Roommate just moved out, now I "have an office" for the show in an hour - @vnikolov on introducing activateable and deactivateable type checking to common lisp through a macro package (I think!)
Wait a minute, why *are* you confused? I get confused because I *do* have daylight savings here in California, but since you set your show to 00:00 GMT come hell, high water, or daylight savings, I was assuming you *didn't* have daylight savings there in New Zealand.
@dougmerritt well at least *you* are going to be there. I'll just read things you say in lambdaMOO out for Vassil to respond to live. @shizamura @vnikolov
@dougmerritt Well particularly @shizamura and I desyncronized. It's more that I know and care about each of you individually, so if one person ends up at the wrong time, it's a show-shaking disaster.
I'm an American, so in addition to our other problems, we don't have as strong an educational system as do most of you in civilized countries, so could you take pity and fill in a bit more further explanation?
I think I might have gotten a paid lifetime account when they were new, although I may be confusing them with someone else, but whoever it was, I lost my pasword. 🙁
In the long history of GMT and UTC, a significant reason why longitude 0 (and hence time zone offset 0) is at Greenwich is British global dominance in seafaring in the past. However, _long_ before that, and even before the Spanish, the Portuguese started ocean exploration. Prince Enrique the Seafarer (didn't become king) led that in the 14th century. (I think there is a monument to him in Lisbon.)
@dougmerritt One of the most prominent seafarers that came out of Prince Enrique's efforts was Vasco da Gama who found a route to India via the Cape of Good Hope after a century of exploration of the west coast of Africa (about the same time as Columbus sailed to America).
Magellan was Portuguese.
By the way, the Portuguese sailed very near to South America, but didn't discover it. (They found favorable winds and currents in the West Atlantic for their return voyages.)
Looking to lure people to the fediverse? Share @_elena's explainer with them. It's a four-minute video that makes things simple for anyone to understand.
@stux it took me exactly 1 second to decide your avatar should be at the center of the mosaic animation. Thank you for all you're doing for the Fediverse stux ❤️ ✨
While my neti pot is really good at clearing my sinuses, it has an unfortunate side-effect. I'll end up with a small amount of water trapped in my sinuses which will randomly drain at some unpredictable point when I happen to tilt my head at just the right (or wrong?) angle.
I've been playing around with #OpenWeatherMap's air quality API. Interestingly, there seems to be some disagreement between its report and Environment Canada's. The former says "Good" and the latter says "Moderate Risk". Granted, they use different scales, but that still seems a rather significant discrepancy.
Lokjo is paused for the moment since we've overran our quotas by a rediculous amount and our api-providers are -logically- closed for hoidays. Geoapify is really flexible with a little boost, but this is just way too much.
We'll be contacting them asap and hope to find a solution.
In the meentime, thanks so much for all your support and feedback! 😊
I don't need an air quality report to tell me things are bad right now. I can see haziness in the air when looking at things that are less than a block away.
The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network has created yet another fantastic resource for anyone who needs it: Proxy Caller Project. What is it? It is a resource to help those who have a difficult time making phone calls. Photo by Antoni Shkraba Studio on Pexels.com Many disabled people struggle with phone calls due to communication differences, difficulty with mouth speech, anxiety, or any number of other issues that interfere.
The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network has created yet another fantastic resource for anyone who needs it: Proxy Caller Project. What is it? It is a resource to help those who have a difficult time mak…
Sounds like a valuable service. I get anxiety from it until I do it and then I do ok take a break repeat process.
In order to stave off stress I quit caring how long I take or off I mess up I apologize. I still have phone avoidance and prefer text.
I have one group I’m a member of and they have all their videos up. I don’t mind one on one calls as long as I know the person is neurodivergent and they know what that means to them.
Gonna update this when I get to my computer - apparently it’s specific to calling your reps which is also helpful but n it as broad as I thought when I first found it
It has been updated to reflect the specific purpose of the resource! And I will be putting together a post of supports for people who struggle with phone calls.
I am flatly uninterested in letting an LLM execute arbitrary code as my user account on my laptop and maybe even sudo to root are you people fucking nuts
Also i dunno but it’s just really hard for me to be interested in trying the fancy expensive, high-investment versions of the tools when the free versions are all unfit for purpose. Like not just bad but wrong. There’s a bare minimum of purpose alignment that something has to meet for me to consider investing more deeply in it and ALL of the free stuff I encounter is so unfit as to be actively offensive
If LLMs really are great for coding, and only coding, the coding LLM people had better shoot the rest of the LLM community or something and take down their stuff because they are making y’all look evil
@quinn If they’ve finally integrated LLMs with linting and type checking and so on and so on I could see there being less slop at the word-by-word level… which still leaves lots of room for more subtle forms of slop at the method, subsystem, and interaction (e.g. not writing security vulnerabilities) levels!
@DanGroom @trochee @quinn I haven't used the clang LSP yet (my only project in a suitable language is for an operating system I'd have to port it to myself) but rust-analyzer is pretty amazing!
A small one of the myriad reasons I care is personal: every time you use spicy autocomplete to do any coding, it has been trained on source code that I have made available under specific licenses, and your use of my code does not happen under the terms of these licenses. So you’re stealing from me and my friends and that’s not a great start to the conversation of validating your greed ✌️
> If the Work includes a "NOTICE" text file as part of its distribution, then any Derivative Works that You distribute must include a readable copy of the attribution notices contained within such NOTICE file
(We don't hear about the Beta Quardrant as much, mostly because the Klingon Empire and Romulan Star Empire take up a big chunk of it and are surprisingly close to Earth).
@Darcy Casselman I'm surprised Earth had that much power considering how much later they were to warp technology than more or less every other member of the Federation (though that probably wasn't established until after the boundaries were drawn).
I wonder if there's a market for someone who can convert a schematic drawing (or rough sketch) to an STL file for #3DPrinting on a freelance basis. I'm getting to be pretty decent at it, and it's kinda fun.
I'm pretty sure there's probably already some AI garbage that purports to do so.
The advice I hear is that the included Windows Defender is as good as any of the others, so no need to add something else. Especially as AV packages by their nature tend to become security issues of their own.
@silverwizard @Janne Moren Fortunately, this machine will only be used for certain things that require Windows (which are few and far between). It's not an issue for me to regularly factory reset it as it will contain nothing sensitive or that needs requires persistence.
Anything important lives on a machine with a trustworthy OS.
The only Windows computer I touch (ie. #SysAdmin) has only Windows Defender. It's essentially a public computer, used by many people with unknown computer hygiene.
So far, so good.
I think Windows Defender is at least as good at updating against (Defender-specific) attacks as any other anti-virus. I say that without having any evidence.
@silverwizard @Jonathan Lamothe @Janne Moren Maybe, but Windows will fight most third-party antivirus software, and/or it's a massive spyware/performance drain.
In the end, the best move seems to not add any additional liability to Windows Defender.
@beko Believe me, I'd love nothing more than to slap Debian on this machine. Unfortunately, its whole reason for existing is to run things that require Windows. Most of the time it's going to sit unused.
@Jonathan Lamothe when I did use microsoft I just used the microsoft virus checker. But the simple truth is that windows is designed to be susceptible to viruses to discourage people from using non-microsoft software. So, the only way to stop the viruses is to stop using Microsoft. That is the only real solution.
@Jonathan Lamothe I have used several operating systems such as Linux, which had no problem stopping viruses on the same machines as Microsoft. If they could do it, Microsoft could easily have stopped viruses. We might have accepted a transitory issue when viruses first appeared, but not a continued issue that continue despite many updates. The truth is Microsoft did very well from all the viruses, because they were used to deter people from trying non "official" microsoft software. That put Microsoft in a very dominant position and that is what made it so much money from some of the crappiest software on the planet.
Cleaning and re-inking my #FountainPens and I managed to spill one of my favourite Inkvent sample bottles. Fortunately, I somehow managed to save the majority of the ink. Don't ask me how.
@A Fine Day For Mischief 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇵🇸 Sadly, I already cleaned it. Luckily, I had a protective mat on the desk. I could show you my inky hands, bit that's just an everyday occurrence around here.
I'm particular about my morning coffee. I always have 170g of coffee to 15g of flavouring syrup. (I used to drink double that, but I'm trying to keep the stimulants down.) The ratio is important.
Every now and again (like this morning) I accidentally overshoot on the syrup and have to adjust the amount of coffee to compensate.
This means, I get extra coffee (yay!) but I have to do semi-complicated math before my morning coffee, which is a little annoying.
A slightly weird request: maybe someone among my mutuals is interested in staying at our place in South Wales for a few days to help us organise a hobbyist lab space at home? Vegetarian foods are on me, other than that, we can discuss 😁
An opportunity to touch many vintage computers, try some simple scientific experiments, and maybe design a PCB or two.
You'd think it's easy to find someone who would be happy to help, especially if you offer people money, but no 🙁
If you are interested in having me over June 12ish to however long, please do let me know soon though, I'd have to adjust my schedule accordingly (should be no problem though 😀 ). If perhaps a call for vibe check would be in order first too probably.
I might be interested, if we can figure out travel and working around any existing commitments 😀 (however, I realise we haven't interacted a lot, so I will not be offended if you'd rather hold out for someone you know better)
@reidrac I believe it's a case of "body doubling" needed, plus an opportunity to have fun with some old pieces of electronics. This is a bit difficult to do online, I think.
@BoydStephenSmithJr even so, there’s (some, needs replicating iirc) evidence that the human brain immediately accepts/believes everything it hears, and THEN begins a process of critical thinking.
So for people who are busy, overwhelmed, distracted, stressed… that critical thinking mechanism may not have time or energy to function well.
It’s easy for me as someone with enormous capacity for data & internal processing to forget it’s really not easy!
I didn't mean to claim it was easy, or to really put any blame on someone that fails to think critically. It is an acquired skill, and yes, there is evidence that it runs counter to our instinct / reflexive behaviors.
I just wanted to emphasize that (a) you can't depend on Google, AI, your Bubble, or _anything_ external to do it for you, and (b) we *should* try to skill people up on it as a public good like society did at some points in the past.
It's especially important when you are spreading information to try to think critically about it first, because some of your audience/followers/community might not be in the best condition to engage their own critical thinking skills.
@BoydStephenSmithJr Admittedly, not a given these days, but my daughter, who teaches 7th grade history, says this: “I don’t care ultimately if you know if Attila the Hun invaded Europe in 952 AD, as long as you’re able to exercise critical thinking skills.” That’s her number one goal.
Large-scale cooperation, open protocols, and free software gave us the internet. Capitalism gave us mobile sites that don't work because fifteen ads cover the screen.
Internet? 👀 I'll search for it on Yahoo! Is that why my AOL account only has some dude named bgates on it? AOL was basically AppleLink on steroids. Apple was trying to launch eWorld at the time also... and HyperCard, the original Web interface. So, capitalism is responsible for a lot of tech behind the current Web. Capitalism in the right hands can accomplish a lot of good things. It's the people who abuse it who are the problem. 'Got a notification on CompuServe - 'gotta go!
The Internet was created by large-scale cooperation, open protocols, and free software. Capitalists stole that, called it The World Wide Web, and pretended they created it. The rest of us were on newsgroups, bulletin boards, and mailing lists, and never heard of Hypercard.
@cy I never had those. I was just making a point of the tech that led to the modern Web, browsers, and its advancements - it wasn't all work done by non-profits. There were corporations involved, and that work led to other innovation in the Internet industry.
I used Archie on UNIX to access content on the Internet before Mosaic existed. I don't think I participated in any online news / user groups at the time.
I believe capitalism can be positive if used properly, like a mom & pop restaurant.
Depends what you call "innovation." I certainly agree that we all got stuck using SSL because of capitalism. Mom & Pop Restaurants aren't capitalist though. They just own* a building and sell food.
* more likely they lease a building from a capitalist
I'm pretty sure capital is about owning people more than machines. You loan people money to buy a bunch of machines, and that money you loaned is capital. Investment capital, to be specific. Capital = leverage. It is true that capitalists use their leverage to control the means of production, but it's possible to control it without capitalism. i.e. NASA.
That's what I'm going on. I could very well be completely wrong.
Look into Tim Berners-Lee sometime. He did work at CERN when he proposed HTML and such. He's huge on microtransactions, getting people to pay for stuff over the net. Initially HTML was supposed to charge you for every link you followed, until someone pointed out that was utterly barking mad.
Encountered my first mask ban in Canada. I had hoped we were smarter than this, but I suppose I'm not surprised. I guess they value their bottom line over public health, but it's a vape store, so I suppose that tracks.
Edit: autocorrect
Edit 2: It has been pointed out to me that there is an exemption for medical masks in the tiniest font imaginable at the bottom of the sign... almost as though they don't want you to read it.
So, I've been using nov.el for #emacs to read epubs. It does a pretty decent job of it, but I have one point of irritation: I can't for the life of me find a way to tell how far through the book I am. Is there some way to see this?
I use it! It shows a % figure on the bottom line, but it does it only if I maximize past the 80 columns (in other words, it doesn't appear on my VT terminal!).
@मोक्ष / untrusem ⁂ This package appears to render documents using SVG output. Considering that I spend 95% of my time in the terminal, this would likely be a deal-breaker for me unfortunately. 🙁
this is for Doom but might give you some ideas? I stole some code from here and it's a bit beyond me but involves setting a custom modeline when in nov mode > tecosaur.github.io/emacs-confi…
@Zenie The mode line shows the position in the current buffer. The buffer displays the current chapter. Thus, it shows your position in the current chapter, not the book overall.
@Zenie The feature might actually exist for all I know, so I hesitate to put in a feature request. I was just hoping that it was an already solved problem.
I glanced at the code. But I'm not at my usual computer so I can't look at help, the mode or the code more thoroughly. I only just installed it recently so don't know it well.
Little by little I've been going more and more analog. I still track every little thing I need to do in my #OrgMode system to help manage my #ADHD, but that list itself can get a little overwhelming. I've started combing over it in the morning, picking out the most critical things for that day and writing them down on a paper checklist in a small notebook I keep in my pocket. The notebook has the advantage of not distracting me with a thousand notifications every time I'm trying to do something productive.
Plus, I just really like having an excuse to put a nice #FountainPen and ink to paper.
Trying to design a custom phone holder for the dashboard of our car because it's a weird design that makes conventional ones unusable (I don't trust the suction cup ones).
Taking the measurements has made me painfully aware of just how... curved everything is on a dashboard. 🤬
Not to deter you from your chosen path but just to provide info this is what I have:
A sticky metal plate is attached to the rear of the phone.
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@Brian Sullivan We've got a similar one that suction cups to the windshield. I didn't want to permanently affix the plate to my phone (especially since we have two phones between the two of us).
Thought I could get around it by putting the plate inside of the case, but it holds much less securely that way (though the suction cup has still historically been the weakest link).
Our current solution involves a wooden block and a sock. It works, but my plan is a decided upgrade.
Just spent a good half hour pulling my hair out trying to figure out why one of the #elisp functions I had just written was always returning nil when I tested it. Turns out, my test was mistakenly passing its inputs to the wrong (but similarly named) function (pivot-table-get-columns instead of pivot-table-get-body).
It sounds like the sort of thing a more type-ful Lisp implementation would have detected too. I bet SBCL would have have given you a compiler note warning of an analogous problem, for example.
C's type system would also have caught it, and it isn't worth a hill of beans.
By caught it what do we mean? This is not a case of some undetected error escaping your attention due to dynamic typing. You know you got a nil which is unexpected and wrong. It's in a test case which catches it.
The only thing a type system would change is that you would instead waste a half hour not understanding how your obviously correct function call can possibly have the wrong return type.
So Katy has a #Jinhao10 and today the clicker seems to be jamming. When pressed, it seems to resist extending or retracting the nib. I'm giving it a cleaning right now to make sure there was no debris or anything in there stopping it from working, but I don't know if that'll fix it.
Has anyone experienced this before? Is there a fix?
I have a function, pivot-table-get-columns (shorthanded as pt-get-columns). Its job is to take an #OrgMode table and produce an alist of mappings of column names to column numbers. The column names are as defined by section 3.5.10 of the org-mode manual.
Edit: I've been beating my head against a wall for some time on this getting nowhere and less than a minute after asking this, I see it. My first unless should be a when. I'll fix it later.
what does org table source look like by the way? I normally pass org tables into org source blocks (where they become s-expressions in lisp), but I'm not sure what the tables look like internally to org.
further about eq in common lisp at least, I've seen people make a mistake before- when you compile code, if you referred to "" twice, in common lisp compilers are allowed to coalesce them at which point they /will/ be eq. (Eq would be a good test to see if they /had/ been coalesced). But in the general case two strings entered in different places are not eq.
@screwlisp I've not seen the comma prefix used outside a macro before. Also, this would probably be better written as: (push (cons (format "%s" cell) n) result)
it is very exciting! commas have to appear inside backticks, and backticks are just quotes that can have certain things inside of them unquoted (using a comma).
Macros to a large extent work like this because one principle of lisp is that lisp code be regular lisp sequences. At read time, the function names are just symbols. So it's a list of symbols/atoms and lists.
However, sometimes we /do/ want to run some code, hence backtick and comma/unquote.
Backquote forms are merely list (S-expression) constructors where some pieces are constant and some pieces are evaluated. (The latter are marked with commas.) Such forms can be used anywhere. Obviously they are often used in macros, because macro functions construct lists (S-expressions).
I often write `(,foo ,bar) instead of (list foo bar) because the former seems clearer, especially when the structure is more involved.
#cfw got an org-table import/export functionality. Just select the org-table and run M-x cfw-org-load. Analyse, sort, edit, filter your table in CFW. Then update the original org-table by M-x cfw-org-save.
If there was no original org-table (the table was created from scratch or from other source like CSV), the cfw-org-save places the exported table into the kill-ring. This way org pivottables can be generated from CFW.
Álvaro Shiza Vieira ✨
in reply to screwlisp • • •screwlisp
in reply to Álvaro Shiza Vieira ✨ • • •90 minutes sorry! I do not control daylight savings time. At least I think so, let me check!
@vnikolov
Álvaro Shiza Vieira ✨
in reply to screwlisp • • •screwlisp
in reply to Álvaro Shiza Vieira ✨ • • •@vnikolov
Álvaro Shiza Vieira ✨
in reply to screwlisp • • •If I didn't have work in the morning I'd stay with y'all too but alas 😔
the pass along thing is that i have a comic
meanwhile maybe on thursday or friday I can get record something about semantics that you can use later
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DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄)
in reply to Álvaro Shiza Vieira ✨ • • •> I do not control daylight savings time.
Work harder.
@shizamura @vnikolov
DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄)
in reply to DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄) • • •> 90 minutes sorry!
Wait a minute, why *are* you confused? I get confused because I *do* have daylight savings here in California, but since you set your show to 00:00 GMT come hell, high water, or daylight savings, I was assuming you *didn't* have daylight savings there in New Zealand.
@shizamura @vnikolov
screwlisp
in reply to DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄) • • •well at least *you* are going to be there. I'll just read things you say in lambdaMOO out for Vassil to respond to live.
@shizamura @vnikolov
DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄)
in reply to screwlisp • • •Way to not answer the question.
But ok, why are you so pessimistic about your audience? By now it's obvious you have a following who enjoy showing up.
@shizamura @vnikolov
screwlisp
in reply to DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄) • • •@dougmerritt
Well particularly @shizamura and I desyncronized. It's more that I know and care about each of you individually, so if one person ends up at the wrong time, it's a show-shaking disaster.
@vnikolov
Álvaro Shiza Vieira ✨
in reply to DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄) • • •Vassil Nikolov
in reply to Álvaro Shiza Vieira ✨ • • •@dougmerritt
> using GMT.... when lisbon time is right there
👍
Yes, Prince Enrique was there first.
(Name spelling from memory.)
DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄)
in reply to Vassil Nikolov • • •Well. I know the history of GMT (or used to know anyway), but I am at sea here with Lisbon and Prince Enrique being there first.
@shizamura @screwlisp
Vassil Nikolov
in reply to DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄) • • •@dougmerritt
> the history of GMT
I think that in four words it is "Britannia, rule the waves", so "zulu time" is an apt name in my not so humble opinion...
DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄)
in reply to Vassil Nikolov • • •I'm an American, so in addition to our other problems, we don't have as strong an educational system as do most of you in civilized countries, so could you take pity and fill in a bit more further explanation?
@shizamura @screwlisp
screwlisp
in reply to DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄) • • •Show subtopic! Lots of the superdimensional fortress like radios and history
@vnikolov @shizamura
DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄)
in reply to screwlisp • • •Oh?
"Show subtopic"
Wut?
@vnikolov @shizamura
screwlisp
in reply to DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄) • • •History of time, with respect to radios and time zones? Maybe a bit of a big subtopic
@vnikolov @shizamura
DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄)
in reply to screwlisp • • •I don't use SDF.
I think I might have gotten a paid lifetime account when they were new, although I may be confusing them with someone else, but whoever it was, I lost my pasword. 🙁
Vassil Nikolov
in reply to screwlisp • • •@dougmerritt
Multiple topics.
I love radio.
I love history.
And Time... Time is eternal.
Vassil Nikolov
in reply to DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄) • • •@dougmerritt
An improvised "elevator pitch".
In the long history of GMT and UTC, a significant reason why longitude 0 (and hence time zone offset 0) is at Greenwich is British global dominance in seafaring in the past.
However, _long_ before that, and even before the Spanish, the Portuguese started ocean exploration.
Prince Enrique the Seafarer (didn't become king) led that in the 14th century.
(I think there is a monument to him in Lisbon.)
(Continued.)
Vassil Nikolov
in reply to Vassil Nikolov • • •@dougmerritt
One of the most prominent seafarers that came out of Prince Enrique's efforts was Vasco da Gama who found a route to India via the Cape of Good Hope after a century of exploration of the west coast of Africa (about the same time as Columbus sailed to America).
Magellan was Portuguese.
By the way, the Portuguese sailed very near to South America, but didn't discover it.
(They found favorable winds and currents in the West Atlantic for their return voyages.)
Vassil Nikolov
in reply to screwlisp • • •> introducing activateable and deactivateable type checking to common lisp through a macro package
Much more modest than that.
***
You remind me of:
"Freddie Mercury:
vocals, vocals, Bechstein debauchery and more vocals"
Exactly fifty years ago.
May he rest in peace!
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