Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13@mumak.app

Back on my bullshit (making more garden space with DIY terracing)

@danluu and Jane Street is in about the most competitive, intensely capitalistic market imaginable, and they are using….OCaml (and hiring CS.Ed folks to improve their ability to indoctrinate new OCaml devs)

@danluu hell, PHP used to top the charts and it’s highest profile user (Facebook) replaced it internally with a functional language (Hack) they built in house because CREATING A NEW LANGUAGE was less effort than writing correct PHP.

@danluu Anyone writing new code in JavaScript, C++, Java, Python today pretty much can just choose to live in a functional language up to the point that they run into legacy API boundaries. And look at the competition that has emerged: Rust, TypeScript, Swift, Scala are all successful and FP(tm), success of the latter 3 being almost entirely on subsuming library ecosystems from predecessors, and Rust because systems programming is just that hard.

@danluu As a FP nerd who founded a mixed Python/C++ shop, there are two things going on here:
(1) the productivity gains of not having to simply will correct code into existence (which has been largely pushed by FP community!!!) don’t hold up to productivity gains of not having to reinvent industrial strength library ecosystems from scratch
(2) almost every language that was successful a decade ago and is still successful now has imported features from FP land to stay competitive

Toddlers seem to have an innate grasp of Boolean logic that must get lost somewhere along the way to adulthood. When asked if he wanted to get out of the tub himself or for me to lift him out, ours responded “no”.

Sometimes there’s an invasive vine taking over just below your hard and there’s no choice but to cry havoc and let slip the mints of war

tfw the power goes out in the middle of bathtime and the toddler says “mom how about you turn the light on” 🤣

Okay #AFOL and #Lego nerd types - super excited that this airship MOC I worked on for a year is now up on Lego Ideas! If it reaches 10K supports, there's a chance for it to be made into a real Lego Set. Based on Terry Brooks's "Voyage of the Jerle Shannara" trilogy

https://ideas.lego.com/projects/0b565e40-80a4-46bb-bf10-9bbcc26b40e5

@steve I think we moved more than 20 off the driveway

Worked crossing guard duty on the driveway with the toddler this AM and …. LOOK AT ALL OF THESE SWEET BABIES 🥹🥹🥹

#RedEfts #Salamanders #Newts #NaturePhotography

Can’t describe how excited I am to be making Watergate Salad myself for the first time this weekend. Green goop forever.

absolutely wild ride when you get Clarence Thomas writing an opinion that sounds like it was written by an EFF publicist.

Some of the #GameDev and #GISChat folks may have noticed that Google released all of Google Earth as streamable glTF 3D Tiles, which is an absolutely fantastic achievement, but the use-cases are limited by the nature of photogrammetry.

@geopipe uses inverse procedural modeling to get clean geometry at human scale *and* imbue the models with enough semantic information to plausibly see what the same scene would look like at a different time of day.

here's the spot: https://goo.gl/maps/sfvM5ets4NgzVjxW9

@lzg afaict every post on BlueSky right now is discussing Nazis or thirst traps.