"It's a dangerous thing to mistake speaking without thought for speaking the truth." Fan of #crows, #StarTrek and the #Japanese language, among many other things. Currently posting one frog species per day. If I keep this up, I should be done in about 20 years. My toots are searchable.
Here's one thing I don't like about how software people write documentation:
If A is a type of X and B is a type of X, there's a preference to separate X into its own definition elsewhere (like deduplicating code by putting it in a function). But this means the explanation of A or B is incomplete, because you have to click to learn what X is. If X is a type of Y, now you have to click again to figure out Y. You just wanted to learn what B was, but now you have to learn everything.
@AlSweigart Technical writer here. You should really look into DITA and the principles of content reuse (rather than content cross-reference). Check out the book The DITA Style Guide, which you can find for free online.
Where Hoteliers Feel Most Threatened by Climate Change
In the 2024 edition of the European Accommodation Barometer, the study has revealed that 41% of European hoteliers believe that climate change will have a high or very high impact on their business in the next 3 years
@Snoro This is a bit misleading. Impact does not equal threat. For example, the Netherlands has been experiencing unusually hot summers consistently for some time now, which I'm sure has had a positive impact on the hotel business. So it's quite possible that Dutch hoteliers don't consider climate change a threat, but a benefit.
This is of course separate from the question whether climate change is a threat generally (it is) and whether hoteliers see it as such (they probably do).
We were walking down the street yesterday when some elderly lady in front of us was shouting loudly at nobody in particular as she was walking down the street.
A man came cycling toward us. First he passed her and then, as he passed us, he shouted at us, "Corona vaccine! Corona vaccine!" while making a gesture like he was injecting himself with something.
I'm still not sure if he was serious or just kidding, and if he was serious, I can't decide who was the crazier of the two.
#frogs#FrogsOfMastodon Ozzy's tree frog (Dendropsophus ozzyi) photographed by Pedro L.V. Peloso. No word on whether he's named after Ozzy Osbourne. Personally I don't see the resemblance.
Here's a cool game that shows you a Wikipedia article with most of the words blacked out, and lets you guess the missing ones until you can guess the article title. #Redactle
Fun fact, yesterday's #DraculaDaily entry (May 16th) marks one of the first occurrences of a fear boner in literature (although strangely, the words "fear boner" do not literally occur in the text).
For those who did this poll: the answer is $0. No matter how much money any player wins, eventually each gets a losing streak and ends up with zilch. This happens long before round 500, typically around 170-180. The main issue is that the players can’t quit. In real life, players don’t quit because they’re addicted; it’s called gambler’s ruin.
Many a 14-year-old girl has been known to exclaim, "I'm so random!" But how random ARE people really?
Well, as it turns out, you can test your randomness. Go to https://roadtolarissa.com/oracle/ and hit your left arrow and right arrow keys as randomly as you can. The webpage shows you how good it is in predicting your next move. Can you get the percentage below 50%?
#frogs#FrogsOfMastodon Dwarf tree frog (Dendropsophus nanus) photographed by Ariovaldo Giaretta. (To be honest, I spot a missed opportunity to call this the Nanu nanu tree frog.)
#DraculaDaily "Once more have I seen the Count go out in his lizard fashion." Obviously, Bram Stoker made a mistake here: it should be lounge lizard fashion.
Rich Americans serving prison time always helps to bring to the public's attention to how completely rotten the US prison system is. Case in point: convicted crypto bro Sam Bankman-Fried is on the east coast and needs to be taken to the west coast. How? Well, if you're imagining some kind of Con Air transportation, think again: inmates are driven cross-country on a bus, stopping along the way to drop off and pick up prisoners. This kind of drive takes weeks, sometimes even months.
#DraculaDaily "I saw the whole man slowly emerge from the window and begin to crawl down the castle wall [...] I saw the fingers and toes grasp the corners of the stones, worn clear of the mortar by the stress of years, and by thus using every projection and inequality move downwards with considerable speed, just as a lizard moves along a wall. [...] What manner of man is this, or what manner of creature is it in the semblance of man?"
