
2025-02-27 02:44:09
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L'économie russe va mal, et tant mieux
https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/03/24/economie-russe-pour-la-premiere-fois-en-2025-le-petro…
One thing I think about is how flat-earth types could convince themselves, without having to trust anyone, their model of the earth is wrong. I don't think the earth is flat, but it is an interesting problem in #epistemology.
A model needs to explain observations if it is to be believed.
Lately, I've been thinking about day length as seasons change, and how cycle is opposit…
Heute vor 100 Jahren im Institut:
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A. #Ostrowski: Zum Sturmschen Satze. Ausdehnung eines Satzes von Darboux über komplexe Wurzeln der Sturmschen Funktionen auf Funktionen Sturmscher Ketten. [...].
E. #Noether: Ableitung der
"If anything, this author firmly believes that programming skills are second to those related to communication; most engineers coming out of colleges these days are unable to express themselves in public, to teach their peers, to write an essay or a blog post, to communicate their ideas to stakeholders, or to put together a simple documentation bundle without suffering a seizure in the process."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/banning-adopting-reckoning/
Rant about PHP
You know a technology is declining when the most basic questions about its most bizarre quirks are left completely unanswered for years.
#PHP is like that. Every day I have many of these questions. I look for them. No one asked them before, no one wrote about them before.
I'm baffled by the lack of curiosity and proactivity of its community.
I know it sounds like me piling up on people I don't know anything about, but I used to invest a lot of time programming in PHP. I went to conferences, I made some open source libraries for it, like a PHP kernel for Jupyter Notebooks, I even made a library to work with dataframes, tensors and matrices in PHP (although I lost this one because my laptop was stolen before I released... and I didn't had it in me to rewrite it again).
Then, the ones who I admired the most in that space, like Nikita Popov, started leaving it to work in more intellectually vibrant communities... and it shows.
I'm sure Nikita Popov would be much more gracious than me when talking about it. I can only speculate about his motivations, but at least I can tell you about mine: It was precisely about that same lack of curiosity and creativity that I mentioned before, it felt unbearably grey and sad.
Le Sillon Fictionnel est désormais disponible au format EPUB pour vos liseuses, ainsi qu’en PDF et sur le site web sillonesque.
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I just released a new version of #dotnet
PSA: Do you have a carbon monoxide detector in your home? Do you have more than one (think redundancy)? Does it have a fresh battery (or lifetime battery)? Have you tested the alarm function recently?
If you have appliances that may create carbon monoxide, or an attached garage, now is a good time to check all of the above.
#CarbonMonoxide
@… Hello Judith! #classicalsinging #singing #musiciansofmastodon
Wir haben gerade auf #Twitter bekannt gegeben, dass wir nun auf Mastodon:mastodon: sind: https://x.com/Piraten_Muc/status/1902427402375970870
Sagt drüben gerne bescheid, dass wir nun…
Dernières nouvelles du paradis du capitalisme: faire ses courses Š crédit.
https://futurism.com/doordash-klarna-loan-partnership
How do I get #Tootfinder to work on my toots? I would really like to be searchable. #MastoBrain
WEBCAST 19 FEV - ISOC-RDC - Masterclass l'sur le service universel: "Connecter de nouveaux usagers" #ServiceUniversal
Die Nasen #Merz #Spahn predigen den #TrickleDown und wir schauen zu, oder was?!
omg no :ocaml: emoji, unacceptable!!! :P
/cc @…
#F35 #killswitch
« Bien sûr, il y a un bouton d'arrêt. Tout ce qui est équipé d'un logiciel ou d'une connectivité internet est doté d'un kill switch. C'est comme ça que ça marche - bienvenue dans la société moderne ».
"Where will the von Neumanns, the Einsteins, and the Gödels of our age migrate after the SCOTUS overrules democracy in 2024 and Gödel’s Loophole is proven to exist? (…) Maybe this is the chance of a lifetime for the European continent; if not for all, at least for some countries therein: Portugal, Scandinavia, The Netherlands, and Switzerland, for example."
https://www.404media.co/nasa-yale-and-stanford-scientists-consider-scientific-exile-french-university-says/
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/william-aspray/
Tout le monde n’a pas eu la chance de voir l’exposition Invader Space Station, installée dans le parking et l’ancien siège historique du journal Libération, situé rue Béranger Š Paris...
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BOCCHI THE ROCK SECOND SEASON
ANNOUNCED
#BocchiTheRock
Muy pronto, las personas que abran Blender, seršn recibidas con una imagen del gato de Flow.
La película fue animada utilizando este software gratuito.
#flow #flowmovie #cat
Heute vor 100 Jahren im Institut im Kolloquium der Mathematischen Gesellschaft #Göttingen:
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Berichte der Dozenten über ihre Vorlesungen im W.-S. 1924/25.
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aus "Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung", 1926
#OTD1925
Shout out to Calvo's GPT for R, https://chatgpt.com/g/g-iedyANQtM-r-and-r-studio-tutor. It really came through yesterday. Handled the tedious tasks of function input checks and roxygen docs and helped me out of mental rut. I was convinced walk2 could add attributes…
Nationwide "Hands Off!" 50501 protests against Trump continues for second weekend
https://eu.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/news/nation/2025/04/19/protest-resist-trump-rally-photos/83173515007/
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I look forward to attending @… AI and digital workspace #hackathon in Paris in June together with my colleagues from @…
Steven Levitsky: "Nous assistons actuellement Š l'effondrement de notre démocratie. Sous Donald Trump, les États-Unis glissent vers une forme d'autoritarisme. Cela ne sera sans doute pas irréversible. Mais le fait est lŠ : en ce moment même, les États-Unis cessent d'être une démocratie."
#USA
Proudly presenting: The new equipment database of the Hamburg University of Technology: Transparency on a new level.
Hamburg University of Technology has introduced another tool to promote scientific collaboration and transparency: an equipment database integrated into the TORE research information system
#DSpaceCRIS
Der nächste kostenlose #RadlCheck des Mobilitätsreferats findet am 26.03. 10-16 Uhr am #Prinzregentenplatz in #Bogenhausen statt.
Radfahrende können einfach mit ihrem Fahrrad vorb…
#Mexico forbids killing bulls and subjecting them to the most extreme forms of torture.
#Spain is, sadly, still far behind... but I suspect that Mexico's precedent will help, not just as a good example, but also because it will severely decrease the income of many of those bullfighters (toreros).
Toreros usually travel through many countries to participate in these bloody spectacles and make a living out of it. Removing Mexico from their list will be a big thing, so it is likely that many of them will have to do something else with their lives.
@…
I'd like to join tootfinder.ch.
I see in your profile that you link to it but I did find your fedi address first on your site:
https://tootfinder.ch/join.php
There is a new #Fediverse bot that facilitates web forensic analysis of websites.
You can submit a domain for crawling by messaging @…, and it will respond with the analysis results.
KÖNNT IHR ALLE ENDLICH MAL AUFHÖREN, SO ÜBER EURE MITMENSCHEN HERZUZIEHEN; ES NERVT BRUTAL, UND WIR HABEN IN WENIGEN TAGEN OSTERN, IHR MÖCHTEGERNCHRIST*INNEN
#CDU #CSU #KleineKoalition
14,4 % de la population allemande vit dans la pauvreté. Cela représente plus de 12 millions de personnes. [...] 40% des ménages allemands composés d’un parent seul élevant des enfants sont « exposés au risque de pauvreté ou d'exclusion sociale ».
https://www.hrw.org/fr/news/2025/03/24/la-…
@… is wondering how much trouble a skipped heading level is for screen reader users. Three users have replied but it'd be great to see more feedback. Anyone else willing to reply to Manuel's post? Here is the link:
h…
En lille tråd med danske forskere, der pt er aktive i fediverset. Jeg siger ikke så meget, sætter bare gode kolleger på én for én, så man kan finde dem og de måske hinanden.
Kom gerne med forslag.
#dkfedi. #UniPåFedi
"On Sunday, July 20th, 1969, at precisely 20:14:19 UTC, just a mere three minutes before touchdown, the voice of Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr. confirmed the “Go for landing” order received from Mission Control together with a phrase nobody wanted to hear at that moment: “Program alarm – 1201.”"
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/margaret-hamilton/
Anti-Trump protesters turn out to rallies in New York, Washington and other cities across country
https://apnews.com/article/trump-protests-hands-off-revolutionary-war-anniversary-34218e384bef12bdf3a75a40959f4ede…
马斯克“查账”曝150岁老人领福利,竟是COBOL惹的祸?-InfoQ
https://www.infoq.cn/article/7OFw27GfLm370K4M1lR3
Happy , today I deployed a #Forgejo instance to manage my private code projects. I won't be using #Github anymore for my stuff, only to contribute to 3rd party projects.
I still have some pending work to configure the CI workers, but I'll leave that for next week.
Along the way I've learnt some stuff about #OpenTofu and networking. Enough to know that I still prefer to be on the dev side of the "devops" .
Ça commence Š paniquer :
'Musk demande aux employés de Tesla de conserver leurs actions dans un contexte de protestations"
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-03-21/musk-reassures-tesla-employees-stock-e…
Eckernförder Bündnis gegen Rechts
„Nie wieder ist jetzt"
Gemeinsam #Haltung zeigen für #Demokratie
#Demonstration am Sonntag 16.02.2025,
14 Uhr an der Hafenspitze
"mono" TV anime key visual & PV:
#Mono
revolutionary #nostalgia with the 1970 Song from #TomRobbinsonBand "Power in the dsrkness" - today played for #rumeysaozturk still being held in an ICE detention center in Basil…
#taxesoda #malbouffe
"une nouvelle étude de l'Université de Washington a montré que les femmes qui
qui boivent au moins une boisson gazeuse pleine de sucre par jour sont environ cinq fois plus de risques de développer un cancer de la cavité buccale que le…
Und ich dachte immer, *ich* wär der schlimmste Aufschieber Deutschlands.
https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/warum-das-afd-gutachten-immer-noch-nicht-vorliegt-der-verfassungsschutz-ist-nicht-allein-…
Refuge - Lara Gasparotto
Il y a de ces photographes qui deviennent nos photographes. On les suit depuis leurs débuts. On semble vivre avec eux Š travers chaque monographie ou exposition.
🌊 Continuer la lecture sur le Sillon https://sillon-fictionnel.club/post/refuge/…
#Tesla shares are kind of slowly recovering their past price.
I suspect it's not just people "buying the dip", but also "the market" reacting to boycotters being caught.
Please, be careful, be smart, don't get caught.
#boycotttesla
Heute vor 100 Jahren im Institut im Kolloquium Mathematischen Gesellschaft #Göttingen:
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H. #Kneser: Reduktion Abelscher Integrale. [...]
K. #Grandjot: Transzend…
Could anyone spare a "Like" for these kids who are trying to plant some seeds of Open Source in the USA Midwest?
#FOSS
The Brilliant Healer's New Life in the Shadows" begins broadcasting on April 3
#anime
"Maybe Dr. Weinberg took some inspiration from Melvin Conway, who in 1967 stated that “organizations design systems mirroring their own communication structures”. Now you start to understand why your microservice architecture is a mess, and no, neither Istio nor Prometheus is going to help you with that."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/gerald-weinberg/
Jetzt Mitunterzeichnen gegen den Normalisierungskurs von Jens Spahn gegen die AfD:
https://aktion.campact.de/s/afd/lc
TABS. It is a question of #accessibility, you morons!
Death to #smartTabs (aka random haphazard inserts of spaces depending on the IDE at hand)!
#codingStyle
Notre index est l’opposé de l’Index Librorum Prohibitorum : il constitue une liste rapide des chroniques du Sillon, entre critique, chronique, essai et bricolage littéraire.
🌊 https://sillon-fictionnel.club/l-index/
"In this particular case, it is not uncommon for software developers to not only ignore, but even dismiss the required understanding of design language and primitives. At the same time, designers often lack the knowledge required to understand the various constraints imposed by software and hardware platforms."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/the-impossible-dialogue-revisited/
Thank you @… and @… for responding quickly to accessibility barriers in @…
Socialfolio is a fun new way to collect and disp…
Ballpark de Tsukamaete!
(The Catcher in the Ballpark!) TV anime by EMT Squared begins in April 2025
#anime #ballpark #tsukamaete
Ok, so... late to the "party", but I'm reading that also @… is jumping into the #LLMs bandwagon.
It's just so... sad, stupid, and infuriating. Really, why?
Absolut geniale Grafik! Artikel- Illustration von #theatlantic
#trump :
"Americas Mad King"
Happy Birthday, Dirichlet!
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Gustav_Lejeune_Dirichlet
"Go is a triumph in developer experience and efficiency, a language and a runtime created by very experienced designers built to solve a particular problem in a lightweight manner. Just like PostgreSQL and Git, some technologies survive Darwinian evolutionary cataclysms and rise to the top of their craft. Without any doubt, Go belongs to this select group, and if somewhat naïvely we take the past 15 years as a proof, its future looks definitely bright."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/the-age-of-concurrency/
Trumps Regime nicht "Faschismus" nennen ist Realitätsverweigerung - Volksverpetzer
https://www.volksverpetzer.de/analyse/trumps-faschismus-nennen/
Today @… was kind enough to share his encounter with an example of clean HTML versus ungainly HTML—for the same action on the same website.
🧵 1 of 5
#Accessibility #HTML
I guess there's no real need to explain why I'm doing this, but there's always someone who was lucky enough to be living in the jungle for a while (or something like that), disconnected from everything.
Hypothetical jungle person: I envy you.
Summary: I'm tired of big corporations stealing everything they can to train their #LLMs, and I'm also tired of companies like #Microsoft being active collaborators of the Trump regime.
On peut toujours trouver ridicule d’acheter un livre en se basant sur sa couverture ou sa typographie. Mais c’est pourtant ce qui m’est arrivé avec Le Backpacker Killer en naviguant dans les rayons d’une librairie en Belgique...
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Wir freuen uns sehr darauf am Wochenende 230 Schülerinnen und Schüler aus ganz #Niedersachsen bei uns zur #MathematikOlympiade begrüßen zu dürfen.
"It is no secret that the latest SARS outbreak has reshaped the world of work. Particularly in software engineering: where the work can be done anywhere with an internet connection so codes can be pasted from Stack Overflow, and the practitioners generally have a dislike of meetings. Your average software engineer would rather build the wrong thing for eight hours in a flow state, than have a 15-minute conversation in which they find out what direction they should go."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/your-place-or-mine/
"Many professions can be recognized through dress codes. Doctors and nurses wear aprons. Police officers wear uniforms. Tennis players in Wimbledon must dress in white. Astronauts wear space suits. Dominatrices wear black latex catsuits. The Swiss Guard in the Vatican wears the same outfit since the 16th century. Soccer players have matching kits. Wolverine fights evil in yellow spandex. Software developers wear the t-shirts they got for free at the last conference."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/tenue-correcte-exigee/
I know #Pixelfed doesn't support muting hashtags on the server side.
Are there any clients that support muting in the client?
Just occurred to me that, while #TypeScript transition to a #Golang based typechecker and compiler is going to be quite good for development agility... this move could force other actors such as #Deno to rethink how they operate.
Types striping will be as easy as today, perhaps even easier, but if I recall correctly, Deno was offering typechecking as well, keeping this feature might become much more expensive in the future.
"Bertrand Meyer is, hands down, the best writer in the computer field, because of a simple reason: his books have both great content and great prose. Not all authors of computer books (and certainly not the one you are reading now) can make the same claim."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/bertrand-meyer/
Heute vor 100 Jahren im Institut:
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O. #Ore: Algebraische Zahlen.
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aus "Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung", 1926
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Øys…
"It is an interesting phrase, “the business”, especially when used by engineers to label the group of non-engineers in the organisation. It implies that everybody else is engaged in getting customers and making money, while engineering is a cost centre funded presumably through altruistic motives."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/enough-agile/
uspolitics, trump
I keep seeing smart people writing stuff like
> [the US] kept peace through strength balanced with restraint, and wielded influence through culture, values, and diplomacy
I understand that #Trump is terrible and some people feel tempted to idealize what they had before him, but we should be more discerning, or otherwise it becomes impossible to understand how this happened in the first place.
Let's start with some questions:
- peace where? and for who? was it true peace, or "Pax Romana"?
- are we going to take seriously that statement on "restraint"? after all the lies, internal witch hunting, sanctions, coups, wars, invasions, genocides, and last but not least, 2 unnecessary nuclear strikes on Japan?
Now, on "culture, values, and diplomacy". Sure. Why not. Not everything was going to be bad, right?
But the thing is, abusive husbands aren't bad all the time either. From time to time they know how to be sweet and seem to care: one present here, flowers the next day, a little bit of gaslighting, and fake apologies after that "accidental" slap.
Given enough time (if the wife is still alive), at some point the victim decides to leave, and then all hell breaks loose. Trump is the manifestation of that moment. He does not represent a change in #USA's nature, but a hidden side that was "always" there, just waiting to play its role.
Others believe this is because #US citizens have been intentionally dumbed down by a combination of propaganda and a disfunctional education system, and I'm sure it's partly true... But let's see what many of their most brilliant and educated citizens are choosing to do with their lives today: https://sfstandard.com/2025/03/12/stanford-students-want-in-on-the-military-tech-gold-rush/
So, all I'm asking is: please drop the act. It was always a clusterfuck.
"Of course, not everything made with Python was successful. Suffice to mention the GadflyB5 SQL relational database, or Mercurial; excellent tools in their own right, but shadowed by much more popular options. reStructuredText also is generally dismissed, developers usually prefering Markdown or Asciidoc."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/the-state-of-python-in-2021/
Me sorprende ver que casi ningún sindicato (incluidos los libertarios) promueve de forma activa la creación de empresas #cooperativas en contraposición al modelo de empresa "clšsica" capitalista.
Alguien que me pueda iluminar sobre por qué esto es así? por qué tan poco énfasis en esta vía de acción?
A mi entender, que los trabajadores controlen la empresa es un paso esencial para asegurar que los logros sociales adquiridos sean mšs fšciles de defender (mucho mšs que si las empresas se nacionalizan, pues los estados pueden decidir volver a privatizarlas mšs tarde, o usarlas como instrumento de control)... y dado que no vivimos ni en un sistema comunista ni anarquista, la vía que mšs se acerca a esto es la de las empresas cooperativas.
#sindicalismo #cooperativismo #coop
#España vuelve a legalizar la caza del #lobo con los votos de partidos de derechas #loboiberico #ecologismo #proteccionanimal #proteccionambiental #proteccionbosques
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"It is fair to say that Microsoft spent at least the first five years of its history in relative obscurity. The first appearance of the name “Microsoft” on the pages of Byte was a short mention of their BASIC interpreter in an advertising on page 47 of the May 1977 issue. In contrast, page 34 of the same issue included an article about the Apple II by Steve Wozniak. The Woz and Gary Kildall were the biggest stars of the microcomputer industry at the end of the 1970s."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/where-does-microsoft-want-to-go-today/
WTF #LLM #LLMs #AI #UK #UKPolitics
The 79th edition of De Programmatica Ipsum is out!
This month, we explore trust and its importance in human society and culture; in the Library section, we review “Geekonomics” by David Rice; and in our Vidéothèque section, we watch a video on the Veritasium channel where Derek Muller hacks Linus Sebastian’s phone.
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/issue-79-trust/
I'm 37 years old and I finally finished a #JRPG game for the first time in my life ( #SeaOfStars ).
I like them a lot, but I often get bored of the grinding, or I have to leave it for some time and when I come back I don't remember what I was doing.
Why I managed to finish it this time? Because I had more important, stressing and boring things to do instead, and my brain demanded procrastination. #ADHD
"Quite simply, if you have not read this book yet, read it. If you have a colleague who has yet to read it, get them a copy. If someone asks you what one book to read about software engineering, it is this one. It is not Code Complete, Second Edition, nor is it Clean Code, nor any other book that claims to teach you how to get software right the first time around (you will not)."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/michael-feathers/
"Simultaneously to Steve Jobs’s introduction of the iPhone in January 2007, Google started publishing a series of blog posts called “Testing on the Toilet”. On May 15th, 2008, this series featured a famous issue: “TotT: Using Dependancy Injection to Avoid Singletons.” The writing was literally on the wall of toilets worldwide: Singletons are bad™®©. Sadly, the much more exciting idea of dependency injection contained in the article got lost in the minds of most readers."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/the-hype-cycle-of-oop/
"To make a long story short, at some point during early 1996 I bought a cheap 14.4 kilobit per second modem, taking 10 minutes in average to download a single megabyte. Together with a monthly subscription to the new “Blue Window” service by Telecom PTT (soon to be renamed Swisscom), lo and behold, I was online."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/sniffing-packets/
"Most importantly, she is the author of “Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure”, a freely available ground-breaking report published with support from the Ford Foundation in 2016, where Nadia proposes the notion that open-source code is akin to public infrastructure, highlighting the urgent need for creators to be supported in their work."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/nadia-asparouhova/
"Jim Coplien ends his talk with a simple call to action: at every conference where new technology is introduced, software engineers should strive to be skeptical; to ask whether it improves the quality of life of society as a whole, and to take it home only to increase the human value of our products and services.
Focus on the people. Again and again. Because that is what Agile and OOP were all about, to begin with."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/james-coplien/