MZan @mzan@qoto.org
I'm a software developer. I live in Italy.
Joined Mar 2021
@hayley index finger was created by nature for this specific scope! 🙂
I like the sensation of feeling at home whenever I use a system like Emacs or Guix, that is using Lisp. It is a sort of XML or YAML format, but with the additional power of macro, and a greater domain of applicability.
So I would create a minimalistic "shared-lisp" that one can use for configuring and customizing things.
Then every serious Lisp system like Common Lisp, Clojure, Racket, Guile, etc.. can easily convert this "shared-lisp" code into data and/or native Lisp code. And the rest of system will be implemented using some serious but opinionated Lisp environment.
So we should sell a simplified shared-lisp as a configuration language. An YAML on steroids. Then with time, Lisp can become common also on the "backend".
Additionaly: IMHO, the worst disservice done to Lisp, was the path towards not-so-much interactive Lisp environments. Common Lisp is a joy to use. Clojure and Guile acceptable, but not optimal. Racket not so much fun. We should empathize more the interactive aspect of programming.
@chrism summing up, it seems the worst of the two opposite "camps": the SJW are taking control of the community and the current leaders are under attack; current NixOS moderators and leaders are not able to manage/moderate the community in an effective way (or at least the SJW part of it).
I hope they find a clear and effective re-organization, because doing so: there will be a clear alignment of the community, with less distractions; if some group do not accept some choices, they can fork (in the positive sense of the word).
Regarding the CoC, IMHO the good enough approach is this https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/kind-communication.en.html
Regarding community management, I should study how other communities are organized. I suspect it is more difficult than coding... So maximum respect for the effort.
@grimalkina I will try to answer with an example/simplification: if I reply to a known follower, I can assume a lot of pre-existing context; if I reply to a new person, I will try to use a low-context answer like in this case; if I post new toots, I assume high-context, because my timeline is the context; if I want depth-seeking discussions then it is better a chat respect Mastodon, or for technical discussions a forum; if I recurrently posts about the same subject, there can be a depth-seeking discussion with known followers, but usually the initial toot is more in the informative and public style; Mastodon is good for news and updates, but for blogging about last-long themes, it is bad, because the content will be lost, and every discussion must start from the beginning.
I think that the main difference respect Twitter, it is that you are in control of your home-page timeline, so you can reduce the toxicity a lot.
@freemo he clearly studied a dating manual, but he confused self-confidence with confidence intervals 🙂
@freemo I agree with @realcaseyrollins the question was not stated clearly. I'm not even sure, it was a multiple choice, as it should be.
Personally, online I have no problems addressing someone also as "Mr. frog" if it likes it, but face to face I will have problems also addressing as "she" a male, dressed like a man and acting like a man, while I will have no problem addressing as "she" a trans acting like a woman.
There should be some minimal viable compatibility between reality and what someone pretend it is reality, otherwise it becomes an exercise of Neuro Linguistic Programming.
@freemo Probably the more honest point of view is: vote for Biden knowing that after a while he will be replaced by Kamala Harris.
By the way, USA democracy and democracy in the west is mainly a farce. It can be improved a lot.
For men it can be. For women it seems that "no woman is totally straight"
In this study https://www.bbc.com/news/health-34744903 they showed video of attractive men and women, to women.
68% of gay women were mostly aroused only from video of their preferred sex (i.e. women), while only 28% of straight women were mostly aroused only from video of men, i.e. 72% of straight women find arousal also video of other attractive women.
So only 32% of gay women are potentially bisexual, towards the 72% of straight women.
> Is it possible they are bi
Everything is possible, especially considering that Marlon Brando and Freddy Mercury, two men with 100% masculine manners, were bisexual. So, how can I answer NO!? :-)
More seriously I believe that many men and women are potentially bisexual, but they don't (want) know this, because they have strong preferences towards the opposite sex, and they have no interest into risking moral judgment from the society. Think to what happens in prisons between men, that probably will have no homo-sexual behavior or fantasies outside of it.
I believe also that a feminine manner or a masculine manner (within certain margins obviously) in a man, is not a a reliable way to predict his sexual choices, in the sense that there can be many exceptions.
@rmx @freemo I know two men with moderately but clear gay accent and manner, but they are married with children. In their case it is probably innate or acquired from very early age. I doubt that they started acting in this way deliberately.
So, I suppose that we can born with this accent/manner (i.e. it is one of the many configuration of our brain), and that it is more common in gay men.
Culture can amplify some patterns, but there is usually also a biological reason. Like male and female manners.
> It was the lack of bodily autonomy.
As (partially unrelated) side note, if we see the "big picture", we have no full "bodily autonomy", because we live in a society influencing what we eat, drink and breathe, i.e. many things that affects our body and our health are influenced a lot by laws and society behavior, and not only from our direct choices.
It is an eternal balance between how much we are single entities or parts of a group. IMHO, in many cases vaccines require to act like a group, and not as an individual, because with our behavior we are influencing other people.
It depends also from the type of vaccine obviously. For example, in case of COVID, in the end the vaccine was effective only for the variants before the omicron, because it reduced the stress on the sanitary system. But in this case, a nation can also decide to reduce assistance to no-vaccinated people.
@freemo ah, it was a (semi)serious toot.
I were thinking to a diamond reflecting the gold light in its internal... A scenic marketing effect!
@freemo you forgot gold thermal paste! 🙂
> I feel like there's got to be a limit.
> Is "1+1=2" opinion?
If you mean that "1+1" has the only possible and calculable result "2", then yes it is an opinion 🙂
We cannot prove that mathematics is consistent. So, if we find an error in current axiomatic systems, we can then prove that "1+1=3", too.
We believe that mathematics, as formalized today, is consistent, and that in case there are errors in its foundations, they can be fixed without affecting the majority of useful theorems and result we have now.
@freemo oh no, I cannot stomach another SJW debate about differences between male and female meat 🙂
@freemo it is a simulation, and there are hints of Moore's Law applied to Life-Hardware-Simulator!
IMHO, it is not completely unrelated from how we interact with inanimate objects too. We try to be "emphatic" with the tool, in the sense that we try to manage it in the way it should be managed. We know when we are "gentle" with it, or when we are using it outside its limits, and stressing it.
When I speak to ChatGPT, I think to some tensors, and I imagine that if I'm kind and I give positive feedback when it is on the right path, then there are less doubts in it, and it can explore further in the right direction, because it knows that it is the correct path. If it is not understanding what I mean, the discussion can become more "rude" and stressful, but in this case it can be a positive "stress", because it helps to be on the same page. Like with normal people.
So there is a very high correlation between how we should talk to a real person and to ChatGPT in an effective way. We are anthropomorphism LLM, but often because this is the correct way to use this tool, up to date.
Said this, there are for sure people that interact with ChatGPT, believing it is a real self conscious entity, and not only the best way to use the tool.
I'm a software developer. I live in Italy.
Joined Mar 2021
