I’m the sort of weirdo who uses all kinds of stilted vocabulary in not-terribly-formal situation. Just a few words that I use regularly that I remember getting shit for using:
I do use “chagrin” not infrequently. I can’t think of a time when I’ve used the word “reify”, but it feels like the sort of word I’d use.
The mention of “cold” makes me think you’re thinking they were prepared food of some sort or at least “wet”. These were shelf-stable, individually-wrapped “candies” (I think the note on the gift box even referred to them as “candies”) that came in a larger, plastic bag with art and text printed on it. Like you might think of bags of, say, these. Except they were a dried meat product, not losenges or caramels or whatever. And they weren’t “sweet” the way you think of candy. They tasted like you might imagine something dipped in perfume (and then dried) might taste. One more detail: I remember them being drier than any jerkey I’d ever eaten. They simply didn’t have enough moisture in them to have any heat conductivity to speak of. (Asking if they were cold is like asking if room-temperature Rice Crispies dry and straight from the box are “cold”.)
I don’t remember it being fishy or cube-shaped. If I had to guess the meat, I’d guess beef or pork. And the shape was roughly spherical, but kindof… lumpy? It looked like it had been maybe torn off of a larger chunk of meat and then formed a bit.
Very likely! What I had was formed and individually wrapped in little wrappers like you might expect Werther’s caramels to come in, bu the texture does sound similar to that. Neat!
At my place of work, one project we worked on involved a lot of contractors from a place based in China. (The project was an absolute cluster-fuck all the way from soup to nuts, but that’s a story for another day.) When the project concluded, they sent our office a thank-you gift box of various Chinese snacks.
One of the snacks was a… dried… meat… “candy”… I guess? The taste wasn’t “sweet” so much. It tasted like it had been dipped in perfume. And the texture of the meat was hard to describe. Not chewy like jerky, and it didn’t have that highly-processed Slim Jim sort of texture to it. Maybe it was sortof freeze-dried or something? I also couldn’t identify what animal the meat might have come from. (And I couldn’t read the text on the packaging.)
I’m not sure whether it was just an acquired taste or rather a practical joke by the folks at the Chinese company. Lol.
Great article. I write Java for my day job and Go by night. Java’s insufferable.
Back in the day, all the Java fan-boys would go on at length about how everything being a class was a good thing. “Object Oriented” was the way of the future and Java was the new hotness.
And then what did they go and add to Java? Lambdas. LAMBDAS!? Yes, lambdas.
W.
T.
F.
Don’t even get me started on how many distinct date/time libraries there are in the Java standard library alone. (Not even counting Joda Time which is still pervasively used.)
I’ll be honest. When a new version of Go comes out and I start hearing about the new features added to the language, I always have this moment of panic. (“Oh shit, they’re going the way of C++.”) But then I look into how they actually work and am very pleasantly surprised by how sensibly it was implemented. Iterators, for instance, are basically just a bit of syntactic sugar. Generics are probably the most significant addition I know of, but the community demanded them and I think the Go team implemented them the best way they could be implemented.
I upvoted this before I saw what community it was in. Now I wish I could upvote twice.
I don’t exist.
One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code.
— Ken Thompson
Disney is no stranger to hypocracy of that sort. Look at them making their billions off of the public domain (Snow White, Cinderella, Aladin, The Little Mermaid, need I go on?) while lobbying heavily for longer copyright terms to keep works they made from being similarly adapted.
Just turn on a light. They’ll show up presently.
Seriously, though, Lemmy’s search feature is surprisingly good these days. Searching for “moth” and/or “lamp” will probably get you quite a lot of the results. Plus, if you find the usernames of some frequent moth meme posters, you can probably look at their posting history to find more examples.
The only reason “Elon Musk’s favorability went down” is because Trump doesn’t like him anymore. As much as I’d love to claim this as a win (and I guess it kinda is in a way), all it really is is another disturbingly scary indicator of what a cult MAGA really is.
Saying this as nicely as I can, you’re well out of touch with consensus reality in a way that caused unwanted disruption in the technology community. The mods took action (specifically the action of banning you) to maintain a harassment-free environment.
And no, you don’t have any sort of sixth sense about porn addiction. Do you need help?
You were pushing porn addiction propaganda on people who said nothing about being addicted to anything in particular, let alone porn.
You used to be able to say pretty much whatever you wanted on Lemmy.
Happy cake day!
Na you were pushing a weird personal agenda and harassing people rather than dropping it.
Also, not everything you don’t like is “turning into Reddit”.
Sweet. I always appreciate seeing Go in the wild.
Last time I remember getting shit for using it, I was streaming on Twitch and randomly forgot the word “cliff”. Heh.
The viewers (all two of them, lol) responded with "indubitibly"s and the “like a sir” rage faces. Lol.
That was probably… 3 years ago? I’m sure I’ve used it at least a few times since then, but I can’t remember a specific time aside from talking about the aforementioned incident.