Dave LeCompte (he/him)

Pro Human Rights.

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[Dave LeCompte (he/him) @BigDiceDave]

@PattyMurray I suggest that you consider the input of doctors, including the UW sleep lab.

I suggest that you consider the experience we had in the 70s, when we tried "permanent" DST.

Standard Time is better and easier.

[Dave LeCompte (he/him) @BigDiceDave]

@JimPropp This is a stretch of what you're talking about, but I thought of "eenie, meenie, miney, mo", which is sort of a counting sequence (with modular wraparound) to choose e.g. who goes first in a kid's game.

[Dave LeCompte (he/him) @BigDiceDave]

@julianorobertrj @JimPropp But you're right, the compiler would be able to detect unconverted unit errors, like the Mars Climate Orbiter error.

https://t.co/zMvyxyA9iH

[Dave LeCompte (he/him) @BigDiceDave]

@julianorobertrj @JimPropp It could have polymorphism in that angles can be added to angles, and lengths can be added to lengths, and, if you provide conversions between feet and meters, you could do arithmetic like adding a foot to a meter, or multiplying a foot by a meter to get an area in acres.

[Dave LeCompte (he/him) @BigDiceDave]

@julianorobertrj @JimPropp The language would require the programmer to declare their variables.

Let A:length:meters:int32;
Let B:length:feet:float32;
Let C:rotation:degrees:float16;
Let D:area:acres:float64;
Let E:color:R8G8B8;

You don't know the values of A or B, but you do know metadata about them.

[Dave LeCompte (he/him) @BigDiceDave]

@McFunkypants To me, there's an important disconnect where the prompt results in unexpected results. In programming, unexpected results are very bad.

[Dave LeCompte (he/him) @BigDiceDave]

@McFunkypants Unsure how viable, how long of a career this art is. Might turn into a cottage industry, like custom buggy whips.

[Dave LeCompte (he/him) @BigDiceDave]

@julianorobertrj @JimPropp My father told a story that certain military aircraft software was required to do runtime detection of certain invariants (I forget exactly what), to which Dad asked "and then what?", is the pilot supposed to correct the altitude values somehow?

[Dave LeCompte (he/him) @BigDiceDave]

@julianorobertrj @JimPropp The same way that compilers enforce type safety, to the extent that they do. If I say
C = A + B
this makes sense if A, B, and C are all integers, and there's implicit conversion if A is a float, b is an integer and C is a float.
The compiler will error if B is a quaternion.

[Dave LeCompte (he/him) @BigDiceDave]

@julianorobertrj @JimPropp I don't see any reason why the compiler could not check this - we store a variety of metadata anyway, it should not be hard to invoke conversion between feet and meters, or prohibit automatic assignment from meters to degrees, or angular degrees to fahrenheit degrees.

[Dave LeCompte (he/him) @BigDiceDave]

@mitchgit My voice appears in a strategy game, as the original voice talent's recording of "Thunder and Lightning" wasn't able to be used.

[Dave LeCompte (he/him) @BigDiceDave]

@CrystalWizard99 The party has an opportunity to jack into the Big Bad Mainframe to exfiltrate critical data, but they need to complete the hack before the servers get hit by the impending hurricane.

[Dave LeCompte (he/him) @BigDiceDave]

@KaufmanRoni I want a shirt of this.

[Dave LeCompte (he/him) @BigDiceDave]

@addie_plays_ throw the dice harder to do more damage

[Dave LeCompte (he/him) @BigDiceDave]

Surprisingly charming moment:

Having dinner at the local taproom, the 3yo kid at the next table gets down from his chair and dances (twerks?) to "I Wanna Be Sedated".

Teach the next generation the classics and they'll grow up all right.

[Dave LeCompte (he/him) @BigDiceDave]

@ThatEricAlper It's time
I had
some time

alone

[Dave LeCompte (he/him) @BigDiceDave]

@ThatEricAlper Birthday party, cheesecake, jellybean, boom
You symbiotic,
patriotic,
slam but neck,

right? right.