adequately model most genders. 2nd order Gender Calculus (aka. System F) allows for polymorphic genders, which may have pronouns like any/all!
Haskell programming language@haskell.org · 3d agoYou now gotta put the pronouns in the type signature. All because of Woke…
Given the volume of requests they're facing, maybe polling places should switch to using epoll? Or even become io_uringing places instead.
In face of this hardship, I will be helping those in need by writing free fanfiction here on bluesky. I've never written fanfics before, but this is a dire time. Here is my first work: Your 2 favorite fictional characters are kissing each other. It is quite splendid. I'll take requests below!
AO3 Status@status.archiveofourown.org · last wk.[update] Identified: We estimate that service restoration for #AO3 will take around 2 weeks but it could be up to 4 weeks. We are hopeful that we will be able to bring the site back up in a degraded state sooner. If that does happen, there may be times when the site has ...
LPT: Instead of waiting to get sick to take antibiotics, you should spread out your treatment by taking super small doses of antibiotics every day. Make sure to regularly switch which ones you use so all the bacteria will eventually get killed by something! There's no possible way this goes wrong!
When I die and pass on my belongings, I will put them all on a Stein manifold. By Cartan's Theorem B, the cousin problem is always solvable in this setting. And they say sheaf cohomology has no practical uses!
Spencer Ackerman@attackerman.bsky.social · 3w agoYou know, you and I may not be this newspaper’s target audience
If Cherenkov radiation is as dangerous as they want you to believe, why is it such a pretty color? This primal force far beyond my understanding is enticing me with its beauty. Why should I ignore its call?
I'm dying laughing at how the cat has conformed to her flower shaped bed today
So excited to back this game, it looks so cool!
Leon "Used to Be Cat" Richardson@catlinggun.bsky.social · 4w agoIt's live! If you're outside the US, there are partners you can preorder physical goods through, thank goodness. If my fellow Canadians couldn't back it I'd be heartbroken! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
uh oh I have unlocked ability to blog this is a disaster averypi.space/blog/malware...
My First Foray Into Malware Analysis
Somewhat recently, I stumbled across a virus that was spreading over compromised discord accounts. The sender pretended to want to play a minecraft mod, and would send a download link. I decided to pl...
averypi.space
This is the Dragonfly spacecraft, ultimately destined for Titan, photographed in July during early construction at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. The mission PI, Zibi Turtle, shared this image at the OPAG meeting today. Credit: NASA/JHU APL/Zibi Turtle
> looking for a new voting system > ask designer if their system is pareto-inefficient or a dictatorship > she doesn't understand > pull out diagram explaining Arrow's Impossibility Theorem > she laughs and says "it's a good voting system, sir" > use it > it's pareto-inefficient
99% of C++ standardization committees stop right before they design the perfect language feature that everyone will immediately adopt. Maybe C++29 will be the one...
*shakes magic 8 ball* "You're absolutely right, and that is a fantastic point!" *shakes magic 8 ball again* "Excellent correction. That's entirely my bad. The correct answer is..."
A silver lining from the Navier-Stokes OpenAI/Buckmaster+Apolge drama: maybe the cranks will stop using AI to develop their "theories" out of paranoia, and we'll return back to the good ol' days of human-written garbage crankery. Cranks used to have character! Now they all sound exactly same.
Evil Edgar Dijkstra: "Go To Statement considered perfectly fine and actually pretty nifty"
It's not decision paralysis, I'm just working in ZF and so don't have access to a choice function.
We should blow up Pluto so the people who falsely believe it should still be a planet get even more angry. Charon yearns for gravitational freedom.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo agoForbidden planet: was Pluto’s 2006 demotion a big mistake?
There once was a hitman from Sweden Who was, on the motorway, speedin’ His mark goes unwhacked, For in ironic fact, The killer’s the one who’s left bleedin’
hamster@jurahamster.bsky.social · 2mo agoArbeitsunfall (+)
Monopoly features 2d6 dice rolls, makes heavy use of metanarrative currencies, is tailored heavily to emulate a specific genre (ruthless capitalism) and encourages emergent character-driven conflicts and narratives. Therefore, Monopoly is a PbtA game.
A watched pot never boils. The water inside does, of course, but a large percentage of stoves are not hot enough to boil metal. And if your stove is hot enough to vaporize pots, then you probably should avert your eyes.