Notices by Thomas (tfb@functional.cafe), page 3

@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

@clacke The lua vm made a big splash by being register-based and significantly more efficient to interpret. They wrote a paper on it

@m455 yo ho, yo ho

@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

@m455 fatherhood confirmed

@RL_Dane Can you rephrase this as a request for an AI integration?

@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.

If anyone is wondering what happened with that David Rand fellow at MIT who was badly/incompetently scraping fedi, he's tied up with a US NSF-fronted attempt at automating online censorship. A pretty sinister project of the US executive, that's apparently beyond the pale for at least some of Congress. https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/new-report-details-how-national-science-foundation-funding-ai-tools-censor-and

It was p at shitposter dot club who pointed this out in the context of that damn scraper. That instance is, uhm, difficult so you may have missed the original message. It's worth reading though!

https://shitposter.club/objects/1414fed5-883d-4ff6-81bc-4103e01726d3

@jacqueline That's a fedi special. "Lol /etc/hosts doesn't work" is the Mastodon special twist

@kaia magnifique !

@clacke @RandomDamage Oh gods! Couldn't you at least have imagined digestive biscuits 😹

@clacke ooh, that's a very relatable description

@schappi @kaia nel blu dipinto di blu felice di stare lasù

@clacke Oh no no, no one says that. There are 32 counties in Ireland, of which 6 are in Northern Ireland, and 26 are in the Republic. There's no need to adjust language to try to make the partition seem natural.

BTW, that article's title does not use neutral language. "The British Isles" is a strongly politically loaded term, by which Britain lays claim to some natural possession over Ireland. You won't find the term used in Ireland, except by the most extreme unionists.

@kaia This is the highlight of my day!

@clacke A UK pint is 20 oz yeah. A US pint is 16 oz, to mirror the 16oz to a pound. Also the size of their oz differ :blobcatdizzy:

@clacke I'm gonna start selling lemon-flavored iced tea, call it Mister Gray

@clacke EurKey looks interesting, but yuck to the ANSI physical layout. And it's definitely very germanic in its choice/position of the precomposed accented letters. Which obviously isn't bad per se, but is also not going to ingratiate itself to Southern Europe

@valhalla @hypolite

@hypolite @clacke A situation that antedates computers. There's a long history of intellectuals complaining that majuscule letters should be accented too, and French people collectively ignoring them, except sometimes not.

@clacke all caps makes a difference though; très cool and TRES COOL are both acceptable spellings (-;