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bonked 10 Sep 2024 19:56 +0000
original: mxbck@front-end.social
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bonked 10 Sep 2024 19:56 +0000
original: mxbck@front-end.social
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honked back 10 Sep 2024 13:42 +0000
in reply to: https://aus.social/users/voltagex/statuses/113111147535087138
@voltagex "If someone is asking you to volunteer, they're not really asking" is only barely actionable. On Monday, you volunteer, on Tuesday, you are voluntold. You're just as dead either way. Like, maybe they say this in the military.
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honked back 10 Sep 2024 01:16 +0000
in reply to: https://peoplemaking.games/users/passerine/statuses/113109662833954605
@passerine This particular list has lots of weird ones tho -- like, "You can take a photo or make a photo", which has only one Google result (and which is incomprehensible to me), and "You can volunteer for an assignment, or you can be voluntold", which is not actionable.
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bonked 10 Sep 2024 01:06 +0000
original: passerine@peoplemaking.games
@novalis I saw this roundup of "proverbs of the professions" recently: https://gretchenrubin.com/articles/hacks-for-facing-lifes-challenges-proverbs-of-the-professions/
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honked back 10 Sep 2024 01:06 +0000
in reply to: https://peoplemaking.games/users/passerine/statuses/113109662833954605
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honked back 09 Sep 2024 21:13 +0000
in reply to: https://sometimes.when.computer/users/rhiannonstone/statuses/113109632087404466
@rhiannonstone I'm thinking of ones that are specific to certain jobs. Like, I guess the horses/zebras one is maybe more common now, but it was originally common in medicine. I wouldn't call it directly harmful (the harm is is rounding off to "it's never zebras", which definitely happens but it's not the intent of the thing). And in general, we're pretty happy when the show goes on.
"think horses not zebras" Is there a list of this sort of professional sayings for various professions? I'm not even sure what the name for these is, or whether they form a natural category.
"the show must go on"
"it's never a compiler bug"
"f you have time to lean, you have time to clean."
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bonked 07 Sep 2024 00:37 +0000
original: jk@mastodon.social
at a protocol level, the internet is only really capable of transmitting two types of data: TCP (True Crime Podcast) and UDP (Unlistenable D&D Podcast)