Arghblarg

No comment other than the phrase in title is prominent on the hats intentionally shown behind the young man being interviewed here. I'll let everyone reading this decide for themselves whether this is a problem or not.

EDIT: For the record, perhaps my original commentary on this post was attempting to be too 'clever'. I was most definitely * not * trying to promote these chuckleheads. It was posted in order to ensure people know the enemy -- there are some scary forces working in Canada to instill the horrors we are seeing down south, right here, right now.

As most have predicted and feared, the US Administration appears to now be testing if they can push one step further towards enforcing an authoritarian ethno-state: threatening a full-on US citizen by-birth with detainment and deportation (to where, exactly, if they are a born US citizen?). Someone who, "coincidentally", is an immigration lawyer, someone who might defend other targets of their deportation agenda.

First they came for ...

EDIT: a thread indicating this has been a mass email to others https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3lmljpkrdj22h

While GNU APL has, as its primary focus, adherence to the APL2 ISO 13751 standard, it is open to enhancements which do not violate compatibility with APL/2.

So, as of SVN 1847M:

      s ← 'Mississippi'
      ≠s    
1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
      (≠s)/s
Misp

In response to suggestions by a lunatic in the US Oval Office, Green Party Canada's leader Elizabeth May suggested Canada should invite western states Washington, Oregon and California join B.C and split from Canada to form the 'Cascadia' eco-state.

(Note this article is from Jan 8, 2025 and Elizabeth May has since become co-leader of the party alongside Jonathan Pedneault).

Would be a darn shame if tariffs applied to it for the US... oh wait

I was searching online for quite a while this evening, chasing a half-remembered bit of trivia, that trilobites were supposedly unique in their use of calcite for their lenses, composing the ommatidia of their compound eyes.

It must be so obvious to scientists in the field of studying insects that they never mention it in their papers...

So, what compound(s) do modern arthropods use in their compound eyes. If it isn't calcite, what do modern 'bugs' use?

Whether you are an old hand at APL, or someone just discovering the language, having the symbols in the standard layout right there on your keyboard is a great help... dedicated APL keyboards are pretty expensive, so consider these stickers that let one adapt any standard desktop or laptop keyboard!

APL keyboard sticker set on Tindie

To set up your keyboard for APL programming on Linux, see here.

If you haven't heard of it, this island has a population that the world has collectively decided to leave alone, mostly because they have proven, on multiple occasions, that they absolutely do not want visitors. Like, arrow-to-death anyone attempting to land or even visit near their shores.

This probably cannot go on forever... but maybe, it could. Essentially, we are already implementing a 'Prime Directive' of sorts here. Would the 23rd, 24th, ... centuries in Star Trek canon still have this little island on Earth, isolated from not just from Earth's own unified Federation society, but from the greater Federation races? What steps would the Federation and Earth take to maintain their isolation and the ecosystem on which they depend?

Would make for an interesting episode, or at least a cool side-note reference in one :)

For Funtoo users, simply sudo emerge dev-lang/apl :)

Normally I avoid linking to the old sh$thole here ('cuz you know, f*ck u/Spez), but this is an exception.

DFV posted DIRECTLY to 'stonk: https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/s/8TNza7V2IN

Discussion over on the 'stonk sub: https://old.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1d6r84q/roaring_kitty_theroaringkitty_on_x/

Twitter post tonight: https://x.com/theroaringkitty/status/1797418617908154621

GNU APL is easy to build on your own Linux machine, though the steps aren't detailed on the website.

Benefits of building yourself locally:

• One can customize how many cores GNU APL has access to
• Customizing optional extensions like PNG image, SQLite, GTK support etc.
• Having the latest bugfixes

1. Obtain the latest source

   • mkdir apl-build
   • svn checkout http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/svn/apl/trunk

2. Configure using autotools

   • cd trunk
   • make clean
   • ./configure CORE_COUNT_WANTED=3 RATIONAL_NUMBERS_WANTED=yes --with-ctrld_del

   Use ./configure --help to see other options, adjust to taste

3. Build and install

   • make -j && sudo make install

4. Set up your default workspace

   • cd ~
   • mkdir -p GNUAPL/workspaces