The Guru, the Jet, and the Lie: Don Johnson’s Journey Out of the Prem Rawat Cult
“He told me maybe the drinking was just a game—a test. That’s when I knew something was deeply wrong.”Don Johnson’s story starts like many others: a spiritual seeker, a young idealist, someone hungry for meaning in a chaotic world.cultvaultpodcast (TheCultVault)
Anxiety's been bad again lately. I am moderately worried about losing the apartment. Taking steps to try to keep that from happening, but sometimes just trying to engage with the problem brings on a panic attack.
I have medication to help with that now, but it makes it hard to think clearly. I will survive this one way or another, but my life is going to have to change. I don't handle change well.
S3 E29 In Conversation with Shanny Pants!
In this episode, Shannon Payton AKA Shanny Pants shares her journey of growing up in a high-control religious cult, her experiences navigating life outside of iSpreaker
This probably won't help me in my current job search, but is it worth learning COBOL? I've heard that there are still a bunch of critical systems out there that use it, and that it's hard to find COBOL devs these days.
Is this still the case? The only downside I can see is that I'd have to program in COBOL.
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Having worked adjacent to 4 different mainframes at this point in my career along with their "modernization" efforts. Reading COBOL, not terrible. Writing it, eh, probably not so bad but I've never done, only had to read and comprehend what it does. And there are non-MFs that provide implementation of COBOL so you can learn on your own time.
The devil is going to be understanding IBM systems "junk": CICS, DASD, DCLGEN, TSO, RACF etc
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What he said. Mainframe basics are more important than COBOL, I'd say.
I work for a company that's doing "Mainframe Modernization" and as a result we have to understand the old crappy non-modern stuff in order to implement new stuff! (Currently my group isn't reimplementing anything based in Cobol. We do Db2 monitoring stuff.)
rocketsoftware.com
rocket.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/r…
(We have AI hype on the front page but really we're just programming. I guess some departments might be doing AI, but I think we're just scared we'll miss the bandwagon. So don't ignore us just for that.)
Rocket Software
Rocket Software provides IT modernization and IT automation solutions that help businesses solve their most complex IT challenges, across infrastructure, data, and applications.Rocket Software
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@nosrednayduj OMG super small world. One of the projects I was on dealt with model 204/m204. We ended up building a real time synchronization between m204 and SQL Server via messaging.
It was going to be a very cool way to modernize the client's data storage while they incrementally switched the front ends.
Pity literal debt caught up to them 💥
Dear job posting,
If you expect me to install spyware so that you can micromanage me while I work, at least have the decency not to expect me to supply the hardware.
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Went to pick up a prescription and the guy ahead of me in line was chewing the pharmacist out about the automated system, which admittedly sucks but is certainly a decision made by corporate, not her.
He repeatedly threatened to take his business elsewhere. Were I in her position, the response I'd have wanted to give was "please do".
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Sooo... I have a flatpak version of LibreOffice, and for whatever reason (probably sandboxing) the spellchecker can't see the text of my document.
I may or may not have sent off a bunch of resumes that said that I "wrote technical documentaiton" in a previous job.
That's just super.
There's a job I really want a decent shot at. Thank God I caught it before submitting to that one.
Edit: I typo'd my typo. 🙃
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Back in the 1990s I worked at a very large government facility on an RFP for getting an ISP. The winning bidder had in the footer of every page "Bid for Interenet Service Provider." Nobody but me noticed.
Of course, the Interenet was so new in the 1990s that maybe they thought that's how it's spelled...
S3 E28 Peace Educator, Author... CULT LEADER: Maharaji/Prem Rawat
In this episode of the Cult Vault podcast, host Kacey speaks with Don Johnson, who shares his journey from being a follower of Prem Rawat to becoming an instrucSpreaker
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I am in urgent job search mode, so I'm gonna throw this out here and see if anything comes of it.
I am a #Canadian, fluent in both #English and #French. I have experience with several programming languages. My strongest proficiency is with #Haskell and #C. I also have a reasonable grasp of #HTML, #JavaScript, #SQL, #Python, #Lua, #Linux system administration, #bash scripting, #Perl, #AWK, some #Lisp (common, scheme, and emacs), and probably several others I've forgotten to mention.
I am not necessarily looking for something in tech. I just need something stable. I have done everything from software development, to customer support, to factory work, though my current circumstances make in-person work more difficult than remote work. I have been regarded as a hard worker in every job I have ever held.
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I've been an #Emacs user for like 20 years because there was one thing I needed to do back then that was made easier by elisp, and I just got used to using it. In all that time, I hardly ever tinkered much with the config, save a few minor tweaks it was pretty much stock. I had no strong feelings about Emacs in general, it was just the text editor I'd grown comfortable with.
I've recently been diving into #Lisp and poking around with my Emacs config, and after all these years, I think I'm starting to get the appeal. I am still a proponent of "use the tool that works for you", but I'm personally firmly on team Emacs now.
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S3 E27 The Troubled Teen Industry: CEDU
In this episode of the Cult Vault Podcast, host Kacey speaks with Kari Bunn, a survivor of the troubled teen industry, specifically the CEDU reform school. TheySpreaker
Welp, it's #FountainPen cleaning and re-inking day. #Today I re-learned why I don't use shimmer inks in my #TWSBI Diamond 580. In fact, I usually reserve them exclusively for dip pens.
Time to meticulously clean out a clogged feed. It didn't even make it a paragraph.
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I've got a love/hate with shimmers and TWSBIs.
What ink were you using?
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So, I've been taking another run at learning #CommonLisp. The last time I tried, I simply could not wrap my brain around macros. I'm reading the same book again, but this time am a more experienced programmer, and it all just clicked in my head.
I might actually end up enjoying #Lisp after all. I don't know if it'll dethrone #Haskell, but I'm starting to get why people like it.
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@Karsten Johansson Tell that to the author of Practical Common Lisp.
That said, I get it now. It's so stupidly simple when it finally makes sense.
Also, yeah, learning Haskell in the interim helped a lot.
I finally got around to setting up a gopher hole. There's nothing there yet, but hopefully soon there will be.
gopher://sdf.org/1/users/jlamothe
(Apologies to anyone with a screen reader. There will be an accessible version.)
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I recently got a #Sailor #Hokoro dip pen, and much to my chagrin have found that several of my #FountainPen inks do not work well in it. It's almost like the ink refuses to be picked up by the nib/feed.
Has anyone else encountered this? Is there a solution?
Edit: the paper also seems to be a factor
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As to the ink- some of my fountain pen inks absolutely refuse to work with my various dip pen nibs, while other ftn pen inks of mine work fine and coat/cling nicely.
Adding about 1/5 volume of Gum Arabic does work to adapt a small vial of ftn pen ink for dip pens, but then don't use that ink for your ftn pens. The gum-treated inks tend to dry a bit shiny and make shimmer inks less shimmery... something to keep in mind. There are dip pen-specific inks for sale, of course.
For black waterproof ink that works really well right out of the bottle in both ftn pens and dip pens, I like my De Atramentis 'Archive' black ink. It's luxurious! That ink can also be used for drawing and then watercoloring over when dry, btw.
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Just grabbed a recipe off of gopher. It was amazing. No dodging ads. No popups. No cookie settings. Just the recipe I wanted.
This only served to reinforce for me what trash the modern web is.
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This one works too:
But Kennedy is a good choice and comes with some useful tools.
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gemini://auragem.ddns.net/search/ is another one.
I prefer kennedy when it works, but it had its share of downtimes recently
We made burgers for dinner last night. Now the whole apartment still smells like burgers.
I suppose there are worse things it could smell like.
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in reply to Karsten Johansson • •Karsten Johansson
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •Ironically nearly nobody understands quantum computers. Otherwise we'd be using them in a practical way by now.
Having said that, Lisp is generally the language used in developing around quantum devices.
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in reply to Karsten Johansson • • •Karsten Johansson
in reply to Lorenzo Isella • • •@larry77 Lisp is a symbolic language, which lends itself handily to the symbolic data inherent to quantum computing. You'll see a lot of macro use as a result.
And Lisp is interactive. So is Python, but you don't have nearly the amount of malleability for experimentation with Python. The fact that you can move things around without breaking the code counts when you're dealing with multiple individual qbits.
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •Yep, quite a few places, though they generally don’t talk about it much. Quantum computing, chip design, logistics, and drug discovery are a few that come to mind.
If I were to make a broad generalization, they tend to be fields where deep subject and algorithmic expertise is more valuable than relatively more-easily-replaced developers.
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in reply to curtosis • • •Which is, of course, not to say that e.g. Python/JavaScript/etc developers don’t also need subject matter expertise, but the necessary understanding is generally shallower and less entangled with the algorithmic complexity.
(Again, painting with a very broad brush here.)
There’s also an axis of software lifecycle, too. If you’re constantly changing requirements it’s less valuable to remember last year’s nuances. Different economics than if you need to ship something stable for years.
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in reply to curtosis • •@curtosis I have to say, the kind of job that would be looking for Lisp developers sounds like the kind of environment I might actually want to work in. I've been pretty depressed about the state of the modern tech industry.
The last dev job I had kinda burnt me out because every month or so, I was on to an entirely different project and never had a chance to develop that deep level of domain knowledge on anything. It was very frustrating.
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/~kdo/
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •The software used by Presto was initially written in Lisp. I have no idea where it stands now, but I assume it's still the case.
Presto is the payment system for damn near every transit system where I live.
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •I will be releasing (the alpha version of) a social media meta-client one of these weeks.
It works on desktop, Android and #SailfishOS. But I don't know if a one man shop counts for your question.
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •We gather example companies that we find here: github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lis… Mind you it's nothing official. There are job offers sometimes on reddit, but also on the two LinkedIn groups, sometimes on Twitter alone, and sometimes you get a direct message (happened).
There are many in the quantum space, such as HLR labs. reddit's /u/stylewarning works for it. They released the impressive Coalton and even contribute to SBCL.
HLR, Ravenpack and Keepit are probably still hiring.
GitHub - azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies: Awesome Lisp Companies
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •Personally, as a solo developer, I use CL more and more in my stack, ditching Python the more I can. I wrote about it: lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/ru…
Instead of extending a Python software I write independent modules in CL. It works well for standalone scripts too (read a DB, process data, send everything to a FTP, to a web service, by email…) It's such a joy.
On Discord, we see some are in big tech©, wrote their personal tool in CL and now it's part of the team's stack.
#lisp #commonlisp
Running my 4th Common Lisp script in production© - you can do it too - Lisp journey
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •You can find here 2 interviews of small teams using CL. One "secretly", one in a great open-source product:
"questions to Alex Nygren of Kina Knowledge, using Common Lisp extensively in their document processing stack"
lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/li…
"Arnold Noronha of Screenshotbot: from Facebook and Java to Common Lisp."
lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/li…
#lisp #commonlisp
Lisp Interview: questions to Alex Nygren of Kina Knowledge, using Common Lisp extensively in their document processing stack - Lisp journey
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •Here is a list of companies that "use Lisp Extensively in their stack":
github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lis…
GitHub - azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies: Awesome Lisp Companies
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •Daniel Kochmański
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •Red Rozenglass
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •Zenie
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •Nyxt browser is written in common lisp.
I'd say common lisp is alive and well.