@drscriptt @furicle i assume understanding full well why you need admin rights to do X, but still regularly trying to do it without the local sudo equivalent first and swearing when you remember, and then swearing even more when you fail to type your password correctly twice, is perfectly ok though ;-)

new bloggery, in which i am stumped by generational garbage collection https://wingolog.org/archives/2025/02/09/baffled-by-generational-garbage-collection

@wingo thanks! (but gosh, those slides render slowly on my poor little GX-420GI-based thin client...)

ed. only on xpdf, they're fine on zathura using the poppler engine 🤷‍♀️

@janneke

@janneke @wingo i can't watch the video, and there don't appear to be downloadable transcript or slides

@tante @brianmerchant the version of Luddism that the people who defeated it made sure was recorded in the history books, a kneejerk rejection of all things technological? or real Luddism, which insisted that technology should only ever be deployed as augmentation to labour, rather than used to replace it in order to destroy labourers' collective power?

because i'm reading a lot of people in your comments here who appear to have taken it to mean the former, and... when the latter is perhaps more necessary than ever before, that's annoying.

@alcinnz @phryk @vertigo not necessarily interpreted - but interactive is a must. incremental compilation to bytecode or threaded code (like Forth, or Smalltalk, or some Lisps) is especially useful, because it combines the compactness of tokenisation (thus making the most of the memory available) with a turn of speed you can't get otherwise.

@onepict @fsfe if i only could...

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THIS IS FINE

Drew Barrymore pauses the show until the strike is over.

More proof that bullying the rich into making ethical decisions is important and the morally correct thing to do

Auto workers are demanding a 40% raise to match the 40% pay increase CEOs of the Detroit automakers got over the past 4 years.

CEOs are calling this absurd, but they couldn't be more wrong.

THIS IS A COMPROMISE. Why? Because worker's real wages have fallen 30% over the past 20 years. They're foregoing 16 years of wage theft for 4 of equity, and consistent equity going forward. That's basic justice.

Pay workers. Unionize workers. Tax billionaires. Save our economy.

@sarahdal reminds me, i found a couple of cheque books the other day that i basically haven't needed since i packed them away, nearly 7 years ago

and after getting through that i was told i needed to sign in or sign up to access the source. no anonymous access??

FUCK OFF CLOUDFLARE

this is what i got trying to look at the #Veilid source code. which... you know, raises some questions

oh ouch, Core 2 Duos have slipped into "retro" while i wasn't looking

@Mek101 @alcinnz not necessarily. look at Chez Scheme, for example. uses tagged pointers on the C stack.

@mike "have you tried having a script?"

@ianewing @tedivm it'd also be nice if the tech workers putting up a whinge actually gave a little thought to the idea "this is what you can make happen when you unionise"

if you're going to post a video about something informative, please please please try to find a written article conveying the same information!

@leah i just tried it, and it happily pasted back the several rows i deleted with dr as columns - so thanks! (the bigger problem might that sc crashes if you try to delete too much at once...)

@leah i've scoured the sc documentation, but i can't find out how - can you tell me?

is there a text-mode (DOS or Posix) spreadsheet that can trivially switch rows and columns, so you can view your spreadsheet sideways with a single command?