I am a drummer. One of the most important lessons I learned and passed onto my students is one I learned from Joe Morello (GOAT imo): tension should never be present in your playing. Counterintuitive because if you're playing a fast or difficult part, the natural inclination is to try harder. The correct way to try harder is to practice with intention, not push your body past its limits. The ability will follow.
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matltc commented on VS Code deactivates IntelliCode in favor of the paid Copilot heise.de/en/news/VS-Code-... · Posted by u/sagischwarz
Had a shower thought about how much I am starting to dislike vscode now that every minor version just loads on unwanted copilot cruft instead of adding actual features. Grabbed nvim that night.
Clocksin is the standard Prolog textbook used in universities. I studied from the 5th edition.
Nice. Do you use Prolog much today? If so, when do you reach for it?
Hah. Found this book back at my dad's this past winter: https://imgur.com/a/CyG1E2P
Had never heard of it before, and this is first I'm hearing of it since.
Also had other cool old shit, like CIB copies of Borland Turbo Pascal 6.0, old Maxis games, Windows 3.1
matltc commented on Nasdaq 100 set for worst week since April meltdown fortune.com/2025/11/07/na... · Posted by u/pera
It's just a correction. Unless it isn't, in which case it might be a massive bubble bursting, followed by recession or even depression.
Everyone wants to know, so it's always news. Even though it usually isn't.
I don't think NASDAQ is technically in correction territory yet; I believe that would mean it's down 10% from its high
matltc commented on Ruby already solved my problem newsletter.masilotti.com/... · Posted by u/joemasilotti
Ruby has a lot of these hidden gems (pun intended).
I wouldn't be as much in love with programming, if it wasn't for Ruby. And although I use many other programming languages these days, Ruby will forever have a special place in my heart.
Agreed. Was looking around for STL files so I could print a ruby and put it on my desk.
Glad to see it's getting love on here recently.
Reminder to rewatch the 1995 movie Hackers :)
I used to read it quite often when I was 15, now that I am in my 40s, I think the manifesto is quite weak, even though its romantic in its attempt to celebrate curiosity and claim a new home for some.
Now I align more with Bunnie's [1] way: when you look at a thing as a thing, strip it from its social weight, a program is just a program, you can study it, understand its machinery and mechanisms, and make it do what you want. You can understand things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyYsVeYzbik
PS: I still think phrack 49/14 was the most iconic article I have read, and has changed the way I look at programs ever since.
Thanks for this. Trying to follow along but modern compilers and cpus seem to modify the disassembly in a way that makes it tough to follow along. Tried throwing a bunch of flags at gcc but still getting some diffs. Had this issue when I was working with an older C book as well.
Maybe Godbolt has some way to emulate this better
We live in a world where now using "-Wall -Wextra" is a positive outlier. :D God damn. I have ALWAYS used these options, along with "-pedantic", "-std=c99" and so forth.
I picked up C for fun last year and this is exactly the flags I have always used by default. Can't remember where I picked that up, but glad to hear I'm doing it right
matltc commented on Some Smalltalk about Ruby Loops tech.stonecharioteer.com/... · Posted by u/birdculture
Love Ruby. Wish I could use it more often. Always end up reaching for Python in day-to-day because of how mature and well-docunented the libs are.
Anyone who likes this kind of stuff, highly recommend Metaprogramming Ruby [2] by Paolo Perrota. Great look into Ruby innards and inspiring code examples. Gets me pumped
$100 says this guy has a Bluesky account