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is she, you know (moves her hand as if signing a non-disclosure agreement) a fae?
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@nedbat/116150179474021938
The answer to the mystery: because my function had a `yield` in it, it was compiled as a generator. But executing the function never ran `yield`, so iterating it produced an empty sequence. The value from the return statement is ignored.
TBH, I know there is a way to get the returned value, but I have never needed to, and I don't know how.
The solution was to delete the code after the return.
I don’t know what the hell ICE / CBP / FBI?? / other feds are up to, but we’ve had several •huge• swarms of federal vehicles rolling out these last few days.
They aren’t doing the kinds of chaotic off-the-street kidnappings there were doing all through Dec and Jan. But they sure are up to •something•.
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Yesterday the Trump regime served warrants to a bunch of locals who were at that peaceful protest of the violent church where the regional ICE director preaches.
That protest is old news, the same event about which they’re trying to nail Don Lemon to the wall. Yesterday they came for both protestors and reporters, AIUI.
Light coverage here, which doesn't mention that they banged on people’s door at 4:30-6:30am with warrants and tossed them in federal detention all day. Just shameless, unalloyed harassment.
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＼起床／
checking the BBC homepage has been a curse since COVID days. not a single day goes by without bad news. it feels like the whole decade is jinxed. i'm actually exhausted. does any one else feel like this?
Expanding our #CampaignFinance coverage in #SoCal, we've added data for #Pomona going back to 2020:
Just a cat inna box, singing the song of his people, looking for treats. Happy #Caturday everyone!
me: i need to validate some email addresses, so i am going to write a quick regex. how hard can it be?
*4 hours later*
me. i now have 2 problems and one of them is that I've accidentally summoned an ancient daemon. wht the actual fuck
@tchambersTim Chambers
That wouldn't work.
Mesh networks are short range low-capacity wireless. They'll work well enough in a large premises, especially if a good percentage have ethernet or fibre, to allow WiFi roaming on multiple airpoints with one name.
Iran also attempts to block satellite broadcast and Internet using a range of techniques.
The mass market use either Mobile or cabled internet (various technologies) all of which are government controlled, or can be in every country.
@raymaccarthyRay McCarthy I was thinking of something maybe Wi-Fi or Bluetooth enabled person to person even if phone to phone and that then would spill into the open social web when one of them hit a true open Internet….
検索エンジンに Ecosia 使っているけど、最近ヘッダーに表示されていたリンク。ウガンダの森がアカンサスばかりになって多様性がまじでなくなっているので、多様性を取り戻すための取り組みをしているという話。もっと多様な生態系だったけど開発のために木を切りまくって、代わりに植えたのがアカンサスで成長が早くて他の植物の成長を阻害するもんだから多様性がなくなったらしい。聞いたことある話すぎる。 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNQjGYqaN0w
Running a Desktop PC off AA Alkaline Cells
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/28/running-a-desktop-pc-off-aa-alkaline-cells/
A new genetic analysis reveals that human females and Neanderthal males interbred far more than the reverse, for reasons that remain mysterious.
https://www.404media.co/scientists-reveal-the-surprising-sex-lives-of-neanderthals-and-early-humans/
I had a rough week. Send cats please 
What if I could convince you that taking the same time to explain detailed requirements and carefully validate results with a junior colleague instead of a chatbot would not only give you two people who understood the code instead of zero, but if you do it a few times in a row you eventually get a senior colleague out of the deal for free.
RE: https://solarpunk.moe/@vv/116144047825989190
What's your current opinion on the touching of computers?
Do you still find joy in it?
I'm honestly quite frustrated with... gestures around and so I'm thinking of quitting.
I still really enjoy programming and I haven't lost excitement in it. I am lucky to be in a situation where I can avoid using or working with the output of LLM coding assistants professionally so I feel somewhat sheltered from the whole LLM craze. It does feel like a creeping supernatural force that is getting closer and closer, though. But yeah in my free time I have had so much fun writing hand-written Lisp code with Spritely's technology, and that has been a joy.
RE: https://solarpunk.moe/@vv/116144047825989190
are you working on anything cool right now?
I am pretty excited about a couple of high energy tracks that I've been working on, and I even have lyrics for one of them, so that's exciting! I'm going to work more on them today. I have also been coding a little tracker that runs in the browser and uses Lisp and that's been so much fun.
RE: https://solarpunk.moe/@vv/116144047825989190
Who are your partner(s)? I tried figuring it out but I'm bad at following
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber is a partner who has a fedi/bsky presence. I have another partner who ~doesn't go to this school~ isn't active here, and, being a relationship anarchist, I also have some more loosely defined connections and am actively doing other dating!
"Anthropic is guilty not only of wildly exaggerating the capabilities of AI, and promoting dystopian fantasies of ‘AI doom’, but also quietly advocating the deeply misanthropic philosophy on which it was founded. ‘Claude’s constitution is an unfortunate development in AI governance that minimises human values, rules, and rights’, Jarovsky says.
But knowing what we know about Effective Altruism, perhaps that isn’t a defect, but the main feature of the product."
https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/02/22/the-cult-that-wants-to-give-human-rights-to-robots/
RE: https://is.nota.live/@encryptedwhispers/116150173721539022
This is my new artist profile! Give it a follow if you're interested in my music. I'll still be boosting my music releases on here, but I wanted to provide an account that was just for my music, and didn't require follow requests, so it was easier for music fans to stay in touch. #EncryptedWhispers
when will low poly stop being considered retro and just be considered a style.
youtu.be/HCmogSWB2mo?... 전시에 땅을 삽으로 파는것보단 이렇게 미리 콘크리트 구조물을 안에 매설해두는것이 그래도 좀 더 안전하고 군인분들에게 좋긴하겠구만 싶고...
[W디펜스] 에스토니아 '러 침공 탱크' 저지 구조물 ...
二度寝いいな二度寝（もうすぐお昼ですよ）
아... Emacs 정도의 확장성에 Zed 정도의 성능에 VS Code 정도의 까리함을 모두 갖는 에디터 어디 없나...
I had a rough week. Send cats please
이제 다음단계로 진행될 일은... 미국과 이스라엘 혹은 동맹국 내 테러 발생 가능성는 거의 확정적인듯 어떻게든 이란 정부는 보복을 하려고 할것 같은데 개인 입장에서는 사실 알고 있어도 뭐 딱히 할수 있는것이 없음 그냥 사람 모이는곳에 가급적 가지 않는것이 안전한 시대;
“I Audited $2.1 Billion in Epstein Financial Records. Here's Every Name the Money Touched.”
Update: he deleted the record of Trump (74 million) and Clinton (17 million), but it is still in the GitHub repo.
@MigueldeicazaMiguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉 And earlier version captured on the Wayback Machine:
RE: https://is.nota.live/@encryptedwhispers/116150173721539022
This is my new artist profile! Give it a follow if you're interested in my music. I'll still be boosting my music releases on here, but I wanted to provide an account that was just for my music, and didn't require follow requests, so it was easier for music fans to stay in touch. #EncryptedWhispers
Debugging fail in #Python: I had a generator function:
def them():
for thing in some_things():
yield thing
But I wanted to quickly try changing it to use a helper that returned a list, so I just added that code at the top:
def them():
return them_from_somewhere_else()
for thing in some_things():
yield thing
Took me a while to figure out why `list(them())` was always an empty list.
"What were the skies like when you were young?"
@codinghorrorJeff Atwood I made sandwiches for the orb once
hello! this is the new official account for encrypted.whispers!
i am a boston-based electronic musician making music mostly on the m8 tracker.
this account will only be used for posting my music and announcing shows and such. feel free to follow my personal account at 
@vvvivi 💫 for other stuff!
[속보] 美당국자 "하메네이와 5~10명의 이란 고위지도자 사망한듯"<폭스뉴스>
송고2026-03-01 05:27
www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR2026...
[속보] 美당국자 "하메네이와 5~10명의 이란 고위지...
Apricot PC Xi (1984)
Happy #Baturday, Fedi. 🖤 In these strange times… take a moment to bask in this floof. He’s the bat I rescued earlier this week that was saturated in some kind of mechanical oil and exposed two nights of freezing temperatures.
Nobody thought he would make it through the day. I won’t even post the “before” pictures because it was so very tragic. But here he is, four days later, enjoying a snack while modelling for #BatsInBlankets.
I call him Tiny Turner. And I tell him he’s “Simply the Bats”.
He’s not quite ready for release yet, but tonight some of my longest rehabs will finally be set free around sunset. Big feelings! 🖤🦇#BatsInMyBelfry
* 이란의 최고 종교지도자 아야톨라 하메네이가 사망했고 시신이 수습되었다는 보도를 다수의 이스라엘 매체들이 하고있으나 아직 다른 공신력 있는 매체에서는 확인되지 않음 *
Just a cat inna box, singing the song of his people, looking for treats. Happy #Caturday everyone!
[속보] 트럼프 "많은 이란 지도부 인사 사망" < ABC뉴스>
송고2026-03-01 05:24 www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR2026...
[속보] 트럼프 "많은 이란 지도부 인사 사망" < A...
I had a rough week. Send cats please
March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.
수면위상지연증후군.............
@Em0nM4stodonEm 
Kitty cats incoming!!
Could not have happened to a nicer supreme leader of a murderous theocratic dictatorship
언어모델 가라사대 "지금 “전 세계가 각자도생이라 개판”처럼 보이는 핵심 이유는, 국가 위에 국가를 강제할 ‘상위 주권 (집행력)’이 없기 때문이에요. 국제기구는 많지만 대부분 권고·조정은 할 수 있어도 강제 집행 (세금·경찰·사법·군사) 이 약하거나, 강대국이 빠져나갈 구멍 (거부권·불참·제재 회피) 이 남아 있죠" 라는 응답. 정부의 정부가 필요하지만 만들기 어려움. 답은 있지만 아무도 안하고 싶어함 ㅋㅋㅋ ㅎㅎ
"According to CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, some of his underlings have created an AI clone of him so they can prepare for meetings with him, ensuring everything is fine-tuned for his wants and needs."
Is the next step getting rid of CEOs altogether?
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/uber-employees-ai-ceo
* 이란의 최고 종교지도자 아야톨라 하메네이가 사망했고 시신이 수습되었다는 보도를 다수의 이스라엘 매체들이 하고있으나 아직 다른 공신력 있는 매체에서는 확인되지 않음 *
phildini
Jenniferplusplus
Inside Fediverse
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
