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Just reminded in the context of this thread that a CS undergrad student ask me for some tutoring in their intro to programming course, and in the second session went "wait - how many programming languages do you know? How many are there? Do I need to know all of them?"

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@[email protected] Amazing! This is fantastic!

fiat money is when you use italian cars as currency

Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2
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TL;DR: if you're consistently extremely low on energy, especially if exercise comes with mental 'fog' or delayed feelings of being drained, do not follow medical advice to gradually increase exercise to rebuild capacity until you've read up on #ChronicFatigue and #PEM (post-exertional malaise).

This one hits quite close to home; Monbiot in the Guardian gives a searing but accurate look at how poor support for anyone with #ChronicFatague / #ME / #LongCovid is in the UK and Europe - which probably includes millions of people. Why do I know it's accurate? Because I've been out of work for well over 18 months myself suffering from the condition, and I have been given exactly the bad advice in the article and had exactly the same dismissal from doctors (apart from the sexism, but that's only because I was 'lucky' enough to be born male). I don't spend a huge amount of time in the opinion sections of newspapers, but sometimes things end up there because nobody actually talking about them as news.

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@[email protected] To be fair, it looks like a good chunk of the bibliography is already online in this thread :D. Can't help feeling that @[email protected] will be delivering the ideas with more enthusiasm than the original authors though. Some of the papers, while excellent, are, erm, dry.

@[email protected] I was mostly joking. But only because I knew it doesn't generally work that way - not because I wouldn't actually be interested!

I'm teaching our grad intro PL course for the first time (!) starting this Friday, and I'm gonna do it *my* way, and I'm both scared and excited. It's going to be a *lot* of work. For me, I mean. (And possibly for them! But definitely for me.)

Get ready to read some motherfucking TAPL! There's gonna be some Mike Hicks blog posts from 2015 up in this bitch! Wadler and Blott 1989? You know it! The "From System F to Typed Assembly Language" paper? Abso-fucking-lutely we will

@[email protected] Is there an online sign up for just this course?! PL (and the world, frankly) is badly in need of wild enthusiam directed by knowledgeable intent and tempered in the fires of historical examples, and I for one would be so on board that train

Ok, fine.

Clearly you all won't calm down until I do this, so here it is: the definitive list of who is and is not English in alphabetical order...

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@[email protected] @[email protected] makes unreasonably proud noises at random graph

@[email protected] @[email protected] Do it! Real time grafana pretty graphs of energy production (optionally with some carefully chosen alerts) are surprisingly motivating to help things like running energy heavy appliances at the cheapest times. And even seeing historic usage can clue you into habits of energy usage you didn't realise you had.

@[email protected] Anyway, emacs key combos are super discoverable due to its amazing built in help. Just search for the operation you want to achieve! Who wouldn't think to search for "yank from kill ring"?

I genuinely love emacs, but boy do some people say some strange things about it.

@[email protected] UI serendipity would lead me (a fellow emacs user) to suggest @[email protected] 's newly coined emacsing

@[email protected] "This thing that might be a guid is not what I expected!" isn't that helpful if it doesn't tell you which guid for what from where and is there anything I can do about it anyway. It's put me off FDroid fairly heavily even if I wanted to like the idea.

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] You're not the only one. Up to there I was like "yeah, people used to assume you'd have to take laptops places and plug them into things, this is more than most but..." and then the double optical drive rolled into view.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@hellogeri/117315401952407398

Anyone in the UK able to help Geri out with this? She’s good people.

@[email protected] The thing that took me a long time and some rather awkward conversations to understand as a child growing up in churches, but with parents who believed in God rather than "membership of a domination" is how many people take "Christianity" enormously seriously without a hint of understanding or any desire to learn about what any thing actually means. Happy to dedicate large amounts of money and time to "church activities", but then astonished to learn that Jesus was Jewish.

That's before you get to the very intelligent people who actually try and formulate theology that justifies some of these things, who I manage to have an even lower opinion of.

PSA for couriers: the only upside of #ChronicFatigue is that I am at my home when you try and deliver. Could you at least ring the doorbell?