Thoughts

"Triple to gap" joins "extraregional" in the category of Minecraft speedrun strat names that sound amazing.
The "o" in "to" is a schwa, you can almost say 'triple-da-gap' (going like Italian, not Brooklyn).
Link 7:17 p.m. Dec 12, 2024, UTC-5

I wish my brain was awake today. I had half a margarita last night and then stayed up until 11p so I’m basically hung over.
I’m such a hater
Link 10:34 a.m. Dec 12, 2024, UTC-5

Welcome to a small fragment of our shared cultural heritage.
Link 7:49 a.m. Dec 12, 2024, UTC-5

Why do you need a relational database???? There's just no way.
I guess I shouldn't meme because I haven't actually looked at the regz internals. Maybe there is somewhere in this single-file Zig script that produces a single output where it makes sense to serialize the input into a binary format and run SQL queries against it.
Link 10:37 p.m. Dec 10, 2024, UTC-5

Ah, life.
Link 3:48 p.m. Dec 10, 2024, UTC-5

microzig developers in their efforts to overcomplicate things are converting from xml -> sqlite -> zig instead of from xml -> zig directly.
Ah yes I've always wanted to store my register definitions in a relational database.
Link 2:08 p.m. Dec 10, 2024, UTC-5

I’m going to lose it.
Link 11:54 a.m. Dec 10, 2024, UTC-5

Crashed kitty within 4 minutes of opening it. I hate software so much.
Link 6:20 p.m. Dec 09, 2024, UTC-5

Edit 1:37 — Deleted
Link 1:34 p.m. Dec 09, 2024, UTC-5

Good morning.
Link 12:57 p.m. Dec 09, 2024, UTC-5

Good morning.
Link 11:35 a.m. Dec 09, 2024, UTC-5

Yesterday I conducted a double blind taste-test between Liquid Death brand water, store-brand spring water, and tap water. The spring water
narrowly beat out the Liquid Death on texture. However, it was conclusive in establishing that my tap water tastes awful. The experiment identified a potential area for future study: whether my cups make water taste bad, as all three had a bitter, plasticy taste that I don't remember from metallic containers like my Hydro Flask or the Liquid Death can.
Link 10:31 a.m. Dec 09, 2024, UTC-5

Good news. The maternal mortality rate in Seirra Leone is twice the global average. This is unironically good news because it's down
from 5 times the global average 6 years ago, but I still think we can do better. (This is the number of mothers who die in childbirth as a fraction of the number of births.)
Link 11:29 p.m. Dec 06, 2024, UTC-5

Maybe my calling in life was to be an FM radio antenna
Link 9:37 p.m. Dec 06, 2024, UTC-5

Theory: songs that sounded good over the radio were very smooth because they had to survive static. Breakcore then introduces static.
Link 9:13 p.m. Dec 06, 2024, UTC-5

Wait this literally just occurred to me, what if your primary Git branch was `mistress`. I'm sure someone's thought of that before. master
is cancelled because it's gendered.
Link 7:02 p.m. Dec 06, 2024, UTC-5

Tumblr moderation works hard but eating disorder Tumblr works harder #34t1ng d1s0rd3r
Link 8:37 a.m. Dec 06, 2024, UTC-5

I think hannahxxrose x Feinberg is the most delusional I am about anything. Like there's nothing there and I think they're so cute.
Link 9:26 p.m. Dec 05, 2024, UTC-5

Still not over Definitely Typed. One of those things that you would say is impossible if it didn't exist.
Link 4:36 p.m. Dec 05, 2024, UTC-5

There are a lot of people, me included, who try to speak with a tone above their experience. Often times, this falls flat. Zig's mlugg is
one of the people who genuinely speaks as if he is older than he is. Now, you can tell he's young because he talks about things as if he's never talked about it before, but he sounds like someone older talking about something they've never talked about before, if that makes sense.
Link 12:01 p.m. Dec 05, 2024, UTC-5

Hurricane Electric is currently breaking my brain. Free sign up for a /48.
Link 10:19 a.m. Dec 05, 2024, UTC-5

The head maintainer of the Catppuccin org is Hammy. His area of expertise is CI. Historically, I haven’t been the biggest fan of CI, it
alway seems less exciting than “actually working on the project.” But it’s really impressive to see how Hammy is able to use it as a tool to compensate for areas he’s not familiar with and magnify the scope of what he’s able to do. By investing time to make sure that repos have CI to handles dependency updates, check builds, and publish new versions, Hammy can handle a lot of the boring and administrative parts of maintenance. There’s a Catppuccin AUR repo that uses CI to check for updates in the underlying packages and automatically publish new versions to the AUR. Hammy doesn’t run Arch; he got other maintainers or volunteers to do the actual packaging once, then he wrote the CI configuration to do it repeatedly, automatically. If someone else built the project once, you can use CI to maintain it, keep it up-to-date, flag breakages, review and merge PRs, and publish new releases *without even cloning it locally*. Definitely very cool.
Link 10:54 p.m. Dec 04, 2024, UTC-5

"plausible...for up to a minute" Google Genie 2 marketing. (Okay, this is a research blog post, not a product.) But still, AI moment.
Link 7:22 p.m. Dec 04, 2024, UTC-5

Not to be libertarian, but there's a law in America that sets a minimum medical loss ratio—i.e. it caps the percentage profit an insurance
company can make. I'm not an economist but it seems like a bad idea because the only way to increase profits is to increase expenses. I think it was a part of ObamaCare which only went into effect in 2012, but insurance costs have been rising disproportionate of other countries since before that, so it's not our only problem.
Link 1:36 p.m. Dec 04, 2024, UTC-5

CEO of UHC was assassinated. Oh my word.
Link 12:42 p.m. Dec 04, 2024, UTC-5

Good morning.
Link 7:40 a.m. Dec 04, 2024, UTC-5

> If you realize that you’re dying, they only thing to do is turn back toward your childhood. Oh so many people don’t realize, or realize
> too late. I saw a man getting a transfusion of blood. Though it was necessary to keep him alive, the pain of having it injected into him incapacitated him.
Link 8:04 p.m. Dec 03, 2024, UTC-5

"If you're walking and you're frustrated 'cause you're not where you want to be yet, bro you're missing it."
https://youtu.be/dxah7uHPYo0 At some point you do have to have a goal. There's a bit in The Great Divorce where an artist is talking about how much he wants to paint heaven. And his friend is like, 'you're missing it. When you were a kid, you didn't paint for the sake of painting, you painted to capture the beauty of the world. If you're looking at it only for the sake of painting it, you're not seeing it.' (p. 82) There's sin in both directions. There's sin in stagnation and there's sin in movement for the sake of movement. There are small amounts of Goodness in everything, but those small amounts of goodness are not God. There's a trope of Tumblr posts and modern atheist thinking that says that life is about appreciating the small things, your cat or your trip to Japan. And those things are good. And it can be dangerous, finding yourself in a place mentally where you can't see any goodness. And for that person who is in a depression, it can be easier to see the small amounts of goodness—the beauty of a single flower, or a good meal, or their family's love. And moving towards those visible good things can be a way to get out of their slump. But those small, easily visible, good things are not God. God is bigger. Your reason for living needs to be bigger. "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!" -Luke 2:14
Link 7:54 p.m. Dec 03, 2024, UTC-5

“you can’t just do what is best, you also have to build trust and coordinate with others so you are on the same page”
Link 5:17 p.m. Dec 03, 2024, UTC-5

Good morning.
Link 1:48 p.m. Dec 03, 2024, UTC-5

Zig programmers are driving me insane.
Zig lets you write some code without specifying the types of variables, and somehow the Zig programmers end up in a situation where they don’t know the types of their variables.
Link 10:16 a.m. Dec 02, 2024, UTC-5

Good morning. We're so back.
Link 7:12 a.m. Dec 02, 2024, UTC-5

Jumpscared myself with a Tom Scott video I apparently have saved on my VPS.
Link 10:43 p.m. Dec 01, 2024, UTC-5

There’s a B-plot in Colfer’s *Supernatralist* about gangs that race cars, and it’s really good. The A-plot has some really weird structural
issues. So I’m really not a fan of the book. I read it back in the day, just picked up a copy to see if the car race scene was as good as I remember. It’s quick, but pretty good. (I mean, it’s a kids book.) Pages 81-111 (midway through chapter 4 to midway through chapter 5–once the race is over it’s back to A-plot). I wish I could describe why the A-plot is so bad. I think it’s because the characters don’t have much investment in it.
Link 4:55 p.m. Dec 01, 2024, UTC-5