mastodon 4.6.9Teaching Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology in Society, large university USA, SEIU local 668. Opinions mine. #Teaching with #Emacs.
Born 326 ppm CO₂ Unix Epoch 21,450,000 he/him
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NO YOU'RE UPSIDE DOWN
When @lisamelton@mastodon.social boosts your #caturday post, you win the internet for that day
Anniversary! THREE YEARS using @GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social exclusively. I now cannot imagine life without it. And I could not have done it without @veronica@explains.social's explaining.
Both deserve your support!
I admire @tarsius@fosstodon.org so much. I wish I had more money to send him. You know he makes his living this way, right? Come on, #Emacs, support him however you can.
tl;dr Staying on Debian Stable
So it's been an interesting summer of experiment. I've been on #Debian Stable for ages and loved it from the beginning. I've dabbled for the first time this summer in #Fedora (easiest and safest #AsahiLinux install on a discarded Macbook). And I finally got time (and lots of help! thanks!) to try out #Guix #GuixSystem as a distro.
Impressed with Fedora, rock solid. As a GNOME user it would take awhile to notice it wasn't Debian. I bet people alias apt=dnf. But it made me realize: the update pace on Fedora vexed me.
Debian "Stable" doesn't mean Debian doesn't crash. Debian Stable means Debian doesn't CHANGE.
And when I finally got my caveman skull (partially, crudely) around the Guix/Nix paradigm, I realized it was just Arch with extra steps. I yearn for the mathematical formality of a declarative Lispy config. It may not have been worth the extra complexity and learning curve, but it definitely was not worth leaving the Stable lifestyle. I do love to tinker, but I love to have a simple familiar boring system. I guess more.
What drew me to Guix in the first place was the promise of reproducible portability: it is very important that the Stack of Laptops all behave the same. But I have in fact enjoyed this very thing for years, with a bash script. If you've read this far, could you just validate me here? Tell me you approve of my imperative setup? 😆
Kettle Creek State Park, Pennsylvania. Have not bathed in days but I found a spot with one bar so I must gloat
The story of my favorite #IronMaiden t-shirt.
Córdoba, Argentina, January 2006, in a small boutique selling only black heavy metal t-shirts. The two kids behind the counter (who, except for mother tongue, could be switched with another pair of pimply-faced third-generation Italian kids from my town in Ohio) are nervous.
"Quiero una camisa negra sobre /ˈaɪərn ˈmeɪdən/ por favor."
(Silence. Their faces say "Es español?")
"/ˈaɪərn ˈmeɪdən/?"
(Panic building)
"🎜 I LEFT 🎝 ALONE / 🎜 MY MIND 🎝 WAS BLANK"
"¡Ahh ahh ahh, /'iɾon 'maiden/!"
RE: https://fediscience.org/@hausfath/117027561335494751
If a bacterium saw this graph, it would be terrified.
Bacteria cooperate in order to avoid exponential growth
Bacteria are not capable of denial
