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grrrr_shark

@grrrr_shark@supervolcano.angryshark.eu

Was once grrrr_shark on Twitter. Now not.

Has 'the dubious honour of having been mansplained to by the Swiss public broadcast company' - https://mastodon.green/@altitis

Nerdgirl. Software engineer, recovering privacy researcher, sometime linguist and writer (fantasy, romance).

Some topics and interests: #gaming (especially #DragonAge), #science, #privacy, #SocialJustice, #ADHD (that's me, so expect rants!), #autism.

Cishet. LGBTQIA+-friendly.

Not your mother.

#TeamFangirls (She/her)

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grrrr_shark, to random
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Today's craving is a damned blueberry muffin. With streusel.

Can't have one, but DO WANT.

grrrr_shark, to random
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Ugh. Forgot tomorrow is a holiday...

grrrr_shark, to random
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Dear chest: stop this crap.

gsuberland, (edited ) to random
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[serious, no joke replies or guesses / autotranslation please]

do I know anyone native or otherwise very fluent in Chinese who can tell me the correct term for a plated edge connector, like you might find on a PCIe card? specifically the "gold fingers" style connector feature you would find on the PCB side, not the plastic connector it slots into.

I've had an absolute nightmare trying to communicate this feature to a Shenzhen-based PCB vendor and I would like it to be easier in future.

grrrr_shark,
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@gsuberland I dont get why people do that. Any many persist when you tell them no!

So annoying.

OldAndCranky, to random
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Does anyone else out there in the vast void (hi, void!) have trouble understanding animated content? I can't even deal with Lower Decks and I am a Trekkie. There's something about the cartoon image that makes my brain go kerblooey. I try to appreciate Miyazkaki, and films like the Spiderverse, things and my brain just checks out and starts thinking of other things. I can handle graphic novels, though. There's something about the...I want to say...lighting of animation or something. That make sense to anyone? I haz brain cooties.

grrrr_shark,
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@OldAndCranky I can only watch Lower Decks if I am doing something else, like knitting. My current theory is that it's just too much content at once for my brain.

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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That's how I approach pay negotiations now. I don't care what the job is; you're paying for my time.

grrrr_shark,
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@Adam_Cadmon1 Amen.

PatrickoftheG, to random
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Just made authentic Southern biscuits for the first time in my life, going so far as to order fancy American flour for the occasion. A little disappointed to discover these are just scones, aren't they? I mean they are good. And my breakfast sausage gravy is divine. I was just hoping for more?

grrrr_shark,
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@PatrickoftheG could be the recipe. the best biscuits are a flaky, buttery, savoury delight.

grrrr_shark,
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@PatrickoftheG well, then I should assume my scone experiences have not been as good as they could be, which is no great stretch. The only place I ever had ones I really liked was Australia at a conference :)

GreenSkyOverMe, to random
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Do you reckon there really was a brain worm or he is a conspiracy theorist?

grrrr_shark,
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@GreenSkyOverMe XD

Both. Both.

grrrr_shark, to random
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Look, nothing personal (except yes, it is), but if your profile says "ex-cop", my follow request button says "reject", no matter how often you ask.

Nonilex, (edited ) to Futurology
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Well that explains a few things!

Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His

The presidential has faced previously undisclosed health issues, including a parasite that he said ATE PART OF HIS BRAIN.

🧠 🪱 🧱
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/us/rfk-jr-brain-health-memory-loss.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

grrrr_shark,
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@Nonilex My ex has the same condition and claimed the same as soon as it was inconvenient for him to be seen as outside the picture of health.

I don't believe HIM either.

grrrr_shark,
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@Nonilex (atrial fibrillation, not brain parasites ;)

grrrr_shark, to random
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My side of the family is known for chronic sinus issues, which just makes it worse when one of us gets a cold.

Nasal irrigation might be kind of gross, but man... is it effective.

grrrr_shark,
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If only you could to the same thing with your chest without, you know, DROWNING.

Fucking cold.

xinicit, to random
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I don’t mean to brag
I don’t mean to boast
But I’m a big enough jerk
To get visited by ghosts

grrrr_shark,
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@xinicit bet it makes working in the pottery studio exciting tho

anarchiv, to random Norwegian
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urgent household question, do cowboys shrink when you machine wash them

grrrr_shark,
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@anarchiv No. but they become weaker, as the dirt particles and stank holding them together are washed away

grrrr_shark,
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@anarchiv *source: My grandfather was a Nevada ranch hand in his spare time XD

futurebird, to random
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“Fluent Python” is an excellent example of a “good programming language book” — it’s not cluttered with “enterprise examples” it’s focused on how python works and goes into detail on edge cases. This lets one write code with real confidence that you know everything it’s doing. It is also written with the aim to justify why python is the way that it is. Which I need or I get irritated.

If you like python you should probably have a pdf or buy a copy.

Now which book on Java is analogous?

grrrr_shark,
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@futurebird And from how it's organised, it looks like it covers functionality a lot of sources say "you are never going to need to use this" and then fail to explain - features which I've just found in a complicated project I very much need to use.

I'll give it a shot :)

grrrr_shark,
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@futurebird Yes, THIS. THIS.

grrrr_shark,
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@RogerBW @futurebird Yes, that's the challenge - if you've been a developer for a really long time, programming is what you are good at, but you want to know how to use THIS particular tool to do it with, not how to program/design/...

grrrr_shark,
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@futurebird Yeah, exactly.

I took a lot of heavy PL courses back in the day. I want to know what I am using and what it does, not just how to write Hello World in today's flavour of the week.

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@mcc @futurebird I'm a big "best tool for you to do the particular job" person and rather agnostic when it comes to the languages themselves, since that also ends up being a bit subjective based on your starting point. But I agree that the amount of magic you're required to believe in to get started is a limiting factor.

And this is always worse if you are already at the level that you could understand the magic incantations from the beginning if someone just bothered to explain. I always find that a bit offensive tbh.

grrrr_shark,
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@mcc @futurebird Yeah, I was REALLY lucky in that my undergrad CS program grew out of a pretty hardware-centric EE department. So we focused on memory VERY early on, and C strings were demystified in the first weeks. It makes an enormous difference.

grrrr_shark, (edited )
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@ahigginscassidy @mcc @futurebird Well, I will say this, as an old person.

Regardless of language, it is challenging to have younger colleagues who have no idea what is going on on the bare metal/virtual-representation-of-bare-metal. And this is not an "everyone should learn C" comment - it's a comment on the tradeoff for abstraction without understanding. And it plays out even in more abstract scenarios.

I'll get flamed for this, and I will ignore the discussion, but C still has its uses. Java you will find impossible to get rid of anytime soon, because, among other things, the world's financial transactions are heavily dependent upon Java code running on mainframes - when it's not something like COBOL still.

Rust? Well, in principle, I like Rust. But calling it accessible is a little disingenuous - it's well-known for its steep learning curve, even for experienced programmers. ;)

Sometimes, tools which can do complex things are going to be complex no matter how you cut it.

In linguistics, we often give an analogy to describe this complexity issue with a party balloon, where you might imagine phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, etc being stationed at many points - you can squeeze at one point to make it simpler, but you will always simply be pushing the complexity somewhere else. Simpler phonology, fewer meaningful sounds, means that syntax or semantics become more complex, etc.

There is no free lunch.

I think the problem is when folks try to hide the fact that something IS or CAN BE complex by claiming the complexity is unimportant. And then making an explanation unavailable to those who can understand it.

grrrr_shark,
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@stevegis_ssg @futurebird I'm fine with it - under the right circumstances - as long as it doesn't turn out in the end that you really DID need to know something about how those classes were implemented.

In Python, for example, I find that happens frighteningly often.

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