Hm, maybe I should give nix another look…

RE: https://social.jvns.ca/users/b0rk/statuses/109944259361119274

Love this framing of #Python as two languages that are immediately interoperable. Similar benefits to the TS/JS split but you can write one in the other without compiling down.

https://threeofwands.com/python-is-two-languages-now-and-thats-actually-great/

Inside you there are two wolves:
- Code is just a kind of data so the code should be stored in a database with the rest of the data
- Data is just a kind of code so the data should be stored in a version control system with the rest of the code

This coffee shop’s wifi password is “espresso” and I wonder how many people fail to log in because they don’t know how to spell it…

"I don't like #TDD because when I change the code, I have to change the tests." I understand.

What are you comparing to? The cost of writing new tests for the changed code? or The cost of not writing tests for the changed code?

If you don't need to test the changed code, then you can safely delete the old tests! Problem solved; cost averted.

#lightweight

The hardest problem in computer science is remembering which one is covariance and which one is contravariance.

Or as I like to put it, the “Concur problem”.

RE: https://mastodon.social/users/jimniels/statuses/109937289630942223

“The reason most public transportation is seen as ‘losing’ money is precisely because it charges for trips. If you don't charge fares, suddenly it can't ‘lose’ money. It just costs money, the same as the roads.”

This random comment has given me my new favourite argument for removing fares from public transit.

Never really thought about the origins of lorem ipsum before: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/01/lorem-ipsum-history-origins.html

🌟 Near my house, there's an apartment building with a courtyard. Big deal, right? But if you walk up the steps a little bit, there's something about this courtyard that you might find really truly wonderful… https://cabel.com/2023/02/25/the-courtyard/

Fun bracket on how to pronounce the shortened version of “usual”: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/12/linguistics-english-language-evolution-usual/672384/

Alright, hear me out. Maybe Seattle shouldn't have a "high injury network." From the SDOT Vision Zero review. #SEAbikes

I wrote a hot take about Go telemetry going opt-in: https://twi.github.io/blog/making-go-telemetry-opt-in-is-a-mistake.html

I will not be happy with the state of intra-city transport in europe until:
- Car industry lobbying efforts will be supressed
- Every medium and big city will have trams
- The said trams will be GAY trams
- I will be able to ride with my GAY friends on the GAY tram and perhaps HUG and KISS them 🥺 🥺 🥺 👉 👈 🚊

RT @GBBranstetter
Defector organized a roundtable focused on an institution suppressing dissenting voices and stifling diverse viewpoints and invited some prominent free speech advocates

If the utilitarians took themselves even a little bit seriously, they'd be proposing redistribution of all but a $1M annual stipend from every one of our planet's top ten (10) richest people.

That's about $1T; a $1000 windfall for every human alive (assuming some shrinkage in distribution).

Billions of people live on $3 a day or less

Imagine the aggregate utility of giving half of the world a YEAR'S PAY.

https://wandering.shop/@annaleen/109922218219654269

TIL that at one point in ancient Egypt there was a fad for writing hieroglyphs with intentionally absurd puzzle logic like in a point and click video game https://oi.uchicago.edu/sites/oi.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/shared/docs/2010%20Ptolemaic%20Hieroglyphs.pdf