maco
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In 2026 we ramp up the campaign to make burgers wider instead of taller
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Seth of the Fediverse 🕎
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15. years ago in zeldman dot com: “You cannot copyright a tweet.”
https://zeldman.com/2010/02/25/you-cannot-copyright-a-tweet/
It might sound somewhat unexpected from the person that’s just gone through a gargantuan effort of converting a (“small” yet still sizeable) #Scheme standard to #HTML, but… I’m still not sold on Scheme. True, it’s a
• Modern language.
• That gets Unicode and UTF-8 right.
• That has just enough operators to potentially do anything. (Any less ops and it’d become quite hard to accomplish some things.)
• That has reasonable semantics not tied to any machine. With sane memory model that works both in embedded and general programming!
• That is a Lisp. And that’s modernizing some things about family’s handling of… everything!
But still, I’m indecisive. #CommonLisp, exposed by this Scheme comparison as quite crusty with historic accidents, is still a better language in many ways:
• Typing (albeit quite simple) included in the core language.
• eval, read, and write heavily tunable for interpreter building, the very case Scheme should’ve excelled in.
• REPL and debugger behavior specified beyond probably what any language does in this regard.
• Extreme stability and portability of even non-trivial programs; “Triviality as a Virtue” library ethos as I call it.
• The ability to go full stateful and low-level, down to raw bits (not many languages actually can do that without bit masks etc.!) and GOTOs; huge/endless optimization opportunities.
Aaaaaargh. As someone in search of a universal and collapse/shit/future-proof basis for my computation, I’m extremely annoyed. Need to write some things in Scheme to make up my mind. Maybe make an SRFI or two (covering the CL areas above, typing is already covered!), possibly about meta-PL things like parsers and interpreters. Maybe that will expose me to real (yeah, I know, PLs are not “real” programming, but they well are for me!) Scheme and whether I want to commit to it.
@aartaka That's an excellent summary of the trade-offs. A good basis for preferring on or the other for a specific project.
Wood or metal? In search of a universal basis for my things...
I doubt you'll ever find that "universal basis for computation". Not even if you opt for designing and building it yourself.
maco
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If you make homophobic jokes about bad people, you're still engaging in homophobia and the vulnerable folks around you will remember that.
#TheMoreYouKnow 🏳️🌈⭐
@chris Good for you for powering though, though.
@chris That's insane that you can't control the heat. Geezus!
I have unsubscribed from every email notification box on my Xfinity account and I still get multiple marketing emails per day. It is infuriating.
hypebot
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❄️ Gebt acht aufeinander! Besonders für Menschen ohne Wohnung, die auf der Straße leben, ist der Winter eine harte Zeit. Die eisigen Temperaturen können im schlimmsten Fall sogar lebensbedrohlich werden. Umso wichtiger ist es, nicht wegzuschauen.
▶️ Unterwegs mit dem Kältebus: https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/hamburg_journal/unterwegs-mit-dem-kaeltebus,hamj-6442.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=NDR.de
Seth of the Fediverse 🕎
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How Ally Machate Helps Authors Turn Books into Powerful Business Tools
https://entrepreneursenigma.com/podcast-archive/how-ally-machate-helps-authors-turn-books-into-powerful-business-tools/
Incidente alla funivia di Macugnaga
Due cabine hanno impattato contro le strutture delle stazioni di monte e di valle dell’impianto a fune piemontese - Tre i feriti
https://www.rsi.ch/s/3392067
@rsiinfo @GustavinoBevilacqua peccato che fino a pochi giorni fa si piangeva miseria per la burocrazia che impediva la riapertura degli impianti! https://www.rainews.it/tgr/piemonte/articoli/2025/12/a-macugnaga-non-basta-la-neve-impianti-fermi-per-intoppi-burocratici-8badf0ba-8097-4e9e-84e3-7c88de136277.html
Børge
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I dig deeper in this week's HIGH SPEED dispatches. (Apologies to #Toronto and #Quebec City on this one!)
https://www.highspeed.blog/montreal-and-ottawa-welcome-to-the-global-high-speed-club/
STOP OCCUPATION 🍉 S. Costa
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Incidente alla funivia di Macugnaga
Due cabine hanno impattato contro le strutture delle stazioni di monte e di valle dell’impianto a fune piemontese - Tre i feriti
https://www.rsi.ch/s/3392067
RE: https://mastodon.world/@weathermatrix/115808946496997386
Bundle up folks!
Chip Butty
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Every time I see someone mention how pedantic Mastodon users tend to be I have to physically restrain myself from pointing out that, actually, Mastodon is just one part of the fediverse, and that all of the fediverse is like that.
Catastrophe? Nonsense -- cat as trophy (you only win it if you can sit down fast enough). 🏆
Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉
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Shout out naar @DeGroene voor de optie om hun artikelen op Mastodon te delen (en het runnen van hun eigen Mastodon server natuurlijk 😻😻).
hypebot
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@otfrom So you always know when your group is about to do something that gets them all killed? 😸 What's the book's title?
@witt @fosstodon Welcome! 👋
@Gina Thanks, Gina! Glad to be here.