Knusper

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Knusper, (edited )

I have my repos on Codeberg and one of the ‘disadvantages’ is that, well, it’s a non-profit, so I genuinely don’t want to waste their resources.
They ask you to only host open-source repos there, meaning that using it for backups of shitty personal projects, even if I would throw in an open-source license, is just out of the question for me.

And that has weirdly been a blessing in disguise. Like, if it’s not useful for humanity to see, do I really care to keep it around forever?

And I’ve had three projects now where I felt an obligation to push them over the finish line of actually making them a useful open-source project. Which had me iron out some of the usability shortcuts I took, made me learn a good amount of code quality stuff and of course, just feels good to complete.

Knusper,

Yeah, and from what I understand, learning the language itself isn’t the hard part. It actually has rather few concepts. What’s difficult, is learning how to program a computer correctly without all the abstractions and safety measures that modern languages provide.

Even structured programming had to be added to COBOL in a later revision. That’s if/else, loops and similar.

Knusper, (edited )

What that garble of symbols does, is that it defines and calls a function named :, which calls itself twice.

The syntax for defining a function is different in Fish, so no, this particular garble will not work:
https://feddit.de/pictrs/image/65a6bb53-312f-401a-8823-ba94ada93433.png

But it is, of course, possible to write a (much more readable) version that will work in Fish.

Knusper,

There’s a comic, titled “Loss”, which is infamous, because it’s incredibly fucking depressive. People don’t enjoy being reminded of it. And so, of course, it has become an internet culture / meme thing to do precisely that, but in a sneaky way.

In particular, the comic has 4 panels and an arrangement of characters in a certain, recognizable pattern. So, over time, it’s been reduced ad absurdum to just this pattern.

Well, and in the meme above, it becomes apparent that it’s replicating the Loss pattern, when that fourth panel has the DNA flipped on its side. So, the joke is that we have the pattern-seeking brain for recognizing Loss.

Knusper, (edited )

Fucks me up as a German, too. Globalization gave us all kinds of tasty spices, but go to any public event and you’d be convinced our greatest culinary achievement is sausage with tomato ketchup and curry powder.

Knusper,

A colleague drinks coffee out of one of these bad boys:

https://www.haushaltswaren-depot.de/images/product_images/original_images/Isar%20Masskrug%20126,5cl%201l.jpg

He did have to switch to decaffeinated eventually, though.

Knusper,

I don’t think ‘people’ think about Tor. Most would not know what that is…

Knusper,

Lots of us are from non-English countries…

Knusper,

Nope. JPEG XL is more modern and delivers lower file sizes without fucking up image quality as much. Downside is that, right now, JPEG XL is actually supported by even less things, because it is still so new.

But it is an industry standard rather than just Google trying to push its own thing, so I do expect it to overtake WebP in a few years.

Knusper,

We are currently in the 6th mass extinction event in the history of the planet Earth. 🙂

Knusper,

Hours into his testimony, Trump attempted to read from a piece of paper he retrieved from his pocket. “I’d love to read this, your honor, if I could. Am I allowed to do that?” Trump asked. The judge said no.

Now I’m just imagining him reading a chapter of Shakespeare or something, like he thought he was in literature club.

Not that I could imagine Trump visiting a literature club, but I can imagine him thinking it.

Knusper,

ξ fucked me up a lot more than it probably should have…

Knusper,

Ah, yes, AoE3 with the AoE4 logo. 🙃

Knusper,

I also find it incredible, that there’s no GUI button to edit the path. You have to just kind of know that Ctrl+L does that…

Knusper,

These images always look so fucking creepy…

Knusper,

The GDPR literally does not apply for non-personal data. I don’t get why companies are so ridiculous with their cookie banners. Nevermind that they have no qualms violating the GDPR in plenty other places.

Knusper,

I hear, it’s so potent, you can dilute it all you want and it remains just as dangerous…

Knusper,

The existence of subwoofer implies the existence of domwoofer… ?

Knusper,

Don’t go faster than the speed of light (optional).

Knusper,

We even have a regional word from that: “Entenklemmer”, which translates verbatim to “duck pincher”.

Some folks when leaving their ducks out of the enclosure, they’d check each duck for an egg in said pipeline. If there was one, they wouldn’t let that duck out, because well, they wanted that egg.

So, an Entenklemmer is a scrooge, someone going to great lengths to not miss out on even tiny profits.

Knusper,

Yeah, I hate how girls will be disgusted when it’s somehow suggested you’d want to have sex with them, while at the same time, I don’t feel like I’m even supposed to have an opinion.

It’s like, I’m a man, not in a relationship, not gay and not good at pretending I’ve never heard of sexuality, so if I don’t want to have sex with a girl, that must mean I find her extremely ugly.

Knusper,

It is still a stereotype that “boys only want sex”. Those studies suggest a higher sexual drive on average, not that it applies for all boys, and certainly not that it’s the only thing boys want.

Knusper,

I’m pretty sure, that was a hyperbole, not an actual, verbatim response. Most girls won’t actually say these things, because that would say a lot more (that they’re conceited). But you can often tell that they’re overthinking it from their reaction, which is of course difficult to portray with words.

But yeah, it should be clarified that girls are not to blame for this. Society as a whole, both men and women, are involved in passing this non-sense continually onwards.

Knusper,

You were probably taught at some point that people in the time of Christopher Columbus all thought the world was flat. However, this is a myth that pervades history - most people knew the earth was a globe! (Source)

Goddamnit! I’ve heard that so often already.

And then I learned separately that even the Greeks already knew not only that Earth was round, but even its circumference at a pretty good accuracy.

These two ‘facts’ genuinely had me thinking we must have lost a ton of knowledge from the Greeks…

Knusper,

I especially don’t understand why she did this. If finances were actually that dire, then surely OOP would have know about it and mentioned it. With OOP working out of state, you’d also hope that this job is worth the time…

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