rlamacraft @rlamacraft@qoto.org

git bisect is amazing! How have I never come across this feature before??

Just learning about the resurgence of companies pursuing super-sonic commercial flights, which to me just sounds like an absolutely awful idea. The last thing we need is the world’s super rich polluting more, both for climate change and for not ruining the otherwise quiet rural spaces between cities.

@Defolos @federicomena not sure about other platforms but macOS has pbcopy that writes from stdin to the system clipboard and pbpaste that writes from the system clipboard to stdout

Pretty funny SMBC comic on cryptocurrencies https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/nanacoin

https://youtube.com/watch?v=U4D0wJNYtWs Always love the random things this guy does with lasers

Grolar bears is objectively a better portmanteau than Pizzly bears https://nypost.com/2021/04/14/polar-bears-are-mating-with-grizzlies-to-become-pizzly-bears/

@aeveltstra Negative interest rates have become increasingly common across Europe — it’s a great time to borrow money but not to save it. http://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/aug/13/danish-bank-launches-worlds-first-negative-interest-rate-mortgage

If currencies were divisible by 12, like say if there were 240 pennies in a pound, everybody’s salary would divide perfectly into 12 equal paycheques. #£sd

You know what’s strange: despite spending something like 11 years taking near daily English classes throughout my childhood I don’t remember anyone mentioning that English does in fact have words that have accents. It’s like some form of collective amnesia, some quirk of the language we all use everyday that nobody talks about. What are the rules for the vowels? Why are they there? Why some words and not others?

I don’t smoke, and do not understand why anyone would want to, but this seems like huge government over-reach in New Zealand. If an adult wants to spend their money damaging their lungs why shouldn’t they be able to? If it causes a high burden on socialised healthcare then tax the hell out of it, but there’s no need for the government to tell people what they can or can’t do
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/16/new-zealand-aims-to-create-smoke-free-generation-cigarettes

> The FBI Is Now Securing Networks Without Their Owners’ Permission
You know what, I’m not against this. For systems of national importance governments probably should be able to compel companies to fix their broken systems and failing that take the necessary action themselves.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/04/the-fbi-is-now-securing-networks-without-their-owners-permission.html

@freemo Yeah, the more exotic runtimes of languages like Haskell and Prolog certainly have their place. I’ve worked on a proprietary FRP system (though they didn’t call it that) in the finance industry but that was for overnight batch processing. Very good for modelling dependencies between variables and, yes, where parallelism is hugely beneficial (Erlang comes to mind), but it’s applying it to time sensitive applications that doesn’t make sense to me. And that’s not to say all functional languages aren’t predictable; PureScript is just like Haskell but without the lazy evaluation and is just as predictable as vanilla JS, but most trade it off for other benefits