Tomorrow @mikaelacaron and I record the next @swiftovercoffee episode and we want your views for our open ballot! We're celebrating Swift turning 10, so tell us: how did it impact your life? Did it get you jobs? Did it help you go indie? Did it give you lots of fun? Tell us! 👇
"[...]These also include proposals to add "alternative" syntaxes, in addition to those that replace the existing syntax."
"[...]The established Rust community with knowledge of existing Rust #syntax has a great deal of value, and to be considered, a syntax change proposal would have to be not just better, but so wildly better as to overcome the massive downside of switching."
Need help ASAP with finding a text editor for Bash.
So far all of the following text editors are unable to properly syntax highlight Bash herestrings:
Vim
Neovim
Nano
Kate
IntelliJ IDEA
Visual Studio Code
I'm at a loss. Even Vim isn't up to the task. I don't have the time or brainpower right now to learn Emacs. If anyone knows a text editor that can highlight Bash herestrings right, please ping me!
New diamond open access journal 'Syntactic Theory and Research' to be founded by former editors of Syntax, resigning from editorial positions due to errors made by Wiley-Blackwell in publication process vs free labour expected of authors/reviewers/editors @linguistics@academicchatter#syntax#linguistics#OpenAccess#AcademicPublishing
After hearing about #Codeium on the #Syntax podcast, I decided to use it to help me write a #powershell script for a backup routine. I had originally written in C-sharp a while back, but obviously could be much faster and smaller with a script.
I am not a professional. I found that it did great at helping me with syntax for Powershell, which I am not that familiar with. However, I did find Codeium would get lost in the nested conditionals, so I had to watch it closely & move things around.
In this episode of #Syntax podcast, I thought this was going to be about warning about securing your domain registrations. Turns out that it is a warning to pick your weird #TLD well, and consider avoiding .af among others.
The #Taliban stole my domain https://overcast.fm/+JaI7wJKLE
When I first joined Kbin I posted threads due to being a reddit refugee but have started posting microblogs as time went on. I have also noticed some magazines have more threads while others have more microblog posts. For example kbinmeta has more threads while the most active magazine I moderate has mostly microblogs.
Yeah, #search#functionality and #syntax on #kbin has room to grow, I completely agree. While I've tried getting familiar with it in the past, I am by no means an authority on the subject. In fact, this back-and-forth was already helpful for teaching me a bit more. If you feel strongly about this, I might suggest bringing it up here, so that Ernest can look into it when he has time. However, if you'd rather not, then I may find some time to try putting something together later.
Every so often I see a post about how LLMs fail logic puzzles.
And... yes? Of course they do. The only way it could solve it is if it has seen the puzzle before or a substantially similar one. (But that might cause it to give the answer to the similar one, not the correct answer.)
Why is this even tested so often or considered surprising? It is, in essence, an autocomplete. It does not understand logic. It has no concept of a correct answer. It gives the most likely completion.
When talking about interesting Python syntax, list comprehension has to be mentioned.
This one is so convoluted I can barely explain how it works, I just know that it does.
This function takes a list and a dictionary as input. Each key and value in the dictionary are then appended as an argument and value into the list, to later be used as command line parameters (here, for ffmpeg).
Open question: I’m a middle-aged dude with a few years of #programming experience — 25 long years ago. So I have rudimentary understanding of basic programming concepts, but know nothing of modern languages or methods.
If I wanted to write an #apple#iOS#app that hits a web-accessible #api, what would you all recommend as the best way to get started and/or learn iOS & #swift?
@ctietze
Well, I have the (dis)advantage of not reading any#code in a long long time. So, I’d like to think I’m mostly free of the ingrained patterning that comes from keen familiarity with any one specific language or #syntax.
If "#!/usr/bin/env foo" is the preferred #shebang (for portable scripts) in order to find "foo" independent of its path, why isn't the recommended shebang "#!env foo" which would not assume a path for "env" either? 🤔
What are your thoughts on Microblogs vs threads?
When I first joined Kbin I posted threads due to being a reddit refugee but have started posting microblogs as time went on. I have also noticed some magazines have more threads while others have more microblog posts. For example kbinmeta has more threads while the most active magazine I moderate has mostly microblogs.
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