skells @skells@qoto.org
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@Prodigal @11112011 @Oblivia @Shhhhhhhhhh @fortyMcNuggets get the jab you nazi
@Prodigal @11112011 @Oblivia @Shhhhhhhhhh @fortyMcNuggets kills nice but we're humans so clearly it's fine and we don't need to do more research
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“The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves." — Carl Jung
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One for the early birds: the timber framed delights of Turton Tower, Lancashire.
@Moon just long the corn you fucking degenerate
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CKY are so good, feels like they still never really made it or got much recognition despite being pretty big
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with the new school year there’s a surge of uni students struggling with OCaml and their syntactic mistakes are wild.
The same mistakes are also an invaluable resource. They provide insight into how one who didn’t bother reading through the entirety of a manual (all of us, don’t pretend) first interacts with the syntax of a language.
Guessability, if that’s a word, is an interesting measure of design.
And if the language design is already set in stone, like in OCaml’s case, better error messages guiding towards the correct syntax can help new users greatly.
I think I should use this opportunity to collect common beginner mistakes and write a blog post, so that I can help newcomers without having to repeat myself.
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“Nothing good comes of sitting or lying down!"
— Henri Vincenot (1912-1985)
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@mrmcmayhem @someGuyNick I’d really try to refrain from going that direction. They’re not “dumb” .. and treating them that way will just add to the problem.
Group Think is a known phenomenon and it can affect lots of people. Stanley Milgram, though people try to discredit him, made a really solid observation about how 60% of the population would give someone a lethal dose of electric shock, so long as you had someone in a white lab coat in a position of authority at Harvard telling you to do so.
Was everyone who cheered on the burning of witches in Salem or those who called from condemning all communists stupid under McCarthyism? (and communism should be condemned, but McCarthy and his buddies were accusing all political adversaries in the same way Joe Rogan and James O’Keefe are called right-adjacent Nazis today).
Propaganda is powerful and humanity overall isn’t as sentient as we want to think. Viva Frei, a lawyer who I respect, got the jab. He’s not stupid, but I do not agree at all with his descension (And he wouldn’t have had to face the second decision at the bowling alley he talked about if he hadn’t capitulated to the first).
Don’t drop to their level. Don’t see everyone who fell for the lie as being 🐑. The powers that be want us to dehumanize each other.
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Most people support the police state until they become a victim of it.
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Joined Feb 2021
