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And now I feel old. Also, Creative Commons is great.
@[email protected] Have you come across Dabrowski? The over simplified version is that he postulates that high development potential ("giftedness") isn't comorbid with emotional over excitability, but is driven by it. Well, that, or you self implode (he refers to growth via positive and negative disintegration as the excitability refuses to allow statis). I'm enormously over simplifying to the point of being dangerous inaccurate, but it may be worth a look if you haven't seen it before. dabrowskicenter.org/developm...
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One thing deeply lacking in the UK school system is some study of philosophy. I'm actually really glad my son has had the opportunity to study some here in Italy even if he's aiming towards engineering as a degree (and so is he!). I can't help thinking that the world could do with more people thinking about why we do things just at the moment.
@mavnn @0xabad1dea @xaetacore
NW England, we would take a letter to the post office or put it in a postbox. It would be delivered by a postman/postwoman (postie), and put into your letter box. We might say "It will come by mail," or "Is there any mail?" but I would expect to hear "It will come by post," or "Is there any post?" much more often.
@[email protected] Makes sense, I'm from down south with a some years in the Midlands, so I obviously speak proper like and don't know how you northerners would mangle the language :). I think I tend to use post for the postie and as a verb, and mail as the noun ("The postie delivers the mail" "I'm going to post the letter") but I'm pretty sure I'm not consistent in using either.
Had a whole chat conversation with someone this morning in which I mentioned I was really struggling to get things done today.
Reader, did I check I had taken my #adhd meditation? No, of course not. I just carried on struggling all morning before seeing the medication after lunch when I took out the next dose.
I mean, I did also set up a new database, fix some backups, add health monitoring to a server, and find a new potential business partner. I just didn't actually mean to do any of that and the washing still isn't hung.
Had a whole chat conversation with someone this morning in which I mentioned I was really struggling to get things done today.
Reader, did I check I had taken my #adhd meditation? No, of course not. I just carried on struggling all morning before seeing the medication after lunch when I took out the next dose.
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@xaetacore in American English, it's a mailbox if it's at your house and a postbox if it's at the post office. I assume this happened because "postbox" is specified in laws and regulations somewhere but over time The People drifted towards "mailbox"
@[email protected] @[email protected] English English would use mail or post interchangeably for 'is this thing physically being sent to me'. Here in Italy though, 'mail' is often used to refer to email in Italian so if you use mail speaking in English to an Italian they will often assume you mean email (and will often use mail to refer to email even in English)
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@indivisibleteam Should we recognize the person in the bed? Or is it just an everyman character?
@[email protected] @[email protected] Now I'm trying to work out if that would be better or worse. Is it more arrogant to claim to be able to heal people in general, or claim responsibility for healing a specific individual?
@mavnn the Chinese word for computer is "electric brain" 😂
@[email protected] I recently discovered that here in Italy you can sell nude properties, which amused me no end. Literal translations are such an unending source of fun. (It refers to buying a property but granting the current resident leave to continue living in it, and is used in situations where a pensioner is running out of money but doesn't want to leave their house)
People are using « tokens used » as productivity metric ?! « Tokens used »?!?!? That’s like, the first time « lines of code created » gets beaten for the « worst metric of software engineering » 🫠
@[email protected] @[email protected] "I spent more money, give me a raise!"
Just a quick test as I've moved Bonfire to a new server. Nothing to see here, move along now.
No - wait - is that a ... nope. Really nothing to see here.
me, squinting at Chinese prose: she inserted a... soft... plate... into the computer? a what?
[it dawns on me that this book is from the 90s] 💾 
@[email protected] I wonder if you could get a good rendition of Azimov era scifi describing the modern world by deliberately translating back and forth from unrelated languages focussing on literal translations.
"The lightning carriage accelerated down the complimentary path with torque unmatched by the older confined burn machines..."
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My week starts with a request: "I need a server to deploy to production, but the devs have no idea how to do it. They don't know how to use the terminal, they don’t know how to handle certificates, nothing. They need to be able to click a few buttons and deploy directly to production. They're Vibe Coding experts."
Welcome to 2026.
@[email protected] @[email protected] What could possibly go wrong?
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] That does sound positive, although I'm a little surprised because every time I've booked accommodation in Italy I've always been met by a real human and had my ID checked. I didn't even realize it was legal to self-checkin now.
@[email protected] Argh. This is why I hate going into the kitchen at times when I'm not medicated.
"I just asked you for a cup of tea, why are you eating cheese on toast?"
"Because I blinked at dinner point while I was in the kitchen and my brain went 'see kitchen, make food'"
@[email protected] I'm impressed at my phone keyboard for having misinterpreted 'some' as 'dinner'. The joys of swiping keyboards. Oh well.
absent mindedly ate half a tube of pringles while already full, am now extremely uncomfortable
@[email protected] Argh. This is why I hate going into the kitchen at times when I'm not medicated.
"I just asked you for a cup of tea, why are you eating cheese on toast?"
"Because I blinked at dinner point while I was in the kitchen and my brain went 'see kitchen, make food'"
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And this is why I sometimes sleep better with my body stuffed full of stimulants... (which help controlling the stray thoughts) #adhd
Was overwhelmed by a large problem.
Broke it up into small problems.
Now overwhelmed by large number of small problems.
@[email protected] "I followed your advice and turned my monolith into this jenga tower. What was the next step?"
I guess I'm probably more pessimistic about this than both of you. Maintainers aren't always responsive, releases take time to prepare, patches aren't evenly propagated, and even when all fixes are applied companies often wait to update - if at all.
Anyone with a credit card will soon be able to order the exploit vending machine. Projects and orgs that have their shit together will be alright. Many however will not.
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Not to be too dark, but hasn't this been true for a while? I'm sure I could find places on the net to buy (or pay people to find) exploits already, and probably roughly as fast. There are a lot of projects/servers or there with less than stellar security, after all. It almost feels like the bigger change is how much it is now public knowledge you can pay for exploits, rather than whether or not you could already.
„I went for therapy
I needed a remedy
She said, "Rou, there is no other solution"
And prescribed me global revolution“
@[email protected] see, you posted that tagged as no context but... gestures out the window
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