I'm reading a book about communication styles, and it claims that "A Japanese woman who not only doesn't cry but laughs when talking about her husband's death might be misdiagnosed by a Westerner who does not know that laughter is the customary and expected Japanese way of masking emotions".

Can someone tell me how much truth there is in that? The book is from the mid 80s and written by an American so I'm unsure how much to trust it (for this specific thing).

I'm trying to do some (in my mind) very simple operations with lists in Godot and it's so annoying and clunky.

Normally GDScript doesn't bother me because tbh I don't write that much code with it, but it's really irritating when I want to anything vaguely resembling "functional programming" (like, just pick the elements of a list that look a certain way, nothing fancy!).

I'm so looking forward to anonymous functions in Godot 4.0...

Hi weirder earthers! I just moved my main account here from mastodon.social. I have been in fedi for several years but it's my first account in weirder.earth.

I'm into music, programming (especially functional languages), free software, cross-country skiing, and storytelling (but see my alt @hardcorenarrativist for more of that!).

I used to write a weekly series "Music Monday" (see archive here: http://music.hcoder.org/music-monday/), might start a third season soon-ish!

#introductions