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I think I love this but need some explanation. Is Python as bad at threading as Javascript?

Today's blog report: getting the TARDIS cloister bell as my Dunst alert in #GUIX. Maybe these weekly posts should become a tradition. https://orys.us/us

@alcinnz If only I could get the latest version on #Guix! I used it for years previously

@veer66 @eqf00 Fascinating. And Clojure exchanges that FP value for others, holding that lists aren't a very good base data structure for programming.

A nice snippet demonstrating why I love #CSS in #Clojure (GardenCSS). Every pre-processor gives you &, but being able to use assoc/dissoc to modify a map is pretty nice.

@icedquinn You have such excellent emoji-fu, but I must be missing something

So https://nitter.net/ is great if all you want to do is read Twitter. Sadly, interacting and conversations are still one of the most valuable things for me...

@peterdrake I need to read me more PL text books!

@eqf00 Thanks for the good reply! "Functional" deriving from mathematics (esp. Church) makes sense, and then I can see how that term could be adopted. I think your intuition about Rich Hickey wanting Clojure "more functional" makes sense. I can see that there are several senses of the term. Calling Lisp functional might be using an older sense of "functional" that predates the OOP vs FP contemporary discussions

"I will take for granted the fact that Lisp is commonly acknowledge to be a FP language, so I will not explain why Lisp is a FP language." Oi. Time to figure out where this is commonly acknowledged (and why Rich Hickey didn't think it was all that common when he made #clojure an FP lispy). https://tilde.town/%7Eramin_hal9001/articles/emacs-unix-04_lisp-does-fp-better-than-bash.html

Handy! Now I don't have to go to my phone, share to my Telegram, and open it on my PC. Just open them straight in Firefox from phone to desktop (without having to push them to a different device, open the push, etc). https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/view-synced-tabs-other-devices

@eqf00 @debacle I'm with you on the uniform experience thing. Emacs is quite good at interfaces

@eqf00 @debacle as a professional web dev I'm biased, but why get rid of a good browser? It is the culmination of a great deal of work and intelligence. Do you find it ethically/security questionable?

Reading "Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons" it pointed out a major problem with biometrics: besides the obvious problems with physical disfigurement, you can never "change password" so data breaches can never be recovered. Once hacked or framed, forever.