jecxjo @ jecxjo @midwest.social

Born a sconie right on Lake Michigan, lived in Iowa for a handleful of year

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Oh a new Holiday party theme!

Why haven't you created those communities here and go post over there that they exist outside Reddit?

I gave up on being a mod when it all started. Not in protest but because i don't give enough of a shit to deal with drama. What amazed me was how fast people folded. While i am on lemmy, all of my Internet existence drops in yhe summer so saying fuck it I won't be on reddit for the next few months wasn't difficult. People must be addicted bad.

You are absolutely correct in it being personal preference. I agree I'd definitely watch a random SNW over some of the others. Honestly i think (and this probably goes for everyone else with my view) it's more about just missing 90s TV. 30 episode seasons that you dont have to schedule your life around. There are TNG, TOS, VOY episodes i watch all the time and some it's been years since i last saw. Same goes for pretty much anything from that time period that i rewatch now. I think that's the underlying issue, no one makes episodic shows anymore unless it's a reboot. Just wish this reboot was the same.

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Dear all,

It is with a heavy heart that we have to inform you that Bram Moolenaar passed away on 3 August 2023. Bram was suffering from a medical condition that progressed quickly over the last few weeks.

Bram dedicated a large part of his life to VIM and he was very proud of the VIM community that you are all part of.

We as family are now arranging the funeral service of Bram which will take place in The Netherlands and will be held in the Dutch lanuage. The extact date, time and place are still to be determined. Should you wish to attend his funeral then please send a message to funer...@gmail.com. This email address can also be used to get in contact with the family regarding other matters, bearing in the mind the situation we are in right now as family.

With kind regards, The family of Bram Moolenaar

Of all the software i have used in my 40 years on this planet, ViM has been the one constant. It is the first thing I install on every computer I use. It's the source of so much of my productivity as a developer. The way us ViM users interact with documents is very unique, something that is often mimicked in other tools and editors. So many of us owe a debt of gratitude to Bram and the countless developers who have contributed to such a life-changing project.

I think you're missing that TOS and TNG were written as an episodic show and not typically as a serial. Aside from the faintest of arcs, that came via arc specific episodes, you could pick a random episode in syndication and it wouldn't matter if you could name the previous or next episode as there wasn't no need to connect them together. Many episodes were written by single episode writers who had the faintest notion of the show and that was all the was needed.

I don't agree about the payoff for arcs in shows like SNW because the arc is both too controlling of the episodes while also never really being the point of the episode. If you're going to do an serial drama then do that. Picard was that, you must watch in order and not miss any.

The arcs of TNG were sooooo faint you only knew about them if you chose to dig in deep to a handful of episodes in the season that specifically pushed the arc along. Otherwise you could take the middle 80% of episodes and scramble their order and absolutely nothing would change. Instead with SNW every other episode drops a new plot point for Pike's dooms day, or Spok's love life or what character died or went to another dimension, etc.

Character development in TNG was more about us learning about them than it was about having the characters grow. Again, you don't have to see all the episodes in order to understand the intricacies of a character to understand why they acted the way they didn't in a TNG episode. At best the growth was seasonal but even then it wasn't massive. In SNW the character development is probably the biggest tie back to previous episodes.

The reason why I wanted another episodic ST was that I feel none of these shows have any rewatch abilities. We can binge the seasons before the next season starts but I don't think it's ever be sitting in a hotel room and turn on the TV and find an episode of SNW and care to watch it on its own. Though I guess that type of TV just doesn't exist anymore. Maybe it's just me who likes to flip on the TNG station on Pluto or turn on cable when I'm visiting my parents and watch a random episode and enjoy it without all the extra baggage. I need to finish the last season of Picard and I doubt I'll ever watch it again. Same with Discovery.

Always go to the produce and meat sections first. If you can buy small great. If not then the canned goods you buy just enough to meet your needs for cooking all the produce/meat.

The biggest thing about cooking is spices. You dont need fresh, dried and in a jar fine. But go get yourself a few tiny containers of:

• garlic powder
• oregano
• rosemary
• thyme

Aldi has these, like $2 each and you can easily make a dozen meals from that much if you're feeding one or two people. For most things you can do the large content in single cans while doing spices to taste but typically 1-2 teaspoons.

• 1x can of tomato sauce
• 1x can of tomato paste
• optionally 1x can of diced tomatoes
• 1-2 tsp of each: garlic, oregano, rosemary, thyme
• 1 tsp salt

Put it all together, simmer and stir until warm.

Bonus

Dont let anyone tell you cooking is difficult. Want to beef up your sauce? A pound of ground beef or ground sausage cooked for 10 minutes can be added in. Green bell peppers and onions, chopped and quickly sauteed, just toss them in.

What's the key to frugal cooking? Go buy the amount of food you need. Buy one pepper and one onion. If the store only sells them in larger quantities make multiple servings and then have a week of things that use pasta sauce.

I didnt say that you did. I was asking you a question. How do you determine that a post from your aunt who says COVID vaccine will cause cancer and a post from the AMA saying that in less than 0.1% of vaccines administered causes any sort of side affect and that in that 0.1% nearly all were related to preexisting conditions?

I am asking for your methodology because i have a feeling that like the majority of people whom put any stock into things they read on FB, it's not a very rigours process. No slight to you, most people have no background in science so having a good epistemology is not high on most people's list.

The pandemic is a social issue. We all have a responsibility the rest of the population to do what we can to not spread. The problem with this is we expect people to not be stupid and make truly informed decision.

There was a ridiculous number of people who said they weren't getting the vaccine because some rapper said their cousin's gf's neighbor's husbands balls fell off after getting the vaccine. Those people apparently didn't have a basic epistemology that would cause them to take pause on something so stupid.

What does this have to do with legitimate publications? How many people do you think have read medical or technical publications? How many of them do you thinking know know the difference between the types of studies, how the statistics work or efficacy? How many side effects medical terms do you think the average joe understands? Often times people misunderstand that the affects of the disease are far far worse and far more likely than the side affects.

If you have questions about side affects you should be talking to a doctor. If you don't understand why going to them is important then you are the type of person who may be swayed by some rapper's balls falling off when there is absolutely zero evidence for it. It also means you probably wont really understand the side affects and may make a decision because you misunderstand what they are.

What is your justification for accepting anything published on FB as fact?

If this is your issue then we need to also make the clarification of what is exactly happening.

The studies that happened, all published and available online via government websites. They aren't dumbed down for lay people, just the technical documents provided by actual scientific researchers. All of that is not being censored. If you have evidence of the government actually tamporing with medical publication then we have a bigger issue.

What is potentially being censored are generalized publications on non-medical, non-technical forms. The reason for allowing this type of sensoring are many of the previously mentioned.

So I think a better question to ask is why are people seeking any sort of informed statements from FB on medical conditions? At best what should be found on those sites are statements as to why one should be worried about a pandemic, that a vaccine exists and you should seek advice from actual medical professionals. Side affects should NOT dictate the default stance on a public health issue. If you are worried about them, having been susceptible to side affects in the past, then you should speak to your doctor.

If you can't get the vaccine without the inclusion of a doctor, nurse, or pharmacist then you shouldn't be given medical advice of any sort from the same laymen. FB should not be allowing any sort of information about medicine beyond it exists, and it is important you go talk to your doctor.

Ugh.

I was hoping the ST revival with all these shows would produce just one Alien of the Week shows like TOS and TNG. No season long arcs, no dramas where the events in the episode are less important than the character development. One show out of all of them where it can be tossed into syndication and I can catch a random episode and not have to remember anything else in the series.

SNW was supposed to be that and yet we get this kind of nonsense. /facepalm

Back then I was doing work that required way more brain power than now and had extremely more ridiculous schedules than now. And I'm WFH on a team that has no desire to go back to the office.

I think the huge misconception is that jobs that require specific tasks that don't fit well in WFH means the entire job doesn't fit. Collaborative tasks many times require in office interactions and whiteboarding. But I'd be willing to bet that out of a given week that isn't your entire 40 hours.

Honestly I think a lot of this push is that we are finding manager roles are unnecessary. With collaboration more difficult it has become more effective to go right to the source rather than the trickle down method we used to use.

That was always an issue I ran into. In a given month I might have two of three days that my brain just didn't work. I'd stills go into the office and be absolutely unproductive. But to my boss, being in the office was the important thing. As I only got ten days of PTO a year including medical leave and business holidays I was never going to waste it on a mental health day. Was far better to sit at my desk and pretend like I was productive.

Yeah I've seen some of that language manipulation. I guess my question is, does this happen in Forth regularly or not?

In JS you can manipulate the prototype for a data type but unless you're making some sort of library for a new type of framework most developers never do that type of stuff. In Ruby duck typing is the idiomatic way to solve many problems. In Lisp the use of macros is fairly common that a good majority of larger projects use. Not sure if that type of lower level manipulation is something everyone does in Forth or just something possible.

There isn't an Algorithm™ for mastodon so the way to get the things you find interested promoted is through boosting. If I follow you and you follow Joe, boosting his post means I see it and maybe I end up subscribing.