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lewiscowles1986

@lewiscowles1986@phpc.social

Polyglot, using PHP since version 3, currently leading technical delivery and change in a Python, backend team.

I Love Linux, NodeJS, TypeScript, Python, PHP, Ruby, Golang, C.

Can be a snark, especially if stressed.

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lewiscowles1986, to random
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Looks like "we're coming to America" is a relevant song. Although I'll just be visiting and I'm unsure how long for 😁

ChrisMayLA6, to random
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Now its confirmed that Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has been killed in a Helicopter crash which initial reports indicate was a powered flight into a mountain side in adverse weather conditions.... we can expect a range of coverage & conspiracy theories that will identify one or other state actors as the real agents of the 'accident'.

How this then plays out could become (even more) dangerous for regional security... its unlikely to be left to remain as an 'accident' (even if it was).

lewiscowles1986,
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@ChrisMayLA6 it definitely feels like state actors in all but the competence and execution of it...

randahl, to Freedom
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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has died in a helicopter crash.

May it be a turning point for the women of Iran.

#freedom

lewiscowles1986,
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@randahl
What drugs did you take before thinking this... You think one old dude was opressing an entire country of women?

Violence like that is systemic, and is a lot harder to stamp out than taking out one "bad dude"

lewiscowles1986,
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@Jorsh @randahl
False hope is shitting on victims

GeePawHill, to random
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A president or prime minister's helicopter or plane going down is almost a stock element in spy thrillers.

Iran is not a friendly country to my own, but my heart goes out, just the same.

As an aside, I marvel, that humans think we're so very high-tech and ultra-capable, and there are still places on the land that we just can't get to, when the weather acts.

Rescuers have reached the site, now, ~24 hours later, and Red Crescent says there are no signs of life.

lewiscowles1986,
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@GeePawHill
IDK about a tragedy; some state-sponsored violence is what it looks like to me. But yeah, all the death is a bit much.

GeePawHill, to random
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There are several reasons I am avoiding the browser stack in CurryTree, as I've avoided it for many years.

But, perhaps the most important reason, and I know that many of you are now coming to grasp this, is that the browser stack requires a browser, and all the browsers are made by people who believe the rather ludicrous capitalist myth of infinite growth, and they will do anything to make that myth seem true, quarter on quarter.

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@GeePawHill
I too, dislike the military & corporate interests that create much of the good tooling.

I refuse to avoid good tools because they were created by bad people or for the benefit of bad people.

And let's face it, with their stupid money they could likely pay more people just to implement the latest changes as often as a person could change them.

Don't let their horror inflict on your joy

lewiscowles1986,
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@GeePawHill
Well alrighty then, I'll leave you to that 😉

lewiscowles1986, to random
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Taken from the internet...

Our King Charles, assuming his final form; after slaying Harry

lewiscowles1986, to random
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This feels like a moronic debate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3eycjekIAk

> Think about what the original programmer wanted.

Dude, nobody cares what you want the software used for. Nobody should care about your weirdo license

Just communicate how you'd like folks to use things well enough, that folks back your ideas.

This derranged Adele nonsense of creator overreach, trying to mandate how folks use a thing you transferred, is just controlling personality disorder.

ben, to Blog
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New : hangs on opening

After years of working perfectly for me, my text editor up and broke on me.

Spoiler: The underlying issue was actually a mount, turns out KATE walks the filesystem on launch, even if not opening a file

https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/general/kate-sits-on-a-loading-wheel.html

lewiscowles1986,
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@ben is it not worrying that without being asked to take an action the program is performing one? Also that it doesn't time out and unlock ..

32bitkid, to retrogaming
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Construction of Gar'Bage Freighter Exterior: Space Quest Ⅲ Demo (1989).

Pic:
Compression: Huffman
Size: 5,270
Size (Compressed): 4,503
Commands: 861
Resolution: 320x200 / 16 color

video/mp4

lewiscowles1986,
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@32bitkid
I Love the painterly effect, but I also wonder how it might scale for a 1920x1080 or above screen in terms of file-size, commands

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Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds

In the months following return-to-office mandates, an increased number of senior employees departed Apple, Microsoft and SpaceX, often to work for competitors.

Gosh, at that price, I sure hope they got all that unmeasurable spontaneous innovation that can only happen via ad hoc office encounters back! But I guess that can only be confirmed by the same gut feelings that lead to RTO in the first place.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/05/12/rto-microsoft-apple-spacex/

lewiscowles1986,
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@bascule I guess "don't f* with the talent" wasn't a common phrase among those managers?

lewiscowles1986,
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@krans @bascule
Hard and fast rules are hard and unironically make folks slow.

But not keeping the folks that wrote the things that led to success ... It doesn't feel like such a leap to say that it's not "straight line" thinking

lewiscowles1986, to random
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House move nearly completed.

I found wonderful books from the 50's to the recent.

I feel like kids books are not as engaging or enthralling as when I was a wee lad.

I wonder if interactive media will ever be as good as a book and an imagination.

I also wonder if oration prior to language, or other communication methods were better?

I hope not

lewiscowles1986, to random
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Hmm...

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-cult-of-the-haskell-programmer/

Imperative Vs functional programs...

GTFO it's imperative Vs declarative and procedural Vs various specialist high-level sugar for procedure 😄😘

Honestly though, no matter how composable, if you explicitly say how to make the sausage; it's likely imperative.

You can sprinkle in whatever seasoning you're making, it's a sausage maker!

GeePawHill, to random
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CurryTree: Gotta get back up on that horse. It has been a hard month for me, morale-wise, hence no work on my joy project. But I am shooting for a bit of a reset this afternoon.

I will say this: in spite of the fact that I haven't been coding, I've been meaning to work on it, and as a result of the break, I've had several ideas I think are good.

lewiscowles1986,
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@GeePawHill
How many users do you think you want?

lewiscowles1986,
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@GeePawHill
So I know the name tree is in a few places... And the navy may very well be a tree, but with such modest numbers, could a simple list allow for all you need?

lewiscowles1986,
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@GeePawHill not suggesting you expose that detail btw, or arguing we all rub sticks and stones together

lewiscowles1986,
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@GeePawHill
Ah, gotta do you.

I have always found nested data structures and recursion bothered me, but not enough to never use them

I hear ya on the challenges of popular note taking software.

I most recently made a teensy excallidraw save / load from html, because I don't want to be tied into particular note taking suite.

But then I can tend to spend more time sharpening the knife than hunting.

FluentInFinance, to random
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My credit score dropped when I paid off my car.

My credit score dropped when I paid off my student loans.

The system punishes you for not owing any money.

They told me: "You should get more loans to increase your credit score."

The system is predatory and wants you to be in debt.

Credit scores are one of the biggest scams.

lewiscowles1986,
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@FluentInFinance you only need very good score to buy a home

mhoye, to random
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Both incredible and 100% unsurprising that StackOverflow would choose to burn down their community in favor of AI-generated slurry, when their community was the only path and the only tool they had to differentiate themselves from any goddamn site made of AI-generated slurry.

lewiscowles1986,
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@mhoye
Their users are also a problem. Not every user, but there has been a longstanding "culture" they've had to address

blogdiva, to random
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so, what my latest impression from the UK is that Keir Starmer is really not the kind of guy who should be representing working class people; what with that "Sir" in front of his name and such. in other words: he's an upper,class twit fucking it up for the Labour Party. or am i off the mark on this one?

#UKpol

lewiscowles1986,
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@blogdiva he is unfortunate, but all I can vote for, to get current morons out

lewiscowles1986, to random
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It takes a special kind of business to admit such a thing, but I'm not sure this was intended..

Since noreply@curve.com is their email, I'd love it if folks can share. Let them know they need to do better

lewiscowles1986, to random
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I've been far too happy, and grateful since my surgery. So here I sit, in surgical assessment unit 2, because I've been in agony since 5am.

lewiscowles1986,
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@GeePawHill
They cancelled the operation due to... Lack of equipment. Just-in-time in all it's majesty

lewiscowles1986,
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@GeePawHill yeah, but no guarantee rescheduled means they'll have the right tools on the day

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