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uliwitness

@uliwitness@chaos.social

Forest creature living in the plains. 💕Empathy, Programming Languages, Drawing. My code parks your car. I make a HyperCard clone at https://mastodon.cloud/@stacksmith

Munich, Heidelberg, Lucerne [Any Pronouns]

#ios #mac #hypercard #retroProgramming #retroComputing #drawing #mastoArt #tv #movies #scifi #fedi22

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@dave That "run the visuals for your show" tagline in Waiting for Review 4x12 is great!

One of my pet peeves is when devs just post "I just released Frobozz 2.0" on socials and I may be on the road and have to decide then and there whether to make the effort to note this down.

If they just added a tagline like this to any mention of their product, I'd immediately know whether it's US tax software I don't need, or DJing software I could use for the next party. I'd never miss a good one.

dave, to random
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    uliwitness,
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    @daniel @dave Are you also only happy when it rains?

    uliwitness,
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    @dave @daniel Don’t Push It.

    uliwitness, to random
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    Why do modern devices refuse to even start up when plugged into power until you’ve charged them to like, 20% ?

    Can't you just trust that I won't pull the power cable and let me start using it?

    uliwitness, to random German
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    Fun Fact: “donation" is a specific legal term that is protected in many countries. Many people colloquially call any amount of money that you get without having to do something specific in return a “donation”. If you do that in public (e.g. on web sites or broadcast video like Twitch or YouTube) you get in trouble in most countries, because you must be an accredited charitable organization to be allowed to ask for donations.

    You may, however, solicit tips in many places.

    uliwitness, to random German
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    Trying out Sublime Text because everyone says it's so great, and because we have a tmLanguage for one of our file formats.

    Why isn’t “Incremental Find” the default? Why is there a separate non-incremental find? Every app on MacOS highlights upcoming search results. I'd understand the reverse, for people with huge files, if this was a performance issue. But why make the default the non-Mac behavior?

    scy, to random German
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    Samma, ich hab jetzt ne halbe Stunde lang gesucht… Gibt es nirgendwo eine Website mit live -Konzentrationen in Deutschland und/oder der Welt?

    Wichtig dabei: Live. Momentaufnahmen. Nicht den Tagesdurchschnitt, für den hab ich mehr als genug Websites gefunden. Der interessiert mich aber nicht.

    Ich brauch entweder aktuelle Momentaufnahmen oder den Verlauf über den Tag, nicht gröber als ein Wert pro Stunde aufgelöst, weil ich die Schwankungen über den Tagesverlauf sehen will. Tipps? :BoostOK:

    uliwitness,
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    @scy Stell' Dich an den Bismarckplatz in Heidelberg und schau' Dir die Werte auf der Tafel dort an? 🤣

    scy, (edited ) to random German
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    Bestes Wort?

    uliwitness,
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    @scy Das sind Wörter ????

    uliwitness, to random German
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    Today I learned there is a US fast food chain named Pope yes.

    😜

    klemensstrasser, to random
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    Help me brainstorm:
    Outside of vocabulary lists, what kind of list would be fun to learn in Study Snacks?

    Things on my list are:

    • Countries & national dishes
    • Moons & planets
    • Inventors & inventions
    • Greek Gods & their domain
    • Movies & directors

    What else?

    uliwitness,
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    @klemensstrasser Would a picture dictionary work? I always loved learning what bits of everyday items that you usually don't use the name for are actually called. Like, the different parts of a zipper, the separating bit on a bottle cap, the part that goes "click” on the cap of a glass, that sort of thing.

    scy, to random
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    The existence of Mastodon implies the existence of a disgusting version called Nastodon

    uliwitness,
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    @scy Oder Segelodon.

    scy, to random German
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    Schnipsel in meinem Kopf. Heute:

    "Stephan?"
    "Ja Harry?"
    "Wie heißt du eigentlich mit zweitem Vornamen, Stephan?"
    "Harry, Harry."
    "Harry Harry, Stephan?"
    "Nein, Harry. Stephan Harry Derrick, Harry."
    "Stephan Harry Derrick Harry, Stephan?"

    uliwitness,
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    @scy Die hatte ich komplett vergessen 😂

    loadingartist, to random
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    I don't really use Amazon so I'm confused why these Sharpies are being sold by "pink rosette", despite it being on the official Sharpie page.

    Is this a scam? 🤔

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    uliwitness,
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    @loadingartist Amazon gonna Amazon: They combine pages for (what they think is) the same product, and the cheapest one (that makes Amazon the most money) shows up as the default purchase. So the Amazon page's author and the store you buy through isn’t necessarily the same. (It’s part of something called "Amazon Marketplace”)

    phranck, to random German
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    Gib es hier sowas wie... Bodenreinigungsspezialisten?

    Es gibt doch diese kombinierten Wisch-Staubsauger. Also so Teile, die vorne einer Buerste und allerlei Geloet haben, den Boden nass machen und die Ploerre dann wieder aufsaugen.

    Kann mir jemand vielleicht eine Marke/ein Modell empfehlen? Und wenn ja, warum?

    Danke fuers rege Teilen. 🙏
    :BoostOK:

    uliwitness,
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    @phranck @RA_Negm Wenn Du den nicht ständig brauchst, die Dinger kann man oft in Drogeriemärkten oder Baumärkten mieten?

    chucker, to random
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    People who primarily interact with Git using its command line like the past 50 years of evolution in personal computers never happened fascinate me.

    I do use it, but only for specialized use cases Fork or an IDE can’t handle.

    uliwitness,
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    @chucker I have a number (the majority?) of colleagues who work like that. Whenever we pair-program they keep asking me how to do a command they don't do often, and I go “I choose ‘cherry pick' from the contextual menu?”or the like. 😂

    bigzaphod, to random
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    How the hell could they cancel Lower Decks?! It was the freshest new Trek in decades. (Okay Strange New Worlds is also pretty fresh and great and they didn't cancel that YET but why can't we have both?!)

    uliwitness,
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    @bigzaphod @cocoaphony It sucks.

    That said, I was over the moon when I realized you can buy For All Mankind on DVD. Discovery and Strange New World are available as well, but Apple releasing DVDs as a streaming-only studio surprised me.

    glennf, to random
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    I was unaware that some people pronounced Nike like nyk without the E sound at the end. Like some people say Porsche without the E.

    uliwitness,
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    @glennf Here in Germany, most people pronounce it so it rhymes with Mike. You can tell who consumes a lot of US media by who pronounces it like Mikey. Or who is from Greece and properly pronounces it nee-kay.

    uliwitness,
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    @flargh @glennf OMG I never made that connection 🤦🏼‍♀️

    Yeah, that seemed like the obvious English pronunciation until I learned from the announcement what it's really called. Similar to Arkansas …

    uliwitness,
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    @flargh @glennf @mikec415 Dutch or English pronunciation of his name? 😹

    leyrer, to random
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    I am still flabbergasted by the notion in the non-IT industry, that technology could compensate for the stupidity of users.

    »A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools«
    -- Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

    uliwitness,
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    @daniel @leyrer @danielaKay Yeah just ... don’t ever say that again. 😅

    uliwitness, to random
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    I wonder if the kind of people who complain about people looking too much at their phones would complain less if it was more visible what you're doing. Smart phones have basically compressed a whole bunch of big gestures telling everyone what's up into pulling out and using one's phone for 30 seconds.

    • Pulling out a map
    • Pulling out a travel guide/dictionary
    • Openly or covertly glancing at your watch
    • Pre-counting some amount of money
    • Pulling out your tickets and keeping them in hand
    • …
    uliwitness,
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    • …
    • Pulling out a slip of paper to add something to your shopping list
    • Noting down what the person you're talking to is telling you
    • Glancing at the family photo in your wallet
    • Checking for your next appointment in your Planner
    • Making a phone call with your voice (it's now a text message)

    So many formerly disparate things, and a bunch of things you wouldn’t have noticed before, now all look the same. They now look like a single gesture that is done disproportionately often.

    scy, to random German
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    Was wenn es eigentlich deutsch-lateinische Lyrics sind und es Scooter um Gewaltanwendung gegen einen ganz konkreten Meeresbewohner geht? ("Hau Matsch iste Fisch")

    uliwitness,
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    @scy Könnte auch’n Kurpfälzer sein?

    uliwitness,
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    @scy secret Kurpfalz handshake

    bugaevc, to random
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    I need 'git commit --llm' that would ask me a bunch of questions and then write a commit message for me based on my explanations.

    Like, I fixed this complicated issue, and even though the patch itself is quite small, it takes 6 paragraphs of prose to explain what the issue even was and how it could happen.

    uliwitness,
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    @bugaevc You write this in the commit message? I've realized that commit messages get lost too easily (someone reformats the code, or wraps it in an "if”, and suddenly you'd have to explicitly go back past what "Authors" shows, to find this info), so I usually make things that are longer explanations comments next to the code.

    What's different in your workflow?

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