Super initiative!
I suspect there is wisdom to be learned from forest management, specifically how regular, small controlled burns are how you avoid huge, unmanageable forest fires.
Diane Duane's "So you want to be a wizard?" series makes almost the exact opposite in creative choices as Rowling does for Harry Potter:
- female protagonist with male best friend and partner-in-training
- becoming a wizard is something that you choose, not something you are born into
- being a wizard means upholding a certain responsibility towards the rest of the world, specifically that of slowing the progression of entropy and of the universe reaching heat death
- as part of their initiation, each wizard personally confronts and is tempted by an embodiment of entropy - a sort of reverse pact-with-the-fel
- Wizards learn their magic through their personal magic guide book, not some boarding school. The book automatically updates it's content according to what the wizard is currently interested in learning about.
- magic is not incompatible with technology. although the main character is more into "nature" magic at the start of the series, her best friend is very mechanically inclined and his brand of magic follows suit. There is also a young wizard-in-training in a later book whose "personal magic guide book" takes the form of a laptop.
The author seems to have pretty decent views. Notably, she heavily rewrote one of the books that features an autistic wizard kid after getting feedback on how ablist she had written it the first time. (Which means if you're interested in picking them up, do really try to get a more recent printing).
There's also a book in the series that deals with having a parent losing the battle against cancer.
All in all, while they never gave me similar feelings of whimsy and quirk as Harry Potter, I loved these books just as deeply while growing up.
It's probably not what you're imagining, but there is the lemmynsfw instance which is a Lemmy instance that is more or less explicitly for porn.
But there is one other, probably even more important advantage: Prolog is a programmer's and software engineer's dream. It is compact, highly readable, and arguably the "most structured" language of them all. Not only has it done away with virtually all control flow statements, but even explicit variable assignment too! These virtues are certainly reason enough to base not only systems but textbooks on this language.
The 90s certainly were a different time...
Not enough burritos available near me, but I've certainly been through the exact same experience with cheese naan kebab in front of the computer.
Et sinon, amener un marteau & burin avec soi la nuit ca peut aussi être du temps a perdre mais moins que de tenter le tribunal.
Encore moins de temps a perdre, une bonbonne de peinture jaune fluo, histoire que le dos-d’âne soit visible a > 50m. Idéalement en écrivant "CE DOS-D’ÂNE EST ILLEGAL ET MEURTRIER" dessus 😈
Je pense au fameux meme du ricain qui dessinait des teubs autour des nid-de-poules dans son village pour "obliger" sa municipalité de les remplir/réparer.
In France, we literally call freedom of religion "freedom of cult" sometimes (and "freedom of conscience" some other times). I think it's weird how different the connotations of "cult" and "religion" are nowadays. Too many people don't realize that dictionaries record how words are used, they don't define what they mean.
Which raises a larger question: Did prompt engineering roles ever truly exist?
All experts interviewed for this piece were skeptical. The market itself was real enough: The North American prompt engineering market was valued at $75.5 million in 2023, with a compound annual growth rate of 32.8%. But whether that translated into formally titled roles is another matter.
.... How can the market be "real enough" if we can't tell if any jobs actually existed? Maybe I just don't know enough about economics.
It's not much of a dystopia, and it certainly doesn't seem to end that way, but the animated movie Robots just keeps feeling more and more relevant.
Beigeshirt propaganda?! In MY fun hole?! How conflicting...