Tweets for the Week of 2021-10-17 to 2021-10-23

@AaronBrockett12 Oh *hell* no! Why would anybody even *ask* for this?! in reply to AaronBrockett12 19:20:17, 2021-10-23
@joshdr83 As we've started adding type hints into our code the autocomplete has gotten *much* more enjoyable. in reply to joshdr83 18:28:09, 2021-10-23
@ericmbudd @BoulderBedrooms Suspicious. How many people have they got in there?! in reply to ericmbudd 17:36:57, 2021-10-23
@DynamicWebPaige @simonw I love the creative way they applied the "sand compactor" acoustic tech, which I imagine w… https://t.co/MtYZ4bTWKL in reply to DynamicWebPaige 17:18:15, 2021-10-23
RT @lenazun: the anarchist plant shop is more beautiful than I imagined 🪴🏴🖤 https://t.co/iNYQy0m3Bg 13:31:52, 2021-10-23
@SYoungReports Does that translate as "in case you were wondering?" in reply to SYoungReports 12:05:10, 2021-10-23
@TheCharlier It seems weird to me that the cost of this infrastructure is so prominent in the story. This kind of s… https://t.co/y6fHH4g593 in reply to TheCharlier 11:17:03, 2021-10-23
@SarahdawnH Ugh, that sounds like such a hostile situation. I hated having that feeling with our neighbors at Pickl… https://t.co/JD5RWImBeM in reply to SarahdawnH 11:10:59, 2021-10-23
@rjurney @Ideamotor @DynamicWebPaige @joshdr83 @kara_ec Yeah. *sigh* in reply to rjurney 10:46:18, 2021-10-23
@joshdr83 @kara_ec @DynamicWebPaige I don't use a bunch of the fancy VS Code stuff, but have had great luck with it… https://t.co/7o1YVwSL43 in reply to joshdr83 16:43:05, 2021-10-22
@joshdr83 @kara_ec @DynamicWebPaige I know I know. I would never suggest anyone else to learn it, but my hands will never be free of it. in reply to joshdr83 16:37:47, 2021-10-22
@joshdr83 @kara_ec @DynamicWebPaige Hey there's always Vim! 😉 in reply to joshdr83 16:34:54, 2021-10-22
@joshdr83 @kara_ec It feels like it's becoming VSCode or the Highway very quickly. Lots of interactive plugins seem… https://t.co/X9NLZmLISX in reply to joshdr83 15:06:21, 2021-10-22
@drvolts Or maybe they can securitize them and offload the costs to ratepayers. in reply to drvolts 15:04:02, 2021-10-22
@BoulderBedrooms @yellowscenemag Without clicking I can't decide whether I think this is the Yellow Deli people or… https://t.co/7YDYqth8To in reply to BoulderBedrooms 12:33:44, 2021-10-22
@BrendanCarton Totally a scenario! And a good one to be aware of! It seems like really easy one for people to fixat… https://t.co/WNAJ1fDvcX in reply to BrendanCarton 10:30:04, 2021-10-22
@BrendanCarton These probabilities aren't well defined. They're scenarios. in reply to BrendanCarton 00:58:56, 2021-10-22
@BrendanCarton The last interglacial period (similar to the Holocene) was like 125-100,000 years ago: https://t.co/uGIpeuVIXL in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:57:16, 2021-10-22
@BrendanCarton The Holocene is only the last ~12,000 years, the time since the last glacial period ended. We've bee… https://t.co/VbRBwvJMo4 in reply to BrendanCarton 00:55:39, 2021-10-22
@BrendanCarton There are plenty of complicated and unhappy paths that don't result in our extinction. in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:29:38, 2021-10-22
@BrendanCarton It made us in our modern "civilized" form, but we've been around for 10 or 20 times that long, throu… https://t.co/2qSydBgtrR in reply to BrendanCarton 00:26:05, 2021-10-22
Anyway, this feels like such an obvious premise that someone else has to have written this book already, and I just… https://t.co/UTOojXYdLl in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:20:24, 2021-10-22
@BrendanCarton And anyway it's hard to tell a story with no characters in it. in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:17:52, 2021-10-22
@BrendanCarton It could, but personally I think that's unlikely because of climate unless maybe it sparks an all ou… https://t.co/ZedlGQUrp3 in reply to BrendanCarton 00:17:33, 2021-10-22
@BrendanCarton But it could take a looong time to get to something that seems stable, compared to timescales we're used to working with. in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:12:11, 2021-10-22
@BrendanCarton Nah, not libertarian. Just some other stable state on a less completely habitable world. I think the… https://t.co/zF5e63BydF in reply to BrendanCarton 00:11:04, 2021-10-22
Are they sad? Are they sympathetic? Angry? Do they romanticize that past and want to recapture it? Are they afraid… https://t.co/lFZy9oBdJx in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:09:08, 2021-10-22
How do they feel when they finally realize what happened? Instead of digging up the ruins of Göbekli Tepe in southe… https://t.co/ns0CGuLsVW in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:06:23, 2021-10-22
Set it far enough in the future that ecosystems have reached a new state that seems kind of stable, even lush. Let… https://t.co/xH1AL894j3 in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:00:54, 2021-10-22
I think this book might be able to get across just how alien a world we could create. Let the reader think the stor… https://t.co/fGuz6r7mUQ in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:58:11, 2021-10-21
When we figured out special relativity and radio, civilization used less than 10% as much energy as it does today.… https://t.co/vu32qG7bya in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:51:17, 2021-10-21
Reading the history of energy transitions, scientific discovery, and industrialization, I've been shocked at how fa… https://t.co/o4qWC5uKTR in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:45:18, 2021-10-21
Explorers circle the world in airships at a safe altitude, furtively descending in the cool of the night to explore… https://t.co/5qSLQJfPA9 in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:43:55, 2021-10-21
Do we have a cultural memory of what happened? Like the Mesopotamian flood myths might recall rising sea levels in… https://t.co/l20ENIaJmk in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:37:58, 2021-10-21
Like the zombie telegraph from On The Beach, but there's someone on the other end. You just can't get to them becau… https://t.co/5cKYbU1aZj in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:30:22, 2021-10-21
How long would it take humans to evolve to survive in wet bulb temperatures of 40-45°C?
What will ecosystems look… https://t.co/zZSasMsg2Z in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:28:21, 2021-10-21
Deciduous Metasequoia forests have been re-seeded in the far north, living through the warm, quiet, endless twiligh… https://t.co/rAUM6YMQpt in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:23:24, 2021-10-21
There are seasonal climatic bridges between some regions — you can only cross during the cooler part of the year.… https://t.co/BBzLkrT15Z in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:18:55, 2021-10-21
They meet other people in the mountains, and eventually get as far north as Colombia, but can't go any further beca… https://t.co/gK9LBjN0aY in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:16:27, 2021-10-21
As they reach lower latitudes, the climate becomes literally uninhabitable at lower elevations, and they have to st… https://t.co/ACOHO4JVeB in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:13:42, 2021-10-21
Has anyone written a book about technological civilization re-emerging on earth after a climate change induced disc… https://t.co/QOpRI7KLJT 23:11:07, 2021-10-21
@ericmbudd But take comfort in knowing that people in the Souttwest have survived droughts lasting centuries before… https://t.co/aPT1jfFGj7 in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:59:37, 2021-10-21
@ericmbudd I suspect none of us will live to see the end of this drought. in reply to ericmbudd 22:54:49, 2021-10-21
"There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does… https://t.co/uWknFMKv41 21:50:54, 2021-10-21
The US is in this weird little post-Trump interlude where it can pretend — in some places — that things got turne… https://t.co/YqKzHNac6L 21:41:20, 2021-10-21
RT @nhannahjones: Are folks realizing how insane this is? One, that teaching an academic theory is prohibited by law? Two, that what’s real… 21:37:52, 2021-10-21
OMG WHY ARE ALL THE VOLCANOES SUDDENLY ERUPTING?!
Oh wait no. The Algorithm just realized I like volcanoes. So sud… https://t.co/3UuHG3uehc 20:54:16, 2021-10-21
Y para más sobre este tema, hay este episodio de @radioambulante https://t.co/aygusoz0lp https://t.co/wdyAzp9a7c 20:43:38, 2021-10-21
@CHThiem OMFG just like Paris an Barcelona are *so* undesirable. in reply to CHThiem 20:38:30, 2021-10-21
@MasynMoyer @SarahdawnH OMG the NIMBYs teaming up with Tebo is just too rich. in reply to MasynMoyer 17:27:09, 2021-10-21
@IDoTheThinking @ericmbudd Man look at that gorgeous mid-rise mixed-use city that once was. in reply to IDoTheThinking 12:38:41, 2021-10-21
@SBCActionGroup @bolderbekah This measure doesn't even matter any more does it? I thought it became void when Counc… https://t.co/dL0p0o7XCA in reply to SBCActionGroup 00:07:54, 2021-10-21
@drvolts Ironically that is exactly the opposite of true. in reply to drvolts 13:38:18, 2021-10-20
@MichaeI @TimMLatimer Which leads to a homogeneity of thought and culture (and class, and typically race!) among th… https://t.co/bMBChMn4jA in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:46:15, 2021-10-20
@MichaeI @TimMLatimer So companies can kind pay whatever, and not care, because it's a modest cost compared to thei… https://t.co/aYgdUrTAKX in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:44:26, 2021-10-20
@MichaeI @TimMLatimer My suspicion is that a lot of this problem is traceable back to winner-take-all dynamics that… https://t.co/olBgGWLWJA in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:42:22, 2021-10-20
@MichaeI @TimMLatimer Or find that the psychological toll of working for one of the big Tech companies is too high… https://t.co/nIEvZ4mGu1 in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:40:24, 2021-10-20
Ooh, here's a thin, modular laptop designed to be upgraded and repaired by the user, from @FrameworkPuter
https://t.co/A8ENb2wUnY 09:30:57, 2021-10-20
@MichaeI @TimMLatimer Yeah, this is why I left. It became a lousy value proposition. Everybody in those places has… https://t.co/3LfwxMxzQY in reply to MichaeI 22:43:12, 2021-10-19
@MichaeI @TimMLatimer Or find that the marginal utility of additional dollars beyond some baseline is small. in reply to MichaeI 21:50:15, 2021-10-19
I don't think Erik Prince is using the "Xe Services" brand any more is he? https://t.co/3itY2w1SVs 21:43:09, 2021-10-19
@ericmbudd 0/10 definitely cannot watch again. in reply to ericmbudd 16:06:04, 2021-10-19
@ericmbudd She taught me so much! in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:18:09, 2021-10-19
@humanbeinz1968 Yeah, it is disturbing that these things keep happening, and things keep not really getting fixed. in reply to humanbeinz1968 15:17:54, 2021-10-19
@ericmbudd Hey look it's Lisa Morzel complaining about how the co-op ordinance doesn't go *far enough* and what we… https://t.co/HygWkDoyfh 15:17:03, 2021-10-19
@humanbeinz1968 @drvolts @airbagmoments There have been 3 massive leaks about tax havens and shady shell companies… https://t.co/ua0yPgIQSe in reply to humanbeinz1968 14:56:28, 2021-10-19
@simonw Be careful what you wish for! in reply to simonw 14:15:26, 2021-10-19
@kyrib Mosquitoes are pretty terrifying tbh. in reply to kyrib 13:09:38, 2021-10-19
No shit. https://t.co/HgQ7xNKlnB 08:58:47, 2021-10-19
@simonw (in the CA covid-19 data that is)
https://t.co/pKfPMJplrn in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:27:56, 2021-10-19
@simonw It looks like the county FIPS codes are being treated as integers in there instead of strings. I think ther… https://t.co/VTXq5j7rsx in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:27:16, 2021-10-19
@simonw Sweet! Can't wait to export our metadata into this! in reply to simonw 00:07:31, 2021-10-19
I don't think this framing reflects the nature of the problem.
But also as a veteran procrastinator myself, you do… https://t.co/5wcutc7Tdu 22:39:53, 2021-10-18
@ericmbudd If only there were a big Apple dumpster somewhere nearby filled with cosmetically imperfect laptops. in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:32:18, 2021-10-18
@ericmbudd They could both be on the efficient frontier. So many dimensions! in reply to ericmbudd 22:30:22, 2021-10-18
And now I have to choose between the shiny shiny megacorp offering, or something dull but open that costs half as m… https://t.co/b9dHtecQuf 22:16:08, 2021-10-18
@agelston @joshdr83 @TACC 🤢 in reply to agelston 19:48:28, 2021-10-18
@Sammy_Roth Man every time you mention @drvolts I get so confused. in reply to Sammy_Roth 19:47:42, 2021-10-18
Not sure this really needs the "Latin" qualifier. https://t.co/NLATjHyz8n 19:46:55, 2021-10-18
@lenazun https://t.co/nhiWqa8Qws in reply to lenazun 19:45:27, 2021-10-18
I was stoned, in the basement of that startup house in Glendale, between jobs, watching the spectacle of Indecision… https://t.co/hWV7e4zrHI 19:43:31, 2021-10-18
@c_r_spears Paging @CHThiem in reply to c_r_spears 19:39:13, 2021-10-18
@amywestervelt Do you think he's particularly out of touch here? I get the sense that a lot of people who should ki… https://t.co/ZUQDfqN6Zm in reply to amywestervelt 19:37:55, 2021-10-18
@Revkin That's pretty bad. in reply to Revkin 19:07:38, 2021-10-18
@joshdr83 @gvwilson I've also really been enjoying @ArjanCodes YouTube channel lately. Lots of Python software engi… https://t.co/AwfZWc9MUC in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:04:30, 2021-10-18
@joshdr83 @gvwilson This one is also good: https://t.co/9BnbTBEoyd in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:59:44, 2021-10-18
@joshdr83 @gvwilson has lots of great ready-made teaching materials on these topics! E.g. https://t.co/6LWtNZPcVe in reply to joshdr83 16:57:14, 2021-10-18
@joshdr83 Maybe you already do this, but… familiarity with git workflows for collaboration, and automated CI proc… https://t.co/mhAYbqqkcK in reply to joshdr83 16:04:49, 2021-10-18
@MeetJosieQu Do you have your recipe posted anywhere by chance? in reply to MeetJosieQu 12:54:14, 2021-10-18
@MeetJosieQu 🤤 in reply to MeetJosieQu 18:22:41, 2021-10-17
@ericmbudd Whew, I get blood-and-soil vibes. in reply to ericmbudd 13:20:29, 2021-10-17
Or are the Machines just trying to tell us that it's not safe to go out to eat? https://t.co/4TabVqzyZj 11:47:17, 2021-10-17
@CaitlinAOdom Seems like we're going to have to clear them out one at a time. State by state. Utility by utility. in reply to CaitlinAOdom 11:44:21, 2021-10-17

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