Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

I restarted doing dyne:bolic. 100% free and live nomadic as always, easy to boot, use and share freedom. Planning to feature Guix as package manager (with GNU repos). The main target groups are media activists, teachers and journalists as usual, but also people recycling old PCs and young rebels escaping corporate mind control. If you are a free software activist: give a spin to this alpha and let us know, your opinion is valuable https://fed.dyne.org/post/95333

@Sempf @codinghorror Jeff created SO to be a crowdsourced upload of his mind to the internet.

One weird trick that apparently I do a lot, because I've been told this a lot: I don't answer the question you asked, I answer the better question you didn't ask. You're welcome, by the way.

@codinghorror it's hard to know how you'd react to crazy adversity until you find yourself confronting it yourself.

Finally! A new episode of "The Search Space"!

#6 - Adam Smith on Answer Set Programming
https://thesearch.space/episodes/6-adam-smith-on-answer-set-programming

#Prolog #LogicProgramming #AnswerSetProgramming

Oh man wow I am not into sports but I'd definitely pay to see this. Shut up and take my money dot gif

Awkward.
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People talk a lot of crap about #lisp but then litter their code with parenthesis because they don’t understand how operator precedence works in their language. #programming

a "141 minute mistake"? Dude, you're a 64 year long mistake as a movie reviewer!

Build small, simple, inspectable programs.

Build them this way so others can understand them; so Future You can fix them, even when you're tired, when the duties of life rest heavily on your aching shoulders, when it would be easier to let the breakage lie.

Build simple things because fulfilling duty and taking responsibility is more important than automation.

@Jermolene If you can't have coffee without a milk frother then there are too many dependencies in your codebase.

No coffee yesterday morning because my milk frother refused to work, with a flashing red light and an unusual noise. I took all the bits apart, and cleaned them, but nothing coaxed it back into life. Then this morning I tried rebooting it, and of course it worked straight away.

Chastening that I forgot that even a stupid milk frother is now a bug-ridden computer system, with all the inscrutable malevolence of a printer...

The one question to ask yourself when reviewing PRs:

Is this change an improvement over the current state?

The goal isn’t perfection, it’s improvement.

Feel free to make suggestions for improvement, but clearly distinguish them from the actual blockers.

Good news, everyone! After a few minutes of Google searching, I have found an article that justifies the self destructive behavior I am currently engaging in! I am now awarding myself this medal, because I deserve it 🥇

started looking into squeak/smalltalk and it's just amazing!
there's this tool called method finder which let's you type in arguments and what you expect them to produce and it lists you all possible methods that could have produced the result.
#smalltalk #squeak

Most open source projects are understaffed, especially given their relevance within the whole software ecosystem.

For projects such as k8s it's of course even worse because their target audience is basically Google/Amazon etc (if you are a normal company it's probably a massive overhead for you) who outsource that relevant work hoping the community likes to work for free while learning the skills Google/Amazon/etc need.

Software complexity is a scam by big tech.

https://mastodon.social/@tcurdt/111839427860786689

@futurebird

I moved here from Reddit rather than the birdsite, so my experiences may not be quite what you're looking for, but I started out with an introduction and hashtags.

I followed a few hashtags, and then followed some of the Fedifolk using those regularly.

Then, I started visiting the feeds of boosted Fedifolk.

It's taken a wee while to get a feed that I love browsing, but I don't mind that. I love this self-curation thing.

Hope this helps!

@daveliepmann I don't think spreadsheets could be invented today. "It's too complicated. Users won't understand. Who would buy this?" Instead of lifting peopled up towards general computing, we have dumbed computers down to cater for 7 second attention spans. We have A/B tested our way into stupidity.