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@azonenberg that sounds like the plot for some old school whodunit.
@libreleah There was a hilarious case recently where a little city needed to renew some regulations related to the fire department, and the local "conservatives" passed a motion in the city council to not use any inclusive/multi-gendered wording. The mayor then decided to just use female forms throughout the whole document, and now the conservatives are very pissed 😜
@andreasofthings There's no way the original post is for real. Nobody can be this delusional. Right? RIGHT??
@odr_k4tana @abulling @ElenLeFoll @flowdie @jbigham @harvardhci @cmuhcii @hcigroup @jovermeulen unfortunately, very true 😕 I'm trying to lead by example here (because, at some point, I turned into a "senior academic" 👴), but it doesn't feel like there's much impact yet - I feel like you need to have a lot of patience in this race, and that's a luxury most non-tenured folks cannot afford 😑
@abulling @ElenLeFoll @flowdie @jbigham @harvardhci @cmuhcii @hcigroup @jovermeulen 100% agreed - this is exactly why @jovi exists! (which is also diamond OA, and focuses on the HCI/VIS community)
Coincidentally, we're looking for additional ACs and steering committee members, so I sense an opportunity 😉
@kasdeya this is very accurate 👌
@joe @cliffle who would ever need to invent stuff like Brainfuck or Malbolge when good ol' C is right there 👌
Bit of a dilemma: out of curiosity, I assigned a minor issue in SurfaceCast to Copilot, and somewhat to my surprise, it actually produced a sensible and well-explained PR. 🤔
Now, do I just merge this and help MS make their AI counter go brrrr? Feels like a waste to throw the patch away and reimplement it myself...
PSA: I had a lot of issues with #Thunderbird being unbearably slow and eating up insane amounts of memory.
Turns out the user profile I had been using has been hanging around since 2012 (!), so this had accumulated 13 years of cruft, despite the occasional folder cleaning.
Created a new profile and moved all my settings over, which was annoying, but definitely worth having a usable email client again 👍
@fm_volker Obviously, I didn't pick up 😉
@isotopp TBF, our current branch of reality could easily be a Terry Gilliam movie 🤷
Somebody called my office phone yesterday. This hasn't happened in the entire 5 years I've been at AAU. What is this, the nineties?
@Scmbradley agreed 👍
(to quote my friend who's a CS prof in programming languages: "well played" 👌)
@lritter TBH, I don't think there's any deeper thoughts than "Berlin = dark and gritty" here?
Absolutely couldn't dissuade the kid from spending 30 bucks of their own money on a Minecraft fox lamp, but I have to admit it's damn cute 🦊
@se38 want.
@Lapizistik FDP-Parteiprogramm 🤷
(wobei es da wahrscheinlich "existieren" heißt 🙄)
@whitequark ah, this brings back fond memories of trying to publish a package on Ubuntu's PPA infrastructure 🙄
@irene @dan @koronkebitch @regehr @krismicinski okay, that's perhaps a bit more realistic (if you have a sufficiently large lab)