The secret source of humor isn’t joy but sorrow. - Mark Twain

The situation is dire but not serious - Viennese proverb

Life is too important to take it serious. - ome other proverb

Levity is good. It relieves tension and the fear of death - T80

Humanity has a long tradition of lightening the mood in dark situations with (sometimes inappropriate) humor. Internet memes are simply one of the newer iterations…

It’s SinnERman - he’s not a spice, Maze!

They had Emma Watson!

The Lemmy Project has been activated. You are our first and last line of defense!

It’s a joke an the futility of linguistic prescriptivism. I might not have represented it well but the whole punchline is that this ship has sailed long ago.

The difference in survival probably stems from a single hyphen.

Mint grows like a fucking weed. Silphium grew like a fucking-weed.

Good time to plug Dara O’Brian: don’t do that. One day you’re gonna have kids and need these words in their normal context. Your kid is gonna come in with muddy shoes and you’re all “oh my. You’re a dirty girl.” and then you’ll ask yourself wtf you just said to your own kid.

Some words and expressions need to stay with their original meaning! These include:

• dirty,
• naughty and *tone of voice breaks*
• do what daddy tells you!

Tonight it’s just you, me, a bottle of olive oil and a “seven step program”.

Technically no. A slice needs to have been - well - sliced at least once. There is however no clear requirement how large the remaining slice needs to be…

It just recently hit me out of the blue that Ellen Tigh from BSG is the same actress as one of the vampires in Kindred the Embraced, a show that I only ever saw one episode of.

After watching John Wick 4 it kept bothering me to no end where I knew that German Clan leader from. It kept rattling in my head during the drive home to the point where I considered, stopping somewhere and googling it. I decided to let it go and google it when I’m home. 5 minutes later my mind screams: Tonks! Nymphadora Tonks!

I looked it up and it can indeed go up to 13.5% inclination but they can only run powered cars, no attached wagons. That reduces capacity.

I don’t want to shit on trams. I don’t like this bus vs tram bashing in either direction. I’ll happily take either improvement over a sea of cars…

How is a tram safer?

The tram supremacy doesn’t lie in the inherent nature of the technology but in the way we treat it! Trams get:

• their own lane
• dedicated signals at intersections (often even priority)
• infrastructure money and thus planning effort

In short, they are (usually) treated like public transport. Busses on the other hand are too often treated like just another car that’s thrown in with the rest but also has the obligations of public transport. If you treated trams like that (sharing the road, waiting behind cars) they would be even worse than busses.

I mean it’s JS. I’m not touching that if I can help it. But what you describe is less of a problem with the concept and more one with an immature technology.

but it’s less portable and more verbose

you misspelled “less obtuse and more expressive”

Also it doesn’t compete with regex. It’s an abstraction layer. You know, the thing programmers have been building since the dawn of programming to make everyone’s lives easier. There’s a reason why everyone who has the option to has stopped working directly with assembly and C.

I disagree. Anyone familiar with regex can debug these statements post conversion. Anyone not familiar with regex is going to have to learn something in order to debug the statement. I’d rather learn something that’s expressive and easy to visually parse.

regex syntax is a vestige of the old “as few bytes as possible” era where every character of code had to be written personally. It’s an obsolete way of thinking for the vast majority of programming.

hey hey! Regex are awesome! Fuck regex syntax!

When you want to get better using a hammer, just treat everything as a nail.

Sure. I just very rarely need just basic regexes.

And once you go beyond these the syntax gets very obtuse. Which means I’m spending an hour+ googling something close to what I need and then using a sandbox to try and tweak it until it does what I need. Then I paste something into my code that I won’t understand anymore 5 minutes into the future - which isn’t exactly great for maintainability.

me for example. I don’t write regex often enough to be really familar with the cryptic syntax. But I do use them every once in a while and dread the occasion every time. Having a more expressive way to write pattern matching instructions would be really useful to me.