Congrats. I would encourage you to not diminish your own technical skills — I think that existing on Lemmy can make it easy to feel comparatively tech illiterate, but the fact that you had the drive and stubbornness to figure out how to do this puts your technical skills pretty high, actually.
It’s because C sounds like “sea”. It’s a joke that’s more about the sea-faring kind of pirate than the online kind
You are ridiculous, and I love that for you.
A few years back, I bought some really awesome booze from a fancy artisanal market stall. It was three bottles and they stack together until they’re the shape of a regular wine bottle. It’s so cool. The booze is nice too, but I really don’t care about that — I only cared about the bottles.
This merchant gives people steep discounts if they return their bottles, and this makes me laugh. They can pry the cool bottles from my cold, dead hands
Edit: found an image
I bought this game on a whim after reading that the devs had said they’d rather people pirate it than have it spoiled for them. I don’t usually buy games full price, so this was a rare thing for me, but I have no regrets; it was one of my favourite games of that year.
I just love how ripe for thematic analysis it is. For example, I’m a woman who has read a bunch of feminist and queer theory, and some of my interpretations of the themes were drastically different to a friend’s. I found it really cool that I didn’t necessarily disagree with their takes, nor they mine, but we both resonated with the game is strong but different ways
The constant stream of piracy related utilities that end in “rr” never ceases to amuse me.
Bonus joke! “What’s a pirate’s favourite letter of the alphabet?”
(People often say Arrrrr! here, especially if you seed that context earlier in the conversation)
“You’d think so, but actually it’s C”
The year of the Linux desktop, babeyyyyyy!!!
That sounds like you’re doing TDD, albeit informally.
A friend who works in anti-aging research saw this image and joked that if anyone could figure out how to make pets immortal, it would be her. Then she laughed until she began crying about her recently deceased dog.
The ones I’ve seen in real life have a tendency to become a bit culty.
I’m using a Ulefone armour 4 (I think), coming from a Samsung Note 10+ and I have found the camera to be a big downgrade. However, I have found that alternative camera apps can make a surprisingly large difference. The stock camera app was bad enough that it often didn’t feel worth it to even try taking a photo. I’m currently using OpenCamera from fdroid, and performance is far better now (though the quality is still a downgrade from before).
It’s annoying because I don’t care about fancy features and high end cameras, I just want something that will allow me to capture spontaneous photos
To go on a silly Scandinavian road trip with my late best friend. We had a silly dynamic where one of us would say “wouldn’t it be funny if we [did silly thing]”, then the other would say “let’s do it”. We bounced off each other in a way that amplified our ridiculousness. What I particularly enjoyed is that we would frequently switch roles in the above exchange, so it was always varied. Usually, the one saying “wouldn’t it be funny if…” wasn’t even fishing for someone to urge them to do the thing, which made it all the more amusing when the other would call the bluff, so to speak.
The silly roadtrip is a great example of something great Id have never done without my friend’s influence.
Well damn. I wasn’t expecting to be adding a new book to my reading list as a result of this thread, but y’all’s enthusiasm is such that I feel I have to.
This is only tangentially related to your story, but you reminded me of an old maths teacher who had a PhD in maths and once upon a time, had applied to work at an accounting firm. As part of the interview, he was told that he would have to sit a numeracy assessment. He responded “you do know I have a PhD in maths, right?”. They sympathised with his point but told him that everyone had to sit the test, as a matter of course.
So my maths teacher goes and sits their silly test, and he scores so well that they accuse him of cheating! I can only assume that this debacle broke him in some way, because it wasn’t long after this that he started teaching. It’s a particular kind of weirdo who has a PhD in a subject and decides to teach teenagers. He was probably one of the best teachers I ever had (I wonder if I can find contact information for him to tell him that)
I agree. I learned a lot of bioinformatics stuff from the ground up, because I was learning python at the time, and found it super useful as practice. Years later, I discovered https://rosalind.info/ and cursed the fact that I hadn’t had access to that when I was learning.
During COVID, I had a mental breakdown when I finished a university exam (which had been at home, on my computer) and was desperate to be anywhere but at my desk, sitting at my computer. However, I was also desperate to decompress with my friends, but they were in my computer.
I appreciate that your title makes it clear that this is an old article. Certainly it’s still relevant, but going into the article with knowledge of its age calibrates my mindset
I think that Linus becoming less of an abusive asshole over the years has been a positive development, but I wouldn’t mind the return of the old for this event
That reminds me of a friend who was a PhD level physicist who said “well, men have started to explain my own research to me, so I think that means I’m passing?”