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Wednesday, December 21, 2022

[16:26:13] ski bublegumm : not having integration (inline) images, videos, link previews, on IRC, is a feature. as is not having default public logging. now, if clients would by-default strip out all unicode emojis, i'd be happier ;)

[16:26:47] ski BigHeadRC : why would you think that, considering the content, and the intelligible relation (relevance) to the surrounding conversation ?

[16:28:25] ski ok

[16:29:13] ski no worry, i wasn't even going to comment on it

[16:29:22] ski (i do get that, now and then)

[16:29:59] ski ComputerTech : gasp

[16:30:17] ski weren't you at three, just a few days ago ?

[16:30:38] ski those darned pirates .. arr

[16:31:42] ski "tagline avatar flaggery" ?

[16:32:23] ski BigHeadRC : ooc, how long were you away ?

[16:33:32] ski you do need to disclose your eating habits, on tech fora ?

[16:33:54] ski nice

[16:34:50] ski bublegumm : the main point is to make the cost too high

[16:35:17] ski early adopter :)

[16:37:27] ski (BigHeadRC : also, IRC custom/tradition doesn't adorn nicknames with sigils (like `@'), simply mention the nickname, if you want to address or refer to someone. many clients will alert/highlight the user if their nickname is mentioned *first* thing on the line. not as many will, if it's mentioned later (e.g. if there's a `@' in front of it .. though, with an explicit network bridge (nR here), that

[16:37:33] ski wouldn't work anyway))

[16:39:12] ski anyway, i hope you find it (IRC) fun and useful enough, mapbot

[16:40:21] ski hehe :)

[16:40:35] ski mIRC is nagware

[16:41:03] ski exactly

[16:42:44] ski blitzed : yea, i switched from Debian, for that reason

[16:45:40] ski unnecessary complexity. it doing stuff it has no business doing

[16:47:54] ski (not that i have any particular affiliation for, or use software by, Suckless)

[17:36:18] ski sounds like fun, ComputerTech :)

[17:36:31] ski (prepare for pain)

[17:39:26] ski hm, i started with (C64) BASIC, 6502 assembler. then dipped my toe with a course on "C/C++" (the course did, unfortunately, mix up C and C++ for me), and one ("computer math") that did introduce very basic Prolog (which was cool). later i studied Java, Haskell, C, Scheme, SML, Erlang, ..

[17:40:07] ski (oh, and more Prolog, learning it more properly)

[17:42:33] ski learning both high-level and low-level programming helps. learning *different* programming languages (the more different, the better. preferably of differing main programming paradigms (imperative, functional, object-oriented, logic, constraint, concatenative, array, dataflow, dependent types, attribute grammars .. programming) helps broaden your view, give you more tools in your toolbox to attack

[17:42:39] ski problems with

[17:43:12] ski C is quite unforgiving. you don't "try it and see" (very unreliable way of learning C)

[17:44:21] ski much of what is called "regex" in practice isn't (but is extensions to regexen, and so not actually regexen)

[17:47:13] ski mapbot : writer's block ?

[17:49:57] ski personally, i happen to be more in favor of a syntax for regexen more like foof's "Irregex" <https://synthcode.com/scheme/irregex/>, iow using more readable, composable, syntax, rather than inscrutable, write-only, incantations

[17:50:30] ski (for interactive use in programs and applications, something like the traditional syntax may be acceptable)

[17:51:31] ski mapbot : when a creative worker get a mental block that bars them from starting working on something, usually related to (often partially subconscious) fears that it (the first attempt) will not be "good enouch"

[17:52:13] ski (programming on paper can occasionally be a nice exercise)

[17:57:13] ski oh .. i probably should have added : focus more on learning underlying concepts, than the current fad-of-the-day technologies, libraries, languages

[17:58:58] ski and : when learning a different programming paradigm, expect it to be more like learning to program all over from scratch again. (try to) forget everything you know (after you've got the basics, you can start to compare again, since obviously there's transferrable knowledge. but it's better to come at it with an expectation to start from scratch. you *will* have to unlearn things you take for granted

[17:59:04] ski (like e.g. being able to modify variables, when learning FP))

[17:59:49] ski .yt ho ho fucking ho

[17:59:54] ski there you go

[18:00:22] ski apparently this bot doesn't understand the network bridge (nR on this side)

[18:01:28] ski .tell mapbot fair enough (re not being able to program in front of a screen)

[20:19:14] ski throwing tea at someone might work

[20:21:00] ski those water heaters seem to always produce overhot water .. whenever i use them, i have to be careful not to burn myself

[20:21:30] ski (also for coffee)

[20:21:38] ski maybe you could try peppermint, or mallow infusion, h4

[20:22:25] ski honey in tea ? perhaps some citrus as well

[20:23:13] ski reminds me of a kid's book that featured apri-coco, amongst other chimaera fruits

[20:23:45] ski gonna decorate it ?

[20:24:57] ski take care

[20:25:13] ski nice, Ahsoka

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