Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

I don't understand why it's 2023 and I've never seen a Bluetooth connection UI that allows filtering by the type of device you are looking for. I'm trying to pair headphones, I don't need to see that there are 50 TVs and computers broadcasting their IDs around me.

Coming next year:

PEP 818: Biphasic physical storage of package metadata
Replaces: 517

I had a dream last night that Java came out with a new packaging spec that involved encoding your metadata as a crystal that you then dissolved in a liquid, and somehow my first thought was, "That seems convoluted, but who are we (Pythonistas) to judge?"

@bitecode Hmm, to the extent that Belgium is associated with fries, a variation on that could work very well, in that you often think of fries as being in a vertical orientation, whereas sausages are basically always lying on their side. 🍟 🌭

@mariatta @d Wow.

@mariatta They had a different definition of "special characters" than you, and had silently banned one of the ones you used?

Having trouble remembering the difference between the flag of Belgium and the flag of Germany?

Remember this simple rhyme:
"Black touches Red, you're in Germany like Kaiser Fred¹.
Black touches yellow, you're in Belgium, so have a waffle with marshmallow²."³

¹This assumes that you know that Kaiser Frederick III was the second Emperor of Germany.
²This is only a slant rhyme, and it barely works since — while dessert waffles are associated with Belgium, and they *would* be pretty good with marshmallows on them — marshmallows are not particularly associated with Belgian waffles.
³Yes, I am not particularly good at coming up with mnemonics.

#flags #vexillology #mnemonics

@tymwol @hynek No, that is not what I'm saying. I'm not saying, "Hey, this privacy violating machine is a dystopian nightmare, but man is it efficient!"

I'm saying that Chrome is on balance an excellent example of a genuinely useful technology, and has almost certainly made most of our lives much better, even if we don't use it directly. The chrome team has had some missteps and the monoculture is not great, but they obviously have a genuine commitment to excellence and security.

@hynek I work at Google but I had nothing to do with chrome, but I still think it's appropriate to be proud of having played any significant part of building Chrome. For all its flaws, it is a major accomplishment and a consistently high quality product that has done a lot for the web in its time.

Not that I want to do anything to stop people from adopting Firefox, I use it and really dislike the chrome monoculture out there, but I think Chrome engineers deserve to feel a sense of pride and accomplishment despite the latest changes that I may disagree with.

Learning a new language: "Why are there two words that both seem to mean 'very' in this language? How am I supposed to know which one to use?"
Speaking English: "There really should be a word between 'amble' and 'stroll', 'meander' isn't quite right."

@timorl Awesome, thanks! I hadn't heard of minetest, so finding out about that has made it way easier to make more of these if I need them in the future. Thanks!

@kevin Man I love engaging with brands. Just the other day I actually decided *not* to fly somewhere because I knew I would have to take a break from brand engagement. Glad there's finally an option to do it "on the wing".

Anyone out there with #minecraft installed willing to take a screenshot for me?

I'm trying to get an image to illustrate the sentence "you put it there, but I want it here" for an Anki deck to teach my son to read.

I was thinking something like a house in minecraft with a door attached in the wrong spot (like above a door-shaped hole in the wall), or maybe a railroad with a few rails shifted over by a few voxels.

Prefer if you'd release the image CC-0, since that will minimize complications when I eventually make the deck public.

I dunno if you can tell from my open tabs, but I miss my #pebble... 😿

(And my #PineTime is really not cutting it...)

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@glyph As for *why* you can't do this with the standard library, it's half "haven't gotten around to trying yet" and half "it's really complicated and there is neither a consistent API for retrieving this across different platforms *nor* a guarantee that your system is even set to a specific IANA zone", with a dash of, "There are a lot of versions of this kind of API that are very close to an attractive nuisance, so it is necessary to take care in its design."