@[email protected] @[email protected] Honest, but not true? Covers a surprisingly wide range of well meaning communication, especially when you start taking unconscious bias into account.

Inside every tester there are two wolves: the confused one, the surreal one, and the one that always goes one step further than expected. #qa #testing

This is something that has bothered me for a long time. How did we end up in a timeline where we're all continually agreeing to contracts that are allowed to change their own terms and conditions, even while everybody agrees huge swathes of them are unenforceable on either party? We've achieved all of the paperwork with none of the benefits.

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@[email protected] @[email protected] The weirdest part of the whole thing is that based on your longer description the headline was really an uncommonly clear and accurate description of the study. And yes, interesting study idea even if a somewhat unsurprising and depressing result.

@[email protected] What @[email protected] said - I was going to respond with something much more angry and sarcastic, but it's probably more important to reinforce there's people out there who think what you're doing is really valuable, and that I personally have appreciated the couple of occasions you've directly pointed out I'd mis- or partially understood something from your field of expertise.

Also: he was being an arse. Sorry that happened to you 😞

@[email protected] @[email protected] The BBC nailed this as a children's show decades ago: "Maid Marian and her Merry Men"

I didn't realise at first it was SF rather than real SF news until I got to the bit where the SF member at the SF competition yelled "Orange! Rising Dragon Fist!" and punched his opponent out of SF.

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@[email protected] On the third hand, playing with squirty cream is fun. This has very little to do with how good the strawberries taste, but is also a truism of life worth bearing in mind

@[email protected] This, also, is true. That said, while really good strawberries are really good, this technique has the advantage of helping okay strawberries also taste really good 😊

Like #strawberries but don't like/can't eat cream? One Italian alternative is to roughly chop them (halves or quarters is fine unless you have huge strawberries) and marinate them for at least an hour in lemon juice and sugar (about 10 grams sugar + the juice of one lemon per 500g/1lb of strawberries).

They'll keep in the fridge overnight, and you can even box them up to take to places where you don't have access to a fridge - you will need a spoon to eat them with though.

(Apparently today is @mavnn posts about food day)

@[email protected] @[email protected] I vaguely follow the competitive Street Fighter scene to add an extra one to the list. It feels like it must be possible to write ambiguous sentences with several of them, with bonus points for the more you fit in while still being plausibly coherent.

@[email protected] It's always the simple sounding ideas that sound appealing. Remove management, meritocracy, unlimited annual leave... it's almost like life is a little more complicated than most of us really want to engage with.

Especially because it's always easier to assume things are simple if the problems aren't happening to you.

Of course, it's even more frustrating when we then avoid the simple things that do actually have an evidential basis. Working less than ~35 hours a week is long term more productive? Giving homeless people homes is a (comparatively) cheap and effective way of dealing of dealing with homelessness? Madness! The real world can't possible work like that!

Getting slightly hotter here, so time for my not too bad, not too slow #coldbrew #coffee.

Put coffee in aeropress over your mug (filter down). Tip in cold water, about enough to actually fill your mug. Stir really well (coffee grindings do not like mixing into the cold water). Put press on and set a timer for ~15 mins; some coffee will drip through but that's fine, in fact that's how you normally make cold brew. When the timer goes or you get impatient, skip the rest of the several hours cold brew normally takes and press the coffee. Done.

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] One of the side benefits of living in Italy is that at certain times of year they're cheap. Partly pre-nuke, chop roughly and spread at the bottom of the pan before tipping frittata mix on top (plain omelette mix, basically: 2 eggs, ~1tbs milk per person plus salt and pepper to taste). Total cooking time less than twenty, and it's very tasty.

@[email protected] For some reason this reminds me of the "Pacifist Crush!" youtube.com/watch?v=X7fQNEUC...

Just scream "Beautifying Rock!" as you hit yourself in the head and I'm sure it will all work out.

("Work out" may be doing some heavy lifting in the previous sentence. Disclaimer: I am not a hair stylist, a medical professional, or an anime protagonist.)

@[email protected] I found out what happened with the main search page - I had updated to a newer version of Meili than Bonfire currently supports, so nothing immediate to fix there. Sorry about that! In fact - for me at least down grading Meili seems to have also fixed the user tag lookup?

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@[email protected] @[email protected] Turns out that I could now right some pretty stunning work flow software for managing processes that happen at 'real world' rather than digital speeds, though. Getting computers to run reliably and without bankrupting you at the speed of "Bob from finance answers an email" is actually quite an interesting puzzle.

@[email protected] @[email protected] Please, please. As a couple of years ago I wrote an agentic framework (before the surrounding landscape got rather better defined) I can tell you that you're missing the true depth and complexity here.

It's a loop that runs so slowly and unreliably you need to persist steps to have a hope of it running successfully, and which needs subloops to repeatedly tell it to try again when it attempts to use other software until it gives valid input. Then you rewrite the stack trace so that only the correct trigger is stored in the hope you don't run out of effective memory before actually doing whatever it is you're trying to do. It's so much more than a loop!

Kinda just waiting for Google to announce they're dropping Gmail to force me to do an enormous amount of transfer work on sorry notice when I have very few spoons. I mean they've done enough I'd like to move stuff at this point but a deadline to do so would be the gone of cheese frosting on an already disappointing cake...