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@apLundell aww. did you hear? it's expected to be out of commission by the end of this year

@loke @lupyuen i was getting a bit of that, but definitely there's a thread of "this language is bad and you should feel bad for using it/liking it" that is pretty awful.

this guy consistently pronouncing patriot like "PAY-TREE-AWT" is giving me an aneurysm

it's been too long since I baked a cornbread. seasoned with chili powder, red pepper flakes, and oregano. 😋
it's a but saltier than i recall though. I think I used sea salt previously, but used more finely ground, iodized salt this time. I should convert this recipe to weight measurements...

From MARCcold on birbsite:

"I do not want a smart home, I want a HOME OF FOOLS.

There's no point in my refrigerator getting ideas above its station.

Your job, refrigerator, is literally to chill. You are not a hopeful laptop waiting for its big break."

😂 😂

@izaya oh yeah, how is that novel going? haven't checked back in a while

@lj qoto has groups and I guess it has circles as well, but I don't really use those features

@Pat I was confused by Biden saying the United States has signed on to the "One China policy". apparently China, Taiwan, and the US use a similar term here to mean pretty drastically different things ... in terms of who's in power

Asia -Pacific geopolitics I'm general is loopy af

I recall sometime back seeing a conversation about NASA and climate science where one person was arguing that shouldn't be doing weather and research but should focus on travel. I knew were wrong, for a number of reasons, but I didn't know many details about how agencies work together. This podcast has some details.
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NASACast Audio: Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 84, NASA’s Role in Weather Research

Episode webpage: nasa.gov/mediacast/small-steps

Media file: nasa.gov/sites/default/files/a

My favourite swipe typo of the day: "Norse cancelling headphones". Presumably that means Bluetooth is turned off.

@tsturm yeah...I guess we're talking about different things? if I'm looking at something funky and say so, it's the opening to a conversation on whether we can develop something better. no decrees. sometimes the result is we stay with what we've got, but with a better understanding of why we've got it. sometimes we make plans to reorganize so we can do things we couldn't before (or stop doing things we don't like).
For instance, on a project I was working on, we kept re-implementing this logic to pass events and data up and down UI component hierarchies, creating a lot of boilerplate in the process. There was a "right way" to do that within the framework we had, but what we really would have benefited from was two-way data binding a la React or Vue. The "smell" in this case was the hinky boilerplate code.

@trinsec ah. forgot that aspect. haven't used fb in ... years now🤷‍♂️

@IzzyOnDroid@mastodon.technology
are you sure about that smiley? it's most often associated with trolling in my experience, so maybe not consistent with the message...
@EU_Commission

I hadn't thought about it, but I'm really glad mastodon didn't opt for labeling "follows" as "friends". it's really mainly a Facebook thing, but even on Facebook, I think the label has too much baggage. so many "Facebook friends" I have that I probably couldn't pick out of a lineup these days

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