“We all talk about how no one has any shame anymore, how people act in whatever way they choose, how people no longer understand how to behave in public and how selfish, how little regard humans seem to have for one another.
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“We all talk about how no one has any shame anymore, how people act in whatever way they choose, how people no longer understand how to behave in public and how selfish, how little regard humans seem to have for one another. Where do we think all this came from? This is the culture we have normalized by watching it on TV and sharing it on the internet, for years now. We expect people in positions of power somehow behave differently, to be better, but why would they? As a culture, we have rewarded this behavior. We gave those shows ratings. We gave our attention to celebrity fights on Twitter. We sent signal after signal after signal.”
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“We all talk about how no one has any shame anymore, how people act in whatever way they choose, how people no longer understand how to behave in public and how selfish, how little regard humans seem to have for one another. Where do we think all this came from? This is the culture we have normalized by watching it on TV and sharing it on the internet, for years now. We expect people in positions of power somehow behave differently, to be better, but why would they? As a culture, we have rewarded this behavior. We gave those shows ratings. We gave our attention to celebrity fights on Twitter. We sent signal after signal after signal.”
@haubles @LeahReich I've been saying this for years and caught grief from many people for refusing to watch It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Office, etc on the grounds that I personally am not a fan of watching people being shitty to each other.
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@haubles @LeahReich I've been saying this for years and caught grief from many people for refusing to watch It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Office, etc on the grounds that I personally am not a fan of watching people being shitty to each other.
@grimmy @LeahReich I think it's like rubbernecking, in a way. Sure it's an innate human impulse to watch because we're curious and maybe it triggers a survival mechanism or something, but that doesn't make it any less dangerous or unhealthy
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@grimmy @LeahReich I think it's like rubbernecking, in a way. Sure it's an innate human impulse to watch because we're curious and maybe it triggers a survival mechanism or something, but that doesn't make it any less dangerous or unhealthy
@haubles @LeahReich oh yeah that's a fair point I hadn't considered. It could possibly catharsis too.
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@haubles @LeahReich oh yeah that's a fair point I hadn't considered. It could possibly catharsis too.
@grimmy @LeahReich yeah I think that's absolutely right! I just rabbit-holed on this and check it out:
"“Witnessing violence and destruction … playing out in front of us in real time, gives us the opportunity to confront our fears of death, pain, despair, degradation and annihilation while still feeling some level of safety,” psychiatrist Dr. David Henderson told NBC News. “We watch because we are allowed to ask ourselves ultimate questions with an intensity of emotion that is uncoupled from the true reality of the disaster: ‘If I was in that situation, what would I do? How would I respond? Would I be the hero or the villain? Could I endure the pain? Would I have the strength to recover?’ We play out the different scenarios in our head because it helps us to reconcile that which is uncontrollable with our need to remain in control.”"
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@grimmy @LeahReich yeah I think that's absolutely right! I just rabbit-holed on this and check it out:
"“Witnessing violence and destruction … playing out in front of us in real time, gives us the opportunity to confront our fears of death, pain, despair, degradation and annihilation while still feeling some level of safety,” psychiatrist Dr. David Henderson told NBC News. “We watch because we are allowed to ask ourselves ultimate questions with an intensity of emotion that is uncoupled from the true reality of the disaster: ‘If I was in that situation, what would I do? How would I respond? Would I be the hero or the villain? Could I endure the pain? Would I have the strength to recover?’ We play out the different scenarios in our head because it helps us to reconcile that which is uncontrollable with our need to remain in control.”"
@grimmy @LeahReich but all of that is not to say, "it's human nature so we should excuse it and move on."
it's to say — we know how and why we created this problem so let's stop building and participating in systems that exploit our basic human instincts for profit.
(like how you are already doing
/preaching to choir <3 )
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Dopo le mobilitazioni contro il Decreto Sicurezza, che tra le altre cose sanziona pesantemente chi occupa per necessità, c’è stata una forte ripresa di iniziative per rivendicare tale diritto. Il periodo estivo a Milano è stato particolarmente denso di mobilitazioni...
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@theverge @the-verge-theverge That sucks
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@StarTrekScreens hell yeah let's do this
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@Steve I went down the rabbit hole by searching for "EZLN". It looks like there isn't an official account but a lot of discussion and shared content.
https://schoolsforchiapas.org/the-commons-zapatistas-launch-a-new-stage-of-autonomy/
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3 October 1934 | A Polish Jewish girl, Nina Ehrlich, was born in Sosnowiec.
In 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz from Będzin ghetto. She was murdered in a gas chamber.
---Children at Auschwitz
Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/
Podcast: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA
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Implementing a Kalman Filter in PostgreSQL to Smooth GPS Data
Usually databases are treated primarily as fairly dumb data storage systems, but they can be capable of much more. Case in point the PostgreSQL database and its – Ada-based – PL/pgSQL programming language, which allows you to perform significantly more complex operations than would be realistically possible with raw SQL. Case in point the implementation of a Kalman Filter by the folk over at Traconiq, which thus removes the necessity for an external filtering pipeline.
Using a Kalman Filter is highly desirable when you’re doing something like vehicle tracking using both dead-reckoning and GPS coordinates, as it filters out noise that can be the result of e.g. GPS reception issues. As noted in the article, transferring state from one row to the next requires a bit of lateral thinking, but is doable with some creative SQL usage. As PL/pgSQL is very similar to Oracle’s PL/SQL, this same code should work there too without too much porting required.
The code for the different implementations and associated benchmarks can be found on GitHub, though the benchmark results make it abundantly clear that the most efficient approach is to run an offline aggregate processing routine. This coincides with the other batch processing tasks that are typically performed by a database server to e.g. optimize storage, so this isn’t entirely unsurprising.
