Notices by Ólafur Waage (olafurw@mastodon.social)

Icelandic Heat Wave.

https://youtube.com/shorts/SV4K_8h9Hvg

Nervous system?
No, there is no system to it when I'm nervous.

"Boss" is a common term for the ultimate enemy battle in video games. It's common enough that many other languages just adopted that word.

But not Icelandic. It's Endakall or "Final dude"

@jedi because people lack nuance and also think I'm ignoring coding expression vs physical action.

Oh boy, I also posted this on LinkedIn, initially there weren't many comments.

But it gained traction and it's now reached outside my bubble and people are maaaaad.

If you're not a programmer, just know that people arguing about programming languages are arguing what is the best way to type on the keyboard so that the computer puts numbers into boxes.

And it's all the same boxes in those languages because they're all talking to the same computer.

Am I retired? Yup. Yesterday I was tired and today I'm tired again.

You want a unique name for your kid? That's what uuids are for. Here 0cd5cde3-814f-463d-bbf6-839bdcbefbab

"What game are you playing?"
-"Hearthstone"
"The card game?"
-"Yeah"
"Ahh, I've never been into first person top-down perspective games"
-"What on earth did you just say?"
"Well I guess the cards coming onto the screen are more like a side scroller"
-"..."

"I love pyramids"
-"Oh cool, me too, which one is your favorite?"
"Food"
-"..."

If other video games were named like Death Stranding 2: On the Beach.

Bioshock 3: In the Sky.
Portal 2: Many years later.
Mortal Kombat 2: Now being hosted in Outworld.
Fallout 2: Grandchild fetches a thingamajig.
Doom 2: Hell on Earth... wait a minute.

"This is absolute Cinema"
-"Do you know what Cinema actually is?"
"Isn't it the place where old people go to watch really long TikToks?"
-"..."

"You should learn art" - says the art person
"You should learn science" - says the science person
"I would never wish this on my worst enemy" - says the programming person

Databases are still using tables? Don't they know we've switched to <div> years ago?

"I connect, therefore I am." - René DeSCART

"The 2000s didn't have like a defining thing, for me"
-"What about listening to System of a Down while playing World of Warcraft?"
"I retract my statement."

[starts destroying the government]
"Hey, can you please stop that?"
[dismantles all safeguards]
"This is not a nice way to behave mister"
[starts siphoning out all money and power]
"You are not following the correct checklists!"

@jedi I like detail :D

How do I make sure my library function is correct?

Well I create the entire valid-input set and the entire invalid-input set and run those against other libraries that do the same.

Then I file bug reports on the libraries that don't behave like mine... right?

Wait, there are other libraries that do the same as mine? Why am I writing one? Don't worry, such minor detail hasn't stopped people in the past.

Checks & Balances? Nah.
Nothing is being checked and everything is off balance.