Any_Austin is a youtuber and pilot who uses a pilot’s checklist

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

In his everyday life to help him understand why he’s feeling bad or grumpy. He talked about it in his podcast with Memoria.

Hilarious that this is noteworthy

Reminder that TIOBE is ass and shouldn’t be used for basically anything except for who to target advertising to.

Hifalutin

Harmful: compilers

Better alternative: magnetized needle and a steady hand

Mutation (or not) is a matter of runtime semantics, not surface semantics. Let the compiler figure it out. (Functional-but-in-place c.f. Koka, Roc, Lean4)

Purity and referential transparency make writing correct, zero-maintenance code easy.

Although you can extract a lot of money from your customers if you deliver inscrutible code that needs a lot of maintenance.

Modern OOP is an antipattern.

I try to only write in easy language if I can. My favorite one is Lean4.

There’s lots of this vs that discussion in this thread. IMO the most useful such distinction I’ve encountered is languages that encourage you to think about data vs languages that encourage you to think about transformations (of data). Excel and modern OOP are the former while haskell and digital signal processing are the latter.

She and Foucault oppressed plenty.

Immigration and customs enforcement? Huh?

Just don’t get on the government’s bad side

Now I’m thinking about Flat Stanley Parable

If you want the machine to just work and not require or encourage you to fool around with it all the time, debian is the answer. Other than installing security updates, you don’t have to think about it.

1. This coffee shop does not exist
2. Coffee shops in PDX don’t look like the one in the picture
3. I’ve never seen a stray dog in Portland; they would be quickly caught by animal control
4. This would be a huge health code violation and the place would be shut down

Garbage post from top to bottom

https://imgb.ifunny.co/images/f303a28b80433a81999f4a5a1ab8d7e202afde027e29a4f3db6fa4feaaa8bcd9_1.webp

Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White

https://www.chronicle.com/article/50-years-of-stupid-grammar-advice/

No.

This is the nerdiest game ever: https://adam.math.hhu.de/#/g/hhu-adam/NNG4

Microsoft now has implemented “compare with Bing chat” button when you visit Google Bard in Edge

That title has so many brand names I feel like I’m reading infinite jest