Andrew Miloradovsky @amiloradovsky@functional.cafe

English has dropped 2nd person singular (thou) in favor of plural (you) — polite form.
Is going to drop 3rd person singular (he/she/it) in favor of plural (they) — gender neutral.
Why not also drop 1st person singular (I) in favor of plural (we) — it's a problem for all sorts of clerks, should I refer to myself personally or the group I represent? Most often the latter is preferable.

@amiloradovsky To go a little further with this, I think Madore’s entry is a good starting point: http://www.madore.org/~david/weblog/d.2015-03-20.2284.html ☺

He explains better than me that it is really not about “English being bad”. Just that English is a very bad fit for international communication.

@amiloradovsky it's a black hole really, you think you can avoid it but you can't

They smashed it!!
🎉 🍾 😊
https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/en/projects/peertube-a-free-and-federated-video-platform

#PeerTube is only €4200 away from reaching their first stretch goal! Two days left to chip in!

https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/en/projects/peertube-a-free-and-federated-video-platform

TFW Adam effin' Smith himself writes that labour is the ONLY way to determine the true value of a good or service ("Labour, therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities" in "The Theory of Moral Sentiments") but people still reject the LTOV because Marx.

Generating mutually recursive definitions (in MetaOCaml)

(* Paper accepted to ML 2018 *)

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jdy22/papers/generating-mutually-recursive-definitions.pdf

@cypnk

Lil' ladyboops. #mastocats

""An SSL error has occurred and a secure connection to the server cannot be made." - William Shakespeare"

Visual augmentation of source code editors: A systematic review https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.02074

A useful paper categorising all the different ways IDEs can show additional metadata alongside the code.

For example, they show this cute plugin (Clepsydra) that shows worst case runtime.

It snowed here last night, on the mountaintops - snow in this part of South Africa is pretty rare, so my friend picked me up and we went driving over one of the local mountain passes to go through the snow, and took the doggies with us. This was just after coming down the pass on the other side into the town of Franschoek.

#Photography

pscircle: Visualizes Linux processes in a radial tree
https://gitlab.com/mildlyparallel/pscircle

Since I have been trouble finding the right RAM for my Lenovo X200. Has anyone successfully upgraded said device to 8GB RAM and which DIMMS did you use? Pls boost.

#askmastodon

Love doing open source software! So fulfilling! Users so grateful!

https://mastodon.club/media/ZJ7gyKrXE9BUjD88pRk