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@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online
@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net

yeah I had this funny feeling that Stuff That Other Rich People Are Going to Care About was not going to fly quite so easily

(of course I sold a lot of shit in IRA Land anyway -- basically everything that listed Microsoft, Amazon, and Google as their biggest holdings -- (yay that that can be done without tax stuff happening). Getting the idea that maybe everything should just go in international funds and call it a day...)

@freakboy3742@cloudisland.nz

Reminded of the POPL conference I went to where the hotel conference room had a stupidly low ceiling and so the bottom half of the screen wasn't visible from the middle->back of the room.

... so Phil Wadler redid all of his slides the night before to ONLY use the top half of the screen. Suffice it to say the slides were Very Short (I think he broke the title across two slides). It was a really good talk.

(Also reminded of my PhD orals where I had handwritten slides (because this was Before Powerpoint) with small writing and multiple overlays (to quote one my classmates, "If there were a Geneva Convention concerning slide presentations, you'd be in Spandau right about now....")

@mdhughes@appdot.net @dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz @screwlisp@gamerplus.org @kentpitman@climatejustice.social @ramin_hal9001@fe.disroot.org @cdegroot@mstdn.ca

I stick to posting longer-than-two-posts content to my blog, ...

yeah, that's clearly the Right Thing, but has the disadvantage of not inflicting my text on people directly 🙂

@kentpitman@climatejustice.social @dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz @ramin_hal9001@fe.disroot.org @screwlisp@gamerplus.org @cdegroot@mstdn.ca

I also recall '~' being an important character

ok, I seem to be out-to-lunch on this (or at least, remembering Something Else; but I can't imagine what...):

https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-11/teco/emacs11/emacs11.tec

(admittedly, this is VAX/PDP-11 TECO source for Emacs and maybe Fred had to do a complete rewrite of some sort and the actual TOPS20/PDP-10 source is completely different, but I kind of doubt it).

It does definitely look like line noise, though.

@kentpitman@climatejustice.social @screwlisp@gamerplus.org @cdegroot@mstdn.ca @ramin_hal9001@fe.disroot.org @JamesGosling@universeodon.com

I should note that seeing this https://universeodon.com/@JamesGosling/116173132555028212

reminded me that I didn't actually totally understand this https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@wrog/116169652684073570

until it came time for me to implement my own garbage collector for ASTLOG, and I'm definitely not any kind of GC expert. I used a dirt-simple 2-space copying collector that Appel published in the 80s that somebody pointed me to.

it ran every bit as fast as promised.

(and debugging a GC is such an acid trip. Stuff just disappears; you have to figure out how (who'd've guessed this would happen?).

I now think that writing a GC, like dissecting frogs in 9th grade, is something that everybody should do at least once.

(I've said various versions of this before, but maybe this makes the point clearer:)

The Turing Test is **NOT** a benchmark.

It's a **warning**.

i.e., Turing *knew* that trying to define "intelligence" was, at best, way more difficult than people gave it credit for, likely completely futile. His proposed "test" is, "If you can be fooled into thinking there's something intelligent there, then there is (or at least there might as well be)."

Meaning that's the only definition you're ever going to get for "intelligence".

And if it turns out we are that easily fooled (which, I hate to say, is now looking like it may be generally the case) then we **REALLY** have to be watching our backs for **other** ways we're getting fooled.

Discuss

@kentpitman @ramin_hal9001 @cdegroot @mousebot @dougmerritt @screwlisp

(N.B. I've not really looked at the code, yet).

meaning I may yet turn out to be wrong about what's difficult, meaning don't hold your breath on the pull-request (*)

(Also, elisp seems to have changed a bit.

I remain dismayed at how many Common-Lisp-isms crept into the language. I've mostly been in RMS's camp on this, but I'll admit that was based on how horribly elisp's common-lisp compatibility was implemented 20 years ago. Evidently this ship has sailed. And now that modern elisp compile is way better and does native code, it probably doesn't matter anymore).

(*) Ideally, my architecture wanking will goad someone else into beating me to it.

@screwlisp @dougmerritt @mousebot @cdegroot @ramin_hal9001 @kentpitman

… and a different model which perhaps maps closer to how people think about this.

https://codeberg.org/martianh/mastodon.el/issues/340#issuecomment-11492926

Please note:

Proposal 2 . reply-to-id can be a draft ⟹ creating chains of drafts . status quo = nobody's doing that yet

Proposal 3 . drafts have split-points (= subdrafts) . many attributes (CW,NSFW,attachements,visibility) live on the split point . status quo = only one subdraft

are implementation choices, not UIs in and of themsevles. That is, both should support the same UIs (for chains, anyway; P3 can't really do trees).

I still much prefer P2. P3 looks to be more work/complexity to achieve less IMHO.

(N.B. I've not deeply looked at the code, yet).

@dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz

On the timeline of a hypothetical observer far outside that gravity well, of course

?? not sure what you mean. This is about a completely flat spacetime, so being far away makes no difference in the distances/times that an inertial observer will measure.

There is no actual gravity well here.

When I said,

Gravity increases as you go downstairs, but you'll live longer.

I was referring to the experience of the passengers on the accelerating ships, the fake gravity that they feel; the passage of proper time is slower on the ships that are closer to the origin (and hence accelerating harder). And since it's proper time we're talking about, this is true no matter who's reference frame we're using.

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@mjdxp@labyrinth.zone

you forgot 4. mother's maiden name 5. last four digits of your SSN 6. your birthday

RE: @sparklepanic@infosec.exchange

(seeing a few HTML5 things I really ought to learn... buh)

@Thumper1964@mindly.social @MikeGorse@mindly.social

but they're still having to do work

and I'd even go so far as to say they're doing all of the work that involves actual thought, because the agent is inherently incapable of that part.

stupid question:
What is the actual obstacle to being able to run Linux on a cellphone (i.e., and be able to use it as a cellphone)?

Is there some crucial interop spec that's being kept proprietary/secret?

Or is it there some particular software component that's encumbered by patents and so there can't be a free version of it?

Some weird licensing structure that the operating companies have been able to enforce (and the EU hasn't gotten around to saying, "Fuck you guys; open this up")?

(I'm assuming there's *some* reason Ubuntu didn't do this years ago...)