Interesting Links for 23-05-2025
May. 23rd, 2025 12:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewducker- 1. Why are Scotland's councils so short of cash when tax is going up?
- (tags:scotland tax )
- 2. Greenland Signs Lucrative Minerals Deal with Europe in Blow to Trump
- (tags:Europe USA materials Greenland trade )
- 3. How I Beat NES Mario in 0.000005 Seconds (the nerdiest video I have ever watched. If you've seen something nerdier then do let me know)
- (tags:video games programming technology mario )
- 4. Trump's image of dead 'white farmers' came from Reuters footage in Congo, not South Africa
- (tags:USA politics Africa southafrica )
- 5. Programmers spend 5% of their time editing code, the rest is mostly understanding it/the issue they're trying to solve..
- (tags:programming research )
- 6. Which word made you old? (Mine was GOAT)
- (tags:language age change comic )
- 7. Explaining "what a species is" turns out to be very very tricky
- (tags:video ontology life )
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Date: 2025-05-25 10:16 pm (UTC)Those aren't incompatible if your manager had thought about it. I type quickly and this helps me with those bursts of "ok I know what to do here and let me get it out Right Now". That doesn't mean I spend most of the day that way. I'm guessing you're in a similar position.
And I'm with you on "to understand it I need to interact with it". Yes we also need to stare at code, but it's too easy to make assumptions while reading that a little actual poking would quickly dispel.