R. A. Dehi @radehi@qoto.org

@dec_hl like, under FreeDOS with Russ Nelson's packet drivers for an ISA Ethernet card or something?

@vihart By the way, "Twelve Tones" is my favorite information of any kind about music theory and something I have watched at least three times. So thank you for doing things you were bad at long enough to get good, and then doing things you were good at to make it. I wouldn't say has changed my life but definitely contributed to it.

@vihart Unfortunately I'm still pretty bad at *almost* everything, so I guess I have the skill of being bad at things down. But I think is important to be at peace with being doing things I'm bad at. Otherwise how will I get better?

@ftrain So how does the protocol look? I was thinking it would be nice to try to do a lightweight implementation.

@vihart I don't know about you, but I started out really bad at everything

@Didida That sucks 😞

@ner "fetaverse" is still a typo but at least is a delicious one 😀

@ner You can "delete and redraft", which is convenient like editing, but doesn't move the replies and likes to the new version. So you can't say "I love pineapples, reply 'me too' if you love them too", and after 52 people reply saying "Me too!" edit the toot to say "I think Mayor Linseed of Gotham City should be killed."

@dec_hl sweet, it's a Mastodon client that runs in DOSBox?

@rmerriam Well, apparently it didn't work for me either this time; it ate my newlines! So I think it's pretty broken. @freemo help!

@kreyren Hmm, it sounds like you're looking for task-related context-sensitive help, rather than a manual you'd read from beginning to end. But is not clear to me how to do that for a programming language (except in the case of compiler errors, of course, but Scheme doesn't have a lot of compiler errors). Most of what is needed in programming-language documentation is "which language features or library functions do I need to write this program that I haven't written yet" rather than "how do I use library function X", isn't it?

But it sounds like Racket comes closer than Guile?

Example code is super important for programming language explanations.

@rmerriam @freemo Do you mean

```
using StringVec = std::vector<std::string>;

std::expected<StringVec, ErrorCode> x;
std::expected<StringVec, ErrorCode> f();
```

I don't know how to see the "Markdown" source you tried. Mastodon's "Markdown" is pretty far from being Markdown but I have been able to get line breaks in code blocks.

@kreyren Hmm, what would you consider to have exemplary documentation? Racket? I've always thought the GNU manuals were first-class.

@allenholub Mystery meat UI has become hip again; 40 years ago knowing how to use it showed you belonged to a technical community, and now it shows you know how to use Instagram. A user community with tight enough cohesion can overcome even the worst UIs.