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Last Notes npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal I once heard an astrophysicist on Radio 4 opine that if alien species did exist and had interstellar travel, like in science fiction, then Earth would be famous throughout the galaxy for its solar eclipses; beings would come as tourists to Earth to behold this marvellous cosmic coincidence: a single moon which is exactly the right size in the sky to cover the solar system’s sun, leaving just a tiny ring of light while all around, the sky goes dark npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal Did you know that more or less every strap-on dildo fits every strap-on harness? I’ve often thought this says a lot about the priorities of humanity and people who create standards. Next time you encounter two things that should be able to connect together but can’t because of incompatible connectors, think, ‘well, this is obviously of less importance to an engineer than getting pegged’. npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal small domino: niche programming language chooses Codeberg for its issue tracker and specification repository big(gest) domino (so far): Codeberg is the third largest forge website in the world npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal @nprofile…v2v2 @nprofile…h0ll For what it’s worth, APFS checksums only metadata, not data npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal @nprofile…v2v2 Empirically, most Mastodon users would upload pictures of themself, or sometimes their Significant Other npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal @nprofile…gr74 HIG violation (Don’t use yes/no dialog boxes) npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal Learning to my astonishment that the Kohlregime put significant support programmes in place to help employees buy out their company and keep it running, and to my significantly lesser astonishment that the Schröderregime got rid of a lot of that support npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal Anyone have experience with employee buyouts of small businesses in Germany by any chance npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal Well, turns out I don’t get my salary for March. And it was an expensive month. Thanks to the unemployment system here, I will *eventually* get paid something, but I don’t know when or how much; and very probably I will be out of a job entirely. I would really appreciate help for me and my family asap; the options I have now are: • libera pay: https://liberapay.com/dpk • on Wise: my Wisetag is just ‘daphne’ Thanks for anything you can offer <3 #mutualaid #MutualAidRequest :BoostOK: npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal Kernel security bugs are fixed three times faster when fixed by the same person who wrote the bug https://pebblebed.com/blog/kernel-bugs-part2 Applying this result to a world in which devs aren’t the authors of ‘their’ own (slop) code left as an exercise to the reader npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal Made ravioli (with spinach, ricotta, and mushroom in sage butter) https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/116/042/592/144/234/129/original/49bd00c6e22882a9.jpeg https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/116/042/592/456/756/289/original/914d3b3920ddccdf.jpeg npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal the only pronoun for God you need to worry about is ‘thou’/‘thee’ npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal Linux users, Why don’t you use btrfs? Why do you prefer ext4 or even ZFS? Boost appreciated! npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal This evening, Andreas Shimokawa and I are talking to the Berlin Permacomputing meetup about Codeberg’s history and future. 19:00, /rosa (Heidelberger Straße 28, 12059 Berlin) Come and join us! (Boost appreciated!) npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal @nprofile…v2v2 Unfortunately, that came in 15, not 26 npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal I wonder if we couldn’t attempt to do to SMTP-based email what RCS is doing to SMS djb proposed some improvements both small (QMTP, MXPS) and big (Internet Mail 2000) about 25 years ago. MXPS (which uses special magic numbers for priority in MX records to indicate support for particular protocols) in particular could be used to implement a superseding protocol. Ideally you would want to supersede both SMTP and the RFC 822/MIME-derived message format, but in a trivially downgradable way npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal @nprofile…v2v2 excoriates ACM’s extortionate conference pricing https://lobste.rs/s/3bccy3/acm_is_now_fully_open_access#c_guc3wp npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal I’m thinking of organizing a fun, informal dinner one evening during FOSDEM for cool Scheme and Scheme-adjacent people! Working title: ‘Schemers and Dreamers’ Would you be interested? If so, what evening could you come (Friday/Saturday/Sunday)? Just reply to this toot and let me know :-) npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal Reminder to everyone on the TL for 2026: It’s going to be another tough year. Don’t forget to have some fun, and don’t feel guilty for it. You need it to survive. https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/115/803/974/176/876/600/original/1681828556d742fd.png npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal @nprofile…2cds @nprofile…f9ry The 90s are back! npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal Happy 50th birthday to Scheme! MIT AI Memo No. 349, ‘Scheme: An Interpreter for Extended Lambda Calculus’ was published on December 22, 1975 https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/5794 npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal I’m not sure what surprises me more: that Corel Draw still exists, or the dodgy copy of GIMP being sold for 15€ at Media Markt https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/115/758/093/458/490/749/original/e6a8eea6fc35f5cc.jpeg npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal You can tell the former East still lags behind West Germany. For example, the trains there are still punctual https://toot.community/@chuuchuu/115746750599938629 npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal New blog post! Arduous arboreal adventures bring bounteous benefits in converting code, conceived declaratively, to essentially executable form https://crumbles.blog/posts/2025-11-28-extensible-match-decision-tree.html npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal Writing an implementation of Standard ML would fix me npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal Fucking. Hell. https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369 npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal The part of the Docker ‘it works on your machine, so let’s just ship your machine’ joke that’s missing is the part where shipping your machine doesn’t work on someone else’s machine npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal K&R style argument type declarations were the good style of argument type declarations, cmv npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal I think Randall Munroe deserves more credit than he gets for making his comic, a touchstone of internet nerd culture, strongly against the culture of nerd sexism from its earliest days https://xkcd.com/322/ npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal Alan Kay’s critique of SimCity games https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/115/451/087/135/746/277/original/6d9a460410daf86f.png npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal Going back to the year 2000 to tell C++ programmers that in the future, the best-selling video game of all time simulates an infinite, 3D open world, runs at high frame rates even on cranky old hardware, supports hundreds of simultaneous multiplayer connections – and is implemented in a garbage collected language with an interpreted virtual machine Actually, you don’t need to go back to 2000 to do that, because most of them seemingly still don’t believe something like this is possible today npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal Scheme Reports at Fifty: Where do we go from here? The text version of my talk from the Scheme Workshop is now online. I hope it starts a conversation. I really want to hear what people think about this! https://crumbles.blog/posts/2025-10-18-scheme-reports-at-fifty.html npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal Considering whom I would like to nominate for the Scheme Steering Committee and noticing again how, even by the standards of tech, Scheme has a truly terrible level of participation by women. I’m reasonably certain that the only women in the acknowledgements section of Scheme reports – at least those who identified as women at the time of publication – were Betty Dexter, who typeset RRRS in TeX, and Julie Sussman, whose contribution to SICP is also often overlooked. npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal Someone is currently trolling (?) @nprofile…jmss’s stream in chat calling SICP ‘THEE [sic] book on design patterns’ npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal I just voted in the @nprofile…8x0h presidium election 2025! If you are a member please don’t forget, you have until the end of Friday this week UTC :-) npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal Is Adobe … asking me if I want to narc on myself for piracy? https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/115/083/070/014/669/384/original/253e3f6178eb7192.png npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal Dear lazy web, specifically electronics people: The ceiling light in our kitchen (LED panel) has started doing this when turned on. It’s not supposed to be like that. (Notice it continues fading out after the light is switched back off. It’s not supposed to be like that, either.) Any ideas of the cause? Is it likely to be repairable? Please boost! https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/115/067/806/225/880/676/original/b0fbedb95cf64f7f.mp4 npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal I love pair programming (using the cons procedure to construct pairs) npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal @nprofile…y8el ⌘F and search for your name in the footnotes :-) npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal @nprofile…y8el oh no? npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal An indentation-based homoiconic infix-operator syntax for Lisp https://dpk.land/tmp/bonsai.html npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal Americans on the TL, every day https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/114/994/120/612/104/769/original/5f16db5c7e05c977.png npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal @nprofile…zwgs Great idea until Stallman dies and the FSF gets taken over by the Crown Prince of Korea, who thinks the Business Source Licence is great and they should approve it npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal I have just been made aware of this tweet thread by François René-Rideau (aka Faré) and feel I should say something about it. (Note up front: I am not doxing Faré by linking these tweets to him: the account is linked and explicitly identified with him in the profile text of the other account he has under his real name, and the ‘about’ page of a blog he wrote under this name also identifies him as the author. https://ngnghm.github.io/About.html) https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/114/977/579/472/854/632/original/959f682cb4018fcb.jpeg npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal (lambda (lambda) (lambda lambda)) npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design. cc @nprofile…g8y8 https://yle.fi/a/74-20174831 npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal @nprofile…sqcg Right, re your answer to the second question: different runtimes wanting different ideas of what the bits in a capability mean, but running in the same address space, is a nuance of the question I couldn’t quite fit into the 500 characters my instance allows per toot. I take it, then, that this is specifically what would make that impractical? (We do have one Scheme implementation, Loko, which by design does not integrate with or use any other language, including C!) npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal @nprofile…sqcg I have a question about CHERI: Dynamic language implementations often use tagged pointers (involving doing some violence with uintptr_t casts and bit shifts/masking, the assumption being that you have three 0 bits at the low end of any pointer). Is that possible within CHERI? Relatedly, for language implementations where the high-level language is already memory safe by construction, is it possible to use the extra bits in a CHERI pointer for other purposes (e.g. type tagging)? npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal @nprofile…ee4l @davewoodx Delaying release until early next year might be a way to save some face and some of their reputation with developers? 😕 npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal @nprofile…33hd /dev/fd0 is the floppy drive (if you have one), what’s the issue? npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal @nprofile…zq4c @nprofile…33hd Mealy-mouthed and fails to call a spade a spade. If the best you can say of a German who believes Germany was not responsible for starting WW2 is that he is ‘conservative and Conservative’, you are gullible fool who shouldn’t be trying to write about politics. npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal @nprofile…y8el and dasher and prancer and comet? npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal This is the first tech bubble where the mass layoffs have started *before* the big pop https://infosec.exchange/@malwaretech/114785121914587729 npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal @nprofile…nhea Äh, doch? Ringbahn fährt, andere Linien auch soweit ich weiß Es war ein ziemlich großer Sturm. Ein Baum im Park bei mir um die Ecke ist umgefallen npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal Okay, I finally finished the page where I collect all my thoughts on the vexed issue of record type system design for Scheme https://wiki.dpk.land/Scheme_record_types npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal @nprofile…fvmu Dieser Tröt geht auch ohne Hashtag npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal SRFI 262 dropped https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-262/srfi-262.html npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal @nprofile…nhea Hah, hier auf Vodafone DSL haben wir immer noch gar kein IPv6 npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal @nprofile…sqcg Christ. Between that and the ignorant gobshite coming with ‘herp derp you Brits don’t have free speech’ … npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal @nprofile…zwgs We can thank 4chan for killing that one off, I think npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal @nprofile…zwgs What is mansplaining? Can someone please tell me npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/114/391/241/594/406/594/original/599a07d3bc34d681.png npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal Well, would you look at that: Codeberg spam trolls have learned how to use LLMs npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal @nprofile…zwgs It looks literally like the next step of ‘speedrunning the history of Twitter’, and they’re installing exactly the same system of haves and have-nots that got everyone so mad last time npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal @nprofile…8x0h Did you mean 19 April 2024 or some other year? 19 April 2025 is tomorrow 🤔 npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal @nprofile…5jz8 @nprofile…zwgs @nprofile…jm8t Was there ever any year where web design was better than it was in 1999? I mean just look at this stuff. Unbeaten tbh https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/all-websites/year-1999 npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal @nprofile…zwgs Noble of you to sacrifice your own mentions as well today npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal I think both of these are wrong individually – in using the long title of the EA 2010 to ascertain its purpose, it appears to have ignored the potential effect of the word ‘reform’ in ‘harmonise and reform’ – but this is now the law. npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal The two fundamental planks of today’s decision are: 1. the Gender Recognition Act 2004 did not change the meaning of ‘man’ and ‘woman’ in the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, although the relevant section of the GRA on its face did not contain any limitation on the application of a certificate in determining who is a ‘man’ and who a ‘woman’ 2. the Equality Act 2010 inherited from the SDA 1975 this definition wholesale, since its purpose was to consolidate existing law npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal @nprofile…zwgs From this toot I can glean two things: 1. that I have missed something, and 2. that if I were to learn what the thing I have missed is, it would very probably make me hate the ‘trans community’ more than the person the ‘trans community’ is mad at. Again. Jean-Paul Sartre was nearly right. The truth is closer to this: Hell is other trans people. npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal Es heißt jetzt, dass es sehr wichtig ist, JETZT eure SPD-Abgeordnete – insbesondere den Verhandler*innen – mit einem Brief gegen das Nordische Modell anzuschreiben. Sind dir die Rechte von trans Menschen wichtig, sollten auch dir die Rechte von Sexarbeitenden wichtig sein. Die Gegner von beiden sind die gleichen Leute. Trans Menschen sind auch überproportional in der Sexarbeit vertreten. Schreibt bitte noch HEUTE! Bitte boostet! https://chaos.social/@dpk/114229753928926960 npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal @nprofile…93ny Everyone hated when the UK (and others) enforced its laws on the internet by requiring ISPs to DNS block sites, but they somehow managed to find something even worse. And you know what, actually? One weird trick to fix all the problems the OSA is causing for small site owners: if Ofcom decides your website isn’t ‘safe’ for UK people, Ofcom gets to order UK ISPs to block it. No trying to criminally charge overseas entities, just move that entire thing over to the UK’s side. npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal @nprofile…zwgs Christine it’s 4am, why are you posting npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal It’s done. https://codeberg.org/dpk/extensible-match SRFI submission any day now. npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal @nprofile…zwgs I know someone who wrote this really good and long post about the differences, hang on let me find it npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal Two points: 1. The point Olin makes at the beginning of ‘Anatomy of a Loop’ is basically correct: named let (tail recursion in general) as a means of iteration is too primitive and makes it too hard to change decisions about data representation. 2. There are numerous attempts at loop syntax in Scheme to solve this, but hardly anyone uses them. They just don’t feel Scheme-y. Conclusion: named ‘let’ is bad, but is so entrenched as a Scheme idiom that anything else feels un-Scheme-y. npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal News! Starting in February I’ll be working on Oaken, a new, security-oriented dialect of Scheme for Guile, for @nprofile…fykc and funded by @nprofile…klwf! npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal @nprofile…fvmu KV war schon immer eine regressive Steuer (Mindestbeitrag für Geringverdiener + Höchstbeitrag für Hochverdiener = Arme bezahlen prozentual deutlich mehr als die Reichsten) und keiner will es in Deutschland zum Thema machen. Krankenversicherungsschulden sollten auch ein Skandal sein. Es ist schwierig überhaupt konkrete Zahlen zu finden, aber irgendwo habe ich gelesen bis zu 1 Mio. Menschen in Dt. haben steigende Schulden und kein Anspruch auf Gesundheitsfürsorge npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal New project: let-posix, a simple Scheme macro for parsing command-line options in POSIX/GNU style. Works on both R6RS and R7RS (in the latter case, depends only on (scheme base)!) https://codeberg.org/dpk/let-posix npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal It looks like if you’re patient and don’t mind probably having a slightly mismatched set, you can probably put together a complete NED/OED1 set by buying individual volumes one at a time for something on the order of 100 to 200 Western reserve currency units. If you buy a complete set already put together, they cost about 1,000 to 2,000 currency units npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal Me when Scheme records don’t support purely functional updaters https://hacksrus.xyz/objects/f0787b7b-11fd-4688-92bb-d294cd56cd55 npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal Your Nix store isn’t big enough? Want to install old versions of way too many packages to work around one regression? This website has you covered: https://lazamar.co.uk/nix-versions/ (No but seriously, this is very useful) npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal My goals for the next 12 months: Pay off my student debt and get the hell out of this fucking country npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal I am in Le Monde diplomatique with a piece on the German police’s suppression of Berlin’s Palestine Congress https://mondediplo.com/outside-in/german-police-palestine-congress npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal Productive procrastination of the day: the R7RS effort now has a semi-reasonable website https://r7rs.org/ npub1rj2v8mp63kdhuck9fkjq4up7wxzcakkl0edkjpeyyy2vzagp8h2qvvesee Daphne Preston-Kendal #wednesdaywebtip http://youkeepusingthatwordidonotthinkitmeanswhatyouthinkitmeans.com/