l'empathie mécanique @dpwiz@qoto.org
- Monad m
- m a -> (a -> m b) -> m b
- Previously
- https://mastodon.social/@dpwiz
- Making games
- https://haskell-game.dev
- Games made
- https://icrbow.itch.io
Toots as he pleases.
Joined Apr 2022
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I've curated a timeline of hardware architectures for functional programming languages. From the foundations of Church and Curry, to modern programmable hardware 100 years later.
Best viewed on a desktop or laptop.
As part of the EPSRC HAFLANG project.
Behold, a $7700 230W Fibonacci¹ accelerator²
¹: And the other functional³ programs.
²: According to https://haflang.github.io/about.html
³: I.e. using graph reduction evaluation
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uh were any of you people who signed up to #threads actually paying attention to the onboarding flow?
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internet meta
Sorry I keep meta posting today and this is kind of a repeat of what I posted a week or two ago about Twitter and Reddit:
It doesn't matter if you have another website to go to. These sites will die.
If you are on Twitter and don't like the alternatives? Twitter dies anyway.
If you are on Reddit and don't like the alternatives? Reddit dies anyway.
If you are on Cohost and don't like the alternatives? Cohost dies anyway.
This is about money, people. These are businesses. And they're businesses all in financial peril. You could have NO other website to go to, NO alternatives, and they'd still die.
So telling me "well I don't see you offering any better options!" doesn't matter! Sometimes there aren't even better options! It still dies whether you like that or not! You don't need another website you like to go to for Twitter to die because Elon is trying his damnedest to crash it into the ground. It dies no matter what. It dies whether you want it to die or not. How much you like it doesn't matter. How much you don't like being on other sites doesn't matter. It's a business. It dies when they pull the plug. And that's usually related to whether or not it's making money.
Fedi isn't immune to this either, if my admins say tomorrow "we're done paying for this, it costs too much, we're done", I can't say "well I don't see you providing me somewhere else to go!" Doesn't matter! They don't have to offer you a replacement to turn the switch off! But it's a much larger issue with social media run by companies, because companies can only pay employees if they can afford it.
This isn't the same as saying that you can't be upset about it. You can be upset that you don't have anywhere else to go. You can be upset that you liked the site you were on. But upset or not doesn't have any bearing on "will this site survive". I don't have to offer you a solution to where you go from Cohost or Twitter or Reddit to tell you that they won't survive. I am not responsible for fixing that problem, in fact I don't think anyone can fix that problem. I can't make them not run at a loss forever, I think it's not financially feasible in the first place and the only thing that can happen is they die. It's absurd to say I can't point this out because I'm not offering you a new website to use that makes you happy.
TLDR: “You have none of it.”
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@cwebber Seems like every private platform is trying to one-up each other on just how enshittified they can be. I'm glad I have a safe place here to watch it all from.
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Periodic reminder:
Marginalized people don't owe you shit.
Let them find joy in twerking in public at 4 am if they want to.
Let them laugh about stupid memes and spinning their skirts.
Let them post thirst traps even if you think it's kinda cringe.
Let them talk in uwu and wear fursuits.
Let them use neopronouns and have a gender that takes 2000 words to describe.
Let them wear their leather to Pride, or dress in exaggerated drag or dress in outfits that most people their age don't wear.
We're in a boiling world, in an end stage capitalist christofascist hellscape, and the forces who hate us ain't going to care how much we try to conform: they want us dead.
If you think less of someone because they're finding joy in an utterly harmless activity, that says far more about how you're a pathetic piece of shit than it does about them.
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x Don’t Make Me Tap The Sign (GSV, Plate class)
#SciFiFri #Scottish #literature #sciencefiction #scifibooks #IainMBanks #TheCulture
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I'm proud to announce that a Wesnoth has turned 20 years old! Starting with version 0.1 tagged on June 18th 2003, Wesnoth has grown with the help of hundreds of volunteers continually improving all aspects of the game. And while admittedly Wesnoth is no longer at the peak of its popularity, there are still many developers, translators, add-on authors, moderators, and players helping to keep Wesnoth going strong. Thank you everyone for all your work, and here's to another 20 years of Wesnoth!
Best application of ChatGPT so far
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Thinking about going on the Internet? Want to take a surf on the information superhighway? If so, you'll need a "fursona". Fursonas help keep us protected while we're connected! The harsh radiation of cyberspace can be perilous to human flesh, but with a Fursona you don't have to worry
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2010: Reddit is the new Digg.
2023: Reddit is the new Digg.
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@darius I think about the NHS digital. design standards all the time, where the standard is functionally "your target audience is a fifteen-year-old for whom english is a second language. They're using a 6 year old android phone that's been handed down twice, and they are sitting in an hospital emergency waiting room trying to look up information in the middle of the the most terrifying night they have ever had. Your site must work for that person, at that moment."
https://digital.nhs.uk/about-nhs-digital/standards-for-web-products#using-valid-html
Dreamlog babbling
The previous one was more close and more nasty, in a blackmirroresque way.
It was about proliferation of generative models and commercial companies eager to fullfil any request for text, images, music, games etc regardless of the theme.
No editor in the loop to guide the generation according to their own tastes in art. It all feels like a median mishmash of the source material without any integration, interpretation, and/or “reimagining”. Which it really is, being an high dimensional interpolation of source material.
It’s like watching an endless stream of clumsily targeted banners/commercials, or browsing a mobile games catalogue infested by 1.47 dollar match3 clones from match3 sweatshop.
I’ve read/seen a fair amount of generated stuff, and this incident seems to cement in the nausea associated with this kind of “content” 
Dreamlog babbling
Whoa, another “future” dream. Two civilizations have put brakes on expansion before they find solution to, basically, finiteness of resources.
One of them is running (which I inhabit there) a simulation of a Babylon 5 character which is doing research, having guests from outside and forks.
Despite expansion being forbidden (they have immense resources available in their borders already) one of the civs have found some glitches which it exploits to sneak out their borders and slowly tilt the balance in their favor. Maybe the others doing the same, but the economics readouts say that they’re slowly decaying, not just falling behind.
And then the simulated dude found killed in it’s home by a feral intruder.
(Here I was catapulted back into RL with a pang of sadness)
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Activity Pub? Like, there's coloring books and shit to do while you drink? I'm in.
The Fediverse is not forever, at least not in its current form. ActivityPub is but a waypoint before another protocol crops up and we will walk away again. Pack light and let them have the dusty husks of uncool.
And so I’m okay with @dansup and @Gargron signing whatever they want to sign and talking about whatever they want to talk in the valley of the shadow of greed.
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have you heard of this new programming language called "forth"? big upgrade over the third one
Don’t be that person when the shit hits the fan
- Monad m
- m a -> (a -> m b) -> m b
- Previously
- https://mastodon.social/@dpwiz
- Making games
- https://haskell-game.dev
- Games made
- https://icrbow.itch.io
Toots as he pleases.
Joined Apr 2022
