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aleks

@aleks@hachyderm.io

Code, Bike, Run.
All Cars Are Barricades.

Interests: (computational) linguistics, type theory, logic, software engineering, music, respectful parenting, and tasty things.

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jmcrookston, to random
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I did not make this. I merely laugh at this.

aleks,
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@jmcrookston Time for my very favourite Wikipedia List:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_irregularly_spelt_places_in_the_United_Kingdom

Sheril, to history
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“Vote NO on Woman Suffrage” 🙄

Not ancient #history, but just a century ago.

Source: State Archives of North Carolina

aleks,
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@Sheril 100 years? Try 50—at least in quaint little Switzerland. Here are a couple of posters. I've included translations in the alt text.

(YES, Switzerland gained women's suffrage in 1971)

Fischblog, to random German
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Ihr habt sicher mitbekommen: das Kreuzfahrschiff "Norwegian Dawn" durfte tagelang keinen Hafen anlaufen, weil angeblich Cholera an Bord war.

Dass die Behörden so drastisch auf den bloßen Verdacht reagieren hat mehrere Gründe. Hier erkläre ich den ganzen Hintergrund der Geschichte:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYEkpv7GwpY

aleks,
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@eliasp @Fischblog Mit einer schönen Prise "Nach mir die Sintflut" (man ist ja zu Schiff).

aleks, to rust
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Bored? Get lost!

I finally made something in and and using : a maze generator that successfully keeps the kids occupied for minutes at a time! (Due to its handy PDF feature that allows you to print mazes)

https://aleks.bg/maze

aleks, to random
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Teaching the kids about additive colour mixing with a dead-simple circuit!

A small breadboard with an RGB diode circuit and three buttons to control the red, green and blue channels. The diode lights up first blue, then green, then red, then magenta, cyan, yellow, and, finally, white as different combinations of buttons are pressed.

simonmic, (edited ) to random
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Seen on the mail list: Did you know,

include <->.journal

includes all numerically-named journal files, like 2024.journal.

oddities

aleks,
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@simonmic Ooh, neat. I just explicitly enumerated the files before.

hledger is so awesome. I just had to do my entire accounting for the last 1½yrs (because I'm a lazy slob) and thanks to hledger's rule files, it took just one evening.

aleks, to random
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Today in "Am I uploading my very sensitive personal data to a legit German government site, or is this a phishing attempt?"
This is the URL I'm supposed to use:

extranet.xy-cd.de:4443/ausschreibung/f?p=11102:20100 (redacted exact URL for privacy reasons. You get the idea.)

How did I know it's legit? Easy: the server was down.

aleks,
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@psycodepath You see, later that day, the server came back up again, and I had to:

  • download a form
  • print it
  • sign it
  • mail it

I'm glad they let me scan and E-mail it, though I've had the "download the form, print it and send it via snail-mail" treatment, too (specifically, that's how requests for parental leave support [Elterngeld] work in my state).

Oh, and how did I know the server was legit AFTER it was back up?

The site ran on .

aleks, to random
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Let's get this straight:

when a workers' strike inconveniences you, it's OK to be peeved or even annoyed.

At the bosses. Yell at the companies and the execs, complain about worker's comp being too low—NOT about service disruptions.

Focus on the cause, not the symptom.

(isn't just a hash tag)

fasterthanlime, to random
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lmao love you too traefik

aleks,
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@fasterthanlime Checks out. Magnifique.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_phonology

mcc, to random
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A problem I have is, I am at a place with soldering where I can solder but I do not feel confident soldering, and I don't know how to get from A to B because the only way to get confident would be to do a lot of it. But I don't do any of it. Because I don't feel confident. I'm afraid I'll break something.

aleks,
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@mcc Get yourself kids. I'm constantly fixing electronic toys…

aleks, to python
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My biggest gripe with ? A dozen of them: pip, pyenv, virtualenv, venv, virtualenvwrapper, wheel, conda (miniconda, anaconda, wtf do I need?), poetry, pipx, easy_install/setuptools (remember distutils?), pipenv (wait, didn't I have this one already? Oh no, that was pyenv, totally different), pdm, requirements.txt, pip-tools, zipapp (it seems superzippy is not a thing anymore), …

Wait, what's a dozen?

afilina, (edited ) to random
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Let's try something fun. When coding, what part do you start with? If other, please specify in replies.

aleks,
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@afilina Yes, absolutely. Like Lego. Just need to make it all fit together, and the compiler tells me what I'm doing wrong.

Which also means that I'm hopeless in dynamic languages. The only ones I've been able to write any non-trivial code in are like Lisp, and also . But I do it the same way there: I write the signatures first, and keep types in my head, or in docstrings right above the functions.

SheDrivesMobility, to random German
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    aleks,
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    @SheDrivesMobility Auch im Radsport denken die Leute vermehrt übers Klima nach—dort wird's nämlich auch langsam spürbar ungemütlich (Hitze im Sommer, extreme Unwetter).

    Insbesondere Gillaume Martin und der jüngst tödlich verunfallte Gino Mäder haben sich für bessere Klimamaßnahmen gerade im Sport eingesetzt. Da muss wirklich ein Umdenken stattfinden. Dass gerade professionelles Radfahren so umweltschädlich ist…

    https://www.kath.ch/newsd/dem-radrennfahrer-gino-maeder-lag-der-klimaschutz-am-herzen/

    ewolff, to random German
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    Funktionale Programmierung leichter erklärbar als objektorientierte?

    aleks,
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    @ewolff @gerritbeine Das ist außerhalb von Haskell und vielleicht Scala kaum üblich. Man kann in von Lisp bis JS, von Rust bis Kotlin funktional programmieren, ohne zu wissen, was ein Monad oder eine Typenklasse ist.

    BartoszMilewski, to random
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    Typical Rama II sentence: "The hot liquid warmed her mouth even though she didn't care for the bitter taste." This could only be compared to "It was dark and stormy night." Add to this excrutiating descriptions of every trivial technological gadget and inner emotions of every person within a 100 mile radius...

    Is this what they are feeding the LLMs?

    aleks,
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    @BartoszMilewski Do yourself a favour and stop reading. It won't get better. You haven't even got to the melodrama of book 3, nor the preachy high-mindedness of book 4.

    SheDrivesMobility, to random German
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    aleks,
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    @eliasp @SheDrivesMobility So so? Sind die Ergebnisse einsehbar?

    Und werden auch neben dem Radweg liegende Gefahren miteinbezogen, wie z. B. parkende Autos in Dooringreichweite?
    In Tübingen ist das in der Wilhelmstraße ein riesiges Problem.

    alanz, to random
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    Unpopular opinion: I really dislike the UI style of the magit pane, which is taking over for everything. It gives no feedback on location, the evil bindings don't work well, and it uses a different paradigm from the rest of emacs.

    aleks,
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    @alanz Do you mean transient?

    Fischblog, to random German
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    Könnt jetzt in der Ebola-ist-harmlos-Diskussion natürlich ganz unschuldig fragen, ob das nicht die Langzeitfolgen relativiert.
    Aber neee... 🙄
    Glaub Trolle haben einfach mehr Spaß an Social Media. 😅

    aleks,
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    @tobi82 @Fischblog Nur zu etwa einem Drittel. Der Rest dann schon.

    rose, to random
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    aleks,
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    @rose Once you're done, may I recommend Thelonious Monk's "Complete Riverside Recordings"

    See you next week.

    aleks, to random
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    While visiting Poland I alwost submitted a bug report to @organicmaps as I wasn't seeing contour lines on my map at all, even though I always have the topographic layer active!

    Then it occurred to me: there are no contour lines on the Great European Plain, silly.

    aleks, to Kotlin
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    Fixed that pesky bug by… running everything synchronously!

    Concurrency is hard, let's go shopping…

    aleks,
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    …meanwhile, that new 16-core CPU I just bought.

    mcc, to random
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    Rubbing eyes I may have just committed myself to rewriting a Haskell program in 6502 assembly.

    aleks,
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    @mcc Yeah, that code is pretty obscure. Typical mathsy code using tuples instead of records etc. Good luck!

    aleks, to random
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    Today's prize for my most passive-aggressive commit message goes to… 07062bf!

    A screenshot of a git commit message on Github. The commit text reads: "Oh say can't you see… eagle emoji, US American flag emoji … that S should be Z!" (As a bonus, that rhyme only works in American English.)

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