The first parser iteration worked on a set of declarative Zon files, but it became increasingly verbose to express everything I needed.

That's when I realized that I was tediously hand-writing a pseudo parse tree, and the DSL emerged almost naturally.

But if I leave the house, the house will be lonely

@gubi
Ah ma che bello.
Anche "Terra", "Summertime" e "The dock of the bay".

Assolutamente

#RadioSociale

@sturmsucht
Pretty much every AAA game studio these days.

@glassbottommeg

Figure out that theory, and another human can hunt for likely mistakes, extrapolate, apply fixes, etc. But going through slopvibe code looking for whatever's fucked up now is hellacious because *there is no theory, just statistical vomit*.

This holds for writing, as well.

@ChrisMayLA6

UK housebuilders' lobbying is also responsible for the almost universal mainstream media and political propagation of the myth that outrageous UK housing costs are simply down to supply and demand, so can only be solved - surprise, surprise - by... building more houses, regardless of the environmental costs.

But the fact is that the UK has more rooms per capita now than it has ever had - they're just distributed less and less fairly. In fact they're so unequally distributed now that the UK is literally back to Victorian levels of inequality in this respect.

Moreover, in the UK the proportion of homes bought as “additional dwellings” (second homes, holiday lets, buy to lets, and so on) rose from around 15% of the total in 2016 to 45% by 2023 - it's probably about half now - that's half of the market taken by house purchases by people that are not going to live in them.

It would be good to see some creative eco-council-house-building on brownfield sites - but I think the main answers to the UK's 'housing crisis' (which is really an inequality crisis) lie in regulating lending and reforming tax so that it doesn't incentivise home hoarding by the wealthy.

#OtD 10 Jul 1944 Italian anti-fascist partisan footballer Bruno Neri and army vet Vittorio Bellenghi were killed when they were ambushed by group of around 15 German soldiers during a scouting mission in the Hermitage of Gamogna in the Apennines mountains. https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-80-italian-resistance/

@brouhaha oh that’s right you’re in the land of anemic wall-socket voltages. It’s so nice to be able to pull north of 2kW out of any outlet in my home without thinking about it.

@Natasha_Jay Same, which is kind of ironic given just how many catsalad accounts I have 😅

Gerard talks about how, with human-written code, line 10 is necessarily related to line 1, because there's a human being making decisions on it, and that human has a theory. This is something the slop machines, being simply statistical regurgitation, can't do. (Here's his newsletter, as promised.)
https://pivot-to-ai.com

@corpsmoderne Dans ta face Thierry Legault 😁

Over the years, I've built a fair number of DSLs in #Ruby for all kinds of things.

For one of my current clients, I'm building one in #Zig, and it's definitely a very different approach: the DSL is syntactically (but not necessarily semantically) valid Zig, and a small parser transforms the `std.zig.Ast` into something that later gets executed.

It works better than I expected, and I promise, the approach makes sense within the constraints of the project.

@Jaimieserotica @interpipes @acesfunhouse

Good luck, and hope you can stay cool-ish.

How ChatControl passed in the EU parliament.

@interpipes @Jaimieserotica @acesfunhouse Nice!

Crowdfunding begins for Open Book Touch, an open source eReader

The Open Book Touch is an eBook reader with a small, front-lit E ink display, a microSD card slot for storage, and support for EPUB and TXT files. But what really makes it different from most eReaders is that it’s a fully open source device…
https://liliputing.com/crowdfunding-begins-for-open-book-touch-an-open-source-ereader/

@standardebooks for me it was an imported Russian children's book called "The adventures of Dunno' and his friends"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunno

I spotted this in my hotel room in Hannover. And I have many, many questions. Starting, perhaps with a simple one.

What.
The.
Fuck?!?

@cwebber burnnn