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@mwl her original article about it is: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/la-timeless/how-not-to-say-the-wrong-thing
@[email protected] @[email protected] I've just also realised that this is exactly what the best bosses do, which I've always previously described as 'being the shit shield' but that's a, erm, less useful name in a professional context than 'applies ring theory in their management of the team'
@[email protected] I love having a name for this concept, which I first met when some Chinese friends were horrified to learn that the immediate family normally handled funeral proceedings in the UK. "But... they're the ones most impacted! That's when everyone else is needed most."
Also: you (and by the sounds of things your wife) are standing strong even if this is a crappy timeline at the moment and that is awesome. There's a lot of us rooting for you, and hoping it gets less crappy soon, including adding some recognition for the people who are actually doing the hard work.
Starting to put together a hacky program to federate my blog by reading the rss feed to publish articles with #activitypub and then provide a known url to show any replies that I can drop onto the actual blog pages.
But that means creating a directory for the code, which means a name, 'activity_rss' sounds good but that's too long, I know...
mkdir arss
Fortunately my brain caught up with me before I actually hit enter.
Just in case anyone is actually wondering, I went with fediverss in the end.
Starting to put together a hacky program to federate my blog by reading the rss feed to publish articles with #activitypub and then provide a known url to show any replies that I can drop onto the actual blog pages.
But that means creating a directory for the code, which means a name, 'activity_rss' sounds good but that's too long, I know...
mkdir arss
Fortunately my brain caught up with me before I actually hit enter.
Aldi clearance shelf: instant drink powder!! 🩷Pink Latte🩷
me: okay, notoriously hit-or-miss Aldi clearance shelf, I'll try it
(I pour the powder into the mug. it is clearly white) not looking good for the Aldi clearance shelf
(I add hot water. it somehow turns bright pink) okay, I retract my thoughts about the Aldi clearance shelf
(I taste it) I reinstate some of my thoughts about the Aldi clearance shelf.
@[email protected] okay, but I have to ask: Aldi clearance shelf or not, is there ever a situation where pink latte sounds like a good idea?
@mavnn Indeed, and who am I to argue with those who work in The Real World(tm) anyway? ;)
@[email protected] ah, well. It's all over now anyway. There's a line of LLM enthusiasts just waiting to explain to you how natural language is the ideal tool for capturing and defining complex processes.
Perhaps I should also add (given that I've just mentioned it and it was probably just as bad an idea...) that answering the question "What language should we teach first?" without first deciding what we want them to do with it (that is, at least, during the rest of their degree whether that's CS or ends up being something else) is probably also a bad idea.
Anyway I still want to steal lots of ideas from Smalltalk.
Now, now, @[email protected] . You're almost making it sound like different programming languages are better at or make it easier to communicate different things to both their users and maybe even the computer.
This is obviously nonsense, as shown by the many developers who will immediately tell you the best programming language.
@[email protected] as someone nearly two years into dealing with part viral fatigue (which may not even have been from covid!) I totally agree. The effects of the pandemic go so far beyond the immediate, in objective physical terms but also in terms of trauma, uncertainty, and general mental health.
@[email protected] That is an awesome photo, thanks for sharing.
@stiiin don't tell me you haven't been dividing your clauses!
@[email protected] @[email protected] Half to heaven, half to hell?
Short but sweet blog post today on tracking hidden consequences in #ink, responding to a question from my #visualnovel writing course.
@[email protected] @[email protected] mia moglie dice sbobba è forse una parole appropriato
The magic of your fingers knowing what keys are under them suddenly goes away if you start to think about it too much.
@[email protected] fun fact I learned from watching a family member: if you have a visual sensory processing disorder, you can become a very competent pianist who immediately loses the ability to play if you look at your hands
@bovaz I'm guessing that Italian is very rich in food words? If so, is there something suggesting that a dish is liquid and tasteless?
@[email protected] @[email protected] There's a place in Italy called Fonteblanda which caught my eye as the name can literally be translated as 'the bland spring'. It's not the only or even the most natural translation, but I love the head canon that the person who named it did so accidentally by declaring how tasteless the local spring was.
Anyway... I wouldn't use the term in this context both because it is actually a real place, and because spring water doesn't have the right negative connotations for translation
I've seen a bunch of folks talking about "managing energy, not time" and although I've tried to do that for many years, none of it really clicked for me on a visceral level until recently. It's frustrating because every day it feels like "I've still got an hour, I should do 3 more to-do items, ugh, there's so much left". The point where I run out of "energy", hit the wall, and get to the point where *tomorrow's* admin time will be useless wall-staring does not *feel* like my breaking point
@[email protected] yeah, starting to talk openly about my #adhd at conferences suddenly meant I got asked a bunch of questions where it was obvious people needed to hear about and be validated in the 'average' or 'somewhat hard' days, not just the 'this worked great this one time' and 'pit of despair' days. Which also led to writing things like blog.mavnn.eu/2025/09/16/stu...
@[email protected] I once had the misfortune of being present when a sealed blue cheese was discovered behind a fridge. When the discoverer opened it unaware that it had been sitting there being gently warmed for at least 6 months, an immediate unspoken consensus was achieved around the decision to remove the cheese from the premises, as well as as much of the contaminated air as possible. It was French, if the European status of the cheese is relevant.
@[email protected] This coming from someone whose stag party was based around port and Stilton, so I'm not exactly averse to blue cheese
does blue cheese ever actually go bad or does it just get progressively more european until everyone nearby comes to the unspoken consensus that a decision needs to be made
@[email protected] I once had the misfortune of being present when a sealed blue cheese was discovered behind a fridge. When the discoverer opened it unaware that it had been sitting there being gently warmed for at least 6 months, an immediate unspoken consensus was achieved around the decision to remove the cheese from the premises, as well as as much of the contaminated air as possible. It was French, if the European status of the cheese is relevant.
i think i fixed it? contact cleaner saves the day
@[email protected] The l33t hacker finishes limboing under lazer beams towards a desk, in a room where everything is lit in cyan and teal; they pause briefly before... carefully... drawing a carton of semi-skimmed milk from an improbably large pocket on a bullet proof vest.
splosh
"We're in!"
Text immediately start flashing across the computer screen, which if paused on freeze frame would be revealed to be the source code of curl.
Update of #bonfire complete, and going to 1.0.2 felt smoother than the 1.0.1 update. Nice work, @[email protected] team!
@thomasfuchs (it's definitely no ketchup, but it's great in stews)
@[email protected] @[email protected] I will not have you disparaging hp sauce by comparing it to tomato coloured sugar syrup!
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