rlamacraft @rlamacraft@qoto.org

IDEs reduce code complexity much in the same way that a highway reduces traffic.

Reading newspaper stories and various other media, it's pretty clear that Musk didn't rename "Twitter" to "X". He renamed it "X, formerly known as Twitter."

We curse the one benighted chap /
Who felled the sycamore at the gap /
but tolerate those richer guys /
who burn whole forests, seas and skies.

Simon Heywood, 2023

Was introduced to Herrington Darkholme’s `ast-grep` tool and my god it’s so useful. Think Babel, but since it’s built on tree-sitter, it works for *so many* languages out of the box.

Here I am adding methods to structs in C for a side project: https://bit.ly/3PQ02uv

Powerful

Oh, just lovely. Thanks, AI.

I'm not sure what I did to deserve this fortune cookie curse, but whatever it is, I'm sorry.

If you’re a nerd like me and have an hour’s time, watch this talk on e-mail by @dylanbeattie. https://youtu.be/mrGfahzt-4Q #NDC #NDCOslo

Any scientists here willing to pick this up?

Ah, Elon Musk. He tried to be the Henry Ford of space travel but instead became the Liz Truss of social media.

How about an extra 5% VAT on all good sold in mixed-materials packaging?

How about an extra 5% VAT on all good sold in non-recyclable packaging?

How about an extra 5% VAT on all goods sold in non-standard bottles and jars?

How about an extra 5% VAT on all goods sold with labels stuck on with non-water-soluble glue?

So that's an extra 20% for non-recyclable mixed-material non-standard bottles with bastard glued on labels...

Packaging would get sorted QUICK.

MS Teams channels cannot contain MS-DOS device names - it makes you wonder what kind of crazy vulnerability is lurking in the dark.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/limits-specifications-teams

poor person must be the child of a Republican legislator -

@robpike I like how it was worded in one of the SICP lectures:

“You stop thinking about iterative or recursive. You just say there’s this aggregate. There’s this list and I transform every item in this list. I stop thinking about the particular control structure and order.

“That’s very very important idea. I guess it really comes from APL. It’s sort of the really important idea from APL that you stop thinking about control structures and you start thinking about operations on aggregates.”

The small-scale, but high-profile, disruptions caused by Just Stop Oil protesters in the UK are extremely frustrating for many. But their single demand – for no licenses for new UK coal, oil and gas projects – is consistent with the science underpinning the international agreements that the UK has signed.

https://theconversation.com/science-shows-the-severe-climate-consequences-of-new-fossil-fuel-extraction-210846

'Disruptor' is a Red Flag for me, now.