Grrl power. Pretty good art, decent story. Artist hypersexualizes everyone (almost), so be warned.

I have all discworld books, I would definitely reread most of them. I just reread The Hail Mary Project.

Oh, the rest of the world is definitely feeling the ripples.

Oh no, people who are enthusiastic about privacy and open source don’t want to support fascists! How can it be so?

Yes, sure, but look at it this way: California and Denmark together would be the world’s 5th largest economy!

Well, they said this so one can hope they are going to align differently.

I had the exact same experience when starting a new job. The team had very strict rules that absolutely could not be broken. When I finally asked an architect he said the same thing: it’s just a general guideline, but of course if it makes more sense to deviate, then by all means.

They fostered this culture because they mostly had junior programmers, but they never evolved beyond that because they were taught “good code” but never learned why it’s good code.

To me, what sets apart good coders from mediocre ones is one thing: understanding why we do things. Don’t just implement the thing because that’s the task. Understand why it’s required and your implementation will be better. Don’t blindly follow best practices. Understand why they are best practices and when they apply. Understand what’s going on rather than just do what you’re told (but probably also do what you’re told if you want to keep your job).

I know people who have been at it for many years and they don’t understand why we do things this or that way, they just know that’s how we should do it.

What do you intend to take macro photos of? I have the canon EF 100 f/2.8 and it’s pretty versatile, not to mention a pretty good choice for portraits (although on a crop sensor you do get a bit far away). For macro a little distance is good so you don’t block the light or, if that’s your deal, scare off the insects.

Citation Needed.

The Støvle Dance is from an old Danish Christmas show. My daughter just got super into it. https://youtu.be/Lhka0pjBzAQ?si=1PC_Yd00lU_x3zWk it is a mix of Danish and English.

Det jul det cool is an even older rap Christmas song about the commercialization of Christmas. They didn’t expect it to get any kind of traction so they just sampled some music without caring about the rights. It has been included in all Danish Christmas music collections since the 80ies. They don’t collect royalties, the band they sampled from do. https://youtu.be/FuyKWtF5aqU?si=C2wkvpaKIkvnoV2V

I had to look it up. It flips a bit. https://doc.endlessparentheses.com/Fun/butterfly.html

Open another terminal. Killall vim.

Also in Denmark.

My university mainly ran Solaris, pretty much everything also ran on Linux. In the rare case where Windows was required a remote desktop was available.

My university probably isn’t your university though, so answers may not be worth much…

Pirated content don’t have ads though.

I don’t know, I think Maeomo / Meego - Nokia N9 was pretty close to ticking all boxes.

Please note that I did mean patents in the above comment. I will let the typo stay though.

My impression is that many parents are just approved by default, letting the courts determine validity… Good for the patent office, great for the lawyers.

Same, fizzbuzz was one of our tests. Nearly everyone messed it up. The telling part was how. We had a guy with 20 years of experience who demanded ample compensation write code that not only didn’t compile, but it made little sense. A lot of people were pretty good bullshitters - then after the test they went “Yeah, well… That went bad huh?”. We had a different, more difficult test that people could choose. We had one guy who did somewhat poorly on that… But asked to take the assignment home for his own sake. He was a very god hire. Not because he worked overtime or anything but because he cared.