There's not a single other medical procedure that has less than a 1% regret rate. Heart surgery has a 20% regret rate.

Max. As much about type systems as anything else, but not like a deep dive through every type system. Just a quick brush past most of them with some comments.

Almost done with first draft of my Max writeup lol. This one's a little too big right now but there's a lot to talk about.

Julia really does have one of the most impressive type systems of all the languages. The things you can do with the type system alone...

Yea, I'm still more Kant than Schopey. The whole Will stuff is just too much Bohme style mysticism for me still.

I joke about being a lottery farmer but I literally live in one of 5 states that *doesn't* have the lottery.

Autocorrect is always swapping out correctly spelled words for random other words as I type but like doesn't fix 3/4 of my legit typos any more.

I just get this way that I'm like you really can't be my age or older at this point and tell me that voting is your only political plan with vague hopes of voting for people that you don't fucking ever fucking vote for

"Some Democrats just feel that no one in government has been held accountable since Nixon" THEN WHY DO YOU KEEP DEMANDING EVERYONE VOTE FOR POLITICIAN'S WHO OPENLY SEEK TO CONTINUE THE PATTERN WHILE MAKING USELESS POSTS ONLINE ABOUT WANTING WHAT YOU REFUSE TO VOTE FOR?!?!?!?!?!

And finally, there is a reason why the DOJ, the FBI, and every federal law enforcement agency adopted full fascism so quickly. Getting the FBI to investigate the Klan = very very hard, almost impossible. Getting the FBI to investigate pipeline protestors = very very easy; a natural fit.

I wish people writing about how the next administration should "prosecute everyone" would talk to at least one public defender to learn how the so-called "justice system" works.

Okay, so what I wanna do is make a language (for fun) taking a surprising amount from Io with a little bit of Tcl, a little bit of Ocaml, and a little bit of F#.

I *am* one of those psychedelic guys somewhere in me, or one of me is that guy rather, but man. These guys aren't even trying to hide that they're seeing it in this weird pseudo-religious way, trying to bring in psychoanalysis and neuroscience to justify themselves and I just don't care for it.

I've spent too much of life dissociating with and without drugs to take people seriously, man.

You need a couple light semaphores per actor (or a scheduler), but it is kinda cool how the actor model eliminates most of the rest of the overhead of asynchrony lol.

But you can't just plea solidarity while also saying you don't give a fuck about our concerns. Solidarity isn't a one way street.

This is all the internet was supposed to be. Hubris to ask for more.

I don't wanna write about programming languages or write in programming languages or any of that today lol

Memphis Press-Scimitar, 21 December 1945. "[Gerald Smith] wants to preserve 'Christian Nationalism' without domination by the Jews or any other minority group. And he wants America First--with Mr. Smith leading the 'crusade.'"

I'm of course industry not research and all that, but it's astounding how much... Not that AI "damages the brain" or whatever, because that sounds like utter nonsense to me, but that people use AI as an excuse to do poor work and not actually improve themselves

Hmm. Law, Economics, and AI. AI, like just AI shit lol. Computer vision, Robotics, AI. Yeaaaaaa. I don't think I'm gonna trust the AI experts about what expertise their shit is capable of if they can't even read and cite **their own lit in their own field**

The Religious Right is desperate these days to pretend that "Christian Nationalism" is (1) a recently-invented term and (2) a pejorative invented by their enemies, but neither of those claims is remotely true. Here's a short thread, but I'm sure other historians will have examples too.

It is funny how much my favorite move in the social sciences is basically a form of, "That measure is shit and can't tell you what you're using it for." It'd be more funny if like there wasn't the whole reproducibility bs that just leaves me at, "Well, measures just mean less than people thought?"

Yeah, a big part of what bugs me when I read aphantasia research is totally the mapping aphants onto studies that were very much so not done with any awareness of aphantasia, and just kind of assuming it makes sense instead of challenging the ways and concepts we use to understand aphantasia.

Idk, I'm pretty sure those of us using "Christian nationalism" as a pejorative mean to protect actual Christian from their wannabe fascist buddies.

Even when they sign their deportation orders voluntarily, they are held for months to make more money for private prisons. truthout.org/articles/imm...

Idk, I guess my personal politics just doesn't have space for like "Oh no I can't work with conservatives every" but it also doesn't have time for pretending I agree with them about shit I just blatantly and clearly don't. Lol.

Hey. Hey wait a minute.

Anyway, I have literally years of experience with the Win32 AppBar APIs and I've never been as embarrassed for a company as I continue to be for Microsoft over their own fucking shit.

I mean, if your position is, "The status quo is good and should not be questioned," you're like definitionally in a conservative position, and not "the left" in any meaningful sense of "the left" I've ever heard so 🤷

Like, my list of people I follow is mostly academic and trans accounts tbh, and it just keeps going that way because I inevitably unfollow all the liberals that sound too much like Edmund Burke and all the accelerationists that overrun this place. But they're really what I see most in other tabs

Genuinely, THE worst part of YouTube is the majority of people making videos on there are conservatives. Some of them a bit older school with complex thoughts about Trump but still ultimately conservative and deferring to Trumpism as a norm regardless of their explicit support because conservative.

I just learned the Clean Code guy thinks he understands USs politics because he get too much shit for being a Trumper, and now I know absolutely that Clean Code is fucking trash.

I genuinely think people are off their fuckin rockers about "The Kids"

Maybe I'll rewrite my whole vscode extension in mostly Rust->wasm

I'm writing a LOT for my max function. I'm not even deeply going into all these type systems, but I'm at least giving each one a couple sentences lol.

It's actually fucking insane to be living through their trying to reinstate Jim Crow and even some of them openly talking about getting slavery back, and then log on and see people work overtime to blame everything on cell phones. It's just a line I do not handle well without calling bullshit.

For every single point of, "Oh no cell phones changed how we interact," there's a constant ongoing assumption that the old way was better. And basically none of the "zomg cell phones and social media are the worst evar" people ever make a strong argument that it was any better before.

It's basically official If you're gonna show me a chart over time and plop some single event on a point and declare that single point is the cause of all that followed... Well, I think you're dumb. That's it. I don't think you're very smart

Another day, another Matt being a twat. Oh, I already have that one on my list of insufferable neoliberal white explainers? Lolololololololololololol

Yup, this writeup is Forth/Joy/Factor first. Even before assembly. That trio is my perfect intro paradigm lmfao because it does all the things about types.

I'm not even going to go **too far** into type systems. But there's enough to say a lot. I want to think about what even just dealing with basic integer values and generics (I'm surprised how many languages have generics!!) means across all these languages.

There is a part of me tempted to build an actor model on the latest C++'s coroutine work. *sigh*

Io has a really interesting implementation of the actor model as just a pure coroutine implementation of actors, as opposed to tasks/greenthreads/fibers like every other language is doing

I coded up a sample GCD algorithm in a language I'd like to make, and idk really if it has anything **new** but it's unlike any other language lol. It's a little bit of ML, a little bit of Tcl (and Lisp), a little bit of Modula and C#, and a lil bit of the Actor lineage.

Anyway, if you want to know how I feel about *waves hands around wildly* I just got an email that a company doesn't want to hire me for work ON A MEDICAL DEVICE CONTROLLING LIFE SAVING DRUG ADMINISTRATION because I don't have enough history of AI code use to talk about clearly with them

And now I'm done. It's 76 languages now. I'm not gonna add more or do any other delays. I'll have my Max in 76 languages writeup early next week

OHHHH The ; as an expression silencer is all the way back in Q'Nial?!