Anupam 《ミ》λ≡

Founder Functional Programming India, Concur UI framework.

“It’s all fine, if the compiler says it’s fine”.
"Rage against walled gardens"

#Haskell #Purescript #Rust #FunctionalProgramming #Linux #Coffee #Robotics #3DPrinting #India #FOSS #Spanish #Japanese #Atheism

Functional Programming India: https://functionalprogramming.in/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AnupamJainTheFirst
Gitlab: https://gitlab.com/ajnsit
Github: https://github.com/ajnsit

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2024-09-20 06:29:14

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The next best use case for #AI is the "corporate jargon shock collar"

2024-09-04 09:03:36

Instead of frickin "AI" how about we use our compute resources for #simulation? Simulate, plan, and optimise all public resources!

2024-09-04 08:58:34

Is something like this possible for an Indian city? I would love to explore the streets of #Delhi virtually - https://github.com/team-watchdog/colombo-skylines
#India

2024-09-02 12:49:39

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Ah! This is basically what I want! I wonder how reliable shipping to #India would be

2024-09-02 12:46:20

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Yeah they definitely have their use cases, but I want them to stop sucking the air out of the entire ecosystem

2024-09-02 11:07:52

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In particular, I wish touchscreen tablet interfaces would go away

2024-09-02 10:59:20

My dream mobile #workstation has -
1. A keyboard attached with a hinge and clicky keys
2. 7' screen form factor
3. Real #Linux with acceptable performance
That's it. The bar is not high people!

2024-09-02 05:46:16

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I absolutely feel poor compile times. It's a pleasure when the dev tooling is blazing fast

2024-09-01 18:49:56

"How ancient #India shaped the west"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/01/hidden-story-ancient-india-west-maths-astronomy-historians

2024-09-01 06:01:06

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get out of here!

2024-09-01 05:47:47

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you jumped into my timeline. I would appreciate it if you stay out of it the next time you get the urge to pontificate

2024-09-01 05:42:00

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I don't think you have "explained" anything. But whatever floats your boat

2024-08-31 16:42:33

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Instead of the socratic method, how about you come to the point?

2024-08-31 16:35:24

This. #Types are not just a lifestyle. A type signature is important #documentation about a function's behaviour which cannot get out of date.
https://vt.social/@lina/113056457969145576
#Rust #StrongStaticTypes

2024-08-31 16:18:49

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Okay so I understand emergence, but what is the connection here?

2024-08-31 15:22:43

Things that haven't aged gracefully.
- #Nirula 's mutton sausage #pizza
- The movie #KalHoNaHo
Guess how we decided to spend Saturday evening

2024-08-31 15:05:55

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I think it's incorrect to put this responsibility on the public. The govt must provide adequate, safe, and comfortable public transportation around the same time cars can are taken away. We can't fault the people for using the only means of transport realistically available to them.

2024-08-31 13:33:06

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Agree with all

2024-08-31 13:32:14

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What is the difference between "complicatedness" and complexity?

2024-08-31 13:31:20

I would be in favor of banning all private #cars in #India

2024-08-30 13:05:40

There is a fundamental difference between #complexity for the sake of convenience (I can build an entire app quickly. Think #JavaScript framework of the day), vs complexity for the sake of robustness (I can make changes to the app quickly without introducing new bugs. Think #Rust or #Haskell).
When you are not familiar with the tech, both can look the same, but they are not. The latter is actually #simplicity in disguise

2024-08-30 12:26:07

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Sure, I get how wikipedia is tiny and volunteer driven, and as a consequence things like this may not be high priority.
However I still want to highlight the issue that this *could* be a lot more frictionless in India. Indian payment systems are not as cumbersome as US payment systems, and I would be happy to see a deeper integration someday. If the Indian govt has some regulatory restriction here (which it well may), I would be glad to read more about it.

2024-08-30 11:12:30

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UPI is not anonymous. Your UPI id is directly associated to your bank account and your identity easily traceable by the govt

2024-08-30 09:58:03

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decorator, wrapper, higher order, all seem acceptable to me.

2024-08-30 09:56:11

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I'm not seeing tethered net as a separate option in the anti features setting, and organic maps only shows up when I allow "others", which is slightly concerning. I'm using fdroid basic 1.20.

2024-08-29 14:05:49

Go donate to #KDE - https://pointieststick.com/2024/08/28/asking-for-donations-in-plasma/

2024-08-29 14:04:35

#Thunderbird appointment - https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/08/plan-less-do-more-introducing-appointment-by-thunderbird/

2024-08-29 14:01:37

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Sure perhaps it's not a bug, but it broke Nix, which was my point

2024-08-29 10:21:42

#Linux is magic. Here are some tools I recently encountered that work only on Linux due to the aforementioned magic -
Inspect a command's effect before committing it to the filesystem - https://github.com/binpash/try
Box up misbehaving applications, forcing them to put files into the right place - https://github.com/queer/boxxy

2024-08-29 09:14:54

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Turns out that doing this is not enough. Sometimes the image would be copied but won't paste. You need the application to stay alive in the background for the paste to work correctly. ShareToClipboard also suffers from the same problem. Well it's fixed in KlipOn now.
#android

2024-08-29 06:09:39

I understand that this is probably regulatory, but why do I need to provide my personal information just to donate to #wikipedia? Just give me a #UPI QR code!
#India

2024-08-29 04:26:29

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Yeah this is the read only file system bug, but it's not the only one I have encountered (though it was the worst). For example the switch to AppleFS broke many tools. And things occasionally break due to the case insensitive filesystem on MacOS. MacOS can't read NTFS disks (which is what I use on external hard disks for windows+linux compatibility), nor can anything else read applefs disks. Doing anything dev related on MacOS just feels like building a house on sand which may shift anytime. Linux's security model in contrast has been rock solid for decades

2024-08-29 04:13:05

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I get it, these paid PIM apps are probably prettier and have a better UX than what comes built in with say KDE. I just think that the tradeoff in dev productivity is not worth it

2024-08-28 17:40:06

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I guess your 5 year threshold just misses the Mojave update that broke every nix installation ever for months until the community found a fix?

2024-08-28 15:27:22

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This post was only half in jest. I mean, why would you choose to buy an expensive dev machine where basic dev things like docker and nix have issues, you don't get access to a large chunk of the massive linux ecosystem, and give up on compatibility between the production environment (almost certainly Linux) and your dev env.
And on top of that you can't even customize things your way, or try a different DE or distro, or decide what runs on your own hardware, and where basic OS functionality requires paying even more money,
All the while contributing to making the richest corporation on earth richer,
But it's pretty I guess.

2024-08-28 15:08:45

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You must be extraordinarily lucky because almost every single major mac update has caused issues for me. More than once the machine has stopped booting entirely. This is not even counting issues with things like Nix

2024-08-28 11:31:52

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TBF most people don't use FreeBSD because they have never heard of it

2024-08-28 11:12:55

Would you want to swim with one hand tied behind your back? Why do you use #MacOS instead of #Linux?
*ducks*

2024-08-27 06:17:54

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I also have to give a shout out to another rock solid piece of software written by the same author (Kovid Goyal) that I use every day - #Kitty the terminal emulator

2024-08-27 06:13:35

One application that solves a real pressing need, gets work done flawlessly, and stays out of my way is #Calibre. Such a rock solid sturdy piece of software with no integrated crap. It makes my many Kindle devices usable again

2024-08-26 11:54:36

(Very) controversial opinion: The best feel-good family-friendly #movie ever is #MainHooNa
#Bollywood #Hollywood

2024-08-26 09:26:43

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Thanks! I should have known someone would have built this already. It's ridiculous it's not inbuilt functionality in Android

2024-08-25 12:42:53

Wrote a tiny #android app to solve a daily pain point - https://github.com/fpindia/KlipOn
Basically many apps on android don't have a "copy to clipboard" option for images. With this app installed, you can share the image with this app, and it will copy it to the clipboard
#TinyApps

2024-08-25 08:34:55

Remind me why anyone uses #Airtel anymore? Their service keeps getting worse everyday, and today even the employees at an Airtel store were incredibly incompetent. I do believe this company is going the #Boeing way

2024-08-24 04:39:26

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I love my projects, I hate CSS

2024-08-23 07:50:59

Started reading the empire series by #Asimov. Honestly the first book in the series (The stars, like dust) is terrible so far. It seems a caricature of Asimov's other works, or someone trying to write like Asimov and failing

2024-08-23 03:10:21

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I've used this before, unfortunately it uses the older qwidget system when I wanted to use QML

2024-08-22 13:10:41

I accidentally set 'Esc' as a shortcut to move windows focus in #KDE, and had a very confusing few minutes of #Vim until I figured it out

2024-08-21 19:46:37

Linux keeps on chugging!
https://ostechnix.com/linux-market-share-july-2024-report/
#Linux #Windows #MacOS

2024-08-21 15:59:44

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No great insight behind it, just a stupid joke about the fake numbers that power the financial world.
Market cap = price per share × total number of shares
Price of share = amount paid to the company / number of shares received
So if I pay any amount to the company and receive *zero* shares, the price per share, and hence the market cap of the company goes to infinity 🤷🏻‍♂️

2024-08-21 13:37:53

Technically, every time I donate money, I send the market cap of the company soaring to infinity

2024-08-21 13:35:32

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there's always finance. In the future we might need even larger numbers to denote market cap /s

2024-08-21 09:48:23

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Even with electric vehicles, the problem of traffic remains no?

2024-08-21 09:46:58

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A V2X system would work wonders in India https://www.itskrs.its.dot.gov/v2x
- It needs to work off a cellphone, likely an easily installable FOSS app
- It needs to work without any configurable settings at all. The system needs to be an install and forget system for the Indian population to use it
- It needs to be integrated with a mapping application
- Above all, it needs to be a self reinforcing feedback loop. Using the app should reward you with a smoother journey, leading to more people using the app, leading to better and better coordination. The prisoners dilemma is all too real in everything you do in India. If someone can save a couple of minutes at the cost of screwing 100s of others out of hours, they would do it without even thinking about it

2024-08-17 16:42:51

How do we fix the #traffic #problem in #India? It's such a drain on national productivity and mental energy

2024-08-16 12:56:17

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Names are words. Why not phrases? When communicating with others using natural language, we don't give names to every concept, but we instead generate phrases and sentences on the fly. Programming, should be like natural language, composed of a smaller number of primitives that can be combined in many ways without having to create pointers to parts of the structure. In the existing programming languages yes you need to depend on descriptive names, but the ideal programming language would be expressive enough to not require it. Where you can read a "paragraph" of code in one go and understand it perfectly, without jumping around, without thinking about its dependencies to anywhere else in the code.
We can do that in English. I can say "and at those words, it was done". There are lots of things left unspecified, but you understand the meaning of this phrase perfectly without having to name what "those words" are, or what was done, or by whom. Without knowing any context at all, you can manipulate the logic, for example to negate the meaning and say "and even at those words, it was not done". It feels natural, and I feel that this is easier for the human mind to understand and manipulate than a scheme with a lot of names and pointers to other things. I'm imagining lawyer speak - "and when the party of the first part, said the words as described in paragraph 24 of the preceding section, the work as described in the contract signed between the aforementioned parties was completed by the party of the second part".

2024-08-16 08:45:24

#Apple vs the free market
Why consumers continue to support this insane model is beyond me. Cut out Apple from your life *today*
https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/15/private-law/

2024-08-16 06:34:14

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Thankfully in this case the storyline wasn't building up to some big reveal or climax that was messed up. It was more the case of the finale being unexpectedly bad TV which was a bit disappointing

2024-08-15 18:36:44

Just finished #StarTrek Enterprise. What a terrible terrible series finale. I hated "These are the voyages..", it was a caricature of the series with its numerous plot contrivances. I did not like "Terra prime" either, though it was definitely better as a finale than the actual finale

2024-08-15 13:50:07

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How do you think the tool works - it uses AI bots to "translate" sanskrit to english. It's a silly idea for password security, but a fun ad!

2024-08-15 13:23:33

Don't name things, I completely agree with everything in this post.
One of the biggest sticking point in #Concur is that I don't want to link parts of an application with dynamic names. A good API composes parts together completely anonymously, so there's no friction in modifying the parts.
This also applies to naming datatypes. Naming datatypes leads to the expression problem where extending datatypes is a pain. Well, extending datatypes is less of a pain if it was built by extending upon primitives in the first place.
https://steveklabnik.com/writing/against-names/

2024-08-14 08:02:12

Avoid hand grenades! Adopt #FunctionalProgramming and #StrongStaticTypes
#FPMeme
https://functional.cafe/system/media_attachments/files/112/959/310/761/921/676/original/c6ca043cc42ab5ad.png

2024-08-14 06:48:41

I'm pleased to report that fractional scaling works flawlessly on #KDE + #Wayland now

2024-08-13 08:23:41

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#Kate is quite good!

2024-08-12 07:58:00

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Should Linux desktops be more polished, yes. Should they look like MacOS, oh god no

2024-08-09 08:26:31

Them: I have built a next gen note taking software
Me: I could use that! But.. please don't be "AI powered", please
Them: It's #AI powered
Me: 😞

2024-08-07 06:22:30

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Oh it doesn't actually "do" anything, it populates a bunch of UI elements for testing.
I am excited because well I got something on screen, and because it only has ~5 lines of C++, with the rest being QML. QML I can write.

2024-08-07 05:33:37

Just wrote a tiny #QT app. I have to say that #QML made it a breeze!
#KDE

2024-08-07 05:30:53

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finally got it working. I only needed cmake and make. This might not be what QT Creator is running, but it's the simplest set of commands I have found that work. Basically these 4 steps -
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

2024-08-06 19:38:24

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Ah I see! Looks like I would need to generate a qmake project file somehow?

2024-08-06 19:02:50

More #KDE and #QT investigation questions -
I created a new project with QT Creator. Now I am trying to figure out the commands it runs so that I can put them in a bash script. When I click run, it somehow creates the build dir before running cmake on it. What is it doing? I see a cmake command in the messages, but those depend on the build dir already existing

2024-08-06 10:34:22

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Thanks, that is helpful!

2024-08-06 10:28:43

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I see. Is there enough support for interacting with and building the UI components themselves? I think those are the hardest APIs to wrap via FFI. I am less concerned about IO access.

2024-08-06 10:14:48

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Are they limited in what QT functionality they can access, or something else?

2024-08-06 10:04:01

Does anyone have a good example of a #KDE 6 application written predominantly in #Javascript? I know #QML includes a JS engine, so something non-trivial using QML with minimal C++ would also work.
My goal is to write native KDE / #QT apps using #PureScript. Any pointers to that end are welcome!

2024-08-05 12:07:33

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Truly the case of two Indias?

2024-08-05 12:03:54

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Sure. I guess I should find some better ones so I can vote for them with my wallet (or atleast with my netflix view count).

2024-08-05 11:52:51

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It's about expectations. I'm fine with violence in a film clearly marked as such, but casual random violence in a "realistic" movie without an inherently violent premise is jarring and inexplicable.
Almost every everyday situation in this movie seems to lead to physical violence. Within the first few minutes - a man asks his boss for time off and gets verbally abused, a man asks the principal of the school to apologise and gets abused and physically beaten up, a man brutally beats up the manager at an auto shop because he lost a pair of sunglasses, a man goes to the police station to file an FIR and gets abused and physically beaten up. I really couldn't watch any more.
It's all rather bizarre. It's as if the target audience thinks that reacting to everything with violence is normal and entertaining.

2024-08-05 10:41:00

Why the hell are #Tamil movies so violent? #Maharaja was completely unwatchable
#India #Movies

2024-08-05 06:26:00

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Kate also has a killer feature missing from most other editors - It supports launching multiple windows for the same workspace, so I can finally use multiple monitors properly!

2024-08-01 15:31:33

Every year #Kanwadiyas destroy what little peace and quiet we can get in India. They make our traffic even worse, indulge in hooliganism, beat up people, destroy public property, play music on loudspeakers at crazy volumes, and there is nothing anyone can do about it.
#Religion is a plague on mankind

2024-08-01 07:35:03

Does anyone know of a way to make payments to #Apple (for Apple TV) without using an Apple device?
I recently moved to #Linux, and while I can login to my account in a browser, I can find no way to update my payment methods or to add funds to the Apple account. If I click on account information, the only option I have is to "Continue on device..", well I don't use that device anymore!

2024-07-31 12:59:36

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Very cool! I have a battery-less doorbell, though I guess it uses the mechanical force from the action of pressing the switch to create a radio signal rather than an ultrasonic one