Something that the children's comic Bamse did a lot was bring up books, figures and ideas that would go over most children's head in passing, often by Skalman bringing it up and refusing to elaborate, basically relying on curious children taking it on themselves to look them up.

The magazine even had a write-in contest at one point point asking the readers who Hypatia was (one of those historical figures that came up in passing). One kid wrote in like "I looked it up in an encyclopaedia, is that cheating?" and the magazine responded simply that no it's not cheating, that's how you learn things.

functional programming folks have been trying to follow me because of my Clojure question and I appreciate that but also, you are not going to like me lol. just wait until you hear how I feel about currying, typeclasses, and monads

@stiiin oohh! that is actually really cool. I think I like this notation a lot more than the lambda calculus notation that I’m used to (the one that you used in the beginning)

@kasdeya Don't forget "great" (really large), "terrific" (causing terror), "amazing" (causing amazement), "wonderful"/"fabulous"/"marvelous" (causing wonder), etc. It's not a new phenomenon.

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When a language tries to reimport words that have taken on other meanings within its own dialect information is lost.

"cool" doesn't mean "good" ... it mean unruffled, unflustered, calm and self-assured. These are good things to be, but it's not just "good"

"awesome" doesn't mean good, it means unexpected, different, unique, but in a way that deserves admiration.

I was recently complaining about how this kind of flattening has touched "throwing shade"

https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/115922260871960146

@kasdeya Reminds me of this thing:

@pascal_costanza I specifically ran into this problem a lot with Racket. I did get runtime errors from my contracts failing, but unfortunately I had a really hard time reading the stack traces from those errors. I think something about the macros and/or tail call optimization was messing with the stack traces. that’s actually why I stopped using Racket - I was doing a refactor and it was so laborious that I gave up on the language unfortunately (even though it has an incredible thread macro system, and I also really like its contracts!)

@stiiin oohh! I don’t understand anything in this article but it sounds like it’s lambda calculus, except the arguments go before the functions? in which cause that sounds great actually

Graveyard Keeper is free on Steam!

All right, so all of you using Signal may want to pay attention to how your notifications are being delivered.

There’s a confirmed case of the FBI - targeting alleged “antifa members” - were able to extract signal message content using the notification system in iOS. They pulled the messages from cached notifications at the OS level.

Mitigation for this: go into Settings -> Notifications -> Notification content, and limit what is passed through messages. Your options are show everything, show name only, or show only that you have a new message. The latter option being the most secure one.

Source: https://go.warchief.digital/WKixlqX

“there’s no time to explain” and “I think you should see this for yourself” are such frustrating tropes to me. I groan pretty much every time I encounter them because they always feel so contrived and manipulative towards the audience

but at the same time, I realize that it’s pretty hard to create well-paced mystery and/or suspense without contrivances like this. with this trope you suddenly gain so much control over the pacing of the story and the information that the protagonist has access to, which makes it way easier to write an otherwise satisfying story

@julia that’s a really interesting thought. that wouldn’t surprise me at all. it makes me think of those old circus advertisements that constantly overused words like “amazing”, “astounding”, “mystifying”, etc.

Ok, lets give this a try.

Resident Evil "Fun" Facts Thread.

Special interest, etc, we will post random lore facts (and some theories) as and when they come to us.

Feel free to ask questions.

I think I’m noticing a trend with English words:

• “cool” used to mean “a bit cold” but now it mostly means “good”
• “awesome” used to mean “inspiring awe” but now it mostly means “good”
• “fantastic” used to mean “fantastical” but now it mostly means “good”
• “incredible” used to mean “unbelievable” but now it mostly means “good”
• “amazing” used to mean “inspiring amazement” but now it mostly means “good”

@dregntael oohh that’s amazing! I wish I had known about & while I was learning Haskell