Source: It came to me in a dream

Abstract Base Classes just remind people of Java lasagna code. Whereas XYZ is inseparable from Hilary Putnam’s water analogue in his famous Twin Earth thought experiment.

I’ve been off Facebook for over a decade now but have been unable to leave the META ecosystem due to the ubiquity of WhatsApp in the UK. There’s not really a good alternative in terms of IM apps because the other popular ones seem to have made a USP out of appealing to criminals.

Was doing pager duty support and there was a bug in a pipeline which was preventing a vital report from being generated. It had to exist by 8AM UTC and finally got it working at 5:30AM. My company would have lost its license to operate in a certain state if the report had not been generated.

Had several family holidays where we took the car over from Fife to Zeebrugge when I was a kid. Very fond memories - even though I’m not sure how they managed to spin that journey into an overnight ride. I think Harry Potter 5 was being released at midnight during the date of one journey but they let people buy a copy a few hours early. I remember being ecstatic reading the first few chapters and eating a box of those shell chocolates in the cabin.

IRC is still pretty popular with programmers and in my experience people are helpful on the various tech channels (on libera.chat at least)

It would be great if the middle powers could form some kind of “common” “wealth” but seems outlandish at the moment

Even the chill Americans can’t help but invade Greenland

-20 degrees celcius in Ukraine atm too

MC Solaar (French rap) Obsolète

Xorg is a display manager; emacs is the best window manager, email client, irc client, web browser, tetris implementation, elisp runtime environment/dev environment… it might edit text too but idk.

Didn’t know that about telegrams.

I think I sounded grumpier there than I meant to. It’s a relatively small adjustment!

Fitting slogan for a pair of teenage shorts

Webster “Americanising” English in the early 20th century was surprisingly recent. I get caught out quite often writing code at work by accidentally using the British spellings I’m used to instead of American English (which is the de facto language of code regardless of how I feel about it).

Yeah my parents had me when they were 40 and 38 respectively so they are now mid-70s while I’m in my 30s. They are definitely slowing down; taking longer to process new information, forgetting small things, etc. I can feel them reaching the age soon where the roles might reverse and they will start relying more on me. Fortunately I’ve got a good relationship with them and live close by.

I need to work enough to ensure that my personal life is comfortable, and that I’m saving enough for retirement.

Tall, Scottish nerd that works with computers.

Patrick Willems Are Music Biopics Good Now and TENET And A Celebration Of Vibes Movies.

I’m a big movie fan and have only recently discovered this channel but I find it has a nice mix of interesting takes backed up with citations from academia.

Great answer. I would also say that lemmy users tend to be more politically engaged in both directions, so there is less of a homogenisation of view points into the “reddit-consensus” when it comes to upvotes.

I remember using reddit in 2012, being at the end of my teen years, and only having discovered it a few years before: everyone on there seemed to clever compared to other social media at the time and I let the “reddit-consensus” genuinely affect my opinions. There was this post in 2012 where the OP was fearmongering about a free trade agreement Obama was trying to negotiate, saying it would harm small businesses in the US, with protectionism very much being the consensus. I had this moment of incongruity where I wanted to offload my critical thinking to the consensus but at the same time I thought, “This isn’t right; I usually support free trade deals…” Bit of a formative experience in terms of using more critical thinking when browsing the internet.

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