While I'm not at all surprised that Bitbucket finally is purging #Mercurial, I'm still sad.

@rice @gid There's good evidence that moderation does reduce hate speech. If someone says horrible things about women or about people with disabilities, clear words and actions from moderators that these statements are not welcome do a lot to reduce them overall.

https://gizmodo.com/study-finds-banning-reddits-bigoted-jerkwards-worked-1803766754

Without these moderator words and actions, the nasties proliferate and even encourage each other.

We have evidence that you don't have to tolerate the bad to keep the good.

@cwebber Speaking of which, do you already know this soundtrack? I feel like everyone should know it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNCrpIL2XlY

Cool, #Mercurial is getting close to being #Python 3 ready:

https://tamytro.org/tmp/MercurialPy3.html

Whoa, I'm used to numerical error, a fact of life. But I wasn't aware that Excel used a different kind of float than IEEE 754 floats. How is that code even written internally?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeric_precision_in_Microsoft_Excel

Sometimes just working in Python isn't enough. Sometimes you need extra speed that Python alone cannot give you. The traditional response was to use the C language and the Python bindings for it. Nowadays it is becoming fashionable to try other languages, such as Rust or Go. I propose a different contender: the #D programming language.

Think of the things you like about Python: flexible, expressive, easy. D has it all! In this talk, I will show you why D can be an easy way to write faster code.

I wish I could remember what popular 20th century novel has two women talking to each other and one insists on how much of a slut she is, meaning, she doesn't clean around the house. Any other meaning of the word "slut" isn't even considered. I'm thinking, The Bell Jar? Let me dig through it...

I'm just trying to figure this out, "slut" changed meaning very recently, didn't it?

I'm not exactly sure what @Gargron 's catastrophic plan is and how we microcoscopic cogs fit into it, but I sure would like it if at least instance admins could opt in to showing their local timeline without requiring a sign up.

@guerrillarain It's never too late to stop offering surveillance data on yourself. After all, the value of surveillance data quickly decays, so that's a small mitigation if FB keeps all the old data.

@maloki I ive with someone who has had trauma triggers. I am so frustrated by how the internet has turned "triggered" into "annoyed" or even a point of mockery, "triggered much?"

@DialMforMara Ooh, boy, Sinfest has a long history. Long history. It started... late 90s? Early 00s? It used to be a guy's college newpaper comic. It used to be about a self-proclaimed "pimp", a self-proclaimed "slut", and a lot of religious figures like God, Satan, Buddha, and a shinto dragon. But gradually over the years the "pimp" decided to get better and the "slut" wanted a new direction, and now it's kind of the author's attempt to coming to terms with radical feminism.

@WelshPixie Nah, that's ok. It's just that people think that fiddling with contrast or saturation is some kind of deception. I'm trying to explain that the images that cameras come up with by default aren't any more real than the ones that hit your retina directly, but everyone is just like "this looks shopped lol".

People are always comparing the fediverse with email. Remember webmail in the 90s? We had Hotmail, Mailcity, Rocketmail, and a bunch of others. Now we have Gmail by default.

I wonder if Masto or any other part of the fediverse goes mainstream, would one instance would eat up all the others? People seem to always congegrate back into centralisation. Internet herd behaviour..

I just had a dumb thought... languages based on Chinese characters must have written neologisms once in a while, right? And those neologisms must come with accompanying new characters too? Does this mean that, for example, science fiction or fantasy writers are allowed to come up with completely original new words like "chortle" or "grok" *and* also have new characters with which all readers would be unfamiliar at first?

How do languages written with ideograms acquire new ideograms?