NostraDavid

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[–] NostraDavid 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cue Scotty, Mr "miracle worker", quadrupling his estimates:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9SVhg6ZENw

[–] NostraDavid 7 points 1 month ago

According to Quora it takes 5 minutes, with a willing participant.

Anaesthesia that's injected right before an operation can knock you out in about 30 seconds (and until then you could still struggle, technically speaking), but that's a thick-ass tube of drugs they're pumping inside of you. Some vapours from a rag is going to do jack shit.

[–] NostraDavid 1 points 1 month ago

Nice! I didn't go because I couldn't find anything I really wanted to see, but my co-workers enjoyed themselves, which was nice :D

[–] NostraDavid 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Got another one, and it's one that programmers should know, IMO. Within CompSci it can be used to denote that things are interdependent on each other in different ways. Connascence of name, connascence of meaning, etc. Makes you think about the complexity of software that you're building. Props to Jim Weirich (RIP 2014) for doing a presentation on this.

Connascence:

  • the simultaneous birth of two or more things
  • the act of growing at the same time
[–] NostraDavid 5 points 1 month ago

Oh, I also really like Mammonism: "the greedy pursuit of riches", from the Biblical "Mammon".

[–] NostraDavid 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (11 children)

I've got six of them:

  • Tittynope: "A small amount left over; a modicum."
  • Cacography: "bad handwriting or spelling."
  • Epeolatry: "the worship of words."
  • Kakistocracy: "a state or society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens."
  • Oikophilia: "love of home"
  • Tenebrous: "dark; shadowy or obscure"
[–] NostraDavid 1 points 1 month ago

True, but that sounds boring.

[–] NostraDavid 2 points 1 month ago

I was referring to Borderlands: The Movie, not Mario.

And I'm blaming him a little as he still took the bag.

[–] NostraDavid 2 points 1 month ago

I understand; I was just being transparent with the fact that I'm a lazy motherfucker and that I used it to "translate" the text.

[–] NostraDavid 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

ThePrimeagen invited Matt to explain what's going on.

TL;DW Matt's claim is that he tried to get WP Engine to pay for a Trademark license (or whatever it's called - I'm recalling from watching yesterday), over several months, and they tried to legally block him in every way. Their self-claimed contributions to Wordpress were (as he tells it) that they held conferences where they promoted their own stuff only - code contributions have been minimal.

So the combination of not willing to pay for the trademark + not contributing back (not in code, not in helping the community) is Matt's reasoning for blocking them from using Wordpress' resources.

He also mentioned that he has good relations with other Wordpress hosts, so it's not like he's trying to block anyone else from hosting, but they were all willing to pay for the use of the Trademark (and/or contribute back).

[–] NostraDavid 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There are YT courses available to support the book. Or rather, the book exists to support the courses:

Don't mind the ages of these series - I watched them in full, and they're generally still relevant. I say generally because I'm not sure if I'll ever use a Tango Tree, but who knows!

PS: If you're not sure if you don't know the required Math, I created a graph of all MIT courses with YT videos here. The courses on the left are dependencies for those to the right.

[–] NostraDavid 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"“It was very annoying,” says Ms Rosenberg. “I had 10 minutes to do that and nobody saw the last ones that I did were much better.” Jane Rosenberg was much happier with this sketch of Caroline Ellison which attracted far less attention than one she had 10 minutes to draw.

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