My first thought was “teabagged”, which would have had to be some inclusive usage of the word, but I guess, it would have also been very relevant for lesbians, but I was also then confused why the baggee is Miss USA, rather than another football player, but I guess it might actually be Miss USA after all, although I’m guessing that’s still not what it’s supposed to mean…

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My impression has been that it’s not a good language. That relatively many people try it out, because the initial learning curve is small, only to fall out of love with it hard a few months later, because the low language complexity results in high complexity of each individual codebase.
Perhaps the most elaborate rant about that experience: https://fasterthanli.me/articles/i-want-off-mr-golangs-wild-ride

And yeah, personally I care a lot about being able to work with good tooling, so that’s my reason to stay away from it as long as I don’t need it for employment.

But our industry famously loves terrible languages (see JavaScript, Python, PHP etc.), so if you are just interested in employability, I do imagine that you will continue to find jobs a few years from now. I certainly also feel like it’s well established in ops tooling and cloud services, so there’s gonna be people who continue to write new software with golang in those fields.

Yeah, these plastic clips irritate me so much, because they’re advertised like some essential thing everyone ought to have, when we’ve had much better methods for clipping things a long time ago.

Yeah, there’s this whole concept of “Oracles”, which were supposed to be trustable sources for facts, but they can mainly deal well with things like stock prices or weather data.

It would also have been possible for these Oracles to employ people to fact-check things in case of a dispute. So, user30000004 might claim that the pizza has been delivered and wants their money for it, while user9000005 says nothing got delivered, so then you have someone physically drive out to user9000005 and see if there’s pizza there or not.

But yeah, you still have the problem that a pizza isn’t hard to hide/eat, so you’d need to do some expensive detective work to try to figure out the truth. And that just isn’t worth the cost…

I’ve also heard the theory before that even GPUs went pretty much straight from mining cryptocurrencies to then be used for training LLM models.

Today in Things A Brainworm Would Say™:

Yeah, the untracked files not being copied is also a big reason why I’ll typically just switch to a different branch instead.

I mainly use worktrees when it’s useful that untracked files are not copied, like when I need to check out a completely different state of the project, where cached files would need to be invalidated anyways, for example.

Yeah, I think their saving grace is that they really aren’t that hard to use. I don’t use them often enough to remember the commands by heart, but it doesn’t take me long to figure it out anew each time. Typically not as long as cloning the repo anew, at least.

A few days beforehand, I was talking with my mom on the phone and she said, I should come visit them on my birthday. And at first, I thought, she just wanted me to visit in general, but found it a bit weird that she considered it such an imperative.

Then I thought about it and realized that it wasn’t just any birthday, but my 30th. I genuinely would not have realized, probably until months later when someone would’ve asked me about my age.

…I’m not saying you shouldn’t celebrate or whatever. I just never cared much about birthdays and that felt really on brand for me.

I currently have to do a deployment at $DAYJOB and recently, I made a larger change which is completely broken, but also it’s slightly less broken than before, I think, so we do actually have that on the main branch. 🫠

Yeah, I’ve read before that Breeze uses SVGs and other themes may not…

Yeah, what the hell kind of unit is “feet”? Did they cut off someone’s leg and used that as measuring stick? Come on now…

I have made the first-hand experience of genuinely nothing being in reach to hold onto, but the reason I couldn’t reach anything was that everyone was standing so densely packed, that there was really no way you could possibly fall over anyways.

I can also recommend not having anxiety in that situation.

So, uh, fun fact, “placenta” is just the Latin word for “cake”.

So the word you’re looking for is “calzone”.

Man, that is a specific trope…

Git: lazygit
Docker management : lazydocker

Well, seeing them in the list like that rubs me the wrong way. 😅

Both of those come with a CLI, called git and docker respectively, which is the official way of using them. These CLIs might not be particularly sexy, depending on who you ask, but they’re decent enough and worth learning, even if you go the lazy* route, since online resources all just explain the official CLIs and you might find yourself one day administering remote systems where you can’t install additional software…

For Firefox, I believe the way you’d usually want to do this is with Policies: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enforcing-policies-firefox-enterprise

Side-note: Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, so you might not need to adjust that config.
I’m not sure, how they handle disabling it in browsers, but given that the backend has already been turned off, presumably they would disable it even on ESR with some update…

I mean, the specifically-male loneliness epidemic is a symptom of the patriarchy. Patriarchal societies pretty much define “male” as someone who can’t talk about their feelings. Which is, again, pretty much the definition of the specifically-male loneliness epidemic.
Males are hardly allowed to talk about their struggles, so they frequently struggle with mental health problems on top of that. Feminism, a.k.a. solidarity, is the only way to solve this.

Getting laid is an activity that does involve other humans, so it certainly is a method of combatting loneliness. But if it’s not as part of a partnership, it hardly does anything for some of the deeper cutting problems that are described as the “male loneliness epidemic”, particularly not having anyone to share your struggles with…

So far, I still wasn’t enamored with the auto-generated subtitles for that, because it’ll occasionally choose the wrong word, which is then worse for me than just hearing the unclear speech myself.

But yeah, we’ll have to see how technology advances. I assume, LLMs can guess the correct word based on sentence structure, so there’s probably still a good bit of room for improvement.
Colleagues have also been working on some speech-controlled UI and they do report huge differences in how different models can deal with bad audio quality, so that seems like things are going forward, too.