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nixCraft, to thinkpad
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If your employer gives this laptop you don’t have to worry about layoffs …

sjfloat,
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@nixCraft Faving from a P50. BTW, where is this company? I want to apply.

Alice, to random
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Apologies to those who watched my latest unboxing live stream. In my defense, it was 50/50 on whether those cats were going to be alive or not.

sjfloat,
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@Alice Wait. Wouldn't multiple cats improve the odds?

mcc, to random
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I understand why every metronome on earth is designed to make the most painful upsetting noise ever but I still kind of wish they wouldn't

sjfloat,
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@mcc I sorely hate click tracks.

vascorsd, to programming
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How many people out there have changed from #scala to #elixir successfully?

The language seems interesting enough, being #FP helps, and there seems to be some interesting opportunities out there to work on it.

So, what's the experience changing from one ecosystem to the other, successful stories, failures, recommended reading or learning resources?

🙂

sjfloat,
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@vascorsd By "opportunties", do you mean for employment?

sjfloat,
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@vascorsd I've been intrigued with and the BEAM for years. But it seemed more niche that Scala

sjfloat,
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@vascorsd Yeah. But it'd be tough leaving the types behind.

sjfloat,
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@vascorsd I'd really like to play with .

sjfloat,
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@vascorsd For years I've toyed with the idea of building a home automation hub around the BEAM. I also consider doing it in fs2.

raichoo, to bass
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My musical goal in 2024 is to become a lot better at reading standard notation moving away from tab as far as possible.

sjfloat,
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@raichoo I learned notation early in life and never really got comfortable with tab. My site reading skill on guitar is not great though.

sjfloat,
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@raichoo Mine wasn't great, really. The machine was optimized for cranking out marching bands. I was kind of on my own for theory. But I did learn to read, in two clefs. Mainly because I swapped instruments a lot.

sjfloat,
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@raichoo The challenge for me is that it maps differently to what I learned in my youth. That note is available in multiple places on the fret board.

sjfloat,
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@raichoo Right. Nothing I couldn't master with a little discipline. Having a default position for site reading gets you a long way. Most music falls in a particular range. I'm just lazy, of course.

But yeah, I'm sure actively touring got you there much faster than might have otherwise.

sjfloat, to programming
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Hey, all.

I'd love to join a good FP #Scala Team

#GetFediHired #jobsearch

vascorsd, to random
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Jesubus christ. I haven't done technical interviews in a long time. I just finished one and am sweating buckets. The kind of shit that kills people 😖.

Now let's wait and see, I'm hopeful 🙏

sjfloat,
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@vascorsd It's a mess nowadays. There was a time when I really enjoyed and looked forward to interviews -- from both ends.

sjfloat,
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@vascorsd Well, those were different days. Everybody seems to think it should be adversarial now. I don't know how or when that crept it, but it's pretty stupid.

mjgardner, to programming
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@Perl Happy 36th #birthday to the #Perl #programming language!

v1.0 then:
“Perl is kind of designed to make #awk and #sed semi-obsolete […] The language is intended to be practical (easy to use, efficient, complete) rather than beautiful (tiny, elegant, minimal).” https://github.com/Perl/perl5/releases/tag/perl-1.0

v5.38.2 now:
“Perl is […] now used for a wide range of tasks including #SysAdmin, #WebDev, network programming, #GUI development, and more.” https://perldoc.perl.org/perlintro#What-is-Perl%3F

sjfloat,
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@mjgardner @Perl For me, it did replace awk and sed. Not to mention a goodly portion of the C and Bourne shell I was then writing.

sjfloat,
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@mjgardner @Perl My usual practice at the time, was to begin in bourne shell. If the complexity became unwieldy, I'd stick an "END" near the top and start moving things up, porting as I went.

ZachWeinersmith, to comics
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AGI
http://smbc-comics.com/comic/agi-3 (click for full comic)

sjfloat,
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@ZachWeinersmith Reference Lunkwill and Fook

tenderlove, to random
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I know it's important for us to move the needle on healthcare, I just don't want it moved while I'm getting vaccinated

sjfloat,
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@tenderlove Except along a very particular axis.

mcc, to random
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Scala users— no way to install sbt on ubuntu other than custom repos?

sjfloat,
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@mcc I use Nix. But you may try coursier:
https://get-coursier.io/docs/cli-install

raichoo, to bass
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Played 2 Gigs last weekend and had a blast. It's not that often that you get approached by the sound guy with "Hey, I pulled your volume up during the gig, your sounded great!" 😹

sjfloat,
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@raichoo It's almost as though they were different instruments.

sjfloat,
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@raichoo I lesson I had to learn early on was that, as a guitarist, I needed to roll off some bottom to give the bass some room to move.

mcc, to random
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Every time I learn a fact about Apple Silicon macs I am shocked anew that there are people who use Apple Silicon macs for a reason other than "I was forced to"

sjfloat,
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@mcc That is indeed my reason. But in my case, it's more to do with the UX that I can't quite escape from.

Edent, to ChatGPT
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One of the things I've noticed with , is that it is reluctant∗ to say "that's not possible".

If you give it various computing / linguistics problems, it would rather say the wrong thing than admit defeat.

I wonder how much hallucinating could be removed from if it were allowed to show ignorance?

∗ I know, don't anthropomorphise computers; they don't like it.

sjfloat,
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@Edent What's funny (in a frustrating way) is when you get it going in circles.

paulrickards, to random
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Do I need 80 brand new Mac 128k mice tho? 🤔🤔

https://www.ebay.com/itm/256201871805

Edit corrected link

sjfloat,
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@paulrickards 64k mice should be enough for anyone

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