Thursday, January 4, 2018
A Review of Perl 6
The market for new programming languages, as I write this in 2017, is competitive but not impenetrable — but like a freshly minted Ph.D., no one seems to be sure of Perl 6’s market prospects, and like a just-turned-in dissertation, no one seems to know whether the fruit of many years’ labor is actually worth a damn.
(Reddit discussion of above)
The long goodbye to C
It is now possible to glimpse a future in which all that code is written in specific C replacements with strong memory-safety properties. Go, or Rust, or Cx – any way you slice it, C’s hold is slipping.
(Slashdot discussion)
The big break in computer languages
The largest trend driving development towards [Garbage Collection] languages haven’t reversed, and there’s no reason to expect it will. Therefore: eventually we will have GC techniques with low enough latency overhead to be usable in kernels and low-level firmware, and those will ship in language implementations. Those are the languages that will truly end C’s long reign.
(Slashdot discussion)
Thursday, January 4, 2018
The Career Move That Dare Not Speak Its Name
Imagine if we all just stopped believing that the only way to be an academic is to be constantly employed by a university. There—wouldn’t that make people’s lives a lot better? Let’s just do that.
[Editorial note: Josh Parsons died on April 11, 2017.]
Thursday, January 4, 2018
I Hate New Year’s Day, Antonio Gramsci, January 1, 1916
That’s why I hate New Year’s. I want every morning to be a new year’s for me. Every day I want to reckon with myself, and every day I want to renew myself. No day set aside for rest. I choose my pauses myself, when I feel drunk with the intensity of life and I want to plunge into animality to draw from it new vigour.
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
of this blog, i spent a couple of hours manually adding categories to old posts. Boy, i must have been bored.
Still lots of stuff broken, links often break on the internet.
Also, i missed the blog’s 10th anniversary. ¯\_(?)_/¯
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
How to Read Žižek
These contradictions don’t show that ideology is “irrational” — the problem is exactly the opposite, that there are too many reasons supporting their views. Žižek argues that these piled-up rationalizations demonstrate that something else is going on.
Have been a Slavoj Žižek fan follower for a while. Maybe i should read one of his books soon. Ha.
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
Exiting the Vampire Castle
The problem that the Vampires’ Castle was set up to solve is this: how do you hold immense wealth and power while also appearing as a victim, marginal and oppositional? The solution was already there – in the Christian Church.
(the comments are brutal, even by low internet standards)
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
Loblaw admits to bread price-fixing scheme spanning more than 14 years
And Loblaw says it will start offering $25 gift cards on Jan. 8 to customers who declare they bought certain (as yet unnamed) breads at some of its (as yet unnamed) chains before March 1, 2015 – a gesture that the company says could cost as much as $150-million.
Thursday, December 7, 2017
i’ve got my photos back online, and this time they’re accessible within WordPress, where before i used a subdomain and separate software (tried a few, didn’t much like any of them). In a few minutes photos.mooresie.net will work, or you can hit the link at the top menu right now.
Learning lots lately.
Thursday, November 30, 2017
Girl Asks Rick And Morty’s Co-Author How To Cope With Depression, Does Not Expect His Response
Dark thoughts will echo off the walls of your skull, they will distort and magnify. When you open your mouth (or an anonymous journal or blog or sketchpad), these thoughts go out. They’ll be back but you gotta get em OUT. Vent them. Tap them. I know you don’t want to but try it.
