Scimon Proctor

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Englishman who's lived in Scotland for much of his life. Avid gamer, backend developer, big fan of Perl and Raku.
Websitehttps://www.khanate.co.uk/
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Sadio Mane, The Liverpool Star from Senegal (earning approximately 10.2 million dollars annually),has given the world a lesson in modesty after some fans spotted him carrying a cracked Iphone.His response is legendary:
"Why would I want ten Ferraris, 20 diamond watches and two jet planes? What would that do for the world? I starved, I worked in the fields, I played barefoot, and I didn't go to school. Now I can help people. I prefer to build schools and give poor people food or clothing. I have built schools [and] a stadium; we provide clothes, shoes, and food for people in extreme poverty. In addition, I give 70 euros per month to all people from a very poor Senegalese region in order to contribute to their family economy. I do not need to display luxury cars, luxury homes, trips, and even planes. I prefer that my people receive a little of what life has given me," Mane said.

@richard5mith I've been working for The Register for just over 4 years now.

Trying to work out what the next plan is. I think I'm going to look at freelancing for a bit.

So yeah I realise I've not posted here in a while. I really should.

And I should mention that I'm getting made redundant, which is one of those things I guess.

Hopefully I'll have some time to come up with some plans to be able to pay the mortgage and eat.

Luckily I live in Scotland so my house was significantly cheaper than it would have been down South.

There's a lot of attempts at positivity going on in my brain.

@mina Isn't it pretty?

@mina

This spurred me to write some Raku :

subset PInt of Int where * > 0;
subset EInt of Int where * %% 2;

multi sub c(1) { 1 }
multi sub c(EInt $n) { $n div 2 }
multi sub c(PInt $n) { ($n*3)+1 }

multi sub c-s(1) { gather { take 1 } }
multi sub c-s(PInt $n is copy) {
lazy gather {
take $n;
repeat {
$n = c($n);
take $n
} until ($n==1)
}
}

I wrote a very short mood piece story yesterday. Something that's been stuck in my brain for years. Enjoy.

https://khanate.co.uk/stories/old-guy.html

Scimon's Stories

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I have a thought for neutering the gammons a bit. From now on we should refer to the European Human Rights Act as Churchills Human Rights Act.

And now they are having to argue against Churchill and the rules he managed to convince the Europeans to accept.

An Open Source sustainability story in two slides. (for a coming talk of mine)

Slide 1: car brands using #curl
Slide 2: car brands sponsoring or paying for #curl support

@SecurityWriter

Wow. This is one of those "It's great after season 3, but you have to watch the first two seasons to understand why" things.

Still it could be fun, I've not Gran Turismo'd for a while.