Simon @spoltier@qoto.org
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code / data wrangler in Switzerland.
Recovering reply guy. Posts random photos once in a while.
Joined Jul 2023
@michaelgemar @makdaam @mawhrin we watched video of the collapse in our first year of physics at university. I don't think it was particularly related to the class, but the massive bridge going wobbly was fascinating, and perhaps seen as a general motivation for studying science.
Computer science / software engineering classes were devoid of history as far as I can remember.
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@whitequark looking forward to the urban dictionary entry for "cisabled"
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am finally done with twitter
what got me was the incredible degree of disgust from discovering that i have some kind of flag set that lets me say "cis" wantonly while my peers cannot
fuck everything about that
@whitequark looking forward to the urban dictionary entry for "cisabled"
@Gankra Nomen est omen, perfect if you want to work on web accessibility
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... what if my legal name was Aria Maker Of Desires
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Thinking about submitting a talk proposal to a quirky lil tech conference with the working title "It’s Easier to Learn a Programming Language than a Foreign Language: An Unpopular Opinion."
For "who is she to claim this!?" context: I learned how to code as an adult, after ~ 8 years teaching English as a second/foreign language. I have an M.A. in this area, and am versed in linguistics and the science of second language acquisition.
Would you want to hear this talk? Or will I be heckled lol...
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any good new scifi out there, ideally without useless techno-violence, weapon glorification and warfare? please send me
@ross talk about internalizing externalities!
@cadey I'm a developer, but I'm not sure what you're talking about. Do you have an example of a developer automation tool? Is that a build tool? A scripting language for a specific domain? Something else?
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@HalvarFlake I have found it helpful to talk to GenAi when stuck on a problem, but I suspect it's just a more advanced (and less self-conscious) form of rubber-duck debugging. I wonder if anyone has tried talking through their (technical) issues with ELIZA...
@HalvarFlake I have found it helpful to talk to GenAi when stuck on a problem, but I suspect it's just a more advanced (and less self-conscious) form of rubber-duck debugging. I wonder if anyone has tried talking through their (technical) issues with ELIZA...
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Kinda weird that it seems to me that GenAI has made writing boilerplate or throwaway code much faster, but debugging remains an unchangedly difficult skill.
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Hello Sigmoid Social users!
Wow, Sigmoid Social has been around for over 2.5 years now, how time flies...
Just want mention we are very much still around as administrators and moderators of this Mastodon instance behind the scenes.
We appear to have reached a steady-state of a decent number of users, and we love that some of you still benefit from this instance.
Please do message or email us if you want to suggest improvements or changes!
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Working on the next XLConnect release. The master branch build can be installed the usual way:
install_github("miraisolutions/xlconnect")
or using r-universe:
install.packages("XLConnect", repos = c("https://miraisolutions.r-universe.dev", "https://cloud.r-project.org"))
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Who'd be interested in an event with talks and some performances around making notations and programming languages for pattern-making (textile, musical, choreographic etc)? Half focussed online, half focussed in-person, all streamed. Mix of open call and invited talks. All free/open access. Probably in January. Maybe called "Programming Of The Art Computer".
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Office cleanout: finding these stickers brought back good memories. I truly loved Urchin — it was the best analytics system I’d ever seen, crunched your http logs and gave you great web stats.
It became Google Analytics.
Ever wonder why URLs today sometimes have the letters ?utm in them… it stands for Urchin Tracking Module!
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code / data wrangler in Switzerland.
Recovering reply guy. Posts random photos once in a while.
Joined Jul 2023
