@[email protected] To be fair, it looks like a good chunk of the bibliography is already online in this thread :D. Can't help feeling that @[email protected] will be delivering the ideas with more enthusiasm than the original authors though. Some of the papers, while excellent, are, erm, dry.

@[email protected] I was mostly joking. But only because I knew it doesn't generally work that way - not because I wouldn't actually be interested!

@[email protected] Is there an online sign up for just this course?! PL (and the world, frankly) is badly in need of wild enthusiam directed by knowledgeable intent and tempered in the fires of historical examples, and I for one would be so on board that train

@[email protected] @[email protected] makes unreasonably proud noises at random graph

@[email protected] @[email protected] Do it! Real time grafana pretty graphs of energy production (optionally with some carefully chosen alerts) are surprisingly motivating to help things like running energy heavy appliances at the cheapest times. And even seeing historic usage can clue you into habits of energy usage you didn't realise you had.

@[email protected] Anyway, emacs key combos are super discoverable due to its amazing built in help. Just search for the operation you want to achieve! Who wouldn't think to search for "yank from kill ring"?

I genuinely love emacs, but boy do some people say some strange things about it.

@[email protected] UI serendipity would lead me (a fellow emacs user) to suggest @[email protected] 's newly coined emacsing

@[email protected] "This thing that might be a guid is not what I expected!" isn't that helpful if it doesn't tell you which guid for what from where and is there anything I can do about it anyway. It's put me off FDroid fairly heavily even if I wanted to like the idea.

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] You're not the only one. Up to there I was like "yeah, people used to assume you'd have to take laptops places and plug them into things, this is more than most but..." and then the double optical drive rolled into view.

@[email protected] The thing that took me a long time and some rather awkward conversations to understand as a child growing up in churches, but with parents who believed in God rather than "membership of a domination" is how many people take "Christianity" enormously seriously without a hint of understanding or any desire to learn about what any thing actually means. Happy to dedicate large amounts of money and time to "church activities", but then astonished to learn that Jesus was Jewish.

That's before you get to the very intelligent people who actually try and formulate theology that justifies some of these things, who I manage to have an even lower opinion of.

PSA for couriers: the only upside of #ChronicFatigue is that I am at my home when you try and deliver. Could you at least ring the doorbell?

@[email protected] Yeah, yeah, but that only evens out the average for the ones that I say "I've got five minutes, I'll do this one straight away" and then take 3 days and a brief trip to accident and emergency.

@[email protected] Means skipping being raptured with the type of people who believe in the rapture. Maybe it's a better sales pitch than I thought?

@[email protected] "tickets to the rapture are running out fast!"

To be absolutely clear to all of the various people who follow me that 'the church' has often treated like shit: I do not believe my faith implies you have any less value (let alone less right to exist) than anyone else.

I am a Christian, and I'm not ashamed of it. Even happy to talk about it with people if they're actually interested. But it seems a telling judgement on 'Christianity' (the organised religion as it currently exists in Western culture) that by far the most common gullibility test opener I receive from spammers is 'are you an Evangelical'?

I have absolutely failed people from technical interviews for how they (didn't) respond to and respect my female co-interviewer. I have also seen candidates who looked good on paper crash and burn when interviewed by an all female panel as they were apparently incapable of treating them as humans.

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And because I'm in a random music recommendations mood, have a track from Kardi that manages to win my award for "most relaxed groove to ever be performed with enough energy to power a small city". And I'm a sucker for traditional instruments in rock line ups, they always work surprisingly well (even if this is less rock than some of Kardi's other tracks)

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I was reminded of this track recently and realised that some of you may not have been blessed of knowing "The Impresario" exists. OCReMix are a community who produce fan covers of music from games, and a lot of it is good - but 13 years ago a bunch of insane geniuses decided to take a scene from Final Fantasy VI that is (in game) an opera and turns it into a nearly 9 minute masterpiece of Bohemian Raspsody style rock opera. Treat your ears and give it a listen (and if you played the original game it even manages to carry the mix of emotional gut punch and completely surreality that the original scene evokes)

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