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@greenCoder @plexus I don't know about the embassy on this, but it turns out this was indeed a high issue https://www.npr.org/2024/01/25/1226815949/tea-salt-controversy-us-uk

@freemo Ah! Vampirilogy! I didn't know that one

@icedquinn I first read this as being about programming languages, not music. Left out C# and possibly F# though

@freemo is that Bram Stoker vampires, or Anne Rice, or ...?

@freemo lol Is the "invite in" vampire mythos? I've been scouring the internet for leads and found some fascinating threads on demonology, but can't find an exact source for the "they have to be invited" concept

@freemo Well, Jesus, yes; but not the Dracula mirror thing, nor the clever demonology "invite in" crossover

I am a big fan of extending old, good technologies rather than recreating the wheel. #Email is one of these; both #DeltaChat and @zulip #zulip do this, in very different and equally inspiring ways.

As far as I can tell, the Achilles Heel of email is that it is TOO easy, and that has given rise to its antithesis, #spam.

@freemo 🤣 Mixing your mythos a little there. What inspired this joke?

My #Firefox has crashed three times today, without warning -- I just look up and its gone. It's never done that to me before! The only new thing I can think of is that I've added Discord to its work load...

@icedquinn apparently Odin is a C-replacement with a specialty already in industry for graphics work

I just love it when my browser WORKS. When the website doesn't break my "open in new tab" or my "back" or my "history." And I love when it's a surprize. When I click something that I was sure was going to break stuff, and it worked without breaking! No more stupid JS-only on-click handling with a useless link, etc. #webdev #htmlFirst

@icedquinn lua? What about #golang, #rust, or (and I just learned about it) #odin lang

#humor #python and #CLang performance are largely synonymous to outsiders thanks to wrappers, but in a conversation just between the two of them, speed and errors may be characteristic. I like this double-jab

- Bad: silent errors without any log of what's going on.
- Evil: email sending & retrieving silently failing and only a third perspective even tells you that you are blind and dumb for the past 30 hours.

@zulip never mind. It wasn't you; it was me.

@zulip Looks like my emails stopped getting through to my zulipchat.com instance for our US Monday holiday, and are not through yet. Do holidays knock things out?

@zulip and... down again since this morning. Should I be learning something from this recurrence?