@samaaron Sounds interesting! The global state must have a finite time horizon, I guess? And a lot like a stack, or...?

@aeva empathy crisis, programming efficiency crisis.

@lritter which ones did you aim to prevent

@PeterGray

Aha, on Safari (which I'm using) its an option in the view menu... so not sure why its not appearing in Firefox I'm afraid; of course it may be because I have a (free) academic subscription to the FT? The reason I never link to FT articles is because I know for many they are inaccessible. The only other route may be via archive, but I'm not sure how that actually works (although a lot of people here use it, I know)

The first Tale of the Underdark! MOON'S KNIGHT is $2.99USD (and CAD) in ebook, until 2/18. https://books2read.com/moonsknight

@ProPublica Amazing, the hypocrisy.

@aeva in the end only the intended ones matter, and there are at least two by now. i was too late.

@javahippie @rotnroll666 TeamViewer? 🤔

My experimental prototype of a programming language implemented like an audio synth is working really well.

It has a max jitter of 3ms for its timers (even in a web browser!) and is fully deterministic.

Global state is a totally-ordered immutable time-series in-memory db.

The language doesn't have threads, it has mini VMs with their own byte code that run in a hierarchical vm-tree for deterministic order of execution.

Computation is driven by the pulse of the audio hardware at audio rate.

@rotnroll666 There is a German software company that decided they needed such growth numbers, attracted VC, destroyed its culture and lost their customers goodwill. Will never understand it, they made good money, founders lived comfortably.

Maybe your environment shapes you, if you hang out with startup clowns for too long, this line of thinking infects your brain?

#WritersCoffeeClub 09 Do you subscribe to 'show, don't tell'? Why, or why not?

Nope. Mostly because some things can only be told, for all the reasons you can imagine, and some you can't/shouldn't/wouldn't…=)

Of course, when you actually can show, please do so. Unless The Holy Laziness (or the laws) says otherwise…>=)

@lritter you just don't know about all the ones your work did prevent

#scribesandmakers 10 February: What is the most out-of-character creative thing you enjoy? That thing that never matches the assumptions about you.

At this point, everyone knows I'm a little off kilter, but when I was younger, I was told I had juvenile taste. I was enjoying "Violence" by Mott the Hoople.

Violence:

@bagder Maybe the real verified peers were the friends we made along the way

@auschwitzmuseum 💔

#scribesandmakers 10 February: What is the most out of character creative thing you enjoy? That thing that never matches the assumptions about you.

I surprise folks with my karaoke choices. Songs that are a lot heavier than they expect from the floofy fellow in pink.

#ScribesAndMakers 10, What is the most out of character creative thing you enjoy? That thing that never matches the assumptions about you.

To answer that, I would need to know what people commonly assume about me.

Really, I would rather not...

@rbreich

@regehr Oh man. People doing harmful things to make their automated accessibility metrics go up is unfortunately a widespread thing. I get why these tools exist, they are helpful for catching mistakes—but you really can't outsource your thinking to them.

number of world wide catastrophes my work was able to prevent: 0