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It’s such a cheesy relationship. It’s like. He’s the best dueler in the kingdom. He has a magical sword and armor. She power-scales above him. It’s exactly the same dynamic as the autistic nerd dating the Firefight girl in the other Sanderson book. Except that Adolin is the exact opposite of a nerd, and in any other story or next to any other woman would be unrealistically strong, but next to Shallan he looks weak.

want to be around the types of people who trust me without evidence but man does it suck to be ignored and dismissed.

that they have not done functional programming.

“Therefore,…offer your bodies as a living sacrifice…this is your true and proper worship.” “Repent and believe” “Journey before destination” “if I must fall, I will rise each time a better man” “His disciples asked him, ‘Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?’ ‘Neither this man nor his parents sinned,’ said Jesus, ‘but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him.’”

Switching to Rancher Desktop, we'll see if it still happens.

The number of times that "technical Minecraft tricks" surface that are just the EXACT same concept that Gnembon or Sethbling or Etho showed off 10 years ago is ridiculous. > "Nobody Realized You Could Mind-Control Mobs Like This... Until Now" Every comment: "this is the premise of an 8 year old Gnembon video." I'm glad that people are looking for cool new stuff in Minecraft. But in order to discover something new you have to learn the stuff that has already been discovered.

the first time (even if it takes longer), rather than doing it sloppily once and then trying to incrementally improve. JumperWho practiced every part of a speedrun at a high level over the course of 3 days (5+ hours a day). She didn't do her first complete run until the end of day 3. And then she put those parts together to pull out easy sub-20s. There are people who have never gotten a sub-20, despite more experience, more practice, because they just keep re-doing the same 30-minute run over and over again. Running the game slowly, repeatedly, doesn't make you faster. The same rule applies to learning morse-code. It's easier to learn morse code one letter at a time, at full speed, rather than start slow and "get faster as you go on." => https://www.qsl.net/kb5wck/morse-.html The point is that "doing something poorly" and "doing something well" are two distinct skills. You have to LEARN how to do something the "good" way, you can't just do the poor way better and end up in the same place.

Edit, Aimsey's projector background:

=> https://youtu.be/OwPKHnQ07uE?t=3793 I'd cut the clip at :39.

I feel like I was trained to not speak unless spoken to which is weird because I wasn’t. Like I can’t initiate conversation with girls my age who I don’t know which is like somewhat understandable but I also can’t initiate conversation with a man 30 years older than me or a 7 year old child. Why am I so uncomfortable?

a second authorization bypass, and a stack trace leak in the 2 PRs I've put up since we turned Claude automated code review on.

> undefined method 'type' for nil > /usr/local/bundle/ruby/3.4.0/bundler/gems/yard-5b93b3a4f15a/lib/yard/registry_resolver.rb:154:in 'block (2 levels) in YARD::RegistryResolver#lookup_path_inherited' /usr/local/bundle/ruby/3.4.0/bundler/gems/yard-5b93b3a4f15a/lib/yard/registry_resolver.rb:143:in 'Array#each' Different URL > Web server is returning an unknown error No, my fault, my fault. Com'on. Yeah. Sure.

```sh podman run --privileged -t -v earthly-tmp:/tmp/earthly:rw -e BUILDKIT_TCP_TRANSPORT_ENABLED=true -p 8372:8372 docker.io/earthly/buildkitd:v0.8.13 ``` ```sh export EARTHLY_BUILDKIT_HOST=tcp://boxepsilon:8372 ```

Also it sucks to say but faster doesn't matter in CI. I have an Earthfile now. It's not worth my time to update GitHub actions to use it. It would have been nice if they had tried to tackle some of the complexity around building, package installation, container setup, and self-hosting. Here's the thing: I don't use GitHub actions for most of my projects, because it's not worth it. It would have been nice if EarthBuild was simple to use as a build system (like `just`) and also gave me all of the advantages of reproducible, fast, CI builds.

build process for my project is `zine release`. They have so much documentation and it's so unhelpful somehow. At least I finally made it to the part where I can run the builder. You can't have underscores in target names and if you do they just say "Error: invalid target". Like com'on. I would PR but it's Go and I do not know Go. Flags have to be provided before the target name. It's really slow. Even before validating the Earthfile it queries docker for a bunch of info, and since I'm using a remote builder it's like 10ms round-trip time and it's doing many queries so it adds up, only to tell me my target doesn't exist because I forgot the + in front of it. Earthly uses a `.secret` file by default, act uses a `.secrets` file by default. COPY copies the contents of a directory, which I gather is what Docker does and there's an option to not do that, but it's confusing that it's not just the same as `cp`. The reason I'm interesting in Earth is because it promises to be faster, right. Let's see how it compares (this is "build+deploy" with no changes, though it doesn't matter since Zine rebuilding takes like 20ms): * GitHub Actions: 39s * act (remote docker host): 130.79s * EarthBuild (remote buildkit): 5.9s * Running `rm -rf public && ./bin/zine release && wrangler deploy --assets=public --name=zig-guide --compatibility-date=2025-07-20`: 11.946s For reference, the actual work being done breaks down as around <100ms from building, and ~10 second from wrangler re-deploying (was getting 7s yesterday but over 10 today). EarthBuild is the only one smart enough to know it can skip that 10s completely because the files haven't changed. But it adds 6 seconds of BS. So it would be ~6s slower than a bash script if the files had changed.

"Linux on the server is great because companies invest in it" thing. I don't know why companies use Linux on the server. But it's not plug-and-play. It's as much of a hassle to set up and configure as Linux on the desktop.

* act is cooked because it doesn't have a node20 container (fixed by manually passing `-P ubuntu-latest=node:20-bullseye`) * Cloudflare wrangler is cooked because it forces installation of an out-of-date version (not my problem, works for now) * EarthBuild is cooked because it doesn't work with podman (can't use it) * GitHub actions is cooked because running `actions/checkout` after installing zine means that it is no longer on the path. (Have to run checkout first, then install, then build.) And containers are cooked because running a Github Action in a container locally takes 2:10.79 whereas running the release and build commands manually takes 7.12. CI takes 10x times longer than it needs to because it has to create a new container and re-install dependencies every time and Github isn't incentivized to fix it because they bill by the second.

"You don't look as bad as I thought you'd look" / "Thank you." "Everyone's always lying to me" "I'm microdosing" / "LSD or mushrooms?" "service people are so annoying" "get an education and help yourself, I did it" "Thank you!" "I fly drones for the US military" / "That is so sick" Couple where both of them are sickos and they enable each other is such a good trope. XKCD's Black Hat x Danish is the one that comes to mind, but there are plenty of others. *Make Some Noise* Season 3 19:13

I still can't believe Ruby has call/cc. That's peak. Makes all the Perl features look normal.

Edit (24th): I wasn't banned, I just logged in with the wrong account.

=> https://blog.cloudflare.com/full-stack-development-on-cloudflare-workers/#static-sites Which you'll notice does not have a `main` key, which is supposed to point to the entry point for the worker JavaScript file, and is required for all worker projects. => https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/wrangler/configuration/#inheritable-keys

=> https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/static-assets/migration-guides/migrate-from-pages/ You read this migration guide, and they're like 'it's better. Except that it's worse in every way.' And then they're like 'compatibility table: we've omitted everything Pages can't do.' The specific feature that I'm looking for is the ability to do what they call "Direct Upload" where you just upload html with no Cloudflare managed build process. => https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/get-started/direct-upload/ When I was like 14 I wondered why people used Twitter (140 character limit) or Instagram (only pictures) when Facebook let you put infinite characters and pictures or no pictures. Maybe people like Cloudflare Pages *because* it only lets you do static sites.

But they don't.

is human connection. I just finished *Words of Radiance*. I didn’t read it because I wanted to, but for the human connection, with the author and with the other people that have read it. It’s a point of possible connection with other people that I’ve felt remiss to be lacking. Interestingly, that’s not to say that I didn’t like it or enjoy reading it. I haven’t rated it yet, it might get 4, but I’m considering giving it 5 stars. It just means I’ll probably take a long break before reading the next three.

(This has landed upstream and will be in Rails 9 but it will be like 3 years before I can use it nooooo)

that's okay. I guess I need to find happiness somewhere else.

just write normal Markdown but no. If you’re writing Zine you’re not allowed to use normal markdown links you have to use Zine’s scripting language to create references to other pages. It’s SuperMarkdown, you see. I’m sorry. I didn’t download the documentation before turning off Wi-Fi on my computer for the night. Because I’ve been writing Markdown for like 10 years. But this isn’t Markdown. Zine doesn’t support Markdown. Zine only supports SuperMarkdown.

HONESTLY. WHAT THE HELL. WHAT ARE WE DOING‽ We can't make non-AI computers that work and now we're supposed to be making AI-computers and then they don't work? Like. It's not a fluke, I've tried to three times. I've tried it with a different block of text and it worked, but I guess no one tested it with a block of text that's longer than one paragraph and it times out? I don't know. What the hell.

There was a period where I would re-read my old Thoughts very frequently. I haven’t done that in almost 2 years. I sometimes jump back, sure, but I’ll read one or two thoughts, or I’ll look for a specific one. I haven’t read through pages of them in a while. Leaving aside why that might be—I can feel myself forgetting who I used to be. Rereading my old thoughts reminded me of what I was thinking and feeling when I wrote them. And because I was re-thinking and re-feeling those things, I was anchored to who I was. I changed, sure, but additively. Even after I implemented Stop Worrying I constantly remembered what it was like before. Now, I would have to strain my memory to remember that time. I’ve always been an introspective and retrospective person. But there are some times, more than others, that I regularly remember the previous stage in my life and allow it to define the next stage of my life.

not evil. The British Monarchy is incredibly powerful. A man who owns a gun and knows where you live is incredibly powerful. But the British Monarchy or a man with a gun do less harm than people with power and responsibility. CEOs and superintendents and HOA members are much crueler, on average, than people with more power but less responsibility. Responsibility is the ultimate issue with authoritarianism. Giving one person power over another, and they can ignore it. Give someone responsibility over another and they have no choice but to treat the other person as lesser.

their wills is for everyone to defer to God’s will. If you have two leaders who both have good intentions and are honest and honorable, but they disagree, then there is no reasonable resolution. It is unfair to ask either to step aside, and it is unfair for them to fight. Democracy is the best solution humans have devised, but it by-steps the problem. Voters are not following a leader when deciding who to vote as leader. The only solution is for people to not follow each other at all, and for us to support and help and teach and advise each other as we all follow God. I found the Devine Conspiracy very boring, but I’m tempted to actually read it to see if Willard’s is insightful in other areas.

but determining who will be ruler is extremely hard.

“I actually invented a new sound that is 5/18th between a schwa and an a sound for this word.” They’re like ‘English is imprecise because the same letter can be pronounced in different ways so we use IPA’ and I’m like “I can pronounce a given IPA symbol different ways depending on the context” I don’t know, I think I’ve been rage baited by a tiktoker going “if you’re a native English speaker you’ve never pronounced ‘tr’ in your life you always convert it to ‘ch’.” And I think it’s interesting that the “tr” sound isn’t enunciated and drifts towards a “ch” but to say that it IS ALWAYS IDENTICAL to a “ch” just seems blatantly and demonstrably false. “Um, actually, there’s no nuance in the way that people pronounce things ever” is just such an absolutely insane take. I did five years of speech therapy as a kid because I don’t talk normally, but sure, continue telling me how I pronounce things because I’m “a native English speaker” as if that’s a coherent homogenous category. Why does linguistics, a field that should be about the DIFFERENCES between ways of speaking, devolve into labeling and categorization and prescription so quickly. ‘Oh this person is from Milwaukee so they speak with an Inland North American accent.’ => https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inland_Northern_American_English ‘Here’s a chart of how they make all of the vowel sounds. If you’re from Milwaukee and you think you pronounce something differently than shown on this chart, for example by using a different part of your mouth depending on the context of the word, no you don’t, I’m a linguist, you’re wrong, you’re just enunciating it now because you’re thinking about it’ You can hear him say “trouble” with a “tr” sound in the video where he’s explaining how native English speakers never use a “tr” sound. Part of the point that he’s trying to make is that it’s different from if you made a t sound and then a r sound, but that’s not what he says. What he says is that everyone always makes a “ch” sound instead. When I make a t sound my tongue touches my teeth. When I make a tr sound my tongue touches the roof of my mouth significantly behind my teeth. When I make a ch sound my tongue doesn’t touch the roof of my mouth at all. He ends the video by saying “when I tell native English speakers this they don’t believe me” and doesn’t consider for a second that it’s because he’s either wrong or bad at communicating. I have to consider that he is just fully rage baiting engagement farming. It’s fully possible that I’m getting so successfully trolled right now.

per line.

If you followed the sun, you’d move west close to the equator, and it would always be noon, and the sun would always be directly overhead. If you followed the moon, it wouldn’t always be night, though. You’d get to see the phases of the moon dynamically change, instead of waiting until the next night. You would probably veer far from the equator to keep the moon over head.

for some reason confuses me to no end. Or when a character doesn’t like another character and tells a third character that but doesn’t say why. In my life I’ve found that if you have a reason for doing something, honesty explaining the reason is one of the most high-reward things you can do. And characters in books just don’t fricking ever do it.

The problem is that hard-forks (a project maintained by a different team with an independent vision for development of the same codebase) <-> cracks (an exact copy with the requirement to pay removed) is a slippery slope—in legal terms, they're both derivative works or redistributions with modification. (And I'm not concerned about "cracks" on like piratebay. Pirating will always exist. The issue is that under an OSS "cracks" will end up on Github and in distribution package archives with names like yoursoftware-community-edition. You could ask nicely, but you risk coming across as less respectful than someone just maintaining proprietary software.) The first thing that comes to mind is some sort of poison pill—if you fork you cannot re-merge future versions. Maybe there's a way to make this work, but you end up with something that is not open source software in any way. You end up punishing redistribution of modifications in all cases. (With the thought that the punishment will be worth it in one case and not another.) What you actually wanted to do was prevent it in one case and allow it in the other. Forcing a two year delay is a surprisingly elegant way of ruining the practicality of redistributing unchanged sources without preventing a community hard fork in the event that your organization stops acting in the interest of the community. Edit: Realized what I'm describing isn't Business source since Business source allows non-commercial use before X years but I'm imagining proprietary before X years.

shouldn't have any passion or initiative. And they already have, in a way. I'm now angry. And it's a lot harder to be optimistic if you're angry. I can still imagine a better future, and I do, but it's a lot harder now for me to show that to someone since I'm angry at them for not supporting me. And they really won't support me if I can't make them see the future that I'm envisioning.

It doesn't have a competitive aspect, there's no leaderboard, there's no way to win or lose. There's also no impetus to play, no time pressure, no motivation to change my routine. There's very little substantial you can do to change the game-world. There's very very little strategy or skill. It's most similar to an idle clicker. You want the number (your experience points, AM), to go up. Visiting, hacking, and claiming portals does that. I have nothing against clicker games, but it's not what I was expecting. I'd heard it described as 'more complicated than Pokemon Go' and 'confusing for beginners' and assumed that was because it had hidden depths of complex strategy. Now, full disclosure, I don't understand every aspect of the game. I've linked portals, but I don't know what linking portals does. So if there was strategy I wouldn't know it, and there are a lot of parts, so that strategy might be very complex. But the goal of the strategy has to just be about maximizing your AM per XM. (XM is a currency/energy. You use it do actions and get it from walking around.) And it has to be completely dominated by play time. As far as I can imagine. What I was hoping for was time-sensitive quests involving specific real-world locations that required collaboration with other team members and a winner. (As simple as "this portal 5 miles from you is up for contention. It will be claimed by whatever team has more unique agents visit in the next 24 hours.") It seems like a missed opportunity to not have that. I'm going to continue playing Ingress (and repeatedly hacking the same 20 portals around me that I've claimed), and I'll keep my eyes open for more cool mechanics.

She has so many secret magical abilities. And she's constantly barely making it by because her goal is not to quickly kill her enemies. We get to see her constantly make difficult and interesting decisions about how she's going to abuse her powers. She could whip out her Shardblade and start killing people. But she doesn't want to. That wouldn't be a victory for her.

If you have to call something automation you're doing something wrong. It's disgusting.

-Santa Monica, Everclear

Dropout is maintaining the position that they're not and were never meant to be ads. Rather, they're just short videos that play before the content to "communicate things to the audience." People on the subreddit seem to think that makes sense. But to me, even if they're first-party, what you're describing is an ad. I'm sorry.

The best they can come up with is, "maybe in 4 hours it will be funny." Even the awful Youtube prank channels don't wait 4 hours to reveal that you've been "pranked." And again, not only am I not being paid to be pranked, I'm PAYING to not have ads.

to sell me!?‽?!?!?!? I'm paying for your subscription already‽‽?‽? The Dropout defenders are like: 'well it could technically be a bit as part of an upcoming episode.' Well. It's not a funny enough bit for me to pay $6 to see it. "it's just a prank bro" Well I don't want to pay $6 to be pranked. Sorry. Anyways subscription cancelled. I'll resubscribe I guess when they back off and apologize (which I think will happen at this point because what on earth are you doing). You can't "prank" your customers. That's called false advertising.

possible to leverage that edge to skip things, to skip BS. It's like pushing water. You push just a little bit, and there's a little ripple in the water, and then push a little more to create a second ripple, then the second ripple combines with the first into a bigger ripple, and then that ripple grows into a wave which curls over on itself and crashes with terrible momentum.

local optimization algorithms like hill climbing or gradient decent are less likely to find local maximums in higher dimensions.

I am not the type of person to be strong. Perhaps I could be right now it is very difficult for me to say that I am the type of person to be strong, and because I find that hard to say, I find it difficult to be strong. => https://thoughts.learnerpages.com/?show=7e00279d-beeb-48ec-945b-fa9b2ed32ce8

Name a Number, Escape the Greenroom, Bingo, One Year Later, and Rulette. Two of those are on YT if you're a noob.

I forget what my scoring system for Game Changer episodes was but this ("Rulette") gets a Must Rewatch. I think it was Skip, Watch, Could Rewatch, Must Rewatch.

head rent free because it is so prevalent that we use "China" or "North Korea" as a stand-in for a bad, authoritarian, government and now I can't not notice it. => https://twitter.com/hermit_hwarang/status/1404535670765408256

I read a poorly written substack article about how the rich and powerful are unsatisfied not because riches and power are unsatisfying but because the only way you get richer is by being unsatisfied with what you. By being the type of person who is unsatisfied. And I don’t there’s an amount of code that would satisfy me.

This is about not being to run un-signed software from the context menu anymore. The software in question tells me it's unsigned and I should run it from the context menu. The software in question? Webkit nightly build FROM APPLE.

It just doesn't make any sense to me how it's so buggy. It's just garbage. It's f***ing thousand dollar garbage.

using modern meme templates and edgier content. (For context, Tumblr lets you tag posts. If you just want your followers to see a post you don't have to tag it, but if you're posting about a character you can put the character in the tags so people can find it.) Now, for some reason that I do not understand, these edgy-girly-things blogs tag "#lana del rey" in all their posts.

"My brain's been bleached / by a digital society"

due to the breath of the solution space, I have a limited amount of discernment energy for making decisions and I shouldn’t burn it on trying to find an optimal solution to an unimportant problem.

I often use stress as a motivator / reminder to keep my momentum up, in life, but it’s not the best way to do that.

I’m so decision fatigued. It’s like not a market or a product that can actually exist because the solution is a personal assistant and a personal assistant is $40/hour not /month.

and women must keep their left hand covered in public. Like normal modesty rules weren’t strict enough so he invented additional ones. What could he have possibly included in his children’s book to get it banned. The book I’m talking about is *The Way of Kings* which I’m currently reading. Which is different from the book that was removed the shelf of a school library in Tennessee. I want to reread *Firefight* to figure out why but I gave it 3 stars so I also don’t want to.

I'm working on an Actix (Rust web framework) code base for a client. Auto-reloading requires a 3rd party tool and serving static files requires a second crate and is listed under "Advanced". Like. What can you do? => https://actix.rs/docs/static-files => https://actix.rs/docs/autoreload

The only reason you would start a new series is if you were going to do something ill-advised.

including across age groups. He’s not the author I most want to post about. I want to continue my insane train of thought on Brandon Mull’s obsession with wiping people’s minds, but Mull is writing like bad Fablehaven fan fiction at this point. Might check out the third Candy Shop War at some point. I wonder if any author has successfully done a spin-off series with the original characters. I think Percy Jackson does eventually, once Percy and Annabeth are reunited, Riordan successfully writes them as a teenage couple for a couple books. I was going to say, the seventh Star Wars is not bad in this regard. Dragon Watch fails though. Seth and Kendra are so flat in that book. I don’t think he succeeds in writing a more mature version of the same characters, but maybe I’m being too harsh.

takes place in a different location. And his plot a lot of the times is bad. It almost feels like he doesn’t want to write an overarching plot. He just wants to write a bunch of action sequences in a row.

Society doesn’t even care about having human programmers. Companies just want the computers to do what they want as cheaply as possible. That sucks because I’m someone who wants to be a skilled programmer. Right now I’m being paid for that, but I’m not primarily concerned about the logistical difficulty of losing my job or having to change industries. Even if you offered me 500k to be a security guard tomorrow, I would be still be sad to not be programming. I’ve invested into practicing and learning computer science, getting a degree in it. Writing good code is something I care about and something I’m proud of. And so if society values that less, it bothers me even beyond the amount that it affects me. Some comments are unsympathetic because this has happened to other jobs before. Society used to value skilled weavers and skilled carpenters and skilled cobblers, and we don’t anymore. The skills still exist, but they’re not seen as important: most people don’t care. In other careers we still value skill. We still value skilled lawyers and doctors, or at least pretend to until robots get better at surgery than human doctors, and it’s revealed that we don’t actually care about having skilled doctors at all, we actually care about getting the best treatment possible. Skilled sports players will probably be valued longer than skill in any other area because it’s impressive not to get the ball to the other side of the field, but to do it as a human within the rules. Jon Bois in his sci-fi story 17776 predicts that in the future, after all problems are solved, we will do nothing but play and watch football. We’re watching AI move several fields—programming, writing, art—from the realm where skill is valued to the realm where it is not. And that hurts to watch. Again, not because people might lose their jobs, but because I care about humans being experienced and having the opportunity to care about their work. And perhaps that’s irrational. Perhaps human skill has no inherent value when arguing from first principles, and perhaps we should let machines do the work. And perhaps it’s hypocritical that I lament the lack of value for programmings skills that I have, but I don’t lament the lack of value for carpentry. I buy flat pack furniture and I’m glad that we have power tools and factories. But when they come for programmers I can imagine a world where no skilled labor is valued and everyone either oversees the factories or works in the factories or plays sports. (And that obviously won’t happen to “everyone”, because today there’s still a man in a trailer park who makes his living fixing wooden chairs and in the future there will still be programmers.) But it’s weird and uncomfortable to realize that, even as a skilled programmer, my work is not important. Now, after the invention of LLMs, even if no one on the planet wrote another line of code ever again, civilization would be fine because we could prompt AI to write it for us. In conclusion, even the “best case scenario” where AI ushers in a post scarcity society, I’ve still lost something because my skill set would no longer be important to that society. And that would suck.

"The only thing that all these banned books have in common is the fact that they’re banned." Obviously the like Shel Silverstein or Ancient Greek books which have been hit because of non-sexual nudity are bad, but the one that shocks me is Firefight by Brandon Sanderson. Like when you're banning f-ing Sanderson books something's very wrong. Sanderson has never cursed in a book I don't think. Fireflight is a book written by someone with very conservative personal values, with a target audience of middle schoolers. And so it's illustrative that it's not a matter of acting in good faith as an author or sharing values with these people and it's really not about writing books that are appropriate for children. The law is just a checklist of things that you can't talk about. Authoritarianism is fundamentally flawed. The thing about library-level book bans is that it's not hard to find books that no one has read in a library. People read and focus on the same 2 John Green novels, but weird/explicit material is just as likely to occur in a book from the 80s that someone donated that no one has ever heard of. Unless you have someone read every book with the content standard open next to them, it's just not going to be enforced constantly or completely. There's stuff in the Bible that's much worse than stuff in a Sanderson novel.

Program Scribe's Veney! Program Scribe's Veney! You know you want to create a digital video game adaptation of the unpublished chess-inspired rock game Scribe's Veney! No one's played it because they don't have a computer to implement the rules. You've made lots of video games including a turn-based multiplayer card game! It would be easy! Program Scribe's Veney! You could use Zig or Lisp! Program Scribe's Veney!

permission does an O(n) lookup to see if the permission already exists; so adding n permissions is O(n^2). This is 25% of our request time at least on newly logged in request (I think we cache it sometimes). => https://github.com/chaps-io/access-granted/blob/b9de1888c8eca5d3e04756682beda95dac7649dd/lib/access-granted/role.rb#L57C7-L57C23 Edit: I don't think we cache it.

if we had a best selling artist who’s a man down on his hands and knees with his gorgeous locks being held by a woman. This is why we need Weird Al Yankovich to

Context: Fulham is asked by a chatter if they should learn zero-cycle (a strategy for ending the game, if you have no context, think of checkmate in chess). And Fulham pulls up their game history. => https://youtu.be/vXVoToLrRBY?t=28 (content warning strong language/yelling in the whole video)

Like witty replies that appear devastating at the expense of actual argument integrity, that only work because the opponent doesn’t have a platform. I haven’t watched a Ben Shapiro video in like 10 years but I’m not afraid to admit that he’s funny. Just not in taste for political issues. Northernlion, on the other hand,

* Results — like Zig's error sets — things that are an error condition but need to be recoverable / handleable — control flow issue. Has Ok / Err variant. `unwrap()` maps to a panic. .ok() maps to an optional. * Options — optionals, for when being "null" is a value / expressible data state — data issue. .ok_or can be used to provide a result. Has Some / None. `unwrap()` maps to a panic. * panics — program issue, if you will, your program is designed under the assumption that it will never happen. Visible to the end user. The ? operator can, like Zig's try, syntax sugar the "else return null" or "else return error" pattern. Importantly, this only works if the calling function return value is compatible. => https://corrode.dev/blog/rust-option-handling-best-practices/ Outstanding questions: What can you do with a result? (i.e. can you provide a default or convert into an option?) Presumably Results usually have an Error as their second type or failure type. Is that true? Similarly, can you try/catch/return an error without a Result? What is expect()?

We're 40 minutes into a meeting discussing whether to remove the second setting and fix the first setting or remove the first setting and fix the second setting.

Single-player, AR, interactive, exercise experience. Pick a “route” (a continuously runnable/walkable stretch, around 2 miles) Setup around 200 “landmarks” (trees, stop signs, utility access hatches and rocks along the route) Start a “session” in the app Have the app randomly “link” around 10 pairs of 2 close landmarks (around 100-300 ft apart) (You are not told where these links are) Travel along the route (discovery—looking for links) Have the app trigger a “sprint” automatically when you arrive at a landmark with a link Sprint to the landmark which is linked to your current landmark Have the app score you based on your speed End the session once you’ve discovered all of the links The goal here is high replayability. I get really bored doing runs along the same stretch of road. I get locked in to looking at the ground, and my brain starts thinking about other things. This would be new every time, because the links would be in different places, and it would be interactive, you would have to pay attention to where the links the are and where you’re sprinting to. I’m trying to avoid Ingress and Pokémon Go, which are interactive AR, but you’re interacting with your phone. I want to interact with the world, which is hard to do in a single-player constraint. I think geohashing gets close with ‘you have to go to this place’ but it misses any sense of urgency or excitement. My third inspiration is Flags (my conception of a 1,000 flag scavenger hunt). I never got to run Flags because of COVID (which is ironic because it was conceived as a game that was playable outside while social distancing). Flags has excitement when you find a flag or find out how many points it’s worth. But even a scavenger hunt doesn’t have “interactive excitement.” All of the skill is in the “discovery phase” and so the exciting part—when you actually find the flag—is actually the least interactive part because you just collect it. If your heart rate goes up when you find a hidden flag, that’s irrational. Of course, this is all an attempt to mimic the excitement of my fourth (one true) inspiration, HvZ. I don’t see any obviously flaws—which could just mean it’s consistently bad. The biggest issue is I have 0 time to program a new app.

> There is no ideology that can replace a neighbor. No tax plan that can replace a friend. No grocery bill that can replace community and connection. No amount of budget cuts that can replace kindness. No amount of suffering from people I hate that will ever make more love. I don’t know how to make America great, but I know how to make my America great and it is not by selling out integrity and compassion and community and ******* humanity to make eggs and gas cheaper. It is by seeing and hearing the people around me. I’m not Mormon anymore, but I still know the value of mourning with those that mourn and comforting those that stand in need of comfort. I’m not Christian anymore but I still have Eyes That Can See and Ears That Can Hear.

"iTunes Match requires iOS 5" — I don't think that's an issue. "you can listen to iTunes Radio" — No I can't, iTunes Radio shut down in 2016. => https://support.apple.com/en-us/108935 iTunes Match was (well, I guess, "is") a service where you'd pay Apple a yearly subscription, and they'd take songs that you had on your Mac (normally from burned CD's), "match" them with the listing of the song in iTunes, and let you download the song from iTunes on other devices without having to buy it again. If they couldn't find a match, they'd upload the song to the cloud so you could still sync it. The concept is simply completely superseded by Apple Music. (In addition to allowing access to songs on iTunes, Apple Music today allows you to upload songs downloaded from e.g. Bandcamp and it will sync them to all your devices.) Unlike other Apple Music predecessors, like iTunes Radio and Ping, iTunes Match is a paid subscription. This means that if Apple shut it down, they'd lose the revenue from everyone who subscribed in 2011 and then forget what it was. But it's also still possible to subscribe in 2025, if you want to, if that's your jam. Just in case you really want to pay a subscription for songs that you already bought. (If you cancel the subscription you keep the songs, so you're technically paying for the syncing not the songs.)

idea of popular fantasy is very different from mine. Kelsier is in Fortnite.

Sometimes I just wish that people would care about the same things that I do. The older I get the more I realize that no one else will ever care.

Since it was so hyped, I don’t know if I just had unrealistic expectations or if it was actually bad. I enjoyed reading it so I don’t think it was bad. But it’s hard for me to articulate something I like about it. I want to be nice and give it 4 stars but I also want to be sure I’m not being biased by the fact that I know it’s popular. I think the tiebreaker is pacing, and it’s paced really well, so I’ll give it 4. The reason it’s surprising it’s at 4 stars is because I have no desire to read the sequel right now. It’s weird. If I liked it, which I did, why don’t I want to read the sequel? I like it more than other 4 star books that have had me hooked on the whole series. My theory is that the shorter two-novella format ruins my ability to get hooked and engaged. The other big issue, I’ve decided, is that the “conflict” for the main character is its identity and how it fits in with humans. And the “plot” is a completely tangential action plot about trying to stay alive. I want to watch murderbot continue to evolve its relationship with others and its conception of itself. But I don’t actually care about the action scenes because they’re not actually related to that.

to do something and Safari's like, eh.