Python: better typed than you think
https://beepb00p.xyz/mypy-error-handling.html
It amazes me that once I thought about writing a `Result` type in Python, but I never thought about using `yield` for that (which is what the author did.)
Art project idea:
"Gendered" bathrooms with e-paper signs that change to different arbitrary symbols every day.
Symbol pairs will be chosen so that each day most people will manage to fit in but each day someone else would actually prefer a third/forth/fifth option.
Examples: Star Wars vs. Star Trek, Apples vs. Bananas, Vim vs. Emacs, Triangles vs. Squares, Coffee vs. Tea, …
you get the idea…
Dwarf Fortress has announced that they are working on adding trans dwarves, and they'd have added then already of he hadn't overcomplicated his thinking.
.... last time when he added gay dwarves he rewrote a large chuck of the personality system so that gay, lesbian, ace and bi dwarves would all arise naturally from the system, so that kinda makes sense.
Link: https://twitter.com/Bay12Games/status/1107118932077346817?s=19
@Are0h "Shouldn't be political" is just code for "should be white". They know exactly what they're doing. It was political to suspend a player for saying "Free Hong Kong" to a human-rights abusing government. It was political to make video games using the labor value extraction in capitalism. It was political for them to have the power to sway an audience to their side about it all.
They make millions from their deals with Chinese corps and are terrified to let Hong Kong be a thing on their platform. I'd like to point out the white boy they suspended for using the f-slur got a shorter suspension and they took more time to "investigate" and "deliberate" the matter; also the announcers in his case weren't also immediately banned for simply being near him.
Hmm, not sure who needs to fix their software, but Mastodon push notifications (Toot! iOS app and Firefox on MacOS) and the notification on the Notifications screen in Toot! are minorly bugged. The notification I got for a person with a Hebrew name (ie. written right to left) following me were phrased as "followed you רבֿקה". I know Unicode is hard, but this kind of thing is still important. @tootapp
thinking about the academie francaise declaring that gender neutral language is putting french in "mortal peril". your fucking right!!
The Washington Post's motto is "democracy dies in darkness".
A subscription to the Washington Post's digital edition costs $100 per year.
The Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos.
BusinessInsider estimates Jeff Bezos makes $2,489 per second.
The Washington Post reports 86.6 million unique visitors.
Jeff Bezos makes enough money in a little over than 40 days to buy every single one of those 86.6 million people a subscription.
So it's clearly not lack of money that causes the Washington Post to have a paywall.
Which means there's only one possible reason for their tagline to be "democracy dies in darkness".
It's not a foreboding warning. It's their mission statement.
I don't understand why GitLab is doing these things. Even on behalf of Sourcehut, there are subsets that I don't really try to compete with GitLab on. They have a place in this ecosystem and they're working to undermine it. They're making a void that I, even as a competitor, don't want to and am not prepared to fill. The community is going to suffer for their missteps.
I feel really bad for their employees. If I could help, I would, but Sourcehut isn't big enough to provide a fallback for them. To any GitLab employees who know something I can do to help, or just want to talk, I can lend a sympathetic and private ear at sir@cmpwn.com.
Spirituality
Bring house gods and spirits back
Build a small shrine some place you see all the time
Fill it with things you enjoy looking at, things you want to attract in life
Offer smoke and incense
Does it work?
Does it matter?
A corner of your home is beautiful for nothing but belief and aesthetic appreciation
Good spirits live there, no matter what anyone says
And you made them yourself
A programmer working in the service of the future of humanity.