I have mixed feelings about breakdancing going to the Olympics. On the one hand, this extraordinary artistry and athleticism deserve Olympics-level respect. On the other hand, competition and ranking create calcifying pressures in direct opposition to artistry, creativity, expression, exploration, joy…and as a classical pianist, I am •keenly• aware of what happens to a living, breathing, vital art under those pressures.

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Saw this on Lemmy:

Move the debate from Universal Basic Income to Universal Basic Services

https://en.unesco.org/inclusivepolicylab/analytics/move-debate-universal-basic-income-universal-basic-services

petition to rename "width" to "widgth" for monospace consistency with "height" and "length"

While some athletes have raved about the muffins and others have complained about the cardboard beds, some American Olympians are taking advantage of the free healthcare. Team USA rugby player Ariana Ramsey didn't just get a bronze medal in Paris — she's had a pap smear, X-ray, teeth cleaning, and an eye test. She's posted about this on TikTok, influenced other athletes in the Village to visit medical professionals, and now plans to fight for universal healthcare in the U.S. Here's more from Sports Illustrated.

https://flip.it/AIB6n7

#Olympics #Sports #USA #Healthcare #UniversalHealthcare

I was discussing vegetables with a coworker (a common occurrence when one works with botanists) and she had never heard about any of these brassica memes. So, courtesy of my lovely coworker who gives me pepper plants and wildflower seeds, please enjoy some brassica oleracea humor :)

#brassicas #vegetables

PS if you don't know what "17776 rules" means then i highly recommend grabbing the nearest computer with a big screen, setting aside 3 to 4 hours, and enjoying the most successful piece of multimedia science fiction published in the last decade https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football

More great work from Kyle, and another reminder that retrying isn't the safe best-practice that many folks assume it is: https://jepsen.io/analyses/jetcd-0.8.2

I feel like most in-house software is tacitly released under the Hot Potato Licence.

Or if you prefer more of a Radiohead bent.

My MS Teams meetings today...

CI/CD (Continuous Irritation / Continuous Disappointment)

I call bullshit on this fairytale. I have yet to see a junior write simple code. Prodigies aside, they solve trivial problems with simplistic code, simple problems with complicated code, and don’t solve complicated problems at all. (2/6)

@ratkins I don’t much like how everything in Overcast is async/event-based now.

@archiloque Teenytest maybe? https://github.com/testdouble/teenytest

I see the sports folk are getting upset that a bimodal distribution doesn't neatly map to a pair of disjoint sets. Nature be awkward like that.

Extrapolation from one data point doesn't always take us to a place that makes sense, especially if you follow strict logic. #softwaredevelopment #programming #humor

I really enjoyed Atomic Accidents, and this writeup looking at it through an LFI lens Is also great.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mononcqc/112892753671661329

@quizzicus It’s risk reduction in making decisions on the tradeoff - surely better than not having it, at the very least.

@ratkins I remember reading about that not too long ago as well - I don’t know if it was a direct cause or more correlation, though, so sleeping on the back may still be a worthwhile intervention even so? Especially depending on whether it’s reasonable to test for said cause.