Pierre R. Mai

I am the Spirit that Denies!

[Pierre R. Mai @pmai]

@svetlyak40wt For example if get-options constructed the return value using (list* :chat-id chat-id '(:some-other 42)) the same problem will potentially occur.

It is the mutation of structure you don‘t control that is usually the problem.

[Pierre R. Mai @pmai]

@svetlyak40wt Sorry to well actually here, but I think the more important lesson is to not mutate stuff in CL if you are not the creator of said stuff or have a contract with the source that makes this allowed. There are a myriad of ways that your example will blow up not involving backquote.

[Pierre R. Mai @pmai]

Sun, Simenon and Splendor

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Consider “tool blindness”.

This is a psychological bias humans have had for 1000s of years.

We are convinced a new tool must be better and through lack of experience we use the tool when none was needed.

We see it today in the would of computers and technology—only worse.

[Pierre R. Mai @pmai]

@NASAhistory Otherwise great article about a great scientist and mathematician!

[Pierre R. Mai @pmai]

@NASAhistory Minor correction to the article: The SOAP programming Easley was performing in the 50/60s on IBM 650 would have been Symbolic Optimal Assembly Program (cf. https://t.co/HLILDn82x4) not the Simple Object Access Protocol, which is a protocol developed in 1999 (cf her oral history).

[Marina Kittaka 橘高 ⚔️Angeline Era!🌿 @even_kei]

Kids these days will never know the hardships of each week having to overcook a fresh hardboiled egg yolk for the computer mouse

[Romano Roth @RomanoRoth]

Sad but true.
From @marketoonist

[тιмonι weѕт (parody) @timoni]

It's like I always say: there's no Venn diagram overlap between project managers and conspiracy theorists

[support ukraine 🌈 @nsiivola]

@pkhuong Then there are those who get cold sweats when they realize their LTS is being EOL'd next...

[Daniel Jalkut @danielpunkass]

Not every call has to be a call.

[Vsevolod @vseloved]

Software Development is a pop-culture (yet another funny confirmation)

[Daniel Jalkut @danielpunkass]

Video-conferencing can be great, but I suspect services like Zoom mostly perpetuate the illusion that "meetings are work." Better remote training should involve training employees to communicate effectively in writing.

[Ward Bekker @wardbekker]

Going to fork MySQL. INSERT will support 7 transactions per second and spike your CPU & GPU.

DELETE and UPDATE statements will be deprecated.

The fork will be called.....

....MyBlockchainDB !11!!

[Pierre R. Mai @pmai]

@paulg Arguably it‘s not fair to expect engineers to understand all the topics they work on? We actually do expect (and sometimes require by law) them to specialise, or have specialised engineers at hand. Maybe current reporter skills : being a reporter = algebra : being an engineer.

[Matthew Green @matthew_d_green]

I would appreciate if computer scientists could use this quarantine period to design several new programming languages with different and incompatible feature sets, and that differ from popular languages in minor semantic ways that are totally pointless but aggravating too.

[Jan Schnellenbach @schnellenbachj]

Malu Dreyer (RLP) beschwert sich, weil Markus Söder (BAY) und Winfried Kretschmann (BW) "vorpreschen". Zeiten wie diese sind besonders schwer, wenn man Föderalismus nur als in Ministerpräsidentenkonferenzen verwässerte Verantwortung kennt.

[Pierre R. Mai @pmai]

@RBReich Ignoring of course that they tend not to have any unencumbered assets left (thanks to years of free money). You can cogently argue that they all should head into bankruptcy, wiping out investors and banks, clawing back bonuses, etc. But then do so, not these kinds of fantasies...