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• Post #1703153

  I can understand men not wanting to appear "womanly". It's not a concern I have any more, but I grew up in an environment where it was the norm. But I can't understand men who are so afraid of appearing feminine that they give up on being human. It's human to love, laugh, sing, and enjoy sweets.

• Post #1703152

  Finally found spoons for the annual story compilation. Almost done. ✅ Collate and edit collected stories ✅ Make cover image ✅ Write preface/aftertexts ✅ Fix PDF accessibility issues Still to do: ⬜ Fix epub accessibility issues

• Post #1660880

  Went for a walk in the spring sunshine (and, alas, wind). Headed to Zimmerman's backe, a hill and small nature reserve on the north side of town. It rises 25 meters above the surrounding landscape, and is tired by a large, line elm. In winter, if there's snow - and we had a lot of snow this year, from the beginning of January to the end of February - it's a great sledding slope, as evidenced by this left-behind, broken sled.

• Post #1660879

  A question that was raised: Are James Cameron's Avatar films animated films with some live action scenes? As in, would they qualify for the Best Animated film Oscar?

• Post #1660878

  Had Thursday and Friday off last week so hadn't seen the Friday afternoon email where I'm booked in to a week-long training course this week - Designing embedded systems with Yocto BitBake. When I first joined the Swedish team at my previous company, I asked for this training, since they had all done it previously, but it never happened in my 4.5 years there, despite me asking for it at least once per year. Now, the team I'm in with my new employer is about to start the...

• Post #1660877

  I recently bought a book[1] about the 2020 C++ standard, and have been dipping into it the last few days. (There is a 2023 standard out too, and another is planned for this year, but I'll have to get up to date with 20 first. Plus, 20 is said to be a major upgrade, with 23 and 26 being more incremental, like 14 and 17 were over the more revolutionary 11.) Makes me want to revisit some old utility classes I've released over the years, to bring them up to a modern standard, or fi...

• Post #1660876

  Today's Least I Could Do comic echoes some of my concerns, and killed me in the last panel. https://leasticoulddo.com/comic/earn-and-redeem-points/

• Post #1660874

  That's one convention hotel that sold out quickly! Oh, well, I can live with Premier Inn.

• Post #1660872

  My employer's pay gap survey (done by an independent auditing company) has been presented, and we have a role-adjusted gender pay gap of -1.9%, meaning in the same role women tend to be paid slightly more. Also, we're ranked in the top five of attractive-to-women tech employers in Sweden. I haven't been with this company long, but it's nice to see.

• Post #359851

  I think "wipe" should be made irregular. I will wipe my feet. She wope her feet before coming in. We have wippen our feet.