Comment on Discussion Thread đȘ Monday 13 October 2025
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone âš3â© âšweeksâ© ago
Question of the day: What is your favourite word right now and why?
Before my husband goes to sleep, he puts on his little cosmos videos and I understand none of it except for the word spaghettification. It makes me giggle because I know what that means and they couldâve named it anything else but they chose that name.
Epitome. I used to pronounce it as epi-tome (epi like epi-pen, tome as in a book). Iâd heard the word spoken, but thought that the spoken word was spelled âipitomieâ or âipitomyâ.
I was a young adult when I realised they are, in fact, the same word. Itâs now my favourite haha
In a similar sense Iâve got provolone rolling around my head but coming to terms that if I say it correctly with my accent it sounds bogan as fuck - provoloney - cos I canât roll my râs good.
I canât roll my Râs either, unless I vibrate my soft palate - which I suspect isnât how itâs actually done đ
I did read âprovoloneâ as âpro-vah-loneâ. The em-FAR-sis on the wrong sil-LAH-bless
Salary lol
I love âalbeitâ. Discovered it in an article about The X-Files back when I was 11, putting magazine articles on my bedroom wall.
Idempotent. Itâs a best-practice methodology for writing code. Run this code, it determines whether the thing needs to be done and does it. Run it over and over, and it will do no harm. It can be automated to run every 5 minutes to only do the thing when it is needed.
A real world picture to explain the concept:
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Push either of the buttons over and over and over. Youâll either turn the machine on/off, or do nothing.
Iâd been doing this for years before I knew the word for it.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone âš3â© âšweeksâ© ago
Right now itâs chaos.
I have to keep thinking it and repeating to remember and reinforce becoming organised in my thinking and behaviour