🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@sorrowl @winter if only you knew how bad things really are

@freemo this is tootese instead 🙂

@freemo according this page https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/03/health/baby-talk-boosts-infant-brain-wellness/index.html

I figure out that I speak to child in parentese and not in proper baby-talk. At maximum I can intersperse parentese with some "ahhh", "ohhh", "ehhh", but these are exclamations, not baby-talk.

It seems that parentese is better for children. Obviously with slow cadence, and simplified grammar.

@freemo as a linguist and a many-times parent, I endorse the spirit of this message. I wouldn't go so far as to call it abuse, but it is definitely not helpful to the children.

@freemo Yes, and it gets codified in certain circles of educational academia. I remember a first grade teacher telling me that 6 year olds were too young to comprehend fractions. And I'm like what??? 2 year olds can grasp 1/2 easily and have no difficulties in visually dividing things up equally with a small group of friends. Just try giving one an extra cracker and see what the rest have to say about it.

#DailyBloggingChallenge (18/25)

This is where you can find the #RSS for an account on #mastodon (and probably the #fediverse):

```
https://<instance>/@<username>.rss
```

For my account it would be `https://qoto.org/@barefootstache.rss`

And for hashtags it's

```
https://<instance>/tags/<hashtag>.rss
```

For the #DailyBloggingChallenge it's `https://qoto.org/tags/DailyBloggingChallenge.rss`

One thing to keep in mind for choosing an `<instance>` for the hashtags, one should choose one that does not shadow ban keywords. In general, qoto.org is a good choice.

#Fdroid has a wide selection of apps to use as an RSS reader: https://search.f-droid.org/?q=rss+&lang=en

My preference is #Feeder (https://gitlab.com/spacecowboy/Feeder). Similar apps exist for various operating systems and as browser extensions.

#guide #hack #FOSS #blog #reading

@freemo Eiffel language manages immutable types in a rather good way. They are called "expanded" in the Eiffel jargon, but you can think to them as "value" instead of "references/entities". So, you have no references to them, but only explicit values. The classic example is an INTEGER NUMBER, or a BOOLEAN or a POINT. You cannot change 5 in 10. 5 is a value.

@freemo There's the Pyrsistant (maybe spelled wrong) library that gives you "kind-of functional-style immutables".

@freemo Yes, agreed. I've adopted a different mindset to classes; only use for very specific cases, plain functions are better.

@freemo I think you can look at this from many angles. In my opinion, our institutions should be regulated in a way that optimises for things like improved living standards for the average citizen, average life expectancy, average level of happiness etc.

When companies engage in price fixing, the result will almost invariably be higher prices for the majority of society. This is bad, because it will limit access to goods for the average person.

When individuals collectively agree not to work for less than some amount (you said "price fixing", which I suppose is accurate), the result will hopefully be higher pay for the individuals. This is good, because it improves access to goods for the average person. You might say the price of goods will increase, but prices in a competitive market can't be raised arbitrarily.

Morally if not legally, companies are not people. They don't starve if they can't earn a living, they don't suffer when their kids are hungry etc. There are good reasons for companies to be restricted in ways that individuals are not. I see unions as a mechanism for individuals to collaborate.

"deep learning model that can steal data from Keyboard Keystrokes recorded using a Microphone with an accuracy of 95%"

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-acoustic-attack-steals-data-from-keystrokes-with-95-percent-accuracy/