Great book, I still occasionally use its “glass teletypes” when referring to screens

You see, tea is an excuse to drink sweetened half n half, which is my goal

So uh, what. You gonna hold onto that info and not share?

When I’m being reasonable: Audiobook

When I’m being unreasonable: lie down and use shower liner to create the dry section I read in while everything else enjoys the warm.

Tough part of the latter is leaning up against the cold dry tub when setting up. Like jumping into a cold pool.

Enjoy the warm. Read.

I dunno, I’ve definitely rolled into “factory factory” codebases that are abstraction astronauts just going to town over classes that only have one real implementation over a decade and seen how far the cargo culting can go.

It’s the old saying “give a developer a tool, they’ll find a way to use it.” Having a distataste for mindless dogmatic application of patterns is healthy for a dev in my mind.

Honestly I think we’re in the radium water phase of the tech: it’s been found to do things we couldn’t before, but nobody’s got a clear idea of what exactly what it can do, so you’ve got everyone throwing it into everything hoping for a big cash-out. Like, y’know, Radithor when people were just figuring out radioactivity was a thing.

Just based on that summary, I immediately thought of the book Termination Shock, which has a similar premise of an actor beginning to geoengineer with global reprecussions - though it’s heavier on the politics of the situation than any actionable info. If you haven’t read it, I’d recommend. I’m definitely going to pick up Ministry For The Future.

Divide the older person’s age by 2 and add 7. That’s the youngest person they can date without being creepy about it.

This rule is commonly cited, but is also completely meaningless, as a social construct.

prescriptivists are lingual nazis

Not very hopeful if you have diseases easily managed in a global society, like epilepsy, but for which you are effectively dead if global medicine production stops.

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Me neighbours are always listenin to really loud drum & bass

Literally any discussion about Pokeyman (or Yugioh, etc.) our parents overheard was complete nonsense noises to them. I’ve had this brought to my attention by my mother, but only as an adult.

Also, anything we picked up from our era of flash videos - e.g., someone saying “so, this is the <x>…What a sweet <x> you might say” and someone else reflexively responding “round”, or a loop of “badger” and “mushroom” between friends: also nonsense.

In any case, it’s an important skill to learn the new slang: as an old, it gives you the power to make it “cringe” by using it. Very fun, on god

I scored 16/21 on https://e-mail.wtf/ and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

Damn, and here I thought I had this locked down because I was salty that so many places struggle with + in the email addy. But my god, there’s comments?

Knowyourmeme has the rundown.

Bonus: the first one I saw over the years

alias cls=clear

My first language was QB, so it makes me chuckle.

Also, alias cim=vim. If I had a penny…

I love this. Between the people who didn’t notice it the same way I absolutely would not have, and the people who just say what obviously was intended, this could go forever and drive a couple of people absolutely insane.

KHA-LI MAAA

In the beginning it screamed at me. Images loaded line by line over minutes. The most novel thing was being able to message my friends, who would make a creaking door-opening sound when they came online, and set “away” messages with in-jokes or vague angsty song lyrics. I was told not to share any personal or private information, which made discussion rooms seem like mysterious masquerade balls. I could find anything about anything if I looked hard enough, and the minutes spent waiting for replies in discussion boards where your only caché was your previous interactions on the board felt like hours.