RubyMine tells me that string.last has been deprecated, dig dig dig, remember it's a Rails extension, go digging there ... Eventually gets RM to take him to declaration. Deprecated for negative values ... all is well, children, all is well.

**Francis Fish** · Jul 02, 2020, 19:18

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**Cory Doctorow's linkblog** @pluralistic@mamot.fr · Jul 02, 2020, 19:18

Jul 02, 2020, 19:18

Cory Doctorow's linkblog @pluralistic@mamot.fr

On Jul 21, I'm giving a free live talk with Q&A for LogicLounge, an 32nd CAV 2020 event sponsored by the Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms.

It's called "Working as Intended: Surveillance Capitalism is not a Rogue Capitalism," which is (not coincidentally) the title of a forthcoming pamphlet I've written on the role that monopoly plays in our toxic and conspiratorial discourse.

https://stanford.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9AwAiQSmTj2ZjaIsIoTr5A

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**Francis Fish** · Jul 02, 2020, 04:07

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**Silver Spook Games** @silverspookgames@mastodon.social · Jul 02, 2020, 04:07

Jul 02, 2020, 04:07

Silver Spook Games @silverspookgames@mastodon.social

US ruling class buys up Remdesevir, funded with 70 million public money, charge 2000-3000 per treatment. Universal Death Care, wealth-stripping, police brutalization, imprisonment continue in genocide+slavery 'Western' Imperial Complex - Silver Spook Live https://www.twitch.tv/silverspook

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**Francis Fish** · Jul 02, 2020, 04:31

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**Thomas Fuchs** @thomasfuchs@mastodon.social · Jul 02, 2020, 04:31

Jul 02, 2020, 04:31

Thomas Fuchs @thomasfuchs@mastodon.social

Friendly reminder

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**Francis Fish** @fjfish@ruby.social · Jul 01, 2020, 21:03

**Francis Fish** @fjfish@ruby.social · Jul 01, 2020, 21:03

Jul 01, 2020, 21:03

Francis Fish @fjfish@ruby.social

Getting client project up to snuff, using Docker to build it

10 pm

Can't face the round and round while I get bundler working right now

**Francis Fish** · Jun 29, 2020, 15:39

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**Cory Doctorow's linkblog** @pluralistic@mamot.fr · Jun 29, 2020, 15:39

Jun 29, 2020, 15:39

Cory Doctorow's linkblog @pluralistic@mamot.fr

When Margaret Thatcher said, "There is no alternative" (to market-based governance), she meant "STOP TRYING TO THINK OF AN ALTERNATIVE."

It worked.

Exhibit A: the utter failure of cities to provide affordable housing.

In NYC, the "affordable housing" strategy consists of giving developers breaks if they designate some of the units in their buildings as sub-market rent for people in housing poverty. These scarce units are allocated by lottery.

This is an utter, utter failure.

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**Francis Fish** @fjfish@ruby.social · Jun 29, 2020, 13:24

**Francis Fish** @fjfish@ruby.social · Jun 29, 2020, 13:24

Jun 29, 2020, 13:24

Francis Fish @fjfish@ruby.social

I've just seen some XML where they have a bunch of sub entities all called Attribute that have an attribute called (you guessed it) name with the actual value in the tags.

This is one of the craziest abuses of XML I've seen in ages - someone doesn't understand how XML works.

**Francis Fish** @fjfish@ruby.social · Jun 28, 2020, 16:22

**Francis Fish** @fjfish@ruby.social · Jun 28, 2020, 16:22

Jun 28, 2020, 16:22

Francis Fish @fjfish@ruby.social

Updating to 6.0.3.2 on a docker image

Couldn't find certain gems

gem install GEMNAME --path https://rubygems

and trying again seemed to do the trick

No idea why, let's all just genuflect before the Docker gods

Another afternoon wasted

**Francis Fish** · Jun 25, 2020, 06:00

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**Emi** @emi@radical.town · Jun 25, 2020, 06:00

Jun 25, 2020, 06:00

Emi @emi@radical.town

so tired of anarchy's only vibe being punk.

instead of white boys drawing graffiti on brick walls, give me black lesbians harvesting the vertical farm on the side of their collectively governed skyscraper

instead of white boys wearing black and flipping off cops, show me an open air market that doesn't need police because everyone can take what they need

vandalizing walls and flipping off cops are valid forms of resistance, but what we're fighting for is beautiful too

**Francis Fish** · Jun 22, 2020, 19:54

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**Hypolite Petovan** @hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com · Jun 22, 2020, 19:54

Jun 22, 2020, 19:54

Hypolite Petovan @hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com

♲ @KarenCivil@twitter.com:

Still saying her name.. ♥️ #BreonnaTaylor

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**Francis Fish** @fjfish@ruby.social · Jun 22, 2020, 12:24

**Francis Fish** @fjfish@ruby.social · Jun 22, 2020, 12:24

Jun 22, 2020, 12:24

Francis Fish @fjfish@ruby.social

If you want to get an understanding of Marxist ideas, I think these vids are very good

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

What is Class Conflict? Karl Marx's Class Struggle Explained: Proletariat vs Bourgeoisie

**Francis Fish** @fjfish@ruby.social · Jun 22, 2020, 07:38

**Francis Fish** @fjfish@ruby.social · Jun 22, 2020, 07:38

Jun 22, 2020, 07:38

Francis Fish @fjfish@ruby.social

Also like

map(&method(:method_name))

but it's a little clunky

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**Francis Fish** @fjfish@ruby.social · Jun 12, 2020, 14:51

**Francis Fish** @fjfish@ruby.social · Jun 12, 2020, 14:51

Jun 12, 2020, 14:51

Francis Fish @fjfish@ruby.social

I really love being able to define tiny little lambdas in ruby and then pass them into map(&lambda)

Makes extracting things like user name from user id for CSVs and so on nice and simple

**Francis Fish** @fjfish@ruby.social · Jun 08, 2020, 11:45

**Francis Fish** @fjfish@ruby.social · Jun 08, 2020, 11:45

Jun 08, 2020, 11:45

Francis Fish @fjfish@ruby.social

Quite a few of the people I subscribe to in the (mostly white) developer community have expressed their support for #BlackLivesMatter in the email newsletters I receive from them. Whether it's web design or functional programming.

Good

Where're the rest of you?