I'm really enjoying these.

93. When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.

Getting in a vibe to meet up at paradise sushi in lambda (1800UTC Friday!) and talk about hopes and dreams and strategies and choices for #SICP study, then the forward reminded me of Perlisisms and so I read these instead #computing

https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html

C is such a piece of shit language. Only language where "I need a dynamically growing array or a hashmap" is answered with "roll your own lol n_n"

EDIT: C (not C++, not Zig, not Rust) is the correct language for the job I'm doing. I am also very aware of how to implement dynamic arrays and hash tables. I have written my own stdlibs on freestanding C before. I do not actually need coaching in this matter, thank you. I also like C, sometimes, but sometimes I think it's a stupid piece of shit language, because it is

http status code breakdown
1xx - you need to do it
2xx - we did it
3xx - go do it over there
4xx - you can't do it
5xx - we can't do it

time flies like an arrow. fruit flies like a banana.

#itch #gamejam #LispGameJam to relieve lambdaMOO I am going to jam a new locally networkable MOO server within the next 10 days using #commonLisp #mcclim.

https://lispy-gopher-show.itch.io/lispmoo/devlog/821630/lisp-kind-of-society-urgently-needed

I'm disappointed that there exist plenty of small devices that take an SD card and play videos off it, none of them seem to be themed like a VCR.

Come on guys! Make a new mold. Let me put microSD cards into a tiny, tiny VCR

the autumn lisp game jam is almost upon us! do you know where your repl is? you've got about 10 hours to find it.

https://itch.io/jam/autumn-lisp-game-jam-2024

#lisp #gamejam

A new fascinating conlang book aboard Pino.
#theLibrary

I just made some big improvements to my broughlike! Check it out!

https://smallandnearlysilent.com/broughlike/

I fixed it so that it is way less likely that the player and an enemy will ever occupy the same space.

I made the enemies a lot more clever, if they’re within a specific number of spaces from the player they’ll chase the player down.

If the enemies are further away from the enemy they make a bee line for the exit. This means that as you navigate towards the exit the enemies swarm you.

The enemies can now also navigate around obstacles.

To balance the more aggressive enemies an increased the likelihood that their attacks miss.

All in all I’m pretty pleased! The game is a bit more difficult, but I think more fun now.

Many shubs and zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, let me tell you.

Google is making almost all its money from ads right?

So you'd assume that whatever else they may tail with, at least they got the ads business down, yes?

I never watch videos directly on Youtube because the video ads are too painful, but I do browse the recommended feed sometimes. Since I have as much ad targeting disabled I get the location-targeted bargain-bin ads in the feed, and they're often quite funny to see in their stupidity.

But there is one neverending feed of ads that is a pure scam. It's a make money quick scam that advertises itself with a picture of people in line outside of bank branches (taken during covid when they restricted how many people could be inside a public location at a time). Sometimes they also slap a logo from a legit news organisation on top of it as well.

I've entertained myself by reporting this scam to see how many variations I can see, and it never ends. The scammer uses a large number of sockpuppet accounts as well, so clearly they've been banned in the past.

You'd think their magin ai systems would be able to flag theee scams, but cleaely not. Apparently they can't even get ads right.

I've attached some screenshots from today's haul. I think I've reported about 50 today alone.

I'd love to hear from someone with inside knowledge how something like this can fly under the radar.

Your friendly reminder that

rsync src/

and

rsync src

are doing different things

Okay. Okay!!! I did it!!!

I made a web browser!!!

It is the world's *worst* web browser!!!

But it is a web browser!!!

(The video glitches at the end. This is Ubuntu's fault. The video is supposed to show me loading mastodon.social and "(Page is empty.)" displaying because I choke on the JavaScript. I'm exhausted and not fixing this.)

#lispyGopherClimate https://archives.anonradio.net/202410230000_screwtape.mp3
@kentpitman's own #poem poetry reading! Asks we all help share and distribute. Main toot: https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman/113345532867290300

Lots of notices today.
@jackdaniel's https://turtleware.eu/posts/Dynamic-Let.html on #commonLisp dynamic binding
Rest of the #emacs #emacsconf schedule + #jazz #drumming
#bonkwave disk 3 release party Friday! @keefmarshall @attksthdrknss @limebar
#lispGameJam starting this week! https://itch.io/jam/autumn-lisp-game-jam-2024
#SICP #studyGroup !
#lambdaMOO!
https://lambda.moo.mud.org/

Hey everyone, @kentpitman is asking us to share and distribute his poetry reading as much as we can this election season.
Drive link to the mp3:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nBM9P8P2xL3iPw3Hz3GV0fkS1Fatv3ZL/view
The poem/text/webplayer:
https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-fraud-who-stole-freedom.html
#poetry #urgent #US #poetryReading #mp3

It's of interest to everyone. Please do share everywhere, not just for #lisp folks!

EDIT: KMP's associated prose https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2024/10/vance-notice.html