Life is Tetris @tetrislife@social.cleverlibre.org

@letoram I've been following the project for a while, but I never had a compelling reason to switch, and I'm way past the point where I enjoy fiddling about with OS components just for the sake of it. So, given my time constraints (or lack of time management skills) , I never gave it a go. And I'm not saying that my current setup will simply stop working because IBM/RH decided to stop supporting Xorg, but in the medium/long term I expect to need an alternative now.

"#Clojure’s immutable, persistent data structures make it easier to write correct concurrent programs, and the language and runtime have excellent concurrency support...I also considered languages (like Haskell) with more rigorous control over side effects, but decided that #Clojure’s less-dogmatic approach was preferable."

I'd make a similar argument for #Erlang. There's a sweet spot on the imperative to functional spectrum that both these languages occupy.

https://aphyr.com/posts/367-why-is-jepsen-written-in-clojure

@haiku also available over xmpp using the jabber.fr biboumi irc bridge

(please don't give free advertising to matrix...)

@stevenroose @GrapheneOS @sebsk I'll adopt the strategy of dismissing anything that contains "how hard can it be" or "just"
But maybe yeah, someone do it plz?

#vim tip : CTRL-A and CTRL-X increment and decrement respectively the integer under the cursor.
This is often faster and less error prone to than editing the number.

The Internet is a tool for finding out what happened when someone else had that idea before you did.

@kyozou @ifixcoinops I'd only recommend HP to someone I hated if they didn't know where I lived. Otherwise there's a chance they might leave it on my doorstep, which would mean I'd have to burn the house down and move to another county.

Watching a mutual ask for printer recs and receive a chorus of tired tech folk going "Just get a Brother, they're fine" and man

MAN

Like this is actually kinda fascinating honestly, Brother is now the best printer brand, the one that every Computer Person recommends, and is it because their printers are good? Their printers are fine, they print, whatever, no, it's because everybody else's printers have gotten Innovated out the wazoo, every innovation making them way worse, until it's gotten to the point where I wouldn't have one in the house even if it were free, and meanwhile Brother's have remained consistently Fine I Guess, which now makes them the best printer manufacturer simply by virtue of them opting out of the Who Can Get Crappiest Fastest race

Brother have gotten to where they are now, by NOT innovating

@marcuse1w @macleod If you like #haskell, #purescript is an option. With #purerl there is also a stable erlang backend. Or #gleamlang I find very exciting in the erlang world (erlang and Javascript backend). Otherwise you might also like #roclang (native and wasm backend) if you are generally into ML languages. I also think #erlang is an extremely nice language. I've never understood what many people have against the syntax. I find it extremely simple and beautiful. Well, I also like #prolog 😉

I was reading a web page about Forth by @ratfactor and ended up learning about dc as an alternative (or predecessor) to bc. I didn't know. How cool is that.
https://ratfactor.com/forth/the_programming_language_that_writes_itself.html

@kiteless I miss the days of small devices with decent keyboards. I love my #SamsungNC10 and #ThinkpadX220. The former runs #HaikuOS, the latter #Xubuntu. They are both excellent writing machines.

I keep seeing "How can they all give into fascism so willingly, didn't they pay attention in school?" and that strikes me as so unbelievably naive. The fact of the matter is that the last people who actually still witnessed the Third Reich are dead or in the process of dying. The last people whose *parents* still witnessed it are in their 50s give or take a few years. And did school really keep you from smoking? Drinking? Riding your bike too fast? No? See what I mean? Nobody actually remembers!

@worik I'll take that under consideration.

That being said, unhandled errors in CL lead to either a "graceful" crash or a debugger prompt halting the program until intervention (at least without an exploitable flaw in the implementation itself).

In C, all bets are off from the very start.

Mind, CL was just as example. A pure Java implementation would also in theory be fine (though with JIT I'm not so confident of that).