Notices by Allen Versfeld (uastronomer@mastodon.monoceros.co.za)

@RickiTarr Sure, my goals have changed.
For starters, I had no goals, aside from "Get a better job that pays more money I guess maybe one day".

But I'm a different person now. I'm older, I've experienced more, my circumstances have changed. I'd be worried about anybody whose goals have NOT changed, frankly, That kind of long-term fixation on something that you wanted 20 years ago sounds unhealthy to me.

@deathkitten @FractalEcho I'm so glad somebody else is saying this.
I had a covid job as a copy writer (based on a decade's worth of science journalism and blogging), and had a project manager suggest I try Grammarly, to "Avoid so many remarks from the QA editor".

My impression wasn't that it makes your writing white (I mean, I *am* white), it makes it sound like a Silicon Valley product pitch. It made my writing objectively worse, it tried to force completely inappropriate stylistic changes, it was just terrible.

@jubiloMX Yeah, thumbs are just thick stumpy fingers that are attached to the wrist instead of the end of the hand. So they're a different kind if finger.
So we've got two types of fingers: Thumbs, which have a special name to differentiate them from the regular type, and regular fingers (which don't have a special name).

Although now I think about it, I suppose TECHNICALLY we should really say that fingers and thumbs are different separate things, and they are both a type of digit (in which case, we have 10 digits, of which 8 are fingers and 2 are thumbs), but in practice, in actual daily use of English, we don't do that.

@renchap I run a small fleet of tiny instances, all sharing the same redis server (on the same subnet) to try and allocate resources more efficiently. I suppose I could switch to using different redis database numbers to avoid collisions, but that will only scale to a limited number of instances (I'm far from that limit at the moment, but I'm working hard to make sure that this will change!)

@Suig The fashion police are real?!

@Teri_Kanefield Now I'm thinking about genies, and other beings who grant wishes that always seem to give you the most damaging possible outcome. Can they get away with that?

@pfefferle I feel so exclusive 😃