Notices by Badly-read literary snob (rosactrl@social.vivaldi.net)

All I knew about boredom was wrong https://nautil.us/why-the-do-nothing-challenge-doesnt-do-much-for-you-1262005

@janneke and don’t get me wrong I love Lisp!

@janneke ah, but I’m the quest to find the tiniest languages that are good at one think. Guile is overkill for just processing text IMO

@janneke how so?

@janneke that’s exactly what I’m trying to evaluate so my question is why. I can imagine someone being very good at shell scripting would appreciate the cleverness of doing anything this way

I’ve never been good at writing shell scripts so I’m always impressed by the amount of shit you can do with them

@janneke OK, so these are tools to produce quality software. Now, if you don’t know how it was made, but had access to the code, is there anything that would make you think «damn, this is nice»

@janneke so gather from this that avoiding bugs by formal methods is the core of what you would call quality?

Now that we are all mad about software quality: do you have a definition for it? I started to writing one some weeks ago, today I found an old one in my bookmarks, but surely there must be many more out there

I may or may not have overloaded the air fryer

This is, once again, why I’ll never get married

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mrmasterkeyboard/116192873098653079

Regardless of why people is forking everything, I love it! This is good!

@janneke they provide awesome lunch at work, I can eat as much as I want. And there’s fruit and coffee, so that’s my breakfast (+ the protein powder). So my dinner is muesli + yogurt and some frozen berries. I’m spoiled and no joking: this is in a big part why I don’t change employer

I don’t know why I thought it would be a good idea to cook today, I just remember how much I hate it

So I haven’t updated because of Liquid Glass, that I can tell. What I didn’t know is that «Apple’s most recent security updates for iOS 18 are only available for phones that can’t run iOS 26 at all, like the iPhone XR» 😫 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/are-people-avoiding-ios-26-because-of-liquid-glass-its-complicated/

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@RosaCtrl/115901463370242842

@aral I updated my iPhone because security updates are not delivered to supported devices, sorry

@lzg actually, my dad, who is not only a good cook, but learned from my grandma and has always be self-sufficient man, except for doing the laundry 🙄 had this stupid idea that me and my sister should learn to cook, but not my brothers. So I did what I do and rebelled. My brothers are both great cooks, my sister is super good at baking stuff. I lost

@lzg that’s why I never learned

In the current economic system (yes, capital C) it makes sense to replace human creativity with the random output of language models. Mediocre music sells a tone. Mediocre literature sells a ton. Mediocre translations sells a ton. I know how the sausage is made, mediocre and even horribly bad software sells a ton. The output of a language model only looks like progress if you don’t know we can do better

@dalias @baldur I know that, I didn’t say it. There are folks insisting formal methods + LLMs are the way to go. You can’t say they aren’t trying. And maybe it’s all dumb to fail. That’s what I’m hopping.

However think it’s interesting that both groups are saying the same. Which makes me suspect that actually maybe the code does matter