Well I,m, glad because, I, do, put a, lot of, them,.

One time, I had to hand in English homework, 1½ pages, and later got it back from the teacher with the feedback that I had only written two sentences. The first sentence spanned the whole first page, which wasn’t intentional.

You don’t want to use exceptions in normal control flow, because they’re extremely slow. Every time you throw an exception, it has to collect a stacktrace, which is hundreds, if not thousands, of calculations, compared to a handful of calculations for returning a boolean or an enum variant.

Interesting. I almost guessed that variant, too, but figured it would be a bit too wild for a country to auto-adopt most laws that another country implements. 🙃

I stopped using Reddit a few years before the whole stupidity, because the culture was fucking with my head.

Then I did the Mastodons for two years or so, with Lemmy eventually entering the mix. And then as Lemmy got more users and content, it took over as my preferred platform.

I’m more surprised that it even got offered there. There’s some legal hurdles to clear for selling in a new country, and I guess, one of their distribution platforms decided it was worth it.

I guess, the Vatican might not have a ton of laws, though…

Codeberg also does have Pages.

Still uses Git, but yeah.

I guess, the joke is that clipped toenails sometimes catapult off so far that they might as well have launched out of orbit. You won’t find them again either way…

Neat, thanks. 🙂

I have been thinking, with how closely inspired lots of Pokémon are from real animals, that you could probably come up with a collectible card game or such, using real animals.

I mean, maybe I’m just being an old person and kids wouldn’t find that cool, but I certainly felt at some point, that I would’ve spent my time better, if I had learned about biology rather than made-up Pokémon stats…

What I don’t like about the genre, is that I’m bad at it. 🙃

More seriously, I do find it kind of frustrating at times. Restarting ten times in a roguelike, no problem, because it’s always a new challenge.
But if I miss the same jump ten times, or have to retry the same platforming passage ten times, you’ll see me getting impatient, which means I’ll fail the next ten attempts, too…

Codeberg recently held a translation event where projects could sign up, if they wanted help. You can still look at their resources here, or I guess, you can just pick out a project and start translating over here: https://translate.codeberg.org/

Depending on your file manager, you may be able to hold Shift while triggering the delete to get a hard delete.

Shift+Del is pretty much standardized as the keyboard shortcut. And here on KDE, I can hold Shift while clicking the “Move to Trash” menu entry, too (well, it actually replaces the menu entry with one for permanent deletion, but that’s effectively the same).

It’s not getting updated anymore, unfortunately, but this is a cool webpage to get a feel for that: http://www.their.tube/

If you want it to just not recommend things, you might prefer switching to an RSS feed, or to something like NewPipe.

Problem is that none of the algorithms actually care about showing you things you like.

Ads try to sell you on things that you wouldn’t otherwise buy. Occasionally, they may just inform you about a good product that you simply didn’t know about, but there’s more money behind manipulating you into buying bad products, because it’s got a brand symbol.

And content recommendation algorithms don’t care about you either. They care about keeping you on the platform for longer, to look at more ads.
To some degree, that may mean showing you things you like. But it also means showing you things that aggravate you, that shock you. And the latter is considered more effective at keeping users engaged.

Where I live, you have to put a coin into the shopping carts and you only get it back when you return it. Is this not a thing in, uh, Portugal? Brazil? Wherever the comic author lives…?

I, unfortunately, have to use GitHub at $DAYJOB and this is me. I navigate most of the webpage via the URL bar now.

Basically, let’s say I’m working on a repo github.com/tomato/sauce/ and want to navigate to the Releases page.

Via the webpage:

1. Type github.com into the URL bar.
2. Don’t find tomato/sauce/ in the list of recent repos, even though it’s the only repo I work on.
3. Click on some other repo that’s at least in the tomato/ org.
4. Navigate up to the tomato/ org.
5. Find the sauce/ repo in the list.
6. Traverse half the fucking screen to hit the “Releases” heading in the middle of the About-section.

Via the Firefox URL bar:

1. Type gi→t→s→r→.
2. Hit Enter.

I admit, it’s hard to compete with the latter, but I wouldn’t know how to navigate that way, if the former wasn’t so terrible.

I mean, when you hold down the Alt key, it’s convention that GUI toolkits underline a letter in the text of UI elements, and when you then press Alt + that letter, it’ll activate that UI element.
That way, you can navigate most apps in a keyboard-driven fashion, although it is certainly not the most comfortable to use…

Yeah, the one (and very likely only) time I went to IKEA, I bought almost nothing, because the whole store was just one big stampede, pressing through that singular path.

It’s this one: https://codeberg.org/trem/jot/