<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://functional.cafe/@PaniczGodek" class="u-url mention">@<span>PaniczGodek</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://oldbytes.space/@amoroso" class="u-url mention">@<span>amoroso</span></a></span> I really don&#39;t like the use of the word &quot;parse&quot; in this excerpt, because it&#39;s totally non-standard and only makes sense in a bicameral setting.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@monkey1" class="u-url mention">@<span>monkey1</span></a></span> Surely I have not! Sounds like I should.</p><p>I was going to say, maybe my *favorite* thing in all of Rome is the Temple of Hadrian. I remember the first time I saw it — we were just walking past, and I said to my wife, &quot;wait, that can&#39;t *possibly* be modern&quot; — and then had to look up with it was. In Rome it doesn&#39;t even count as a 10th-tier attraction, so you literally stumble upon it. (Unless you go looking for it like I did today…)</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@obrien_kat" class="u-url mention">@<span>obrien_kat</span></a></span> Enjoy Italy! It&#39;ll be crowded as heck, of course, come June. Where are you going?</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://glasgow.social/@steeznson" class="u-url mention">@<span>steeznson</span></a></span> Oh wow!</p><p>I was going to skip Rome because of rain forecasts, then thought &quot;wait, rain — PANTHEON!&quot;. But then ended up having nice blue skies while I was in there and then strong storm clouds after I left…</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://oldbytes.space/@amoroso" class="u-url mention">@<span>amoroso</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> </p><p>&quot;The fully parenthesized Cambridge Polish syntax of Lisp, originally regarded as a temporary expedient to be<br />replaced by more conventional syntax, possesses a peculiar virtue: A read procedure can parse it without<br />knowing the syntax of any expressions, statements, definitions, or declarations it may represent. The result of<br />that parsing is a list structure that establishes a standard representation for uninterpreted abstract syntax<br />trees.<br />This representation provides a convenient basis for macro processing, which allows the programmer to<br />specify that some simple piece of abstract syntax should be replaced by some other, more complex piece of<br />abstract syntax. As is well-known, this yields an abstraction mechanism that does things that procedural<br />abstraction cannot, such as introducing new binding structures.<br />The existence of that standard representation for uninterpreted abstract syntax trees soon led Lisp to a<br />greater reliance upon macros than was common in other high-level languages.&quot;</p><p>- William D. Clinger and Mitchell Wand, &quot;Hygienic macro technology&quot;, HOPL 2020</p>

<p>Today I again stumbled upon this beautiful explanation of what Free licenses and Free culture means, by Mark Pilgrim. I think it&#39;s still very pertinent, and this is what formed my own opinions some years ago.</p><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091102023737/http://diveintomark.org/archives/2009/10/19/the-point" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.archive.org/web/2009110202</span><span class="invisible">3737/http://diveintomark.org/archives/2009/10/19/the-point</span></a></p><p>A choice quote:</p><p>&gt; If “others profiting from my work” is something you seek to avoid, then Free Software is not for you.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> from what I could find, Bluesky, Steam Groups&#39; announcements and here all have RSS feeds too.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> “unworkable”</p><p>I don’t know what you think it is you AI lot are doing, but “work” it ain’t.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> Kinda surprised to actually see a board using JTAG for pin continuity and not just debug. 😄</p>