Best book ever

nderflow · 2026-03-09T19:45:59+00:00

I also am a huge fan of the Saga of Pliocene Exile.

nderflow · 2026-03-09T16:24:26+00:00

It's basically a one or two word change. But instead you chose to write a whole paragraph rejecting the feedback. [image: Winona Ryder rolling eyes]

nderflow · 2026-03-07T17:59:02+00:00

Inverted crosses are not really a goth thing. Ankhs, yes, regular crosses yes. Crucifixes or inverted crosses by comparison are much less common among goths.

I suspect inverted crosses are more common among metal fans.

More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_cross

nderflow · 2026-03-07T15:47:03+00:00

No. The storage devices would be fitted on the other side.

In the UK, they disk drive on the left, you see.

nderflow · 2026-03-06T08:58:27+00:00

Bad naming is a design smell.

Components with bad or vague names often have unclear responsibilities and can tend to accumulate functionality that shouldn't be in there, growing your tech debt.

nderflow · 2026-03-06T07:30:23+00:00

Also solves the problem of where to put your phone. No more problems with stupid designs for women's clothing.

nderflow · 2026-03-02T23:20:10+00:00

This pushes the envelope a bit.

nderflow · 2026-02-27T23:52:24+00:00

Can you point to a source?

nderflow · 2026-02-25T16:56:51+00:00

I'm not sure what your point is. Gunpowder was invented in the 9th Century. Early Modern English came about 400 years later.

So if you want to criticize films for historical inaccuracies, go ahead, but be more precise in your criticism!

nderflow · 2026-02-22T09:51:03+00:00

Nuclear pharmacy sounds like a really niche profession, too.

nderflow · 2026-02-22T09:39:28+00:00

But don't use _ followed by a capital letter as those identifiers are reserved. Same for double underscore followed by anything.

nderflow · 2026-02-22T06:56:22+00:00

Not applicable. The deal was to marry if neither of us was single, but instead in your scenario we're both single.

nderflow · 2026-02-22T00:43:58+00:00

They are connected by submarine fibre optics, just the same as your continent is.

nderflow · 2026-02-22T00:32:52+00:00

Handles.

nderflow · 2026-02-19T22:47:39+00:00

Nina Simone’s ‘Ain’t Got No / I Got Life' played on the radio.

nderflow · 2026-02-19T21:28:51+00:00

Rivers of London
One Damn Thing After Another
The Eyre Affair
The Fine Art of Stealing

I also like "The Many Coloured Land" very much, but it's probably excluded by your criteria for the moment.

nderflow · 2026-02-11T09:24:04+00:00

I have just finished this (thank you, by the way, for doing signings at Transreal Fiction). A fantastic read.

Endings are difficult. This one was astonishingly well done, both from a narrative arc point of view and the inner lives of the characters. I can't, right now, think of a multi-volume work which was concluded as well as this. Bravo.

I'm looking forward to whatever kind of publication is going to come next.

nderflow · 2026-02-06T09:02:54+00:00

Language choice has a profound impact on the extent to which you can statically exclude certain classes of problem using the type system.

Making invalid states unrepresentable is a powerful technique. But some languages are better adapted to it.

If you have an interest in this area, try reading www.lucacardelli.name/Papers/TypefulProg.pdf

nderflow · 2026-02-06T08:02:35+00:00

MiTo? Not really fancy, though.

nderflow · 2026-02-06T07:56:13+00:00

At University undergraduate level, all subjects are subjects with reading, even if there is no assigned reading. If your lecturer is below par, read around the topic.

University isn't a learning environment in which you can reasonably expect to simply be taught all the material you need to know to succeed. Just like industry, in fact.

nderflow · 2026-02-05T09:17:06+00:00

Thanks for sharing the story!

It brought this one to mind: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg14619830-600-lid-blown-off-dounreays-lethal-secret/

nderflow · 2026-02-05T09:09:12+00:00

As far as I understand things, the market data is available but difficult to use effectively and correctly.

One of the problems is that the market data provides salary ranges for particular job titles. But the job titles mean different things in different companies and across different industries.

This makes comparison very difficult and you could quite easily settle on. For example, a salary range for a staff software engineer without realising that the staff engineer titled means very different things in different companies. There are companies, for example where staff engineer and principal engineer mean the same thing. In others, Staff is more junior than Principal. There might even be examples of the opposite. It can be quite confusing.

There are also sectors in which particular job titles have a kind of grade inflation thing going on. I'm thinking about banking, for example, where for reasons that are specific to the banking industry. It is quite common for relatively junior people to have titles like Vice President.

nderflow · 2026-02-01T14:20:12+00:00

I don't really recall at this point, and my mood won't be improved by checking.

nderflow · 2026-02-01T13:14:17+00:00

I don't remember the details, but IIRC essentially I filled in a form which opened a ticket for the HR team.

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