Posts by shriramk@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AvMcPgsY2TPfqKT7U8 by shriramk@mastodon.social
2025-06-21T00:20:15Z
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@cwebber Yeah, I enjoyed the book! Too bad the Racket version didn't work fast enough for you, but glad you got that working.
(DIR) Post #AvVmn2gUWAUlTB4556 by shriramk@mastodon.social
2025-06-26T03:34:08Z
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It's been bothering me for a while, so I created a Racket extension to refer to variables by position: eg,(define hypotenuse (lambda 2 (sqrt (+ (square $0) (square $1)))))Why not. What fun. No more variable name choice paralysis! 🤣https://github.com/shriram/lambda-n
(DIR) Post #AvexVjHMGFBoHRtZuC by shriramk@mastodon.social
2025-06-30T12:36:14Z
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In The Economist:
(DIR) Post #Avy0M9mSLuNpCzA96e by shriramk@mastodon.social
2025-07-09T19:31:20Z
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Training teachers with Bootstrap for the first time on Zoom, and holy crap is the breakout rooms feature so broken. SO bad, I can barely keep track of how many problems it has. Do they never dogfood it? Please stop pouring AI over it, just fix the basic functionality!
(DIR) Post #Avy7BkyERLol2petBA by shriramk@mastodon.social
2025-07-09T20:55:41Z
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@ricci I'm not actually sure of that. Sometimes a badly-designed feature is worse than not having it.
(DIR) Post #AwWyC02sZFP4gGZp4K by shriramk@mastodon.social
2025-07-26T12:46:11Z
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Thought experiment: Most programming languages were designed in an era where mostly one programmer coded in isolation. If you were designing a language for modern collaborative programming/commenting/etc., what would you change? How would you *modify* existing languages?
(DIR) Post #AwWyC2IuAdPXgY5eKG by shriramk@mastodon.social
2025-07-26T15:30:23Z
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@cross But yes, my question is precisely, CAN language design facilitate the social issues?
(DIR) Post #Awd4Y8SzyapRCKDTay by shriramk@mastodon.social
2025-07-29T15:06:16Z
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In today's misdirected email collection, I got this message. What are the odds this number was a pure coincidence? The service (which I'm not naming!) is for an Indian smart home device. What could possibly go wrong? #InternetOfShit
(DIR) Post #Awer8VS6u4C2W0GPRI by shriramk@mastodon.social
2025-07-30T11:48:25Z
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@ricci Yes, only just learned about this yesterday! Amazing.
(DIR) Post #AxKkYuqKaKiXkgYVQe by shriramk@mastodon.social
2025-08-19T16:48:43Z
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This reminds me of something I've idly wondered about for a while now: whether MAGA will cause veganism to flip like Tesla, from being left-coded to right-coded. (It's already adjacent to vax-deniers and horseshoe-ish.)
(DIR) Post #Ay4l4hNp6L5kXrX7FQ by shriramk@mastodon.social
2025-09-10T21:33:03Z
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Indian news sources are nearing the final state of full enlightenment by having the first screen of an article have essentially no content at all (in this case, a headline managed to get 14 words in edgeways, but that's it).
(DIR) Post #AyqfiPd0D7NCZOkBqC by shriramk@mastodon.social
2025-10-04T00:21:07Z
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@futurebird Agreed on the rest, but…Mastodon is also a kind of "moderation as a service", in that when I buy into a server, I buy into its moderation policies, and have to shop around for one whose policies I like. Worse, because of the server I'm on, the policies of *other* servers affects me when they do things at a server level (as I've experienced)—so I have to consider all the pairwise policies too. It's no more fun.@ramsey @cwebber
(DIR) Post #AzWbdrxNDdh7nuARwu by shriramk@mastodon.social
2025-10-23T19:13:45Z
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@cfbolz @sliminality Didn't this create a big headache in Norway, because everything started 10 minutes late, then they decided to start on time, and that created massive confusion?
(DIR) Post #AzWbg9kW2NmdZ9FBce by shriramk@mastodon.social
2025-10-23T22:38:48Z
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@sbrunthaler @cfbolz @sliminality I don't understand, how can you have different things on different schedules? Wouldn't that be total mayhem? Like my class is 12-1 and yours is 1-2, in the same room, but you're st and I'm ct?Btw, please tell me it was a GUPU Prolog implementation?!?
(DIR) Post #B05govzkIbOKhJhYX2 by shriramk@mastodon.social
2025-11-10T04:06:17Z
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@ricciI was going to say "Rob, you're cookin!", but now it appears that that was *literally* true?@jawnsy
(DIR) Post #B06e6aNjI0pIApbYye by shriramk@mastodon.social
2025-11-10T15:10:36Z
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@ricci Precisely. @jawnsy
(DIR) Post #B06ub8lBdPZWkaAUO8 by shriramk@mastodon.social
2025-11-10T18:15:25Z
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@ricci I presume your limiting case of maximal idealness is the podcast host who refuses to say anything. @jawnsy
(DIR) Post #B06xomVDU5aXdVtVzc by shriramk@mastodon.social
2025-11-08T01:59:12Z
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Feeling triggered by the ACM.
(DIR) Post #B2bmn3M9FeLFaz4WKu by shriramk@mastodon.social
2026-01-24T01:38:04Z
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Thanks for the helpful auto-complete, Gmail.
(DIR) Post #B2mSl3tk7bW3fZfD9M by shriramk@mastodon.social
2026-01-29T14:33:22Z
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View from Manhattan yesterday: the frozen Hudson, and the sun setting over NJ.