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nil, 11 months ago to random

What ever this new cybernetic religion we are creating is it should for sure have an emphasis on the gospel of attenuation.

nil, 11 months ago to random

Is over/hypernormalization a pathological issue? #datomic has been my saving grace in this regard because as soon as you find yourself implementing attributes as attributes you know you have clearly gone too far. Same thing with “oh, these two things have sub items so let’s just make a generic children ref many for them!” - also a design flaw as a distinct attribute name gives texture to the soup!

nil, 11 months ago to random

Does anyone want to talk about the #Ease programming language/concurrency model? I refer to the work of Steven Ericsson Zenith: Process Interaction Models. He was a huge proponent of #CSP and essentially rejects the notion of channels here in favor of Contexts which behave in a similar manner for synchronization but allow for a non-destructive read. So something like a #clojure atom combined with a channel. Another cool thing is a context can be various data structures so a set or a bag or a list depending on use case (technically you can get this with #coreasync via custom buffers but it takes some work). Anyway if anyone else digs this stuff I would love to chat.

nil, 1 year ago to random

#marxist process formalism: CSP (communicating suffering proles)

nil, 1 year ago to random

Forbidden desert: the lice crispy treat

nil, 1 year ago to random

Today on hn: “oh god no - social media is the decentralization of subliminal brain immersion!”

julioj, 1 year ago to random

What is happening at #github? Outages are like a daily thing now. Oh wait, my bad, "degraded service."

nil, 1 year ago to random

Just saw “Barefoot Gen” for the first time. I honestly have no words beside abjectly beautiful.

nil, 1 year ago to random

Considering I am obsessed with vintage programming languages it is surprising that I have never tried a vintage development methodology like waterfall. I am legitimately going to attempt it for my next project. Vast diagrams and entity relation charts, sequence diagrams - the works! All before a single paren touches the buffer. I think I might even wear a white shirt and tie with a pocket protector to get into the zone.

mjgardner, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to programming

This is hilarious. A #Google engineer invented #zx to make command line scripting easier with #NodeJS, because at a certain point #shell scripts get too complicated and you need a Real #Programming Language.

https://github.com/google/zx/

This is exactly #Perl’s use case from thirty-six years ago. But the kids want #JavaScript everywhere and would rather it take more work to convert their ascended #Bash scripts to a vastly different syntax.

https://github.com/google/zx/issues/581#issuecomment-1516573139

#Unix #Linux #ProgrammingLanguages

nil, 1 year ago to random

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_MUDs the last #MUD was God Wars II from 2002. Can this be right? Have we really stopped developing MUDs? I want to believe there are active MUDs out there that just don't want to be known or found? That said if you know of one can you let me in on it?

nil, 1 year ago to random

#apl #somehowdiscarded
Title: The Role of Computers in Teaching
Author: Kenneth E. Iverson
Year: 1968