Hallå KittehIf people don't like copyleft because it limits their freedom, they should lobby against copyright.
Ex mathematician, aspiring dilettante.
I hack on the Mir display server and related madness at Canonical.
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Chris Bowdon 🇬🇧🇪🇺Even when you disagree with his ideas, Rich Hickey’s talks are well worth a listen. I always learn something, and find I disagree less and less every time.
I’m normally in favour of type-driven design with static types for large programs, but I have to agree with his points here:
https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hickey_Rich/EffectivePrograms.md
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SargothBoost this toot if you see it
for SCIENCE!
for SCIENCE!
patayohTwo birb sketches/studies I did some time ago. Still like them quite a lot! #art #birds
https://mastodon.art/media/QjEmqP-bTm7hTX1AhFk https://mastodon.art/media/jGtjPbamDymUEJ1Bw74
https://mastodon.art/media/QjEmqP-bTm7hTX1AhFk https://mastodon.art/media/jGtjPbamDymUEJ1Bw74
RAOFIn the interest of load-balancing it seems like it might be a good idea to migrate off the mastodon.social instance.
Because I like platonic solids, I'll be migrating here, to Icosahedron :grinning:
Some more of me:
I did several years of a PhD in mathematics (ask me about exterior hyperbolic geometry over finite fields! Or, even better, about circles over arbitrary quadratic forms over finite fields!), but didn't finish.
I enjoy teaching, and did the first year of a teaching degree until I I found that even the nicest year 7 class in the first practical *took me apart*.
I'm interested in FP, but haven't managed to hack into Haskell. I'm interested in Rust, and have some toy projects.
#introductions
So, might as well...
I'm a programmer at Canonical, working on the Mir display server. This is somewhat unexpected; I was hired 7(!) years ago to work on the packaging side of Ubuntu - the desktop team - and was promptly put in charge of X.
Working on Mir is fun, when it isn't being frustrating! I even have my name on some Khronos specs!
I'm a husband, and father of 1.99 girls. They're not online in the same way I am, so I don't tend to talk about them much.
That's some of me.
Relatedly: you can run Steam Big Picture mode in a window with “steam -tenfoot -windowed”.
You might want to do this if, for example, you've got a 4K display and the regular client is a tiny tiny vision test.