ftl ✅ @ftl@awoo.space

Foreign keys in PostgreSQL are often shortened as "fk" in code and yeah, that's exactly how I mentally pronounce them

The Jumping Spider is the second most diverse family of spiders present in Ohio. Considered to be among the most intelligent of spiders, the Jumping Spider can also jump up to twenty times its own body length.

Image captured with a Nikon D7200, Nikkor 40mm f1.8 micro lens, Nikon SB-800 speedlight, and an InterFit STR110 Diffuser, processed with Adobe Lightroom Classic CC.

#jumpingspider #salticidae #spider #nature #naturephotography #macros #macrophotography

A witch definitely lives here

Programming is great because you can just take that huge messy chuck from the middle of your function and hide it away under a new name in a new function and feel good about how you "cleaned up" the original function by abstracting the internals.

This is exactly how I used to clean my room as a kid - I'd refactor all the junk on the floor to be under my bed. Boom - problem solved.

#introductions / #introduction

Hi everyone! I'm ftl, formerly @ftl@physi.cc . I live in the SF bay area, have previously lived elsewhere in the CA, the midwest, and the east coast. I play #boardgames and #DnD (#D&D ???) . Oh, and #tennis , lots of #tennis. Also have gotten involved in #politics since the last election, but am going to try to minimize the political content of this account and leave that for birdsite.

"Abandon ye all hope who enter here" = "Abandon YAHWEH"

Is your child practicing questionable machine learning? Know the signs—

lol: let's overfit lots
tbh: totally bogus hypothesis
btw: bias the weights
omg: 'obtain' more gpus
smh: singularity might happen
rofl: reference only friends & labmates
brb: beat ridiculous baseline
lmao: let mturkers answer obv
smdh: sorry my data's hardcoded

if I legally change my last name to "Blockchain" will people start depositing money straight into my account

May I draw your attention to this hilarious example of fooling an image recognition algorithm with a small patch of carefully engineered noise?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.02608

"Why Did Two-Thirds of These Weird Antelope Suddenly Drop Dead?" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/01/why-did-two-thirds-of-this-weird-antelope-suddenly-drop-dead/550676/

(A changing climate turned a bacteria that is part of their system rouge)

@jk @natecull nothing can match "Sky Walkers cross Han Solo"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/03/AR2007050300374.html

Languages come, and languages go, but C lasts forever.½©~əbé=a282-32-1111###aaaSegmentation fault (core dumped).

TIL:

“If tea spread to your country by sea, you call it ‘tea’. If by land, you call it chai.

(*This is because the ports of Fujian and Taiwan use the coastal pronunciation ‘te’, whereas Mandarin uses chá.)”

Via:
https://twitter.com/padraigbelton/status/951948982309261312

https://mastodon.social/media/yoXXT3x4Zsc0cFV_Jco

@cypnk yeah. i feel like printers are an unusually clear example of all the ways that the market slowly but irresistibly unsolves a class of solved problems.

Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/01/07/finding-a-cpu-design-bug-in-the-xbox-360/

<<The recent reveal of Meltdown and Spectre reminded me of the time I found a related design bug in the Xbox 360 CPU – a newly added instruction whose mere existence was dangerous.>>

https://anticapitalist.party/media/f_1hUpgwNs5steMhFTw

Imagine if you could say the words to make my heart beat faster in the perfect rhythm to drum out all my secrets