draconacht

thinking about how famous philosophers are disproportionately childless. contra someone like feynman, who frequently mentioned interactions with his child. given the whole impetus of "assume nothing question everything", one would imagine there would be more anecdotes about like, actual children

Don't like the age verification that Discord announced? Looking for a Discord alternative? I sure have been! I've gone ahead and put together a list of alternatives and their fitness for use in communities big and small.

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a variation of the "we should improve society somewhat." vs "yet you participate in society. very curious! i am very intelligent." sketch with the heckler's quotes replaced by the xkcd standards comic

it's anthropologically noteworthy that when you order something on swiggy there are 27 advertisements (upsells / cross-sells included, no deduplication) on the order screen and half of those are for credit cards

wrote a thing

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IN MEMORY OF NIKRAT KALPAN
THE LAST MAN TO HAVE DIED HONOURABLY
HE WHOSE HEART BEAT LOUDEST IN DEATH

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amazing, it has already made an SCP fanfic.

asked Gemini to review something that i wrote, and i find it funny that it latches onto the obvious bullshit red herring phrase that i came up with.

posting the story on my blog tomorrow.

i do think it's less productive when you're working in a trade / craft, because you're forced to deliberate on whatever you're learning during practice anyway.

notetaking is great in an academic context because it's slower than thinking / typing. it forces you to manifest what you're thinking and dwell on it for a bit. complex carbs for your brain or whatever.

opened the git blame
only to see reflected
my very own name

11 now, and it isnt even html

arrow antipattern 8 indentations deep call that a ballista bolt

booking dot com trying to poach me because my company booked using their service and now they have my personal email?? Not a good look mentioning my current employer in the email

perpetually perplexed that excel sheets are the size they are. the default of a million rows x a thousand columns makes absolutely no sense when you consider the average business user. it cant even perform at a 100th of the scale. hell, if i try to delete the extra cells it just fails.

people who hold money and may throw money at you should not be a key element of engineering let alone craft. yet industries as a whole have bent over their backs into a pretzel to pretend that decades-old technologies are in-fact jingleable keys for them

AI gaming, like its predecessors (VR / cloud / blockchain) have seen investors misaligned to the most childishly monetisable solutions imaginable. tech solutions made to impress suits in boardrooms fail catastrophically because suits in boardrooms don't care about the genre let alone the craft

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a lesson that we learn and forget each generation is that investors are very often horrible judges of value. video game developers having to depend on "investors" who don't understand or respect their industry is tragic and we lie to ourselves in pretending it isn't.

if your malware
- takes 500 MB of memory
- automatically restarts the process and can't be killed
- always reads disk and exfiltrates data
- installs its own updates without asking the user
- does non standard things to hide its tracks

then it's not your malware, it's my antimalware!

was wondering what people thought of the whirring dots you see when staring at the blue sky before cell theory was a thing. fifteen minutes of wikipedia surfing later.

answer:

think fast! which of these 4 work (sql server)

CREATE TABLE test.dbo.example (thing decimal(20,10) NULL);

. INSERT INTO example VALUES ('950.45'), ('1000')
. INSERT INTO example VALUES (950.45), ('1000')
. INSERT INTO example VALUES (950), ('1000')
. INSERT INTO example VALUES (950), (1000)

ok the touying slides can embed animations

trying slides in typst

(rubbing my two brain cells together thinking really hard) ok, but what about _kantian_ game theory

they're going to start making cognitohazard suits after this prompt finishes

trying a thing. tentative for now.

found a funny along the way.

"all of your essays suck. go home."

penultimate post of the year on yoga and all that jazz

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