Slovakia will not oppose the 90bn loan from the EU to Ukraine. With Orban out of the way Fico is folding. Good. Very good.

Source: Ukraine the latest.

Getting all the transgender math and science majors in one place and sending all the rest of their classmates to various labs around the country.

I’m planning distributed cis STEMs

they can force me to learn AI, they can't force me to express my feelings about it in a professional manner

yep

i could've spent every day of this year just asking you and the rest of FinSky “why? whyyyy?”

but like, safety-wise i don't hold Ireland sparks-code in high-regard: e.g. we still have typeAC RCDs in any boom-built appt i've ever rented in the capital, and the Irish code hasn't been updated to forbid those

[their function gets masked out by any DC leakage, which a digital home has plenty of]

it's safe to run here, if you buy a reputable brand/kit from Germany where they're legal and certified, and faff a UK plug onto it

this is great

i think i prefer the toolchanger, makes me feel like a true adult using a fancy CNC lathe

only the map layers, but not the uncached geometric shapes in red that visually tell you “evacuate now!” and what you got was instead an “looks like our area is fine, there's no indication”

due to the silent hotspot in a DB, and a company which thinks “serve degraded” is automated mitigation

the key learning moment: this is an adverts company w/ notions of grandeur -- and adverts spawned the “it's always best to serve degraded” meme of production

imagine that you get a “click here to see affected areas” text at 3am, you open up a map that shows “everything's fine” because it rendered

it's actually a mashup: underneath, the regular google maps tiles; that serving layer can handle the world

normally, it would've been to the URL with cached/memoized affected area shapes layer drawn on top, but the URL that went out was the one that generated said shapes, each hitting a Spanner DB

think Android, think amber alert, but for earthquakes along the Pacific rim; the usgs sends out 6bit all-uppercase notices when they detect an earthquake at sea that exceeds a threshold, the adverts company sends a wake-the-dead notification with a link to a map showing affected areas

couldn't make this up, what a world

[zero AI at the time]

heh, i have a postmortem where the punchline is “thankfully there was no tsunami”, because if there had been my inability to scale up some OOM'ing database servers would've led to the US population census graph visibly dipping

turns out due to a series of choices, being DB on-call was life & death

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just realised we can tell any rich eejit who complains: “it's called price discovery, sweaty!”

yeah, rich people who want to live in NYC will pay up because they value living in NYC -- cost of doing business

reminded of Musk blathering re: some CA tax: he might leave, but a normal rich guy? he isn't gonna tell his wife “let's pull our kids off their fancy private school we fought them into”

Pope James David Vance the First The vice president has decided he’s a more accomplished theologian than Leo XIV.

The Appalachian Papacy has entered the group chat www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

great phrasing, i stole that `Appalachian Papacy` expression

it's actually worse than that: these folks know what you're talking about, but they're concerned that most populations across the world are indeed at 2 kids per couple -- >except< in Africa

that's exactly their concern

heh, Mastodon's refusal to send a referrer hurting its own case there ;)

you might want to add an `?utm_source=mastodon` to the links yous post over there

or maybe you already do and indeed the Fediverse isn't that big of a source for yous?

Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming | Nick Hanauer YouTube video by TED

youtu.be/q2gO4DKVpa8

probably the person i remember most re: this subject

aye, also easy to choose him over the nu-convert 2nd in succession to the USA throne

elsewhere i'm told he's one of the “let's sweep this >pædo< under the rug” fellas, when he served in South America

Jar Jar Binks addresses the Galactic Senate

"Meesa propose age verification regulations to protect the children..."

yep, been broken all afternoon

heh, the vibes are off ;)

mini-circuit breakers; yeah, makes sense

sorry for the long-winded explanation in the sibling thread, then

as you can imagine, at some point i became highly interested in these details, and annoyed at how Ireland in this chose not to follow the UK