Unshakeable artist cancels Smithsonian show after attempted censorship of Black trans woman painting
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Unshakeable artist cancels Smithsonian show after attempted censorship of Black trans woman painting - LGBTQ Nation
The administration tried to replace her art with a video of people discussing it. She said no.John Russell (LGBTQ Nation)
A third of students are falling behind in NAPLAN. Here’s a school that is bucking the trend
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Personally, I don't think natural language programming is desirable.
I think the strictures of formal languages forcing you to think in slightly more narrow and constrained ways drives you toward the understanding to think like the computer.
I think for this reason, something of value was lost when we started moving away from the 8-bit machines era, where your introduction to computing was a bit of BASIC and then having to put your machine's ASM into the interpreter typed out of a magazine.
I learned more about making the computer do a thing from working with PETI's microcontroller than I did in 20 years of casual computing or the 6 years of python I wrote before that.
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What to know about the brain-eating amoeba that killed a boy swimming in a lake
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What if people just want better jobs, not more stuff
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What Americans think about Israel's military action in Gaza, according to a new Gallup poll
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Colorado dentist accused of poisoning his wife felt trapped in his marriage, prosecutor says
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Just because you have the money, doesn’t mean you’re ready to buy a property
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How far property prices rose last time interest rates fell
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Was talking to my adult kid, who was sitting at the dining room table, while I had my back turned cleaning the sink. Things were going fine when I asked, "When you're done eating and dressed, can you empty the dishwasher?" And I didn't get an answer... I turn around an my kid's not there, empty breakfast plate still on the table.
(Don't ask me why they're in a bathrobe and having breakfast at 3pm. I have no control over that. Gave up years ago.)
California, other states sue Trump administration over bill defunding Planned Parenthood
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California, other states sue Trump administration over bill defunding Planned Parenthood
California and other liberal-led states sued the Trump administration Tuesday over a measure aimed at defunding Planned Parenthood clinics nationwide.Kevin Rector (Los Angeles Times)
Australian stargazers to enjoy two meteor showers this week – and you can leave the binoculars at home
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Labor's history on Palestine helps us understand the present moment
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in reply to Patch Arcana • • •Of course, for reasons that'll become clear the next time I do a publishing loop, "think like a computer" is figurative. It's not that different from a cook having to learn to think like her oven.
But you have to understand the machine of the machine to safely use the machine. The sweet spot on the spindle speed of your mill. The part of your loom that doesn't work great.
Why the RTC_C peripheral on the newer MSP430s is superior to the RTC-A peripheral...
Patch Arcana
in reply to Patch Arcana • • •Because at the end of the way, the sentiment "Execute what I meant, not what I wrote" is still wrong.
You are just moving around the states of transistors and hoping that when they follow your instruction set, they're in the configuration you want at the end.
It's G-Code, except when you fuck it up you get weird bugs instead of crashing your fancy end-mill into the chuck.
lemgandi
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day ending in y, someone on fedi just authored the endorsement blurb they're going to print (scribe?) on the back of the Orange Bible
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in reply to Patch Arcana • • •I've always loved the sentiment that you don't really understand something until you can teach it to someone. On the small day-to-day scale, programming is about explaining to the computer, formally and explicitly, even at any level of abstraction, how to do something.
In that sense, programming is ACTUALLY about clearly understanding something, and the details of what computer, what language, etc, is secondary to obtaining that knowledge.
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in reply to Patch Arcana • • •tangentially related – @kevlin had a recent discussion about this
- programming languages are about precision and reducing ambiguity
- natural languages are about flexibility and adaptability and playing with the ambiguity
- programming with a natural language means introducing ambiguity in areas where you really don’t want ambiguity
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What Is The Future Of Programming Languages?
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in reply to cerement • • •imho Programming Languages *are* *not* languages; they're quasi-mathematical notations for specifying algorithms, and not primarily a means of communication between humans. (Though perhaps they ought to be?) It's just an accident of history that they were called "languages".
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in reply to Patch Arcana • • •I agree.
I also had the joy of building actual half-adders from separate components as part of my BSc course back in the 80s.
And writing the boot code for a PDP-11 to be keyed in *by hand* to drive the paper-tape reader, to load the necessary OS components to boot the rest of the system.
It gives you a very real understanding of what we're actually doing with these damn things.
(I always wanted to code, from age 11 over 50 years ago, and always have even when I had other jobs.)
Duncan Bayne
in reply to Patch Arcana • • •Every technical field has a precise language and jargon for a reason.
Even if you start off a project in vague conversation / thought, you wind up getting down to very specific detail that doesn't map well to natural language at all.
It's not just programming. Imagine "natural language maths" or "natural language bridge design" at a serious level.
You wind up just speaking the precise words that you'd be using anyhow.
Phillip
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