Sundar @digital_carver@qoto.org

@freemo
I agree with @lllillilll about the clash between landing and other pages. Made especially stark by the suit-and-tie textbook font used for the blog and other pages, compared to the colourful and casual landing page.

@ElfLord I like the image that this is a first date with Drake, and he refers to himself in the third person

@trinsec I’ve used it myself, but it’s part of the general “Namaste” gesture that’s used for many other things too, right?

@freemo
🍆
(by which of course I mean “thank you for reminding me”)

Does anyone know of any culture that has a unique unambiguous gesture to say “thank you” ? We generally manage to convey it by nods and smiles and other context-dependent signals, but does some culture have a context-independent clear non-verbal way to convey thanks?

#nonverbal #communication #anthropology #anthro

I wanted to say “thank you” to someone using an emoji, and realized there’s no clear single emoji for that. In fact no clear real world non-verbal way to say it either. How weird that we created nods and shrugs and namastes and many others, but none for this very common thing humans want to express.

#nonverbal #communication #anthropology

@freemo @lydiaconwell
I did not actually know that. I too had subscribed to the "it's just one of those not-worky things" theory.

I was away from Fediverse for a few months, and coming back the Federated timeline looks a lot more fun now. Looks there’s much less bots, many more interesting and funny people on it, and the US election things settling down and the politics talk being minimal helps too. Whatever the reasons, I like it!

#fediverse #mastodon

@bespectacled239
That course has been on my back burner for so long, I really need to give myself a kick in the ass and do it. I've been subscribed to their newsletter, and it's one of the few that consistently has good quality content.

I can related to the magic black box thing. Even within things I find interesting, I realized recently, the exact mode of learning makes a big difference. I was trying to learn #JuliaLang better through a video course, and finding it so unappealing I started to doubt my learning ability. Then started a course on cryptocurrency, and that was pleasant and appealing. I realized my brain just doesn't want to learn programming languages this way - it wants to start up an editor and look up documentation and actually start *doing* stuff.

If you're interested in stuff related to #learning , I'd also recommend Scott Young's blog https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/the-best-articles-on-learning/ in case you haven't come across it.

The dichotomy of Big Tech bans:

I look at all the prepositions and idioms that make no sense and think “how the frick does anybody learn all that”. And then I look at English through those eyes and realize it’s even more weird and difficult over here, I was just lucky enough to imbibe it when I still had the “language super-absorption” ability of childhood.

Trying to learn German makes me empathise with English-as-Second-Language learners.

Just finished the Reckoners series by Brandon Sanderson. There’s a lack of depth to the books that make them feel like short stories or novellas (probably bcos they’re young adult fiction), but I still found myself missing the characters at the end of the last book and wishing for more.
4.4/5 stars.

#bookreview #reckoners #brandonsanderson #fantasy

@faho
“Prick” is short for “Prichard”

In general, getting less caught up American local drama - political or cultural

One nice consequence from leaving reddit: didn’t constantly get reminded yesterday that it’s the “4TH OF JULY!!!”

“You ruined it for me! YOu ruined it for all of us!!!”

nothing more annoying than thinking of a joke reply to a post and then seeing someone else made a bad version of the joke already…

@fribbledom @dendy git add -p is one case where I find GUI options better by orders of magnitude. gitg is such a nice, simple interface, or if I’m in Vim already, vim-fugitive does the job too.