josemanuel @josemanuel@qoto.org
I am, without a doubt, the most interesting person I know.
Joined Sep 2020
@veer66 If you subscribe to the GNU Modula-2 mailing list, people there sometimes talk about their projects. It's mostly academic stuff, because most subscribers work at universities.
Here's an old link to some projects. I don't know if they're still maintained:
Modern software is the exact opposite of what made me fall in love with computers as a kid.
@LvNoctva Yo te recomendaría que salieses de Mastodon y explorases otras opciones del Fediverso, como Misskey, Pleroma, Akkoma, etc. Son mucho mejores tanto por funcionalidad como por buen rollo, aunque en términos de instancias hay de todo.
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#OnThisDay, 13 Aug 2014, Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani won the Fields Medal for her work on complex geometry. She was the first woman to win it since it began in 1936.
She died in 2017, aged just 40. Multiple awards and initiatives are named after her.
@prettygood I have no desire to argue _with_ computers. What does that make me?
@reidrac Technology in the 21st century is a circus run by the clowns.
@BitBun I'm talking out of my ass here (as always), but I think that saying means that your belly should not get cold, because you risk spending the next day in the toilet. True story.
Un lector actual de Euclides las pasaría canutas para entender ideas que se enseñan en primaria. Eso se debe a que Euclides usaba lenguaje natural para explicar conceptos matemáticos.
Siempre me ha llamado la atención que haya tanta gente que vea el lenguaje natural como la opción más sencilla para comunicar ideas (o, en este caso, ejecutar tareas), porque lo cierto es que las notaciones científicas se inventaron por una razón. Lo mismo pasa con los lenguajes de programación.
Para crear un buffer, yo prefiero teclear C-x C-f y escribir un nombre. No me cuesta nada. Para algunos tipos de archivo, además, tengo plantillas que me rellenan campos por defecto. Si tuviera que escribir o decir lo que quiero cada vez, me moriría de asco.
Hoy es un día histórico: Ya tenemos nuestro primer agente en #emacs https://github.com/steveyegge/efrit Ahora podemos usar el lenguaje natural pa...
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Isaac Levitan (1861-1900) tuvo una vida corta y una infancia llena de necesidades. Sin embargo, las penurias económicas de sus primeros años no le impidieron ser uno de los grandes paisajistas de la pintura rusa.
Today I learned about this awesome metal band:
@LibrosdeBabel A juzgar por lo que veo en librerías, la ficción ya no se escribe para hombres —hablo en general, obviamente hay nichos tipo Chuck Palahniuk (que tampoco son para todos los hombres).
El otro día fui con mi hermana a la Casa del Libro y, aparte de que no había más que gordas con pelos de colores, me di cuenta de que la ficción, ya desde sus portadas, está hecha para mujeres. Todas brillaban mucho y los bordes suelen formar algún tipo de dibujo. De hecho, en la Feria del Libro de Madrid, había casetas que mostraban los bordes de los libros en vez de las portadas o el lomo, lo cual me pareció rarísimo, pero entendible, viendo la tendencia.
For a brief amount of time, I was the tech lead of a software project. Before that, I thought that leading was a matter of gently telling people what to do, being open to questions and suggestions from the team, and, generally, being patient.
But the experience left me with more questions than answers. How can some people lead whole armies to their death while I couldn't even get my points across (i.e., “I'm afraid you're doing it wrong. You have to do it this way.” Or: “If you have doubts, don't waste time we don't have: Just ask.”)?
My first instinct was to think: “Well, you need to surround yourself with people who share your vision or at least are experienced enough to understand it.” But that seems like an easy way out. You can't always be surrounded by like-minded people, right?
So, how do charismatic leaders do it? Is it just that they seek idiots to manipulate? Can they really do it without some form of coercion or propaganda? I don't know.
I don't like being a boss, it's just that I usually know better what must be done or where we should go, so being a subordinate frustrates me, too.
I often censor myself because I fear people will think I'm pontificating instead of trying to start a conversation. Of course I will defend my opinion in that conversation, but still I'm open to change it if I'm convinced by the other person's arguments.
@bonifartius Of course surveillance isn't a consequence of technology existing, that was not the point of the cartoon. The point was that whoever controls technology is not using it for the common good, but to make money, and they make money by surveilling us and exploiting workers.
For instance, delivery food was already a thing in the 1980s. Tech bros didn't invent that. What tech bros did was getting in the middle of it and making money out of both restaurants and clients while paying next to nothing to workers.
When I say Luddism is the answer I mean that we have to fight this state of affairs somehow, and a good way to fight is not to consume their shitty and unnecessary services.
(If this arrives to you, it was because I can't reply to your qoto account for some reason.)
@noyoushutthefuckupdad I'm as sensitive to feminist dog whistles as you are, but there wasn't any contempt “for all men” in the cartoon. You're imagining things, Dad.
@noyoushutthefuckupdad Last time I watched Oliver was in 2016. I don't know what he's up to these days, but being an expert with many years of experience in the field, I can confidently say that tech bros are not there to solve our problems, but only to make money, even if they have to create new problems in the process. The fact that someone you don't like said this doesn't make it any less true.
I love how the author apologises in advance for her cartoon (“It's not a call to Luddism, I promise”), but every comment is basically: “Yes! Luddism is the answer!”
(I'm a computer programmer and I agree: Luddism is the answer. Also, we need to cut out the middlemen. They're parasites.)
Recent comic: Cutting out the Middleman I suspect that some readers might interpret this cartoon as a call for Luddism, but mostly it's a reflectio...
@prettygood You know your condition better than me, so I'll refrain from giving advice on things I know shit about from now on. I just hope you don't have to go through that again.
And, yes, cooking tasty stuff without salt is definitely a talent.
@prettygood I had a friend who went through the same thing and he said they told him the whole stone was basically salt. My father had one too years ago and he loved salty food.
That said, I'm not a doctor, but I thought it was common knowledge. Maybe I'm wrong.
I am, without a doubt, the most interesting person I know.
Joined Sep 2020
