Yeah, I took it more as analysing and adjusting to one’s current situation, as opposed to going conspiracy nut.

Neither magic crystals nor PUA courses are what someone struggling to budget 2000$ for candles needs

Possibly you’re thinking about https://qntm.org/clean

Was expecting it to reference parse, don’t validate but now seems like the author might be one of today’s lucky 10000 (if they read lemmy comments)

W is a double-v for us, so our alphabet goes uvw (u ve dobbel-ve), rather than uwv (ju dabbel-ju vi).

Germanic languages vary a bit in their attitude towards w; we Norwegians use it pretty much just as a fancy old-timey v and could frankly drop w from our alphabet without missing anything (just like q is practically never used).

Germans use w the way we use v, and then use v pretty much like f.

The anglo w sound is something we have to learn in English class, and even then a lot of people start to hypercorrect and pronounce even the "v"s in English as their w. It can be wery funny to listen to, or wery frustrating.

Imagine if that money had been spent on building out renewables instead

People who deviate from the rule that units go after the number drive me batty.

Like what, is the US equivalent of X €/kWh written $ X / kWh or something??? Absolutely disgusting

Us nords have nine vowel letters:

• a e i
• o u y
• æ ø å

and they all are just themselves for a name. Like e isn’t “c with a line” any more than q is “o with a leg”.

They’re also all monophthongs, which is hard to communicate to anglophones who pronounce their vowel letters overwhelmingly as diphthongs. E.g. anglos probably read the vowel letters as

• ey i ay
• åo ju way
• ??? ??? ???

There’s an æøå song which might help.

It’s cow tools from a Gary Larson comic

Oh man, I used to have my irssi claim it was Comic Chat. Fun times.

Like other MS tech of the era it was at least lightly into EEE territory, as the client would add stuff to messages that just looked like crap to users of normal IRC clients, similarly to how Outlook users would have seemingly random Js in their text, because Outlook rendered that as a smiley through the power of a Windings font.

But it sure did spawn some memes.

I believe the expression is

oh look, a new public toilet just opened

The Department of Transportation is doubling down on its campaign against “DEI bike lanes,” as Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy called them in a social media post earlier this month.

JFC. I mean, I shouldn’t be surprised, but somehow I still am.

One local Thai shop had the sense to offer both “$nationality spicy” and “thai spicy”

OCaml should transfer pretty well to Rust. Rust can feel like an ML dressed up in C’s braces.

Similarly, if you can write in Haskell without having to reach for IO, then you can probably satisfy Rust’s borrow checker with no more effort.

I find the C type syntax turgid. It’s fine for the most basic types, but the name-in-the-middle style doesn’t scale at all, and it’s not hard to understand why later languages separate name and type, no matter which side of the name the type goes on.

I find Rust easier to read in that regard, even though picking <> for generics was likely done to be familiar for C++/Java types rather than easy to parse. (See also: the bastion of the turbofish)

Isn’t rather “meme” the refinement from “gene” (seeing as it was chosen to rhyme with gene)

I guess one inherent weakness in slowly turning the US into not only an oligarchy, but a science-averse gerontocracy is that over the coming decade there’s gonna be a lot of familiar names croaking.

I guess if their power isn’t out from storms it’s good

(more seriously battery plus heat pump plus solar sounds good)

The most FIGHT ME shirt I’ve ever seen

oh shit I forgot they’re merkins, it’s a SHOOT ME shirt

maybe still fun to wear at a safe distance from the US

Yeah, my mom grows carrots in a variety of colours, not just the new orange one that’s become so common. Also grows blue potatoes, purple beans and whatnot, because she has more fun with more colourful food.

Dark heirloom tomatoes are pretty neat too.

Who doesn’t? Majority lactose intolerant nations?