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@jeblucas.bsky.social

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An argument for the pit @jeblucas.bsky.social · Dec 2

I am a technically savvy guy with knowledge on science, tech, math type stuff. If you need or want something explained to you at a level you are comfortable with; no judgement; let me know here or in DMs.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2h

I simply don't understand the commitment to this guy by the substack/podcast class. The primary is next year. Plenty of time to find another candidate with a good background and great policies who doesn't have nazi tattoos.

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An argument for the pit @jeblucas.bsky.social · 3h

/sneaking into my electoral opponent’s house every night and

bit-by-bit, so-subtly-they-don’t-even-notice

…tattooing their chest with a huge well-known Nazi symbol

An argument for the pit @jeblucas.bsky.social · 4h

Hey, that’s greatient.

An argument for the pit @jeblucas.bsky.social · 4h

Maybe this whole, “one guy is in charge of whether the country functions or not” idea is not such a great system. Maybe there should be legal, palpable consequences for not doing your fucking job when it comes to this sort of thing.

Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 5h

At what point do we acknowledge that Johnson has effectively dissolved Congress?

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Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social · 6d

Ever seen a 750-pound muskox face off with a 210-pound pumpkin? 💥 Hudson did, and won! 🏆 Catch more pumpkin-smashing, leaf-crunching, fall fun during #ZooBoo, October 18 & 19. 🎃🐾

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An argument for the pit @jeblucas.bsky.social · 14h

A MorbAres twin bill would lose so much money it would tear a hole in the fabric of reality and ideally send Jared Leto into a video game so we should look into this

An argument for the pit @jeblucas.bsky.social · 20h

On which date do I bring up the absolutely massive Nazi tattoo on my left tit?

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 1d

Higher ed in the US is totally fucked

There. I said it out loud

Dems are spineless chodes. There is no one to save us. Our administrators are also spineless.

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An argument for the pit @jeblucas.bsky.social · 23h

“Thanks for coming to this all hands, I know we’re all busy. I’ll get right to it, the agenda is: how do we get ahead of the giant Nazi tattoo our guy has on his chest and I mean it is BIG. Big like can’t miss it, easily seen on a blurry video of a drunken debauch which reminds me of agenda item #2”

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 1d

And here’s the best part: if we’re all real with ourselves and course correct right now, it will severely diminish the amount of damage Republicans will do to the left over it by the time the primary comes around, which actually matters a lot more than just for one seat in Maine!

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 1d

"Loads of guys in the military have tattoos like that" is an argument against the culture of the US military, not an argument for chilling out about Nazi tattoos.

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An argument for the pit @jeblucas.bsky.social · 1d

*smacks hood* you won’t BELIEVE how many leaguered this baby can be.

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Comics Outta Context 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @comiccontext.bsky.social · 1d

A 60 something scholarly looking man. Balding. Glasses. Wearing a blue suit and a striped tie with a sweater vest. He rests his right hand on Peter Parker‘s shoulder and says, “I don’t know what your problems are, but…work them out.“

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An argument for the pit @jeblucas.bsky.social · 1d

I got the basics of version control from this book. Hopefully this helps you understand the intent of VC and then Git is just the How. And start small. Start a new R project as Git controlled. You’ll see how it works in not too long.

svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.b...

An argument for the pit @jeblucas.bsky.social · 1d

‘push’ your work up. There are some subtleties about trusting others when pulling and just having them write over your WIP and so forth, but this is enough to get the gist.

An argument for the pit @jeblucas.bsky.social · 1d

If you can keep these ideas in your head straight; Git just becomes verbs. Snapshot your stuff is ‘committing’. Starting up something new is ‘branching’. This is happening locally in your own little Git environment. If you are interacting with others, you are going to ‘pull’ their work down and

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An argument for the pit @jeblucas.bsky.social · 1d

What You Support with new features or look nicer or whatever. Some of those versions will get merged into What You Support. Or maybe they are so cool and different they turn into Another Thing You Support.

An argument for the pit @jeblucas.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a lot of lingo about branch and master and other stuff; but they all boil down to you have a version that is What You Support; that is, it’s out there, doing the thing, and folks expect you to fix it if it breaks. You can have several versions (branches) of This Might Work that extend

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An argument for the pit @jeblucas.bsky.social · 1d

The snapshots are nice because sometimes you have a bad idea that you get really into. Then you realize it’s bad and can just ‘revert’ to the last time things were good. 😌

An argument for the pit @jeblucas.bsky.social · 1d

Think of a VCS as taking snapshots of your Work In Progress. It also ‘protects’ your WIP when many developers might be working on the same project. That is, you might collide with someone else’ idea in the code and the VCS should help you sort that out.

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An argument for the pit @jeblucas.bsky.social · 1d

Each of them thinking, “When I’M President they will remember this and vote for my picks.”

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An argument for the pit @jeblucas.bsky.social · 1d

This particular guy has $3m in election funds. He could livestream the removal/cover as a spectacle of contrition. He won’t though, sounds like he’s already mad that folks are mad about it.

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An argument for the pit @jeblucas.bsky.social · 1d

Have you used any version control system before? Subversion? CVS?

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An argument for the pit @jeblucas.bsky.social · 1d

Those are the folks that are beating the traffic! 🤓

An argument for the pit @jeblucas.bsky.social · 1d

I think about the Dems that voted FOR YEARS for more ICE more deportations more more because they thought they would ‘look weak’ electorally and then they lost TWICE to a DUMB MOTHERFUCKER. These folks need to go. People smell desperation and shallowness and it repulses them.

BELIEVE IN THINGS.