Notices by Karsten Johansson (ksaj@infosec.exchange)

@amszmidt Trump and his way of twisting words that apply to himself, to make it sound like others are guilty. So bizarre, but the Magas gobble it up.

@amszmidt Yes. And everyone please stop calling them Americans, as they are only 1/4 of the Americas.

We always have to qualify it - North American, Latin American, Central American, South American - everything American just to avoid being lumped in with the US Americans.

They are only 1/4 American. They call themselves "American" solely to make it sound like they own it all. They are the US OF America, and that OF is super important, because they are not ALL of the Americas. They are the United States OF 1/4 of the Americas. Hell, they are only barely HALF of North America.

How could you possibly turn something that is larger than your country into another state of that country that is only part OF the Americas....

This has been the case since Canada burned down the White House the first time around.

Avoid saying "Death To America" and just focus on that quarter bit that is sofa king annoying. 3/4 of the Americas is nowhere near as annoying.

@kawa I'm a vi guy. No worries. I don't use emacs, and have no interest.

Is it because vi is better? No. It's because I'm old and cranky and I happily stick to what I'm good at. lol

Having said that, I remember a big push for 3D desktops that never fleshed out. Mainly because it's an amazingly useless gimmick. Do you really want to "swim" around to find your web browser launcher?

@weekend_editor @lispwizard @amszmidt @screwtape Instead of ending with a NIL, it could be a WTF.

@amszmidt @sfwrtr @Aphelion @kentpitman @alt_text I just block people like that. They are useless, and don't provide the Utopia they think their presence exudes.

They usually come from places like X. They should stay at places like X.

Why should anyone give a shit if this one person, Michelle, is so distraught over such a thing that she (oops, setting myself up for not reading her profile to see if she has other pronouns) must act out like such a self-important pest.

She'll inevitably block me, and I won't even notice lol.

@sfwrtr @Aphelion @kentpitman @alt_text Mostly when someone says "You're dead to me" you can shrug and say, "mmkay bye!"

Or just block and ignore, because that kind of personality is toxic anyway.

@amszmidt @screwtape Ah, much more cool than emacs.

Just kidding. I like to rile peeps up sometimes. :ablobcatrainbow:

@amszmidt @screwtape I'm not an emacs guy, so I'll take your word on that. 😈

@lispwizard @amszmidt @screwtape Want to drive a Lisper mad? Mix them.

(first (cadr (some-list)))

lol.

@amszmidt @screwtape I thought you'd like the example.

It was one of the first things I learned (and definitely not the easiest way to learn!). I don't use it very often, but when I need it, it is so much nicer to look at. It just confuses the hell out of people who don't understand, or ignore the List part of LISp.

Using CnnnnR accessors is awesome when coding something like a Sudoku solver, where you have to consider rows, blocks and columns.

@amszmidt @screwtape Hah, this reminds me of this craziness from my early days:

• First is first, last is a list of last.

• When given the list ((10 (20 30 40) 50) 60 70)), output the first of the last of the first of the last of the first element, and name the accessor.

(The answer is 30, and CADADAR, but of course you all already knew that right away)

According to the vote, half of US America likes Trump. According to this week's reactions, NOBODY in Canada likes him.

What's the polite Canadian way to tell Trump to fuck right off? I like this pilot's demonstration.

#Trump #usa #Canada

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/ontario-pilot-maple-leaf-drawn-on-flight-path-1.7452626

@amszmidt One of the first things USA is going to sting from, is that even though Trudeau is putting a 25% tariff on American alcohol, it won't matter. Our provinces have already removed all American alcohol from the shelves... you cannot buy it anymore. At all.

The Liquor Control Board of Ontario, who controls all the alcohol in the province of Ontario, is the world's largest purchaser of alcohol, and they are not buying any American alcohol. Same for the other provinces.

The US won't be able to fight back on that one, because we don't ship much of our alcohol there, as the US market is quite saturated to begin with.

So they've completely lost their largest purchaser, and several other provinces as well.

@amszmidt It's already spreading to Canada and Mexico.

@dougmerritt @screwtape As humans, we see two dots and a line, and immediately infer it's a face.

When confronted with AI, we kinda have the 80's backward masking thing happening again. It's obviously not real, but you can easily convince yourself. Once told what to expect, it's nearly impossible to not fall for it.

@amszmidt They're rebuilding following Islamic laws. It won't be long for another Islamic country to be offended, and a new war to break out.

From current hell back to the old hell. History repeating itself as it so often does.

@amszmidt Wake up. You're having a fever dream. :ablobcatneon:

@screwtape @phoe @r In only one direction. new-thing should not be needed. It isn't for any other input done in this manner.

Consider that we even have ~R which outputs to words. I guess it also has the same problem, sice you can't convert from "one" to #o1 in a single step either. (So I was slightly wrong. There are two EXCEPT clauses)

@TheGibson Crank it up and rip the knob off!

@screwtape @phoe @r Haha, not elegant (in Lisp parlance), but they're reacting to the thing that bugs me so much.

Still need to be able to use it in (format) tho'. And just like the rest of the radixes, it should be possible to, in only a few letters and possibly punctuation, convert to the different radixes. Otherwise it is shockingly clumsy for a language that otherwise is so consistent. I can convert from any radix to roman in one step. I should be able to convert from roman to any radix in a similar step.

I realize Roman Numerals aren't a real radix (although it is close to one), but if you have it one way for all other types of input, it should be the same for Roman Numerals input as well. Otherwise it's somewhere you have to say "EXCEPT in this one special case" which Lispers are usually against, and would refer to as a bug.