Notices by Paul SomeoneElse (pkw@mastodon.sdf.org)

Wipe all debts.

My dream is to make ncurses TUI programs that make sampled and/or midi wavetable synth noises as you navigate screens and menus.

Like say I build a menu interface and you can navigate via up and down arrows. and Return is select.

I would like to trigger a noise each time you press an arrow key, and maybe a satisfying clunk vault door shut sound when you select an entry.

https://codeberg.org/pkw/open-borders

I'm really liking my latest #commonlisp project structure.

ALSO common lisp and this fit together VERY WELL.

But one of my opinions is that idiom is more important than my opinion.

So when I am in a code base that uses plural table names for example, I am totally not bothered.

I am a serenity prayer programmer 😋

#techpost

I use the word(s) pattern a lot when describing code where 'word' is some specific name so I don't want the plural 's' to confuse that. Writing thing(s) lets me talk about a group of thing instances using the plural w/o making the name confusing to myself.

I also obsess over whether to name something with the plural outright. This comes up a lot in table names. I tend to want to use the singular unless there's a reason not to.

@so_treu I didn't know this. I learned it here recently. And lots of white people don't know this. My white woman liberal friend didn't believe me, when I shared it.
Of course a few web searches later, and it can't be denied.

It changes the perspective (for me) when certain smaller percentage voting blocks are targeted and even shamed , when this fact is out there.

You can't have the monstrosity that is a "browser" and also have it be developed as a community.

You will have to accept something less. When you look at it from that perspective you see that corporations introducing this complex thing that needs a corporation to sustain development is a "first one is free" situation.

This is a general degrowth pattern/problem. Western humans don't like letting go of features, even if they don't need them.

@clacke @baldur @mawhrin @bjn Hah! Yeah this bubble is bursting...

@lanodan @osnews Alpine is great. Feels like a BSD :)
No assumption that gnu is ubiquitous or even available.

@vorlon @SallyStrange Every n-th post links to a t-shirt store.

And what do those hash tag swarms do ? They collect views that and some percentage are funneled to the t-shirt store.

A very capitalistic practice.

@grayface_ghost @goatsarah I mean you're not wrong, but also because you're not wrong, it's not easy to sort it out.

We are so past democracy it's not even relevant. No one in the government represents the people. The machine is so big it's just feeding itself.

Historical the only avenues of change are direct action, protest related, ... or more extreme things that historically only move power to some faction.

If you have any suggestions, that would help.

Every thought is somehow "from scratch".

In the sense that memory is really re-living an event, literally creating a forgery of an original event.

Thought is constructed "anew" each time. Every axiom is relived every time. There is no real axiom.

Reality is just folds in sheets and every time we add extra meaning to that reality we are pulling the folds up in the sheets again and making mountains out of them.

(an example of "extra meaning" is good and evil)

I don't mean any of this to ...

Me: Can I access your podcast/research directly or w/o needing to login to something third party?

Them: You can create the account for free.

Me: We don't share the same definition of "free". <sad-face-emoji>

There's something about how economics is a soft science that really bottoms out in social psychology.

Well can't we just start with the socially psychology part?

Why does economics capture all of the attention and interest?

Oh right because in capitalism you have to first add money to a thing to make it worthwhile.

@hakan_geijer @HeavenlyPossum @lumpentrashbandit
For me this is one of the applications of "no gods no masters".

So often the person who does a good deed is elevated above the deed itself.

After the cult of personality falls then the damage is that the good deeds might fall with it.

If you "no gods no masters" ahead of time then this won't happen.

I didn't know about Assange being a bad actor, but I already separated the artist from the artist, and I already don't want anybody in jail.

@dusepo

I am team "old weirdo" and leaning into it.

@nytpu hmm bicycles is a missed opportunity in those shows/movies. They would last until tires (and all spare tires) dry rotted. Everything else to maintain them is at hardware stores.

@seachanger This is happening to me right now. :(

(losing shared values with my friends.)

It's like life gets hard then that's the excuse to give up on being a moral person. In my mind that's the only real test of being a moral person. (to not give up when it gets hard)