Billy π @bilbono@social.coop
Software engineer. Physicist. Origamist. Cruciverbalist.
More to come.
Hey everyone! Iβm a recent college grad entering the world of software development. β€οΈ #Python β€οΈ #Rust. Trying to contribute to more #FOSS software. Also data science and visualization is fun.
Outside of programming and tinkering with #Debian I'm really interested in science, particularly #physics. Music, reading, and #origami are great ways to relax. Politics and social justice are frequently on my mind.
Toot toot!
The drama around #ForkOff only reinforces my theory that the only healthy way to handle FOSS projects is via multi-stakeholder cooperatives where both devs and users have their say. The amount of bitterness I'm seeing right now is the most eminent byproduct of the "benevolent dictatorship" model which has been the scourge of the open source world since the beginning of times.
Turn Mastodon into a cooperative NOW!
tired: acab
wired: law enforcemen't
I have discovered the greatest LaTeX symbol set! π
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Elon Musk, actual Nazis, birdsite Show more
You thought shoebills were fake as hell, wait until you see the Sri Lanka frogmouth!!!
When you rewrite your university paper bit by bit until you realise none of it has remained untouched
the thesis of Theseus
Unix philosophy
Write programs that do one thing and do it well.
Write programs to work together.
Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.
It's depressing how many times "TODO" appears in my company's codebase...
rust-lang drama Show more
mastodrama, pedophiles Show more
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It's very important that this latest attempt to extend copyright terms fail so that Disney will be forced to invest heavily in spaceflight technology research so they can take the filmmakers behind Frozen and accelerate them to relativistic speeds in their old age so their copyright will never expire.
"The Parallel Universes of a Woman in Science"
http://nautil.us/issue/41/Selection/the-parallel-universes-of-a-woman-in-science
@bilbono that's not fun at all! π‘
Another #bitcoin fun fact: the bitcoin network draws about as much power as the _entire world_ uses to transmit online video.
Fun fact: the #bitcoin network uses about as much energy as is put out by the world's largest nuclear power plant (if it were operational at the moment).
I LOVE this idea! Simple income redistribution by ... just giving money away. https://www.heliumgrant.org/
I'm moving to a more residential part of San Francisco in about a month and I'm tempted to buy a bike. However I'm still scared of biking around the city at all (cars + steep hills) and I'm not sure it'll be necessary (I'll be close to a BART stop + some bus lines). Can anyone who bikes around a big city chime in with their experiences?