yttrium

2024 will finally be the year of TempleOS on the desktop

That's... incredible. If people who write code like that can get programming jobs, maybe I shouldn't be quite so worried about my own skills.

Ooh, what's the code?

When I'm commenting on a post I tend to use very high-register vocabulary, to the point of sounding archaic or academic. I think it's primarily a hold-over from writing essays in school, but it doesn't hurt that the places on the Internet where I hang out tend to be extremely nerdy.

I also frequently leave my sentences unfinished when talking IRL. I'll just sort of trail off once I can see that I've gotten my point across instead of bothering with a complete sentence.

Computers are an endless source of these. Someone else already mentioned daemons and killing orphans; I submit "I only ever ssh into that box, so I keep it headless." ("I only ever access that computer via the terminal, so I don't install any software that uses graphics.")

Conlanging (constructing languages) inherits all the jargon of linguistics, and then adds a bunch of slang on top for good measure. "I was worried that glomming tense markers to subjects in my analytic clong was unnaturalistic, but it turns out ANADEW" is the kind of thing I might say in a casual conversation with another conlanger.

Wow, a solution? I would've been satisfied with a colloid, or even a suspension

W-shaped pupils likely also help cuttlefish see color and polarization of light, despite not having any cone cells in their retinas!

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/octopus-chronicles/polarized-display-sheds-light-on-octopus-and-cuttlefish-vision-and-camouflage/

https://www.science.org/content/article/how-colorblind-cuttlefish-may-see-living-color

Yeah

Coupling is my favorite. It's like docking for machines

When I first heard Money Machine by 100 gecs I thought that the intro was funny, but the song was ultimately unlistenable. I'm now a die-hard hyperpop fan.

When I was in 7th grade I legitimately thought that this was how the modulus of a complex number was defined

Wow, your guide may have just made my decision for me. Thank you so much for all the info, it's incredibly helpful for a novice like myself!