samir, hibernating
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Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably.
A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza.
Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out.
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Cat Hicks
samir, hibernating BoostedThe pragmatics of running schools is just beyond some people. Think about your own attention span and how much you as an adult with adult resources probably still can struggle with unstructured time. If kids struggle to teach themselves from textbooks why wouldn't they struggle with chat apps. Just ludicrous to me how little curiosity we have about the human mind
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@mcg Totally acceptable.
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Be very distrustful of anyone who doesn’t swoosh their arms like Gandalf when triggering automatic sliding doors.
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In response to this post@matt @rain Yes, 100% agreed! I was writing some C# recently and found myself missing “shared XOR mutable” so much. Even when you have a garbage collector, thread safety is so hard, and Rust’s ownership model removes a whole class of potential bugs.
I often miss my garbage collector but I’d have a hard time giving up Rust for concurrent programming at this point.
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We’re in the mountains. It’s raining, so we have an excuse to chill out in a nice hotel lobby and do fuck all.
It was sunny yesterday when we arrived though. That was very pretty.
Met a robot this morning at breakfast.
It has cat ears.
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ADHDean Is Being A Fanboy
samir, hibernating BoostedThis is my #1 Sandra Boynton cartoon, and one of my all-time favorite cartoons, period. It just works, and it’s very Dean.
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@jalefkowit If you get your own Hummer, you could keep it in the glove box.
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In response to this post@cwebber Thank you. I’ve been feeling like I don’t like computing on the computer much recently but you’re right, it’s not the computer, it’s all the things that get in the way of the computering because of Must Grow Bigger Syndrome.
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Dachary
samir, hibernating BoostedSigh.
No, colleague, PR review does *not* mean I will rewrite all your janky GPT-generated code so it actually works.
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jonny (good kind)
In response to this postsamir, hibernating Boosted
beyond free as in beer/free as in whatever, beyond forkability and maintainability outside of a core dev team, beyond the hit by a bus test, there is soupen core: software that encourages the users to hold the developer accountable by threatening to round up a posse and ritualistically eat them in a soup
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@jasongorman @marick That’s the one! With such a magnificent institution behind them, it’s no wonder that British politicians are the envy of the world.
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@jasongorman @marick How dare you. I’m sure every CEO got to their position through hard work, intelligence, and knowledge of the business.
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@marick Ah, I almost forgot that the success of the manager is only loosely associated with the success of the project being managed.
I’m not sure I appreciate the reminder. 😛
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@dibi58 I heard someone got dinosaur bones very very wrong. I also heard that they’re based on descriptions of rhinoceroses. So this is the third origin story I’ve come across. I love it. 😄
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@xgranade That makes sense. You also say that they should be “optional”, though. What do you mean by that? Or, how would they be inferred?
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In response to this post@xgranade I once started working on a Lisp preprocessor that let you write in indented (Python-ish) style, and compiled to parentheses. You could still use the parentheses yourself if you like.
Didn’t get too far but I still think it’s a decent idea.
Is that also kind of what you’re describing, or am I missing something?
I can see an alternative approach that would use knowledge of the symbols to decide what to do, but that would require types, and likely preclude variable arguments.
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Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️
samir, hibernating BoostedInspired by @mcc's threads on Forth, I'm curious about the idea of a language in which parentheses are not grouping constructs, but a kind of compiler-enforced linting.
E.g. if you have * + 2 3 5 in an RPN-based language, that you could write * (+ 2 3) 5 where ( means "the next token is an operator, and there is a matching ) somewhere forward of this (," and where ) means "an operation and its operands were just popped from the stack, and that operand was denoted by a (."
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alxd ✏️ solarpunk prompts
In response to this postsamir, hibernating Boosted
Think about it: we are about to have a hard century and there is simply no way of "fixing" the planet climate in our lifetimes.
The best we can do is to create a new shape of civilization which will set a stable course towards sustainability and keep it there for decades, if not centuries.
We are planting trees we know we won't see becoming forests within our lifespans.
We need to see our struggle as a context for this better world.
Otherwise it's just escapism into a fairy tale.
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Hot take: unicorns are trash cryptids.
It’s a horse with a horn. Do better.
@samir
apparently they were extinct russian goats, how they may have become horses, no know but guess ...
🤣
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In response to this post@marick And so obviously terrible! I wonder how it survives.
@samir One is "bring me the results of work you have done on my behalf." The other is "you're bringing me work for me to do."
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