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Some initial thoughts on #Clojure, which I've been learning for an upcoming project.
- For unknown reasons, I have a soft-spot for Lisps, particularly #Scheme. Clojure is a Lisp-1 derivative, like Scheme, so that's an entirely subjective feather in its cap!
- Immutability by default is nice and something I miss in Scheme. It forces you to do functional programming, rather than taking imperative shortcuts.
- Despite my Java prejudice, it being a JVM language is highly pragmatic in terms of the breadth of the ecosystem. (Although I suspect Java's OOP focus may be quite at odds with Clojure's FP, in reality.)
- REPL-driven development is interesting, but I don't think it deserves the hype. Attaching to a REPL within an editor gives a neat feedback loop, but it's clunkier than I expected. I understand you can also attach to running processes and make hot code changes; that sounds like it could be pretty useful...but I haven't got there yet.
- No static type checking is not what I'm used to and it's tripped me up already! There's spec and contracts, etc., but it's not the same.
- Speaking of types, shunting around opaque maps feels kind of gross when there are demonstrably better ways to encapsulate data.
- #Babashka is interesting and might make for a better Bash replacement than Python.Overall, I can't say that I'm sold...but I'm glad I jumped in and I will stick with it. I mean, I kind of have to! But it won't be reluctantly 😅
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> Just a city boy
Go on…> Born and raised in South Detroit
Canada?> He took the midnight train going anywhere
OK, let me stop you there.In 1981, the only station in Windsor, Ontario was the terminus of the line to Toronto. I’m sure one can have a good time in Toronto, but it’s an intercity route. There’s no “midnight train”; arriving in Toronto at 4:30am is unlikely to be economically viable. _Maybe_ he crossed the border into Detroit — US/Canada immigration was a lot more lax 40+ years ago — where there _might_ have been a wider choice of late-night rail services…but frankly this seems a bit too spontaneous for our so-called city boy and his heavily implied ennui.
You’d have hoped a band called #Journey would have done their research. Don’t stop believing, indeed.
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> Just a city boy
Go on…> Born and raised in South Detroit
Canada?> He took the midnight train going anywhere
OK, let me stop you there.In 1981, the only station in Windsor, Ontario was the terminus of the line to Toronto. I’m sure one can have a good time in Toronto, but it’s an intercity route. There’s no “midnight train”; arriving in Toronto at 4:30am is unlikely to be economically viable. _Maybe_ he crossed the border into Detroit — US/Canada immigration was a lot more lax 40+ years ago — where there _might_ have been a wider choice of late-night rail services…but frankly this seems a bit too spontaneous for our so-called city boy and his heavily implied ennui.
You’d have hoped a band called #Journey would have done their research. Don’t stop believing, indeed.
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I haven’t done a #cheese update for a while, so without further ado:
Manchego 🇪🇸: An old favourite of mine, with that characteristic sheep’s milk tartness — but it’s subtle; not like feta, for example — and a crumbly texture. So good! I need to get more 😁
Emmental 🇨🇭: As promised, I gave this another go, now with my (hopefully more refined) palate. It tastes how I remember it, but I don’t hate it any more. I find it a bit rubbery — it’s quite a “cheap and cheerful” product, at least in the UK — but I’d eat it again.
Gouda 🇳🇱: Similarly, I’m familiar with gouda being a bit of an everyday cheese here, but I found a premium brand and…I really love it. It has a taste similar to a good mature cheddar, without the sharpness and the texture is completely different: smoooooth 😎
Comté 🇫🇷: I’ve already written a lot about my new-found (almost) favourite, but I thought I’d try a few different brands to see how much it varied. Turns out, despite the PDO, quite a lot! So I’ve cornered myself into only buying the expensive stuff. There are worse things to spend one’s money on, I suppose!
Finally, @sanityinc has nerd-snipped me into thinking about how to design an experiment to explore the cheese-dream connection. I’ve discovered that the usual suspect, tryptophan, may not be the active ingredient after all. Other contenders are tyramine and the metabolic effect cheese digestion has on sleeping (i.e., cheese mightn’t produce vivid dreams, but causes sleep disturbance that enables you to remember the dreams you’d normally be having).
The research continues!… 🧀
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SCONES! FOR DINNER!!1!
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Maybe I’m going senile, but I could not figure out how to post a letter in the #RoyalMail ‘s “upgraded”, solar powered, Internet-connected pillar boxes that allow you to send parcels. Is it not possible, or have I just lost it?
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Maybe I’m going senile, but I could not figure out how to post a letter in the #RoyalMail ‘s “upgraded”, solar powered, Internet-connected pillar boxes that allow you to send parcels. Is it not possible, or have I just lost it?
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Another #showerthought -- long shower, today 😉
In the UK, many government departments are named "HM something-or-other"; that is, "His Majesty's". For example, HMRC = His Majesty's Revenue and Customs.
When I was a kid -- yes, I was a strange child -- and it was "_Her_ Majesty's", it occurred to me that it was a remarkable coincidence that the third person genitive pronouns both start with an "H" in English. Think of the tax-savings from the signage not needing to change with the gender of the monarch!
Sweet summer child.
Nowadays, think of the Daily Mail headlines when we get our first non-binary monarch:
"FROM HMRC TO TMRC: The one-letter woke change that will cost EVERY family £847"
I hope I live to see the day!
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Another #showerthought -- long shower, today 😉
In the UK, many government departments are named "HM something-or-other"; that is, "His Majesty's". For example, HMRC = His Majesty's Revenue and Customs.
When I was a kid -- yes, I was a strange child -- and it was "_Her_ Majesty's", it occurred to me that it was a remarkable coincidence that the third person genitive pronouns both start with an "H" in English. Think of the tax-savings from the signage not needing to change with the gender of the monarch!
Sweet summer child.
Nowadays, think of the Daily Mail headlines when we get our first non-binary monarch:
"FROM HMRC TO TMRC: The one-letter woke change that will cost EVERY family £847"
I hope I live to see the day!
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Here's a #showerthought conspiracy theory for you 🙊
The closure of the #StraitOfHormuz was actually the intended consequence of the war with Iran. The US buddied up with Israel to use regime change and denuclearisation as a pretext for its actual objective of causing a serious energy supply problem in Asia and thus weakening their economies...particularly China. The global effect was either seen as a reasonable trade-off, or simply not cared about (given this came as something of a surprise to Western heads of states).
From what I've read, the closure of the strait has been wargamed extensively -- and it was even attempted before by Iran in the '80s -- so that was inevitable. The gamble, I suppose, was whether Asian countries' relationships with Russia is good enough for them to pivot to Russia as an energy supplier. Given the continued furore reported in the press, perhaps that gamble paid off.
Just to be clear: this is a thought. I have no evidence for this whatsoever and my knowledge of geopolitics and energy markets is pretty limited! (I don't approve, either, if it turns out to be true.) Moreover, I couldn't for a second "credit" -- if that's the right word -- Trump for such a plan...but I don't underestimate US military strategists in general.
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Here's a #showerthought conspiracy theory for you 🙊
The closure of the #StraitOfHormuz was actually the intended consequence of the war with Iran. The US buddied up with Israel to use regime change and denuclearisation as a pretext for its actual objective of causing a serious energy supply problem in Asia and thus weakening their economies...particularly China. The global effect was either seen as a reasonable trade-off, or simply not cared about (given this came as something of a surprise to Western heads of states).
From what I've read, the closure of the strait has been wargamed extensively -- and it was even attempted before by Iran in the '80s -- so that was inevitable. The gamble, I suppose, was whether Asian countries' relationships with Russia is good enough for them to pivot to Russia as an energy supplier. Given the continued furore reported in the press, perhaps that gamble paid off.
Just to be clear: this is a thought. I have no evidence for this whatsoever and my knowledge of geopolitics and energy markets is pretty limited! (I don't approve, either, if it turns out to be true.) Moreover, I couldn't for a second "credit" -- if that's the right word -- Trump for such a plan...but I don't underestimate US military strategists in general.
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Here's a #showerthought conspiracy theory for you 🙊
The closure of the #StraitOfHormuz was actually the intended consequence of the war with Iran. The US buddied up with Israel to use regime change and denuclearisation as a pretext for its actual objective of causing a serious energy supply problem in Asia and thus weakening their economies...particularly China. The global effect was either seen as a reasonable trade-off, or simply not cared about (given this came as something of a surprise to Western heads of states).
From what I've read, the closure of the strait has been wargamed extensively -- and it was even attempted before by Iran in the '80s -- so that was inevitable. The gamble, I suppose, was whether Asian countries' relationships with Russia is good enough for them to pivot to Russia as an energy supplier. Given the continued furore reported in the press, perhaps that gamble paid off.
Just to be clear: this is a thought. I have no evidence for this whatsoever and my knowledge of geopolitics and energy markets is pretty limited! (I don't approve, either, if it turns out to be true.) Moreover, I couldn't for a second "credit" -- if that's the right word -- Trump for such a plan...but I don't underestimate US military strategists in general.
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Here's a #showerthought conspiracy theory for you 🙊
The closure of the #StraitOfHormuz was actually the intended consequence of the war with Iran. The US buddied up with Israel to use regime change and denuclearisation as a pretext for its actual objective of causing a serious energy supply problem in Asia and thus weakening their economies...particularly China. The global effect was either seen as a reasonable trade-off, or simply not cared about (given this came as something of a surprise to Western heads of states).
From what I've read, the closure of the strait has been wargamed extensively -- and it was even attempted before by Iran in the '80s -- so that was inevitable. The gamble, I suppose, was whether Asian countries' relationships with Russia is good enough for them to pivot to Russia as an energy supplier. Given the continued furore reported in the press, perhaps that gamble paid off.
Just to be clear: this is a thought. I have no evidence for this whatsoever and my knowledge of geopolitics and energy markets is pretty limited! (I don't approve, either, if it turns out to be true.) Moreover, I couldn't for a second "credit" -- if that's the right word -- Trump for such a plan...but I don't underestimate US military strategists in general.
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Here's a #showerthought conspiracy theory for you 🙊
The closure of the #StraitOfHormuz was actually the intended consequence of the war with Iran. The US buddied up with Israel to use regime change and denuclearisation as a pretext for its actual objective of causing a serious energy supply problem in Asia and thus weakening their economies...particularly China. The global effect was either seen as a reasonable trade-off, or simply not cared about (given this came as something of a surprise to Western heads of states).
From what I've read, the closure of the strait has been wargamed extensively -- and it was even attempted before by Iran in the '80s -- so that was inevitable. The gamble, I suppose, was whether Asian countries' relationships with Russia is good enough for them to pivot to Russia as an energy supplier. Given the continued furore reported in the press, perhaps that gamble paid off.
Just to be clear: this is a thought. I have no evidence for this whatsoever and my knowledge of geopolitics and energy markets is pretty limited! (I don't approve, either, if it turns out to be true.) Moreover, I couldn't for a second "credit" -- if that's the right word -- Trump for such a plan...but I don't underestimate US military strategists in general.
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I made a thing! Learning Scheme for reals while contributing to the ecosystem…and getting paid for it! Living the dream ☺️
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@weekend_editor There’s a cooperative multitasking joke in here somewhere #fibre
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Not being able to read the news for nearly a year has left me with 2,500 dormant tabs. #Sidebery did a good job of unloading their state, but given how flakey my browser has been recently, maybe I’ve reached “straw that breaks the camel’s back” territory… Now decanted into bookmarks. Let’s see if that helps and maybe _maybe_ one day I’ll get round to catching up with everything!
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#Zootropolis2 was pretty good. The Shining bit gave me a good laugh. It is also replete with some excellent animal-based puns…except for one. Huluzoo. Huluzoo!? Surely Zoolu would have been better?
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Weird #iOS bug: This (and only this) app has this drop shadow behind its description. No amount of tweaking seems to remove it 🤷
Edit: More precisely, all app icon text has a drop shadow, but only #MerlinBirdID is misaligned.