a pragmatist is someone who realizes you can absolutely place an artillery battery atop the unnavigable mountain if your corps only carries it piece by piece on foot

one who calls themselves a pragmatist but says that difficult thing is unreasonable simply wraps their despair in a fiction of reason

The Israeli "art student" mystery (2002)

Link: https://www.salon.com/2002/05/07/students/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44607828

@cocolowres @TwraSun

Sehe ich ähnlich. niemand kann die Frau dazu zwingen und niemand sollte es tun.

Es sollte aber auch klar sein, dass die SPD im Falle, dass sie nicht antritt, die CDU richtig hart bezahlen lassen muss. Das muss so teuer werden, dass die CDU so nen Stunt nur einmal probiert!

Leider fehlt mir der Glaube in die "Sozialdemokraten" was das angeht.

Wenn #BrosiusGersdorf Schaden vom BVerfG abwenden will, dann MUSS sie antreten. Würde sie es nicht tun, würde neurechten demokratiezersetzenden Campaignern mehr Macht zugesprochen, als diese verdienen.

#LifeHack

🇭🇰에 wireguard로 VPN을 띄웠으니 이제 자야지.

Deutschland schiebt Afghanen ins Ungewisse ab

Deutschland hat wieder Menschen nach Afghanistan abgeschoben. Offiziell alles schwere Straftäter. Eine zurückgebliebene Verlobte und ihre Mutter widersprechen dieser Darstellung. Von Stefanie Markert.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/abschiebungen-afghanistan-124.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#Abschiebeflug #Afghanistan #Dobrindt

Extracting EXIF Data in MAUI Apps: A How-To Guide | by Gerald Versluis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plT4Tsd6ORI

#dotnetmaui #dotnet #xaml #csharp #mobiledev

How I keep up with AI progress (and why you must too)

Link: https://blog.nilenso.com/blog/2025/06/23/how-i-keep-up-with-ai-progress/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44608275

DHS: Filming Cops, ICE Officers Is a 'Violent Tactic'

Link: https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/18/dhs-filming-cops-ice-officers-is-a-violent-tactic/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44608701

HathiTrust Digital Library

Link: https://www.hathitrust.org/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44571549

so normal people aren't conscious of making eye contact the entire time they're doing it and constantly calculating how long they should do it and wondering if they're doing it right and constantly asking 'is this good? have I done it long enough? should I stop? is it weird now?'

huh

At #PyLadiesCon 2024, our volunteers did a lot of work such as: video production and editing, translation, and transcribing. Other conferences work AV team, but PyLadiesCon didn't. It was all volunteers and a lot of work.

This year, we're trying to ease volunteer overwork, so we contacted AV vendor, asked what it would cost them to do all of this.
One vendor said 8K - 13K USD 😵

Moral of the story:
- Say thanks to volunteers.
- Sponsor conferences.
The end.

The big thing about Smalltalk isn't objects or classes. The big thing, the thing that's often missed, is message passing -- which doesn't depend on classes or the like. Conceptually, a message is just a word or symbol, and a list of IDs that point in some way to whatever other objects are involved.

Smalltalk's syntax is built around message passing, not around objects and class hierarchies.

"Comments go in double quotes in Smalltalk."

| foo | 
"Declare the temporary variable named foo"

foo <- SomeClass new. 
"Send the message 'new' to SomeClass, and make the variable 'foo' point to whatever SomeClass sends back as an answer.

foo doSomething.
foo doSomethingElse.
"Send foo a couple of messages."

This is not a syntax that depends on anything other than these principles:

1. There are named objects.
2. An object can send any message it wants to any other object it has the name of.
3. An object can receive any message from any object.
4. On receiving a message, an object can send one or more messages, and finally return the id of another object or itself as the answer to the message.

Nowhere in the syntax is there anything about classes or inheritance or any of that.

우분투는 좀 깊게 쓰려고 하면 아직 부족한 점들이 좀... 자체 패치 많이 하는데 비해 그에 대한 테스트나 문서화는 아직 부족한 느낌. 대충대충 취미용 리눅스라면 이러나 저러나지만 엔터프라이즈급까지는 아직 갈 길이 남아있는 듯.

Speaking from experience: Taking a risk by calling things out can be a very isolating experience. Don't applaud people that do. Do as they did: Take a risk, speak up, call shit out.

Because the more people do so, the less risk everyone has to take. And eventually what was once daring to say has moved into the realm of ordinary again.

The project to formalize in Lean the classical Carleson theorem on almost everywhere convergence of Fourier series, and a modern generalization of that theorem to more general metric spaces, has announced a successful completion of its goals: https://leanprover.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/442935-Carleson/topic/Project.20Finish/with/529466749 .

It seems that the process, while lengthy, was relatively smooth; there were some technical issues (for instance, whether to work with norms that take values in the non-negative reals, or extended norms that take values in the extended non-negative reals), and some key definitions had to have their formalizations modified at some stage of the process to make certain lemmas formalize properly, but overall no major mathematical issues were uncovered.

People hired for their skill are openly using ChatGPT and I wondered, what the long term strategy is?

(Original title: So what are you saying?)

https://tante.cc/2025/07/06/so-what-are-you-saying/

#bornhack stabil.
Danke, @miketangoMikeTangoшo !

The Art of Roland-Garros

Link: https://www.garros.gallery/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44566510

冷蔵庫で乾燥させて保存してたのやつ迂闊に取り出して結露させてうあーって←

으아아악 방금 천둥 언청 크게 침

it's frustrating that these two things are true:

1. learning rust has made me much more able to reason about and detect concurrency bugs in JS

2. I do not know how to convey this ability to other people beyond telling them to learn rust

さざんかの小道、草加松原、草加市
GoPro Hero 3 White Edition #Misskey写真部

took an existing regex that catches sql injections and added on to it.

/[^\x3c]*?(?:\x27|%27|\x2d{2}|%2d%2d)?(?:(?:S(?:HOW.+(?:C(?:UR(?:DAT|TIM)E|HARACTER.+SET)|(?:VARI|T)ABLES)|ELECT.+(?:FROM|USER|SLEEP|CONCAT|CASE))|U(?:NION\x20SELEC|PDATE.+SE)T|DELETE.+FROM|INSERT.+INTO)|S(?:HOW.+(?:C(?:HARACTER.+SET|UR(DATE|TIME))|(?:VARI|T)ABLES)|ELECT.+(?:FROM|USER))|U(?:NION.+SELEC|PDATE.+SE)T|(?:NULL(?:\x2c|%2[cC])){2,}|(?:\x2f|%2[fF])(?:\x2a|%2[aA]).+(?:\x2a|%2[aA]).+(?:\x2f|%2[fF])|CONCAT.+SELECT|EXTRACTVALUE|UNION.+ALL)/i it's an arcane mess, but it catches a good bit.

@mcc@mastodon.social this makes me want to build a website that only ONE person can ever view at a time, I want it to literally just timeout anyone after a single person is viewing it (until they stop and someone else views it).... I think that could count as art? lol

/7 All it does is say “this particular narrow human communication can’t be used as evidence.” But to the American mindset, that’s the same as endorsing crime. That is the thinking of a people who have embraced the totalitarian mindset.

So ARPANET had a famous "Flag Day" where they switched over to TCP/IP in 1983; it required a simultaneous switchover of all host machines to the new protocol. And I know that "flag day" has since referred to big changes like that in networked systems. I assumed the name referred to some bitwise flags set in packet headers. Turns out, the term comes from Multics, when similar coordination was required for an encoding change. It happened on actual US Flag Day 1966!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_day_(computing)

Never thought I'd see that day, but thanks to AI, @tanstack.com react-query now has, for the first time ever, more downloads than react-redux 🤯

Recursive Functions To Piss Off Your CS Professor

https://inventwithpython.com/blog/recursive-functions-to-piss-off-your-cs-prof.html

/7 All it does is say “this particular narrow human communication can’t be used as evidence.” But to the American mindset, that’s the same as endorsing crime. That is the thinking of a people who have embraced the totalitarian mindset.

さざんかの小道、草加松原、草加市
GoPro Hero 3 White Edition #Misskey写真部

so normal people aren't conscious of making eye contact the entire time they're doing it and constantly calculating how long they should do it and wondering if they're doing it right and constantly asking 'is this good? have I done it long enough? should I stop? is it weird now?'

huh

Website for Museum of Illusion in St. Louis, MO

moistlouis.com 👀

Asynchrony is not Concurrency https://lobste.rs/s/oeuohp #plt #zig
https://kristoff.it/blog/asynchrony-is-not-concurrency/

Third patient dies from acute liver failure caused by a Sarepta gene therapy

Link: https://www.biocentury.com/article/656520/third-death-from-a-sarepta-gene-therapy
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44608170

okay. back from vacation, done with a very unpleasant 24-hour stomach bug, done with post-flight headache, almost done with this annoying nechache, starting to feel like a normal human and contend with the 200+ tasks that have piled up in my weeks on the road. I guess I have a little bit of breathing room here so I will just have a look at what is going on in the news first…

… okay so more puking it is then

Eyesight going? Just hate how tiny _everything_ is getting? Want some fucking usability in your daily compute? Use a Firefox based browser and want a bigger fucking scrollbar?

here:

about:config

widget.gtk.overlay-scrollbars.enabled = false
widget.non-native-theme.gtk.scrollbar.thumb-size = 1
widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.style = 4
widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.size.override = 16

Section 174 is reversed! Mostly, that is.

Link: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pulse-section-174-is-reversed
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44607961

a pragmatist is someone who realizes you can absolutely place an artillery battery atop the unnavigable mountain if your corps only carries it piece by piece on foot

one who calls themselves a pragmatist but says that difficult thing is unreasonable simply wraps their despair in a fiction of reason

Come see @dansup give his keynote at FediCon

"The Fediverse in Action: Building Social Platforms That Users Actually Want"

...

🎟️ https://lu.ma/p4bbb941

🌐 FediCon
📍 Vancouver, Canada
🗓️ August 1–2

ℹ️ https://fedicon.ca

#FediCon #FediCon2025 #Fediverse

Very pleased that Cyberpunk 2077 for macOS launched same-day on Steam and on the Mac App Store, and happy to buy it on Steam and hopefully move those metrics a little bit

톱카프 궁전의 화려한 천장.

#photo #photography #사진 #写真

FASPの何かが動いてるんだねえ (keyフィールドのURLを加工してあります)

method=GET path=/users/zundan/statuses/114872982113141586 format=json controller=StatusesController action=show status=200 allocations=79718 duration=365.58 view=0.14 db=7.78 key=https: //discovery.joinmastodon.org/fasp/actor#main-key

Proxmox VE 9.0 beta is out! Based on Debian 13 'Trixie', it features Ceph Squid 19.2, SDN Fabrics, ZFS 2.3, & more.

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-ve-9-0-beta-released.168618/

#proxmox #linux #debian #ZFS #homelab #technology

@mariattaMariatta 🤦🏻‍♀️ I’ve been thinking of a similar app for years, for “magic numbers” in general. Hat size. Shirt measurements. Wife’s ring size. Things that have a single numerical answer you don’t need often enough to actually remember, and are annoying to find out when you do.

If only someone wrote a cross platform Python mobile app framework…. 🤔🤣