@roadriverrail Oh lordy as a mostly-python programmer these days I have some big rants about the directions HLLs (including python) have been going. That's probably a topic for an in-person rant sometime, which we should definitely do sometime now that I'm getting past some health mess.
@roadriverrail Or, like, I've done a lot more systems code than drivers—sockets and other syscalls, but also binary struct analysis or protocol implementation.
I never want to generate or parse http or gods help us smb again. I want to write an annotated protocol description and then write reusable code to transform that into an implementation on my preferred platform with appropriate, configurable constraints. And I want that same transformer to also work on a text description of smtp or dns.
@roadriverrail Right? I mean, you're the embedded pro, but I've seen some of it even with my toy projects.
My compsci brain wants to take a data sheet for a hypothetical xyz456 chip and write a xyz456.datasheet text file that's a line-by-line copy of the relevant parts, but with syntax to annotate it with those errata and other experience-driven hints. As complex as that would be, it just floors me that sometimes the real right answer is really:
Lately I've been listening to videos of people explaining how they write system or driver code. I'm always struck by the sharp difference of approaches by people who come from engineering vs comp sci backgrounds.
Engineering? Write it fast, dirty, and mostly correct. Apologize for not cleaning it up more, and twiddle the code when you notice a bug.
Comp sci? Express the theory cleanly in code or data. Write more code when necessary to make that implementation faster/smaller.
Obviously in reality experienced practitioners fall somewhere in between. The engineer prototype gets good at predicting how much theory will be valuable for communicating to others and to their future self. The compsci prototype gets good at predicting where it'll be appropriate to sacrifice theory for the implementation. But sometimes I'll hear someone talk about code, and their approach to that split seems far louder than their words.
@gnu2 Whoops, looks like I chose my words poorly and implied something I didn't mean to. I certainly know lots of non-nationalistic Christians. I only meant to say that some very loud ones are, and that they're a big problem.
Well, there that plus the second point: that personally I find the article off-putting rather than inspiring, even drawing back on how I felt when I was a Christian. But of course it's generally fine for different things to inspire different people.
@gnu2 Huh. Well, I'm not Christian, so I'm not going to tell them how to interpret their texts. For myself, though, this article's interpretation is way more literal and less nuanced than I could ever accept.
Personally I avoid the pledge because I find a lot of people in US culture use it to bully others--often in the name of nationalistic Christianity--and I find nonparticipation easier to navigate than arguing with them (and no less productive).
@roadriverrail I'm glad! My experience has mostly matched yours, though obviously we've all heard people who've had very different experiences, even here on fedi.
@roadriverrail Agreed. As OP points out even changing a constitution doesn't have to mean a big revolution or anything. Duckducking around a tiny bit reveals this interesting visualization on countries around the world amending or rewriting their constitutions.
@roadriverrail Takes messages from fedi and forwards them to potentially absolutely any matrix channel or bot or DM that's federated absolutely anywhere through that network? Sounds terrible. 0% okay. Kill it with fire.
Mainstream news is all excited about how the Memphis Police are disbanding the special unit that Tyre Nichols' murderers were from. Is any member of police command going to be held accountable? Are the 50 remaining members of that unit going to lose their badges, or do they just get to cry about being regular cops until someone reforms the unit under another name?
Rhetorical question; I assume that's "no" and "the latter" until I hear otherwise.
These electronics videos keep talking about a bistable 555 circuit and I'm over here confused because I don't have any examples in my life of people (electronic or otherwise) who are bi and also claim to be stable.
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