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@[email protected] Having been twice made responsible for institutional change in the workplace and then having the person who appointed me lose the authority to push the changes, I have a painfully direct experience of how tough it can be to break out of the Abilene Paradox with a group that has someone well spoken and charismatic in authority who doesn't understand what's happening in the rest of the group. Lots of well meaning people doing things that seem sane, rational, and empathic individually, leading to a Not Good™ and emotionally distructive overall situation.

Hmm. I think I'm leaking my trauma. But it definitely makes for a stronger plot than 'I need to delay the PoV character five minutes or the entire story ends because they can have a conversation.'

@[email protected] I think these 'stupidity dependent' misunderstandings are tempting partly because they are easy, but also because they are easy to justify as 'realistic' because we have all seen people being stupid in relationships. But they fundamentally aren't satisfying because we can see how easily the conflict could be resolved from the outside, sort of a deus ex machina in reverse.

@[email protected] thank you. Also, I am sad. Next round of debugging when I'm not doing the washing up.

"Your encouragement for the day is trout ala creme, enjoy your physics!"

I have a favour to ask; if you're viewing this post via Mastodon, could you tell me whether you see a link preview box to "Log in" below this post, or whether it just appears as a normal post with some hashtags?

Thank you! #testtag

@[email protected] hmm. Thank you for letting me know, looks like Bonfire and Mastodon handling hashtag links differently. I'll have to see what I can do about that.

@[email protected] I think this is actually how jujutsu is designed to be used github.com/jj-vcs/jj (and it can be used in existing git repositories). This isn't a recommendation, I haven't tried it myself yet, but I found the suggested workflow interesting partly for the reason you state ("have I actually done what I meant to do? What did I mean to do?"), and partly for the next morning issue ("I know I was in the middle of something yesterday...")

@[email protected] not making IP6 at least partially backwards compatible, or at the very least presenting a visually 'compatible' representation, has got to be one of the largest self owns in computing standards history. @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]

"... change my mind"

Instant world building via cultural idioms.

"Today is a good day to..." #worldbuilding #creativewriting

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I've worked with enough Polish developers that I can probably research a reasonable estimate of this for several different projects 😀

@[email protected] Italy also has a bonus extra option of take away pizza 'by the cut' (al taglio) which you order by weight - often in hectogram units. So you order 'tre etti' (three hundred grams) and the guy cuts a slice of the right size off a huge rectangular pizza, generally by eye, and generally very accurately. Great for much confusion in shops not used to dealing with tourists. Also genuinely convenient for ordering the amount of food you actually want/need.

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This is genuinely really good news; Erasmus has been such a positive life changing events for many people I know and the UK dropping out of it was one of many tragedies from Brexit.

@[email protected] Yeah, there was a craze at one point in the uk of trying to configure hotspots to do all kinds of weird things, like try and take over your DNS, or prevent you from 'abusing the service' by using streaming services or - evil of evils - VPNs. You might be downloading anything over that VPN! I even once had one try and ask me to accept a certificate, presumably so it could man in the middle me to make sure I was following the hotspot usage policy or something.
Given that most coffee shops don't refit their wifi hotspots very often, a lot of them are still around.

@[email protected] Are you using a wifi hotspot somewhere? They're often configured really badly in the UK in my experience. If you're using mobile, that sounds stranger.

@[email protected] (insert rant here about people needing to justify their lived experience with 'published papers' to actually be listened to)

@[email protected] He was one of the first people to point out that's not really how humans work; 'high potential'/'profoundly gifted' humans don't think like everybody else more quickly, way instead tend to have more bandwidth, make more connections, make intuitive and emotional jumps that they post-hoc justify afterwards - all the things you're saying. Just with some scientific papers to wave in the face of professionals and teachers who are determined to double down on 'that child can't be bright, they aren't perfectly behaved!'.