Posts by glennsills@dotnet.social
(DIR) Post #Ark5hKppuNr3qLYXUu by glennsills@dotnet.social
2025-03-05T11:04:33Z
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@futurebird Skip this and go straight to teaching them Golang.😀
(DIR) Post #Ark7auL3hypHpxDtdA by glennsills@dotnet.social
2025-03-05T11:25:49Z
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@futurebird Oh no! Go is what happens when a bunch of good language designers decide Java and C# (and F# and C++) have fatal issues and decide to start from scratch. The idea is to make the compiler so fast it seems like scripting but compile to machine code (instead of a virtual machine - like Java or C#)
(DIR) Post #Ark7b28aiDbg1bS3JA by glennsills@dotnet.social
2025-03-05T11:25:49Z
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It supports object orientation without classes. It makes exception handling hard on purpose, to force programmers to check for errors. It is not like Java at all.Golang is to C and Funk is to Motown, although you might not be quite old enough to *feel* the analogy.
(DIR) Post #Ark7sOU4si8OFpmPBY by glennsills@dotnet.social
2025-03-05T11:29:01Z
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@futurebird @pikesley To be fair I was kidding old guy curmudgeon style. I would teach high school kids Golang before I teach them C. It is probably too much as an intro to programming.That said, starting off with scripting can lead to some pretty bad habit. Just look at the average web page.A good middle ground would be Python.
(DIR) Post #Ark8BiNR90eXS9t19s by glennsills@dotnet.social
2025-03-05T11:32:30Z
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@futurebird Also, my wife is a STEP teacher, pre-K 3 (not kidding) to 5. My wife uses Blockly and Scratch to introduce kids the concept of telling a computer what to do. The youngers ones start with screen free programming using physical icons that they can layout out on the floor and make a robot go.
(DIR) Post #ArkP0iADINTspL2YRE by glennsills@dotnet.social
2025-03-05T14:41:00Z
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@futurebird I must point out Golang has much more strictness compared to scripting languages like Python and Javascript, but less syntactic sugar than OO languages like Java and C#. This is so that it is less annoying to geezers like me.
(DIR) Post #At9l83NSpVGA2D4P2m by glennsills@dotnet.social
2025-04-16T14:53:56Z
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@davidaugust @Pizzacake So true. Also, there fearless leader is a convicted felon.
(DIR) Post #AtDDVOMsuxbqWJ2zE8 by glennsills@dotnet.social
2025-04-18T10:10:47Z
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@futurebird Sounds like the uncanny feeling of wanting to sleep in.
(DIR) Post #AtY2lEacikgDzeXV5s by glennsills@dotnet.social
2025-04-28T11:19:18Z
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@futurebird Drop the person off in Beijing and walk with him to Calcutta. Use a manual step clicker, but count every human you see instead of steps.
(DIR) Post #Ath2sEQp23iTb2b4gi by glennsills@dotnet.social
2025-05-02T18:48:13Z
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@dbattistella Yep if guns are cheap and easy, school police officers are not going to help.
(DIR) Post #AuIwWG4NA8xRSzU4cS by glennsills@dotnet.social
2025-05-20T21:29:36Z
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@cstross Interestingly, it was possible to change your subscription to the "classic" version. The "classic" version was last year's version with no CoPilot at last year's cost, which was less. It was a seriously Sirius Cybernetics Marketing Department dick move by Microsoft to make subscribers pay for the AI that subscribers have been refusing to buy.
(DIR) Post #Auql56zj24nfT5e7e4 by glennsills@dotnet.social
2025-06-06T09:52:51Z
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@futurebird Speaking of the Constitution, it seems to me that the clause in the Big Butt Bill (BBB) that prohibits states from regulating AI is unconstitutional. It violates the 10th Amendment.
(DIR) Post #AuqlndaLDs27Hu0Ku0 by glennsills@dotnet.social
2025-06-06T10:00:54Z
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@futurebird I call this a " what time is it?" toot. 😁
(DIR) Post #AurccrFFOIEe2PsnNA by glennsills@dotnet.social
2025-06-06T19:52:49Z
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@futurebird @Moss You ant people do go on.
(DIR) Post #AvetqhJ6O6s6QgSDNw by glennsills@dotnet.social
2025-06-30T14:26:39Z
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@futurebird @jwcph "Billionaires are a symptom of something broken" is an interesting one. Given unchecked capitalism, it is the expected result. It is the "you need money to invest to make money" truism run amuck.(I wanted to do this reply to your post, but for some reason I am not able to. Is this on purpose, like BlueSky reply filter feature, or have I stumbled upon a bug of some sort)
(DIR) Post #AviqYeMkY61yd63g1o by glennsills@dotnet.social
2025-07-02T12:08:38Z
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@stux What is the "working" of which you speak?
(DIR) Post #AyKQBuA19AjfvLsmbA by glennsills@dotnet.social
2025-09-18T10:56:19Z
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@futurebird Indeed! I grew up in Georgia in the '60s and '70s. My father was racist as hell, but he had a couple of Black friends he thought were great. Bigotry often takes the form of attributing bad characteristics to a group, generally without evidence. Bigots will seldom let their own experiences with a member of a hated group override their generalization of the group. S
(DIR) Post #AyfKI7vx8jd2O1fpMO by glennsills@dotnet.social
2025-09-28T12:59:16Z
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@futurebird @CatDragon Cixin Liu wrote a short story (turned into a manga) "Taking Care of God". Something exactly like a medbed is important in the story and is called a cradle. Summary: the cradle; e.g. medbed, using technology that the users do not understand but allows them to live 4000 years. I recommend the story, but not the cradle.I like Sci-Fi, but I people using it to sell stuff based on it, and in some cases, not understanding that "Fi" stands for "fiction" is getting old.
(DIR) Post #AymFWcKRmytp2qwMLY by glennsills@dotnet.social
2025-10-01T21:08:50Z
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@futurebird I love my e-bike, but we need to have a serious discussion about updating the rules of the road *and* sidewalk.
(DIR) Post #B06EzkYcYofOqsLK40 by glennsills@dotnet.social
2025-11-08T13:48:27Z
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@futurebird So are you saying that Dr. Oz is wrong and I will not be losing 300 pounds? That's disappointing. Being lighter than air sounded kind of fun.