Notices by Hugo Mills (darkling@mstdn.social)

@scalzi But as you eat the cheese, your weight increases...

@cstross I'm trying to learn the last one at the moment (about 40 years after first reading the book on it). I haven't had so many segfaults in about 20 years.

@stux "Any landing you can waddle away from is a good one."

@popey My experience from academic conferences was that Windows people didn't know the hot-key to switch to projector output, Linux people didn't know which driver to install to switch to projector output, and Mac people had forgotten to bring the right dongle.

@aral @tamewhale Oh, you sweet summer child...

@Oggie @cstross @genecowan @kjhealy @id1om I've tried using qgis (a open-source geospatial data tool), and (a) they have a load of toolbar buttons, all with obscure icons and no tooltips, and (b) they've moved them around and redrawn them at least once.

This means that many extant how-tos are simply wrong. "Press the pre-sliced yoghurt button". Umm... which one's that in this version?

@noam Where can I buy this novel about eel migration?