<p>In today’s “terminology matters”:</p><p>❌ Return To Office policy: middle-management language that assumes “office” is a neutral position, we’re somehow “returning to”. This term has been carefully crafted by corporate strategists to sound as palatable as possible.</p><p>✅ Mandatory Commute policy: centers the outcome for workers - spending hours each day on an unpaid commute to and from the office just so we can be on video calls all day.</p><p>We don’t just have to accept hostile framing.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> Was Googlability a factor in choosing that name, do you know?</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@wilfredh" class="u-url mention">@<span>wilfredh</span></a></span> &quot;Pyret&quot; (-:</p>

<p>I hear people say that Go is often hard to search online (hence sometimes &quot;Golang&quot;), but the vast majority of language names are common words. Names with punctuation (C++, C#) are hard too.</p><p>Is this a big problem in practice? &quot;Perl&quot; isn&#39;t a dictionary word, but it&#39;s an exception.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> Still posting videos today with ESR....</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> He&#39;s a fucking psychopath is what he is.</p><p>Also his birth name is Lund-Hale. He doesn&#39;t like being dead named. Go figure.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> i don&#39;t know anything about this stuff but this question really got in my head so i had to go looking for the answer and i think we might have to blame Leibniz?</p><p>looks like &#39;variable&#39; and &#39;value&#39; in this sense were used together in Historia et Origo Calculi Differentialis some time between 1714 and 1716, though maybe before as well.</p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/historiaetorigo00gerhgoog/page/n34/mode/2up" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/historiaet</span><span class="invisible">origo00gerhgoog/page/n34/mode/2up</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/27900612.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">jstor.org/stable/pdf/27900612.</span><span class="invisible">pdf</span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> if anything,, people will be uploading gameplay to Tiktok and Youtube like they have been for years with GTAV</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> Very cool for valve to do this when they really didn&#39;t *have* to do it. Kudos.</p>