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Jonathan Dowland | @jmtd@pleroma.debian.social

Principal Software Engineer on #OpenJDK #RedHat. #Debian developer (dormant). Computer Science PhD student. Amateur Computing historian (Computer Science and H/W, esp. Commodore Amiga). Guerilla archivist.

@foosel great photo!

Yesterday I watched a movie on prime video with ads and the experience was miserable. Today I learn they’re rolling ads out to the rest of prime video

@alcinnz “Imperative languages provide you with more power and precision than declarative languages. “ is earning some hard frowning from me

@lasombra_br exactly!

@lasombra_br this old free book is absolutely brilliant btw and worth a skim https://withouthotair.com

@lasombra_br it’s very situation specific; maybe they wouldn’t? But the BBC are talking about them like they’re a brand new experimental thing, but they’ve been around maturing for decades

New toy ^W work tool (alas barely had a chance to use it yet!)
A tex shura mech keyboard

My head is in my hands listening to the BBC’s attempt at impartiality wrt heat pumps

This remake of Kneale’s “you must listen”, to mark 100 years of bbc radio drama, is great https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001qmdp?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

@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?

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