JordiGH @JordiGH@mathstodon.xyz

Time for new #introductions!

I'm Jordi. #Mexican expat living in #Montreal, #Canada. I can say expat instead of immigrant 'cause I've had a super-sheltered and comfortable life. Nothing dreadful has ever happened to me.

I like #mathematics, #knitting, #skating, #swimming, and old #gameing because I'm old (not that old).

I also do software stuff because of course.

I work on #GreenhouseGas assessments and #environmental #mapping, which I want to call #ecological cause we need that word again!

It works!!

Here's the patch:

http://inversethought.com/jordi/lol.patch

It's for ESR, but the same #XUL still exists in the codebase.

XUL! It's still there! They lied to us! They said it was gone, but all they did was make us recompile Firefox if we wanted to change it.

Yaaaaay, I can now move with #Emacs keys again, wooohoooo, this makes me so happppyy! 😀

I want to get a little annoyed at the #French, but they seem to just honestly be unable to understand any French but their own.

This kind of one-way intelligibility isn't that uncommon in #linguistics, yet this one being nearer to me kind of smarts a little.

https://o.canada.com/entertainment/movies/french-need-subtitles-for-quebec-film-at-cannes-film-festival

I'm now exercising my #SoftwareFreedom in the most ridiculous way possible: burning hours upon hours of CPU recompiling after mistakes so I can disable ctrl+n in #Firefox, because opening new windows when I'm trying to use #Emacs keys to move one line down is an affront to my habituation that I will no longer tolerate. This is a line in the sand, and I'll recompile as long as I have to in order to defend it!

Hey, at least I'm not mining bitcoins.

Reading the #Firefox source code when suddenly

D) Netscape Communications Corporation ("Netscape") does not guarantee
that any source code or executable code available from the mozilla.org
domain is Year 2000 compliant.

... oh boy, we're in trouble.

I can't believe half of the internet runs on AWS (or some other ungodly proportion).

AWS is a horribly complicated mess of gitological proportions, full of arcane language and confusing terminology, which the Amazon employees obviously designed with their butts.

All #translation must deviate from the original, so all translation must lie, at least a little. Embrace that lie and make it a good one:

http://jordi.inversethought.com/blog/to-translate-is-to-lie-so-weave-a-good-yarn/

me_irl

#Rust

Or, here, C++ and Python examples:

http://inversethought.com/hg/medcouple/file/tip/jmedcouple.c%2B%2B

http://inversethought.com/hg/medcouple/file/tip/medcouple.py

Zebras or no zebras?

Hey, #accessibility/#a11y question:

Are the alternating backgrounds in the code here helpful? I thought that was only for tabular data, but does it also help with code listings?

http://inversethought.com/hg/dotemacs/file/@/dotemacs.el

I can't believe I've been long enough in Masto to already start missing people who are no longer around.