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mykhaylo, 2 months ago to random

If you listen to yourself carefully you might notice that under the usual load of regrets and anxiety there's an entire "quiet world". And in this world you can enjoy yourself as long as you like and almost for free. The only entrance fee is having internal silence of negative emotions.

sanityinc, 3 months ago to random

"Fintech" is an appropriate term when there are so many sharks.

vwbusguy, 3 months ago to writing

Fountain pens are awesome. Pass it along.

#fountainpen #writing

gvwilson, 3 months ago to random

1. Is SpatiaLite still the recommended SQLite geospatial extension?
2. If so, is there an up-to-date tutorial somewhere that I've overlooked?
3. If not, what should I use instead?
   Thanks

glyph, 3 months ago to random

oof. inbox zero is gonna be a challenge this morning

sanityinc, 3 months ago to random

I've got a sunny outdoor space that is 61.8% as large as the house. It's the golden patio.

sanityinc, 3 months ago to NewZealand

Few programmers still remember the early #NewZealand supercomputer called the Hamiltron, which used quaternary logic instead of binary. Each "but" (instead of bit) could have a value in the set {nahnah, yeahnah, nahyeah, yeahyeah}.

nathanlovestrees, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

Been listening to #MichaelHedges all morning. I was introduced to him by my high school best friend's #NeilYoung loving dad. I've been a huge fan since (in the sense that I love all his late instrumental and vocal stuff maybe even more than #AerialBoundaries). I appreciate his technical ability, sure, but more than that I appreciate how it's always subservient to the composition, to what is needed in the piece. He isn't showy just to be showy.

Speaking of Neil: https://open.spotify.com/track/5VwZ0WGDGpjUrDmByIXYtj?si=CtTLrT4vRJ6yGgy4bTBV_w

gvrooyen, 3 months ago to programming

I'm evaluating #Prolog for use in a project where the client requires a scriptable expert system for risk management.

I'm pretty thankful for my recent deep-dive into #OCaml, since a better understanding of functional languages is certainly a good stepping stone to logic programming (a generalisation of functional programming).

For example, one of the "aha!"s in OCaml for me was that you can create most list processing functions from 1st principles with a tail-recursive cons, and that once you've derived fold you've got the Swiss army knife of data processing.

Similarly, this beautiful little Prolog program by Erik Schierboom on #Exercism was an "aha!" for me, because it shows how succinct a fold can be. Here he's converting a string of binary numbers into its decimal equivalent as an integer.

Coming from #OCaml the type inference here is sweet. Since foldl/4 has an integer as third parameter in the binary predicate, Dec must be an integer too for it to hold. Type inference seems to come almost as a given in logic programming. If it doesn't quack like a duck it isn't a duck, and the predicate is false.

#programming

sanityinc, 3 months ago to random

I propose the following #Kanban board stages:

• TO DO (requested)
• NO GO (blocked, cancelled)
• FO SHO (doing it)
• OH NO (testing)
• YOLO (released)

gvwilson, 4 months ago to random

My thanks to Andi Albrecht (http://andialbrecht.de/) for (a) writing a SQL parser in Python, (b) making it open source, and (c) answering a question from a random stranger that gave me exactly the solution I needed.

sanityinc, 4 months ago to emacs

#Emacs 29.2 is out and I've therefore updated:

✅ nix-emacs-ci and the Setup Emacs GitHub Action
✅ package-lint, so it knows about added/removed symbols

nobodyinperson, 4 months ago to python

I have been struggling hard doing proper :python: #Python development on :nixos: #NixOS.

pip install'ed binary packages (numpy et. al) don't work (i.e. don't find system libraries like libz libstdc++ etc.), making scientific data analysis completely impossible. The workarounds (using the nixpkgs versions or setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH) are not viable.

With this #poetry2nix flake template (the clue is preferWheels=true) it seems I can finally work properly:

https://gitlab.com/nobodyinperson/flakes/-/tree/main/poetry2nix

#nix

sanityinc, 4 months ago to random

Be the strange you want to see in the world.

sanityinc, 4 months ago to random

Some folks think that quietly working around unexpected cases is "defensive programming", but real defensive programming is failing fast and loudly when something seems off.

kellogh, 4 months ago to random

my programming hot take of the day is that single letter variable names are fine in extremely small scopes

e.g. students.filter(x => x.not_smart).fail()

sanityinc, 4 months ago to random

Well done, technologists, for inventing watches with screens that only display the time at random or in response to taps and artificial movements. Literally had one job.

nedbat, 4 months ago to python

Happy #Python New Year!

alexzeitler, 4 months ago to random

There's something that makes me more and more curious to try OCaml but I don't know what it is.

#ocaml

sanityinc, 4 months ago to random

The root of so many problems in software: reflexively upscaling capacity instead of addressing efficiency. Once you see it, it's everywhere.

• Process running out of memory? Don't just give it more, find out why first, and reduce how much it allocates.

• Team delivering too slowly? Don't just expand the team, find out what's slowing them down.

• Too much work to track? Don't just buy Jira and curate a huge backlog, identify the essentials instead, and keep a simple list

janvhs, 4 months ago to random

My new favourite open source mastodon client is https://phanpy.social by @cheeaun.
It is a web app, but can be added to your Home Screen like any other app (even on iPhone).

The attention to detail and minimalist, yet playful, UI is just out of this world. Whenever I use my other client, I wish for their features.

My absolute favourite feature is using different colours to highlight replies, private messages, boosts and hashtags.