IRC channel logs
2020-11-17.log
back to list of logs
<PurpleSym>Uh, first time for me, so thanks. I didn’t like it that much, was afraid it was not technical enough for the audience. <civodul>i guess the audience is broader than during the physical Guix Days <civodul>so everything's in place for an introductory blog post, right? ;-) <PurpleSym>Yeah, being online probably attracts people who would usually not come in person. <civodul>right, and i think it's the right level for scientists interested in this sort of setup <PurpleSym>True, except for the blog post itself, which I have to make up now :) <civodul>yet, a Guix hacker can see how it makes use of today's Guix mechanisms <civodul>i wonder about "psychologists can't use the command line" <civodul>ok i understand this is the case right now <civodul>but i'd like to think it's not insurmountable <PurpleSym>Sure, they certainly could learn how to use the cli, but we’ll have to teach them the basics. At least most of them. <civodul>yeah, i think ideally we'd all work to bridge such gaps, which are mostly cultural <civodul>i like what dustyweb did with "digital humanities" <civodul>teaching Racket's Scribble to people working in "humanities", people who don't consider themselves as programmers/hackers/geeks <PurpleSym>Certainly better than writing your paper/notes in MS Word or Google Docs. <PurpleSym>One problem I see at work is that many things that we could easily automate/script are still done by hand. <civodul>yes, this is creating a barrier between "computer-savvy" people who can automate things, and the rest of us who are not necessarily well served by computing <civodul>anyway, this obviously goes way beyond the topic of your talk :-)