samir, an unknown quantity

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Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably.

A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza.

Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out.

Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off.

PM me for my Signal handle.

This profile is searchable.

Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

pronounshe/him; they/them
locationZürich, Switzerland
bloghttps://functional.computer/

Oh good, Discord has shipped an entire fucking multiplayer video game as part of its chat application.

I get that they probably got paid a lot of money to do so, but I can’t imagine the game publishers will see much ROI on this.

And Discord seem to think they have any reputation left to burn at this point…

@samir

You rang m’lord? :o)

I told this pun as part of my ACCU 2025 lightning talk last year.

I once debated with Alonzo, the creator of Lambda Calculous, about whether lambdas and closures were the same thing. He said ‘No!’, and that’s when I discovered there was a clear separation between Church and state.

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116324676116121930

Part 2 of exploring The Claude Code Source Leak Exclusion Zone continues here.

(the reply tree under the prior thread is getting expensive to render and the bottom no longer renders unless you're logged in lol)

end of prior thread: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116345400731237947

I can tell it’s getting warmer because somehow a mosquito has gotten in and now I am scratchy in 10 different places.

Where are those fucking antihistamines…

Someone must have made a joke about how lambda calculus is the embodiment of the separation of Church and state before, right?
Little Blue Marble · Luna’s Blog

man what is going on.

edit: since this post is spreading a bit further than I'm used to my posts spreading, I feel obliged to add: we have suspended this person for below racist comment and you may want to as well, and I am leaving this post up for moderation receipts purposes for now, but please do not go harass/brigade him.

How do you pronounce "Ged", known as Sparrowhawk?
Hard G as in Gershwin
Soft G as in Gerald
Something Y-ish as in Göteborg
Secret 4th option
Poll ends at .

Sometimes I wish that I knew the "Classics" better (better than not at all), but this quote from Tacitus seems applicable to both the US and, especially, to Israel:

"They make a desolation and call it
peace."

Or, more fully (thank you Wikiquote):

"Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium, atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.

To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire, and where they make a desert, they call it peace."