Jonathan Lamothe

Programmer and free/libre software enthusiast. This is my primary account on the Fediverse. See my website for an authoritative list of accounts.
https://jlamothe.net

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2024-07-27 22:39:14

TIL:
data Foo = Bar { val :: Int } | Baz { val :: Int }
is valid #Haskell. I wouldn't have thought you could define val twice like that.

2024-07-19 19:47:57

Has anyone else been having troubles getting updates from @npub1y8a…5cy0's #Debian repository? The signing key seems to be expired.

2024-07-10 16:21:25

I have come dangerously close to allowing myself to run out of coffee.
This will not do.

2024-07-08 22:38:13

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@npub1n6w…rzel @npub15vz…h7ku Done.

2024-07-07 11:46:00

It rather amazes me the number of people who are suspicious of the pharma industry, who then turn around and put total and absolute faith in the supplement industry.

2024-07-01 01:50:04

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@npub1e9d…mggg Recently, I've been thinking about exploring Friendica's API to possibly build a TUI interface in Haskell, but like with so many other projects, I just haven't gotten around to it.

2024-07-01 00:08:59

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@npub1e9d…mggg Ah, Termux. It's such a fantastic tool. Apart from the browser, it's probably the app that sees the next most usage on my phone.

2024-06-19 20:16:10

Okay, I'll admit it. Using #Haskell to talk to an #SQL database is not my favourite thing.

2024-06-12 00:17:01

Okay, I'm calling uncle.
I've exported the data from the LibreOffice Base database I've been working on to an SQLite file, and I'm just going to write a proper UI for it.

2024-06-07 03:50:21

I've been using #Linux as my primary OS since the 90s, so I've really not been paying attention to Microsoft. Can anyone explain to me how it is they're trying to spin #Recall as a good thing?

2024-05-29 22:08:46

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@npub17jr…vran Though if it's a climate protest, it might confuse the message a little bit.

2024-05-29 00:44:57

Woo! Got my clock module down to two chips total (plus resistors, capacitors, and such).
Really basic stuff, but I'm still learning #KiCad.

2024-05-27 00:07:05

So, last I checked you could still buy PCB mountable sockets for them, bit does anyone know if anyone's still manufacturing NES-compatible controllers?

2024-05-25 20:02:07

All bluetooth audio devices should be required to have a button on them to disconnect and re-enter pairing mode without the device they're connected to relinquishing control.

2024-05-20 00:22:53

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@npub197k…cvys To my knowledge, the US government isn't supplying Russia with weapons. I imagine that's a factor.

2024-05-14 17:08:31

To those who argue "my VPN can't track me because I pay them in bitcoin":
You know they have your IP address, right?

2024-05-13 14:46:23

What if the reason we've never seen a time traveler isn't because it's impossible, but because humanity is going to wipe itself out before anyone figures out how?

2024-05-06 21:13:09

Folks, I've solved the halting problem. Hear me out.
All programs will halt, because if nothing else, the underlying hardware will eventually fail.

2024-04-22 00:55:16

Only in Stardew Valley does eating a jar of mayonnaise make you healthier.

2024-04-18 19:45:21

Does time::OffsetDateTime::now_local() always fail in a testing context or something? It keeps returning Err(IndeterminateOffset).
#rust
Edit: it's working fine when I use it in src/main.rs.

2024-04-09 18:57:19

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Found my first point of irritation. Crates.io requires a GitHub account.
I have one, but I don't like to use it.
That said, creating a crates.io account seems optional-ish...

2024-04-06 21:55:48

Taking another crack at learning #Rust (sorry @npub1n6w…rzel ).

2024-04-05 23:06:43

Diving into the #Veilid documentation... or what I can find of it.
I have an idea that may well turn out to be vapourware, but my brain won't let me drop it if I don't at least try to build it.
I've been itching to do something with Veilid since @npub1a7j…tfef first announced it.

2024-03-28 18:36:20

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@npub1hmh…satr ...which is usually a symlink to /usr/bin/test, if I'm not mistaken.

2024-03-23 20:54:01

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@npub1hmh…satr This is the exact reason I use the GPL. It's not perfect, but it's the best tool I'm aware of.

2024-03-23 20:44:03

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@npub1wax…x0yw Does it actually give it to you in a plain text format?

2024-03-17 14:23:23

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@npub1g2u…pmk3 And it's shocking how little cunning it sometimes takes...

2024-03-06 13:34:07

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@npub1g2u…pmk3 Getting old seems preferable to the alternative.

2024-02-22 01:14:27

Just spent an embarrassingly long time trying to track down a bug in my #LambdaMOO code. Turns out it was the generic function I'd built for folding over a list of values. It was such a stupidly simple function, it hadn't even occurred to me that the problem could be there.

2024-02-18 18:38:56

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@npub197k…cvys I don't understand Freedom Units, but I tried to put everything in the same unit (grams) to give an idea of the sense of scale. My main takeaway is that the glucose measurement makes up somewhere in the ballpark of 1% by mass. The fact that it's possible to get that precise a reading from a single drop of blood is downright bananas.

2024-02-18 16:56:48

When you think about it, blood glucose meters need to be shockingly precise. Let's take a real-world example to illustrate this.
This morning, my glucose levels were 6.7mmol/L. What does that mean? Let me dust off my high school chemistry and bust out a calculator.
The internet tells me that glucose has a chemical composition of C6H12O6, which would give 1mmol of glucose a mass of about 180mg (0.18 grams).
A reading of 6.7mmol/L means that in a litre of blood, there would only be about 1.2 grams of glucose.
For perspective, a litre of water is 1000g. I don't off hand know the density of blood, but I imagine it's not too far off.
My meter was able to tell this from a drop of blood.
That's pretty wild. Can someone check my math on this?

2024-01-30 23:21:06

I'm working on building a sushi bar in #LambdaMOO. Katy and I had the following conversation regarding the waitress I'm currently programming:
Katy: I'm surprised you didn't make her a robot.
Me: I thought about it, but a lot of the other shops are basically run by vending machines. I wanted to give mine a more human touch... though, right now she crashes when anyone talks to her. Humans don't do that.
Katy: Well, some do.
Me: Okay, fair point.

2024-01-22 14:33:20

Sitting in a waiting room in a medical imaging place and they have an ad for their app to get your results on a mobile device. Among other things, it reads:
"Permanently store them with bank level encryption" (emphasis theirs)
In my experience, if banks are their gold standard of #infosec, I really don't want my medical data anywhere near this system. Just sayin'.

2024-01-01 02:39:12

How two introverts celebrate New Year's Eve.
https://social.jlamothe.net/photo/22586819956592254a7d5a6921595972-0.jpg

2023-12-05 18:38:08

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@npub1g2u…pmk3 With the added bonus of instilling the mindset that if you're not successful, you must not have worked hard enough, and it is therefore entirely your fault and no one else's.

2023-11-26 19:25:20

Words I never thought I'd say while making a coffee: "hang on, I'll get the pliers."

2023-11-26 19:24:52

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@npub1g2u…pmk3 It apparently also tells you when you're replying to a thread that's dead for more than a period of time (three months, I think?)

2023-11-12 17:36:09

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@npub15jl…gkx3 Equally important is recognizing that sometimes that healing process involves limiting your interactions with those who did.

2023-11-05 23:06:54

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@npub1g2u…pmk3 Oh God, what's he done now?

2023-10-11 05:05:05

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@npub1hmh…satr I'm confused about what's happening by the third character of the regex. That's impressive. I didn't think a question mark could follow an open paren unless it was an escaped literal.

2023-10-02 23:37:40

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@npub1g2u…pmk3 My theory behind Skynet is that someone trained AI to solve the climate crisis and it determined that eliminating humans was the easiest way to solve the problem.

2023-09-17 19:13:47

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@npub1nsw…ux2a For something that's "dead", I still get an awful lot of use out of it.

2023-08-08 14:11:25

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@npub17jr…vran given that "no action is required on your part" I doubt it. Hopefully if you enable TOTP it will do away with the requirement for anything else.

2023-07-16 00:50:52

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@npub1d98…v3wk What's that? You want to click on that link? How about if I finally load that image up there just in time to shift everything, causing you to click on an ad instead?

2023-07-14 13:27:35

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@npub1sny…v58r The interesting part is that even after a formal diagnosis, I still struggle with the "lazy" label. I can only speak for my own experience though.

2023-07-10 21:58:41

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@npub17yu…qr29 I'm still on the Capaldi episodes.

2023-07-10 21:51:10

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@npub17yu…qr29 I really need to catch up on Doctor Who.

2023-07-07 13:52:29

Why doesn't the F-Droid version of @npub1d68…zk0p support push notifications?

2023-07-06 13:48:41

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@npub1pww…tc65 I can't speak for ASD as I don't (to my knowledge) have it, but I have to admit that I've had a hard time seeing ADHD (which I do have) as anything other than a disorder. Without medication, even basic tasks are much more difficult for me.
I'd like to be able to see it differently though.

2023-07-06 03:07:06

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@npub1qnw…6d6v What annoys me is that Facebook (and Twitter) came pre-installed on my phone and can't be uninstalled. I can only "deactivate" them (whatever that means).

2023-06-17 03:26:11

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@npub17yt…h6n3 I really don't get why people want everything to have an app. Randall Munroe put it best: xkcd.com/1174/

2023-06-14 02:44:57

Sometimes listening to a non-native speaker say things in English serves to highlight how nonsensical the language is.
"I hope everyone are doing well."
I totally get why they would use the plural "are" with "everyone". It kinda doesn't make sense that it's "is".
#EnglishIsWeird

2023-06-09 18:35:05

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@npub1jeq…jglm I guess it's fair to say that it's a compeitor to Mastodon, but not a competitor to the fediverse, in the same way that Calckey is a competitor to Mastodon. This nuance is also probably lost on the general public.

2023-06-01 14:41:37

Woke up this morning to a pleasant 18°C
Me: Hmm, maybe it won't be so oppressively hot today.
Weather: Psych!

2023-05-09 14:23:40

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@npub1pww…tc65 I've actually been using Gitea, though I hear there's been some unpleasantness going on with the corporate end of that.
Might be worth a look.

2023-05-08 13:41:17

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@npub1pww…tc65 Yeah, I used CVS before Git. I started looking at Subversion for a bit, bit the fact that I could run Git without a server was the killer feature for me.

2023-05-07 21:44:31

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@npub1pww…tc65 Some interesting points, though it does seem to have something of a No True Scotsman vibe going on. Does Mercurial address these? It didn't seem to get mentioned at all.

2023-05-07 21:16:28

My understanding of #Mercurial is that it is very comparable with #Git feature-wise. I only use Git because I discovered it first. It just so happens that it seems to have become the de-facto standard version control system these days.
For those who use Mercurial instead: why? Does it offer something that Git does not, or is it simply personal preference/familiarity?

2023-05-05 02:00:06

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@npub1pww…tc65 I imagine that to implement this, you'd have to rebuild the fediverse from scratch. Making encryption mandatory would break legacy support.

2023-05-02 23:49:16

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@npub1t79…jqxd I feel attacked. 🙃