Deebster

@Deebster@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ada Lovelace: What did the first computer program do?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Bad link 👎

  This article seems to be an incomplete pasting of an old article: What Did Ada Lovelace’s Program Actually Do? I was suspicious when it said “A contemporary interpretation of Ada’s punch card stack using JavaScript might resemble the following” but didn’t have any code.

  The real tl;dr is it calculated terms of the Bernoulli series (without bugs!)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Extremely worrying’: Argentinian researchers reel after election of anti-science president⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s astonishing and terrible to see populist politicians still saying that climate change is a hoax - and getting elected. It’s never been more obvious that what scientist have been saying about global warming (e.g. Exxon’s scientists have been saying since 1977) is true and having real world consequences today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Neutron Star Collision Caught Forging Heavy Metals in a JWST First⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This headline makes it sound like the star has been rumbled counterfeiting Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden CDs 🤘

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A end-to-end encrypted survey tool - Purplix, now in early alpha⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a neat little idea, although I’m surprised you found the motivation to finish what seems like a niche need. Was this something that you wanted for yourself?