@karhutar @futurebird send pics! I do love a good disambiguation session!

@patrickrhone somehow I want this to be about Balls of Fury but I don’t think it is. #okeydokey-artichokey!

@ttscoff @sanityinc @bjtitus @glucas @jeremylatour @amerpie

Yes, I say, to all of the above. Markdown is (now?) a format of interest. Aren’t we lucky! Text ftw.

@hollyhoneychurch well, that’s probably what he told you…the IDTA (inter-dimensional travel authority) is pretty much run by Felis Catus

@hollyhoneychurch …or turn down the inter-dimensional backscatter chrome flares, as enchanting as they are of course…

@MitchWagner Tricky, especially because usage shifts with grammatical roles, as a noun affect is a psychological term, but as a verb it is less concrete than effect. Apple’s built in Dictionary app has a decent explainer.

@numericcitizen I would argue further that all programming is, ultimately, sourced in the natural language of the programmer. Until a programmer‘s mind has expressed the problem well enough to itself to then craft a solution addressing the domain, no translation of the solution can be expressed in the constructed language instantiating the program. Vibe coding seems a natural extension of this trend to push trust further down the stack, as it were.

@cherizilla I wonder if there are any correlates between learning natural languages and programming “languages”, and, just for flavor, between these and the capacity to absorb slang, jargon, etc.

Any programmers with 3+ languages at their disposal? Was three easier?

@numericcitizen beautiful brutalist but how does one jump the moat?

@amerpie im fond of those birds. We have em in Nevada too, but can we get an affectionate alternate for “grackle? It doesn’t really fit them. I’ve heard “corvette” as a possibility, which sounds pretty good, no?