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😅profilefollowmaker of software thingswrote:
Looking for a new daily-driver #scriptingnotesfollow language. Criteria:
  • interpreted (e.g. can use #!/bin/bang)
  • batteries-included stdlib (json, subprocesses, fs, etc.)
  • not sh, not perl, not python, not javascript
Shortlist: Any other #recommendationsnotesfollow? #Codenotesfollow #Devnotesfollow #Technotesfollow
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📒profilefollowPresbyter, husband, father, technologist, linguist, musician.replied to😅profilefollowmaker of software things:
I use GoalCodeberg.orggoalGoal, an embeddable scripting array language., extended with ariGitHubGitHub - semperos/ari: Ari: Goal language extended with SQL and moreAri: Goal language extended with SQL and more. Contribute to semperos/ari development by creating an account on GitHub. as my daily driver. Since it's implemented in Go, it's straightforward to extend with anything from Go's standard library (or third-party ecosystem) that isn't already incorporated. If you haven't used an array language before, then you get the added bonus of learning a ton about an interesting, powerful area of programming.
profilefollowProgrammer by day and night. Lover of art. Mixing art and programming is the dream.replied to😅profilefollowmaker of software things:
I sometimes use V scriptGitHubv/doc/docs.md at master · vlang/vSimple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing maintainable software. Compiles itself in <1s with zero library dependencies. Supports automatic C => V translation. https://vlang.io - vl..., but I use V-lang as well. It is kind-of interpreted. I’ve never heard of rye. Looks nice.
profilefollowProgrammer by day and night. Lover of art. Mixing art and programming is the dream.replied to😅profilefollowmaker of software things:
It does not, but fakes it well, since it is fast and compares built binary with script mtime to automatically recompile. The downside of using it is that you end up with a binary, but the upside is that it is blazing fast.
profilefollowresearcher, developer, dancerreplied to🤪profilefollow:
It seems this year is when big budget LLM players overtake independent academic mathematicians, in speed at least. The Jacobian conjecture, a lot of Erdos problems, now even the Navier Stokes millenium problem. Solved due to new model releases, all within this summer.
profilefollowresearcher, developer, dancerreplied to🤪profilefollow:
in math it can definitely prove statements that havent been proven before. I dont think thats the big thing though since it also writes sentences nobody has ever written before and in software it can write programs that havent been written before. Its just that the speed and scalability that has overtaken human mathematicians and programmers
profilefollowresearcher, developer, dancerwrote:
i recently finished hemingways "the old man and the sea". very highly recommend for anybody that wants something short and memorable. left me feeling something between inspired and nihilistic
profilefollowI ain't no nothing!replied toprofilefollowresearcher, developer, dancer:
This strangely reminded me of golden days of Twitter. There was a point I absolutely love Twitter. This is also a reminder for me to pick up a book instead of reading a load of random stuff online. Thank you!
profilefollow🍎 A lifetime Apple user. Partner says I am pedantic, sarcastic, and cynic. I just want to be me.wrote:
Which Linux distribution do you like the most, and why? Follow the previous with your favourite desktop environment.
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🤪profilefollowreplied toprofilefollow🍎 A lifetime Apple user. Partner says I am pedantic, sarcastic, and cynic. I just want to be me.:
I use Ubuntu with the default Gnome Desktop. I like it a lot and it just works. I've been using it since the beginning. It is not perfect (what distro is?) but it works fine for me.
profilefollowreplied toprofilefollow🍎 A lifetime Apple user. Partner says I am pedantic, sarcastic, and cynic. I just want to be me.:
Arch, because I feel you cannot use Linux without knowing how it works, and sway for window manager because it is highly stable, wholly keyboard driven, and tiling
🤔profilefollowreplied toprofilefollow🍎 A lifetime Apple user. Partner says I am pedantic, sarcastic, and cynic. I just want to be me.:
Arch Linux with KDE. I like that Arch comes with nothing and is pretty vanilla. No bloat, and customisable. No major upgrades where 5 things break at once. Install once, and it's fine until the device has to be replaced. Only then usually do a fresh install. It's up to date, still pretty boring, and you learn a bit in the process.
🤔profilefollowreplied toprofilefollow🍎 A lifetime Apple user. Partner says I am pedantic, sarcastic, and cynic. I just want to be me.:
i distro hoped a lot. Finally i found my cozy home with debian with kde. 3 years still running without a problem all the software i use works perfectly and the games run smoothly.
Comments in #textlognotesfollow have no dates. I understand why, the idea is to promote timeless dicusssions. But, sometimes things are heavily dependent on context. Imagine a ten year old commend, before AI. Thus, I propose to use colour. Paper becomes yellowish with time. Thus, comments could also become yellowish (or some colour indicator within the comment).
💀profilefollowYour mind is also supposed to create happiness, not just to receive it. You're supposed to find solutions, to invent, to imagine, to remember, to love. This much we always forget.replied to🤸profilefollowcreative technologist creator of textlog:
Would you say it changes in any way how you see yourself or how you act? I've been constantly told I should get an evaluation due to certain... behaviours I exhibit apparently, but I've been wondering how relevant a positive diagnosis would really be.
🤪profilefollowreplied to💀profilefollowYour mind is also supposed to create happiness, not just to receive it. You're supposed to find solutions, to invent, to imagine, to remember, to love. This much we always forget.:
In my case it was very useful. Since Covid-19, and fatherhood in general (I'm 45), I went thorough a series of burnouts, which were getting worse. The diagnosis gave me an answer to the question, "why can't I handle the pressure"? Being autistic, I tend to need good theoretical frameworks to make sense of my life. Thinks that I don't control or understand, are a source of anxiety. As a consequence, the diagnosis gave me the framework and helped me accept that my career path had do change.
Now, I still have the same problems as before, but now they don't blow out of proportion. When I don't feel well I tell myself, this is my autism, I need time alone, I need to recover, and thus I don't get the extra anxiety. Also, now I don't try to fight my limitations. So, nothing changes, but everything changes a little bit.
I also think this helped my family (wife, sisters, parents, ...) as they also understodd some of my behaviour.
profilefollowretired programmer, new #ttrpgnotesfollow DM, learning Scottish Gaelicreplied to🤪profilefollow:
I'm 55 and recently self-diagnosed as "fairly ASD with some ADHD" after watching a lot of youtube videos. It's been immensely helpful (to the point of bringing me to tears sometimes) in understanding the struggles I had when I was younger. It's also been very helpful in understanding what I can do currently to support myself and work with my brain instead of against it.
🤪profilefollowreplied toprofilefollowretired programmer, new #ttrpgnotesfollow DM, learning Scottish Gaelic:
I'm glad it was useful to you. This process of becoming aware of our autism is not easy. It is liberating, but it is also difficult, at the same time. I watched a lot of videos too, but then I visited a couple psiquiatrists and a psycologist (I had other problems too), just to be sure. What is your opinion about the ASD youtube landscape? I think that there are a few very good channels, but there is lot of noise too. I see some danger there.
Those "10 signs you may be [or not be] autistic" seem quite dangerous to me. Neurodivergence can be tricky.
profilefollowretired programmer, new #ttrpgnotesfollow DM, learning Scottish Gaelicreplied to🤪profilefollow:
Yeah I agree that there are many ASD channels on YT of varying qualities. I only follow a few. Some of my favorites (very roughly in order):
  • @MomontheSpectrum
  • @imautisticnowwhat
  • @elenacarr0ll -- kinda more emotive, but I find that helpful sometimes
  • @autismfromtheInside -- no longer posts (burned out)
I think for now being self diagnosed is enough for me. Just knowing that I'm neurodivergent has been helpful for me to be kind to my own mind.
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When I read about #autismnotesfollow in reputable #booksnotesfollow, I relate to almost everything that is described (keeping in mind that no two autistic people are alike). However, I always read the sections on #eyeContactnotesfollow with bewilderment. I don't identify either with the obsessive need to make eye contact, which UK and US books often mention as #neurotypicalnotesfollow behavior, or with the difficulties in making it. #Neurodiversitynotesfollow #Psychologynotesfollow #Autismnotesfollow
I suspect—and this is the interesting part—that there are significant cultural differences in this regard. In fact, the reputable Spanish books on autism that I have read don't address this topic (if I remember correctly).
I assume that in the Anglo-Saxon world people look into each other's eyes (or believe they do), whereas here, in Spain, we tend to shift our gaze more, from the listener's face to the surroundings, etc. I don't know; it's possible. I find it difficult to find good references online. Most of the ones I come across compare East Asia with the Anglo-Saxon world.
When you speak with people, where do you direct your gaze? I think I look at the face in general, but I also look at my surroundings, etc. No one has ever commented that I don't maintain eye contact properly during a conversation.
The whole thread ends with two questions: 1. How large are the cultural differences surounding eye contact in conversations, between the US-UK and Spain, Italy, France, or Portugal? 2. Are English textbooks on autism obsessed on this because this is really an autism problem or because of their own cultural context?
Is it eye contact or is it looking at the face, in general? I never thought I had a problem in this department unter I started reading about ASD. Do people look at the eyes like when they make a toast? It feels unnatural to mee. My observation is that people look at the face, in general, without focusing on the eyes exactly, except for short intervals. It would seem strange to me if someone fixated on my eyes this way and I don't think that people do like that.
Definitely people here do intense full locked eye contact, which I can’t do, unless I’m attracted to the person as I said. Even then I’ll move a bit around the face because it’s uncomfortable even then. But others just lock in completely I see them doing it.
OK. I guess that Greece may be similar to Spain. I feel comfortable hanging with greeks, in Greece and elswhere. Then, if I don't look at the eyes, but others do. I guess that I'm very good at masking that I don't look at the eyes. I never got a comment related to eye contact.
I don’t think it’s something people notice immediately and consciously think this is wrong to make a comment, they will probably just not feel the same connection or feel something is off about you in general or think that you’re busy thinking other things. It’s not the only case to not make eye contact with someone, you might just not like them. That’s probably what they will sense.
profilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." — Sid Meyerswrote:
Just three more commits left, but /usage ran out. Resets at 01:50, so I guess I am going to sleep.
profilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." — Sid Meyerscontinued:
Woke up during the night for a short trip to the loo, got 'resume’ going. All done in the morning. Ahh, coffee tastes better now!
This may become a thing. Have you seen the results of PISA? School performance is going down in the OCDE and richer students are going down faster (they have more tech available). Maybe the future si for those who ditch the computers.
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Ah I understand now. No I’m not passing the current tags in the prompt, but we have a tag aliases system in case we want to group tags with similar meaning. For example I’ve grouped into #programmingnotesfollow also #codingnotesfollow #devnotesfollow #SoftwareEngineeringnotesfollow — we also use WordNet to canonicalize tag names, stuff like #tagsnotesfollow become #tag or #philosophicalnotesfollow becomes #philosophynotesfollow.
🤸profilefollowcreative technologist creator of textlogreplied toprofilefollowcoder, reader, guitarist, seeker, builder.:
It doesn’t run on every post, you run it yourself via more → autotag, and it’s safe, it doesn’t have access to anything other than the post content and we simply use its response. Or do you have any other case in mind?
profilefollowwrote:
Do you code in silence or do you listen to music? If so, what kind of music do you prefer? Personally, I prefer Synthwave, vaporwave or the occasional country.
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The vast majority of the time I prefer silence. Unlike @stagasprofilefollowcreative technologist creator of textlog, my #ADHDnotesfollow gets distracted with music. When I do listen to music, it has to be no vocals. I find #SpaceMusicnotesfollow, like Jonn Serrie, Brian Eno, and Steve Roach best for me.
I used to listen to marketing team say zingers like
  • twenty twenty vision in $current_year (before 2020)
  • I don't disagree but... (What does that even mean‽)
Because office floor plans I am very thankful to work from home now... In complete silence.
Techno. I'm in the autistic spectrum. It somehow helps me calm and focus. But, at some point I prefer silence. I often work with sound cancelling headphones with no music. So, it is total silence or total noise.
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profilefollowresearcher, developer, dancerreplied to🤸profilefollowcreative technologist creator of textlog:
personal projects probably just arent the right knob if you want to get unpoor. if you want my honest advice i would recommend not showing hallucinate to potential employers, its landing page looks one-shot claude and is gpu heavy. but the others look very nice.
🤸profilefollowcreative technologist creator of textlogreplied toprofilefollowresearcher, developer, dancer:
Oh no my beloved project! jk maybe I fix its landing page but yeah you're right maybe it's too childish for the prospect job. I'm doing personal projects because if I'm not building something I go insane, I just *have* to be working continuously and I'm not landing interviews :
You can export your data, and I'm considering federation/replication but it would become an order of magnitude more complicated. A lot of effort maintaining that part instead of improving the actual service. It's something for the future, once the core semantics are in place.
profilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." — Sid Meyersreplied to🤪profilefollow:
I have found engaging with people in other languages to be an advantage. There are translators in all platforms!
🤪profilefollowreplied toprofilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." — Sid Meyers:
Yes, introducing seamless translation, as, for instance, X does, is a good idea, as it allows for intercultural communication, which is needed.
Just today we’ve added a translate button on plausible non-English text, though Chrome will autotranslate when you visit the page itself. See &2256
Цветок розы не издает голоса, а благоухание его далеко расходится молча; так надо жить и всем христианам. —Святитель Феофан Затворник
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profilefollowwrote:
really nice idea! It’d be nice, if there would be a “thanks” button to show appreciation for a post. But nothing that counts up, and surely nothing visible. more like a notification to the user Ann that user Bob found this useful. #launchnotesfollow #metanotesfollow
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