Roshan Mathews

[Roshan Mathews @roshmat]

Setting up on Mastodon — @[email protected]

[Roshan Mathews @roshmat]

A wag on Reddit said that in Spanish “Nunca Faltan Tontos” means “there's never a lack of fools”.

Speaking of NFTs, watch
*The Problem With NFTs* — https://t.co/qS68DZKx0J — a rather well made video from Folding Ideas.

[Roshan Mathews @roshmat]

AWS Post-Event Summaries: https://t.co/H1UdYM3xSw

Was reading the summary of the Dec 7 incident, https://t.co/O9x8ZgwEpq
and had to hunt around to find a list of such "messages".

Only 15 "events" in ten years, not bad I guess. Or a sign of a "that's not an event" culture. 🤔

[Roshan Mathews @roshmat]

Interesting story, https://t.co/wZYaBfcTYL
and, https://t.co/N4zDxi4kKD
and then, the answer below 👇🏽

[Roshan Mathews @roshmat]

Localisation is anti-Globalisation?

https://t.co/1rtYGpNv0L

If true, and not some state propaganda, it is an interesting phenomenon.

Like that quip about going bankrupt, “gradually, and then suddenly”, this sort of disruption is gradual today, but could suddenly be everywhere.

[Roshan Mathews @roshmat]

Send a query to Amazon Redshift, and the leader node will generate C++ code, compile it with gcc, and send the object code to execute on compute nodes: https://t.co/qwbuLKoPnN
Do other databases generate C/C++? PostgreSQL has a LLVM JIT compiler, but probably bypasses C/C++.

[Roshan Mathews @roshmat]

@hyc_symas @kssreeram Peter Norvig reviewed [1] Strachey's 1966 Scientific American article, “System Analysis and Programming” [2], and wrote a CPL→Python translator to test out the examples in the paper.

[1] https://t.co/Slm8eVBKfs
[2] https://t.co/5j28AYyHcr pp. 112–124

[Roshan Mathews @roshmat]

@hyc_symas @kssreeram Peter Norvig reviewed [1] Strachey's 1966 Scientific American article, “System Analysis and Programming” [2], and wrote a CPL→Python translator to test out the examples in the paper.

[1] https://t.co/Slm8eVBKfs
[2] https://t.co/5j28AYyHcr pp. 112–124

[Roshan Mathews @roshmat]

Interesting writeup on the path from CPL → BCPL → B (with SMALGOL) → NB → C, https://t.co/r6GIJLKl8y

This links to a longer biographical note on Christopher Strachey— https://t.co/ClgA7vl6Wv —a fantastic read.

[Roshan Mathews @roshmat]

For extended shell globbing in Zsh:
% setopt extendedglob
% ls ^*.[ch]
% unsetopt extendedglob

[Roshan Mathews @roshmat]

TIL: extended shell globbing

To list all files except *.c and *.h in Bash:
$ shopt -s extglob
$ ls !(*.[ch])
$ shopt -u extglob

[Roshan Mathews @roshmat]

Terminal emulators send mouse events down SSH! My mind just went 💥 when a remote HTOP responded to a mouse click, and highlighted a row!

[Roshan Mathews @roshmat]

“I need to capitalise this block of text, yeah must be «C-x C-c»!” 🙄 #emacs

[Roshan Mathews @roshmat]

YouTube descriptions were cached between videos, and I assumed that it was a phishing scam of some sort, because who expects a #YouTubeBug 😆

[Roshan Mathews @roshmat]

The Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Resolution → Golden <what?> Theory ... https://t.co/XpouR2zjLp

[Paul Krugman @paulkrugman]

Trump’s Immigration Ban Excludes Countries With Business Ties

https://t.co/N4jprWP027

[Roshan Mathews @roshmat]

Or maybe it will be like sleeping, you could put on your VR headset in any place you would take a nap?

[Roshan Mathews @roshmat]

Kind of like going on a hallucinogenic trip, I guess, you wouldn't just do it anywhere; although, I don't know anything about that.

[Roshan Mathews @roshmat]

The immersive aspect of VR is vaguely unsettling, I suppose you can only engage in a "trusted safe space" (for lack of a better term).

[Roshan Mathews @roshmat]

Waking up to, "oh noes, Emacs!' — The Emacs dumper dispute https://t.co/ptlLZW7Tze

[Roshan Mathews @roshmat]

So not just a #Bangalore problem.. https://t.co/qPc38izjGg

[𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @grescoe]

Smeed On!
Avg. speed projected for #London traffic by R.J. Smeed in 1949: 9 mph
Avg. speed of London traffic today: 8.98 mph