@strmpnk

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I'm both impressed and frustrated learning Elixir as someone experienced in Erlang and Ruby programming.

It must be that I have a hard time switching my brain between the two ways of thinking even if one is just syntactical influence. I still see local variable names and think that must be an atom when reading elixir code. In Ruby the colon seemed natural. In Elixir, I'm somehow finding myself trying forget Erlang instead.

It's still sad that math on the web in 2019 is mostly images. Sure, KaTeX and Mathjax exist but browsers make layout harder than it should be and Google seems to refuse to help out with things like MathML (not perfect but if browsers would render it we'd at least be closer to accessible math content online).

@shock Not inaccurate but isn't having the alternative important? Even if not everyone uses Mastodon, the existential threat of viable alternatives could keep twitter reasonable (for some value of reasonable).

Personally, I'm ready to leave twitter outside of professional touchpoints and occasional entertainment.

TIL: Genji chapter symbols and the connection with incense labeling: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Genji_chapter_symbols_groupings_of_5_elements.svg
File:Genji chapter symbols groupings of 5 elements.svg - Wikimedia Commons

It's interesting to see that Windows 10 now supports accessing files as a 9P client: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2019/02/15/whats-new-for-wsl-in-windows-10-version-1903/ (and server in WSL)
What’s new for WSL in Windows 10 version 1903? | Windows Command Line Tools For Developers

The next Windows update is coming soon and we’re bringing exciting new updates to WSL with it! These include accessing the Linux file system from Windows, and improvements to how you manage and configure your distros in the command line. Accessing Linux files from Windows In the past,

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Looking at well-known ports tables, I'm glad there is no official IANA entry for 6502 because that's what I'm going to be using.
On threading and programming models: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXuZi9aeGTw (dug this up after being reminded about the primitives discussed in a discussion of optimization in QNX process interactions, it'd be interesting to see where these ideas ended up in 2019).
User-level threads....... with threads. - Paul Turner - Google

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This video is underappreciated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbyZA6EBCp0
Are you a zany enough dude to eradicate the concept of leisure? - David Hayward

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Bumper stickers that say "Honk if you love traffic"
Amazing. I love the idea of physically flipping dots for a tetris display: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ6rfI28zJ4
Flipdot Tetris beta

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