Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13@mumak.app

I am now 3 debugger bugs into trying to figure out why plasmashell randomly crashes on ARM64 (any system) and I landed on this JS JIT code block.

Spot the problem.

When
Your
Stripes are too tight and they don't render right
That's a moiré

@Popehat "It appears to me that there was no liquidity issue until a couple of VCs called it," Greene said. "They were irresponsible, and then it became self-fulfilling." #siliconvalley

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/03/10/silicon-valley-bank-collapse-how-it-happened.html

Excited today to have a great guest post from @riana about how Section 230 and the internet are actually important for food safety, and how undermining 230 could make us all less safe *physically* as well. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/03/09/another-casualty-if-section-230-gets-repealed-food-safety-data/

Update! More deets via StarWars.com:

"Olivie Blake gives us a chilling glimpse into the mind of Emperor Palpatine.

Saladin Ahmed recounts the tragic history of the rancor keeper.

Charlie Jane Anders explores the life and times of the Sarlacc.

Fran Wilde reveals Mon Mothma’s secret mission to save the Rebel Alliance.

Mary Kenney chronicles Wicket the Ewok’s quest for one quiet day on the forest moon of Endor.

And Anakin Skywalker becomes one with the Force in a gripping tale by Mike Chen."

Get to know our founders: when out of the digital world, you can find @elfprince13 foraging in #Vermont for supplies to make #homebrew and custom extracts, like wintergreen and oak infusions! Coming up: a real world visit to #GDC2023! Message us if you'd like to meet up!

Plz boost my toots I need to feed my family they will only eat internet points

Whenever someone at work tries to make you do something hard, simply because "you did it last time", remember that Elrond had been to Mount Doom before.

Sometimes you need to make the hobbits do the work so they stop seeing it as a zero-cost action.

Transylvanian #FolktaleMoment that doubles as a #DnD moment:

Hero kills a dragon and loots a lot of jewelry from it. He decides he should try on the jewels to see if they have magic powers. He puts on the pearls, bracelets, rings, even pokes holes in his earlobes for the earrings.

Turning one of the rings he accidentally summons a 3-headed dragon. He defeats it, and then thinks "hm, let's try that again". And summons a 9-headed dragon.

We all know that guy.

#ttrpg #folktales #folklore

I was invited by TheRegister to debate Jim Webber (Chief Scientist at Neo4j) on Relational Databases vs. Graph Databases. I am obviously representing the pro-relational side. There are two rounds (my initial argument + his response, and then one more back-and-forth).

You can follow along the debate this week and vote here: https://www.theregister.com/Debates/2023/03/06/great_graph_debate/

"Your name has been very prominent within polling efforts to gauge which professors students would most like to pie" is more than a bit ambiguous, but I'm going to pretend it's a compliment…

@regehr @csgordon @krismicinski @wilbowma "Distributed Software Systems: Global-First and Local-First Perspectives" https://decomposition.al/CSE290S-2023-01/

It should have been obvious from the name that multiparty session types were on the menu, don't you think?

I finally got access to the new Bing chat.

I know what y'all are thinking and no, I, didn't get catfished.

I did, however, look to see what kind of help it would provide to students who hope to use it to write their research papers for my upcoming course in evolution and medicine.

I first installed Microsoft Edge, and then I was off to the races. As you probably know, Bing chat takes three-bears approach to personality: too hard, too soft, and hopefully just right.

Staying in an A-frame with a mounted jackalope. Is this peak Airbnb kitsch (y/n)?