Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

I have never been more spooked by the rich in los Angeles than riding around Hollywood and Beverly hills during the Oscars. That number of black suburbans with permanent or state tags is unholy

Indoor starts gooooooo~ (according to the USDA zone map, they can be outside in approx five weeks)

printf debugging for FPGAs: yes or no?

(pretend that I have already implemented it and resolved the tradeoffs in some techically feasible way that is the closest to what you might want to use)

please RT!

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration

What is skillful reading? How do people acquire the skill of reading, and what are the trade-offs we make between comprehension and efficiency when we read novel text, or parse new and unfamiliar symbols? How can what we know about math learning, and reading learning, inform what we know about how people read in code? How do people read documentation and "code-adjacent" writing, and what best practices could we apply? What can the science of representation tell us about architecture diagraming?

@0xabad1dea well at least the dog doesn't switch to English as soon as you make the tiniest pronunciation mistake :p

me speaking Dutch to a human: sorry, ik spreek maar een beetje Nederlands ​

me speaking Dutch to a dog: ohhhhhhh wat voor een lief beestje! zo groot en sterk! jij bent de allerliefste hond ter wereld, denk ik! en ook zo braaf! kom mee, mijn zoontje, we gaan naar buiten! ik ben zooooo zo blij om jij op te voeden! brave hond!

(yes, of course I speak Dutch to the dog, he doesn't speak English!)

I'm blown away by how good introductory programming resources are nowadays. I tried out the javascript / regex / sql stuff on executeprogram.com and it's just way better than anything that existed 20 years ago. Likewise for PHP stuff at https://laracasts.com/. I don't love that it's video but, even so, it's much more beginner friendly than a ruby or perl book from 20 years ago.

See also, Julia Evans's work for systems, as well as https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/ for a not quite beginner text, etc.

Im currently hiring people and we have this running joke whenever we interview someone for a Sr Developer position who feels closer to an intermediate. I usually go "Ya think he will buy it if we say he misheard and the position was for a Señor Programmer?"

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration

Still looking for a second reviewer for @pyOpenSci

Package: automata
review: https://github.com/pyOpenSci/software-submission/issues/152
repo: https://github.com/caleb531/automata
description: A Python library for simulating finite automata, pushdown automata, and Turing machines.

Open reviews are a great way to learn by teaching, see what other people are up to, and make software development a valued and creditable part of academic work. Anyone with familiarity with Python is welcome as a reviewer, experience in the topic domain is a bonus but not required. DM me or reply on the above issue, it's fun, i promise! :)

#PeerReview #SoftwareReview #OpenReview #Python #Automata #TuringMachines #CellularAutomata

Articles in which people with bad opinions complain at length that their bad opinions make it difficult for them to get laid demonstrate that at least something is still functioning properly in this dystopian hellscape.

@theluddite redidt reverts such changes easily. I edited all my comments and deleted an account, they restored it all.

@BethanyBlack the worst part is the clove cigarette stench as it rises from the sand to devour you

*tries to walk without rhythm, accidentally walks in perfect 17/93 time*

*sand worm with a beret, black turtleneck and a soul patch rises out of the sand and eats me

One was given to Monica, in his life. One was given to Erica, by his side. One was given to Sandra, in the sun. One was given to Mary, all night long. But they were all of them deceived. For deep in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Lou Bega forged a master mambo. A Mambo No. 5...

This might be a controversial statement. But none of these people are the best groups to influence. They all represent a small minority of the larger population. Not that these folks don't matter. They're just not sufficient to create change.

We want to reach a wider group. Those who we need to convince to do something different if we want to see change. Those are the people I want to impact. But it's tough to know when you're actually in conversation with those folks.

TIL: Matrix multiplication is sentient.

Now out of beta. Update Signal now, get a username, finally stop giving out your phone number to everyone with whom you want to trade end-to-end encrypted Dune 2 memes. https://www.wired.com/story/signal-launches-usersnames-phone-number-privacy/

Ok does anyone have a rec on #Rust learning materials for the incorrigibly object oriented? Like how those concepts map or do not map onto Rust before I spent all my lifetime failing to learn this language lol