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When I worked at an agency, I frequently worked with this one front-end dev. We had the following exchange several times:
Her: Hey Crell, the client wants to do X. How long would that take?
Me: What? X is impossible, there's no logical way to do it.
Me: Well, I suppose we could blah blah, but that would be super complicated.
Me: Hm, but what if I blah blah?
Me: Hang on a sec, let me check something.
<10 min later>
Me: OK, I just did it.
H…

Good to see at least someone's calling legislators out for their hypocrisy.
#Texas #religion #FirstAmendment

Texas Democrat exposes GOP hypocrisy in bill forcing Ten Commandments in classrooms
State Rep. James Talarico asked simple, effective questions to highlight how Republicans don't care about actually following the Commandments

I just read the story about the Italian kidnapped by a New York couple and tortured to disclose the credentials for his crypto assets - and the first thing that came to mind was XKCD 538 "Security" about the five dollar wrench.
Am I a bad person?
#xkcd538 #xkcd

Will do a proper #FieldDiary tomorrow but suffice to say, today went even better than hoped. Instruments behaved, weather cooperated our local hunter friend got us smoothly into the field. Looking forward to seeing what it all means now...
(Background: http://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/05/20/falling-apart/)

Guten Morgen Wedding! St. Joseph in der Müllerstraße

A GitHub public repository that allows you to add your climate-friendly/aware software to a browsable directory, after a peer review process. Accepted software is sorted into one or more of the following categories:
1. Measurement
2. Carbon Efficiency
3. Carbon Awareness
4. Special Tools
"GitHub's Green Software Directory"

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.20647 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arX…

Microscopic theory of pair density waves in spin-orbit coupled Kondo lattice
We demonstrate that the discommensuration between the Fermi surfaces of a conduction sea and an underlying spin liquid provides a natural mechanism for the spontaneous formation of pair density waves. Using a recent formulation of the Kondo lattice model which incorporates a Yao Lee spin liquid proposed by the authors, we demonstrate that doping away from half-filling induces finite-momentum electron-Majorana pair condensation, resulting in amplitude-modulated PDWs. Our approach provides a prec…

I feel powerful! :linuxpizza1:

I've just cleared out a bunch of hashtags I was following. I feel like they filled my timeline but didn't encourage me to reach out in friendship. And often the hashtag was the thing I scrolled past fast, thinking it was a bit ick.
(The hashtags you follow are in profile, then click on the 3 dots).
Let's see how a quieter Mastodon feels, and which hashtags I want to re-introduce...

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Are your internal feelings of direction aligned with compass north and 360° ? My first childhood sense was based on the front of the house I lived in, looking east. When I later learned about north I had to imagine lots of those little "front views" posted like icons in the overall north-based world I could only logically imagine in my hea…