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Tech anchoress • Drops uncommon loot • Luxuriously soft • Sometimes I make computers slightly warmer • Not a reliable news source • https://emily.news/where-is-emily/ (Avatar by @caitlinroseboyle.com)
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Big news- I am a winner this year for the Wendy and Eric Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications! More here: www.nationalacademies.org/news/nationa... 🔭🧪🎢
not dissimilar to how handing abortion rights to each state creates a regulatory regime that's just bonkers
Example: to gamble in CA you *must* have information XYZ about an end-user. to do so in NY you are *prohibited* from retaining that. so you need legally separate entities, so you need physically seperate information storage, you need two seperate legal teams (who must be in CA/NY, of course)
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Replying to @lu.is
TIL: someone has ported English to Rust github.com/Aaryan-Kapoo...
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little bit of a tangent: i once had a department chair who physically threatened me because the graduate student he was having an affair with was struggling in my class. i ended up resigning a few months later. so dating a student can have far-reaching consequences beyond the abuse of the student.
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Replying to @davidcrespo.bsky.social
the talk doesn't quite put it this way but I had a revelation reading it: it's completely backwards to be generating plans and code alone and then collaborating on the review. we should be doing nearly all our collaboration on the planning. we do this in various ways already but it should be More
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It's a rough time to be an indie dev, so we got to thinking what we could do about it... Announcing MATES' RATES 🍻 We're offering 12 month-long co-dev engagements where we work on whatever you need to succeed! Very permissive terms. Flat rate of US$5,000ea (+ taxes). 🎟️ yarnspinner.dev/mates-rates
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if i take this poll as indicative of a referendum on the status quo, my guess is that the older you are, the more financially stable you are (and therefore the more insulated from *~*~ current events ~*~* you get) ...right up till retirement age, where financial stability starts to fall off again.
Something is deeply broken in that 45-64 cohort. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/u...
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proposing we call tomorrow's security incident "the aPHPocalypse"
details leaked. this vulnerability is a full unauthenticated unconditional remote code execution exploit against any service running on a PHP version from 5.4 until latest yeah if anything deserves CVSS 11, this is it. this is CATACLYSMICALLY bad.
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