La Fée Verte @Absinthe@qoto.org

Just saying:
In most US States and DC, and a whole bunch of countries it is ILLEGAL to be out in public wearing a mask.

Stay home, stay safe, stay alive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-mask_law

Thoughts on the day...

So it would seem that there is a huge push to get girls/women/ladies/female persons into STEM and programming specifically. There are people working on "scholarships" or "free tickets to cons" and such for them as underrepresented class of persons. I am wondering the actual specific reasons? Is it because we have an actual shortage of programming persons? Or because this class of persons desires to be in programming, but is somehow being shut out? There doesn't necessarily seem to be lack for this class of persons in other STEM fields. Could it also be due to the fact that this class of persons is traditionally paid less than their boy/man/dude/male person counterpart performing the same job as an attempt to lower the cost to businesses employing such? I am curious of the pushes that are being done, because I never trust the motivation given for anything that affects so many aspects of something.

Without turning this into an essay, I want to raise a few more questions?
Does the industry gain anything in the field from diversity itself? Does a programming team benefit from having a person of a specific gender, race, religion, national origin <insert the rest of the eoe protected classes> from the fact that they are in fact a member of that class.
Should the industry and its players change itself, (customs, culture, mores, language, and so on) to allow for such integration, or would the marriage of such new culture to an existing culture naturally change it organically?
Is this done in other industries where they are made up lacking a certain class of person and strong encouragement, support etc. is made to interest, entice, or otherwise bring members of that lacking class into it?

I hope everyone is okay, and practicing social distancing.

I hope everyone is doing well. If your job gave you the ability to work from home, use this as an opportunity to show them how much more productive you can be without having to come into an office. Don't prove their fears that people they can't see aren't working. Silver lining might be more remote working positions... :)

So far we have over 500 companies that are either recommending or requiring employees to work from home.

What are the chances that companies will find increased productivity from people able to work from home, and not have to deal with commutes and death by meeting?

Or will people being given liberal work from home policies all of the sudden actually screw-off and not work (the management's fear/prevailing opinion/reason for not having more WFH situations up until now)?

There could be a silver lining, and perhaps companies would see that people would work even though you can't see their "butts in seats". One could hope.. :)

#wfh #management #employees #workfromhome #worklifebalance #policies

Harvey Weinstien sentenced today 23 years. 3 years for one count of rape, and 20 years for one count of "an illegal sexual act".

I am trying to imagine what an illegal sexual act is, such that it is 7 times worse than rape?

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@billstclair you around tonight?

#Lisp is the $4!7!!!

Who's Using #emacs with #evil

I took it out and when I went to put it back in, I notice there are 65+ packages that start with Evil* I have put evil back in place. But do I want these others?

@billstclair you around?

@billstclair Hey, got that installed. Works pretty slick. I have a few semi-questions if you have some time.

I guess, while I am at it, which #lisp #commonlisp should I settle on

#ClozureCL, #GnuCommonLisp #gcl, #Clisp, #SteelBankCommonLisp (#sbcl)

#spacemacs ... sell me.

I have started to do a bit more #isp and lisp like language things. This just generally pushes me into the #emacs world (just feels wrong doing lisp stuff in Vim). But if I am going to gear up and retool Emacs to use, maybe it is time to reconsider Spacemacs.

I am open minded enough to consider facts in making a decision. :)

Just to clean it up a little, and add some more entertainment.

Okay, here's one with a story :) Let's see if this is entertaining enough :D

Here is a problem that involves being jerk.

You receive a parking ticket and decide to pay in the least
convient way possible... change. This decision comes to mind
because the tickets are in strange amounts because they use
the cents portion for some kind of internal encoding.

You decide to pay all in pennies but when you start to collect
them someone informs you that although change will be accepted,
if the counts of coins exceed the quantities required for a wrapper
then you must roll them. You also figure out that collecting all
these coins is a bit of a nuisance for you. So your goal is to
reduce the overall number of coin rolls while maximizing the
number of free (or unrolled individual coins).

US Coinage count to a roll
0.01 = 50
0.05 = 40
0.10 = 50
0.25 = 40
0.50 = 20
$1.00 = 25 (small) or 20 (large)

Question 1.
How many rolls and free coins of each can you provide to pay your
$100.37 ticket in order to use the highest count of unrolled coins
while using the least number of rolled coins?

Considering that a ticket can cost anywhere from $1.00 to $250.00.
You start telling everyone else about your plan and they decide to
play too, so you calculate how they should pay as well.

To make things a little more interesting, you show up at a city council
meeting and propose that because of the time involved in processing
unrolled coinage that the parking authority should, rather than
bother with unrolled coins, all unrolled coins they collect should
just be donated to the city coucil's general fund. They pass this
unanimously.

For example, 45 pennies 21 nickles for a $1.00 ticket might be
pretty obnoxious :).

Question 2. Which fine amount (in that range) would allow you to
provide the highest number of unrolled coins?

Question 3. The parking authority figures out what you are doing
and decides to change things up by hiring you. Your job is to
determine the best fine values to get paid in the least amount of
unrolled coins. What are those amounts what are those amounts (still
within that range of $1.00 to $250.00)

#toyprogrammingchallenge

Okay, here's one with a story :) Let's see if this is entertaining enough :D

Here is a problem that involves being jerk.

You receive a parking ticket and decide to pay in the least
convient way possible... change. This decision comes to mind
because the tickets are in strange amounts because they use
the cents portion for some kind of internal encoding.

You decide to pay all in pennies but when you start to collect
them someone informs you that although change will be accepted,
if the counts of coins exceed the quantities required for a wrapper
then you must roll them.

US Coinage count to a roll
0.01 = 50
0.05 = 40
0.10 = 50
0.25 = 40
0.50 = 20
$1.00 = 25 (small) or 20 (large)

Question 1.
How many rolls and free coins of each can you provide to pay your
$100.37 ticket in order to use the highest count of unrolled coins?

Considering that a ticket can cost anywhere from $1.00 to $250.00.
You start telling everyone else about your plan and they decide to
play too, so you calculate how they should pay as well.

For example, 45 pennies 21 nickles for a $1.00 ticket might be
pretty obnoxious :).

Question 2. Which fine amount (in that range) would allow you to
provide the highest number of unrolled coins?

Question 3. The parking authority figures out what you are doing
and decides to change things up by hiring you. Your job is to
determine the best fine values to get paid in the least amount of
unrolled coins. What are those amounts what are those amounts (still
within that range of $1.00 to $250.00)

@namark that one is simple, why not give this a try:

http://codingdojo.org/kata/StringCalculator/