Here in Germany, I mainly know this setup with two knobs you can turn by hand:

I mean, this is conflating a fifth of the humans on Earth, so you should consider this borderline misinformation, but I believe, East Asian cultures tend to take things rather literal. So, sarcasm is often not understood, and I guess comedians overplaying stories or using satire might not land as it tends to in Western cultures. I assume, it’s more situational humor and absurdism.

But yeah, here in Europe, we have stereotypical German humor, stereotypical British humor etc., so you should assume that different regions in East Asia or China will have different humor, too. Maybe there’s no comedians where that girl is from, but in other regions there are…

Yesterday morning, I was walking to my bus stop, when I heard a dog growling across the street. It was still dark outside and I had just turned around a corner, so I didn’t think it was reacting to me, but dogs do tend to get aggressive towards me, so I was already mentally preparing to be lunged at out of the dark.

Anyways, the dog+owner stopped and the dog took a wee. I guess, it smelled a competing dog…

Pretty sure that knowing COBOL isn’t the hard part. It has relatively few language concepts.

This lack of language concepts just makes it difficult to reason about it, so that’s what you’re getting a paycheck for. Well, and possibly also because it might take months to have a new dev figure out your legacy codebase, so it’s cheaper to keep the current dev by paying them competitive prices.

I believe, it mainly has to do with dark-theme screens quickly becoming illegible when there’s outside light sources. It just isn’t bright enough to overpower the glare from the sun and such.

That is genuinely one of the reasons why I use light theme. Like, have you see how bright the fucking sun is? My light-themed screen is still a joke compared to looking outside the window. So, I’m trying to help along my circadian rhythm by at least somewhat simulating the sun on my screen.

Oh man, a few years ago, we had a military dude as conductor in our wind band. And I was always one of his favorites, I’m guessing because I have broad shoulders and a deep voice – prime military recruit material.

…except that I’m vegan. So, one day he sits next to me during lunch and asks me why I’m vegan. I do the usual dance of avoiding the topic, but he does not want to let it go. So, I tell him that I think killing animals is wrong. He walked out of that conversation like a hurt gazelle.

Like, fuck me, dude, if you’re gonna do the whole military tough guy spiel, but cannot take a kid disagreeing with you, then maybe you’re not as tough after all.

That argument annoys me so much. Each vegetable does cover all amino acids, they just don’t have them in the exact relations that our body needs. But if a vegetable has only 50% of one amino acid compared to the distribution that our body needs, then you can abso-fucking-lutely just eat double of that vegetable. Or as you say mix-and-match.

A typical Western diet includes far more protein than the body needs for maintaining itself either way.

Ah yeah, there’s various technologies that I don’t mention too loudly. For example, all things considered, I’m probably an above-average Python dev, but I never enjoyed writing it, so when I get asked about it, I always answer that I’m not too confident with it.

Which, in my defense, isn’t even really a lie. My specialty is large-scale projects, which is something where Python with its loose typing just does not give you confidence…

I have basically a web music player, where I pick the highlight color hue semi-randomly for each song. I thought, that’s a perfect use-case for OKLCH, but I actually wasn’t a fan.

Because it equalizes the lightness, that means you never get the most vibrant colors for all hues, at a given lightness value. So, if you pick a low lightness value, then violet is vibrant, but yellow looks muddy. With a high lightness value, yellow is vibrant and violet is washed out.

I did also have the accessibility problem of overlayed text being unreadable, but worked around it with a blurred drop shadow, to give the white lines a black outline on top of the vibrant colors.

Hmm, I don’t add extra water when I cook spinach. I just wash it, fill up my pot with it, throw in salt and a splash of oil, then the kid on top.

After a few minutes, I’ve got a couple spoonfuls of tasty goodness.

…I did just notice the typo, but I also threw myself away laughing, so I’m keeping it.

My answer is also every industry. It’s like asking what industry could benefit from collaboration.

Today, I was on a networking event for an industry that is currently heavily looking to adopt open-source collaboration, due to cost pressure. And it was such a surreal experience.

You had dozens of human beings in this room, who all understood that collaboration is good. Who understood that the shared goal of surviving as an industry requires collaboration. Who understood each other as human beings.

But because they collect their paychecks from different companies, you had these stupid infights of “our product is better”, as well as monetization always being prioritized higher than collaboration success.
It did not feel like we were working on a shared goal, and rather like each company was just trying to sell their product. Rather than one solution, there were as many solutions as there were companies, each one pitching their solution as the one solution everyone else should agree on.

Yeah, I don’t know what the moral of the story is. It just felt so incredibly stupid.

I do not believe there to be a higher meaning. Nor for that fact to have particular meaning. As such, I also do not assign particular meaning to suffering. But others don’t seem to enjoy it much, so I throw myself with full force against it, because why not?

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Yeah, I agree that there could probably be a way to “close” Activities, which doesn’t do the session management, so explicitly just throws the windows onto another Activity (or maybe prompts you when there’s still windows on that Activity), without having to outright delete that Activity.

Deleting an Activity is relatively disruptive, since you may have files linked to it or nicely setup wallpapers and such. And there are a number of places where Activities show up, where it can be annoying to have Activities showing up that you’re not currently using.

I can imagine them being open to that suggestion, if you articulate it well.
From what I saw, they did make a lot of changes to remove the start/stop functionality, but most of it was session handling code. So, it might not be too additional much trouble to add a way to close Activities instead.

As a wise Nate Graham once said: The most reliable way to find out whether people use a feature (and how they use it) is to remove it. The second-most reliable way is to announce its removal.
Well, you did miss the announcement, so it probably felt a bit rude to you, but yeah, you should still consider this the start of a conversation. They’re not hellbent on removing this feature.

Naja, i.d.R. ist es schon möglich das zumindest ein bisschen zu verbessern. Manchmal findet man auch ganz andere Produktionsverfahren, die wesentlich bessere Zuverlässigkeit mitbringen.

Aber eine pauschale Aussage ist da echt schwierig. Unterschiedliche Bauteile haben unterschiedliche Fehlertoleranzen. Und manchmal hat man schon Unsummen in eine Verbesserung der Produktionszuverlässigkeit gesteckt, aber hängt immernoch bei 80% Wegwerfquote, einfach weil es da kein gutes Produktionsverfahren gibt und das bestehende nicht mehr großartig optimiert werden kann.

Da muss man auch dazusagen, dass die Rechnung eigentlich nur pro Bauteil so simpel ist, oder wenn das Gesamtprodukt in einem einzelnen maschinellen Schritt hergestellt wird.

Also bei Uhren ist wahrscheinlich der Ausschuss pro Bauteil nochmal wesentlich höher als 80%, aber man muss nicht die gesamte Uhr wegwerfen, sondern man pickt sich eben die guten Teile raus.
Spätestens bei der Endmontage fällt dann auf, wenn ein Zahnrädchen um einen Viertelsmillimeter unrund ist und deswegen nicht in die Uhr eingebaut werden kann. Dann nimmt man eben das nächste Zahnrädchen.

I would make a joke that my Christmas tree is still planted on a field somewhere, but it’s not like I’ll get a tree either way…

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