Currently reading "Learning Go", and struck by how it can't seem to go 3 paragraphs without warning you about yet another sharp edge of the language, some way you must be careful about using any given seemingly-innocuous feature lest you blow your arm off.
Go "makes `switch` statements useful" - proceeds to show off the second-most-mundane `switch` implementation ever devised by man, followed by a demo of how composing it with a `for` loop and using `break` can create easily-missed bugs.
@matt I've used Rust a fair bit - first started in 2018. I remember it being a fair bit of work to get into, but it also felt exciting - a language with the efficiency of C, the expressiveness of Ruby, and safety guarantees beyond anything I was used to, woo!
Literally nothing about Go has made me go "woo". My continued efforts are mostly due to a reluctant concession that it'll probably be easier for other members of my team to maintain what I write in it.
Honestly, the biggest hurdles for myself was configuring Apache and PHP to work together and learnt how to configure PHP to use all the appropriate modules. If you have experience with that, you should be fine.
(Thread) In the olden days, a FOSS (Free/Open Source Software) project typically had:
- A source code repository
- A web page with the documentation, FAQ and links to downloads
- At least one mailing list called announce, typically also one for users and one for contributors, all with public archives
- (maybe) An IRC channel to chat with other users and maybe also the developers
Maybe it’s time to try that simple approach again? Everything open, everything accessible? 1/7
the abandonment of mailing list is what bums me the most. Several big project replaced it with "discourse" whose usability is dubious. I ended up losing contact when they closed the mailing lists.
But then mailing list got killed by GMail, 20 years of killing email and counting
it will be a hard problem. The oligopoly of email (Google / Microsoft) will make it hard to setup email servers like it is already hard to run a mail server independently. Disguised as spam fighting they centralized email.
And with the techbros that decided to use GMail for corporate...
EU member states can now collect and share information on so-called “potential terrorists”.
But who is classified as a "potential terrorist?
A "shared understanding" was reached this year without democratic scrutiny. This left broad criteria for deciding who is a "potential terrorist or violent extremist threat".
The definition includes individuals categorised as:
• refugees and asylum seekers
• climate and environmental activists
Whenever I listen to music, I find myself needing something very specific. For those familiar with musical terms, the track—whether with or without vocals—needs to be in either the Dorian or Mixolydian mode, or even a mix of both. I don’t enjoy other musical modes at all; they don’t resonate with me whatsoever.
While Celtic tracks often have this type of music in common, it’s not exclusive to Celtic music. Dorian and Mixolydian modes are used worldwide, so it’s not only Celtic music that I love. For example, 'Scarborough Fair' is a great Dorian example, while 'Norwegian Wood' by The Beatles gives off a Mixolydian feel, though it's not Celtic.
I sometimes wonder if something is weird about me because of this. I feel like people might think I’m strange for only enjoying this type of music, but that’s just how I am. I'm not sure if this is something typical or if it’s a bit unusual, but I feel an incredibly strong attraction to these two modes, while others seem unsuitable, almost as if they weren't made for me. If anyone else faces a similar experience, I’d love to hear about it.
It’s also closely tied to a form of synesthesia I experience, where only these specific tracks make me imagine something truly good, as if I’m on a peaceful, heavenly adventure.
Edit: they are thankfully still alive. They’re injured from the strike.
Both of my parents were in the Red Cross during the 75-90 civil war and have both said it wasn’t as bad, that they could still cross Israeli lines to help ppl at the time. Israel now just targets first responders as a matter of policy. This is a rogue, criminal regime.
The plot thickens...
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There is a chance that if my focus remains, I can get a networked version of the worms game out before the end of next week :).
The remaining things are:
- Netcode
- Weapons menu
- Tightening up of the logic around rounds and turns.
- Win screen.
Netcode sounds like a lot, but I think I'm going to be able to use off the shelf stuff for the actual server side. Already designed a proto I think will work.
If it does happen, I'll drop a link in here for folks to try :)
#ecommerce
Amazon promises to degrade Prime Video even further for the same price.
Current #curl bug-bounty stats (since April 2019).
Reports: 475
Confirmed security issues: 73 (15%)
Identified bugs (but not security problems): 92 (19%)
Invalid: 310 (65%)
While living in western Europe, we all might have forgotten what borders were :
In the last week, I had 5 passport checks - in the middle of the night -, 3 still in coming.
I'm running around with 5 currencies : 🇪🇺 Euro, 🇺🇦 Hryvnia, 🇲🇩 Leu, 🇷🇺 Rubel and 🇷🇴 Ron, likely tomorrow even still with 🇭🇺 Forints.
Please keep yourself reminded what a privilege open borders, unified currency and the lack of customs checks are.
Defend #Schengen. Share European standards. Open borders. Do not build a fortress.
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'The BBC has confronted a neo-Nazi in Finland who shared online instructions on how to commit arson with UK rioters during the summer.'
On his Telegram accounts, Mr Rasanen celebrates Hitler and promotes a neo-Nazi group called the Nordic Resistance Movement'
Just how sucked up is this young man,, Hitler would have had him shot for the colour of his skin.
Racist are as thick as 2 short planks
My family drove to vote for Brexit down a Welsh road paid-for by the EU, and they still thought their 98% white british population was being overrun by forreigners. You just can't fix stupid.
If they'd had a reasonable case, even if I disagreed with it, i could've gotten behind them. But they didn't, and doing things just because you're told bothers me more than most things.
Brexit.
Many of my Brothers and Sister and their partners voted Brexit because of immigrants, given one of my Sisters who voted because of immigrants has a Greek daughter in Law and 3 half Greek Grandchildren and a half Polish Grand child all living in the UK than and now, all I can say is you can't fix racists.
It broke my heart and we are still not talking.
Martin Wenisch
in reply to Honza Javorek • • •Ty jo, to uz se dneska moc nevidi.
Zase na druhou stranu kvituju, ze nesli cestou "zena jako doprovodny program". Kterou se radi vydavaji startupove komunity.
Ale kdyz koukam na recniky a temata, tak to bude hodne korporatni niche a kde tam ty vyvojarky brat?
Honza Javorek
in reply to Martin Wenisch • • •@mwenisch No samo se to nestane. Nevšiml jsem si, že by pro to česká Java (nebo PHP) komunita cokoliv dělala. Co se dá dokázat zhruba za dekádu lze vidět u Pythonistů nebo Frontendistů.
A že je něco korporátní? Kde jinde než u firem plných DEI oddělení, iniciativ, nebo aspoň proklamací by to mělo být jinak?