Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13@mumak.app

When people travel to the past, they worry about radically changing the present by doing something small.

Few people think that they can radically change the future by doing something small in the present.

This is the only real time travel paradox.

.@mmasnick lays down the obvious truth: the “social media is bad for teens (and therefore we should regulate it (and also spy on everyone))” narrative is garbage that ignores how, for the vast majority of kids and teens, social media is a net positive in their lives.

RT Twitter/@techdirt

Contrary To Popular Opinion, Most Teens Get Real Value Out Of Social Media https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/28/contrary-to-popular-opinion-most-teens-get-real-value-out-of-social-media/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/techdirt/status/1597278464444223489

* Extremely Youth Pastor voice *
Training a machine learning model?
You know who else performed Cross Validation?

You’ve heard of Elf on a Shelf
In Canada we have

I have been using Git a long, long time. I have worked on Git clients and libraries. At some places I've worked, I am the person folks go to when they need Git help.

And yet, only today I learned you can pass -m to commit twice (or more) and it will do the right thing of making each successive message a new paragraph (which is useful for the convention of a short summary as a single first line and following paragraphs as a more detailed message).

We don't get to see the back of my #LEGOIdeas #Stargate model often enough, and as we've reached 76%, here it is in all its splendour.

Check it out via the link below, add your support, spread the word, and it could become an official #LEGO set!

https://ideas.lego.com/projects/075d3c43-d693-4373-a55f-33a12492577d

Thanks to
@samphillips we have an inclusive Racket leaderboard for AoC

Sam posted the details here:
https://racket.discourse.group/t/advent-of-code-2022-racket-leaderboard/1461?u=spdegabrielle (not a walled garden so you don need an account to view the page).

Why inclusive?
Any language in the Racket ecosystem is allowed on our leaderboard, including languages that target other platforms like Urlang (aka Javascript with sane (parenthetical) syntax)

You could try

Typed Racket, Racket’s gradually-typed sister language which allows the incremental addition of statically-checked type annotations.
Qi: A Functional, Flow-Oriented DSL
RacketScript, the Racket to JavaScript Compiler
Parenlog an implementation of a language very similar to pure Prolog, except with parenthetical notation.
Datalog, a declarative logic programming language.
PLAI-Typed (thanks to @shriramk)
and many more

Choose the language(s) that suits the problem - you don’t have to pick just one.

OR take the ‘Language-Oriented Programming’ approach and make your own language(s): https://beautifulracket.com/appendix/why-lop-why-racket.html

Thanks to @Eutro for the advent-of-code package to download puzzle inputs and post solutions:

https://pkgs.racket-lang.org/package/advent-of-code

HAVE FUN
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#Racket #RacketLang #RacketLanguage #AdventOfCode #AdventOfCode2022 #LanguageOrientedProgramming #LOP

@evan @markallerton @ks

It's entirely possible for decentralized instances to provide safety, but most don't/won't. I'm super happy with hachyderm.io for example. ♥️👍🏿

But a larger company is going to integrate with the fediverse, and fulfill the most basic user feature request: "As a user of your product, I would like to know that signing up will not expose me to death threats from nazis" 🤷🏿‍♂️

Then more new users are going to flow there.

The #Andor finale really was totally excellent and stirring and beautiful. I had high hopes and they were exceeded.

"The fact is, you can meet internet trolls in real life, and they will be just as trollish in person as they are on the internet. It's just that, when someone starts screaming at you on the street about their crazy conspiracy theories, you can walk away."

https://gizmodo.com/reality-check-most-internet-trolls-are-probably-trolls-5919313

I feel like this thing I wrote ten years ago aged pretty well...

I want to tell you the story of Vivienne Malone-Mayes, Texas-born mathemetician and professor, but I don't think you can understand her journey without talking about the #AcademicRacism in which she existed.

allow me to criticize the state of the fediverse as much as love it:

- tiny brain: mega-node such as mastodon.social oh dang it we've reinvented twitter
- regular brain: I'll just choose an instance off of joinmastodon.org oh dang it got shut down everything I love is lost
- galaxy brain: I'll self host fedi software oh god this is hard I'm afraid to upgrade
- universe brain: we need to merge the fediverse with p2p network designs so a node going down isn't catastrophic

These replication protocols are easy to reason about because they provide the illusion of a single shared log...