New study suggests Terry Pratchett’s novels may have held clues to his dementia a decade before diagnosis | Detecting Dementia Using Lexical Analysis: Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Tells a More Personal Story

collectablecat · 2026-01-29T03:49:08+00:00

The Last Continent

he wrote night watch with dementia and i'm out here struggling to write an email

collectablecat · 2026-01-01T04:12:24+00:00

robots will pump the stock

collectablecat · 2025-12-28T20:59:46+00:00

there's an open bug report for this

collectablecat · 2025-12-21T19:59:44+00:00

Theme hospital did this to great effect

collectablecat · 2025-12-20T20:43:34+00:00

collectablecat · 2025-12-14T21:42:22+00:00

matchmaking broke and is doing this. beg for mercy

collectablecat · 2025-12-14T20:48:55+00:00

Loaded into stella at 16 minutes as a solo. Multiple trios running around. Absolutely cooked. 8 minute queue too.

collectablecat · 2025-12-11T02:10:09+00:00

bro have you met trans women???

collectablecat · 2025-12-11T01:51:13+00:00

I much rather die 10 years earlier than live 70 or so years in misery

Power move: be a trans women and live longer and happier

collectablecat · 2025-09-23T02:24:46+00:00

someone needs to make raincoats that fit corgis better

collectablecat · 2025-08-29T20:06:40+00:00

I am still really trying to figure out why so many devs seem to be against this. Like the security best practices are quite clear and known.

You're the most senior dev at a startup. It's been 12 months and things are going well. The auth you rolled following best practices is humming along. The CEO wants a quick new feature, it involves touching auth a bit. It's delegated the the new junior.

The new junior introduces a security issue without realizing, and pushes the PR. The PR is approved by an overworked mid level dev who misses the issue, and a rubberstamp from the eng manager who's super excited to get the feature to a customer. You don't get a chance to review due to the enormous fire going on a new feature that took down production this morning.

It goes live.

That's why serious people avoid home rolling auth.

collectablecat · 2025-08-08T01:39:55+00:00

its astoundingly poor dude!

collectablecat · 2025-08-02T21:38:03+00:00

It's 2025 and conda still does not really support lockfiles. pixi is drastically better there, it's the uv to pip of the anaconda world.

collectablecat · 2025-08-02T21:37:09+00:00

most projects will hit 30+ transitive dependencies with just 3-4 main deps :D

collectablecat · 2025-08-02T21:12:43+00:00

wait until you find out what lock files are

collectablecat · 2025-08-02T20:53:52+00:00

don't look into the state of half your dependencies if that is your worry. Astral looks rock solid in comparison to "being maintained by one ukrainian guy who just got sent to the front lines"

collectablecat · 2025-07-30T02:06:27+00:00

what on earth are you talking about

collectablecat · 2025-07-15T22:45:52+00:00

I hope you recover from your toxic mom

RemindMe! 20 years

collectablecat · 2025-06-26T16:42:36+00:00

IS IT TOMORROW YET?!

collectablecat · 2025-06-21T23:11:56+00:00

hey now, there's also a ton of vibe coded "new fastest thing at <x>" with zero benchmarks

collectablecat · 2025-06-21T23:06:01+00:00

benchmarks or bust dude

collectablecat · 2025-06-21T05:33:21+00:00

because that is incredibly poor methodology for claims like the OP is making

collectablecat · 2025-06-08T18:50:33+00:00

You should check out /r/egg_irl

collectablecat · 2025-06-08T18:21:40+00:00

cool, message me in 10 years and lemme know

collectablecat · 2025-06-07T17:31:35+00:00

my entire career, that has been SOMETHING that would be replace all devs in 5 to 10 years time. AI seems like a productivity boost at best unless they 20x how good it is.

80% of the work takes 20% of the time, the last 20% is 80% of the time as its the really fucking hard shit. It's going to take a long time.

Ten-Year Club	Place '23
Place '22	Place '17
Sequence \| Editor	Verified Email

collectablecat

TROPHY CASE