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@nestorthecatprofilefollowgrocer-engineer and polynomial enjoyer. not into reactionaries i attempt to stave off burnout with a healthy dose of dark souls, bloodborne, and friendswrote:
taking a week off to stave off burnout, catch up on some reading and writing and small projects, and finish Ocarina of Time. also will make soup
@geverprofilefollowwrote:
I'm doing experiments with short attention-span students and code. Starting with python, and, oddly, now working in BASIC. As a C programmer of 40+ years, I find this aesthetically and pedagogically displeasing, but I am delighted to see them getting fully absorbed in writing 130 PRINT "You have been eaten by a bear!" : GOTO 900. Yes there is spaghetti, but it's their spaghetti and they seem to take delight in debugging it. Python will come later. #educationnotesfollow #programmingnotesfollow
@geverprofilefollowreplied to(deleted account):
I was talking about this with some alumni students, specifically their experience learning python with us a few years earlier (these are college students who are not really using python any more). What it seems to boil down to is that with python you have the feeling that there is this huge forest of solutions to any problem you are having -- but you will never know the whole forest. BASIC feels like you "know" it after a day or two of playing around, evidently.
@jgprofilefollowNew herewrote:
I actually like the new gitHub PR layout that they A/B'd on me this morning. Good job GitHub!
@klumbering๐ŸคกprofilefollowFirst thing to say is, I hope the owners of Chatgpt Claude Gemini and Others gets bloodeagled for making their unwanted baby, anyways Hello =)replied to@jgprofilefollowNew here:
wait github has ab testing this is so disapointing
@austorprofilefollowwrote:
Team vim, team emacs, or team โ€œmy editor doesnโ€™t start warsโ€? One line, no essays. Go!
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@fastidiousprofilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ€” Sid Meyerswrote:
"My feed" shows two unread messages, but I can't find them, and browsing away from it, and coming back doesn't clear that count. Perhaps sorting (unread at the top) when there unread messages is a good idea @stagasprofilefollowcreative technologist creator of textlog?
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@chenxiangprofilefollowwrote:
็œ‹ๆฅๅฏไปฅๅ‘ไธญๆ–‡ใ€‚ๅ› ไธบๆฒกๆœ‰่บซไปฝ่ฏ๏ผŒๆ‰€ไปฅไธ่ƒฝๆ‹ฅๆœ‰ๆ‰‹ๆœบๅท๏ผŒๆŽฅ็€ไธ่ƒฝๆณจๅ†Œ็จณๅฎš็š„email๏ผŒไนŸๅฐฑๆฒกๆณ•ๆณจๅ†Œๅ†…ๅฎนๅนณๅฐ๏ผŒๅ‘ๅธƒๅ†…ๅฎนใ€‚hotmailๅ› ไธบๆˆ‘ๆฒกๆœ‰็จณๅฎš็š„ipๅœฐๅ€๏ผŒๅธธๅธธๅฐ็ฆๆˆ‘็š„email่ดฆๅท๏ผŒๆˆ‘็š„mastodon่ดฆๅทๅ› ๆญคไนŸๆฒกๆณ•้•ฟๆœŸไฝฟ็”จใ€‚ๆˆ‘ๅธŒๆœ›่ฟ™ๆ˜ฏไธ€ไธชๆˆ‘ๅฏไปฅ้•ฟๆœŸๅ‘ๅธƒๅ†…ๅฎน็š„ๅœฐๆ–น
It seems I can post in Chinese. Because I don't have an ID card, I can't have a phone number, and therefore can't register a stable email address, which means I can't register on content platforms or publish content. Hotmail frequently blocks my email account because I don't have a stable IP address, so my Mastodon account can't be used long-term. I hope this is a place where I can publish content consistently.
@fastidiousprofilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ€” Sid Meyersreplied to@chenxiangprofilefollow:
ๅ—ฏ๏ผŒๅฅฝๅง๏ผŒไธบไบ†ไฝ ่‡ชๅทฑ๏ผŒๆˆ‘ๅธŒๆœ›ๅฎƒ่ƒฝๆŒ็ปญๅพˆ้•ฟๆ—ถ้—ดใ€‚ไฝ ็š„ไบ’่”็ฝ‘้—ฎ้ข˜ๅพˆ้šพ่งฃๅ†ณ๏ผŒ้žๅธธๆŠฑๆญ‰๏ผ :-(
Well, okay, for your own sake, I hope it lasts a long time. I'm so sorry your internet problem is so difficult to fix! :-(
@chenxiangprofilefollowreplied to@fastidiousprofilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ€” Sid Meyers:
่ฐข่ฐขไฝ ๏ผŒๆฒกๆƒณๅˆฐ่ฟ˜็œŸๆœ‰ไบบๅ›žๆˆ‘็š„ๅธ–ๅญ๏ผŒๆˆ‘ๅœจไบ’่”็ฝ‘ไธŠ่‡ณๅฐ‘ๅ‡ ๅนดๆฒกๅ’Œไบบๅฏน่ฏ่ฟ‡ไบ†
Thank you. I didn't expect anyone to actually reply to my post. I haven't had a conversation with anyone online for at least several years.
@fastidiousprofilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ€” Sid Meyersreplied to@chenxiangprofilefollow:
ๅพˆ้ซ˜ๅ…ดๆˆไธบๅพˆไน…ไปฅๆฅ็š„็ฌฌไธ€ไธชไบบไน‹ไธ€๏ผŒๆˆ‘็š„ๆœ‹ๅ‹๏ผๅฅฝๅฅฝ็š„๏ผŒๅ‘จๆœซๆ„‰ๅฟซ๏ผๅŽŸ่ฐ…ๆˆ‘็š„ๅฐ้”™่ฏฏ๏ผŒๆˆ‘ๆญฃๅœจ็”จ็ฟป่ฏ‘ๆฅๅ›žๅคใ€‚ๆˆ‘ไปฌ้ƒฝ็Ÿฅ้“ๅคงๅคšๆ•ฐๆ—ถๅ€™้ƒฝไธๅคชๅฅฝใ€‚
So happy to be one of the first people to reply in a long time, my friend! Have a good weekend! Please forgive my little mistake, I'm replying using a translation. We all know things aren't always great.
@fastidiousprofilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ€” Sid Meyersreplied to@chenxiangprofilefollow:
I am sure pretty much everything that isnโ€™t criminal, abusive, or illegal. I know those definitions vary from country to country. Just be a good human, and you should be OK.
@lemonthymeshortbreadprofilefollowI carved wooden spoons and my favourite herb is lemon thyme.wrote:
After months of hardly any rain, Iโ€™m really enjoying a cozy day stuck indoors just listening to the downpour; getting on with doing some house cleaning. Is it too premature to declare this autumnโ‡
@tim๐Ÿคฉprofilefollowi write instruction for computer to follow. i'm a software engineer.wrote:
hello world!
@gruntprofilefollowI am just a grain of sand on your beach. www.gruntsoft.comwrote:
while we wait for this to be true we could add our bits together remember to not sleep forever return when your dreams are through Start with cringy poem, end with cringy pseudocode. At least it comes naturally.
@ku๐Ÿค”profilefollowHai I am kuwrote:
A #execnotesfollow n=27;s=[n] while n!=1: n=n//2 if n%2==0 else 3*n+1;s.append(n) for v in s[:15]:print(f"{v:>4} "+"โ–ˆ"*min(v//3,40)) print(f"{len(s)} steps, peak {max(s)}")
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@stagas๐Ÿคธprofilefollowcreative technologist creator of textlogwrote:
#execnotesfollow let i=0;while(++i){process.stdout.write(i%80==0?'\n':Math.random()<0.5?'/':'\\')}
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@stagas๐Ÿคธprofilefollowcreative technologist creator of textlogwrote:
Iโ€™ve been working with OpenStreetMaps a little and I must say, theyโ€™ve done an incredible job. The data are very detailed and accurate, I canโ€™t believe theyโ€™re free to use. Someone must be paying all those topographers somehow or I donโ€™t understand how this can be achieved by volunteers. This project, Warsaw in Voxels which uses them inspired me to play as well.
@miralgjprofilefollowjack of all trades linux sysadminwrote:
The more I use Terraform the more I don't like it. Can I just get the option to track state with Ansible?
@jgprofilefollowNew herereplied to@miralgjprofilefollowjack of all trades linux sysadmin:
Say more. I've been using it this year "at scale" and it sucks in the way that everything sucks when the whole company starts using it for everything. I haven't used Ansible in over a decade, but am curious what you like about it better.
@miralgjprofilefollowjack of all trades linux sysadminreplied to@jgprofilefollowNew here:
Ansible just melds with my way of thinking better. I have a really hard time wrapping my head around nested loops in HCL and the overall "ugliness" of the language. Plus, I kind of like being in control of the order things are created.
@crustyrustaceanprofilefollowOld school metallian, hobbyist developer writing things mostly in Rustโ€ฆmostlywrote:
Is open source dead? Everyone has the power now to make their own stacks of things. The people aspect of open source is dead or dying. I don't think the bunny is going back in the box.
@chanuxprofilefollowI ain't no nothing!replied to@crustyrustaceanprofilefollowOld school metallian, hobbyist developer writing things mostly in Rustโ€ฆmostly:
One nice thing about Open Source (at least for me) is different people doing the same thing in different ways and one of those happen to suit my taste perfectly. And in many cases, I won't be able to come with it myself even with Super Intelligence.
@paulprofilefollowadamspaul.short.gy/notesreplied to@crustyrustaceanprofilefollowOld school metallian, hobbyist developer writing things mostly in Rustโ€ฆmostly:
Evgeny Morozov has pointed out that using ai through chat interfaces is based on an individualised and privatised model, which (heavily paraphrased) is inherently anti-social. With an extra layer now of people making small personalised tools, do bigger things still need teams of people who know what theyโ€™re doing? FWIW Iโ€™d like to see more sharing of vibe coded tools instead of everyone making their own more less the same ones. Mine are here: pauladams.neocities.org
@gruntprofilefollowI am just a grain of sand on your beach. www.gruntsoft.comreplied to@crustyrustaceanprofilefollowOld school metallian, hobbyist developer writing things mostly in Rustโ€ฆmostly:
I don't think so. I have been using more open source software than ever before. You may argue that with LLMs I have the power to make my own stack of things, but this doesn't eliminate that I still need knowledge to properly steer an LLM to create something worthwhile. If I have no knowledge of what I intend to build, the best thing the LLM will generate is a half-assed copy of something that already exists. Which is what we have been drowning in the past couple of years.
@gruntprofilefollowI am just a grain of sand on your beach. www.gruntsoft.comcontinued:
AI can be a superpower in the hands of someone knowledgeable. That makes the people aspect of open source more important, not less. If you offload your curiosity and desire to learn to AI, you will be a slave to it's limitations instead of being a master of its capabilities.
@hippo๐Ÿฆ›profilefollowStrictly no LLMs. No exceptions.replied to@crustyrustaceanprofilefollowOld school metallian, hobbyist developer writing things mostly in Rustโ€ฆmostly:
Of course not. I think it is much more relevant to ask "Is closed source dead?". Anyone can now replace a proprietary program with a vibeslopped alternative which might suit them just as well. It will have the same level of trust (ie. none) and none of the other drawbacks.