Many many years ago, I saw a doco during a high school health class. It had stuff about gender identity, and included an interview from the 80’s with George Pell. He was ranting about how fashion these days was too androgynous, and you couldn’t tell the girls from the boys.
That was the first I ever heard from that man, and immediately disliked him.
Interesting to see where he ended up.
Peep Show is my human litmus test. Seeing how people react to that show can tell you a lot about them.
Just brainstorming a semi-plausible explanations here. What if the variation is due to massive portals/wormholes to other planets? If you’re standing near one that goes to a place with much higher gravity when it opens up, it could cause you to be pulled toward it, or increase gravity around that area. If these portals are kept secret, the gravity fluctuations as they open and close might appear to be as random as weather patterns.
Could be an interesting plot point too, if your story includes races that have secretly come through these portals. Their existence could be discovered by triangulating the gravity changes during an event. Lots of interesting possibilities.
This isn’t the little death I asked for.
I’m not a big beer drinker, but there are few things as disappointing as finding a bar that serves stout on tap, then discovering it’s been all hopped up.
Unit test dummy data is full of it. Need an arbitrary date? Pick a special birthday. Location? Wherever you first met.
Not the most public dedication, but perhaps more impactful than yet another song about the one that got away.
As an industry, we like to think of ourselves as supremely rational, but we can’t apply even the most basic scientific principles. So much conventional wisdom has never actually been tested or proven, so we keep reinventing and flip flopping on best practices.
So much. When I’m trusted to find the right balance of productivity and quality, I enjoy the work more. When I enjoy the work, I’m more productive and write better code. It’s a positive feedback loop.
Programming typefaces with ligatures are a step in this direction.
I would try this in something like Haskell, where some of the more exotic character sequences get tricky to recognise.
Unison might be the best language to test this in. Having identifiers separate from the actual definitions, you can call anything whatever you want.
Conversely, too many good games get bad reviews because of lacking endgame. So go play the next thing in your overflowing backlog. Some games do what they came for, and that’s fine.
It’s like giving a bad movie review because the concession stand was closed when you left the cinema.
Months are dumb. Inconsistent lengths, the names are out of sync (OCTober isn’t month 8), pretend to be based on lunar cycles but not, etc.
Give us Year/Day date formats. Extra new year holiday on leap years.
Is this where someone posts the relevant xkcd about too many standards?
So much of it has been lost too. We could do better, though. Teaching what we can would at least teach the general skill of learning languages.
Indonesian is an underrepresented option in my opinion. They’re neighbours and the language is relatively easy. Couldn’t hurt to improve relations a bit. Might make a better impression during the customary pilgrimage to Bali.
Do we really even need months? They don’t even line up with the lunar cycle like they pretend to do.
Just give us Year/Day. On leap years we get an extra long New Year holiday.
Futurama x No Man’s Sky.
Yes please?
No Man’s Fry: Galactic Delivery and Hijinks Simulator.
That would be kind of hilarious. You can use your powers to help the local townsfolk… but they’re all just the worst, so you can also be an instrument of karma.
The pun is a bit forced, but you have to admire their spirit.
Early rage faces could be good. The low barrier of entry allowed people who couldn’t before to express some funny ideas. Then they ran out of ideas and continued to beat the dead horse.
After he spent too long as a powerful pedo priest.