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> The thing with art and music is that they are easy to appreciate

I get what you mean (and agree w.r.t. math/code) but notably, I think appreciation for a lot of things still accumulates if you put in the work.

As an amateur violist, I can attest that I gained a totally new appreciation for most of the pieces I've studied and played in an orchestra in the past.

This not only includes "unknown" classical music from different eras, but also the obvious (popular) candidates like Beethoven's 6th, Dvořak's 9th and Grieg's "Peer Gynt" suites.

And there's a lot of great music one needs to get into first; for expample: I love Tool songs exactly for that, and there are certainly more obscure artists :)

So, I suspect the thing about maths and code is mainly just caused by the fact that people can go through life just fine without really interacting with them on the level required to develop the smallest bit of "taste" (as opposed to e.g. music).

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The official firmware, yes, but also Fairphones for years, not Xiaomi or the like (FP2 -> FP3 -> FP5 now). So the "bloat" in question is the Google stuff.

I had the same experience. Repeatedly. IMO it's the software, not the hardware. The issues always start/get worse with a big update to Android or the main Google apps.

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> Knowledge cutoff

> None. Wouter is aware of everything and disappointed by most of it.

Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they ask me to take you down to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction? ’Cos I don’t.

If it's something small, usually yes. But very often, that's still on the same routes (often, not all rails are blocked, so only some connections through the station suffer).

But I've also seen my fair share of "trains in this direction won't recover for hours" over the years, and directly after such an incident, the official systems usually don't really adapt all that well. I don't know if they're "massaged" manually after that or if it's just a case of the entire system finally figuring out that an entire station is FUBARed, not only one or two scheduled connections…

The "geek" in the title is definitely a lie. I can think of an entire series of fitting expletives to replace it, though.

I'd agree with you based on the language itself; Lua has some annoying idiosyncrasies like e.g. (my main pet peeve) 1-based indexing.

But I suspect the positive opinion on Lua stem more from the standardized environment the language is built around (i.e. how it is embedded into applications): If you don't explicitly pass capabilities like file handling etc. into the script, it CANNOT use them. Sooo many scripting languages get this wrong, it's actually embarassing.

…minutes before a bunch of Vogons show up to finally get started with their intergalactic highway and the result never makes it to the prompter ;)

Imagine someone sneaking in The King in Yellow into the training sets used by all projects training models somehow, breaking all future models irreparably -- and then the engineers trying to find this poison pill in the dataset and going mad one by one as they find it and aren't able avoid reading into act 2.

…should make for an interesting SCP story :)