Notices by clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de), page 3

It is very satisfying to be watching GTLive on youtube, and both MatPat and Ash are able to say FNAF without the crutch of calling it Fuhnaf.

So it *is* possible to be a native English speaker and say a run of "fn" in the beginning of a word!

The correct pedantry correcting the incorrect pedantry will often teach me something new too!

And the more there is of the incorrect pedantry, the more there will be of the correct pedantry, especially when someone starts doubling down on the incorrection.

One of the firm rules of humanity is that a social media group making fun of incorrect pedantry will add even more incorrect pedantry, if not already in the post, then for sure in the comments.

I unironically love it and enjoy it, all levels of it.

@Efraim Flashner T1, T3, T8/T9, T10, it's the steps we have. 😊

There were more originally, but I think these were the ones that made sense in terms of mobilization steps.

T1: Storm is coming (< 800 km away)
T3: Strong wind (41 km/h)
T8: Storm (63 km/h)
T9: Also storm, but T8 comes with a cardinal direction while this one is all over the place, also T10 probably coming
T10: Hurricane (118 km/h)

Typhoon warning lowered from T8 to T3, meaning wind speeds at 42–62 km/h.

#HongKong #TyphoonYagi

Me, 2014-09-05:

Today the Python profiler taught me something:

Why cache the downloaded XML files, when you could be caching the parsed object tree pickled?

I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children's story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children's story. The good ones last. A waltz which you can like only when you are waltzing is a bad waltz.

-- C. S. Lewis, "On Three Ways of Writing for Children" (1952) — in "Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories" (1967), p. 24

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stop shaming people for reading kids’ books. adult books are about sad people having affairs while kids’ books have a magic tree house or a worm driving an apple. you tell me who’s winning

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Kid always orders 8 plates of corn rolls every time we go to a sushi restaurant, several times per year in the last seven years. What happens next is so standardized that we assigned color codes:

- Code yellow: Staff comes to the table: "Excuse me, the system says you ordered 8 plates of corn sushi, is that accurate?"
- Code blue: No corn arrives, it's simply ignored.
- Code green: Corn just arrives, no trouble.

The other week we had an entirely new one: "Excuse me, it says here that ... oh, it's you guys. Ok then."

@Mans R We 're on the last season, and I don't feel that the zombie aspect ever became irrelevant.

Most zombie stories are about how humans react to the zombie threat and its consequences, but zombies are the backdrop. This one is different because the zombies are also people and have agency, but it's the same thing: The focus is on how people act now that there are zombies.

Each season has different drivers and challenges, but zombies aren't just a gimmick and it's not just about Liv eating a new brain and McIver playing a new character each episode (although that would take me very far already, she's awesome doing it). None of the seasons would make sense if there weren't any zombies, the challenges and situations are unique. Maybe season 2 is the most "just a crime-solving drama with a brain-eating oracle", but not entirely.

S4 was great!

I love how every season ends with some major thing changing and the next season has a world where everyone is still in the same place and with the same relations (except when they're not), but the rules and context of the world have all changed and now we'll see how they deal with that.

Season 4 was an especially big leap, with a jump of several months ahead, and it made for a really fresh story, but with all the familiar faces.

Season 5 was less of a drastic leap, but is really interesting so far and very much not an abstract hypothetical fantasy story, but directly related to policing and how we run our societies.