Notices by raphael, now @gekitsu@toot.cat (gekitsu@mastodon.social)

@garbados :D yay, i’m glad to hear. (and cat glory is more than welcome. they are one of the three forces that hold the universe together, after all)

@garbados hey, i’m currently looking for an instance to migrate to, and had an eye on toot.cat. (CoC reads well, it uses the glitch fork, cat theming always a bonus) i just wanted to check in with someone in the know if there’s anything worth considering before deciding to migrate. (f.e. an instance meant as a haven for persecuted/minority/etc folks doesn’t need me taking up space)

@Are0h honnold is a rock climber famous for his full time van life. (he’s the guy the free solo movie is about)

he’s also been quoted on several occasions how he finds hotel rooms etc. cumbersome because peeing in a bottle at night is so much more comfy than having to get up and walk to a bathroom.

just a thing my mind immediately associated when you said ‘van life.’

@Are0h inb4 ro goes full alex honnold: ‘who wants to walk all the ways to the bathroom in the middle of the night when you could just lean over and grab your bottle and go?’

@nico between the butt cheeks, where the toot forms, everybody is naked

@Jo jeebus, that is horrendous. like, i have this small, very niche audience, python library i made. due to uni stress, still no first update past initial release to it. and i wouldn’t even think about pushing that update without an updated changelog with links to the respective parts of the documentation, even though it is smol and sparse and in general need of improvement.

it’s painful to see communication of use be so underappreciated among devs. :<

@keithzg @garbados @lynnesbian true story: my father doesn’t understand much about computers. making him think of storage in terms of directories was *an ordeal*.
he managed to install mint on his laptop, all by himself, without my help. at that time, he had never so much as installed a program in windows before.
would he have managed to install windows? most likely. but if he can manage to install a linux just as well, that says something.

@Jo *thinks about still needing to implement custom css for realistic column widths*
…
very much yes.

@guerrillarain if you haven’t seen them already, stami studios has friggin’ adorable sailor moon pins: https://www.stamistudios.co.uk/product/sailor-scouts-bubblegum-6-pins/

@Jo that is most certainly the occamest of razors. every other explanation requires a lot of tough premises.

@Jo fucking a.

like, jeez, ignorance is one thing, but to keep on keeping on with such high level bullshit, in the face of constantly being told that he’s talking out of his ass, it’s about time somebody spencers him in the face.

jesus motherfucking christ, what an asshole.

@garbados yeah, similar thoughts here. most data structures are more or less sequence-y anyway, i tend to embrace things like comprehensions heavily in my python, and i genuinely like XSLT.
all in all, it sounds to me like a lisp could be instrumental in making me a better programmer. (the other ‘what to next’ candidates right now are haskell, some v basic c, and mayyyyybe go)

i’m low key happy i have a thesis to worry about before making a decision on a next language.

@garbados ‘learning a lisp’ is on my bucket list (aside: does that make it a bucket lisp?) as well, and it’s causing me no small amount of grief.
i’m sure it’d be useful to wrap my head around, but that’s also an esr quote, and esr is the trashest of trash.

@Lyrilith i hope you have all the fun!

@Lyrilith ooooooh, that sisters of mercy hype thooooooough! #gothlife

@Are0h *looks at self and how long it took him to even start questioning basic contextual shit from his upbringing*

yup.

@Are0h right? at the end of the day, those were kids from a school with a history of racist crap, wearing the symbol of a racist, on a trip to protest women’s choice. there’s not really any wiggle room there. ‘explain away gravity’ is hitting the nail on the head.

@Are0h this.

as matt zoller seitz (@mattzollerseitz@twitter.com) put in his pinned tweet: ‘The MAGA Hat is a symbol of white supremacy, and wearing it in public is a knowingly hateful act.’ – there’s no denying whose song you’re singing when you put that hat on, and what kind of song it is.

@Jo very big mood, that.

but i have done without directly touching LaTeX for… must be close to 15 years. pandoc is my master now. there isn’t that much i dislike more than LaTeX syntax.

@Jo yeah. i’d not be surprised if he just pulled a golden section out of his behind and thus, let’s cap body text height at 1.6×its width FOR AESTHETICS!!!!1one