Possibly the nerdiest argument I've ever heard is claiming that #haskell programmers should stop calling <*> the "TIE fighter" and start calling it the "TIE advanced".
I love it!
Surprised the Tories haven’t come up with a campaign for people to holiday domestically this summer. Would boost our tourism industry, would prevent the inevitable anger at the changing international rules, and I would have thought they’d want to encourage some sense of national unity being the “conservative and unionist party”, and all…
Stumbled across this introduction to APL from 1975; awesome little video. Wish there was a way for me to get some hands-on experience with computers of that era https://youtube.com/watch?v=_DTpQ4Kk2wA
What a strange article; it’s been right there on his Wikipedia article since the 5th April last year…
I've been reading up on algebraic effects (e.g., of the sort in https://www.eff-lang.org/ )
In terms of programming paradigms, first with "functional programming" and now with "effective programming" … someone sure has a knack for coming up with names that make everyone else sound bad
("No, I prefer to write non-functional and non-effective code" (!))
"We didn't tell McDonalds, 'You need to figure out how to feed schoolchildren'—we had schools do it. The way to fix the problem of connecting people is to focus on local orgs & governments with incentives to connect them, not by asking Comcast to solve it."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl8_F3TVwvk
ukpol, voter ID, ERS petition
@porsupah I don't think the government pays much attention to random petitions, but there is already one up on the official petition site that's getting signatures at a good pace https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/576024
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.
Software engineer by trade. Programmer by hobby too (in addition to basketry and spoon carving). Personal website: https://rlamacraft.uk/. Gemini capsule: gemini://gemini.rlamacraft.uk