HexesofVexes

But we already have dune video game at home.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(video_game)?wprov=sfla1

Coding is a very… emotional activity. We get a bit salty sometimes.

I remember commenting a particularly bad routine with “Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate”.

There are also phrases such as “by the process of offending god, this somehow outputs…” and “This block was written by someone whose sanity was not so much questionable as it was entirely reprehensible - but it works”.

I also remember doing a search and replace of every instance of the word “fuck” with “[fornicate]” when bringing someone new onto a project.

Gaming, reading, and (rarely, when folks visit) drinking!

Enshittification is apparently a journey, not a destination.

Adds to the ever growing list of copy-blight examples

At first it all seems normal, every now and then a random sound effect is replaced by ominous hooting. Every hour, on the hour, a green owl flashes on the screen for a frame or two, it’s eyes boring into you before vanishing. Once every 50 or so times it pumps your volume up, selects speakers as output and let’s loose a screeching hoot. Random popups slowly ramping up “Restart your streak today”, “Where did you go?”, “Duo misses you”. At first just once or twice a day, but steadily increasing in intensity till it’s one every 23 seconds.

There is a added bonus here as well - some researchers will not only send the paper, but also offer to answer questions AND send other related papers.

Some academics out there are just really friendly people.

Short Answer - Universities

Long Answer:

To get and hold a job as an academic, you must continually produce “high quality research”. To get the job, in the first place, you must also be seen to do this.

“High quality” is often metriced by universities to mean “published in high impact journals” and “well cited”. This metric is known to be faulty, but universities really dislike change.

So, to get a job, you have to give up your rights to your research, and to keep your job, you have to do likewise.

Worse, in the current financial climate, academia is seeing unprecedented cuts, which further entrenches this issue.

I’d say a lot of people think they can, and this I have witnessed all to well (and too often), yet rarely (never in certainly) have I seen those who can.

No worries, life is busy. Thanks for clearing that up.

The OP made a good point.

Please point out “female” in my post - I’ll wait

Really, at full efficiency? If so, my hat is off to you!

Sounds ok to me (male).

“The male wakes up at 7am, so he can prepare for his office work; he’s tired and being worn down, yet somehow remains resolute. In this way, he channels the spirit of the emperor penguin and endures.”

Remember folks, the gender wars distract from the class wars we should all be engaged in!

Either that or medication!

I abandoned hope long ago when I learned that excel was turing complete.

The darkness has already consumed me, there is no salvation from this sin.

Worse - pulling data from a web page, then using the power of pure jank to parse this input, and then invoking a sheet of reference string builders to construct formulae and execute them using too damn many @indirects nested into vlookups before finally adding in date aware data reveals, because no excel abomination is complete without trying to parse dates.

Or false regret, either or.

I’ve done things in excel that are an abomination in the eyes of the divine.

I have absolutely 0 regret.

Thanks for the feedback - currently weighing up disros (was thinking mint, but a few folks have praised fedora KDE based distros now).

How are you finding it?