Jens Ohlig @johl@mastodon.xyz

I had a dream last night that I wrote some vitally important code (like world-saving?) but it wouldn't run because I wrote it for Python 2.7 and the world-saving computer it was for only had Python 3 installed.

Only YOU can prevent a worst-case nightmare scenario. Write your code in Python 3.

The last time I felt as much hope as I do now about Linus and Linux was when Obama was elected.
I know it won’t change all the things, but it is such a clear symbol.

Linux (!) just joined Apple, Microsoft, and Google in adopting the code of conduct I created, Contributor Covenant.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8a104f8b5867c682d994ffa7a74093c54469c11f

I have no idea how what's happening in the Linux community is happening right now, but I don't want it to stop

"This week people in our community confronted me about my lifetime of
not understanding emotions. My flippant attacks in emails have been
both unprofessional and uncalled for. Especially at times when I made
it personal. In my quest for a better patch, this made sense to me.
I know now this was not OK and I am truly sorry."

https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/16/167

I love that the default Emacs scratch buffer text got into Mario Golf (GBC) somehow. I wonder if this was a mis-copy-and-paste from a developer, or if it was another case of a compiler taking random memory contents and using them for padding in the ROM...

Ancient Egyptians. Masters of:
- Mathematics
- Mummification
- Stonework
- WiFi

Never gonna GIF you up, never gonna PNG you down

Hi, I'm the admin of OpenStreetBrowser https://www.openstreetbrowser.org
If you have any questions, please ask!

Happy International Day!
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#bears #bot

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Il s'agit du format texte avec une URL utilisable par wget ou curl par exemple.

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So @elektroll sent me some of his awesome Stickers He showed us some days ago 😍😍

Finally: 'master/slave' terminology removed from Python #programming #language. May appear superficial to some, but signals like this entrenched in tech culture contribute to exclusionary environments.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8x7akv/masterslave-terminology-was-removed-from-python-programming-language

- a microSD card weighs somewhere around 0.4g
- the highest capacity microSD that's easily available is 256GB
- a trebuchet can throw a 90kg projectile over 300m

90kg worth of microSD cards is 225,000 of them

Therefore a trebuchet can throw 57.6PB of data over 300m

This would have the highest throughput of any telecommunications network ever created