Mahmoud Hashemi @mahmoud@qoto.org

The memory-centric folks have long moved on to entity component systems, would be nice if there were more affordances for the rest of us, too.

Instead, FastAPI/Pydantic/typing in general is just pouring more concrete on the inheritance approach.

More proof that maybe we shouldn't have taken a sometimes-convenient way to lay out memory gets and elevated it to a dogma of ontology.

These thoughts brought to you by Python 3.10 generating a SyntaxWarning on "x is not 0"

(x can be either False or 0, and, fun fact, in Python, False == 0)

"sure, inheritance sucked for the use case we know most intimately as programmers, but it will be great for all those other fields we are fuzzy on"

Funny how object-oriented programming got so big, when the unsolved hierarchy of numerical types has been there from the beginning.

The idea that inheritance will solve conceptual problems when we can't define whether `unsigned int` is a parent or child of `int`. And don't even start on the special casing necessary for type promotions in numerical expressions.

She played plenty of music more familiar to westerners, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SDQUn54Iy4

Probably the most famous #Persian guitarist just passed away, at 63, Lily Afshar.

Interestingly, #wikipedia articles in 6 languages, but none of them English, so here she is playing a Persian song I know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoqYNWfPV1w

#Iran #guitar #music

(Zandi #brick #brutalism)

Back from #Iran, and busy processing #photos. Working on #Kashan atm, struck by the elegance of the Agha Bozorg Masjid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agha_Bozorg_Mosque?wprov=sfla1

While parts of it date back 700 years, it was mostly constructed in the 1700s, and is noted for its bare domes and symmetry.

Today in zerover (https://0ver.org) news, #ziglang joins the 0verusers.

Also, notable emiriti #PyTorch surpassed #Bitcoin in #GitHub stars. Truly, #crypto is dead and ⁠#ai is the future.

Featured 0ver users: MAME (https://github.com/mamedev/mame) and ReactOS (https://github.com/reactos/reactos), both fast approaching 30 years of 0veruse!