(webdev Tory) 
@worldsendless@qoto.org
Full Stack Clojure web app engineer
Joined Jul 2021
@christian Thanks! I hope you enjoy those. I found that some of them were not in my feed reader yet, so was glad to add some
I used to listen to #podcasts through Google, then through Spotify, then Spotify Lite, and now I just love listening to them raw through #firefox and the RSS feed (#elfeed on my pc, #feeder on my phone). There are tradeoffs -- can't share as easily, don't have playlists of them, can't cast. But I also don't have things getting paused accidentally by the service or by others on my account (there are no accounts at all!), and I don't need to worry about things tracking/sharing my listening data. At least, not for podcasts. It's the way podcasts were meant to be!
@christian Yeah, it's about a 3-hour round trip daily, with frequent delays.
Here are the ones on my list right now; Syntax is the one I listen to most often.
- The CSS Podcast https://thecsspodcast.libsyn.com/rss
- ClojureStream Podcast https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:627190089/sounds.rss
- Clojurians Podcast https://anchor.fm/s/7ec55fac/podcast/rss
- Foojay.io, the Friends Of OpenJDK! https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2011989.rss
- JavaScript Jabber https://feeds.redcircle.com/a4faed6e-afe0-4a65-b4e7-de790ee67d4b
- Software Unscripted https://feeds.resonaterecordings.com/software-unscripted
- Syntax. Tasty Treats http://feed.syntax.fm/rss
- The ReadME Podcast https://feeds.simplecast.com/ioCY0vfY
@christian I listen to podcasts during my commute -- around 15 hours per week. I have categories for tech, marriage, faith, news with shows I really enjoy in each of them
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There's yet another "AI will kill us all! It poses a risk of extinction!" letter going around, and I just… Y'all i am just so fucking tired.
CAPITALISM poses risk of extinction (climate change, right the fuck now).
WHITE SUPREMACY poses risk of extinction (genocide, eugenics).
HEGEMONY poses risk of extinction (nuclear FUCKING WAR).
And whatever "risk of extinction" "AI" poses, it poses because it is BUILT FROM THOSE EXTREMELY HUMAN VALUES.
Even if you stopped every "AI" project running, RIGHT THIS SECOND, those values would still kill us. And no matter how long you "pause" your "AI" projects, if you don't address those values? Then when you start your "AI" back up? You'll KEEP BUILDING THOSE SAME VALUES IN.
This is not hard. At this point, as much as it pains me to say it, it's not even novel. And yet you're still not fucking getting it.
I'm so goddam tired.
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Since you are from the arts this may seem less relevant to you, but I suspect that the #JVM is the most mature and well-developed virtual machine out there. I know, at least, it has had the most man-hours pumped into it of any of them, with decades of very good programmers. Now things like Graal make it blindingly fast for many products
Excited for this talk on #Clojure performance in an hour. https://www.meetup.com/london-clojurians/events/293273349/?utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=share-btn_savedevents_share_modal&utm_source=link
@mykhaylo @rml @joel OpenJDK. I have been programming Clojure for years and have never touched Sun/Oracle/Whoever "official" JDK. Great discussion about the tradeoffs of being a hosted langage (though it got a little sidetracked in the middle with "Clojure's useful distinctions") https://clojureverse.org/t/benefits-of-a-hosted-language-vs-the-host-beyond-syntax/9738
@publicvoit @Joel confirming just works; I click "accept" and it does its thing and sends the response. Composing them is not something I've ever done in any client, so I can't speak to that.
@dekkzz76@emacs.ch Yeah. It's when you are using a TV for one of your monitors.
Nah; I made that up. It was a typo :)
It's a beauty of open source #emacs that I thought, "with my three streens and multiple emacs windows per frame, it would be great to blink the modeline which one has received my focus." A short function later and boom; done!
@ianp5a ah! That makes excellent sense. I live 45 miles from my on-site office, so drive to the nearest train and take transit the rest of the way. I did consider figuring out how to tie cycling in to that process, though, but didn't get it worked out.
@ianp5a how have you gotten out of driving?
@ianp5a haha :) that made me laugh. I forgot about that company even more than I forget about WordPerfect
Often I search for something like, "What's the OS Alt for XYZ?" But now I wonder, "what's the proprietary version of it?" In particular, I have no idea what is the off-the-shelf equivalent that a lay user might know for #Inkscape?
All the businesses and companies and content creators are still on Twitter. And so a bunch of users stay on Twitter because they need IRL updates from those guys. So it's a cycle...
@rml ah! I didn't realize that Haskell had that problem. Yeah, I find that Clojure spoils me whenever I work in other environments where I need to be fearful of breaking changes when updating. I forget to be careful and get stung!
@rml it took me a re-read to grok that, but you make good points: programmer first, and pragmatism
@icedquinn I would take heart if they ever displayed some sense of regret, but it's not on their radar at all
Full Stack Clojure web app engineer
Joined Jul 2021
