Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

@andrewrk one of the reasons that I think Zig is successful is how good you are at diplomatically telling people "no", and keeping Zig on task. A project like Zig needs a clear vision and a decisive leader. I personally think you have done a wonderful job, not just with language building, but community building as well.

showerthought:

I am thankful for the optimists of the world.

I understand that skepticism is appropriate and warranted, distrust and wariness are healthy.

But it's because of the tiny percent of people who are optimistic enough to donate money that I can work on Zig full-time instead of slaving away at a soulless corporation.

@I_am_the_Carl @jvillasante Zig is an alternate world where you replace the preprocessor, templates, and many other features with comptile-time evaluation (types are values at comptime) and providing more detailed pointer types than C provides. Zig isn't trying to be Rust at all and a comparison with rust doesn't really make sense as Zig doesn't shy away from that which would be considered unsafe in Rust. There's also a greater focus on memory layout, explicit allocation, and avoiding allocation

Techbros: self driving cars are inevitable!

Also techbros: prove you are human by performing a task that computers can’t do, like identifying traffic lights.

#FreudianTypoOfTheWeek

Capitalust (n.): An insatiable desire to accumulate wealth.

bester Cartoon ever

#HashTagGames
#MisspokenQuotes

A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.

Tired - Complaining about Hashtag Games
Wired - Muting the hashtag because that takes way less clicks and solves the problem

"Slow is smooth. And smooth is fast."
A friend of mine who loved skiing first told me this.
Later, I heard it in the context of shooting.
I believe it applies in my job as a computer programmer, too.
I imagine it applies in many contexts.
If you can't take the time to do things well, you'll be too busy dealing with problems of your own making to get much done.
Haste will only slow you down.

Recently got into a political disagreement here and someone blocked me. All good, part of the course and so on. But now i can't see that thread anymore, not even my own writings.
That seems wrong. Shouldn't blocks be effective for the future and not affect previous interactions? I didn't block, didn't choose not to see the discussion. It's fair that people choose not to interact anymore but seems wrong that people can take away conversations from other people when they block.
#mastodon

If you care about avoid storing your data in the cloud, you should care about not storing your financial data in the cloud either.
#selfhosted #monero #zcash #crypto

@geography @shakthimaan I completely agree, and just FWIW I'm a contributor to #MirageOS and have a moral (and won't sell out to military). And I've no interest in space.

@erlend@writing.exchange Ooo finally, this is exciting! I'm immediately slightly worried it doesn't mention ForgeFed or Codeberg in anyway - I hope it doesn't mean there are no interop discussions heavily going in the background. Using ActivityPub doesn't automatically mean interop.

I would argue than #Erlang is more suitable for writing compilers than #CommonLisp just because it has built-in pattern matching, tuples and map literals. Clojure got literals right but no pattern matching. Oh and DESTRUCTURING-BIND in CL does not count.