<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/@ben" class="u-url mention">@<span>ben</span></a></span> The irony is that Ruby was designed by someone who profoundly understood Scheme, and was trying to combine it w/ Smalltalk. Which amuses me because another language was also Scheme + Smalltalk (JavaScript).</p><p>`it` is fun, I first saw it in Paul Graham&#39;s Arc (which I showed him how to implement in Racket macros).</p>

<p>Word, Ms Word.</p>

<p>Malaysian and Indonesian foods are so good 🤤 I&#39;ve been eating &quot;Goreng&quot; foods this week.</p>

<p>"this one feels seen! engaging chaff to compensate!"</p>

<p>People love to characterize academics as out of touch but this thread (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42507312" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4</span><span class="invisible">2507312</span></a>) is a good example of smart industry people trying to figure out the shape of <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span>’s bicameral elephant (<a href="https://parentheticallyspeaking.org/articles/bicameral-not-homoiconic/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">parentheticallyspeaking.org/ar</span><span class="invisible">ticles/bicameral-not-homoiconic/</span></a>) by poking around in the dark.</p>

<p>ahh, we have infected the dataset</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@isagalaev" class="u-url mention">@<span>isagalaev</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://photog.social/@darktable" class="u-url mention">@<span>darktable</span></a></span> Happy Holidays. :-)</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mapstodon.space/@adventure_tense" class="u-url mention">@<span>adventure_tense</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://photog.social/@darktable" class="u-url mention">@<span>darktable</span></a></span> is anything stopping you? Apart from it not really making sense logically :-)</p>