@clacke flashbacks to my German language class and trying to pronounce „ jetzt “. And the Italian guy who did so with 4 syllables 😹

@clacke I don't think I'd want to live somewhere without good markets. I think I bought 10kg of fruit and vegetables at the market today!

@clacke "HK's a pretty big place, I'm sure these storms won't affect me" ? 😹

@fence I couldn't find anything about it, though I found a lawyer arguing that it would be as enforceable in Belgium as in France and Italy, where it has been enforced

@clacke The lua vm made a big splash by being register-based and significantly more efficient to interpret. They wrote a paper on it

@m455 yo ho, yo ho

@m455 > this feels like cheating or avoiding the whole "dont mutate globals" because you cant in elixir

I like the technique used by the ML languages here: your variables are immutable, but if you want to make a mutable variable you instead box its value.

Doing that silently under the hood is a classic Lisp implementation trick

@m455 fatherhood confirmed

@jacqueline That's a fedi special. "Lol /etc/hosts doesn't work" is the Mastodon special twist

@hypolite @clacke A situation that antedates computers. There's a long history of intellectuals complaining that majuscule letters should be accented too, and French people collectively ignoring them, except sometimes not.

@clacke all caps makes a difference though; très cool and TRES COOL are both acceptable spellings (-;

@clacke @borup Or Babylon Berlin, there's quite a bit of it by now!

@clacke > Yin Hua Xiang

Nice try, Tea Association marketers, but I've never actually seen it sold under that name. That one of the better teas that exists is named Ya Shi Xiang is also undoubtedly part of its appeal 😹

@clacke My head-math is each 100 HKD is 12€, which is also pretty easy to keep in mind. But as a semi-regular buyer of tea from HK, I need a better heuristic than 10-to-1 (-;

@alex We had a flock of parakeets that tried to nest in the trees where I live, and the local magpies eventually chased them off (that was an incredible noisy few months). Ever since, the magpies learned some new sounds and sometimes make some hilarious noises

@bkhl Stream is upstream compared to RHEL, so eg there's already been a case AFAIU where a bug or security fix was back ported to the version of a package* in RHEL, but Stream got the next version of the package, which is what went into the next point update of RHEL.

So if what you're trying to do is rebuild an exact RHEL copy, you may have extra work to do.
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*I think it was Python

@clacke I don't know of it having been done, but I'm not so surprised. Eurodisco was a largely synthy reaction to increasingly symphonic US disco...

@clacke still make noise if you find some!

@rysiek OMG

> Ultimately, we hear Mr. Musk’s assessment about woke comedy. When we wrote about the Zodiac Killer, we should have considered that our joke could be potentially alienating to readers who support — or were — the 1960s mass murderer who was never caught by police. Comedy should always leave room for differences of opinion on serial killers and also VLC Media player, which was an unfortunate piece of collateral damage in the exchange.

@jens That concept was pushed hard during Cold War II to discredit reds advocating for liberation of oppressed groups. It's anticommunist poison.