It’s not quite an “accident” in the sense someone made a mistake or stubled more like “an accident of history” where someone is influenced by events outside their control.

In this case it wasn’t like the iconic visual design was selected from the favourite of all the ideas they had purely by aesthetic criteria. Rather limitations in the way human perception works influenced them to try a different approach and it wound up being beautiful.

Mirrors edge is (from what I remember) mildly dystopian, so it felt slightly genre defying to have a clean aesthetic in te dystopia, rather than using dirt and grime to emphasise the squalor and neglect.

Ful disclosure; I’m on the autistic spectrum

Same, since this is something I struggled with for a while and this thread is old I will try to give (my) understanding of humour in general and how it applies here.

Okay, as far as I can tell the root of all humour is something unexpected/surprising/confusing.

A lot of wordplay operates by having you understand a sentence one way then

Where there’s a will, I want to be in it.

The surprise here is that you expect where there is a will there’s a way, and you expect “will” to refer to willpower, the unexpected aspect is that when you get to the end of the sentence it actually means last will and testament.

Comical misunderstandings in comedy fall under this, “edgy” humour is predicated on the idea that people will conform to polite discord then they break it. Cringe comedy is the same but rather than polite it’s “cool” (or whatever the atonym for cringe is.)

In this case the surprise is just that the doll looks like the daughter, you expect the doll to be some random famous character and instead it’s an image of someone you know.

This is mildly amusing but not that funny, what makes it hilarious (I assume) is the feedback loop between father and daughter. If he had been in the shop and seen it by himself there might have been a chuckle but not much more.

He shows her the mildly funny doll, she makes an unimpressed face as seen in the photo; she probably finds it a bit funny, but doesn’t want to give her dad a “win” for something which is vaguely at her expense, so puts on an unimpressed face. Having known her for her whole life Dad understands what is happening intuitively, this is the second layer of funny where the daughter is putting on an act, then it compounds because the contrast between his reaction and hers is amusing and the more he finds the situation funny the more pointed the contrast becomes causing a feedback loop.

The difference in reaction is a classic comedy trope people find funny, thats why most multi person comedy acts have someone play “the straight man”

Sadly I don’t think I can source this since nobody explains any of this so it’s all observation and trial and error

Don’t design for having a nice codebase today, design for having a clean codebase after 3 months of Devs copy pasting one bit of code then tweaking it to do what they need or adding more fields to existing concepts.

This generally means it’s best to have one pattern for a given thing, rather than having several patterns you pick based on context, the later runs into problems:

• Someone copy/pasted pattern A for a pattern B context
• Enough stuff changes in a pattern A implementation that it would now be better as a patter B thing.

A second consideration for this is that if there are a group of classes/files/whatever that regularly needs to be copied they should live together. If there are different sections of the code that needs to be edited when creating a new resource, they should be kept in one place and kept small-ish.

Most of this comes from accepting the way people tend to work and from the perspective that software is a living evolving process and only regarding a snapshot of it misses vital information.

I was going to say you have a static sense of what orientation you are in, e.g. you can tell standing up Vs lying on your front/back/side without relying on other senses and that feels different to the sensation of moving…

But thinking about it I guess the orientation sense is just detecting acceleration due to gravity?

More compelling than the edit, thank you for posting this.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-67582813

^ an article describing some of the reason Kissinger was such a vile person, including how he shares some of the responsibility for the rise of the Khmer Rouge

Tf did I do to you that I earned a call out like this? 😭

The only metric to imperial conversion I remember is kilometers to miles since it’s pretty close to the golden ratio.

Even if you don’t remember that the golden ratio is 1.6 and a bit, you can approximate it by using successive terms of the Fibonacci sequence.

1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 …

So 8 miles is about 13km (actually 12.87)

It’s becoming more common where I am for a couple to move back to somewhere near one of their sets of parents before they have kids so they can rely on them for occasional childcare since both of the new parents usually have jobs

Because for a lot of people posting snark on the internet is more flattering to their ego than advancing the goals of movements they claim to support.

(Yes I amxaware of the irony within this post)

Do you get joy from simple things like eating a nice meal or taking a hot shower on a cold day?

Can you anticipate joy, if you are planning to meet up with friends or watch a movie or read a book; does thinking about the activity lift your mood even a little?

When you think back to happy memories do you feel happy, do you remember what the sensation of happiness felt like?

Not a professional and none of this is diagnostic one way or another, but it’s probably worth checking if you have exhausted or outgrown a hobby which just means you need to find more things you enjoy even if it’s just to add variety to your week. Or if your ability to feel joy itself is failing, in which case you probably need to a professional

As much as I dislike the fact that the “flagship” instance for lemmy is an echo chamber that bans for political wrong think, I still think Lemmy on average is a positive and it isn’t funded by ads or vcs so it should be proof against the most common avenues for enshittification.

So I set up a recurring donation despite being someone that would 100% get banned by the people I’m donating to if I were to comment on their instance.

Same way I can’t stand people using one negative within a larger political platform as an excuse to parrot anti-electoralism I feel like I shouldn’t use one unfortunate facet of the fediverse as an excuse not to donate towards its continued development.

Support “better” rather than waiting for “perfect”

The interesting thing about reading from different bubbles to get the different perspectives on the same event is just how different the set of events covered is.

The right may be furious about something and the left barely cover it and vice versa, it needs to be a huge event to attract comment from both sides.

Even if you don’t buy into this logic, you still have to do it in quite a few places because the security auditors have a line in their checklist about being able to extract any internal information from error pages

Best of luck with the job search, linkedin is awful, but at-least the need for it passes.

A bit of both, I got Manchester from the skyline then needed to sate my curiosity

Manchester UK, just outside Deansfield station https://maps.app.goo.gl/YAScS5Kih22uyNSEA

So as far as I can tell the rule for deciding if a french word is feminine is “does it end with an e”.

There are exceptions and French people claim that’s not how it works, but it is an incredibly useful heuristic