@noodles well I guess I mean I concur that over stickering isn’t aesthetically pleasing (where “over” might be >0)

@noodles I put all those other stickers one accumulates into the current year’s dead-tree pocket diary.

@noodles my policy is almost the same, although for a change my personal machine has a NIN sticker instead of Debian (at least for a while)

@noodles looks good!

An effective day toiling in the Type mines #haskell

@jk it’s also a bit like those optical illusion pictures where half the audience will see one thing and the other half another

@eevee @mdhughes @jk I’m trying to remember if VLC disables backwards seeking for MPEG-TS et al, I haven’t gone and checked yet but I’d bet it doesn’t

I've reminded myself just how frustrating the GHC 9+ changes to typed Template Haskell are.

Prior to that, in the context of the thing I was working on, I was crying out for some of the changes.

But now they''ve landed they're so obtuse and hostile to use in practice!

@frumble it’s genuinely hilarious to hear IBM invoked all the time for redhat stuff now

I occasonally stumble across an artist/album on Bandcamp (usually ambient-style) who seem (or their label seem) ridiculously prolific, e.g. "Buy discography of 800+ albums for $1 USD (97% off)"

I've seen this a few times. Are these AI/ML-generated?

Interested to see the BBC experimenting with the Fediverse: https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub

New blog post: VW Lupo mirror-adjustment knob https://jmtd.net/log/lupo_knob/ #3dprinting

I'm belatedly commisserating Firefox killing their "site-specific-browser" feature, for a second time (which happened years ago. I'm catching up.)

@adam think really, really hard on whether qmail in Debian proper is in the best interest of either qmail users or Debian before you consider going forward with that

Her new stuff really slaps https://mastodonapp.uk/@BBC6MusicBot/110978153289396505

“How to build impossible things” serialised is a really compelling listen https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001q0sh?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

@cstross i can’t decide whether “iPhone has usb-c” or “iPhone is portless” is more likely

New blog post: Gazelle Twin https://jmtd.net/log/gazelle_twin/ #music

@mhoye I once read someone suggest that using a higher proportion of the brain would be akin to pressing all 88 piano keys at the same time. (They then said this exists; it’s called a seizure).

I wrote a chunk of Haskell some time ago (in a hurry I think) which ended up having a *lot* of tuples in it. Any time I took a type, and derived something from it, I was returning them as a pair.

The result was streams of composed `fst . snd . fst .fst . head . ...` which were really hard to reason about

Took a risk and replaced a chunk of those with new explicit types (e.g. `data Thing { thingInternal :: InternalThing, thingCost :: Cost }` ) and I think it was worthwhile