Had an epic KPop shoppin' trip to Southcenter today, capped by grabbing THE VERY LAST BOX OF SOOBIN TRIX from Target! I've finally completed the set of #TXT cereals. It wasn't the Family Size, which I would have preferred, but the cutouts on the back are all the same size, so I can make myself a little band standee now. Also, er, does anybody need cereal???
Found a random Beomgyu at my Safeway. Which is good because the box I already had is kinda squooshed. Still on the hunt for Cookie Crisp and Trix. #txt
Thanks to Mr. Tikistitch's mad cereal hunting skillz we now have 2 of the 6 #TXT General Mills cereal boxes (though the Lucky Charms is a bit messed up - sorry Beomgyu, you are still handsome).
Soobin and Seungkwan doing each other's dances, and then getting super hyped before doing the Happily Ever After choreo. Which Seungkwan nailed.
Also love that look for Seungkwan. And Soobin's bouncy hair is trying its best to steal the show in the best way, but these two are too high energy for it to work.
This challenge has been giving me so much happiness.
Take a shot for every time they make a heart :fingerheart_2: :borahae_2: :bloblewd:
Aaaah my knees are so weak :blobhearteyes: how do you guys choose a bias in this group? They’re all so talented and captivating, even their personalities are amazing! :blobcatbigfan:
A nice article that should be shared more often to create more awareness on why #DRM harms everyone.
Earlier on I used to purchase ebooks via Amazon, and then use Calibre to strip off the DRM.
Then, after Amazon tried too hard to make life too hard for DRM strippers, I've decided to go the old pirate way all the way down.
Remember that piracy is way more ethical than giving your money to an intermediary parasite that turns a purchase into a rental, allows you to only access your purchase on very specific hardware and software, gives you no guarantee that you'll still be able to read your book in 10 years, and offers no way of gifting the book or passing it to your children.
And we also need more writers and artists who are aware of the issue. When I discovered that my computer vision book had been released on the Kindle store as well, DRM protected, I took the step of adding a line to the README Github repo used in the book, along the lines of "if you purchased a DRM-locked version of the book, please reach out to me to get an unlocked PDF or EPUB file". If Amazon goes down, I want my books to still be around.
DRM harms content creators as well, as it reduces the lifespan and distribution of our work and locks it into a specific platform.
Various thoughts on too many programming languages, for no discernible reason.
I have been interested in Go since it's very initial release, but their dependence on Google is uncharming to say the least. I still haven't made up my mind on its GC, but its definitely better than most.
I used to do some ML work in .NET and if it wasn't dependent on Microsoft it would be a heavy contender for a great language, but it has far too many Microsoft-isms to ever really go much farther.
Rust is great, I enjoy beating my head against a brick wall battling with the compiler, and their safety is great, but overly complicated and feature-creep is a real problem on that entire project. I do a lot of work these days in Rust, for better (mostly) or worse (mostly-ish).
C is my bread-and-butter, as is Javascript for quick prototyping.
Elixir is great, but Erlang is unwieldy, the community is growing, but not fast enough - and I just can't get my mind to enjoy the syntax no matter how nice it is.
D is a lot of fun, but their GC can be slow at times, and the community is very small and packages are often broken and unmaintained.
Python was my first true love, but I really can't stand the whitespace, again love the language, hate the syntax.
Zig is fun, but just that. Fast, nimble, but early days, a bit confusing, could replace my insistence on C for core projects, but again, early days. I love to use them as a compiler for C, much faster than the defaults on any of the others.
Odin is one I love to keep an eye on, I wish I could get behind using it for more things. When I first took notice ~4 years ago the documentation was a bit scattered, but it looks much better now. The developer behind it is incredibly cool, could be seen as the next Dennis Ritchie imo. Runes are dope. The syntax is by far my favourite.
Julia, I love Julia, but performance last I tested was a bit of a miss, and by miss, it required a decent chunk of compute for basics, but when you gave it the system to throttle, it would be insanely productive to write in. Javascript is something that I prototype even syscalls in, but Julia is just the same but much better and more productive (and less strange) in many regards. I am really hoping this takes over in the ML/Data world and just eats Python alive. I've heard there has been major work in the perf department, but I haven't had reason to try it out lately.
Ada, memory safety before Rust! Great language, especially for critical applications, decades of baggage (or wisdom), slow moving language, insanely stable, compilers are all mostly proprietary, job market is small, but well paid, great for robotics, defense, and space industry types, but the syntax is... rough. Someone should make a meta-language on top of Ada like Zig/Nim/Odin do for C, or Elixir does for Erlang.
The others: Carbon, haven't tried; Nim, prefer when they were "Nimrod" (cue Green Day), decent but not my style; Crystal, seems cool, but not for me; Scala, great FP language, but JVM; Haskell, I'm not a mathematician, but my mathematician friends love it. I see why, but not my thing as much as I love functional languages. I'll try it again, eventually. I did not learn Haskell a great good.
I tend to jump from language to language, trying everything out, it's fun and a total timesuck.