josemanuel @josemanuel@qoto.org

@orekix No, because I'm Spanish and we have good fruit. You probably visited the wrong E*rope.

@BitBun According to Naoko Chino's _All About Particles_, a trailing から may be used to mean “so you had better”, as in: “I'll be taking the test too, so do your best.” (“See if you can beat my score.”)

Knowing Yukari-sensei, boasting about her (usually non existent) abilities would be pretty much in character.

@maestrapaladin Las invitaciones funcionaron para gmail, por ejemplo. La diferencia es que eran invitaciones que ofrecían algo (en aquel tiempo, un giga de espacio para el correo), no simplemente una cuenta. Supongo que ahí está el _quid_.

@galdor@emacs.ch If he asks a precise question and provides context, he's not a newbie. He just asked something stupid to someone else and learnt his lesson then.

@veer66

@galdor@emacs.ch One of my heroes in Tech is Phil Zimmermann, the creator of PGP. He is one of my heroes because the only time we ever interacted (through email, maybe twenty years ago), I asked him a very stupid question and he answered quickly and kindly.

I understand that you're absolutely right, but there's also something to be said about being kind to newbies, because they will always ask stupid questions. That's just how it works. We all have, at some point, asked stupid questions, and the way the other person deals with them makes all the difference.

@veer66

@BitBun There is a slight mistake in the furigana, I think. The kanji in 難しい, is interpreted as む instead of as むずか. Not an expert, though, so I may be wrong.

Either way, impressive work.

@vaartis No problem. Thank you anyway.

@vaartis Thanks. Do you know whether this has anything to do with that usr-merge fuckery I keep hearing about?

@vaartis Context, please?

@veer66 I think most people are given some principles while growing up and then they stop thinking and spend their lives trying to reconcile facts with them.

@veer66 In the very long term, probably. That said, I suck at making predictions, but that's what all the changes from PHP7 onwards hint at.

@veer66 I work with PHP and I very much like where it is going. My bet is that someday it will become a compiled language like C.

@veer66 If it helps, the 21st century US-Euro-centric so-called ‘left’ has nothing to do with pre-WW2 Left.

Ideologies don't exist anymore. People are just guided by hatred and fear these days.

@vaartis That makes sense too. My grandma was 95. Her body barely functioned at that time.

@vaartis My grandma couldn't eat tomato seeds. We were told she couldn't digest them and they gave her diarrhea. Hope that's not your case.

To be honest, I wouldn't want to invest in a country that has a tendency to shut its borders for years, or even centuries, for the darndest reasons. Call me weird, but I don't find that trustworthy, business- or otherwise.

Some of the places I stayed in when I was there years ago were forced to close due to the pandemic. 赦せない.

@vaartis That makes sense. I do object to referring to sucking tomato juices through a hole as “eating a whole tomato raw”, though, but that's just me.

Are you planning to do something with the seeds? This could be the beginning of a beautiful hobby.

@BitBun As I always say to everybody in your same situation, “if you build it, they will come.”

@vaartis Do you do that often? Either way, why? Did you make much of a mess?