Coding Cait

Mathematicians are so generous with all the mathematical methods they invent I mean, look at integration, that's a perfect example of their largesse

@Akki@toot.lgbt "Flytipping's really hard to do without the fly waking up" @Brynndylow@chatty.frogawampus.co.uk

I deserve a reward: I saw people posting confident but wrong "facts" about the British rail system on Fedi and resisted the temptation to correct them

@jess@blop.social Typhoid Mary was Wikipedia's article of the day yesterday!

• order new bra
• go collect from shop
• take home
• try it on
• bra strap immediately snaps because the stitching has given way

Dammit, that's rubbish, my boobs aren't THAT powerful!

"Arrr, me hearties! I was up in the crow's nest with my spyglass trained on that there Madagascan jungle, and reckon I saw myself some sort of nocturnal lemur! Does any of you sorry excuse for a ship's crew know what sort of animal it was I could be seeing?' "Aye aye, Captain!"

Every time a trans femme posts about facial feminising surgery, my brain reads "FFS" the other way "wow, everyone who gets that surgery gets really pissed off by it!"

@ireneista@adhd.irenes.space I've always found "instruction, destination, source" an unintuitive style of notation and always wondered if it's because I've only seriously tried to learn assembly on Z80 when I was a young girl, and Zilog went source, destination @static@aus.social

@ciara@anarres.family @thejessiekirk@ohai.social Not one but TWO tapes for the expanded-memory ZX81; Psion Chess (and "Chess-Clock" on one and various games on the other

I don't use hashtags, I use friedpotatotags (serious question: does anyone else remember British Telecom using "square" as the name of the # sign when DTMF dialling was introduced to the UK? Please tell me I didn't imagine it)

@olivvybee@beehive.city the TOCs operating between Newcastle and Edinburgh are LNER (the majority of services) CrossCountry, and Lumo

Tomorrow, is the moon going to sail safely past the sun? Not if she clips it

@RoseyPosey@anarres.family when you go to the zoo to see the sealions, but they're just seals with an electric charge

@LordWoolamaloo@mastodon.scot Surely the obvious would just be "The Locomotion" @feorag@wandering.shop

Lesbians planning a trip to Germany: "can't we go to Frauheim instead?"

"I need to run this regex-replace against every line in your file" "Yeah, that's what she sed"

@LilahTovMoon@tech.lgbt Ooh this is interesting - I have experience with the European sector where it's essentially very similar but the "regional" organisations - some of which operate over multiple nations - operate the trading market between energy producers and supply companies. Although in theory the markets can run their market how they like, in practice it's quite tightly constrained by European rules to minimise the amount of power transferred over cross-border interconnect, which in practice puts quite tight constraints on how the regional markets can operate and what types of bids the market participants can place. My favourite bit is that the algorithm that implements these rules is called "Euphemia" - some work must have gone into engineering that algorithm! @brass75@twit.social

The temptation to write a movie script containing only the Scheria section of The Odyssey. It wouldn't be a grand epic full of warfare, but it would be *interesting*

@eta@gotosocial.i.eta.st I thought I was the only person in South Wales who followed the M48 temporary speed limit! @hugh@social.crablab.uk

@ordinal@mas.to Counterexample: Mitchells Versus The Machines, which has a femme-coded antagonistic AI @pseudonym@mastodon.online @leafygreens@meow.social @gloriouscow@oldbytes.space

@aisling@anarres.family aww thank you!

@LucasWerkmeister@wikis.world I love the little disused railway line on I think the first floor? It was put in to move big exhibits about

@olivvybee@beehive.city the worst I've found is a YouTube rip of the early 80s documentary "A Lineside Look At Model Railways" which has the audio at a different speed to the video so they end up hugely out of sync

@JamesWidman@mastodon.social the bit "there's no evidence anyone does this" is telling - there's never any evidence if you shut your eyes I sometimes use Welsh for variable names - I'm not even fluent, but it's a good way to improve my fluency (Ironically Welsh is poorly-served by Unicode: the language has its own distinct, well-defined alphabet with unique letters, but those letters are written as digraphs - dd, ll, ng are some examples - so they've never, to my knowledge, been admitted to Unicode as code points)

@Erased_Citizen@cupoftea.social ooh I remember a company used to produce signalling simulations written with that - PC Rail maybe?

@olivvybee@beehive.city jest is horrible, fair

One advantage of moving my teach-myself-Rust project to Codeberg: If it's on Codeberg, it's self-evidently non-AI, and the code being bad is purely my own fault!

Reasons I feel a bit Cassandra-ish, part 94: Saying for about 20 years that PostgreSQL is the best SQL DB for most use cases. The rest of the world I think finally started agreeing after it became easily available in Azure. Circa 2015 I took over running an AWS-hosted system which had been designed to use two RDS databases, one MySQL, for the majority of the data, and one PostgreSQL with PostGIS, for one single query that mapped position coordinates to timezone. And most of the devs my team were taking over from... didn't really even understand what PostgreSQL *was*, or why they were using it, other than it being a magic box for this one TZ query. Certainly they had no idea they could have consolidated on a single RDS for everything by dropping MySQL. (Partly that was because That One Query was written *really, really* badly: when I took over, it was the biggest bottleneck in the system. After I touched it, that query sped up like x20)

@nicopap@tooting.ch what locations can your colleagues be based in?

@Unixbigot@aus.social fuck yeah! (It's before 6am and I haven't had enough coffee to write a good pun on "turning", imagine I've put one here)

@biplanepilot@poweredbygay.social I just learned this and I'm angry now!

@luckytran@mastodon.social "just the tip of the iceberg (lettuce)"

@jess@blop.social I could swear I did follow him on Fedi at one time! Can't find him now though

Random thought about the differing terminology of "folder" and "directory" when referring to files stems "Folder" refers to the data structure, as an end user uses it "Directory refers to the data structure as the operating system uses it

In the office building where I work, the reception desk has a stack of complimentary copies of the magazine "The Secretary" I have to say, at a glance, it looks *very* different to the movie

DID YOU KNOW: Before the Meiji Restoration of 1868, Japanese-made computers only supported Edo RAM

DID YOU KNOW: The technical term for someone who studies the science behind painful sensations is an owwcademic

@JustFi@beige.party ooohh... is it Rosalind Franklin?

@ciara@anarres.family Ooh I found I still own a genuine ZX81 software tape, I should send it somewhere for posterity @thejessiekirk@ohai.social

Cats really struggle with using a tape deck because they can only press the paws button

@aisling@anarres.family now that one was a winner

OK hear me out: giant googly eyes as nipple pasties

@aisling@anarres.family I honestly didn't think they did - is it new since the May timetable change? @olivvybee@beehive.city

@sarahdal@crispsandwi.ch oh wow!

@nflux@gts.exile.social goals