Today is "International Non-Binary People's Day", and if you are a cis person, honestly the best thing you could do to support us is to do everything in your power to remove unnecessary "sex" or "gender" fields from everything from official government records to your random internal corporate databases.
@recursive those people don't think men are a threat to boys, only to women and girls. Their risk analysis takes into account the relatively low occurrence of homosexuality in humans. The logic doesn't hold but there is a framework they mostly-consistently apply
@johnhamelink@louis Hashicorp have relicensed all their applications BUSL (Business Source License), a proprietary license restricting commercial offerings that compete with the Licensor's portfolio.
Is working with multiple Lisps normal in the Lisp programmer's world? Like writing some applications in SBCL, but maybe some others in <lisp 2>, <lisp 3> etc? I would imagine the want to use the same Lisp implementation everywhere
when i was a teen i got rejected from an FPGA job solely because I said I think in the future all computers should be mostly arrays of reconfigurable FPGAs instead of ASICs.
i still stand by that. when ASICs can't get any faster, FPGA or CPLD will be the next focus of chip manufacturers
@aer my daydream is that one day, in the same way as we accept slower to be acceptable when using interpreted programming languages as they feel "fast enough", field-programmable alternatives to processors and coprocessors will be acceptable.
One day a superior approach than lookup tables and logic blocks must be discovered, not that I would have any idea what it looks like
This language, Ballerina, is really cool. Designed to help make writing networked services and cloud glue-code super easy. It has query expressions on tables built-in to the language! Only downside, the syntax and the semantics completely suck. https://ballerina.io/learn/get-started/
i can write literally anything in one language that's performant enough for 98% of use-cases and is readable, well-typed and not full of metaprogramming bullshit
The EU can never make a good regulation. They always make a watered-down good regulation plus a ton of unnecessary regulatory bullshit that helps nobody
The United States' so-called justice system allows for a jury to overrule scientific evidence and literature based on their feelings towards the defendant - how could that at all be a just system?
You can't argue AI generates based on "stolen" code or "stolen" art because unless the painting was shredded by ChatGPT's disk drive nothing was stolen. Unauthorised copying, also known as sharing, is not theft
epic feeling when your boss gets upset at your because you can't afford a £60 train to London for an f'ing sprint retro and have to take a £13 coach that leaves at 4am instead
@louis you've really fallen hard down the lisp rabbit hole! watching it in real-time is like one of those addiction documentaries. do your family have an intervention planned?
@yeti I haven't done electronic engineering since university but "controller" or "peripheral" in/out would've been confusing. not that I wouldn't have learned
whenever i start a project in a non-rust language i start to feel like i should just use rust for everything. "why am i using elixir when i could use rust + actor model lib?" kind of thing. it really stresses me out to be honest