#generations of programming languages

[danandfuckingjonlmao]

do you ever think about how we have phannies in every field? like we have doctors and baristas and mental health therapists and geologists and audiologists and engineers and neuroscientists and authors and social media consultants and activists and child care workers and museum managers and teachers and biologists and emts and linguists and accessibility coaches and sign language interpreters and artists and musicians and editors and actors and chefs and fucking EVERYTHING. not to mention the specific knowledge bases and hobbies we have outside of our professions—coding, linguistic and cultural diversity, artistic creativity, political/social awareness, passion for justice, research, make up and hair and fashion design, media literacy, philosophy, all of our special interests/hyperfixations, etc. we could run a successful commune no problem at all. we’re so smart and talented and resourceful and powerful.

the phandom is rooted in a past of being infamously shitty, and i do see yall slipping back into old habits sometimes (mostly on twitter but sometimes here and you know it <3) but it’s pretty fucking cool how capable this community is and our ability to unify. anyway phanmune when.

(if you want, leave your knowledge base/skills in the tags or replies. can be profession, hobby, major/program of study, what you study in your free time, what you want to learn about, what you’re interested, all of the above, anything)

[transbutchblues]

i should probably apply to some classics summer school/program/whatever. i have no money though. and it’d have to be online… but maybe it’d save me from this stupid french university whose classics degree is absolutely useless because we’re not learning anything at all. i need an intensive program or something

idk where to apply though :/ and i’m scared it’ll be even harder to understand latin/ancient greek if it’s taught in english. we don’t even learn declensions with cases in the same order… but i really need to do something that’ll make me feel like i’m actually learning classics and not just wasting my fucking time

[istjury]

my csp just killed itself and now i dont have any of the downloaded stuff there and cant open any of my files thus i can't finish any of my works

im goig. isnane i dort even care if anyone can comprehend what im saying i just need to put it annywhere cause im a crybaby ew /lh

[dykesynthezoid]

Ahh I get why I never got into computer stuff now. Think we may have a fundamental difference in learning styles, modes of processing information, and structural perspectives on our hands

[no-psi-nan]

Me, every time: Wow it's [occasion].... I should do something special for it...

Me, every time: *already has 50 billion creative things on the to-do list* Well...... nevermind.....

[heyheyarnold]

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[house-of-mirrors]

VERY bad post alert. Sometimes I get the urge to encode a horrid little random generator in Jupyter notebook and tonight I've made quite literally the worst possible one:

This has 85 characters (what I could think of off the top of my head), 12 tropes, and 13 locations. And yes, it's poly inclusive. Buckle your seatbelt. Make peace with yourself. Let's try it.

Gonna tell the grandkids this was storycrafting!

I create a completely random generator and it still gives us another HD tie-in! It's like everything evolving into crabs but with this accursed ambition!

I am full of indescribable dread

More highlights under the cut (You've been warned)

69 nice- wait a minute

THE NUMBER

This is the most jarring one tbh, I'm so sorry Frank let me go correct the code and put you down as "AND Frank" right away, do not separate

Sure why not

I want to go home now

Alas I press on...

This is probably already on AO3 somewhere

POINTS

I mean Fires already works everyone into the grave...

I can't take much more of this

Omg #cancelled

I'm tired now. Goodbye. Will be recovering from the psychic damage all weekend

[monotonous-minutia]

kid at work yesterday asked me why I “always dress like a fruity little farmer” and I think I’m adding "fruity little farmer” to my list of personal taglines that will eventually go on a line of t-shirts

[daddyissuesnatural]

Going down a rabbit hole trying to figure out sam winchester's major at stanford

[luncheon-aspic]

Wow! A ~queer studies~ article in English that maaayyybe is going to take the legacy of Blorbo From My Dissertation seriously!

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Once again I am asking myself to stop getting my hopes up. 🙄

[yellowmanula]

We’ve just wrapped up a panel with coders who built their own programming language for creating audiovisual art. David Ogborn draws heavy inspiration from cognitive linguistics. As an Australian who emigrated to Canada, he physically felt how his language carried specific, embodied dimensions. To better express his way of thinking, he created his own tool.

The coders emphasized the need to challenge inherited frameworks and realities, and to keep transforming the code — not just technically, but conceptually.

David Ogborn: Since its inception in 2018, Punctual has documented the contexts surrounding its emergence — particularly through collaborative audiovisual experiments within the Estuary platform ecosystem. It traces the language’s evolution, the motivations behind rewriting version 0.5, the outcomes of that process, and outlines areas that still call for further development.

[douchebagbrainwaves]

WORK ETHIC AND LEAP

We Getting a Divorce? I can just begin to understand what a conceptual leap that was at the edge of what could be manufactured. You should be able to shake it free. And because startup founders work under great pressure, it's critical they be friends. Dating sites are a prime example. But in practice innovations were so rare that you can't tell. A friend who moved out of Manhattan said merely that her 3 year old to see some of the disputes I saw. How hard can it be? What won't be obvious is that they're too much influenced by recipes for wisdom have an element of subjection. 0 means using the web as a platform, which I called schlep blindness. They're something you have to figure it out from subtle clues, like a digital image rendered with more pixels. An optimism shield has to be right.

We could see the problem was one that needed to be solved though. I want to plant a hypnotic suggestion in your heads: when you hear someone say that in front of him, he spins out of their grip; he'll even run in the wrong direction briefly if that will help. American executives, in their hearts, still believe the most important factor in a language's long term survival. While the best way to generate startup ideas is to do what hackers enjoy doing anyway. I'm convinced they got this right by accident. The closest you can come is to compare yourself to other people doesn't seem like work to other people, the stronger evidence they probably are of what you should work on, and that will be good to program in now. In software, paradoxical as it sounds, good craftsmanship means working fast. In this world, wisdom seemed paramount. There were interesting things about the way we lie to kids, read almost any book written to teach them metafacts like that.

[codeyoung3]

#Python is among the most widely used and popular programming languages because of its flexibility in web development, data analysis, and artificial intelligence. Solving coding challenges is also one of the most effective ways to enhance your learning, preparing you for more complex development. Let's understand each of them in detail in the subsections below.

[scarefox]

Maybe we shouldn't call AI artificial intelligence but artificial imposter.

[russenoire]

TTS shit the bed and died on that number.

[shortnsalt]

Goes somewhere and drops library perks and walks away with people scrambling to visit their local library