Notices by 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social), page 61

Saudi Arabia's killing of Jamal Khashoggi doesn't exactly improve my impression of the Middle East, which wasn't great to begin with. Every time a country with a poor human rights record seems to have improved things, and there wasn't a regime change, it always turns out to be a lie in order to do business with the West. We keep falling for too.

Clojure is a bit more prescriptive about the functional style, though. You're not supposed to have mutable variables. I mean, my code generally contains very few mutable variables, and I'm in the habit of const'ing most things, but it does occasionally happen that I use a let.

Clojure looks more sane than Common Lisp to me. The symbols aren't complete madness and there is interoperability with Java. That's a far safer bet than living in your own little Lisp universe. Much, much better first impression than with Common Lisp, and I expect I can probably use this without needing to also learn Emacs and Slime.

Unfortunately, they don't use Clojure at that Lisp job I might apply for.

@fluffy There were a bajillion of them even back in the PHP days.

@srol They do have ATMs in France. You could bring some cash just in case, I suppose.

@chloe @Violet @EmoneyBromine It I knew what the hell this meme was called, I'd look it up.

My roommate is taking a dump and he left his game running. It's playing this 15 second loop of music over and over. I want to murder it.

@FredericGuilbault Whatever he is, he lives in my house and eats all the cat food.

Sometimes, my cat doesn't want to be pet. He just wants to sit like this.

Listening to the party music you liked when you were 15 does something to your brain that other music doesn't. It kind of takes you back, and you kind of feel that age again.

Pro tip: Don't use paper Dymo tags on plastic or metal. They use paper glue on the paper tags, and it doesn't really stick properly to anything but paper.

Ah, yes, the Microsoft Denial Of Service operating system.

@toffee We... we do?

Dance a.k.a. Dancefloor a.k.a. Eurodance a.k.a. Bubblegum Dance a.k.a. Euro-NRG was basically the music of my teens. It was a weird feeling when LazyTown came out and used that genre for the songs. I mean, that's what we used to drink and dance to.

I don't own a cat. I own a puddle of fur.

I decided to be a tiny bit naughty in my job search. I used to work for startup A, that did contracting on the side, and they would lend me to corporation B on a contract. I since quit startup A and have been working for seed startup C for a while now, but they're short on cash. In retrospect, I actually kind of liked working for corporation B. I'm stealing business from startup A, but fuck it, I got in touch and asked about a job. We have a meeting on Monday.