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It refuses to open files it doesn't like the filetype of, it won't save as an arbitrary filetype, it defaults to being a variable-width font and it has a few too many bells and whistles because it's clearly meant to edit RTF files, I'd say. Sometimes you want something completely spartan.

I know Miranda who wrote this is a pretty heavyhanded US liberal, can't help but hear quite a lot of trump in the way Mikkelsen reads "Bye Bye":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMWsYJxCK4I

I wonder if this song was intended to be more revealing to a US-pop-culture-brained consumer, but the reference didn't land?

by body count? the soviets

> New Bloomberg Terminal for 2 EUR / month

no it isn't, good content, bad title

while I'm hopeful google will be responsible long-term maintainers of this accessibility feature, given their "ship and drop" attitude (music, reader, podcasts, stadia...) I'm glad they've chosen to open source this. In any case, an exciting project!

pandoc as a service, mad times we live in, best of luck I suppose

if there were, globally, no copyright at all in any "ai" generated images, and one confidently thought there never would be, then simply using the images, in the case that one only needed one or two images, would probably be fine.

however if there were large nations in which the law was still in flux or unclear, or one wanted to generate new images on the fly without fear of rate-limiting or refusal of service, then one would potentially wish to work out an arrangement.

the thing I've found teaching is that the place scratch really shines is teaching kids who are a bit too young to "get" Python. I think it's related to their language/visual intuition but a seven year old will be able to pick up quite complex things in Scratch visually without being able to grasp fairly basic things in Python. Give them a couple of years in the oven with or without Scratch and they'll be much more confident and ready in picking up Python, but scratch can teach them a lot in the mean time.

I was obsessed with scratch as a child. It was my way in to computer programming, and I've taught in schools using it. It's an incredible tool and I'll hype it up any chance I get! It really is a miracle!

this comment section is a little grim, I guess it's a bit expected that the audience for hacker news skews nerdy, single and male, but it feels worth saying that you're still likely all fairly attractive guys! hang on to a good attitude, care deeply about the things you care about, get a good barber and you'll be out of the dating abyss soon!

can confirm, went from being a 5/10 guy to a 5/10 trans woman, attitude changes real fast when you go from 0 matches to too many matches (and loads of guys aren't even interested in trans women!)

The disparity also makes tinder basically useless since it's clear that many guys are just swiping right on everyone, sure in their head they do believe they'll take what they can get, but if they're not doing any filtering then the fundamental contract of the swipe system is broken, that both of you are actively and on consideration interested in one another.

>If you say that there are only two genders I’ll drag you

is my drag not free speech too? If one insults me (or says something to me I consider insulting), I should be allowed to insult them right back, right?

Free speech is "about" whatever is in the first amendment

Lol, USAian moment, how about the other 7.7 billion of us?

I am not a liberal. Many people are not. The paradox of tolerance is the easy counterarguement to this.

If you choose to never do anything in response to the things people say that's your perogative, I on the other hand can listen just fine to other people and my response to the things they say might be to tell them to stop saying it. "I don't believe you should be allowed to say this without consequence" is also a thing one can say.

you're almost bang on here, but don't forget "prefer not to say"! Also you only need that text box if you actually GAF (which many do but half the time you'll throw it away), otherwise some poor data-cruncher is gong to be filtering out 100 "attack helicopters" and fifty misspellings of "womnan"

Conflating mastodon and activitypub might fly in your title or your seo, but this is a technical comunity of technical people and we're all clickbait-averse pedants, so maybe use an honest title here?

sam frankman-bied

this reminds me of the compsoc cookbook(https://github.com/compsoc-edinburgh/cook-book), a git based cookbook made by members of the university of edinburghs computing society, it tends to get some new activity when a new term starts

it's an acronym, Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Bound. So if you're struggling to read books say, "Finish this book by the end of the month" is:

Specific: read the book Measurable: no ambiguity as to whether you've read it Achievable: a month is a reasonable amount of time to finish a book in Relevant: read a book to improve your reading habits Time-bound: it's not a project that'll hang over you for ages, you're done at the end of the month

> However, if you are too lazy to use your imagination to decide what alignment a character might be, then maybe role-playing isn’t for you

Using your imagination around the roll of a dice is the entire point of using dice in an rpg, if I just wanted to make this stuff up with no rules and no restrictions then I'd be writing a novel

so there's not a clear "why" on this page, just a "download" digging for it yields the wiki which says:

"Why Linux? More applications Linux can run many different types of applicatons. No matter what you're trying to do, an application exists for Linux. ChromeOS is very limited. Sure, NaCl (Native Client) brings the ability to run native code to ChromeOS, but that's a hack at best, and there's still no good software to take advantage of it. With Linux you can install any Linux compatible software, totally natively. Firefox, Transmission (BitTorrent), LibreOffice, Steam, VLC Media Player, Kodi Media Center, the GIMP, VirtualBox, and many more are available on Linux to do things that simply aren't possible on ChromeOS. "

which... isn't true? chromeos can run at least most of those just fine, and has been able to for a while? https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/9145439?hl=en

I disagree fairly fundamentally with this, I've been a club teacher in primary schools, and scratch is such a good teaching tool for kids that to this day I marvel at it.

I want to evaluate lamdatalk against scratch on the principals on which scratch was built, low floor, high ceiling, wide walls:

Low Floor: I can show a child the program "when space key pressed, Move 10 steps" they'll need to be able to read, and they'll need to know what the "space key" is (they've been weaned on touch screens remember), and then they'll understand it. further, they can then hit the space key and immediately see state change. They can use scratch on any computer they have access to at home from a browser.

Lambdatalk will also require them to know how to read, and I'll need to explain what "lambda" means to a young child, and probably how to pronounce it. I'll need to say what the arguments to a function are, and what "argument" means, and what way round they should go. I'll need to explain to them why they should care, a moving character is immediately interesting to a child, this lambda has limited use to them. if they want to type it out I'll need to show them how to type a curly bracket. They'll need to download and run a program to use lambdatalk, on a PC they probably don't own. (or use this inscrutable sandbox I guess? http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdaspeech/?view=sandbox)

High ceiling: There's a lot you can do in scratch, people regularly post rudimentary raytracers or highly polished games on the scratch website. That said it has some limitations. It doesn't interact with the web at large, it's slow & hard to do work in 3d, and impossible to match the likes of a real game engine, kids tend to want to graduate upwards after a while.

I was expecting to find http libraries or some impressive demos for high end lambdatalk, but I can't see them, it may be more performant, but I can't actually see the same level of demoscene work as exists in scratch. I wasn't expecting to but I've got to give this one too, to scratch

Wide walls: Kids make games, animations, toys, mocked-up os'es, sounds, and conversation bots in scratch, there's a lot to do with it

Lambdatalk just, doesn't have so much? if a kid says they want to make something in scratch they often can, unless it's 3d or requires wider internet access, lamdbatalk doesn't seem to provide so much.

In conclusion, don't rag on scratch for clicks, it's an educators miracle, and when kids want to "graduate" up to more, they're looking for more possibilities, not harder challenges, like html, or python libraries that let them interact with the web, or 3d engines that let them make the kinds of games they like to play. As an adult I think lambdatalk seems like a cool toy, and I'll put some time into playing with it.

kids want to make the kinds of things they like to use.