Did you mean to include a URL in the OP post to link us to your longer (blog?) post? Currently the OP post is just an image. You can edit it to add the link in the URL field.
Can you imagine the eye strain one would get programming on a translucent screen every day? One where your always having to keep your eyes focused on semi transparent text and graphical interfaces in the foreground, and not the distracting and ever changing background, continuously shifting in parallax as you adjust your head and viewing angle. Not having my display buttressed up against a wall, or having to deal with glare and screen reflections, or even low contrast monitors in general are all things I find infuriating already.
But I guess the Sci-Fi future of ergonomics is holograms. *You must have your migraines, and you must enjoy them.
Thanks so much for your hard work and the terrific beta release!
Here's to the success of Lemmy, Sync for Lemmy, and the rest of the Fediverse,
Cheers! 🍻
Hello world!
~ from S4L!
This was a funny talk wasn't it! Any others of his you'd recommend?
Think I posted this with the short code, so Limmy didn't match the cross post, but here are a couple more old comments here too:
I should open a ticket about fuzzy domain matching for cross posts on Lemmy. Should be useful for other things like stack overflow or other social media links.
Could go the other way though. Ask them nicely if they'd be willing to free up their heap of inventory, and if they return you a cart overflow, you know you've stumbled upon the ultimate zero day coupon.
Fair enough. I just wanted to point out why you may see others, or news outlets, refer to tech giants, such as Microsoft, as FANGs or FAANGs given the historical context, regardless of how one may prefer to grammatically re-phrase such nonsensical statements. E.g:
So, who are the FAANGs?
Ah, the first post on the new community lead me to think it was just about capture the flag events or memes about coding challenges. Perhaps a calendar or event list in the side bar may help subscribers?
Language is inherently messy, localized, and ephemeral, so it could be unwise to expect that kind of conformity on the global internet. It can be jarring, for example tech folk here in the EU seem to use corporate slang a lot differently than when I was working near SFO or DFW, we're I'd suspect the greater non-homogeneity of native speakers, as compared to the US, had a lot to do with it.
That aside, I think we merely disagree on the colloquial use of FAANG in 2023, as (from my anecdotal perspective) it seems to have semantically shifted into a categorical noun in common vernacular, rather than a once precise acronym from a decade ago, given most of the conglomerates behind the initial spelling have either re-branded, fallen in stock valuation, declined in labor desirability, or whatever else that had originally garnered acclaim and publicity. In that respect, pluralization of such a noun seems mundane, if not a little odd looking for typographical formatting.
Perhaps this could be coined as another stage of acronymization, or "acronym drift"; the process by which an acronym's original expansion and meaning become less relevant or obscured over time, and the acronym itself is treated and used as a regular word, independent of its original expansion. This can happen when the original meaning of the acronym is no longer relevant, but the acronym continues to be used and recognized based on its familiarity. An example that comes to mind is Google's original acronym for the QUIC protocol, which is no longer used to mean "Quick UDP Internet Connections", as was initially proposed.
Could a community description be added? Is it just about certain meme template or genre of humor? Not sure I ever knew of the subreddit.
Ex. An NBA or Sports instance containing /c/NBA /c/NFL /c/NHL and all the related teams.
I'm surprised there isn't a community on this intense for this language already.
I'd suggest those who interested to make a post over on !community_request@programming.dev .