Ich denke, da hat ohnehin mal wieder jemand Kausalität und Korrelation verwechselt…

I wish I will still have as much drip as Christopher Walken when I am at his age…

Die kenne ich, hab ich mir schon öfter mal ins Müsli getan.
Die riechen aber nicht so stark aromatisch, wenn ich das richtig im Kopf habe…
Vielleicht dann eher ein Packung pures Kakaopulver, das riecht stärker und ist noch unwahrscheinlicher, dass ich es mir trocken in den Hals kippen würde :-)

Well, according to OPs meme, you are all nihilistic doomerists ;-)
No, believe me, my GenX humor is much more stupider!

Meh, how often do you really do some serious work where you’re not on your own hardware?

As a SW dev in a predev lab / tech demonstration environment: Unfortunately much more often than you would perhaps think…

Naa, we’ll be bitching about AI instead when it’s our turn! ;-)

I guess it is a superposition of both.

Current stage in life setting the general tone/direction (edgy young, sense-searching youth, family-focused middle age, backwards-directed old).

And the time of upbringing determines the content to focus on and the specific type of execution (e.g. when reaching the “old” group some time soon, I will probably bitch about completely other things than current boomers and my memes will be more high-quality due to better skills, but I won’t be doing TikToks…)

Für Dich dann halt Bitrex, sorry!

While that has some truth to it, I wonder if it is based on some intrinsic properties of the respective generations, or rather just on their current age and stage in life.

E.g. GenX has been the dominant parent generation for the past 20 or so years. Naturally they are doing dad jokes.
While GenZ is young, experimental, and rebelling against the perceived conventions.

But I clearly remember a time when Millenials were as avant-garde as GenZ is now.
And my Millenial wife has been on the track to slowly convert to the slightly stupid but harmless GenX-type of humor for some time now.

So maybe within a few years your meme will be almost the same, with the only difference that the generation captions have each moved one place, with GenAlpha superseding GenZ in the lower right corner…

Wäre eine interessante Frage, ob dann der Schnupper-Effekt trotzdem noch wirksam ist… 🤔

I have to reserve the limited keystroke remembering capacity of my aging brain to more crucial stuff, I am afraid…

Also, the tiny time span passing while mindlessly holding down the “*” key is a welcome pause to clear your mind, take a short breath and gather your thoughts on what the heck you are supposed to be writing in the comment body following the /**********/ line. ;-)

What evolitionary pressure could there be for left- vs. right-handedness?

That’s exactly why I was initially so intrigued by the heading:
“What on earth could be the mechanism that a bug could have caused this??”

But then I realized we were talking about entirely different kinds of bugs… ;-)

Thanks, actually sounds like a useful feature!

Although as a SW dev I do regularly depend on the repeating character behaviour, but usually not for normal letters.
But typing stuff like:
/*********************************************************/
is pretty common for me and would be annoying without auto-repeat of the respective character…

Leider ist die Relevanz der Methode für meinen Alltag eher begrenzt.
Zumindest weiß ich, was als nächstes passieren wird, wenn ich mir eine offene Tafel lecker dunkler Schocki zum “nur dran Schnuppern” unter die Nase halte ;-)

How does macOS discern between wanting to use diacritics and just trying to write the letter multiple times in a row?
And how do you choose the version you would like to use (I assume by selecting the numbers printed below)?
And yes, I have never used a Mac in my whole life up to now and am therefore completely clueless ;-)

Legit possible solution.
But I normally omit changing the behaviour of the standard keyboard as it will bite me the moment that I am not on my own computer.

Only exception:
I use a similar approach to disable the Tab-Key (and in one case, on a machine with a stripped down keyboard missing the “Pos1” and “End” keys, use Tab and Shift-Tab to emulate these).

I at first was assuming this post was to be about natural selection and the reasons for the current prevalence of right handed people.
Like today’s uneven distribution of blood types caused by different susceptibility to some diseases in former time, like e.g. the evolutionary advantage blood type 0 gives you against Malaria.

So I was initially very confused when the author started rambling about the design of his Wordpress blog instead… 😆

And here I was wondering for ages now, who in his right mind would have chosen the incredibly cumbersome to type triple backticks combo as delimiters for code sections in markdown…

And now this article just told me that the backtick is just another normal key outside of Germany…

But serious question: How do you type characters with the back accent above them? Or you just don’t?

Hihi.
Danke! Und trifft tatsächlich meinen Humor :-)

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