True, but it already felt like a cheap shot. The highland cows are another one.

The £ is a bit of a giveaway.

That’s a good one.

We used to screenshot desktops, set it as the wallpaper, and move all the desktop icons to a temporary folder.

I’ve heard swapping the N and M keys is a good one because it doesn’t register as unusual on a visual scan but messes up touch typists.

When I worked for a big IT consultant, the internal marketing department (why does that exist?) was tasked with promoting a new touch device. They had the genius idea of making stickers with “The mouse is dead” and a product link. Early one morning, they went around to every desk and put these stickers over the mouse lasers.

It took about 30 minutes for everyone to figure out why every mouse in the building had stopped working. There was urgent work that had to be done. People were furious.

Yes, and the all new TwinkedIn is already experiencing a surge in active users! Most of them are coming from Grindr for some reason, but it still counts!

Crowdsourcing has been a blessing in my journey to relieve chronic migraine. There’s a lot of misunderstanding and bad info out there, but at least it has given me options. Doctors have all fixated on blood pressure medication and abortives, which don’t work on me in the former, and the latter leaves me incapacitated when they do work.

Going down the rabbit hole of online discussions helped me figure out I have histamine intolerance, which I was able to verify scientifically once I knew how to investigate it.

Communities that are mostly on meta are going to be tough to shift. One of my main ones is Electric Unicycles, which has a lot of activity over there because people rely on it for organising group rides and such. It means even the subreddit is pretty small.

I tried looking for less niche categories, like for Personal Electric Vehicles, no luck. The closest I found on Lemmy is for micromobility, but it’s pretty dead.

Even when I like the music, it goes down to about 50%. If games were good at dynamically adjusting the music so it doesn’t compete with all the other audio when you actually need to hear things, I wouldn’t. But here we are.

mphes

I will never understand why people with power are this petty.

They probably think it’s a huge flex, but it makes them look like the most pants-shittingly immature little cry babies.

Real power is not devoting brain cycles to things that should be beneath you.

Around here we still have them, and they provide free wifi. My home is almost close enough to pick up the signal from one in the main street.

Pebbles are small enough to fit in your mouth. This is clearly a stone.

At my last job we had a lot of old code, and our supposedly smartest framework people couldn’t be bothered learning front end properly. So there was a mix of methods for passing values to the front end, but nobody seemed to think of just passing JSON and parsing it into a single source of truth. There was so much digging for data in hidden columns of nested HTML tables, and you never knew if booleans would be “true”, “TRUE”, “1”, or “Y” strings.

Never mind having to unformat currency strings to check the value then format them back to strings after updating values.

I fixed this stuff when I could, but it was half baked into the custom framework.

Yeah, but he’ll need to borrow a vehicle to get to work now.

PLACEHOLDER_TOKEN

Purescript targeting the Erlang VM

Have you tried Gleam?

Sure.

I have wondered if “o” suffixes are mostly used for negative connotations, but that doesn’t work for:

Alcohol store = bottle-o

Afternoon = arvo

If a shortened word will end in “r”, we have to get around being a non-rhotic accent so it will sometimes end in “za”:

Barry = Bazza

Sharon = Shazza

But then you have “dero”, short for “derelict”. I’m guessing the difference is the other vowel sound affecting the flow. There might be something to that… if the last syllable has a hard “a” vowel I can’t imagine using anything but an “a” suffix.

MacDonald’s = Maccas

AC/DC = Accadacca

Sandwich = Sanger (noting we pronounce terminating “er” as “ah”)

Similarly, a hard “i” in the last syllable will usually give it a hard suffix:

Breakfast = brekkie

Sick day off work = sickie

Can of beer, or small aluminium boat = tinny

Hm… now you got me doing a deep dive on this. I won’t be satisfied until I figure out these unspoken rules.

I’m also confused about the anonymous interview scenario. Does this actually occur enough to require a complex rule?

If we’re using text, why use accents instead of just labelling the text as “Participant A”, or similar, like we already do for subtitles when disambiguation is required?

If we’re using voices morphed to sound the same, could we similarly have a visual indicator of who is talking? If no visuals are possible, use different morphs so they sound different. If that’s not possible, just conduct the interview by addressing participants with their pseudonym so we know which response to expect. Like anyone would naturally do.

This feels like a solution looking for a problem.

In Australian English we have an instinct for acceptable ways to end abbreviations, but I couldn’t tell you what the rules are, exactly.

For example, “povo” is obviously right for “poverty”, and could never be “povy”. But, “sparky” is right for an electrician, not “sparko”.

It’s not because of familiarity, because we know we naturally invent these abbreviations all the time with no resistance, as long as the unknowable rule is followed.

For now, I’ll ignore the eternal debate surrounding parmigiana.

Enterprise software/services/consulting in a nutshell. It’s all just shifting responsibility.