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Progress in debugging: Turning one mysterious boolean option the other way, instead of a completely black window I get a completely white one!

Gary Oldman's transformation from an extremely thin drug addict, Sid Vicious, in his underpants, to an overweight Jackson Lamb suffering from flatulence (not really suffering but enjoying it) in just a few years is amazing. #timeFlies

Idea: When talking to other programmers, when discussing some list-like data, try to casually use CAR and CDR.

#Lisp

I will never forgive std::pair for calling them first and second.

Hey, I know, instead of just letting the number of tabs grow each day, I should move the really interesting ones into separate windows. Then I will notice them easier and actually get around to reading the page or document.

Fast forward a few weeks: Left as an exercise to the reader.

The things you find when you randomly select one tab without knowing what it contains.

No idea when I followed a link to this, or from where (educated guess: some Mastodon toot), but yes, I am sure that paper is interesting, and possibly even still relevant. I need to keep the tab and eventually read it.

In a different timeline, I might have been a Lisp hacker.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/800179.810196

By Guy L Steele. GLS. One of the old computer scientists (and in some sense "hackers") that used to be known by their initials, right?

Oh, "Steele also designed the original command set of Emacs". Nice. I expect he is a much nicer guy than RMS.

I have too many tabs waiting to be read. Send help.

Eek! Nice to find out after a year or so that the corporate email system your client uses, that you access for your part-time consulting, has some "useful" automatic classification of email into folders you had never even noticed existed.

More specifically, "Notification" and "Newsletter" folders. It even says that "Smart filter classifies notification emails and alerts automatically to this folder".

Yes, that sounds like an excellent idea, to automatically put what it thinks are (and might actually be) important *alerts* somewhere else than the Inbox.

(Sarcasm.)

As all Finns know, when a Swede or Norwegian meets a Finn, assuming it is somebody that hasn't really met Finns before, they say "I know some Finnish: Ei saa peittää". And yes, that is not really humorous when you hear it for the nth time.

Are there similar odd phrases in other "exotic" languages that speakers of English, French, Spanish, Italian, or German often know from somewhere, and want to tell when they meet native speakers of that exotic language?

Is it considered good Fediverse behaviour to mention a follower who boosted a toot in a reply to that boosted toot? And why is this not default?

If I boost something I find interesting, and some of my followers reply to that exactly because of my boost, I would be grateful if they then also make me aware of their reply. (Sure, the reply would show up in my timeline anyway, but I would notice it more reliably, in my notifications, if it mentioned me.)