A golden ram and a stone lion, found in a tomb at archaeological site of Gonur Depe (dated 2400-1600 BC) in Turkmenistan.
The finger in the background shows how small these figures are, demonstrating the extraordinary skill of the craftsmen.
State Hermitage Museum - St. Petersburg
Oh wow - The FSF is only $95,000 away from their goal of bringing free software to schools, universities, and learners around the world! Every donation helps with this worldwide cause. https://www.fsf.org/appeal #LearnLibre #FreeSoftware #FSF #Donate
A lot is changing in the world of Ada programming language recently. There is now the Alire package manager which is also a complete project, build and toolchain management tool.
All you need is to download Alire and you can start programming in Ada, using hundreds of "crates" already available in the package repository. It will also download the right compiler for your platform automatically.
Ada also features a LSP-compatible language server, a VS Code extension and ada-mode for Emacs and Eglot support.
The language itself is standardised (Ada 2022 was ratified recently, although 2012 is the most used version), free and open-source, FSF/GCC supported.
Lot's of excellent free training material is available, "Ada Distilled" from Richard Riehle is one of the best. Also there is an online course on the AdaCore website.
Ada is perceived as the language used by security and mission-critical industries, but it is really a general-purpose language that can be used from low-level system programming to high level GUI applications, it has an easy FFI and many bindings to C/C++ libraries are already available (i.e. Qt).
Ada had a devroom at FOSDEM 2019 with interesting talks for anyone who wants to get a first impression:
https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/ada/
Ada is easy to learn and has many interesting concepts. Its strict type system, Pascal-like syntax, cross-compiling and concurrency built-in to the language are some of its most unique features.
Give it a try, you'll be surprised how fast you can get started and how easy it is to learn.
NY Times copyright suit wants OpenAI to delete all GPT instances
Link: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/ny-times-sues-open-ai-microsoft-over-copyright-infringement/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38790255
Gardening for earthworms talk on tonight (7pm GMT). To register:
The Biological Recording Company have an excellent you tube channel also.
https://youtube.com/@biologicalrecordingcompany?si=U46kPav11T99f_RF
#Biodiversity #SoilBiology #Ecology #Nature #Earthworms #Gardening
The hate for the rich is weird, but I guess this quote explains it.
“Socialists think that the #economy is a pie to be divided up and passed around. But the economy is not a pie. It's an oven for baking pies. #Socialists dismantle the oven and pass out the parts.” - Michael Rectenwald. https://piipitin.fi/@prettyhuman/111646353467589880
state licensed lolbert and hypernatalist with a breeding kink. never watched rick & morty and i'm proud of it.
don't only rely on my words, read what happy customers wrote about me: "10/10 would buy again", "top seller, great value", "wildly incorrect", "teil des problems", "without imagination", "Repeated provocation using copy/paste.", "if you take a dump in my mentions, I just might notice the smell", "log out and never login again", "Du redest wirr.", "My brother in Christ, this is such a ridiculously dumb statement that I will no longer entertain this silly conversation.", "Auf Derailing-Diskussionen habe ich keine Lust. Finger über dem Blocken-Knopf.", "Wie gesagt, du kannst der Diskussion inhaltlich nicht folgen."
➡️ NO PRESSURE ⬅️ 💄NO DIAMOND💍
one day at a time.