Notices by Elias Mårtenson (loke@functional.cafe)

@skinnylatte they're seems to be this widespread belief in the us that there is a single correct way to say/do things.

As it turns out, things that are offensive in one place are not in others.

A lot of things that are perfectly normal in the us will mark you as really rude in Sweden. Likewise, there are things I do in Singapore that's perfectly normal that would get me ostracised in the us

@annika The east one is Essex, isn't it? There is also Middlesex.

It feels incredibly uncomfortable that there is no nossex.

@chris I was waiting for it while reading tge article, and it delivered in the last sentence. CV-squared. Because of course.

@whitequark sure you can, just add another layer of insane complexity on top of it (kubernetes).

I notice people posting about trying to get a job, so here's hoping that an appropriate candidate reads this.

My employer is looking for someone with devops skills (Linux, databses, networking and development) who's willing to work in Singapore.

The job involves supporting customers (mostly banks) running financial software.

Let me know if you want to know more.

Not sure what hashtag to use for this, so feel free to boost.

@skinnylatte and the number of food vloggers here in Singapore (and in Malaysia). It's wild.

I mean, sure, some of them are influencer type people, but it's an indication of something that I don't think exists to the same extent in other places.

@catsalad Clearly I have to implement this in Kap:

Or run in the browser

@libreoffice Do you know if odfdom-java is maintained? It has a bunch of outdated dependencies, but there seems to be at least some activity in the source repository.

There is also something odd with the versioning, where there is a 1.0.0-beta from 2019, but the latest release is from 2023 is 0.12.0. This causes dependency check tools to be somewhat confused.

Or is there perhaps an alternative library I should be using instead to connect to a running instance of Libreoffice?

#libreoffice

Who started the trend to stuff the title bar of windows full of buttons? I sure love playing "find the background" every time I want to move a window.

Also, at aome point someone looked at the colours for active vs. inactive windows and said: "you know what would make this better? If these colours were completely indistinguishable. All users will love that"

@hayley @amszmidt I had it as recently as a few days ago.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ngate/115436748596975224

This is not a bad tutorial. It's written by someone who is not very familiar with the language, so the author misses some obvious simplifications, but overall not bad. Apparently they're also using my GNU APL mode for Emacs, which was fun to see.

Obviously I'm usually promoting my own APL dialect, but knowledge of standard APL helps when working with other dialects.

@forteller Kolla adressen på google maps, och detta är vad man ser.

@mcc Isn't that true for most (if not all) such API's? JDBC is certainly like that, and I'm pretty sure OCBC is too.

@wolf480pl @quad @simon_m when I was reading some of the threads, I saw him playing a lot about how stable his filesystem is, and on the other hand he's also talking about how he helps his users to recover from filesystem corruption. Those two things should not happen at the same time.

@simon_m @wolf480pl @quad it never dropped the experimental label so no one was supposed to be using it for production anyway.

@cwebber didn't the 1401 use variable word length? So even more amazing than just a 7 bit architecture.

OK, so I just spent quite some time writing functions that allows me to export a number as a byte array from GMP, and then a different function to do that same with Java bigints, so that the output formats are compatible.

I now need to do the same for Javascript.

I'm doing this because I want to implement a binary serialisation format for Kap.

And why did I start to implement a binary serialisation format? Well, I needed it because I wanted to be able to export and import Kap objects to Valkey.

Once I have all of that, then maybe I can build something on top of Valkey. Some kind of persistence system perhaps.

Is this the definition of yak shaving?

@clacke @mansr @notclacke I'm pretty sure they had cheese slicers at IKEA Singapore. Now I need to check if they still have them.

@notclacke @mansr How's cheese slicer access in HK? Although I suppose you have all you need from Ikea 🙂

@lanodan Even after Unicode was a thing, some channels would ban you for sending UTF-8 content. 🙂