Ancient shellmaster! Awww.

I would totally go to a camp that involved turtle weighing. Any activity involving turtles, really! They’re so shelly aww

I’ll look through the door.

Or, set up a webcam to see when the light is on.

If this isn’t allowed somehow, I’ll tell the building management to consider rewiring this absolutely cursed light switch situation ASAP because it’s gotten so bad that it’s being used as a brainteaser by the recruiting department

Well, there aren’t any real scientific definitions but there sure are legal and regulatory definitions.

(I haven’t checked the local requirements but there’s micro voltage, low voltage and high voltage. Micro voltage is basically anything below 12v - for anything above that you need to be a certified electrician. Doubly so if you go above household voltages)

What do publishers do? Editing, layout, other parts of design (e.g. covers), most importantly printing, marketing and distribution.

Oh you mean what do scientific publishers do? Um… that’s a good one, huh… they just kinda take the money and leave everyone else to do the actual work?

Reminds me of an old joke about how everything in KDE has a k and it’s very annoyink and irrtitatink bekause they have less laks user interface kuidelines than GNOME. (I haven’t checked, they’ve probably vastly improved since then)

The Church of Alpha the Utterly Indifferent, from “The Songs of Distant Earth” by Arthur C. Clarke?

Tortoise: “I’m not a goddamn rock! You pooped on me for the last time! …Not so tough these days, eh, dinosaur?”

But seriously, not surprising. I heard that many tortoises, while herbivorous, will just happily munch all snails that rest on the greens. (For nutrition. And also to demonstrate superiour speed!)

Yeah I wouldn’t date an RStudio user. Real men do their R coding in Jupyter.

They’re completely safe what comes to Potassium-40 radioactivity! You need to eat a massive amount of them to even reach the point where you experience radiation sickness. Actually, you might experience excessive potassium toxicity levels first. (Or you might not! Human bodies are equipped to get rid of excess potassium.) Or, you know, you might experience the problems of stuffing too much stuff down your gullet. There’s only so much stuff you can fit in your stomach at one time.

I’m a girl. I’m not interested in Haskell, that’s too frigging endofunctiorific. Erlang! That’s what all the cool guys are doing.

Well it’s an art film. The purpose of art is to evoke emotions, to inspire dialogue. Yours is one possible interpretation. Ultimately, who’s to say it’s not valid?

One day I was thinking of Andy Warhol’s film “Empire”, which is basically one continuous 8 hour shot of the Empire State Building.

I thought it’d be cool to make a similar art film about your average programmer’s work day. 8 hour shot of a programmer staring at the screen intensely, drinking coffee, scrolling through the code, and occasionally muttering “why the fuck doesn’t this work?”

Someone remarked that in film photography, every 10 years, Kodak used to get the brilliant idea that 35mm film is just too complicated for Your Average Consumer, and invented a new “easy to load” cartridge based film format. 126 Instamatic in the 1960s, 110 Pocket Instamatic in the 1970s, Disc Film in the 1980s and the APS in the 1990s. …Meanwhile, Your Average Consumer didn’t give much damn, and while these formats saw some use, most people preferred 35mm.

Same goes with image formats. Apple and Google and Microsoft try to make “better” file formats happen, and I’m sure they have their advantages, but people will stick with JPEG, thanks.

An old bit of wisdom: “Most scientific concepts are named after the second person to discover them”

Yeah, I took one course where we used MongoDB. I was like “still unconvinced, but I’ll keep this in mind if I run into situations not covered by PostgreSQL.” …I’ve not run into situations not covered by PostgreSQL. Everything will be covered by PostgreSQL.

Aaagh! Getting some random old person flashbacks.

Kids. I r-remember a day… You won’t believe this… I got a 404 error page… It was otherwise a normal 404 page with a normal message on it, but it had a giant ad on it… like “while you’re here, how about you buy this stuff”… It was hell… You’ve got no idea how lucky you kids are with uBlock…

Just do your best plumber / car mechanic impression. “Gee, this codebase is really messed up, looks like I need to basically replace everything.”

(“That can’t be true, that’s what every other programmer I showed this to said. Are you all lying?” “No, we’re not lying, this really is a screwed up codebase.”)

Sure, there aren’t wild turtles in the Netherlands. But this call was aimed at the turtles in general, worldwide! Turtles will be able to get to the Netherlands from the nearest location. Eventually. We believe in them!

Aww, no turtles? Come on, turtles, you’re so much faster than slugs and snails, go have a walk and demolish those distance figures! 🐢