/I'm/ not doing an exhaustive deep dive into moss species names/nicknames, /you're/ doing an exhaustive deep dive into moss species names/nicknames!!! 😝

#Naming #NamingOfThings #NamingThingsIsHard #HardestProblemInComputerScience #Hostname #Hostnames #ComputerNames #E_TOOMANYHASHTAGS

I made a Thing. A Foodthing. Don't know what to call it.
8 Windfall peaches from neighbour partially baked in very-low-sugar 2-egg-yolk custard.
Cake dough[0] on top; microwaved 5 minutes.
Ate a bowlful for breakfast with somewhat aged yoghourt.

[0] 2 egg whites + 1 egg, beaten with a little sugar and sunflower oil. Some flour and baking powder folded in[1].
[1] Wish I'd measured the baking powder, was a bit too much.

#NamingOfThings #Baking #NotAtAllDomesticGoddess

#Minetest developers: we are renaming the engine to #Luanti so people stop confusing the engine with the not-default-anymore game #MTG (Minetest, the game).

Users: I'm going to play some #Luanti

#Luanti developers:  

#Jokes #NamingOfThings #gamers #videogames

I'm going to invoke an #askFedi for one of the hardest problems in #computerScience: #namingOfThings

Users should be able to define which parts of the border of a geometry should be filled with particles: a bitmask of back/front/left/right/top/bottom faces (BACK_FACE etc) + shortcuts for common configurations (e.g. SIDE_FACES, ALL_FACES).

A common configuration is a topless container (e.g. a cube or cylinder with particles all along the floor and side walls, but none on top). How to call it?

Thinking deeply about how to name things often means going back to the basics. Scientific Variable Ontology (SVO) and connection to variable naming in data frames using a Process_of_Phenomenon (example temperature_of_air). Stoica and Peckham 2019 http://mint-project.info/assets/publications/stoica-peckham-cwm19.pdf #DataScience #NamingOfThings #SciLit