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At this point I'm confident to say that my weirdness is totally at the normal level by popular culture standard: youtube.com/watch?v=018o0enjGO

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1/ I just published a massive article called "Recovering Our Lost Free Will Online: Tools and Techniques That Are Available Now" changelog.complete.org/archive

I will summarize some key points in this thread, but please do check out the article.

TIL the past tense of *forbid* is *forbad*

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mobile apps that are just web apps which only work on a single company's platform are strange... particularly when they are social networks

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Big Shaq is a Shaq, doo doo doo doo doo doo

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Stats from my last open source contribution:

lines added: 79
lined deleted: 82
lines in commit msg: 870

I can't decide if I'm doing software development really _wrong_, or really _right_.

Do you ever use the right control key?

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me: I _think_ I'm done. Let me just run the full test suit one more time to be 100% certain

test: segmentation fault (core dumped)

me: ... ... ... guess not

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We are making progress on the GTK4 rewrite of Fractal (called fractal-nex)

Please note so far it's just the ui.😅

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PINE64 February Update! We've said it before, but for real this time: this is a big one...

- A look at #Quartz64 RK3566 SBC
- #PinePhone keyboard news
- We're making a RISC-V SBC! -
- #PinePhone default OS is @kde PlaMo on @ManjaroARM
- #PinebookPro back in March
- #LoRaWAN part of our ecosystem
- #PineTime progress
- much more!

pine64.org/2021/02/15/february

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Don't get me wrong, I've nothing against pattern matching (or the idea of the walrus operator and other recent syntactic changes). My opposition is towards making expressions much less context-free and greatly harm readablity as we progress.

I get it, languages blend, but we're taking it to the extreme by practically creating another C++ by trying to add language features while desperately maintaining backward-compatibility.

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As of PEP 636, I start to feel is trying a lil bit to hard. At this point it is safe to say both the users and the language designers are actively working to throw the outta the window.

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A quick update to the GNOME Maps info bubbles I recently redesigned--they're now adaptive for your favorite mobile Linux device! jwestman.net/2021/02/10/gnome-

While are Guile and Rakudo so outdated, CodeChef? Without recent compiler optimization, there's no use making Scheme or Raku an option because all your users get will be TLEs.

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Finally get back to doing after a long break for almost a year. CodeChef certainly doesn't disappoint:

> There are N words in English that Chef considers funny.

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