#integration programs

[ericartem]

Borders, Boogeymen, and Billion-Dollar Boosts

Borders, Boogeymen, and Billion-Dollar Boosts #artem

Content 18+ Immigration is a topic as charged with dynamite as it is with dynamism. I’d begin with the obvious irony: we’re all immigrants if you rewind history far enough. The United States, Germany, Hungary, Russia—all were shaped by people who packed their bags (or were forced to), crossed borders, and declared, “This looks promising!” before someone else grumbled, “Who invited you?” And thus,…

[m--ss--ng]

I love Bauhauzzo, and the lovely amounts of pun that went into his name, design, concept, and commentary on the art and design world.

I would happily sit and weep with him at the Everything that is and was and will be.

[amelia-yap]

vomits another AU

[yikesy]

you see the reason apollo is so natural at changing himself and quickly adjusting to new situations is that, as the God Embodiment of Civilization, he has this amazing thing named Scientific Curiosity which makes him the chosen one (1) god to not be afraid of change or the unknown

[voidedjuice]

Ending the year with a bang!

[saltysaltdog]

[howlsofbloodhounds]

Something about how color and killer could both very likely operate and function on internal rules that govern their lives, behaviors, relationships, and existence

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

The previous post I reblogged reminded me of this survey the school system I work for sent out and my scathing reply:

“Teaching students to leverage AI to support their learning” oh HELL naw. You really think that giving someone a moped is going to make their legs stronger than riding an actual bicycle? No! It doesn’t work like that. In order to make your brain stronger you cannot use something to think for you.

I wanted to say “Bullshit. You fucking deadbeat admins set the fire that is burning our whole district to the ground; and you’re the reason why we can’t keep new hires to save our lives,” but I also value having my job so I did not cuss them out and I was so brave about it.

[ivygorgon]

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[murderbees]

Having throughts about Sirens in Tron because I don't feel like they were ever really explained? but not having them is weird so,

here's my idea of what Sirens are generally

They're maintenance and upkeep for the System.

The most well known job is helping other programs relax and helping them maintain their functions. They have several abilities that allow them to help programs destress, including some medic abilities. When they help a program, a short connection is formed. This allows them to understand the needs of that program and act to help them.

They can help programs sleep, heal minor injuries, and reset their systems. This amount of influence makes some programs wary. Sirens tend to be excluded from normal interaction unless they're already bonded to someone, or if they're performing their functions.

They're janitors too, not all siren jobs are glamorous. After the end of the games, a squad of sirens steps out to clean the arena and prepare it for the next game. When something is destroyed, they coordinate the repairing and clean up of larger objects they can't deal with. The cleaning crews don't have to wear the heels. Some choose to, but they're outliers for the most part.

Sirens have a deeper connection to the Grid, just as a consequence for their existence. For some, that meant undying belief in Flynn and the ISOs. For others, it became a world of survival and self preservation. Despite this, Sirens all carry a strong loyalty to each other.

I think they have other jobs too, but I still need to world build those

[justkillingthyme]

YOU THERE

did you ever have a side blog for a hershel layton alter that liked to make art of objects and other things that were important to you/reminded you of layton related memories

your art style is similar to that individual

I know what blog you’re talking about actually!

I was searching through my shit for a few minutes trying to find the post wil (? I think it was wil) sent me the last time I asked for it because the user is deactivated. Vaguely recall that there was a Layton centric username. Puzzle solving line maybe? Didn’t find it and gave up.

I do end up saving or screenshotting art that I like if I want to analyze or use it as inspiration, so I ended up finding a few things in my camera roll after scrolling for a few months

Now that you mention it I do see it. Kinda. Squints.

[banesberry-anomoly]

Bexley the Bearcat/Binturong

- He/It/Vi/Any

- Rockstar-like persona & plays multiple instruments

- Part of the 'Lights After Dark' program at Indigo Park, which catered to older teens and adults

[blackjackkent]

Programming object lesson of the day:

A couple days ago, one of the side project apps I run (rpthreadtracker.com) went down for no immediately obvious reason. The issue seems to have ended up being that the backend was running on .NET Core 2.2, which the host was no longer supporting, and I had to do a semi-emergency upgrade of all the code to .NET Core 6, a pretty major update that required a lot of syntactic changes and other fixes.

This is, of course, an obvious lesson in keeping an eye on when your code is using a library out of date enough not to be well supported anymore. (I have some thoughts on whether .NET Core 2.2 is old enough to have been dumped like this, but nevertheless I knew it was going out of LTS and could have been more prepared.) But that's all another post.

What really struck me was how valuable it turned out to be that I had already written an integration test suite for this application.

Historically, at basically every job I've worked for and also on most of my side projects, automated testing tends to be the thing most likely to fall by the wayside. When you have 376428648 things you want to do with an application and only a limited number of hours in the day, getting those 376428648 things to work feels very much like the top priority. You test them manually to make sure they work, and think, yeah, I'll get some tests written at some point, if I have time, but this is fine for now.

And to be honest, most of the time it usually is fine! But a robust test suite is one of those things that you don't need... until you suddenly REALLY FUCKING NEED IT.

RPTT is my baby, my longest running side project, the one with the most users, and the one I've put the most work into. So in a fit of side project passion and wanting to Do All The Right Things For Once, I actively wrote a massive amount of tests for it a few years ago. The backend has a full unit test suite that is approaching 100% coverage (which is a dumb metric you shouldn't actually stress about, but again, a post for another day). I also used Postman, an excellently full-featured API client, to write a battery of integration tests which would hit all of the API endpoints in a defined order, storing variables and verifying values as it went to take a mock user all the way through their usage life cycle.

And goddamn was that useful to have now, years later, as I had to fix a metric fuckton of subtle breakage points while porting the app to the updated framework. With one click, I could send the test suite through every endpoint in the backend and get quick feedback on everywhere that it wasn't behaving exactly the way it behaved before the update. And when I was ready to deploy the updated version, I could do so with solid confidence that from the front end's perspective, nothing would be different and everything would slot correctly into place.

I don't say this at all to shame anyone for not prioritizing writing tests - I usually don't, especially on my side projects, and this was a fortuitous outlier. But it was a really good reminder of why tests are a valuable tool in the first place and why they do deserve to be prioritized when it's possible to do so.

[coochiequeens]

Ladies please reblog with what your signs will say

Dear Editor,

The mission of the nonpartisan League of Women Voters has been singular and unwavering for more than 100 years: to uphold and protect our democratic system, and to ensure the right of every American to vote. Upholding our cherished democratic system means preserving our Founding Fathers’ genius invention, consisting of three co-equal branches of government regulated by a system of checks and balances. This system of government has persisted for nearly 250 years, and has resulted in the most productive society in the history of the world.

Many Americans expected change and some upheaval when Donald Trump began his second term as president. Each new president will of course attempt to shape the country into his or her vision of what it should be, and candidate Trump was very clear about his intentions to do things differently. Change is what the voters wanted and change was the reason he was voted back into the White House.

We at the League of Women Voters of Tulare County respect the voters’ decision in 2024. However, as an organization whose mission is the preservation of our democratic system, we believe that many of the new administration’s aggressive actions are indeed threats to the democracy we cherish. While many of the changes President Trump wants could have been done through the legislative process, respecting the system of checks and balances, the administration instead has chosen to unilaterally begin dismantling our governmental institutions and norms through executive orders. This shock-and-awe approach has been quick, but ignores the rule of law. This leaves only the judicial system between our democracy and an autocracy.

This is not some far-off threat. The administration’s actions are impacting us locally. Grant applications have been frozen and funding has been cut to local nonprofit organizations. Severe spending cuts are proposed to Medi-Cal, affecting the more than 300,000 people (about 62% of our total population) who qualify in Tulare County. In addition, 1.5 million residents in the San Joaquin Valley are on Medi-Cal.

Food assistance programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) that was recently received by over 126,000 people in Tulare County (of which 2/3 were children) are also threatened with cuts. According to CAfoodbanks.org, SNAP brought $193 million in 100% federally funded benefits to Tulare County in 2018. This created about $346 million in total economic activity, supporting 1,900 Tulare County jobs by providing markets for farmers and customers for retailers.

In response to one of the latest executive orders, “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections,” Celina Stewart, Chief Executive Officer of the League of Women Voters of the United States said: “Let’s keep it real: this order is not about protecting elections; it is about making it harder for voters — particularly women voters — to participate in them. … This executive order is an assault on our republic and a dangerous attempt to silence American voters. The President continues to overstep his authority and brazenly disregard settled law in this country. To be very clear — the League of Women Voters is prepared to fight back and defend our democracy.”

LWV Tulare County will do all we can right here in our community to defend our democracy, and in particular to ensure that voting rights are protected. As a show of strength and solidarity, we will join the “Hands Off!” Protest being organized by With Visalia and others on April 19 at Mooney and Caldwell from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. We urge all citizens and other organizations to join us. Our community is strong. Let’s band together to defend and protect it.

Our sign will say “Hands Off Our Voting Rights!" What will your signs say?

[vnlucura]

does it ever just break ur heart how scared you’ve been. for no reason

[ivygorgon]

🏚️ We're living in a dystopian oligarchy.

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