as alive as you need me to be
I too am going to call DNS 'Dennis' from now on, lol.
Yeah I've had some discussions over time with the whole SQL vs Sequel thing, and what I realized was that...
Well basically, I learned 'Sequel' from a bunch of old timers in the Seattle area.
The kind of people who had been writing COBOL since they got back from Vietnam, people who'd actually worked at IBM, still acted like Microsoft was an 'upstart', people who'd just offhand tell me about the one time they got 'deployed' to Saudi Arabia to flash a compromised BIOS onto hardware destined to be used in Saddam's air defense network, prior to the Gulf War.
So, they actually literally were there back when SEQUEL was invented.
Its really not, if you're broadly comparing Japanese culture to American culture.
I was a karateka for over a decade, met a fair number of Japanese people, Japanese karatekas.
Even the Japanese karatekas, who are... largely considered to be more rude and care less about politeness, be more brash than the typical Japanese non karateka... they were generally much more polite, less crass, more likely to avoid an unintentional insult, and be very embarassed than the American karatekas I knew, than the typical American.
Like I actually remember a Japanese karateka explaining to me the difference between ... what kinds of situations call for a 15-30 degree bow, a 30-45 degree bow, and basically a 90 degree bow.
There is a literal physical language and ettiquette to showing the proper amount of respect: If you do a very deep bow for something that only calls for a minor one, you're basicslly acting like a kiss-ass, being overly dramatic. If you do a minor bow for a situation that calls for a deep bow, you're being flippant, insulting, not taking things seriously.
The only exception to that pattern I've personally experienced was when, years later, I happened across an apparent ex-Yakuza at a bar.
Yeah. Yeah that guy was significantly less well-mannered lol.
But also extremely skilled at martial arts.
Not only is this... perhaps one of the most insulting things you could possibly say, so insulting that ... basically every extremely formally well-mannered Japanese politician or attache in that room actually completely lost their composure...
Why Donald, WHY WAS IT that Japan did a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor?
Was it maybe because, I don't fucking know... they didn't have sufficient access to oil resources?!
I want to beat Trump to death with a phone book.
God fucking damnit.
... This unimaginable shitstain needs to be fed his own teeth, through his nose.
I've met an ex-Yakuza once.
Had an interesting night at a bar once, we bonded over martial arts.
... I can only imagine his reaction to this.
SQL is pronounced 'Sequel' because it was originaly SEQUEL.
SQL was initially developed at IBM by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce after learning about the relational model from Edgar F. Codd[12] in the early 1970s.[13] This version, initially called SEQUEL (Structured English Query Language), was designed to manipulate and retrieve data stored in IBM's original quasirelational database management system, System R, which a group at IBM San Jose Research Laboratory had developed during the 1970s.[13]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL
It then later evolved, and changed from being an acronym into an initialism, kind of, sort of, mostly for people who are unaware of the etymology.
'Sequel' is quite literally the tradtional way to pronounce it.
What?
I see two tops and two bottoms.
Two doms and two subs.
Two bears and two twinks, two butch and two princesses.
You... can easily read this in a number of ways, that's arguably the strength of using such non human 'characters'.
Could be hetero, could be homo, could be ... ToolTime-sexual.
If anything, its an endorsement of just stepping outside your normal, traditional boundaries, and in some situations that seems to work out for everyone involved.
Hope you have a plan for increasing wildfires, inusrance costs going to the moon, being able to get around town and get to work with $150+ a barrel oil, and when Lake Mead and Lake Powell's water levels get lower, and lower, and lower.
They get low enough, Hoover Dam stops generating power.
That happens, the US SouthWest powergrid starts to look worse than Texas', real fast.
Next 10 years?
Motherfucker, it is currently ongoing.
Fucking goddamn, Americans are propogandized as fuck.
... would not have expected such a dick move from a great tit.
Idea:
Let's take this moment to repurpose "LOCK HER UP!"
I'm going to go with 'Aha! I did an intentional misdirect!'
... yep. Mhm.
(cough)
derp
(I have no idea what i'm talking about.)
And yet I actually follow what you are saying, silly it may be, it is... theoretically, technically sound.
So for spinning rooks, (especially when accelerated to rotational velocities experienced in a coil gun), to avoid the gimbal lock problem, you can use quaternions to represent their actual orientation, which... more or less, is complexifying their 3D orientation vector into being a 4D object, manipulating it in 4 space, and then solving or reducing the 4D object back to its 3D shadow/original self, to know its 3 space orientation.
This is particularly helpful when playing any kind of chess that involves more than 2 dimensions, as well as keeping track of long distance ballistic deviation due to projectile wobble, and/or a ballistic trajectory through different ambient pressure/resistance/drag-inducing gradients.
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Unfortunately I am quite crippled at the moment, and would not want to chance accidentally harming the thing with my functional lack of coordination.
Perhaps when I can handle a bit more hobbling around without the cane, I'll try and meet mr python.
I have seen and met other pythons before....don't think I've seen one gulp down a terrified, screaming lunch, but I have had an older one ... how would you say, use me as a clothes rack?
That one, she was well trained and socialized to people; as long as I kept calm and moved slowly, no harm, no danger.
Quite an experience though, and I'm certain it could smell my fear through my poker face.
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You can just go, fairly easily, find a compilation video of children, Gen Alpha... well basically just destroying everything around them if you take away their phone or tablet.
When this all breaks, when internet access becomes exceedingly expensive or otherwise gated, or maybe we just can't afford phones anymore after China stops letting anything with rare earth metals be exported to us...
Those kids are going to go feral.
Can't read, can't write, can't think, need constant stimulation.
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The other day my apartment neighbor got the number of the apartment he was looking for wrong, knocked on my door by accident.
We had a 20 minute conversation about his ball python, and snakes and pythons in general.
I got to tell him my story of the one time I had to freeze motionless, in the badlands, upon getting close enough to the wrong bush, which let out a very distinctive rattle.
And he told me about ball python diets, and enclosures, and how, apparently, a male python being used as a breeding stud is a reasonably decent source of income.
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Yeah I was gonna say the same.
I grew up when you had to actually memorize or write down a phone number, and actually just know how to drive around your own town/city, without a real life, real time minimap (the 90s).
Yeah, for basically all Millenials and older, this is... completely normal, to occasionally, randomly strike up a conversation with someone.
Learning how to do that, when its unwelcome and you should probably back off, when its going well and it brightens both your days... that's called 'social skills'.
Hrm.
I think I'll try spinning, thats a good trick!
As far as I know that's correct, nobody knows who Bansky actually is.... Is what I was going to say.
What astoundingly serendipitous timing.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/global-art-banksy/
TL:DR
First posted on the 13th, picked up by other media roughly 6 hours ago, Reuters released a special investigative report, and they believe Bansky is:
Robert Del Naja, the frontman of Massive Attack.
I mean, my point in saying its a literal physical form of etiquette that is systemitized is to ... differentiate it from many other cultures, where its mostly just linguistic.
Not too many other cultures have a whole system of physical manuevers that also comprise part of how respect is culturally conveyed.
Microexpressions? Nah, this is a macroexpression.
Tons of broader Japanese culture also has systemitized, physical rituals... essentially, complex dances, that either accompany or just literally are an actual ancient tradition.
There is an extreme amount of emphasis on physical control of your own body, compared to other cultures I have interacted with, have studied.
Of course, not everyone takes all of that so seriously, is so formal... culture changes over time and is never totally homogenous... Japan is also rather famous for its extremely expressive and distinctive fashion/lifestyle sub cultures.
There is differentiation, but its... its sort of like the Overton window for etiquette is in a significantly different position as for many other cultures, if that makes sense.