I’m just a nerd girl.
I’m a random amateur fantasy writer. One day, long ago, I was working on an interactive fiction game which was billed as a dating sim where you get to have a night out with one of my characters, who is an alchemist.
Bulk of the game was supposed to involve helping her examine various ingredients on the shelf of her shop and seeing which had gone bad. You know, dating the stuff can be crucial.
It’s a single car company. World economy doesn’t depend on Tesla’s success. Not even the American economy. If Tesla dies, it’s just a canary in the coalmine for much, much bigger economic problems. Like, you know, how they put dipshits in the White House, or something. So it’s kind of interesting that Elon has a moment of lucidity here, because no one around him seems to realise how screwed they are.
In the days of yore, Roman generals, upon conquering new lands for the Empire and receiving highest cheer and adulation from the crowds in Triump, would specifically assign a slave to whisper to their ear, at the height of the ceremony, “remember that you’re but a mortal.”
Spez is like “fuck that nonsense. If I keep kissing enough asses at bigger tech companies, maybe I’ll get a blood donor virgin dude of my own. And then I’ll live forever!”
I left Reddit after the API broke down, and it took me a while to get a client because I first went with Kbin and it didn’t work with Lemmy clients. After I got to Lemmy I kept waiting for Sync to get good. Nah, sadly not. Switched to Connect, and later Voyager, and I think this is where it’s at.
It has! At least on the web, if you view user profiles - but most of the time they’re pretty useless because in the comments they’re scaled down to text size. And the Lemmy clients don’t bother with them at all. Communities do have icons which are at least more widely used and supported.
Mastodon is my go-to “shout in the void about my goings-on” platform.
Pixelfed is where I post my original photography and artwork.
Bookwyrm is for my book nerdery, mostly.
Edit: Oh and I have a Matrix account but despite the fact that I mentioned it to literally all of my friends, nobody uses it. I keep it around in case someone actually wants to send me private messages because Mastodon is kinda badly suited for that.
Welcome to Lemmy. We don’t have collectible avatars on blockchain. Sorry if you were into those. But you can make your own avatars if you want, which I think is even better!
train cars only for women
Good thing nobody can actually suggest that in this day and age. Because that’s a concept that makes everyone immediately go “Ooooh, how delightfully 1800s. Wait, why are we doing this, I thought we were better than that.”
…If someone actually suggests that, have them be detained by a few chimney sweeps until the police arrives by horse carriage.
Notepad had one job. Operate on a damn text file. Operate on the damn text files I choose.
I knew it was going down the drain when I reopened Notepad and it opened the files that were previously open. No. Don’t do that. That’s overly helpful. You were only supposed to operate on the damn files I chose. These files I’m about to work with aren’t necessarily the files I previously worked on. If I want this functionality I might as well open it in vscode.
I’m, like, screw it, might as well keep Emacs running if I need random temporary text editing.
In the past 25 years I’ve used public transport, I think the bus broke down once while I was aboard, and I think it ended up in the newspaper. I think it’s a good thing public transport folks spend a lot of time maintaining the vehicles and especially on regular preventive maintenance.
I can barely fix my bicycle, so I don’t want to tinker with the bus company’s broken stuff. I trust that stuff to the certified mechanics they employ. Doubly so for trains, that’s for some serious mechanics only.
I am definitely going to need my morning coffee. I see the word “Y’all” and I’m somehow thinking “shouldn’t it be Xall if we’re taking about X11? Wait what’s wrong with my brain”
Side note, but:
(Giant cookie popup text wall)
I’m studying French but I don’t speak it that well yet.
Oh wait:
En savoir plus
Vous autorisez : Refuser tout
I feel like I’m learning important day to day phrases here! Why don’t they cover this stuff in language courses in this day and age, I wonder?
Regular rain coat, because I love photography and cameras are hard to use with an umbrella. Have one as a backup though. (though admittedly I just had fun tracking the umbrella down after it fell off my camera bag in middle of nowhere. Found it hanging off a tree fortunately) My current jackets can handle light drizzle.
Also, proper rubber boots which I’ve been using for, uh, can’t remember, at least the entirety of the current millennium. (Indestructible. Literally made by Nokia.)
I’m already alone, and I’m just fine this way, thank you.
Fortunately I don’t live in Douchebaglandia.
“Showing up on time” is the lowest possible bar, isn’t it?
Recently I found an old school yearbook. My entry was written by someone who barely knew me. Said something about me showing up on time all the time. Now, I was like “holy shit that’s cringe, I don’t want that on my tombstone”.
The bespoke software that runs most of the business world is actually way simpler than a lot of people think.
If you’re a university student and some company hires you on the first year to work on a business analysis system to be used by a major regional retailer, you might be thinking you must be some kind of a wunderkid, but it also just might be because this system really isn’t that complicated, and you had no idea about the average salaries on this field, so they hired you on the cheap.
My immediate thought was that there’s some inconsistency with various types of metadata. For example most software will pull the date from the Exif DateTimeOriginal field. But there’s also XMP tags that have the same purpose. Or similar purpose. These standards have plenty of date fields for various uses, and while they serve a noble purpose, the software just craps all over them. (Don’t ask which software. All of them.)
My guess is that at some point of time, one of those tags got updated, but not the other tags of similar purpose. So the program you’re using could be pulling the date from one field, and when you update it, you’re actually changing some other field.
Of course all of this is wild because usually no one needs to touch the datestamp anyway (unless you, like, have to correct daylight saving time or clock drift or something). Software changing this to a batch import time? That’s weird and silly.
Native here. I think this is pretty accurate. Politeness is usually tied to other phrasings or modes of speaking, and as an ESL speaker I just think “please” is just a word that gets sprinkled in. In everyday conversations like buying something, it’s kinda more polite to get the thing over with as fast as possible. If you just want a coffee, you don’t need more than “hey” and “thanks” to be nice, right?
That said, it’s definitely not impossible to be explicitly polite: “Ole hyvä”/“Olkaa hyvä” (“[You] (2p. sg./pl.) be kind”) is basically “please” as in “could you do…” or “here you go, have this” or “go ahead and do that” depending on context. “Ole kiltti” (“[You] (2p.sg.) be nice”) is “please” as in “would you be especially kind to do…” But as you can see, these are basically direct orders, it’s “be kind”, not “please be kind”.
Content advisory: boneheaded discussion of suicidal ideation by an armchair psychologist
About a decade ago I was friends with a fellow weird unemployed video game nerd lady who liked books and stuff. Had lots in common. Had fun talking over Xbox games and stuff. Was pretty patient with my depressed stuff. Usually.
But I noticed she was pretty often in open conflict with other people. I’m thinking the reason she didn’t get mad at me because I was following her “rules”. I guess we just agreed to disagree sometimes. Later, I realised I was just doing what I usually did in most social situations, walking on eggshells to not annoy people.
She “temporarily” blocked me on most venues because I broke one of the rules. You see, I had mentioned razors. She said, essentially, that I should not talk about suicide because she knew what suicidal people were like and I was not suicidal, according to her. She said people shouldn’t be suicidal around her because that made her uncomfortable. (…I wonder what do the suicidal people feel like in that situation, you dum-dum?)
Now, I was deeply depressed at the time (not suicidal, that’s true) and as someone who was walking on eggshells, I tended to look up to most people.
But at that moment, the room was filled with light. For I knew, in my very essence, that this woman was a dumbass.
In the email, I had been talking about Occam’s Razor. Or was it Hanlon’s Razor? Can’t remember. Metaphorical shit. I also I explicitly said this is just metaphorical stuff and she shouldn’t get alarmed.
I couldn’t keep up with her even if I had bothered to. She went through like 3 email addresses and 3 blogs and 3 gamertags due to getting hacked and due to the drama. Don’t know, don’t care. Not nominal people numbers.
Dumb story, wasn’t it?
She should don Catwoman costume, gently pummel the dude to submission, and say “How’s this for a BOTTOM TEXT”?