@clacke Heh, my first exposure to that was in the context of triumphalism about having fixed Y2K in time
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Thomas (tfb@functional.cafe)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 03:51:38 JST Thomas -
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Thomas (tfb@functional.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 19:00:38 JST Thomas @clacke Well now I want to know what meme!
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Thomas (tfb@functional.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 18-May-2024 16:12:28 JST Thomas @clacke Janet Reno the mass murderer ?
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Thomas (tfb@functional.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 10:13:19 JST Thomas @fitheach @clacke Been writing OCaml on a Linux desktop off and on since before 2003 🙃
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Thomas (tfb@functional.cafe)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 04:03:53 JST Thomas @clacke I don't think I'd want to live somewhere without good markets. I think I bought 10kg of fruit and vegetables at the market today!
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Thomas (tfb@functional.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2024 09:19:01 JST Thomas @loke Completely unsurprising, honestly. Since it became clear that Facebook/Meta are a key bit of the US military spy apparatus, he's gotten behind their "targeting". He's a pretty hardcore militarist right-wing Democratic Party shill, after all.
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Thomas (tfb@functional.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2024 09:18:56 JST Thomas @loke @ianbetteridge The idea that data protection is something people should have a right to have, for free, is certainly at odds with his belief that Apple is selling a right to privacy with their products (and that this is a good thing)
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Thomas (tfb@functional.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 22:46:10 JST Thomas @clacke "International Labor Day" never stopped being a day of protest for the US labor movement, though
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Thomas (tfb@functional.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 10:04:58 JST Thomas @clacke I've only watched the first episode, but I like it so far. Thanks for sharing !
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Thomas (tfb@functional.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 10:58:57 JST Thomas @fence I couldn't find anything about it, though I found a lawyer arguing that it would be as enforceable in Belgium as in France and Italy, where it has been enforced
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Thomas (tfb@functional.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 17:47:11 JST Thomas @clacke Oh no, I'd thought that was an emoji picker. I had no idea it was a reaction. Brb sending myself some mails to react to
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Thomas (tfb@functional.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 22:21:42 JST Thomas @clacke There's more Californians than Canadians, and they have no less legitimate a claim to the two letters, so yeah. Probably not worth fighting that windmill
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Thomas (tfb@functional.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 19:28:28 JST Thomas @helenbellmusic And just like that I remember exactly what the OCF smelled like in the late 90's
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Thomas (tfb@functional.cafe)'s status on Monday, 19-Feb-2024 05:41:00 JST Thomas @clacke I'm sure lots of us have those stories, but I got a rejection in 2002 for not having 10 years of Java experience. I probably didn't want the job anyway, given that
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Thomas (tfb@functional.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 20:18:23 JST Thomas @clacke The lua vm made a big splash by being register-based and significantly more efficient to interpret. They wrote a paper on it
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Thomas (tfb@functional.cafe)'s status on Friday, 16-Feb-2024 13:33:21 JST Thomas @m455 yo ho, yo ho
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Thomas (tfb@functional.cafe)'s status on Friday, 16-Feb-2024 13:33:14 JST Thomas @m455 > this feels like cheating or avoiding the whole "dont mutate globals" because you cant in elixir
I like the technique used by the ML languages here: your variables are immutable, but if you want to make a mutable variable you instead box its value.
Doing that silently under the hood is a classic Lisp implementation trick
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Thomas (tfb@functional.cafe)'s status on Friday, 16-Feb-2024 13:33:07 JST Thomas @m455 fatherhood confirmed
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Thomas (tfb@functional.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 13:34:30 JST Thomas @RL_Dane Can you rephrase this as a request for an AI integration?
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Thomas (tfb@functional.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 20:33:56 JST Thomas @pettter I certainly don't share the political perspective of the authors of that report. But an interesting aspect of US Congressional investigations is that they can get access to and make public, private documents that otherwise the public wouldn't have access to. And they have in fact done so here, and documented a syphilitic chain from the US Executive through university "researchers" to big tech companies.
The documents they cite are quite clear in their goal of laundering censorship.