Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

these quotes from https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2022/uml_my_part_in_its_downfall.html

« At one extreme was a camp that wanted to put a badge on their existing imperative programming language and call it QVT. At the other extreme was a camp that believed one could specify first order logic constraints and always efficiently find an optimal solution (something that would lead to the known laws of mathematics being rewritten). »

« Other than their nationality, the various French proposals shared nothing in common, so their collective stance kept changing depending on who was representing the group at any given point in time. This was highly amusing, but indicative of an ineffective standardisation process. »

« The standardisation community universally agreed that UML 2 would need rigorous underpinnings. However, no-one knew exactly what "rigorous" should mean, or how one should go about achieving it. Gradually, a small group of academics, who did have an idea of what rigorous could mean and how one could go about it, became involved in standardisation. »

it's very depressing for it to not feel at all like fall but still get dark at 7PM

it looks like this year the weather has decided to just give us late summer weather with shorter day lengths instead of giving us fall and i'm not here for it

i don't want Theories i want Lore!!!

people think you can Prove a Theory with Facts and References and fans that's not how fiction works

(namely fansite forums)

my problem is i'm actually a lore and worldbuilding and folklore nerd but that doesn't have good representation on AO3 and the places where it does have good representation i wouldn't touch with a 10-foot pole

« “Want a quick blowjob sexy?” Link smiled and nodded. » zelda is a great fandom because your generic teenage smutfic author’s inept ability to describe how people engage with sex happens to also be how Link canonically engages with everything

titled “Zelda smut” but it's about Link

apparently for October this instance is doing pokémon

just lingo no duo

garfield without garfield but it's duolingo without the owl

« Protests were traditionally just one tool in activist campaigns to pressure governments, alongside back-room negotiations with political leaders or alliance-building with powerful actors. The use of social media, by channeling popular energy away from such organizing, means that mass protest is now often the only tool, and typically ineffective on its own. »

« A protest does not have power just because many people get together in one place. Rather, a protest has power insofar as it signals the underlying capacity of the forces it represents. »

jaunty lil kitty pose

i would much rather somebody take my code and extend it and then let me know, so that i could review the extensions and make my own determination on whether or how to incorporate them into the original codebase, than someone send me an MR

share recipes, share patches, write code you can use today and then use it

i would like to collaborate with people in a way which is wholly unlike github