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  Hmm, I was gonna use C++, but should I code my low-power embedded project with micropython? No. No, I should not. Good lord, Python sucks. "It's good for learning." No, *BASIC* is good for learning, Python is good for... um... things that are slightly too complex for a shell script? Math? No, use R or Octave. Can anyone explain what Python is good for that something else isn't *significantly* better for? Maybe it could be good as a replacement for Javascript? #Programm...

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  Scratch my belly. Oh yeah, that feels great. I'm gonna nom your hand a bit. No, don't stop! Yeah, like that! Let me grab you with my knife fingers. Why are you stopping again? #CatsOfMastodon

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  I'm not sure that dexamphetamine is the right ADHD medication for me. It does let me focus my attention but I'm finding it *really* hard to aim it properly. It's like trying to aim a 600x telescope without a viewfinder. More often than not I end up hyperfocused on procrastinating. Like what I'm doing right now. Maybe it would be good in a business setting where the direction is given from an external source and there are other people to keep you on task. #ADHD #AuDHD

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  @MelissaBearTrix@gives.hugz.online Not embarrassing enough, try out these strappy gold heels: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003480289154.html

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  Is it psychologically possible to walk past a friendly cat and not boop it?

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  4. Plant nutrient dispenser (a bunch of peristaltic pumps to measure out a specified dose) 5. A wifi-attached thermostat with a 4-colour e-paper display and simple, physical controls (I'm trying both a rotary encoder and a magnetic angle sensor with a "dumb" wheel that has a magnet embedded in it, I also considered doing something truly out there, like a retractable string that you pull out and attach to various hooks on the wall at regular intervals to indicate what temperature y...

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  I wonder whatever happened to Deanna Troi's younger half-brother. #StarTrek

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  How is it that they just keep getting cuter? 🥺 #CatsOfMastodon

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  If only Harley knew that the only thing she needs to win their trust is to keep wagging her tail and let them pounce without pouncing back. When she gets their attention, though, she gets nervous and stops wagging.

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  I think I've solved the problem with the kittens drinking out of my bedside table water: sparkling water. They took a sniff and then looked at it like it called their mother a dog. Then they retreated and sat staring at it for several minutes as if it might attack them if they looked away. 🤣🤣🤣

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  I find it hard sometime not to pronounce the word "Magician" as "Magic Ian." They're all named Ian, even though most of them will lie, it's all part of the illusion.

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  Lords, ladies, and multiforms of the Fediverse, may I present sisters Lina (grey) and Ivy (w/g). #Caturday #CatsOfMastodom

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  I just told Harley that we're getting kittens. Do you think she understands? #DogsOfMastodon

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  Gimli's Mithril Mankini

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  @frenchtoast@better.boston That's no winter storm. It's a space station.

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  @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt Most people can't tell the difference between ignorance and apathy, they don't know and they don't care.

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  @oantolin@mathstodon.xyz This also applies to other fields of study.

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  @dmbaturin@functional.cafe Ahh, the Internet has street parking, nice.

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  @cwebber@social.coop How in the absolute shit are they expecting to enforce such a ridiculous regulation? Or is that not something politicians care about?

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  @owlsintowels@mas.to Are you sure this wasn't just one of the researchers after a 36-hour bender of owl care?

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  @soc I can see the underlying architecture, deep learning transformers, being useful in quite a lot of fields, including medical research, and that's what it sounds like you're taking about. LLMs, though, large language models, don't seem to have much real use. I even doubt they'd be of much use to linguists studying a language since all of its data gets stored in incomprehensible and mostly inaccessible ways. @anonymouspl@expressional.social @u0421793@toot.pikopublish.ing @cab...

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  @LangerJan It's at an angle, which means it's Empok Nor, already a knockoff of the real thing. It's used when the crew wants to hold a paintball tournament but don't want to have to bother cleaning up after. Or prisoner exchanges, when they don't want to have to bother cleaning up after.

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  @benroyce Word-on-the-street interviews were so much easier before people gave a shit about important social issues.

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  @JellyTBeagle If I could figure out how to connect to the Internet with a clockwork computer, I would.

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  @MissingThePt You joke, but Trump forced FIFA to make up a peace prize to give him and, when everyone rightfully laughed at him, he then forced the actual peace prize recipient to give him her prize. Creating a half-time show in his State of the Union speech so that Kid Rock could play it is exactly the kind of redneck, circle-jerk, ego-stroke that utter waste of entropy would do.

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  @NickEast_IndieWriter You've got the general idea. Doesn't have to be a bottomless pit, as those are difficult to find (or, rather, they're difficult to get to and even more difficult to get away from), a pit filled with fire or alligators would be fine. It doesn't even have to be a pit. Guillotine, gas chamber, that block of luxury flats from the Monty Python architect sketch. *Not* the comfy chair, though, that's just too cruel and inhumane.

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  @Phangurl@vmst.io Even though, as individuals, they are often at least moderately supremacist, as a culture and a government, they know there's much to be gained interacting with other cultures and peoples. And they don't do it by trying to force their order on everyone else because they know best, they do it by treating other cultures as equals. (1/4)

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  @Phangurl@vmst.io I think Tuvok learned it much earlier, seeing Janeway effortlessly use emotions logically and logic emotionally which is what made him want to stick by her so strongly. I think that's the thing Vulcans most admire about humans, and what ultimately made them agree to form the Federation with Earth and two of their former worst enemies. (4/4) (sorry for the extended philosophy dump)

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  Yeah, sure I just spent like an hour writing a shell script to do some housekeeping while a game is running (repeatedly deprioritising the process and making it unlikely to get killed during low memory events) and, yes, over half of it was spent with the unnecessary fluff part that asks if you want to restart the game if it isn't running (like when it crashes).

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  Would "of or related to a reticule" be "reticuleous"?