Notices by Mark Gardner (mjgardner@social.sdf.org), page 2

@mcjevans #AynRand’s essay titled “What Is #Capitalism?” (1965) beautifully explains the connection. You can read it for free here: https://ari.AynRand.org/issues/government-and-business/capitalism/pov-what-is-capitalism/

If you prefer listening, that page also links to audio and video presentations of the version she edited down as a lecture.

You can also find it in print in the 1966/67 anthology “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal.”

Let me know what you discover!

#Objectivism #philosophy

@jwz Godwin in one

@BeAware OK zoomer 🙄

@BeAware (laughs in quinquagenarian)

@BeAware it you

@dan_the_architect @lisamelton The Venn diagram of “#Fediverse is not #Mastodon” and “it’s actually #GNU / #Linux” people is a single circle

@mhd @drmorr I love the #Perl #programming language because in so many places it obeys the Principle Of Least Surprise—but *only* if you’re a normal person and not a stuck-up Real Programmer.

A normal person says, “Of course I can check how many things I have (elements in an array) by comparing to a number.”

A “Real Programmer” throws a fit because arrays and numbers are not the same thing, dammit, and their job is to explain to the computer how to do *its* job, dammit.

@mhd @drmorr If you want or need to be verbose, you can say the following in #Perl to get the number of elements in an array:

```
scalar @array
```

What that does is force an expression into a scalar context.

But a lot of the time you *don’t* need to do that. For instance, this will do the right thing:

```
$length = @array;
```

As well as this:

```
say 'There are four lights' if @lights == 4;
```

More on context here: https://perldoc.perl.org/perldata#Context

@mjgardner@threads.net Safe travels, self

@mjgardner@threads.net Confirmed that replies from #Fediverse to #Threads work.

Threads users can also like those replies and the replier will be notified.

Further, the Threads user can follow a link to the reply’s original server, as well as block the replier from further interaction or report their reply.

@FlashMobOfOne Yeah, fuck Gates, who left day-to-day operations at #Microsoft sixteen years ago, stepped down as chairman ten years ago and has since plowed billions of dollars into dozens of charitable ventures.

You #Linux kids are way overdue in finding a new villain.

So the good news is that the People’s Front of Judea is fine. It’s just the Judean People’s Front that’s dissolving. https://blog.opencollective.com/open-collective-official-statement-ocf-dissolution/

#OpenCollective #OpenCollectiveFoundation @opencollective

(cf. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079470/)

*Tres* Leches? En esta economía?

@programming_discussions @charadon It seems #DevOps kiddies will use anything except #Perl

@inthehands I have bad news for you and your students: the #job-posting pool is full of shallow #recruiters that go *far* below the already low bar set by the worst #HR departments.

And company #hiring managers turn to them because they don’t have firsthand knowledge about how shitty they are, but they do know that about their own HR.

/ @grimalkina @talexb

@fgbjr The people that take a moment to read my profile quickly realize I am no #Libertarian.

The same is true for those who take a moment to read #AynRand: https://courses.AynRand.org/lexicon/libertarians/

Pity you did neither.

/ @nitin @carlmalamud

@Adam_Cadmon1 @n1vux And be sure to thank @malki for it by buying some merch[^1] or becoming a patron[^2]

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@NanoRaptor If only managers and teachers would put as much effort into connecting their charges with meaningful experience instead of bitching afterward that they’re getting mere competence on the meaningless crap.

@NanoRaptor Nobody talks about the layers of middle management that quietly quit long ago and are just acting as an org chart buffer between the C suite and the riff-raff

@clacke @hongminhee This is for both of you