Notices by 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social), page 63

– The fact that we as a population have ended up in a situation where we must destroy ever more normal stomachs and intestines with surgery in an attempt to save people from lethal obesity is an admission of failure, says Steinar Krokstad, a Norwegian professor in social medicine, in response to the idea that more people should get bariatric surgery through the Norwegian universal healthcare system.

More and more Norwegians are preferring private medical services over public ones. The public health system doesn't offer home consultations and video conferences, and GPs are often on a tight schedule. Meanwhile, the public system for GPs in Norway is collapsing. Few young doctors want to work as publicly funded GPs and are finding work elsewhere, causing a GP deficit.

@tomasekeli Døren til Norge har stått på vidt gap ganske lenge, og få av de folkevalgte ønsker en proteksjonistisk linje, enten de er røde eller blå.

@tomasekeli Meh, privatisering er ikke unikt for Høyre. Arbeiderpartiet privatiserte og konkurranseutsatte en rekke tjenester de også. Skal vi legge ned forbud mot at EU-selskaper deltar i norske anbudsprossesser må vi først overbevise omtrent hele Stortinget om å ta en Norwexit fra EØS-avtalen, og muligens også trekke oss ut av diverse WTO-avtaler for å hindre kineserne i å kjøpe opp flere norske selskaper.

@tomasekeli To me, the difference between the two is clear as day, though, because I'm pedantic about spelling, grammar and punctation and can't help but notice details like that. I'd imagine that if you're the sort of person who doesn't get why we use uppercase for names in English and would rather see that rule be lifted, you'd probably hate to read my code...

@tomasekeli Well, I personally like to use constructs like User user = new User() inside of short functions and loops. I'd hate to be unable to do that.

They included shitty paper labels with the Dymo LetraTag that I bought. Shitty because they don't stick to much of anything, probably because they have to use paper glue, and who the hell sticks labels on paper? That's what printers are for.

@duck57 The design language of the modern web blends really nicely with it. My windows have rounded corners, and so does the toot text box in Mastodon, for example. It's very visually harmonic.

@duck57 I like macOS. I also like having a UNIX terminal. My blood pressure's been very good since I quit using Windows.

If my current MacBook Pro breaks, I don't know what to do. Even if I find a new old stock replacement, at some point, macOS will stop supporting the 2015 Retina models.

Another thing I don't like is the new MacBook Pro models with the Touch Bar and the horrible keyboard.

Typing on that keyboard physically hurts my fingertips. Also, I dislike the lack of ports. Not much of a pro machine anymore.

There are some excellent laptops now, like the Dell XPS, that can replace the MacBook Pro. Unfortunately, I occasionally do iPhone development, so I need to use a MacBook Pro.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hovV3juXLv0

Linus' Tech Tips points out how weak the new iPhone is.

To be frank with you, I actually didn't like it when they switched to FaceID. I like the home button and the fingerprint unlock on my iPhone 7 Plus, and that phone was fucking expensive enough already. I was only willing to pay that much because I wanted an iPhone with 4K video recording.

Also, I agree about the lack of expandable storage on the iPhone.

Someone probably shouldn't name their kid Polly Ethylene, but it would be kind of funny.

Looking back at all the music I made when I was productive in that area, it strikes me that I recored some decent tracks, but they were always out of step with the times. By the time I began to like a genre and started learning how to make it, the world of pop music had already moved on, and at some point, my tastes stopped following the times altogether.

In Norwegian, a piece of velcro is known as a borrelås, a burlock, because burrs lock it in place.

Fun fact: Wikipedia's article on velcro is called "Hook-and-loop fastener" because there apparently isn't a proper generic name for it in English.

Much like the traditional media that came before it, the Internet gives us what we crave, not what's good for us.

If it did give us what was good for us, it would be far less popular.

I hate that I have to type "definition" after certain English words to get the dictionary entry because they are brand names, and Google thinks I love brands more than the English language.

The Android phone I use for testing things apparently decided to run down its battery without any warning. It just silently powered off. Don't phones emit yelps of pain when they're low on battery anymore? The old Nokia phones used to do that.

The main issue with Common Lisp is the degree of fragmentation. Every CL library is the result of a lone hacker's efforts and is therefore only 80% finished and was abandoned soon there after. There's also this odd unanimity around Emacs/SLIME as the editor/IDE of choice for CL.

Clojure seems to be somewhat more adapted to the 21st century developer ecosystem, but it has problems of its own, including the fact that Java itself is kind of old hat at this point.

I had an epiphany when I got comfortable with C.

"Wow, this language is so powerful. I can do anything I want. Access memory freely, write for loops with multiple iterators, access every system call, and it runs really fast too!"

When I learned the new functional syntax in ES6, I had a small epiphany over how powerful that was.

I'm having another one now, over Lisp. It looks so weird and archaic with its S-expressions, but it's more powerful than any other programming language I've seen.