numeromancer

Is it April 1st already?

Congratulations on your victory. You left that man of straw in utter tatters.

"When the facts change..."

So it is possible to go back in time! Good to know.

AKA "Best practices"

The only winning move is not to play.

I don't think that they made this argument because they want to promote ISIS. I think they made it because they want to promote content for CNN, MSNBC, Pfizer, Fox News and whoever else gives them money to do so.

Canonical releases Ubuntu 23.04 Luzer Lockdown

Homines libenter id quod volunt, credunt.

They did test it: see Project Follow Through. They didn't like the results, so they ignored them.

This instruction book was authored by Siegfried Engelmann, who, among others, developed Direct Instruction. In the late 60s/early 70s there was a thorough comparison of various teaching methods called Project Follow-through; Direct Instruction did far better than all of the other methods. The results of this study were devoutly ignored by the educational establishment, and often denigrated as being "authoritarian".

Englemann, along with another educational researcher, Douglas Carnine, authored a work called Theory of Instruction, which is as disciplined and scientific a work as you can find in a "soft" subject like education, and expounds the theoretical basis behind their effective methods.

This project will be like a cancer for the rust community.

> These school people hate literature. It stands for everything that they stand against. A work of literature comes from one, solitary mind, not from the consensus of a collective. It is an unequivocal assertion that this is so. It abides, or it dies, but it will not negotiate. It comes before us neither as a supplicant nor a defendant, but as a judge. It cares nothing for our favorite notions or our self-esteem. And it offends in us what most deserves offense–petulant sectarian touchiness, facile social supposition, and especially smug self-righteousness. Thus it is that the educationists’ literature is not the real thing. They must abbreviate it, or amend it, or–and this is their usual practice–elucidate it, lest their students fail to appreciate correctly its relevance to “the issues being examined.” And should the work at hand have nothing to do with the issues they want to examine, they must concoct an “instructional material” and call it Jack and the Beanstalk.

-- The Underground Grammarian

https://sourcetext.com/grammarian-newslettersv06-html/

You might like this:

https://based.cooking/

I don't now. I had updated AHK through `scoop`, and saw the pop-up about downloading a previous version which I didn't understand at the time. Then proceeded to find that my scripts were broken, went to the AHK site and saw the V2 info. I played with updating my script for a little, then postponed it and let AHK regress for now. I was then surprised when I searched HN and found no post about the update, so decided that I would let everyone here know what was afoot.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned this; AHK broke compatibility with this upgrade. I tried upgrading autohotkey and it braked my scripts. It seems to have an auto-regress feature, which is nice. If someone knows where there is a comprehensive this-for-that upgrade guide, that would be nice; I didn't see such a thing on the site.

> Pegasus is spyware developed by the _Israeli_ cyber-arms company NSO Group that can be covertly installed on mobile phones (and other devices) running most versions of iOS and Android.

Chromebook is worse. They pioneered the "in order to use this device which we let you pretend to own you must first attach yourself to our borg" model.

Civilized mothers use covfefe.

It is not appropriate to classify this as fiction for the simple reason that Graham Hancock believes what he is saying. He may be faulting, but he is not feigning.

There are likely already some documentaries which present Dr Dibble's conclusions. Netflix can and should show them.

It was the hacker known as "Canonical".

Movies that I want to see made:

- A David Lynch biopic on Terry Davis.

Cf. https://suckless.org/philosophy/

    > > Snap Store administrators had to remove the snap in accordance with our policies.
    >
    > Thank you for providing an official answer.

An officious answer is more like it. Note the deliberate evasiveness (which policy? Mind your own business.). This is to be expected from an organization one of whose "policies" is "we are going to update apps on 'your' desktop whether you like it or not, luzer."

I used this some time ago, and it seemed the most innovative window manager I had seen. I haven't seen anything like it since.

Edi Weitz gave Common Lisp F-strings before F-strings were cool.

https://edicl.github.io/cl-interpol/

Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from conspiracy.

I refuse to co-operate with those who use diaresis to separate vowels.

In this case it is the lack of this ability which, when you meet it, is unexpected and unintuitive. Think of this as a design-level bug-fix.

You and this guy ought to get together:

https://github.com/libav/c99-to-c89

It also scales with increased qualifiers:

    static inline const unsigned int *
    function()