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nil, 7 months ago to random

Just ordered a mechanical #arabic keyboard!

nil, 7 months ago to random

Parenthesis. Unbalanced.

nil, 7 months ago to random

Instead of fighting with your comrades: Be the alchemist. The polymath. The gnostic. The pilgrim. The beginners mind. The artist. The liberator. The destroyer of subjugation in all of its forms. And as cybernetics is literally the study of subjugation... be the cybernetician. Learn to explain the system in ways that people from all walks of life can hear. Be the slogan: Attenuation Not Subjugation. Become the spectacle. Experience the Revolution of Every Day Life.

nil, 7 months ago to random

Completely wore out the right direction on my switch lite dpad playing #tetris99. As far as I can see it’s not serviceable sadly so ordering a new one. Hopefully this time my save data persists. Last time I just had to lose 74 levels. This time it would be 197! All I want is to be #TetrisDoubleStar

nil, 7 months ago to tetris

Sadly I can’t prove this but last night I got an all-clear at the exact moment I won a round of #tetris99 - I play a lot of that game (and not to brag but I win a lot. I am level 97 not including the levels I lost when replacing switch) and this is first time that has ever happened. Almost like one of those water bottle flip trick shots or something. #LastNightInHistory #tetris

nil, 7 months ago to books

We have reached the point where we are
considering the pros and cons of putting a bookshelf in the bathroom. Too many #books but they are all so good!

nil, 8 months ago to emacs

I just want to say as an #emacs prisoner (if I had a car it would have a bumper sticker that said “my other editor is a post modern lisp machine”) that the ux is awful. Executing a mortal kombat fatality on my keyboard to save a file is sadism. #LispHeretic

nil, 8 months ago to random

not sure how to describe the feeling of not being able to find any information about my childhood computer. It was a "USA Flex 486 DX2 66". It was the machine I first used a BBS on (technically me and my friend tried to connect to a BBS from their commodore64 but it didn't work - though his mom got the phone bill for our attempts to connect to a BBS in hawaii!). Anyway every once in a while i think about that computer. It was the machine I used the first version of Netscape on (and wrote my first line of HTML and in the next version my first line of javascript). Thankfully I was exposed to macintosh at school which got me hooked on hypercard and drove me towards smalltalk/self eventually which is why I guess I'm torn nostalgia wise as the xerox parc shit is what really stuck with me. I have no desire to physically own that 486 ever again or to experience DOS and windows 3.11 - they did not spark joy even then. I still wish I could find pictures of the machine or at least the Ads. I do still own my original Sega Genesis. That DID spark joy.

nil, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

Time is the medium of process. #PiCalculusPoetry

simon_brooke, 8 months ago to random

A lot of work done on the roundhouse site today. The remains of the round straw bales we used to insulate the roof have been taken out and rebaled into small square bales for the walls (of course we'll need many more of these); the hearthstone has been levelled and mortared into place; and (although they're not in these pictures) all the floor joists are on site ready to fit.

nil, 8 months ago to random

Title: Hypermedia Systems
Authors: CARSON GROSS, ADAM STEPINSKI, DENİZ AKŞİMŞEK
Review: very well written and good explanation of the what/why/how of #htmx and hypermedia as it was intended. My only qualm was numerous code formatting/layout issues when ever a code block crossed pages eg missing and duplicated lines. Sometimes these lines are referred to by the text which can add to the confusion. I love the cover though and the font choices!

lispm, 8 months ago to ai German

Doug Lenat died. RIP. #cyc #lispm #lispmachines #ai #commonlisp #cycorp

He started the Cyc project, using Lisp Machines as a development environment. The project is roughly since 40 years ongoing. Cyc was the dream of a large-scale knowledge base of common sense knowledge. One that has many ways of reasoning and making inferences. It used SubL a variant of Common Lisp.

Here is an old screen shot...

nil, 8 months ago to random

Obviously being able to read “joined-up” Arabic is the goal but I made a lot of progress by using a monospaced font! Just a tip for other people who are like “wouldn’t a right to left lisp in Arabic spark joy?”

nil, 8 months ago to random

Just had the disgusting realization that objectivist types view Elon Musk as Galt.

rml, 8 months ago to Lisp

The reverse psychology of naming your programming language #jank is brave. Hard sell given that its what we are all trying to avoid like the plague.

#lisp #clojure

HeavenlyPossum, 9 months ago to random

There’s a particular kind of person who imagines themselves as a principled leftist, or opponent of capitalism, or critic or tyranny, or whatever, right up until you criticize their pet aspect of capitalist modernity.

Last time, it was landlording; some “mom-and-pop” types absolutely lost their shit.

Tonight it was intellectual property and taxes, of all things.

Folks, all of these things—literal rents collected by a landlord, taxes collected by the state, profits collected by a copyright holder—are all fundamentally aspects of the same phenomenon.

You can’t separate them from each other. They are all claims to your labor, backed by the threat of violence, by someone who claims some sort of sovereign ownership of something you’re using—your home, a song, your community, whatever.

I don’t really care if you can imagine ways in which collecting those rents might be useful to you, or could be put to use in service of some higher purpose. That’s the logic of the capitalist, not of liberation.