Your comment reminded me of this moment I had at an office lunch table:

Someone from sales: I’ve been having a terrible day, the P-O-C at {client company} is being annoying yadda yadda…

Someone from HR: glaring, and taking mental notes.

Me, a dev: wondering how things could’ve gone wrong considering that we hadn’t even shipped anything for them.

It took us all a moment to realize that "PoC " meant different things to each of us - Point of Contact, Person of Colour, and Proof of Concept. Somehow the salesperson could’ve been talking about any of those and it’d make, so none of us questioned ourselves first.

Primary and Clone?

Bro, which company expected you to do a take home assignment that took 2.5 months? Name and shame the fuckers.

Okay, I’m convinced. 😂

How are China’s stringent lockdowns explained in this conspiracy theory? Also, where do I sign up as a member?

https://www.patreon.com/elisabethbik

Please do not visit https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/piracy

Okay, I’ll bite.

Why isn’t it language? And how do you define that a method of communication qualifies to be called a language?

Also, what would you call a method of communication that lies somewhere in between “follow the pheromones” and “modern human comms”?

“I shouldn’t give them money because drugs”

I have a roof over my head, eat thrice a day, and have a loving family. Yet there are days when I want to drown myself in alcohol or weed. Who am I to judge a homeless person if they choose to do drugs and forget their suffering for a little while?

I always give money, if anything, to the few of them in my neighborhood. Whether it’s food , clothes, drugs or something else - they know what they need better than I know it.

The new ones can do what you want too though. Just press the “clean” button on the roomba twice. Or the “clean everywhere” option in the app, if you’ve set it up.

In both cases, it goes wherever it can and returns to the starting point.

At this point, I’m not sure if I should interpret that as “very recyclable” or “barely recyclable”.

“it actually depends”

Yes, it depends. But in this scenario we’re not discussing if statements with one or two conditions. We’re exclusively discussing multiple complicated conditions. :)

I’ve had at least one code reviewer ask me to put all the logic in the if ... line rather than use a variable or two in order to “simplify code by reducing the number of variables.”

At the very least, this article helped me confirm my own bias of “that guy is a moron” and I can send this article to him the next time he reviews my code.

I’m guessing that you were one of those “I won’t ever use all this math” kind of students?

Todoist works great for me. I like the recurring tasks feature which lets me clear up a lot of headspace. “Clean XYZ every 11 days #chore” is all the syntax you need to setup a recurring task that’s categorised under the “chore” category.

Have you tried diluting your cycle with some water or turpentine to reduce its viscosity?

Yup, that’s indeed the format used in some European countries. Canada was surprising though. 🤷‍♂️

I live in Canada and I’ve never seen “1.000,00”. Canada (at least the anglophone part that I live in) follows the usual “1,000.00” format. Why is this library using commas as decimal separators?

Wait, what’s this?

Gotcha.

I thought that was the norm in all academia these days? Can a physicist (or anyone from another field) publish results that didn’t go as expected and save future scientists some time?