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RogerBW

@RogerBW@emacs.ch

#Emacs, #Perl, #Rustlang, #PostScript, #Linux sysadmin, polyglot programming, #boardgames, #RPGs, too many #podcast s, 3d modelling and #3dprinting.
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futurebird, (edited ) to random
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You can sniff at block-based programming if you like, but I do find that students who used such languages in middle school have an easier time adapting to object oriented and nonlinear programming later — the downside is that nonlinearity is nearly always an illusion in computer science. And under those floating islands of functions and classes there is an absolute order —

I’ll work with some middle school students next year and so I’m learning about all this scratch nonsense.

RogerBW,
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@futurebird If the history of programming languages teaches us anything, it should be that the hard part of programming to learn is the need for exact statements of desired behaviour. 4GLs were supposed to make every manager a programmer, but it turned out managers were rubbish at expressing things with any precision. I won't sneer at anyone's choice of first language as long as they don't then go on to use that for everything.

AthanSpod, to DuckDuckGo
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(search) being down, and causing to throw "There was an error displaying the search results. Please try again." is demonstrating that even if DDG say they also use other sources they're 100% dependent on Bing to actually have their search work.

So, are those 'other sources' only used to augment results ?

RogerBW,
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@AthanSpod Doesn't augur well for the day when Bing search quality collapses due to self-inflicted AI.

etenil, to DuckDuckGo
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Shit is down. How am I supposed to work without selling my soul to Google!?

RogerBW,
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@etenil Make stuff up, 95% as good as Google and less spyware.

RogerBW, to books
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Doing Time, Jodi Taylor https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2024/05/Doing_Time__Jodi_Taylor.html

RickiTarr, to random
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If the gods exist, it's mighty presumptuous to think they have our best interests at heart, or even think about us at all.

RogerBW,
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@RickiTarr "Aw, man, I'm out of Soul Crunchies again."

DarkestKale, to random
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Good morning folks

RogerBW,
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@DarkestKale Sounds like my computer use in about 2000, 95% Linux but occasionally reboot into Windows for the one thing that needs it.

RogerBW,
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@DarkestKale Singing: "ain't no fire hot enough…"

RogerBW,
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@DarkestKale Or concat. If only Python had types, this sort of thing would be much easier to spot.

RogerBW,
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@shimminbeg @DarkestKale This continues to be my preferred approach vs debuggers, REPL loops, etc.

RogerBW,
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@shimminbeg @DarkestKale I've been using the knowledge of a new (programming) language I gained from a gaming project last weekend on a work project today, so…

maccath, to random
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Anyone know any nice, peaceful offline Android games that aren't full of ads or competitive nonsense?

I really enjoyed playing I Love Hue and I Love Hue Too, but I kinda completed them both a long time ago and have never quite found a replacement. 😔

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zutgames.ilovehue

RogerBW,
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@maccath May not be the sort of thing you're looking for, but:
net.pyrosphere.lazors—puzzle game, you can in-app-purchase hints but I did it without and I'm no genius
name,boyle.chris.sgtpuzzles—Simon Tatham's puzzle collection

BigJackBrass, to random
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I do think that this café might be laying on the British nostalgia theme a wee bit heavily.

RogerBW,
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@BigJackBrass "For extra authenticity, a corgi will bite you in the ankle then steal your lemon drizzle."

BigJackBrass, to random
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?

RogerBW,
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@BigJackBrass @pauldrye "Ah, yes, uncle Henry. Jungle rot got him, y'know."

buherator, to random
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We should start using phrases such as "AI infested" in regards to software.

RogerBW,
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@buherator I also recommend "self-inflicted AI".

shimminbeg, to random
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I would like to assure my case officer that these searches for "how long building burn down" and "security arrangements prison" are entirely innocent but it does look bad, I'll agree. @RogerBW @DarkestKale

RogerBW,
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@shimminbeg @DarkestKale "how much gasoline consume human body" (see Ribbon of Memes Promising Young Woman)

RogerBW,
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@DarkestKale @shimminbeg I've said before that the fact that I didn't get a door knock after researching Meltdown & Fallout suggests that;

  • They aren't paying attention; or
  • They have dismissed me as a harmless nutter (heh, heh, heh).
RogerBW,
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@shimminbeg @DarkestKale As I mentioned elsewhere, I'm starting to think of skills as indicators for social entrées too. I have lots of Pistol, I probably know at least one local range where I practice and keep my skills up, and I know some of the people who go there. I'm an expert in Writing, chances are I write for various publications and I can talk to editors and fellow writers. And so on.

RogerBW, to books
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A Study in Death, Anna Lee Huber https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2024/05/A_Study_in_Death__Anna_Lee_Huber.html

mjg59, to random
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I'm still curious whether the Free Software Definition's choice to require the ability to use free software for any purpose is entirely deliberate - is there any writing on why free software must permit being used to restrict people's ability to exercise the four freedoms?

(I agree with the argument that it would be extremely difficult to write a license that enshrined this without restricting legitimate use cases, but if someone were able to do so, /should/ it be free software?)

RogerBW,
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@mjg59 I am distinctly tempted to release software under a You May Not Use This Software For Any Purpose licence just to see if anyone even bothers to read it.

alicemcalicepants, to random
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Today in 'Alice is ridiculous': the book I'm reading refers to 'Friday 16 August 1995'. 16 August was a Wednesday that year 😤

RogerBW,
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@alicemcalicepants One Of Us, or at least One Of Me.
Don't get me started on phases of the moon. I'll forgive not looking up where the moon was on a specific date, though we can do that now; but if the moon is full, it's opposite the sun in the sky, it's not on the horizon at midnight. Etc.

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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Is it "unjust" and "mean" to not let Pica lick (but not even eat) my mozzarella sicks?

Facts:

  1. She has done this before
  2. She won't even eat them, just mouth them.
  3. She has a strong opinion about doing this.
RogerBW,
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@futurebird If you weren't mean and unjust she might have nothing to complain about, which would be terrible.

sheepnik, to random
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Speaking of Storygraph, what is going on with this graph? In March, April and May to date I have read the same number of books, so the line between the dots for those months should be level. But no.

RogerBW,
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@sheepnik "But smooth curves look prettier!" (And really it should be a bar chart with bars one month wide.)

Lana, to random
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If the first Alien movie was released today the right wing incels would hate it. A female cat lady over 30 in an unflattering jumpsuit beats the aliens while all the men die? Impossible. More woke Hollywood nonsense!

RogerBW,
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@Lana The thing I particularly like about it is the way she wants to follow the book while the captain wants to be a valiant space hero and therefore lets the landing party back in.
But "nobody listens to the woman, and they all die of it" is a good ongoing theme.

twipped, to random
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Is Kagi (the search site*) worth it? 300 searches doesn’t seem like much when I frequently go through a dozen different keyword combinations to try to find obscure coding problems. Does their search actually work?

  • I’m old enough to remember the name Kagi as a shareware payment platform
RogerBW,
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@twipped But they're AI cultists so I can't expect it to last.

GrimmReality, to random
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Murder, She Wrote ran for 264 episodes, which means that lady who wrote about murder saw at least 264 murders over the course of TWELVE years, and you have to think, man, that's worse than most homicide cops see in the most fractured forsaken neighborhoods of the oldest cities, and I kind of want there to be a scene somewhere in a vault of Angela Lansbury, ravaged by PTSD and propped on a bar stacked with empties, inveighing against the cosmic worth of her species and slurring bitter regrets at a life's work of effectively being a janitor in an abattoir.

RogerBW,
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@GrimmReality "Also, weren't you a guy when you poured me these drinks?" "Yeah, Dave went out for a smoke break. In fact he ought to be back by now…" "Oh no, not again."

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