Notices by Elias Mårtenson (loke@functional.cafe)

@ksaj @larsbrinkhoff @amszmidt there isn't, but if you say it, people would definitely understand.

Swedish uses much more precise words to describe relations. I came across a sentence in English that is almost completely untranslatable without more context: "One of my grandfathers really likes strawberries, but my other grandfather hates them".

This is because Swedish uses different words for the parental and paternal grandparents. If you speak Swedish, try to translate the sentence above. It's not easy.

What other languages have this problem? Even Norwegian and Danish have words for this I think?

#linguistics

@ftp_alun @LukaszOlejnik Seems like it. Since it's basically free to send out an uncountable number of reports, there is no limit to the number of reports you can send. On the receiving end, there's a lot of work though, but that's not their problem.

@LukaszOlejnik If I click on the reporter's username, there is a list of "closed bugs" together with dollar amounts. Is this money paid out?

If so, the slop is profitable, so it won't go away.

@clacke @hacks4pancakes cool, let me know if you show up. Short meetup afterwards?

@tomw I'm not a fan of Saphir-Whorff, but the language you use can probably make a small contribution to how you think about things, especially abstract concepts such as time. This may be one of these cases (but very minor).

#linguistics

@tomw 'dag' technically refers to the time when the sun is up. Obviously '30 dagar' and '30 dygn' is going to be pretty much the same, so using them interchangeably is ok.

One case where it's useful is if someone telks you they'll be staying at a resort for '4 dagar'. How long will they be spending there? If you say 4 dygn it's much more clear.

Another case is if you, like me, was doing a big upload to a cloud server that was very slow. If I tell you it takes 2 days to upload, that gives you different information than of I say it takes ett dygn.

@brokengoose it is remarkably tasty. And I think this would be a great place to start for someone who might not be used to durian flavour.

Highly recommended.

Nice stuff

Google required to sell Chrome? A rare piece of good news.

But we can't have that. People don't deserve any good news. How can we fuck that up?

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-chrome-openai-chatgpt-browser-3547082/

I learned about SINCON 2025 in Singapore, and it definitely looks like a conference I would enjoy.

Then I noticed that @hacks4pancakes is going to keynote, and that's enough of a confirmation that it's a good conference for me too get a ticket.

#infosec

Been chatting with Swedish people, while doing other things on the computer. This means switching back and forth between en_SG and Swedish keymaps. I don't know how many times I've typed _ when I meant to type ?

A tale of two liberal parties.

@clacke I won't be in HK in time. Make you you share some pictures. 🙂

@clacke I just want to see what the big blåhaj looks like. 🙂

@mdallastella Were you working on mainframes?

@mdallastella Will you be using gcc cobol?

@jannem @cobolworx If you use it for the things it's good at, it's not bad.

I kinda like using the SCREEN stuff (which I don't believe is supported in GCC yet, but it works in GnuCOBOL).

Does anyone know of a Common Lisp activitypub library that is complete enough to implement subscription to accounts, tracking subscribers and posting messages?

I want to build a small service which allows users to tag it in a message (or users can ask the serviceto subscribeto it, in which case it will absorb all mesaages), and conaume those messages, and then post updates to its main feed.

#lisp #commonlisp #activitypub

GCC now supports COBOL. I find this to be unreasonably exciting. @cobolworx