Notices by Elias Mårtenson (loke@functional.cafe)

@tfb @clacke what...

It's even more weird than the completely joke one I just thought up: a picture of a coin where heads is sort ascending and tals being descending.

@br00t4c given the massive increase in efficiency, even an increase by 2.5% is an absolute pittance. Now compare this to the wealth gained by the richest people in the same period.

So I wanted to know what level in duolingo I'd get, so I started German. It consistently translates Frau to Ms. It shoud be Mrs? Or is my German worse than I thought?

@potatogunkelly @thomasfuchs True. But that same language at some point decided that tones is a great thing to have in a indo-European language. They make learning it for foreigners quite painful.

@potatogunkelly @thomasfuchs I remember sitting at a bar in Stockholm, waiting for a friend, and this english guy came up to me and started chatting in broken Swedish. Turns out he was working in Sweden but he was struggling learning the language because everybody just switched to English in order to make things easier for him.

So, he went out at night chatting to random strangers just to practice his Swedish. 😁

I would like to have a project (personal or otherwise) where a reasonable choice of language would be one of:

• Fortran
• Elixir
• COBOL
• Ada

Out of these, Elixir seems to be the most likely. But I really would like a reason to actually learn Fortran or Ada.

It's november. It's still too early.

Is it just me, or are youtube comments really horrible, even when they are not outright bad?

Even when they're written in an attempt to be nice, they're incredibly uncomfortable to read? Cringy, I think the kids say.

It's not just because I'm old, is it?

@kaia Are there MTB tyres than can grip through wet leaves? Spiked tyres?

What if... LORD OF THE LOST did a cover of Roxette's "The Look".

No, hear me out... Dress them up in 80's outfits... And let's get Blümchen in there.

OK, now we're talking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un-w-djgeSw

@clacke it's more like a b-side that no one remembered because the a-side was so good.

I listened to it being played, and while I'm not a classical music guy, this one simply wasn't very good in my opinion.

@clacke @bastianallgeier you can, actually. You can get a collectors stamp. Check with a police station near the border. That's how we got out Andorra stamps.

@bastianallgeier the peole who love borders couldn't possibly be old enough to remember travelling from Sweden to Spain in a car before the Maastricht treaty.

@annika Lolland?

@clacke @NanoRaptor It certainly would get me to drink some coke again.

@daveking @pomegranate_stew @samplereality Ah clever. Whenever you change your password, you change the keyboard layout so you never have to change the way you type it.

@samplereality But I refuse to believe that it's a coincidence that the letters for the word TYPEWRITER are all on the top row.

The legend says it was made that way to make demos of the technology more impressive, sice they could write that word very quickly.

@daveking @itgrrl @dpnash @pomegranate_stew @samplereality If I was good at photoshopping, I'd create a picture of a keyboard with where all the keys were just F and U. 🙂

@daveking @itgrrl @dpnash @pomegranate_stew @samplereality that would be amazing. I'm not sure I'm all that committed to the joke though.

A similar one would a joke about rr martin who I have been told (I haven't actually read the books nor watched the series) are fond of kling off the characters in his books.

Make a keyboard where all the keys are del, and say it's his keyboard because he deletes all the characters.

@ben most of what you said sounds like a joke, but I'm sure it's real. I'll try to visit that place.

I've never really upgraded any gear. I'm still using the same stuff I got when I started (I don't really understand the crafting system). Is there a way for me to get to that character editor people are talking about?