The best cozy games to play right now
https://www.polygon.com/what-to-play/24151983/best-cozy-games-play-nintendo-switch-steam-playstation-xbox-pc?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Then a boobook owl flew through my back door #Tasmania

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a friend of mine once proposed a repurposing of the “AI” acronym for “automation informatics”, which i appreciated as a better descriptor of, at least, how some of my own work fit within a community of people attaching that label to me and to themselves

it also reminds me of how Phil Wadler has spoken fondly of the term “informatics” as an alternative to “computer science”

these days i’m vibing with a more cynical proposal for AI: disinformatics

Hoot is a Scheme to WebAssembly compiler backend for Guile, as well as a general purpose WebAssembly toolchain. In other words, Scheme in the browser!

Cool. Cool.

- Compatible with Firefox 121 or later.
- Compatible with Google Chrome 119 or later.
- Safari/WebKit is unsupported, unfortunately, as Wasm GC and tail calls are still not available.

So there's GC in WASM now! That's very cool. So that's what makes Scheme possible ... without implementing a whole GC within WASM itself.

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Location: Hong Kong or Sweden

41 degrees south

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It is *on* in Australia! #aurora #auroraaustralis #eurovision2024skyligjts #astrodon

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As usual XKCD hits the nail on the head.

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I really wanted to know which libraries are bloating my WebAssembly binaries, so I wrote a visualizer.

Throw in a .wasm file with DWARF debug symbols, and wasmphobia will generate a flame graph for you, breaking down the module by source file.

https://wasmphobia.surma.technology/

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What is the reason why some countries have lower taxes on paper but have higher total effective rates through other means (like social contributions)?
Is it an accounting trick to have an excuse for a low service quality (“our education/healthcare/… sucks, but hey, our income tax is a way lower than in these other countries, so don’t expect much”)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_rates_in_Europe#/media/File%3APayroll_and_income_tax_by_country.png

Off the cuff thought: I've seen a few places open sourcing code from the 80's and 90's (notably MS DOS 4.0 https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2024/04/25/open-sourcing-ms-dos-4-0/), now that the code's 30-40 years old, now that it's not viable to sell it anymore.

The max copyright lenght in the US was 42 years for a good chunk of our history.

There's no reason it should have changed. That code could have all been in the public domain by now