https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/133403-we-should-do-away-with-the-absolutely-specious-notion-that

If you have social anxiety, then why are you blaming women for being difficult to talk to or flirt with?

Women didn’t get me until I grew into my 20s. For some of us, it takes longer, and it feels terrible in the meantime. Peace.

The cumulative pedantry is almost all the fun.

And it should be displaceraptor, dropping the last syllable, otherwise the quotient would be velocityraptor.

This is the kind of paradox that leads us (I mean humans more generally) to look for some fundamental assumption we’re making about time that will turn out to be wrong. I assume that’s true although I wonder whether it’s literally impossible for us to even imagine how time “truly” works, let alone measure it.

I was a kak user for several years and am giving hx an honest try this year. So far, I’m quite happy.

(and yes, I’ve been both an emacs and vim user.)

hx

I meditate. Very occasionally, I still am not ready to sleep, but it still helps me to do that.

I listen to a podcast, if nothing else works.

Mostly, I don’t worry about not sleeping. It took me years to feel OK with not sleeping, but here I am.

Peace.

Yes, you diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiid…

Dumb question: do you have a key on your keyboard that disables the microphone? I don’t have my laptop in front of me, but I know there’s a key that disables the trackpad and another that disables the camera. I realized that I’d accidentally hit those by going through something similar to this.

Good luck.

Kat.

Les Oulhamr fuyaient dans la nuit épouvantable. Fous de souffrance et de fatigue, tout leur semblait vain devant la calamité suprême: le Feu était mort.

Are there no prisons?

Are there no workhouses?

Plausible is more like conceivable.

It’s possible that when I slam my hand on the table, it will go through the table, but it’s not plausible. We can’t imagine it actually happening, even though we know it can.

I believe the dumbness of scams conforms to the Archimedean property.

Best Practices thinking considered harmful. 🤷

I like test names that are full sentences. Doing this for its own sake is unnecessary. It’s probably wise to practise this for a year, then decide when you still need it.

For me, quite often, a combination of the test group name (often naming a behavior) and test function name (often naming a special case of that behavior) suffices, even though it is not a full sentence. (Example: test class SellOneItem, test method productNotFound. Is this not clear enough?)

Test function names that merely repeatedly duplicate details (“conversion should…” to start 12 test names) indicate a test group trying to emerge (“Conversion Tests”). Insisting on full sentences for its own sake often either masks this risk (and delays helpful refactoring) or represents redundancy (merely reiterating what has been helpfully refactored).

I have found this attention to full sentence names most helpful for tests whose audience is not programmers, since those folks are not accustomed to common source code conventions and patterns. For Programmer Tests, I think “should” turns this helpful advice into a risky overstatement.

Pump and dump of penny stock. 🤷

You don’t mess with the Zohran.

Visidata, maybe.

Everyone has to start somewhere.