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[Urwumpe]

My wife mixed a Chili with a Ratatouille. I love both, but the idea of just throwing them together never occurred to me. It's delicious!

Why not... sounds like almost my favorite recipe of chili which adds an unholy amount of vegetables to the pot. Sadly means that usually, I have chili the whole week. Chili with rice, chili with flatbread, chili and noodles, chili pure, chili burger, ...

 

[N_Molson]

First swim in the North Atlantic waters this year. Quite hot water here, defintively way above 20°C. The plains of mud that the sea discovers when the tide is low can store an impressive amount of heat, kind of like brick. Then cool water (19°C) of the high tide gets heated. You absolutely can't see your toes, but you can really stay in the water for hours. And it is said that that mud isn't bad for the skin.

 

[Frilock]

 

[N_Molson]

First cycle fall of the Summer, stupid (and harmless) one lol. There was a railroad crossing with a train stopping in the village, got distracted by that, didn't watch where I was trying to step down from the bike and fell on the side as there was a slight incline. And just next to a stopped car, the people inside were like 'OMG are you OK?' lol, as my arm hit their door a bit. It was a bit 'ridicule'

 

[Linguofreak]

Just discovered the C comma operator and took massive psychic damage...

Even worse, I discovered it used in the most confusing way possible in code written by a huge name in computer science that ought to have known better.

 

[jedidia]

a huge name in computer science

In my experience, computer scientists are not very well known for writing readable code...

 

[Urwumpe]

In my experience, computer scientists are not very well known for writing readable code...

In my experience, the more famous the computer scientist, the more likely it is that their code is indistinguishable from a swearing mathematician in an email.

 

[Urwumpe]

Whenever you think, the world has gone crazy and humanity doesn't deserve this planet, something magically cute happens. Last month, a mouse statue of the title figure of the famous German childrens TV show "Die Sendung mit der Maus" fell victim to an act of vandalism, with unknown criminals setting fire to the statue, damaging it badly. It was a really heartbreaking sight. Now, such figures from childrens TV have a hard life in Germany, being regularily kidnapped and held hostage for various political movements. But nobody ever dared to attack and destroy them.

Since then, people have spontanously covered the statue with plasters and get-well messages. And I love it. Its also a great way to cope with the event for the children in that town. Its not like the statue was in a backyard or on company grounds. It stood until this week in a plaza surrounded by hotels and shops, right in front of two office buildings of the public broadcaster WDR, that produces the show since 1970 (Its also the second biggest public broadcaster in Europe after the BBC.)

 

[Linguofreak]

"To be or not to be, that is the question!"

Calculating... Please wait...

0x2B | !(0x2B) = 0x2B | 0xD4 = 0xFF

"255, that is the answer."

 

[Fabri91]

A few days ago I managed to run 10 km without stopping for the first time ever

 

[Urwumpe]

A few days ago I managed to run 10 km without stopping for the first time ever

Today, I managed to run over 6,25 km in three 15 minute laps with 2 minutes walking in between... and that with still over 100 kg... Only 1 1/2 weeks left until the company run and I finally return to the living...

 

[Fabri91]

More than honourable!

I'm especially proud of my result because until 14 or so months ago I had never, ever really run - I followed this program of sorts to get started: c25k.com/c25k_metric/.

 

[Urwumpe]

More than honourable!

I'm especially proud of my result because until 14 or so months ago I had never, ever really run - I followed this program of sorts to get started: c25k.com/c25k_metric/.

I got my training plan from the homepage of the company run, but the training wasn't really lucky, lots of problems with a stronger than ever allergic reaction for a long time, took a while until I finally managed to do the training as planned.

And while I was running before, I gained 12 kg weight last autumn, and gaining was a lot easier than getting rid of it. last year, I did 4.5 km at peak, so I was optimistic for doing a 5 km run, but hell, I wildly underestimated the amount of work that was coming at me.

But the important lesson: Never give up, impossible is negotiable.

 

[Fabri91]

Still, a company run is a nice initiative - wish it would happen where I work.

 

[Urwumpe]

Still, a company run is a nice initiative - wish it would happen where I work.

Why not? Its a nice way to see and be seen.

 

[Arvil]

 

[GLS]

Maybe time to look for a new home for my repository...
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/202...lded-into-microsoft-proper-as-ceo-steps-down/

Axios reports that Microsoft isn't directly replacing Dohmke, and GitHub's leadership team will be reporting to multiple executives in the CoreAI division.

 

[steph]

First swim in the North Atlantic waters this year. Quite hot water here, defintively way above 20°C. The plains of mud that the sea discovers when the tide is low can store an impressive amount of heat, kind of like brick. Then cool water (19°C) of the high tide gets heated. You absolutely can't see your toes, but you can really stay in the water for hours. And it is said that that mud isn't bad for the skin.

That's the charm of the Noirmoutier and Retz area. Calm, warmer waters, and the air is cooler during heatwaves, and warmer when the rest of the area starts cooling down. I think the season up there lasts well into September. One cool thing I noticed while visiting the Blockhaus at the northern tip of the island, you can actually see where the calm waters begin, and the transition happens in a few feet at most, right at the northern tip.

First cycle fall of the Summer, stupid (and harmless) one lol. There was a railroad crossing with a train stopping in the village, got distracted by that, didn't watch where I was trying to step down from the bike and fell on the side as there was a slight incline. And just next to a stopped car, the people inside were like 'OMG are you OK?' lol, as my arm hit their door a bit. It was a bit 'ridicule'

Had a total of three falls these last few years, with one particularly nasty and I think the most dangerous areas are the bike paths on the coast, not the roads. I have nothing against seeing them full of cyclists, but some of that stuff is truly kamikaze. Groups riding at speed on e-bikes, ignoring the rules and all that. I've always wondered how that happened, and I think some of them might be Parisians/ people from large cities, even though it sounds cliche. Had the same 'wtf is this chaos' feeling while renting a bicycle in Paris and discovering nobody else around me followed any rules .

Today, I managed to run over 6,25 km in three 15 minute laps with 2 minutes walking in between... and that with still over 100 kg... Only 1 1/2 weeks left until the company run and I finally return to the living...

That's quite good actually, and the actual event will probably feel easier than the training runs, especially if you're well rested. I keep trying to take up running again, but I keep falling into overuse injuries. It gets a bit demoralisung after a while. I guess a few long bike rides might work as well, just to take the edge off, so to speak

 

[Arvil]

 

[jedidia]

The US financial system might be a more critical system running on Cobol, and much harder to replace when push comes to shove (ever completely replaced a system in production that might bankrupt your company if it stopped for a day? Me neither, luckily...).

They're training new ones. But it is going to be the first language that will become what I'm tempted to call "arcane languages". Languages that, due to seeing no real productive use anymore (in terms of development, not runtime), are not really living anymore. I.e. almost nobody really knows them anymore in-depth. But they're not entirely dead yet, because they're still used to maintain working systems. They'll become this weird mythic construct, syntax and procedures still in place, but true understanding lost. Either that, or we pay a couple hundred or thousand people to write useless software day in day out just to stay practiced with the language.

Vernor Vinge had this concept of "code archeologists" in "a fire upon the deep". People poking around in and messing with code thousands of years old to unearth forgotten treasures and occasionally accidentally re-awaken some evil transcendent AI that went on to wreak havoc by infecting entire civilizations automation infrastructures.

I thought it was an intruiging, but somewhat funny notion when I read it first. Now I'm 10 years a software developer, and have realized that the man had a much clearer picture of the future of information systems than any other author might ever have had...