Notices by Pat (mostlypat@mastodon.sdf.org)

@screwtape @webhat
Actually I think the example you posted was in PN, not in RPN?

In RPN it would be: 4 5 * 2 3 * +

(Push 4, push 5, push pop * pop, etc)

@screwtape @webhat I'm familiar with Reverse Polish Notation from FORTH, but for some reason I never realised there was a non-Reversed l version¡

In the context of stacks (which FORTH is based on) RPN makes perfect sense, and the context of sexp (which LISP is based on) PN make perfect sense...but without some programming language reason, it just looks ridiculous

@screwtape Thanks for the show, I'm glad I could finally catch one live, even if it was 1am on Christmas day for me! I'll need to investigate LambdaMOO and CLIM on something other than Termux on my smartphone...

MOOs seem like quite an interesting programming problem. A lot of different objects dynamically interacting with each other. What you were saying about high-level logic was cool, I wonder if there is a hard mathematical limit to what you can "simulate" in a MOO

26 years done, another 26 to go :)

There's something very satisfying about self-hosting email. Feels like I can "seize the means of communication"

Its absurd that something so simple and so ubiquitous felt so far from me before, as if it is obvious that email would need to be owned by the mega-corps (Gmail, Outlook, etc)

Mastodon (particularly via Snac) gives me the same feeling. It's a glimpse at an internet that I was too young to know. One of open communication and cooperation, rather than ad-driven bollocks

#email #snac2

@emilymbender I find it quite depressing to imagine a future where teachers just use AI to create courses, and students just use AI to attend courses

It presents learning as a means-to-an-end, and attempts to skip the difficult bits (like having to read, understand nuance, search for sources, discuss with peers). There is no short-cut to learning, the difficulty IS the learning (a quote I like is, "memory is the residue of thought")

(Now on SDF, in theory...)

I do random tinkerings. Currently on an OpenBSD and 9front high :)

Formerly @mostlypat@mastodon.social

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