Notices by Ted Gould (ted@social.gould.cx), page 46

@danrabbit it is easy to copy a point in time, it's nearly impossible to copy momentum.

Lawsuits have consequences. This is the issue I have with Paxton, he is using the AG's office for his own personal issues instead of fighting for the people of Texas. — https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2018/05/04/texas-ag-paxton-just-made-harder-attract-amazon-hq2

@patdavid that shot makes me wonder if you could get the droplets on the glass even enough that you could take a picture where you focus on the focal points of the droplets. You'd "see through" the door with a really interesting perspective. I think it'd be a point zoom?

"But what a time to be alive, when City Hall finally decides research, logic and competence are pathways to success." If it can happen in Dallas, it can happen anywhere, get on it America. — https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2018/05/03/unaffordable-inequitable-dallas-housing-policy-finally-meant-right-decades-wrongs

@hergertme the previous owner of this house put a "No Soliciting" sign (he also worked from home) and I left it up. I've been surprised how effective it has been.

Once I even opened the door to a guy apologizing for not noticing the sign before ringing the bell.

It is difficult to comprehend how corrupt this guy seems to be. — https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/climate/epa-pruitt-australia-travel.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

@federicomena @hergertme @danrabbit I think I did, but I don't remember all of this. Lots of interesting stuff.

I haven't played with the iPad versions of Office, I wonder how they've been able to do the ribbon with touch. Screenshot search make it looks like they've got toolbars and hamburger menus, but I'm not sure if that's how it works in real life.

@hergertme @danrabbit certainly would be interesting to look at how that could work, but I remain skeptical. The density and browsability of the menus is an advantage. If you just end up throwing a hamburger icon everywhere I don't think it is an improvement.

@xuv @n8 webpage in an Electron app, that's what most Linux clients are today ;-)

@danrabbit I don't get that attitude. Menubars, while hard to search through, provide a lot of functionality in a limited amount of space. I feel like that position is saying "complex programs shouldn't exist."

Seems like the only alternative for complex programs is dialog-hell, which isn't better.

@sharpgeek I know what you're saying, but I really want that to be a Bill Gates pun.

@sharpgeek it's really okay, he couldn't really wrap his head around the concept of there being others.

Which did you decide to try?

@sharpgeek what, wait, there are databases other than Oracle?!?!? Crazy talk!

Working on some concepts for Texas Linux Fest T-shirts and totes. Which would make you want to come? What do you dislike?

Just concepts, fonts and drawings will all get better. Working out ideas right now.

#TXLF #conceptart #mastoart #inkscape

@platypus I really enjoyed my XPS13, and now I'm using a Surface Pro. Not as fast and smaller, but more portable.

Looking at the "PureCSS Francine" project, and it is definitely an impressive work. But from the description on the Github page:

https://github.com/cyanharlow/purecss-francine

It uses bits of SVG. Which makes sense, but that strikes me as not being pure CSS. Is SVG considered part of standard CSS today?

Since their work shows more of a reduction in the areas of the conference, I expect more cities to try and get NRA conventions to come to their city. Guns don't kill people, lack of NRA conventions do. — https://www.dallasnews.com/news/guns/2018/05/01/nra-meets-fewer-people-suffer-gun-related-injuries-study-finds

Seems that gun violence in our schools is too high when we need a memorial to educators killed in the line of duty.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/167

@dallas_hackers I'm not sure if I'll be able to make it (gonna try) but if I can't will you get @tinker to talk about TXLF and tell people to register. Would love to get a strong showing there from Dallas folks.

https://2018.texaslinuxfest.org/

Given
❶ The most difficult and error prone part of writing C is memory management.
❷ Practically speaking short lived programs don't need to worry about memory management.
❸ Function based processing charges for processing time, so execution speed is the biggest expense.

Conclusion
∴ C is the language of our FaaS future

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