Notices by zac anger (zacanger@mastodon.social), page 12

i've been trying to learn the cello on and off for about a year now, and just found out i've been holding the bow all wrong. fuck.

does anyone have a list of good and _accurate_ movies or dramas set during the japanese occupation of korea? it's something i want to learn more about, but i don't have the attention span for books.

@valerauko that looks super handy, thanks for pointing me to it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhB7IpAeHfQ&feature=youtu.be

#loona #yyxy preview is here

@valerauko woah, that makes a lot of sense! i need to use `into` more. i keep forgetting that a lot of functions that work on vectors, lists, and sets, also work on maps

@stephen CSS (+ html) is turing complete, kinda.

also have you ever seen early styling languages? they were scheme-like, which i think is really interesting https://eager.io/blog/the-languages-which-almost-were-css/

@valerauko you're totally right. i think once i know more of clojure's standard library i'll feel more at home. right now i'm struggling to even do things that are basic in javascript, like reducing a vector of strings into a map of keywords->booleans. in js that's four lines, in clojure i still haven't figured it out.

@sir @jk @joeyh my vape hasn't asked me to accept its new privacy policy yet, thank goodness

@sir @jk @joeyh i have seven on my desk, alone. maybe eight, this lamp probably has a computer in it.

@valerauko i'm used to js, and also python & i can get by in ruby -- langs that don't really care about how you program, so it's easy to switch between pseudo-FP and sorta OO and imperative programming.

in haskell & clojure, i can't quickly write a c-style loop (or a for..in) and make it pretty later, or mix types in lists/vectors or index things of unknown length (in haskell), or mutate things easily.

that's all _good_ and definitely how i want to be writing code, i'm just not used to it yet.

i feel about clojure exactly the same way i feel about haskell. i REALLY want to be good at it, because it's beautiful and i think applications built in it could be super maintainable.

but it's not even slightly comfortable and it's taking a really long time to get comfortable.

friends...
clojure is a pretty language, but i'm having a hard time

prompt (ps1) customization is a huge pain in the ass. now i remember why i switched to liquidprompt.

For the last two years I've carried a honeypot laptop with me every time I traveled. I checked it in my luggage, left it unattended in my hotel rooms. After each trip, I did forensic analysis on the laptop to detect if it had been tampered with.

I wrote about my experience and methodology here: https://theintercept.com/2018/04/28/computer-malware-tampering/