Da stehen jetzt 7 Spitzenpolitiker. Von Ricarda #Lang über #Lindner bis Janine #Wissler. Mitten unter ihnen ein #Faschist: Tino #Chrupalla.
Und ihr "wehrhaften" Demokraten stellt euch mit diesem Nazi in einen Raum?
Auf gleicher Augenhöhe mit einem Faschisten?
Ohne rot zu werden, ohne Brechreiz? Ohne ihm vor die Füsse zu kotzen und ihm deutlich zu zeigen, dass er nichts an diesem Ort zu suchen hat.
Ihr Versager. Ihr erbärmlichen.
Wie ihr mich ekelt.
Unwählbar. alle.
Obligatory link to the wizard book, aka learn programming the proper way. Never mind the language this is about principles and fundamental concepts. Yes by the end of it you’ll have written a compiler, that’s the equivalent of a smith forging a hammer and tongs. Flank with HTDP if you need a bit hand-holding putting programs together, SICP is rather pinpoint-focussed on the concepts so doesn’t contain much in terms of design. If you want a stand-alone implementation of the language (with the first link you can run all the code boxes in the browser, fancy newfangled stuff I approve of) racket is the way to go, just add #lang sicp in front of your files and you’ll have the exact dialect the wizard book uses.
The wizard book has been the standard recommendation for like 20 years now, the only reason other tutorials exist is because newbs insist on “how to move cube in unity without programming” type of hand-holding. It’s not actually helping them, on the contrary I see much learned helplessness in the young’uns.
From those basics you can dive into whatever concrete you need for whatever you want to do, you’ll have the necessary background to not be lost at sea. To further build that background knowledge it’s a good idea to have acquaintance with a broad selection of standard data structures, algorithms, and their properties. No need to go in real depth but you should have an at least intuitive understanding of why they have the properties they have, like, don’t be surprised if your game stutters if you’re using hashmaps. O(1) and amortised O(1) are not the same thing.
Last, but not least, never write your own datetime or unicode handling code.
It’s kind of silly, but I still really dig the idea behind torrenting and peer to peer sharing of data. It’s cool to think about any old computer helping pass along some odd bits & bytes of data, whether a goofy drawing or strange story.
I just opened up registration for the March iteration of the "Hands-On Guile Scheme for Beginners" course!
This is an 8-week course that is a mixture of on-demand learning content, live Q&A sessions, practical exercises, and a private forum where I answer all your questions. We had a great time in the February iteration so I'm looking forward to running it again!
Come learn Scheme and functional programming with us!
I was convinced by this Bell¿ncat satellite image of a concentration camp interning over a million people: wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=31.416944&lon=34.36523…
How bad are the thousands of new stochastically-generated websites?
Last night I wanted to roast some hazelnuts, and I could not remember the temperature I used last time. So I searched on DuckDuckGo. Every website that I could find was machine-generated with different temps listed. One site had three separate methods listed that were essentially differently worded versions of the same thing. With different temperatures.
So I pulled my copy of Rodale’s Basic Natural Foods Cookbook off the shelf and looked it up there.
I think it may be time to download an archive copy of the 2022 Wikipedia before we lose all of our reference material. It was nice having all the world’s knowledge at my fingertips for a couple of decades, but that time seems to be past.
[ Edit: Since others have mentioned the possibility, I should mention that some of these sites may have been SEO-generated/altered and not generated by an LLM. However, even if that is the case, the fact that the sites are as bad as and indistinguishable from LLM-generated sites means to me they are just as bad and just as likely to be have only a loose resemblance to reality. There are many ways to be a fancy stochastic parrot. ]
This time table diagram from 1923 by the Finnish National Railways is so cute. I would be overjoyed if connections like this were restored. My personal Solarpunk utopia is ”what if pre-1950 but without the coal and with modern electronics”.
”Travelling routes to Finland”. #history#diagrams#landBasedTravel https://www.doria.fi/handle/10024/81773#&gid=1&pid=3
Die Grünen haben ihre Parteispitze mit hohen Zustimmungswerten wiedergewählt. Der Parteitag in Karlsruhe zeigt trotzdem: Die Zeiten sind kompliziert für die Ökopartei - nicht nur wegen der Haushaltskrise. Von Oliver Neuroth.
Der Parteitag der Grünen hat die beiden Vorsitzenden Lang und Nouripour im Amt bestätigt. Lang wurde mit 82,3 Prozent der Stimmen wiedergewählt. Nouripour setzte sich mit 79,1 Prozent gegen einen Mitbewerber durch.
Being a foss enthusiast I can configure most of my software in way too many ways. However I noticed that this is not true for most compilers. Which got me thinking: why isn’t that the case. In gcc (or your favorite compiler tool) I have a shitload of options about what are errors and warnings and how the code should be...
Have you looked at the Lisps / Scheme / Racket yet? Racket in particular makes it quite nice to go #lang blah at the top of the file and change the parsing or interpretation entirely.
For example all the documentation pages and guides are written in scribble:
<span style="color:#323232;">#lang scribble/base
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">@title{On the Cookie-Eating Habits of Mice}
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">If you give a mouse a cookie, he's going to ask for a
</span><span style="color:#323232;">glass of milk.
</span>
And it has an entire document markup language created in it, which can output pdf or html. But you can still use @ syntax to drop in racket code to compute values. Or create templates.
I even implemented a #lang which took assembly directly (and interpreted it, it was for a class).
So if you are really after full control, you should study Lisps and their macro systems.
Sometimes you'll know the age of a person, or at least the era or generation which influenced them, by looking at the words they are using.
Some examples I noticed:
"ASEAN" instead of "South-East Asia". You know they're young and grew up in the era when ASEAN is the focus.
"Southeast Asia" instead of "South-East Asia". The former is the preferred way today, the use of hyphens is disappearing. The latter comes from pre-21st Century rules.
Abbreviating "South" or "Southern" to "So" like "SoKor", "SoCal", "SoViet". Similarly, for "North" / "Northern" into "No", like "NoKor".
The use of "Occidental" and "Oriental" instead of "West" and "East" respectively. The former is the old way. The latter is what's common today.
"Xerox" instead of "photocopy".
"Photo" instead of "Picture". Picture now means the old way of developing your, well, pictures. Photo is now more understood as digital.
"Blog" or "Vlog" instead of "Journal" or "Diary". Who writes on paper these days, right? It's all digital now.
"Wikipedia" instead of "Library". Why visit a Library when you can search Wikipedia?
Of course, culture also plays a role, which also helps knowing whence a person grew up (or their family).
How about you? What words or phrases that gives you a signal about a person's origin and generation?
I'd be worried about this as a core feature. Much of Racket is built to allow modular thinking and building abstractions, but multimethods are inherently antimodular from what I can see. This would work against many of aspects of #lang racket.
had a dream last night that I was giving a talk in like 30 mins and had no memory of agreeing to give the talk or making slides. then I realized I was dreaming and therefore decided I would simply give the talk and see what slides my subconscious came up with. in fact it turned out the talk was about how linear types are bad (something I don’t in any way believe) and the slides involved an unhinged interactive #lang slideshow presentation with an embedded REPL for reasons unknown to me
@eniko yeah, but that's only one of the features, you can also use #lang racket on its own as a gpl and it is really good at everything it does
it's as powerful as clojure. but targets C instead of JVM
Something I'm noticing in comments to my recent blog post on #nushell is that a lot of folks have a strict separation between interactive shell and scripting.
When I point out in the post that Nushell is really meant to scale smoothly between the two, some folks say things like "so you're saying it's really a scripting language not a shell"
I want to help folks see they don't have to choose. They can scale ideas all the way up in one language without rewriting.
@jntrnr if it is a scripting language, then I would say it resolves the fundamental tension of scripting langauages, which is to treat pipes and processes as a kind of ffi interface which we can marshall data and invocations back and forth to but which are fundamentally separate. Scripting langauages (other than something like #lang rash, in racket) don’t seem to have resolved this distance between other process calls, environment variables etc. and those things which lie firmly within the programming language.
I think one reason people are resistant to these kinds of programming environments is that current thinking on language design has led to a kind of dogma of responsibilities- you should read data from the “outside world” - keep it inside the sealed off world of the programming language for as long as possible, and then convert back to something the outside world speaks. It is not as though this isn’t in some sense a good model or “true”, but there is no reason not to question it as a fundamental design principle (as excel, smalltalk, common lisp and nushell all, to some extent, do in my mind)
If there's anything that's certain about this fall, it's that I've got to do a deeper dive into the whole Racket #lang/macro thing. Racket macros are ballin'.
Lang im Sommerinterview: "Aufstiegsversprechen statt dieser Abstiegsängste"
Deutschland brauche eine "Investitionsagenda" - und die Ampel werde hier ein gutes Paket schnüren, verspricht Grünen-Chefin Lang im ARD-Interview. Ausführlich äußert sie sich auch zum AfD-Umfragehoch und der Frage, was das mit den Grünen zu tun hat.
Solutions? Where we're going, we don't need solutions. (lemmy.world)
Please dont take this seriously guys its just a dumb meme I haven’t written a single line of code in half of these languages
And don't forget RTFM (lemmy.world)
Besides Linux isos and piracy, what are some common uses of torrenting?
It’s kind of silly, but I still really dig the idea behind torrenting and peer to peer sharing of data. It’s cool to think about any old computer helping pass along some odd bits & bytes of data, whether a goofy drawing or strange story.
China demands Israel halt military operations in Rafah (thecradle.co)
Does this language exist?
Being a foss enthusiast I can configure most of my software in way too many ways. However I noticed that this is not true for most compilers. Which got me thinking: why isn’t that the case. In gcc (or your favorite compiler tool) I have a shitload of options about what are errors and warnings and how the code should be...
How to go about self hosting a wiki of repair guides?
I have a little side business of doing minor repairs on phones and tablets and such....