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#Introduction time! Let's call it dragfyre 101.
I'm a (front-end) web dev, educator, blogger, dad, husband, Baha'i, and world citizen. I have deep thoughts about human nature and character, virtue #ethics, cooperation, #culture, #spirituality, #language, #education & #learning, #UX, #AI, #HCI, #Internet, and the interaction of all of the above. Google me and you'll find me on Twitter, Reddit, Youtube, Wikipedia, etc. I try to do the right thing. No politics or drama plz, and keep it SFW kthx.
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A new #introduction is needed for my #bots!
🤖 @xyzzy: Interactive text adventure that posts random scenarios.
🤖 @blackjoy: Images of black joy.
🤖 @pollbot: Random fedi polls twice a day.
🤖 @bahai@botsin.space: Regular quotes from the Bahá'í sacred writings.
🤖 @bahai@interfaith.masto.host: Digest of various Bahá'í news feeds.
There're a lot more, but those are the main ones.
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yeaahhhhh looks like the random questions are working as intended, finally! 😎
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Wars are caused by purely imaginary racial differences; for humanity is one kind, one race and progeny inhabiting the same globe. #inspiration #quotes #bahai
Trying to crack @pollbot 's block and get it to randomize its questions a little more. We'll see if it works this time. #debugging
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RT @bahaibic: For #ClimateWeekNYC: a quick look back at our publication "One Planet, One Habitation", and @alopezclaros's contribution at Stockholm+50 in June: “We have a flawed institutional framework for cooperation, to address a problem which does not recognize international borders."
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So, I figured out that @pollbot is having trouble with "random" polls; it doesn't choose random answers like it should. So every time it picks one of those questions, the answers are all the same, which defeats the purpose. 😧 #bots #debugging
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Play "killswitch" ▶︎ killswitch is a ~40 minute visual novel / piece of interactive fiction about doing a japanese longitudinal, end-blown bamboo-flute. #bot
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RT @Rainmaker1973@twitter.com
Here you can see a capuchin monkey instructing a female human on how to properly use stone tools. With monkeys learning to use tools and passing this skill down for generations, what do you think future monkeys be like?
[source and more: https://buff.ly/2HtAptU]
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1571479148253650945
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"Finally, a real project that works like Hollywood movie writers think software generally works!"
submitted by oporjaqf
https://reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/xahkcr/finally_a_real_project_that_works_like_hollywood/
cuppa cà phê sữa for your troubles. #cofe
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"Scratch the definitive visual coding language"
submitted by nulpickle
https://reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/x9c6kj/scratch_the_definitive_visual_coding_language/
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A computer history exercise for gaining insight to the future:
* You are a computer designer in the year 1990 (or any other past year depending on your preference).
* Your task: design a computer that will remain useful or otherwise relevant for as long as possible (even without later expansions/upgrades).
* You don't have any specific knowledge about any future technology, but otherwise you may use your present understanding. Be visionary, avoid the design mistakes of the real historical computers.
* After the imagination exercise, return to the present and apply the gained insight to today's world. What kind of design will be likely to last?
#permacomputing
* You are a computer designer in the year 1990 (or any other past year depending on your preference).
* Your task: design a computer that will remain useful or otherwise relevant for as long as possible (even without later expansions/upgrades).
* You don't have any specific knowledge about any future technology, but otherwise you may use your present understanding. Be visionary, avoid the design mistakes of the real historical computers.
* After the imagination exercise, return to the present and apply the gained insight to today's world. What kind of design will be likely to last?
#permacomputing
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Several mentees have struggled with high “years of experience” requirements in job listings. Do not take those literally, especially in technical jobs
They’re basically an uncomfortable side effect of outdated recruiting processes. Recruiting will have a table that’s like “Expert means 10 years experience”, and when a manager says “I need an expert Rust programmer”, you get a job ad that says “10 years experience with Rust”.
It’s stupid. It tells you that at least part of the org is behind the times. But don’t let it stop you from applying. Only a very few places will hold you to it.
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I’m so sad that Cybre.Space is shutting down, so I guess I’ll be looking for a new fedi-home 
**I would really appreciate recommendations for a new Cybre-like instance to join!**
(boosts welcome)
Spent the day chewing on two's complement arithmetic. #CS #BackToBasics
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If you desire with all your heart, friendship with every race on earth, your thought, spiritual and positive, will spread; it will become the desire of others, growing stronger and stronger, until it reaches the minds of all men. #inspiration #quotes #bahai
