If the universe was infinite and eternal you’d expect the night sky to be white - all the gaps between stars would be filled in with stars further away.
this! guess this is the definitive proof that the visible universe is finite
Readit Newslibrasteve commented on Why is the sky blue? explainers.blog/posts/why... · Posted by u/udit99
Why is the sky black?
- at night (of course)
- there are ~1 septillion stars that are all shiny
librasteve commented on European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Teams euractiv.com/news/commiss... · Posted by u/Arathorn
I don’t know how Teams even got the approval to be released. It must be so embarrassing to be Satya and be forced to use this shitty piece of software.
I can’t believe that software of this quality is used so widely. Market competitive forces are not able to do their thing unfortunately.
errr market monopoly forces are doing their thing … the point is that only a govt can force eg an OS + APP anticompetitive monopoly provider to split up into multiple companies
librasteve commented on Fastmail Donates USD 10k to the Perl and Raku Foundation perl.com/article/fastmail... · Posted by u/oalders
Perl is being migrated to Python. Two of the big banks I know have been running LLM tooling to migrate from. My last job was for a fortune 10 bank.
I personally learnt it at the age of 17 as the homemade switchboard for MSN Messenger bots were coded in it.
I'm 36 now and still not letting go. Something about the syntax pleases my brain. I am currently learning Erlang.
this
I get the sense that this author is looking for a DSL (domain specific language) and landed quite close.
librasteve commented on Draig, a Welsh Programming Language raku.land/zef:l10n/L10N::... · Posted by u/librasteve
I can only speak for Japan, but I suspect China is the same. In Japan, English programming is the norm because all mainstream programming languages are written in English. Keywords, libraries and documentation are in English, so there's not really any getting around the fact that you have to learn to read at least some English. Some Japanese developers do write identifiers in Japanese where languages support it, and documentation / comments are often written in Japanese, of course.
I, personally, think this is a lamentable state of affairs that raises the barrier to entry for programming, especially for children. There are education-oriented Japanese programming languages that try to fill the niche for teaching children, but I think it would be beneficial if there were serious languages with a full ecosystem rather than ones designed to be training wheels before learning English programming languages.
how about https://raku.land/zef:l10n/L10N::JA ?
librasteve commented on Draig, a Welsh Programming Language raku.land/zef:l10n/L10N::... · Posted by u/librasteve
The smart projects that are going for L10N will collect all the UI strings into a file or set of files, separate from the code, and indexed so that the app can just switch language and then begin using a new set of localized strings. This also makes for easy translation where you don't need to rebuild the app, just expand the data files that it's using. Is this not the only way to build apps today, or are "localized strings" still being hardcoded??
Draig is built on L10N and code can be passed to/from Welsh <=> Other (eg English) … the keywords are translated back and forth, but comments and identifiers are whatever the coder writes.
librasteve commented on Draig, a Welsh Programming Language raku.land/zef:l10n/L10N::... · Posted by u/librasteve
Richard (the dev) has wrote a good "how to" post on the creation process
https://dev.to/finanalyst/creating-a-new-programming-languag...
librasteve commented on Draig, a Welsh Programming Language raku.land/zef:l10n/L10N::... · Posted by u/librasteve
Question: is it a good idea to introduce kids to coding in their mother tongue like this?