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i like when the way someone types "a" or "an" before an acronym reveals something about how they pronounce it.

"an HTML file" okay, so you're an "aitch" person, not a "haitch" person.

"an SQLite file" you're pronouncing it "ess que ell ite"? i didn't realise the good doctor hipp had so many alt accounts.

"open a SSH connection" surely you don't pronounce that as "open a secure shell connection"? unless you just use "a" because the acronym starts with a consonant, against convention because the actual sound it makes is "ess"? or maybe you pronounce it "susush" or something? i don't know.

"a NT kernel update" you're just fucking with me, aren't you. you're not saying /əʔɛntiː/

"an CSV file" yep you're fucking with me

the performance of this algorithm is O(1), given a very large value for 1

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for the roughly 8% of uni students still generating their essays by hand: i regret to inform you that the word grammar checker (assigned green squiggle underline at birth, transitioned to double stroke blue underline. happy pride month everyone) has wisened up to several of my standard "word count reacher" tricks. it now suggests the following """fixes""":

• "the aforementioned widgets" -> "the widgets"
• "a number of gizmos" -> "many gizmos"
• and, worst of all, my most reliable and enduring friend: "due to the fact that" -> "because"

horrifyingly enough, it's even beginning to discover and suggest the removal of redundant adjectives. it occasionally suggests replacements like "a reliable bedrock" -> "a bedrock".

we can argue about the more existentially/cosmically disturbing erosion of writer's voice into a homogeneous Microsoft Approved Standard Voice, but of far more concern is this blatant attempt on our god-given right to bloviate on assignments. if the only difference in the rubric for a distinction vs a high distinction is the word "remarkably" becoming "exceptionally", you better believe i'm expanding "john (20xx) shows" into "the study by john (20xx) reveals that a group of researchers were able to demonstrate that".

stay safe out there folks.

update to the uCar Fuel Policies in the EU: as an alternative to uCar fuel stations, third party providers such as Shell and BP can now set up their own fuel stations and sell their own fuel to uCar drivers. uCar will only charge a 5% distribution fee in this case. this nominal fee is present for the driver's safety.

uCar will also charge a 5% fee on any snacks, drinks, and other miscellanea sold in the shop. charging uCar customers more than competing car brand customers for fuel or shop items will result in immediate termination of your uCar Fuel Partner Licence. mentioning this policy to uCar drivers is a violation of the Licence. selling newspapers that contain stories about this policy is a violation of the Licence. selling newspapers that contain QR codes that link to websites that link to other websites or pages that mention this policy is a violation of the Licence.

outside of the EU, uCars are still restricted to using authorised uCar fuel stations only, where uCar charges a 15% distribution fee.

guy who wants to appear casual while using sign language so he signs the word for "lowercase" before fingerspelling

In 2018, the Wi-Fi Alliance introduced a simplified numeric naming scheme, citing confusion around the use of seemingly unrelated letters in their version numbering [12]. In 2020, the Alliance announced Wi-Fi 6E, using the letter "E" to descri

i saw this tweet years ago and it started a stupid joke between me and my wife about "RNU: Runk's Not Unix"

i'd forgotten the original said "ronald's universal number kounter", i remembered it as "runk's universal number kounter" because we make that stupid recursive acronym joke so much

QUESTION: mac runs an international DIY HRT store and has the weird habit of taking orders over the phone and writing the requests down "according to the customer's accents and spellings". he's been doing this for decades. he takes down the next batch of orders, all from trans women: an american, a kiwi, another american, another kiwi, and finally a brit. for efficiency, he only writes down the first letter of their orders. what does he write on his order sheet?

--- page break if you want to try figuring this out yourself (it's not worth trying) ---

ANSWER: old macdonald has a form: E, I, E, I, O.

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EXPLANATION: americans spell it "estrogen", kiwis pronounce it "istrogen", brits spell it "oestrogen"

My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us Neptune, Perchance

new rubber duck speedrun personal best: realised a less silly way of implementing a form cancel button immediately after mentioning that i was creating a form cancel button

had a dream about a lateral question where tom asked something about "losing a single player match of squares and beeps". throughout the questions it became obvious that the question had actually happened to tom. eventually the guests realised the game was pong, but took a while to piece together that tom was so monumentally bad at video games, he managed to lose pong without an opponent (the original arcade pong doesn't have an AI opponent).

✨ python string length

🖥️ Ah, a classic question: How long is a piece of string? Unlike the cheeky philosophical retort however, this question has an answer in Python ⸻ and it's shockingly simple. 😎 The most common way to get the length of a string in the Python programming language is with the len() function. If you're feeling a little extra, though, here's a for loop that does the same thing:

ℹ️ The global average temperature has raised by 0.0003°C.

To: john.lecturer@pimentouniversity.edu.au

Subject: ABC301 Task 3 Questions

Sent at: 10:05 AM

Dearest Dr. Lecturer,

I am writing in regards to the ABC301 Task 3 requirements. Upon extensive examination of question 7, I am caught between two interpretations:

1. The Flooble must be parallel to the Gumbit.
2. The Flooble must be perpendicular to the Gumbit.

I cannot write 800 of the required 2,000 words until I know which of these is the case.

To summarise: Is the Flooble required to be parallel or perpendicular to the Gumbit?

Warmest regards,
Lynne

To: lynne.student@pimentouniversity.edu.au

Subject: Re: ABC301 Task 3 Questions

Sent at: 1:12 AM

hi lyn

yep sounds godo .

john;

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the unicode 18.0.0 beta is out! let’s go!!

i'm glad someone was having fun implementing the node graph traversal logic at least (that someone is my past self)

"favouriting" a post is a strong word, isn't it? i use it as a "like" button. i've favourited thousands of posts, but i only have a handful of actual favourite posts.

to all the people who've made posts such as "why don't sysadmins have dogs? they're cat people!" or left me replies like "i broadly agree with your statement": i'm sorry to tell you that despite the notification you received, your post is not actually one of my favourites. not every toot can be of @BenteliciousArt@troet.cafe calibre, as much as i wish it were so.

forza horizon 6 lets you choose your name, which is used in the satnav's voice lines. they don't have "lynne" (or any of its various forms), so i scrolled through the nickname list and settled on "woman", because i knew how funny it would sound to be addressed that way.

turns out it's even funnier than i thought. the satnav begins its directions like "okay woman. i've set a route for daikoku circuit". i like to imagine the horizon staff have given me a weirdly sexist GPS. "okay woman, don't get hysterical 🙄 the route is set, yeesh. must be that time of the month"

reading the documentation for my email host and found a subtle reminder that they're german

it's kind of incredible how twitter was so unbelievably influential that it convinced millions of people that the # symbol is itself called a "hashtag". they weren't even trying to do that. it's a hash that you use to tag things. a hash tag.

i think it was helped by nobody agreeing what # is even called. hash? pound? octothorpe? number sign? sharp? well the only app on my phone that uses it† says it's a hashtag‡ so that's what it is

† twitter was not the only app to use the hash symbol
‡ twitter did not say the symbol itself is a hashtag

damn girl did you get monomorphised into discrete implementations because that outfit is generic as fuck

just watched a pretty INCREDIBLE show on youtube... one might even say it was... CAPABLE OF CAUSING AMAZEMENT........

guy who posts memes as 8.001 megabyte files so free discord users can't send them

thanks autosuggest

most people would probably have stopped getting their linux to windows cross compile script working at the second awk invocation. i am not most people

half my friends live in the wacky taskmaster country and the other half live in the wacky dropout dot tv country

two sentence horror:

exhausted and relenting after a fruitless hour of searching, i snuck out of the dark bedroom, dug my laptop out of my bag, logged on to the hotel wifi, and loaded up the "find my device" page. despite not having bought a data plan, i was able to ring my phone, as it had four bars of connection strength on "Airport Free Wi-Fi".

i'm listening to episode 189 of lateral and in the intro they discuss the idea of an "aesthetist" as opposed to an anaesthetist. tom mentions that "an" means without and "aesthe" comes from "sensation". they spend some time talking about this then move on without making the joke i immediately thought of: surely aesthetist is synonymous with sensationalist!

android auto before gemini: i can't give you directions to "the post orifice". here's what i found on google instead

me: directions to the post office

AA: navigating to the post office

me: this can't get any worse

--- PAGE BREAK ---

AA now: processing... okay! connecting to google maps... alright! it looks like there's a post office about four minutes from you in flungadore, or one eighteen minutes away in stumbus. which one would you like me to navigate to?

me: the--

AA: bloop

me: ...the one in flungadore

AA: processing... alright! connecting to google maps... okay, i've selected the flungadore post office. navigating you there now!

(the screen stays on the "start navigation" page for ten seconds for no reason, covering the directions)

met someone lovely yesterday and she read a lengthy excerpt of a warframe fanfic she's working on. it was so fucking good, and like, in the exact way i wish my writing was good. she's so adept at describing appearances (which i'm awful at) and also at narrating thought processes and like, "stepping through the mental debugger" as it were (which i'm mediocre at).

we were introduced by a mutual friend and we weren't even originally planning to talk about writing, it just came up naturally. i shared something semi-decent that i've written and she then shared her thing. it kinda sounds silly to say but i was genuinely starstruck. it was like showing a very tired mason a whole cathedral

let's open some fan letters!

@ben@mastodon.lubar.me from ADDRESS WITHHELD @ben@mastodon.lubar.me to ask about the #warframe character "captain vor", and how his monologues rank in terms of "unwashed man" energy compared to the GNU/linux copypasta.

thanks for writing in, ben! it's a difficult question to answer for two reasons:

first: it's difficult enough to compare "Our love will be reborn as we feed on your divine blood. Our children will flourish without disease." to "[...] rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs [...]" that i think they're on another scale entirely.

second: i was distracted by laughing about having to rescue a star wars background extra named Deny Attack Reverse Victim and Offender.

if you want to send in a letter, call PHONE NUMBER RETIRED, send a letter to PO BOX RETIRED, or tweet out with the hashtag HASHTAG RETIRED!

welcome to our philosopher-themed cocktail bar. today we're serving kant

New Orleans > Demographics > 1960s

Contemporary accounts note that there was at least one house in New Orleans [better source needed].

there's a safe and a sheet of paper with instructions like "three and one more, then one and one less" etc.

i was talking through the solution out loud and when i realised it was 0451 i let out the loudest groan

it's like getting rickrolled or hearing the wilhelm scream