Notices by mlinksva (mlinksva@mastodon.social)

@evan strong positivity, at least relative to...polls. :)

Polls are here though, would enjoy a somehow fediverse native prediction market.

@evan wasn't really my intention to look for an explanation of the poll results (why the numbers are different) but perhaps subconciously I was -- I suppose they embed people's estimations of various life outcomes associated with each of the four paths. This is what I mean by your polls often being thought provoking. :)

@evan I mostly enjoy your polls and do my best to enjoy them as thought provocations rather than as pedentry provocations.

Anyway, curious whether anyone has attempted to characterize differences in outcomes across these four, with caveat that it'd be hard to calibrate "levels" across them.

ps I chose CEO for my hypothetical child as I imagine this path would impose the least obligation on me. Perhaps this kind of thinking is why such child is hypothetical only!

@evan I did not know CB rank was a thing, but (1) memories of Klout and (2) glancing at a few obvious (eg famous VCs, CEOs) profiles it seems you "win" (are not ranked) if you have identified investments.

Or maybe higher ranks just don't show unless you pay CB (which is why I rarely look at it, probably going to hit $-only data/paywall long before finding whatever I wanted to know).

@evan if I ran a MSCS program, I would give you credit for adding E2EE to ActivityPub. I know, classes are different, probably complements to practical projects, no matter how innovative. Mostly want to leave a note of respect and thanks to you. Go Evan!

This #BlackFridayParking (or next, or whenever) consider remediatation along with documentation. If truly unused, next year you could be delighted by a cover of morning glory or whatever you sow: preferably native, don't forget acorns or fruit tree seeds in abandoned planting strips/wells often found in ununsed parking lots.

I don't have illustrative photos handy, so first two are of volunteers growing in barely used lots, third is of unused wells that may have acorns in them.

Parking lots are by definition part of the 99+% of the US that would be better with more trees https://mastodon.social/@mlinksva/110798956417471134

Parking lot remediation with native plants/trees is part of #rewilding the suburbs (anyplace with a surface parking lot is suburban, natch) https://mastodon.social/@mlinksva/110798915065358015

Mere curiosity, only to me, the logo of the Leibniz Assocation https://www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de found on the home page of Leibniz Open Science https://www.leibniz-openscience.de/ found in https://social.coop/@eloquence/111606255712722192 looks more similar to my signature (last name part) as of perhaps 2000 (it's scrawled a lot more, not natural to use a pen anymore) than anything I've seen.

@vmstan @evan I also did not know the word, interesting entymology, multiple independent inventions, or whatever that is called in linguistics https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mook

@evan the "2023 Israel–Hamas war Part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict Part of the Arab–Israeli conflict Part of the Cold War (1956, 1967–1991)" per English Wikipedia, complete with en dashes.

Curiously since the above war is not within the territory of the former USSR it isn't post-Soviet, thus the non-overlapping years, cf

"Russian invasion of Ukraine Part of the Russo-Ukrainian War Part of the post-Soviet conflicts"

Wow no en dash in those names. Surely there have been massive edit wars

@evan I'd E-ncapsulate it. Speaking with extreme naivety, but that is to say with this half-baked allusion, rooting for whatever I imagine @spritelyinst might be cooking up.

@n8 @clacke @petrichor @liw @idlestate that's OK, I'm idly interested in the topic. FWIW @danielskatz is someone to follow who is deep in the field (and Daniel's posts are mostly relevant, and show others to follow).

Just occured to me that Red and Red/System https://static.red-lang.org/red-system-specs.html might be another example of a systems language that is a su*set (not certain which) of a scripting language https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Red_(programming_language) @mpweiher @clacke @aeva

Among crowd getting away from what a short while ago looked like a potential battle in Rostov, person making a weird fashion statement and/or fan of @rasmusfleischer?

Source: https://infosec.exchange/@kevinrothrock/110598839891921605 which links to https://twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/1672559742500085760 @kevinrothrock

Tangentially, the most recent English post on the COPYRIOT blog: https://copyriot.se/2022/03/06/update-on-spotifys-compliance-with-russian-censorship/

@clacke do you have an existence proof of FastSafeLang ⊆ SquishyLang?

I don't see how that works.

Seems to me that types and eg more control over memory requires more not less of a language, so (after seeing Mojo and reeading @mpweiher's blog) FastSafeLang ⊇ SquishyLang is possible, and seems natural.

@aeva right! Nevermind fediverse servers, it's always been amazing to me that web apps in general haven't taken this path. But, has to be designed for, evidently a huge barrier.

@clacke @aeva I'm unfamiliar w/those but C web server exposing low level scripting interface semi-popular forever eg Navi/Tcl, Netscape/js, Apache/mod_*, I guess ngnix/Lua now. Definitely thinking of pushing FastSafeLang impl up to ~framework level, with scripting for only application-specific code. Figure it's a naive thought though considering unpopularity to say the least.

https://mastodon.social/@mpweiher/110502060109056060 and https://blog.metaobject.com/2019/12/the-4-stages-of-objective-smalltalk.html by @mpweiher reminded me of this. Flipped, rarer, but maybe with more potential. In terrms used above, FastSafeLang as superset of easy to learn squishy language.

@clacke @aeva

@fu probably coincidental as it looks like you use it frequently, but good use of ♲ here anyway. IIRC it was common to use ♲ for "redents" before StatusNet supported them directly, since "RT" was from Twitter (though some used it anyway) and "RD" seemed to be missing something.

Related half-joking prediction https://mastodon.social/@mlinksva/109283673247449829

According to https://identi.ca/evan/note/6EZ4Jzp5RQaUsx5QzJtL4A 15 years and 2 days ago @evan wrote "This is my first post."

I recall feeling excited at the time. Go Evan! Always.