Michelle Hughes / is on Nostr

Ann Arbor City Council thoughts, and also random nonsense.
Special abilities: Flying, shooting lasers out of eyes -- you know, "girl power". "Ms. Information". (She/Her) 🏳️‍⚧️
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2024-09-13 16:04:53

😈 creating a database management system, naming it "db cooper", making the logo be a barrel, and being like "what?" when someone points it out. "A database is like a barrel of data. I just wanted to evoke the idea that you are the creator of that barrel..."
#DBCooper #Database

2024-09-10 19:00:53

What if mastodon used ipfs for its media? Like, when it sends out posts with images and video, instead of putting an http link, they could put an ipfs link. Receiving servers could choose whether and when to pin it locally. That way, each piece of media has only one name. Seems like it'd better for preservation and availability of the media, and may require fewer copies to be made. A server could only pin it if it's going to display it or something.
#mastodon #ipfs

2024-09-08 21:20:15

"Phone...?" Oh, you mean my self-distract system!

2024-08-08 18:00:13

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If it results in treatment, yes.
If it results in health insurance rates going through the roof, no.
If the info gets sold to other people so that rates on home and car loans go up, then no.

2024-08-01 16:15:10

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Awesome. That's exactly the kind of stuff I'm looking for. I started learning about jails and bhyve and bastille.

2024-07-31 17:19:44

Well, I set up FreeBSD on a VM. What do I do with it? I'd like to learn the things that make it different from Linux.
#FreeBSD

2024-07-28 16:35:45

"Back in my day, materials were either conductors or they weren't, and that was good enough for us! We didn't have any of this fancy 'semiconductor' nonsense!"
Transistor's dad: "Look, maybe while your grandma is here, we can run a current through your gate and just tell her you're a conductor? Just for the weekend?"

2024-07-19 18:52:57

So, Vulcans are a part of the Federation, right? Like, they were founding members.
And yet, we sometimes see "Vulcan ships" and they are not the same thing as Starfleet ships. We see Vulcan captains and they aren't in Starfleet uniforms. Do the Vulcans have their own Starfleet-like organization separate from the Federation's? Or are these all merchant ships?
#Starfleet #StarTrek

2024-07-18 01:05:54

Everything on Deep Space Nine breaks down when O'Brien is not on the station. Does that mean he's an exceptionally skilled chief of operations? I submit that it means he is not a good manager. He shouldn't be doing all this stuff himself. The station shouldn't work only because he works a million hours. He should have been building skills and autonomy among his staff.
He's probably a very good engineer. Make him not be the manager, though.
(watching S06E15)
#DeepSpaceNine #StarTrek

2024-07-03 19:04:33

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What if it was a mech piloted by a real wood ant?

2024-06-25 14:27:55

If Biden wins, we will still have to take to the streets to assert our rights and win concessions.
If Trump wins, we could take to the streets, sure, but we would be immediately all shot to death by the United States Army.
Doing political change is hard, but I can't think of much harder, and something we're much less prepared for, than defeating the United States military at war. They are very good at war.

2024-06-03 21:05:44

I assure you, you can indeed breathe in a mask.
If you feel like you can't, what you're probably experiencing is that the air you're breathing is warmer than you're used to. It's a non-fatal, non-debilitating condition.
#covid #WearAMask

2024-05-14 01:33:22

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If only there were some other news they could talk about!

2024-05-13 19:47:33

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Well, I contributed to your ko-fi. If any lurkers wanna do that too, you can click here: https://ko-fi.com/fooneturing

2024-05-13 19:24:27

Last night, someone mentioned to me the idea of a Theremin Keyboard. I figured if anyone can make this happen, it'd be @npub1rv4…ft5j! Whaddya say??

2024-05-07 15:59:20

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Question: Was it cool?

2023-10-22 17:45:06

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I used to work at a medical quality improvement collaborative. They put out a paper that said that there were more heart attacks the week daylight savings time started than there were at other times. That flew out of the journals and into the popular press.
A couple years later, they did a new study and they were like "Well, we looked again with more data and it turns out we were wrong the first time."
The scientific journals wouldn't even print it.