Notices by Daniel Taylor (randomdamage@mastodon.technology), page 13

@SuperFloppies @AskChip if someone wanted to pay me to write code that tight, sure.

I'd still recommend using something like OCaml unless it needed to run on something like a USB controller directly.

Type safety is *amazing*.

@SuperFloppies so I guess my point is it increases the quantity of code.

@SuperFloppies GPL means code flows back upstream, though. Based on what I've seen I think it really does result in more active development for projects past the threshold to have a community.

@SuperFloppies I blame the GPL for that.

@h @bob there is no scarcity in digital content. There are resources that can be locally exhausted (storage, bandwidth, and computing power), but we have so much of those that we are using them to create scarcity for digital content.

@profoundlynerdy NTFS support would be awesome.

I must confess to being a bit baffled at their choice to reimplement the NT kernel rather than just a compatible userspace, but that might be due to things in the NT architecture that I'm not familiar with due to being a Unix geek.

@profoundlynerdy maybe I can try it for real now. From what I've read the Linux-compatible FS support has been "interesting" for a while.

@sim @lnxw48a1 Nazis were awesome if you were one of their friends. Even in the 1940's.

That's the problem, and why it can happen again.

@fribbledom the challenge is following people who disagree with you *and* have a sense of editorial integrity.

No matter what your personal philosophy, those people are rare.

Better to just read HuffPo and The Federalist if you need some diversity and aren't hanging out with a diverse group in meatspace.

@fribbledom not really. On FB and Birdsite there are simply too many astroturf accounts. Curate your feed carefully there. Find better ways to see what other people are using for information.

@maiyannah what spec? I found soloing content as a shadow priest pretty nice, but they might have nerfed that since MoP.

@GardenOfForkingPaths my favorite answer to that is "I did, and you're wrong".

@fifonetworks @profoundlynerdy this isn't why you don't need it, it's why most people shouldn't be allowed unsupervised computer access.

You don't need it because mathematically provable immutability isn't an actual requirement for your application, or providing that immutability is too expensive to be useful.

@twitter Jesus hates figs!

Brief video on the Parker Solar Probe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN6rZF5dSRg

@profoundlynerdy Democratic Socialism as practiced seems to be built around providing a robust safety net under an otherwise Western Democratic Capitalist society.

It seems kind of odd to categorize it as a type of socialism in that regard, especially given how close we came to it in the US in the 50s and 60s.

@profoundlynerdy @fifonetworks it's a waste of resources for applications that don't need that.