µblog - archive for 2024-11 🏳️‍🌈

🇸🇪 kanske läge för Stockholmsregionen att skicka snöröjare norrut? Dom verkar behöva lite hjälp

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🇸🇪 ”Elever lämnar skolan som de facto funktionella analfabeter” - Johan Pehrson (L) kallar till möte med anledning av läskrisen (SVT). Pehrson försöker sopa Liberalernas skolpolitik under mattan med en fet tautologi.

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🇸🇪 kan man få friskvårdsbidrag för at idka esport

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Happier and happier with this el-cheapo affordable expandable backpack from Clas Ohlson. Can cope with dusty customer site visits and just survived having a pair of Blundstone work boots stuffed into it to beat the checked in luggage weight limit of this EL CHEAPO airline I’m using.

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Berlin BER might have a nice cafe next to my gate but the queueing situation is crap. Everyone spills out onto the concourse, getting in the way of those poor bastards in a hurry.

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🔗 The Battle Line at Louvain (1914)

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🔗 Surveillance and the Secret History of 19th-Century Wearable Tech

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Nerds be like, why use neutral terms like “incorrect” when you can whip out the thesaurus and write “blatantly false” instead?

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The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

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Singles day or Armistice day? 🤷

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🔗📺🇬🇧 Sherwood SE02 (BBC, 2024)

Season 2 of a previously acclaimed show is hard. Season 1 had a compelling mix of contempory crime and historical injustices, with a specific focus on British policing’s use of undercover infiltrators.

In season 2 they’re trying for a Happy Valley vibe. Hardscrabble communities struggle with crime, but the criminals have their own code! It’s a confusing mess that doesn’t make sense.

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You don’t know, so don’t say you do –
You don’t.
You might think that things will change,
But take my word,
They won’t
You paint a lovely picture,
But reality intrudes
With a message for you
And it’s real bad news

— Aimee Mann

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suddenly that novel I’ve been putting off reading in preference of social media is looking more appealing

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I’ve finally finished re-reading all the Culture novels. The Hydrogen Sonata is the last and it’s mid at best.

https://gerikson.com/blog/books/read/The-Hydrogen-Sonata.html

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Harper’s: Dying Is a Form of Education - On Elden Ring

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It’s depressingly clear that a significant number of Americans don’t see Hitler’s rise to power in 1933 as a warning, but as a blueprint.

edit good thing I run my own blog so I don’t get banned for mentioning Hitler, unlike people on Threads

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You (group A) think C is simple, that it can be thought of as portable assembly, that it teaches you how computers actually work, and that it’s easy to avoid memory safety errors with good programming discipline, and is therefore fine.

You (group B) think C is deceptively complex, is far removed from current-day real world hardware semantics, abstracts memory in an outdated and overly simplified manner, and that it’s very hard for even professionals to write programs that are correct to the extent of equivalent programs in memory safe languages, therefore C shouldn’t be use for new software development.

I think C is deceptively complex, is far removed from current-day real world hardware semantics, abstracts memory in an outdated and overly simplified manner, and that it’s very hard for even professionals to write programs that are correct to the extent of equivalent programs in memory safe languages, which are some of the features that make C so fun and exciting. Like rawdogging a one night stand!

We are not the same.

– @bitofhope

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