Posts by clacke@libranet.de
(DIR) Post #B2WfDFAiAoD6LWttQm by clacke@libranet.de
2026-01-22T00:07:20Z
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@jebeyer Oh, this answer is interesting.english.stackexchange.com/a/13…I was only aware of just about to mean very nearly [ . . . ] About 20 years ago, I noticed that some sports journalists were using just about to mean only just [. . . ] Interestingly, I recently noticed a football commentator use just about with one meaning in one sentence and then two minutes later used it with the other and completely different meaningAlso interesting is the comment saying that North English English and South English English differ on this point.(hello again from 3 years in the future)@ColinTheMathmo
(DIR) Post #B2Wm0twnxTnciySQoS by clacke@libranet.de
2026-01-22T01:25:54Z
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It's not so much that I like talking about myself, it's more like I like sharing on a topic I know about, and you said good morning, how are you doing.
(DIR) Post #B2ZjHEQtqS3OVIVdq4 by clacke@libranet.de
2026-01-23T11:39:15Z
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Good morning, @j12i , I'm fine, how are you? 😁It's complicated, actually (but also not), and it is so for reasons I won't post on the public timeline.
(DIR) Post #B2ZjPeJ9Wg1J4QtpEe by clacke@libranet.de
2026-01-23T11:40:40Z
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> long and kind of ranty@tfb Excellent! Wonderful! 🥰
(DIR) Post #B2cOgHBbELm0ieKjSa by clacke@libranet.de
2026-01-24T18:31:53Z
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When I wrote the above, I was not aware that I had written this in a thread about a year ago. 😄RE: libranet.de/objects/0b6b25a8-2…
(DIR) Post #B2cPPu4JVrt6LHgMMq by clacke@libranet.de
2024-12-19T06:19:12Z
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I've assumed that Tycho Brahe was nobility, because who else has time for science in 1600, but TIL he was rich enough that his wealth was 1% of the Danish economy.Also TIL that Kepler was his assistant.
(DIR) Post #B2cPulFoKqktyum3NY by clacke@libranet.de
2026-01-24T18:46:26Z
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Got my annual student debt report the other week: "[You have 0 kr student debt]"It's nice to have it confirmed!
(DIR) Post #B2cQMf6kmPRj1nqFRg by clacke@libranet.de
2026-01-24T18:51:03Z
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Such a wonderful memory.We enjoyed "Wicked: For Good", and kid is seeing it again with his friends tomorrow morning.Hope we'll get a singalong version this time around as well.
(DIR) Post #B2cTDFcWTLy7EguCvY by clacke@libranet.de
2026-01-24T19:23:12Z
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I keep having this 👆 in the back of my head, both as:- "what kind of languages and frameworks will we use in the future", and that perhaps these days it will be guided by what people feel is lacking in the tools today, and the ways they use LLMs to bridge that gap- and "what kind of languages and frameworks will we use in the future", if it is guided by what would make LLMs write good and readable code, and what helps them translate well from desires to implementation.Are these two purposes opposite forces, or do they drive in the same direction? Either way, I see so many people using LLMs for coding now, there's no way future language evolution will be unaffected by it – I fear for bad but potentially for some good.Here's how I'm speculating that some of it might be for good:I see a lot of people documenting their code bases now, for LLMs to work well with them. I haven't looked closely at what people are doing, so I don't what they document is helpful for humans, or if it is convoluted LLM-friendly text that are just a waste for people to read.Either way, I find it fascinating to see. Finally, we found a way for devs to be interested in explaining their code bases to contributors. 😅
(DIR) Post #B2cTJ4qrQIwBZhOFtY by clacke@libranet.de
2026-01-24T19:24:15Z
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Wait, we got cider last year? This year, we only got cake.
(DIR) Post #B2cUF0w28vNYDvR6eW by clacke@libranet.de
2025-01-24T10:09:59Z
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Harley Quinn Season 5 airing as of last week, heck yes! Woof! Woof!#HarleyQuinn #HarleyQuinnS5
(DIR) Post #B2cUF1rog5bF78TFia by clacke@libranet.de
2026-01-24T19:34:59Z
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I think I forgot to watch Harley Quinn S5.
(DIR) Post #B2csOGET2EUXAp05mS by clacke@libranet.de
2026-01-25T00:04:15Z
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@malte I like that the EU requires local elections to allow EU citizen local residents to vote, and I like that Sweden goes further and allows all local residents of age to vote in local elections.@evan
(DIR) Post #B2cw4s1RDu0oOxupJg by clacke@libranet.de
2026-01-25T00:43:54Z
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The Year of the Horse is coming upon us! I will have completed another 12-year cycle.
(DIR) Post #B2cznujgHSTLiAmPwm by clacke@libranet.de
2026-01-25T01:28:37Z
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As a Swede living abroad, I also appreciate that, as I'm still subject to some Swedish regulation, my citizenship still gives me the right to vote in national elections.I just find it a bit funny that I'm voting for representatives of the last Swedish circuit I lived in, and I wish Sweden did it like France and had a separate Swedes abroad circuit. Organizations for Swedes abroad are lobbying for this, but they have been doing it forever without much progress.One more thing about EU rules: EU citizens, citizens of an EU country, vote for EU Parliament representatives of the country they reside, not their country of citizenship. This also makes sense to me.There is some cheating going on where some people double-vote in their country of citizenship and their country of residence, but according to reports, it's too insignificant to matter.@evan @malte
(DIR) Post #B2d0ip1OCOugUkCNMG by clacke@libranet.de
2026-01-25T01:38:58Z
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@malte Citizenship determining national voting privilege has issues, as you bring up. I think those issues should be addressed by correcting citizenship rules, rather than allowing residents to vote in national elections.@evan
(DIR) Post #B2d5cv47JXoPH0TmCW by clacke@libranet.de
2026-01-25T01:58:30Z
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@evan I agree with @EricLawton -- "expatriate" is an imperial term. I see no confusion of terminology in his comment, quite the opposite.In the context of the poll, "expatriate" was used about emigrants, not immigrants, but the point stands. The clearest term, if a bit long and pedantic, might have been "citizens who are not residents".
(DIR) Post #B2evXUabQjyDnquh2u by clacke@libranet.de
2026-01-25T23:50:16Z
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> in the US, where the idea that you would retain any sense of belonging to your country of origin was considered at the very least backwards and ungrateful@evan Interesting. It has been my impression my whole life that the US is the foremost place in the world where people maintain their heritage for generations, cluster in subcultures and call themselves e.g. Irish-American.In Sweden in the 80s, children of immigrants were expected to assimilate, call themselves Swedish and drop all other ethnic identity.These days, it's more common to embrace multiculturality, a concept that to me comes from the US, and call yourself e.g. "100% Kurdish, 100% Swedish".@mayintoronto @fabio @renata
(DIR) Post #B2ezeUrFELJ8TmIDxo by clacke@libranet.de
2026-01-26T00:34:03Z
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@mmm_kay Moving tons of gold around as you buy and sell it is expensive. That's why states prefer to buy and sell the rights to it and leave it where it is. But it requires you to trust the custodian, which is why they're now talking about bringing it home.
(DIR) Post #B2hrQ5ADkLy6ZsfFdQ by clacke@libranet.de
2026-01-27T09:47:56Z
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Turns out that not only do Actions runners come with jq preinstalled, but yq is there too.hollycummins.com/using-yq-in-g…There was a featured snippet for “is yq available on GitHub actions,” which directed me to a marketplace installer. The yq project itself had a marketplace installer. Clearly, I needed to install it before using it. Right?My colleague George Gastaldi looked at what I’d done, and pointed out yq was available on the runners. This matters, because we try and limit our use of external, ‘non-official’ actions, for supply chain security reasons.So I searched again to confirm, and … still found very little. To actually confirm, I had to merge and experiment. And, indeed, the GitHub runners do come with yq pre-installed. They’ve had yq since 2021.#yaml #yq #jq #GithubActions#CICD#ContinuousIntegration#ContinuousDeployment