josemanuel @josemanuel@qoto.org

@veer66 But you're not an active Common Lisp programmer anymore.

@veer66 Saddest words were never written.

@louis@emacs.ch @amszmidt @gothnbass@linuxrocks.online @dekkzz76@emacs.ch @veer66 @galdor@emacs.ch

> But why is it that in the CL everyone re-invents the wheel more than once instead of even trying to work together to build something bigger?

I'd be happy to collaborate with anyone on creating (based on QL, UL, something else or from scratch) a Common Lisp equivalent of Packagist/Composer or PyPI/pip.

I believe that would encourage lispers to not only write new packages, but also maintain them for the long term (as opposed to releasing one more-or-less working version and then abandon it completely due to a perceived lack of community interest).

@Stellar It's a test. If you can still read the word, that means you're not a robot. Also, if you are bothered by it, it means you are autistic. You failed that one.

@coolboymew

@kaia Everybody else's screenplays are like everybody else's code, mountain-sized pieces of shit. The difference is that you're funny and witty, so you might as well try your hand at it before deciding that it was nothing but a waste of time and then hating me for suggesting it.

@kaia You forgot “write a screenplay and try to get it produced.”

I spent a good portion of last week wrestling with Autoconf macros and now, while I still know next to nothing about them, I do get that satisfying feeling of reading a formerly incomprehensible error message and thinking: “Oh, yeah. I know what happened.”

@lydiaconwell I seem to remember that in Burroughs' _Naked Lunch_ there's a story about a man who teaches his own anus to talk. (According to Wikipedia, there's a recording of Frank Zappa reading that part of the book.)

@mangeurdenuage I don't think artists polish reality at all. At least not good artists.

I was writing a post (actually, a reply to someone else, as is my custom) when I had the unavoidable need to visit the bathroom. After spending half an hour watching commercials waiting for a movie to resume, watching said movie for a while, getting bored by it, drinking orange juice and generally forgetting about what I was doing, I came back here.

I didn't even re-read the post. I just thought: “Does anybody really need to know my opinion on this (or anything else, for that matter)?” The answer was of course no.

It seems like I only write when I feel compelled to do it for some reason or other, and that compulsion passes quickly. I guess I'm a Taoist at heart.

@IAmDannyBoling Hm, so families headed by well-paid, uneducated parents are now considered a good thing? I don't know... I think it's the OP who doesn't remember, or never saw, that world.

I'm getting tired of those artsy (and not so artsy) videogames that make you feel like shit. I play videogames so I can have fun doing something that requires some degree of ability, not to ragequit due to the utter unfairness of the gameplay (I'm looking at you, _Fire Emblem_ franchise!) or to spend hours upon hours feeling sad waiting for a happy ending that never seems to arrive.

That's why I prefer retrogames. They can be frustrating too, but it's a good kind of frustration, a positive one, which comes out of my lack of ability to overcome a certain challenge while the gameplay itself and story remain a fun experience.

@lydiaconwell Sure. Most people thought all the coverage was due to them being rich, but I always suspected that the media loves stories with a continued development, so that they can fill their timeslots for several days. It's like the movie _Ace in the Hole_.

Same thing happened with the Chilean workers who got trapped in the mine, or those kids who drowned in a cave. None of them were rich, but the media found a way to milk the story for days, even weeks.

@juanfr RIP Paco Menéndez.

@lore They aren't associated with old people, I believe, because they're supposed to be insults (even if the people insulted managed to appropriate them and turn them around) and one's supposed to respect their elders.

@hugot To be honest, I purposefully tried to keep the use of terminology short and easy to digest because I didn't want to flood the other person with technical info. I do appreciate your clarifications, though.

@hugot How is that different from what I said, apart from the terminology used (i.e., “at least one follower” vs “instances that federate”)?

> People on an instance would have to follow a huge amount of accounts hosted on meta's server for a "dos" like that to take place.

Yes, hence my emphasis on qualifying my assertions with “potential”/“potentially” and the following quote: “I’m more worried about hosting costs for small instance admins than unintended DoS attacks.”