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Daphne Preston-Kendal @dpk.swhack.com.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2025

I have just been made aware of this tweet thread by François René-Rideau (aka Faré) and feel I should say something about it. (Note up front: I am not doxing Faré by linking these tweets to him: the account is linked and explicitly identified with him in the […] [Original post on chaos.social]

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Daphne Preston-Kendal @dpk.swhack.com.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2025

Irgendwann hab ich’s schon getrötet, aber ich finde es nicht mehr

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Daphne Preston-Kendal @dpk.swhack.com.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2025

Bluesky update: the US Vice-President is now on the site; the fash influx has begun

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Daphne Preston-Kendal @dpk.swhack.com.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2025

Actually, this is the real type system she told you not to worry about chaos.social/@dpk/114564703700582164

Return values from subtypep in Common Lisp https://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_subtpp.htm#subtypep

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Daphne Preston-Kendal @dpk.swhack.com.ap.brid.gy · 17/05/2025

Twenty years ago: Two big buttons right on the home page, helping people do the thing they want to do Today: ‘We empower synergies to move the needle with mission-critical blue sky thinking’

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Daphne Preston-Kendal @dpk.swhack.com.ap.brid.gy · 30/03/2025

A clipping of last night’s conversation, mediated through an article by @phillmv

In the 2021 novel “Detransition Baby” the author shares a joke. Transgender women only have one of three jobs: computer programmer, aesthetician, prostitute.

It’s an old joke. More of an observation, really. The director of “Vestidas de Azul”, a 1983 documentary about trans women in Madrid, had hoped to make a movie about trans women who were lawyers or held important roles in society. Instead he discovered that most trans women were forced to be artists, hair dressers, or sex workers – so that’s who he made his movie about.

I’m glad I can be a computer programmer; no one gets to be an artist anymore.

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Daphne Preston-Kendal @dpk.swhack.com.ap.brid.gy · 01/03/2025

tfw ur mailing list archive is trying to solve the halting problem :-(

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Daphne Preston-Kendal @dpk.swhack.com.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2025

Fun evening at the Vintage Computing meetup. Helped out a bit programming this beauty, a German analogue computer designed in 1969

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Daphne Preston-Kendal @dpk.swhack.com.ap.brid.gy · 18/02/2025

I upgraded to Mac OS 15.3.1. *Again* I was presented with this screen. Unlike every other Mac OS setup screen I have ever seen, there is still no option to say ‘no, don’t enable this’. And once again, it enabled Apple Intelligence in System Settings – after I […] [Original post on chaos.social]

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Daphne Preston-Kendal @dpk.swhack.com.ap.brid.gy · 15/02/2025

Vereine, die schwiegen, als anderen ihr Fördergeld wegen Äußerungen zu Palästina gekürzt wurden, aber jetzt ihr eigenes Fördergeld wegen Äußerungen gegen Merz bedroht bekommen:

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Daphne Preston-Kendal @dpk.swhack.com.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2025

Gruber has been full of shit lately, but does manage to capture I’m also uncomfortable with about the hero-worship of AaronSw

I’m not so sure, either, that he’d be approve of all this, his status as a symbol to a generation who never knew him, only of him. I don’t think he’d disapprove, either, because the folks holding him up as an icon — internet freedom and preservationist zealots — are, thankfully, aligned with Aaron’s own righteous obsessions. But I think he’d be a little weirded out. He wasn’t a “I hope they erect a larger-than-life statue of me” sort of guy. And if he had been, we wouldn’t have loved him like we did. It’s just a terrible thing that we lost him so young.

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Daphne Preston-Kendal @dpk.swhack.com.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2025

@timbray Hmm, no, that isn’t quite right for what I’m looking for. Symmetric difference of three sets looks like the first Venn diagram, and I need the function for the second diagram

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Daphne Preston-Kendal @dpk.swhack.com.ap.brid.gy · 27/01/2025

This diagram shows German political discourse, and the tiny piece at the bottom is the guy who maintains wahlrecht.de as a hobby

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Daphne Preston-Kendal @dpk.swhack.com.ap.brid.gy · 20/01/2025

Programmmers believe themselves to be uniquely rational and their technical choices to be grounded in empirical facts; in reality, any good illustrated dictionary should have this picture under the definition of ‘feels before reals’:

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Daphne Preston-Kendal @dpk.swhack.com.ap.brid.gy · 19/01/2025

Heh, an interesting effect of removing rename nodes is that, even though that process happens long after disjunctive patterns have been unfolded into separate clauses, it actually makes the process visible by adding distinct leaf nodes for each ‘or’ subpattern!

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Daphne Preston-Kendal @dpk.swhack.com.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2025

Why I hate record types: a belated answer to @kitten_tech Let’s first consider the opening paragraph of the Scheme reports. I truly believe the statement made by the first sentence: *all* programming languages should be designed by removing restrictions […] [Original post on chaos.social]

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Daphne Preston-Kendal @dpk.swhack.com.ap.brid.gy · 07/01/2025

@mattblaze My favourite example of this from Adams is Moonrise, Hernandez

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Daphne Preston-Kendal @dpk.swhack.com.ap.brid.gy · 01/01/2025

Born of a woman, born under the Law; born not to abolish the Law, but to fulfil it A blessed Feast of the Circumcision!

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Daphne Preston-Kendal @dpk.swhack.com.ap.brid.gy · 21/12/2024

The new slop machine button in the GitHub header means it no longer fits on my phone screen, even after truncating the name of the repo I’m looking at to be utterly useless

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