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Morning o/
Not much is currently known about what all those squeaks mean
damn , I was hoping we can talk to rats now
Given how long itās taken them to do anything about whale song, Iām not surprised. But rats are much more accessible as animals, so Iām having high hopes!
mornings!
Morning
@seancorfield We just watched the first episode last night, having finished Russian Doll. Definitely liking it so far
fresh bread from the bread machine
I might spoil that with some tinned tomato soup
(but perhaps I should be husbanding my tinned soups)
are you still in the uk @lady3janepl? Where have you ended up?
planning to see how it turns out?
Iāve poked around and London is currently the best option, short of leaving overseas. Weāll see.
well you've always got your EU citizenship
Thereās that. āMove back into parentās basement and start a startupā š
Over time, I think depending on what your resources are, the deciding factors change. Right now, for me, itās the social part, having people to interact with daily in a meaningful manner (ie not just shopping). Therefore moving anywhere where I donāt speak the language, or speak it poorly (German), is an immediate fail.
(One big advantage of Poland over UK is that we actually have basements, nyah nyah! š )
But yeah, āstartupā is a serious contender if disaster strikes. After all, a small company doesnāt need to be THE BEST, it just needs to make a living.
Hell, the last place I was in the basement had been converted to the kitchen and dining room. It was very weird
Our place now has a 70cm or so void under the floorboards with a dirt floor at the base. So you could stuff a body down there, but not do much else with it
Yeah I've got one of those. They call it a solum
which was a new word to me
I wouldnāt know, Iāve always lived on terrain with a likelihood of flooding ^^'
well I think its mostly to allow air to circulate around the floorboards
(otoh I think people here do very well without basements, having instead switched to sheds. Iāll take working in a shed over working in a basement!)
to discourage rot
@dominicm <<Whatās for lunch today?>> (rand-nth ["Pot Noodle" "Pot Noodle" "Pot Noodle"])
š
but there's more than one flavour
Arenāt you guys happy there was a zombie apocalypse craze in popculture for the last X years? Now everyone knows how to prep.
@lady3janepl After playing The Last Of Us hundreds of times I firmly think Iām in a good position.
Lunch today was free bagels at the Co-workings space I work in. 1) Salmon and cream cheese 2) Pastrami, mustard and gherkins
@dominicm 9 mins 20 seconds into this is what you were referring too https://youtu.be/Nv5c-tV8PUo
@dominicm I recommend watching Zombie land movie, it's a good guide to surviving a zombie apocalypse
@otfrom since you asked: https://github.com/the-frey/cyberpunk-2019
@alex.lynham I'm using your theme now. I like it. Very garish. Suits me perfectly. š
nice one thx @alex.lynham
A total vampire apocalypse would be pretty much how we live today, except at night, and it would be enforced by death :thinking_face:
the klept in charge. The rest of us scrabbling around and subject to extremes from the security forces if we decide to get uppity. Private security getting more power.
no wonder vampires are always angry. But I guess vampires are less angry now that there's a 24h Asda in my area.
I kinda tend toward itās going to be a deregulated dystopia where life is cheap, a la the Richard Morgan/Takeshi Kovacs novels, Stevensonās Snow Crash, Escapology by Ren Warom, etc
I bet they love Amazon too if they can get a good drop off point. Not so good if they need to get it from a neighbour tho
there is a standard hack to access private functions which is to ((deref (var private-function-symbol))
or (@#'private-function-symbol)
in the vernacular
I always want to try them out from the repl
although, little known feature of clojure.test, you don't need to put your tests in the test folder.
you can just sprinkle them alongside your normal code, which would then give access to the private var.
but yeah, firmly in the camp of "Testing your public functions should test your interface sufficiently"
Also cool: I was researching Sumerian religion and Inanna specifically at the time I read it, and I only got a used copy of Snow Crash by accident. Or was it by accidentā¦
I enjoyed The Diamond Age
although I don't find myself refllecting on its content very often
yeah Seveneves is ace as well if youāve not read it
Nymphomation
seems to be slowly coming true
@alex.lynham I'm using your theme now. I like it. Very garish. Suits me perfectly. š
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We aim to please
Cryptonomicon was a long read, but some awesome bits. Snow crash yeah... Overrated. Anathem is awesome imo. Quicksilver I couldn't make it through.
I also enjoyed the Cryptonomicon. I took Snow Crash on holiday last week and left it at the airport after reading a few chapters
you have to read it at least twice; first reading didn't make much sense to me, there's just too much going on
the 2 sequels are much easier to read because they are less rammed with ideas
It had an interesting mix of action and politics, technology and mysticism. I wonder though if itās not going to suffer from the fact that its twists are now popular cliches
If you want some less well known cyberpunk, I would recommend Vurt and Pollen. Both set in Manchester I believe :D