Posts by tartley@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AhxdkEz3h0aUT8Ty2S by tartley@mastodon.social
2024-05-16T21:08:13Z
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@rain I have a similar thing but based on Missile Command. https://tartley.itch.io/missile-commander It doesn't have a web export yet, only Windows & Linux. I put in a bit more work on it in some ways, but yours has the singular advantage of being actually finished. :-)
(DIR) Post #AhxdkG2dlB2xkXALGC by tartley@mastodon.social
2024-05-16T21:10:43Z
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@rain I like that you took the creative decision to entirely side-step the fiddlyness of trying to carefully split or break the asteroids, which is the sort of tar-pit I'd foolishly get mired in, and instead just have a brief flicker of graphical jazz as the larger asteroids transition into two smaller ones.
(DIR) Post #AhzTkvDA576SD3gWTw by tartley@mastodon.social
2024-05-06T03:21:33Z
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@perfect5th Hey! Great to see you on here. I trust all is well. I'm having a typically parental weekend, kiddy soccer tournaments, family hike in a State Park, and tonight am assembling my just arrived new "zimablade" single board computer NAS device.
(DIR) Post #Ahzy1SGnw1BDzvBkOW by tartley@mastodon.social
2024-05-06T12:10:31Z
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@wordshaper Very fair. My speculation about "how brains actually work" was crudely expressed. I should have said "Behaviourally, seems to have some things in common."
(DIR) Post #AiGgK5GRCP3Gf14L9k by tartley@mastodon.social
2024-05-26T00:46:13Z
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@rain I just use git, cloned right into ~, with a ~/.gitignore of '*' so that everything is ignored until I pro-actively 'git add -f' it.
(DIR) Post #AkVB5ztrPZZpZdqOC8 by tartley@mastodon.social
2024-07-31T20:55:50Z
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@foone I haven't used it but am intrigued by fasthtml's claims of simple creation of web UI purely from Python.
(DIR) Post #AkzvHTWi1debHJDwsS by tartley@mastodon.social
2024-08-15T17:12:25Z
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@tyil I think the justification is that, when someone suggests first class anonymous functions on python.ideas, or some similar forum, they are asked to provide concrete examples where it would make the code better, and the consensus of opinion is that it doesn't really seem to do that. I appreciate there are things you can do with an anonymous function, but the trade-offs seem ambiguous, at best.
(DIR) Post #AkzvHUJH74VBhvwjZo by tartley@mastodon.social
2024-08-15T17:13:05Z
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@tyil Writing a language off as a "major step down" seems like an emotional over-reaction. All languages have features that match our personal current favorite styles, and features that don't. Part of learning a language is learning how to change our current coding style to match the language's strengths.
(DIR) Post #AkzvHVhPwnPM16FWqW by tartley@mastodon.social
2024-08-15T17:16:18Z
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@tyil FWIW, here's a post from 2006 in reaction to the years - no, DECADES - of discussion about why first class anonymous functions in Python are not actually a good idea: https://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=147358
(DIR) Post #AkzwkQDXVXunMoclO4 by tartley@mastodon.social
2024-08-15T17:26:41Z
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@tyil I don't think Python is prohibiting expression of ideas in a fluent way. I think it's just encouraging different fluent ways than the ones you are used to. The rejection of anonymous functions is a fairly minor superficial issue, and it wasn't done because people don't like the way it looks. The many discussions about why this feature keeps getting rejected make that clear.
(DIR) Post #AkzwkQtiyhevTeMS8m by tartley@mastodon.social
2024-08-15T17:28:42Z
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@tyil I agree with you that Python isn't perfect. Nothing large and complicated is. But you are not the only one here with a great deal of experience in deploying a many different languages to production, and the reservations you are complaining about here seem insubstantial compared to the ones I would raise, and the other languages you cite all have at least equivalent problems of their own. This thread is just a tantrum with little actual substance.
(DIR) Post #Am91BRonrFLgBuLpqa by tartley@mastodon.social
2024-09-18T11:53:43Z
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@flafflar congrats! I'm sorry that society makes it so hard just to be your true self. Very glad to have you in my timeline. 🤗
(DIR) Post #AmVIt2tPrfwmKG0CDg by tartley@mastodon.social
2024-09-29T18:31:14Z
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@ErikUden what absolute fucking dorks the FBI are being here. What kind of idiot do you have to be to imagine that presenting zlib like this makes them look bad? Go shut down all the billion dollar silicon valley darlings doing the exact same thing, but worse, at industrial scale, then come back here and we can talk about this. You are being stooges for the rich & powerful by stamping on everyone else's interests.
(DIR) Post #AmtoWn56HMPym8WtPM by tartley@mastodon.social
2024-10-11T14:18:50Z
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@stux Oh gosh, don't even joke about this. I attend a local debate club, where all points of view are earnestly represented (It's nice, unbelievably), and I'm surprised by how many folks think things aren't working right, and someone like Trump, or worse, should tear it all down and start over. Occasionally a foreigner from a revolution-torn land will go pale and quietly respond "You all have no idea just how bad it would get, and how little chance there is of anything good in the rebuild"
(DIR) Post #AnXmAhDl9Kh3RXbsDw by tartley@mastodon.social
2024-10-30T20:31:02Z
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@rain Since you and I seem to gleefully align on so many things, I'll mention that my very favorite science fiction podcaster Damien Walter did a post about it. https://damiengwalter.com/2024/10/08/joker-is-a-masterpiece-of-radical-cinema/As with all his stuff, I HIGHLY recommend scrolling down & down to the audio feed you can find in a tiny embedded player way down the page, rather than the really prominent youtube embed. His youtube crossposting is often artful, but is a crowdpleasing & superficial subset of the audio post (12mins vs 22).
(DIR) Post #AnXmAjHNUqmBpLJn8q by tartley@mastodon.social
2024-10-30T20:36:36Z
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@rain I only just watched Joker (the first) last week, partially spurred by Damien's approval. I'll catch up with Folie à Deux' soon...
(DIR) Post #Aq5p0WodeXPFH4bpvk by tartley@mastodon.social
2025-01-15T02:56:38Z
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@foone how about temporal dithering - which I have a soft spot for as it meant that my 16-color Atari ST could display quite good true-color images, so long as you didn't need the CPU to do anything else.
(DIR) Post #AqWH7GWkSd1BbsCTrM by tartley@mastodon.social
2025-01-25T20:23:50Z
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@interfluidity @BillySmith Thank you for posting this. As a working class raised Brit living what I consider a middle class life in the USA, I've been trying to map my uninformed notions of class onto what I see around me, and this provides a marvelously illuminating framework by which to do it. Strikes me that spreading these notions has great social benefit.
(DIR) Post #AqWH7HQl6NoyPaPDA8 by tartley@mastodon.social
2025-01-26T15:51:07Z
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@interfluidity @BillySmith in fact, when I'm back at a real keyboard, I might create a diagram of this as the central component of my own write up, to post to Facebook, as part of the long campaign to try and reach friends and family lost to misinformation campaigns. With attribution, of course.
(DIR) Post #AqWH7IIHtMdh5bRxb6 by tartley@mastodon.social
2025-01-27T17:04:41Z
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@interfluidity @BillySmith FYI that domain is online, but with a different URL scheme now, so a working non-wayback URL is https://sasamat.xen.prgmr.com/michaelochurch/wp/?p=573