Notices by 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social), page 2

Finding an instance that satisfies these criteria is hard:

1. Sticks around and doesn't shut down suddenly.

2. Doesn't block/silence accounts/instances for political reasons.

3. Isn't blocked by many other instances.

4. Healthy but not overwhelming activity level on local timeline.

5. Keeps up-to-date with Mastodon releases.

What I like about the big silos is their stability. I wish my identity and activity on this network wasn't tied to one instance.

Paragraph 3 of my employer's bylaws reads as follows:

The company mission is to perform contracting services within computing and design, and trade, for the purpose of supporting free software and the GNU Project, in addition to charitable purposes that the board may elect, as well as participation in other companies.

Paragraph 14 reads:

Sleeping during working hours is permitted.

snabeltann.no, my old instance, has mysteriously risen from the dead, and it's not happy. We never properly shut it down. It just stopped working one day and it seems that they didn't shut down the server it's running on. I better contact the ISP and ask them to shut it down.

@karen I would perhaps say that classical OOP makes sense when your data structures and functions actually need to operate in a hierarchical fashion. I suspect implementing a DOM in a browser would be more of a hassle in a statically typed language if you couldn't use inheritance. In a dynamically typed language, it would be easier, but it would also run much slower...

@karen It makes less sense in contexts where behaviours and traits are rarely shared between types in a top-down fashion. Most business logic is just a collection of unique data structures and behaviours with little in common. In such code, you often end up with a Russian doll pattern: Many relatively hollow classes inheriting from each other, and as a programmer, you're always hunting around to find the bit that does the thing you need to change.

@karen OOP was conceived by a Norwegian computer scientist who needed a language for simulation. He devised Simula, with OOP objects as stand-ins for physical objects. If you're, say, programming a physics engine for a video game, a hierarchy of objects makes a lot of sense, since many physical objects have shared behaviours.

@karen OOP is a tad overrated. You can write quite complex programs without inheritance. Assigning methods to types has benefits in terms of convenience, readability and structure, but my feeling is that inheritance, the main trait of OOP, isn't actually that important. If you're using a statically typed language, shared interfaces between types are probably better, since they don't force you to think about hierarchies.

@karen Yes, and inheritance, but don't tell anyone.

One of the operations guys kind of looks like Fidel Castro dressed in black, with a long grey beard and short-brimmed cap. He also happens to be a vegan.

Me and my colleagues were bantering with him just now, and at one point, he said "I'm not a communist! I'm a sysadmin!"

At that point, we lost it.

Too much shit going on in my head at the moment...

My mother's sick so I had to leave for 2 weeks.

It's my birthday today.

I have a claim against me for a large sum of money.

My boss is currently disappointed in my work performance.

Also, I am questioning my sexuality.

@clew I've noticed that, in certain crowds, my humble cooking skills seem to impress people. I've seen people be impressed if you add a slice of bell pepper to a ham and cheese sandwich.

I wonder if Norwegian schools teach kids to cook anymore. 20 years ago, when I was in middle school, we had classes in cooking and arts and crafts.

"Quiet guy with with square-frame glasses, short beard, ponytail and flannel shirt" makes up a significant share of the software developer population.

"Quiet guy with with square-frame glasses, beard, ponytail and flannel shirt" makes up a significant share of the software developer population.

The new CEO of Nintendo America is named Bowser. I'm not joking. His name is Doug Bowser.

In other news, the new CEO of Valve is named Gordon Freeman.

@feld *shrug* You tell that to him. I can't do anything about it.

I guess I'm back to using octodon.social until noagendasocial.com is up again. The admin only gave a day's notice before he took it down due to a security vulnerability, I wasn't following the account it was announced on, and it was a travel day, so I wasn't checking Mastodon very often in the first place.

Oh, that's why noagendasocial.com is down. That's an unusual way of dealing with a vulnerability.

Anyone know why noagendasocial.com has been down for so long?