Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org
- Wannabe
- Self-hoster
- Practicising
- #HinduDharma
- Interested in
- #SocialEcology
- वर्ण
- शूद्र; should be doing better
pro-libre software, pro-holisticism
pro-communalism, anti-consumerism
fan of #Plan9 and #HaikuOS
anti-witchhunt, see https://stallmansupport.org
I write software (C++) for a living.
Joined Sep 2021
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it's called crowd computing because of the number of companies watching what you're doing on the net
@bentsukun it is great to hear that `gst` is in usable shape, because development seems quiet (compared to the Paolo Bonzini days).
@mscheffel @dabertime jokes apart, I have heard it likened to shaking dust out of a rug - dust coming out (struggle to concentrate) is a prerequisite for reaching further.
@JessTheUnstill one of these is needed for Android
@kwramm
Cache invalidation is due to a communication issue 😅
@pseudonym @hazelweakly
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The two hardest problems in Computer Science are
1. Human communication
2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important
@coderCyclist I have heard this called attribution-based economics (ABE), but not of any software path to it.
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@Migueldeicaza @sinbad and you know, the thing really hurting the Microsoft brand is all that C and C++ code.
Ignore the anti consumer behavior, shit products, cloud services for genocide, and overall mask-off evil stuff.
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But the original web is still there, it's just infinitely harder to find if all you look at is the behemoths. To be happy in our little bubble is hard since we are social people and we want to be where everyone else are.
And it's very hard to trust the small ones that are trying to create something nice. When they have built a nice user base there is always a risk that they sell everything and letting one of the behemoths take over the wheel.
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It was different only until it became a commerce and branding/PR channel. Then that mostly drowned out everything else.
And we should consider “social media” as completely owned by commerce (ads) and PR (promoted posts, etc). Some of it is corporate, some of it is political, but all of it is harmful.
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@mathias so many options, we just use the popularity/familiarity argument to not use any of them for bigger projects. #OCaml springs to mind, but maybe #CrystalLanguage too. #PonyLang too, especially if its development hadn't slowed down.
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Congrats to @ruby for 30 years of productivity and joy ❤️🎂
The first public release 0.95 was announced on December 21, 1995.
@chad not any admin, but I had heard about #Jortage a couple of years ago. https://jortage.com
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@catsalad Hmm. Shouldn't it be more like:
🔲 Spaces
🔲 Tabs
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@catsalad I know this is all in good fun and chaos. But if anyone is interested this is an accessibility issue.
Tabs are configurable width characters and can be customized to the needs of the user. For instance, if someone with low visibility is using a screen magnifier then they can set the tabs to be compact and see the indentation in context of the code. Tabs might also need to be made wider to help users follow indentation more easily. Also, screen reader users are able to track indentation with tabs (two levels of indent vs 4 or 8 or 16 spaces, which is it?).
So tabs put the consumer in control of how they can most effectively consume the information. Also, capitalizing hashtags helps screen readers, you're not a dork for doing it, you're punk AF!
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@catsalad spaces are like a religion: someone declares how wide indentation has to be and eveyone disagreeing is declared a heathen.
(i use three characters wide indentation, and i would never kink-shame anyone because they prefer 17)
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@catsalad no indentation just chaos
- Wannabe
- Self-hoster
- Practicising
- #HinduDharma
- Interested in
- #SocialEcology
- वर्ण
- शूद्र; should be doing better
pro-libre software, pro-holisticism
pro-communalism, anti-consumerism
fan of #Plan9 and #HaikuOS
anti-witchhunt, see https://stallmansupport.org
I write software (C++) for a living.
Joined Sep 2021
