what is this paul
what the hell is happening
@andr00-brs.bsky.social
Competitive computer nonsense maker. Same andr00 from livejournal, the hug counter, brainstorm demoscene group, old tyme irc. And very early social media. I mean like, I had to run a web server under my desk and it was in the Globe and Mail.
what is this paul
what the hell is happening
"This project? It is a labor of sunk cost fallacies."
16.02.2026 15:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I never thought about that. I guess if 3D miter joins come to a round knife edge, this is sensible.
04.02.2026 16:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The way the wifi in my house varies between super strong and nonexistent just by moving things a tiny bit makes me think I have a standing wave. Or whatever the 2 inch radio version of that is.
So what, do I have to put the RF equivalent of auralex on the ceiling/walls or what's the play here
While left unsupervised over vacation, Dan at work made this very funny in-browser game about the sink:
sink-five.vercel.app/sink
do you think this device would knowingly lie to you
26.12.2025 02:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I'm here for a null time, not a null time
17.11.2025 15:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0the chop salad can be made without bees on request
16.11.2025 02:34 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0(gingerly placing the additional evidence of corruption, harm, and degeneracy atop the already towering mountain of such evidence) surely this will be the thing that takes them down
12.11.2025 16:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Repost with an iconic fictional band.
12.11.2025 03:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0we already talked about this io
12.11.2025 03:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0that is metal af
28.10.2025 14:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It is best for your mental health that you are not emotionally engaged with every single murder, yes. If you are in the first group, especially.
13.09.2025 19:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
There's a group that's sad when anyone gets murdered
and there's a group that's sad only when someone they like gets murdered
and the second group says the first group is faking it
pizn't
01.07.2025 06:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I have spent a lot of time working on software that automatically synchronizes audio events with visual events and I think we need an app that you give a collection of explosion videos and it sync-sequences them to the 1812 overture.
if they are spacex rockets exploding that's just a bonus
the first step to knowing about something is intuitively hating it so much that you have to figure out what your problem is
19.06.2025 17:37 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Model: a conceptual representation of almost anything
Context: the information that goes with something. Almost anything.
Protocol: rules about how data is transmitted.
These are the generic words you use to pad out your backronym. Using them all in one thing, it's like a guy with three last names
whaaaaat??
18.06.2025 14:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Maybe. Is the hypothesis that if you could reproduce today the features of golden-era twitter, then your app would be as popular as golden-era tw? Or close?
I think that time has passed, and tw development shifted towards attempted profitability some time ago, drawing down on inertial goodwill.
I wear one of these things so people don't run me over. When I do, everyone treats me as a kind of dorky but trustworthy crossing guard type. try it?
03.06.2025 23:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I still open conversational topics with, "I've been thinking a lot about you humans.."
03.06.2025 14:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I have worked with a few academic researchers over the years who are also careful and knowledgeable software engineers and boy do I miss them
03.06.2025 14:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I have been trying, for 30 years, to come up with a universal system for organizing all my files. Every year I get more files and more ways to organize them. Sometimes I have to migrate the system. At this point I'm thinking of hiring a librarian.
01.06.2025 20:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Or that you have Max Cannon in your contacts and it's time to think about Red Meat for a minute
01.06.2025 15:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0i peaked when polly esther responded to my email in Suck
25.05.2025 08:24 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hmm, what's the most valued material of this age? I guess a tuxedo woven from user data
06.05.2025 03:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The dots are alive, but my cat is going to have an out of body if I don't turn in for the night
04.05.2025 06:57 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0my dottttssssss
04.05.2025 05:54 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Kitty Korner project complete. Zero casualties
03.05.2025 21:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0