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Sarah McC Stephens

@anarchonurzox.com

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Christian. Interests: data (also my job), ancient Greek, & now tiny house renovation! also: cooking, reading, crochet, chill video games, 3rd wave coffee. ND. Married to Jimmy. The means are meaningful. ignalis: zox.20

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 12h

D&D CROWDSOURCING:

Favorite extra mechanic to make Big Boss fights interesting (and less of a slog)?

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Sarah McC Stephens @anarchonurzox.com · 11h

multiple fight stages (like in video games)!

BB minion behavior (run away in fear! Barbarian rage! Betrayal! Guards showing up!). Environment changes / damage / pve elements. Info reveals (Hostages!)

I’m a believer in custom stat blocks, esp with experienced players who “know” boss moves.

Sarah McC Stephens @anarchonurzox.com · 1d

😬 That sounds utterly miserable. I’m so sorry - hope the sleep helped and you continue to recover.

Sarah McC Stephens @anarchonurzox.com · 1d

Oh n, are you okay?

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Sonia Spookyman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 2d

The existence of Attic Greek implies the existence of Basement Greek.

Thank you for coming to my TED talktalk.

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Sarah McC Stephens @anarchonurzox.com · 2d

[I’m currently] imagining Don Carson and Origen discussing how to properly exegete Psalm 137. That would be a podcast worth listening to.

(This diversion brought to you by Contra Celsum 7.22)

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Bob Stevenson @bobstevenson.bsky.social · 7d

Today I feel the tension.

Caught between a progressivism that contests several of my foundational beliefs as a Christ follower, and a populism that seeks to commodify and prostitute those same beliefs for grotesque ends.

But today I embrace the tension.

Witness is more important than winning.

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Sarah McC Stephens @anarchonurzox.com · 7d

why does tesseract OCR always get κἄν wrong? it never, ever, sees the accents. whyyyy...
(I really wonder if the training data is missing it or smth)

Sarah McC Stephens @anarchonurzox.com · 7d

- I’m not willing to leave her over political differences that imo are mostly the result of bad cultural norms and deception rather than intentional malice. But I struggle with the tension: when to keep silent, when to speak. I try to look for opportunities where I think people will actually listen.

Sarah McC Stephens @anarchonurzox.com · 7d

Special needs make everything so much harder. Esp. if the congregation isn’t very understanding of the challenges involved.

I’ve been thinking a lot about German Christians in the 30s. What’s the right call to make and when and why? For now, my local church/fellowship is too precious -

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Sarah McC Stephens @anarchonurzox.com · 8d

I really struggle to know when to engage vs. step away vs. tolerate. Esp. with people who are/were friends or church members. (& I live in ND where maga is somewhat of a default)

& there's so much "if you're not for you're against" now that my mildest critiques get taken as attacks.

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Sarah McC Stephens @anarchonurzox.com · 9d

same.
altho I kinda like being a silly person 🤔

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Sarah McC Stephens @anarchonurzox.com · 11d

giant frozen coffee ice cubes are a game changer and I can't believe I haven't tried this before. No more diluted watery sludge at the bottom of the iced latte!

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 11d

Exciting opportunity! As I shift over to the Storage team at Supabase, we’re opening up a spot on the Data Eng team.

If you’re curious about the work or what it’s like here, my DMs are open.

Apply here: jobs.ashbyhq.com/supabase/69d...

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Sarah McC Stephens @anarchonurzox.com · 15d

TWICE in the last week I've tried to track down a footnote source and found the pdf available on archive.org but only in Latin (and apparently no translation exists anywhere). I don't particularly care to learn Latin but apparently Latin wants me 😬

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Arynnpost @arynn.bsky.social · 15d

Microsoft Excel is the Taylor Swift of Business Intelligence.

Tableau - U2
PowerBI - Nickleback
Looker - Drake
Omni - Kendrick Lamar
Hex - Sabrina Carpenter
Thoughtspot - Lady Gaga
ggplot - Skrillex

How'd I do?

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Sarah McC Stephens @anarchonurzox.com · 22d

This is a fabulous article. Thank you.

Sarah McC Stephens @anarchonurzox.com · 22d

thanks i hate it

Matthew Podszus @matthew-podszus.bsky.social · 22d

For you original language wonks, America is going from knowing (epistamai) fascism is evil to knowing (ginōskō) fascism is evil.

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Sarah McC Stephens @anarchonurzox.com · 22d

really digging Horizons/West!
Reminds me in a good way of the Alchemy Index (Air/Water).

Sarah McC Stephens @anarchonurzox.com · 24d

I think with WASM it's pretty similar for the browser-loaded piece, and you can certainly also query a cloud-based db (e.g. sitting in S3 or something). That's not even using motherduck which I believe is more of a paid product.

It's not perfectly identical but I think the end result is similar.

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Sarah McC Stephens @anarchonurzox.com · 24d

have you heard the gospel of duckdb?

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Sarah McC Stephens @anarchonurzox.com · 26d

me (fuming): imagine if someone gave you an eggbeater with no handle
jimmy (confused): like the crank kind?
me: yeah with the crank part still but no handle for your left hand
jimmy: *makes right hand flailing circular motions* woOOo!wooOOo!
me: anyway that's how I feel about this API

#dataBS

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Pseudo-Nathanius Porterensis @nporter.bsky.social · Sep 25

Lux Patrum is hiring! We are looking for people to produce bilingual editions of texts.

Required:
- a reasonably strong command of Greek or Latin
- competence in Microsoft Word.

Reach out to [email protected] if you're interested.

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Sarah McC Stephens @anarchonurzox.com · Sep 24

staying with friends who have a cat and I now understand the "trapped by a cat sitting on you" posts

a beautiful tawny cat snoozing curled up in my lap

Sarah McC Stephens @anarchonurzox.com · Sep 24

you could try something like gImageReader that's a gui wrapper for Tesseract. It's worked pretty well for me in the past!