Thoughts

Or rather, would be done if this was the type of project that is it is possible to finish. I will of course continue to tweak and change things, but those things will bring us less decidedly towards a “finished” state and will instead be changes for the sake of changes. Prominently, I still don’t have any markup support. I decided I cannot be faulted for merely displaying the text the user inputs.

player of games, and set out to make the type of game that I wanted to play. Similarly, some of the books that I've previously started, I began the type of book that I wanted to read. But those mindsets are very different from the artist's mindset. When I set out to create art I get carried away with the creative freedom of it all. And if I succeed in capturing my emotion or my vision, as I did on the About page here for instance, I end up with something that at the very least is so different from other things that no one knows that they want it.

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For the 13th consecutive time. The GOAT.

Analyzing it almost seems unfair, since it exists on its own as a work of art. And yet, it stands up to cursory analysis. It reads like a short story of literature, except actually good. It's simultaneously indulgent and escapist, and persuasive and compelling. But it's not incredible, it doesn't transcend the genre. It knows that it's a story. All it is is a story. It's just a really good story. Wow. Wow.

that better? The main character’s attempts at flirting are so bad that the best case outcome is that he comes out as gay.

Ahhh Apollo is a Reddit client btw

There are features that I’ve been procrastinating from adding for a year. Oh yeah code goes open source on September 5, for better or worse.

I expected `[undefined].toString()` to return `"[undefined]"` but it instead returns `[]`. `(undefined).toString()` is an error but `undefined + ""` is `"undefined"`.

something wrong.

Some jokes never get old.

*Interestingly, my definition of "impulse" is just doing something without planning out every step in advance. Some people live their whole lives like that. Both of the text messages I just sent I had thought about sending earlier today.

I'm sure ██'ll do well with the Firefighters. And I'm sure Edric will make a great addition to the team. But it still stings.

Should I stop posting bad socialist takes here? This one is so out there I can't even provide commentary.

Corners pieced, stapled, sharp, Threaded, pull taunt, Edges, lines, angles angled corners pieced Threaded, pulled and tied taunt string pulls corners angled corners and lines threaded, tied taunt string slips through corners angles and corners and lines

(subject to change) hours."

(since communist takes are just a part of the language of the many in our generation), but it comes off as "fellow-kids"-ish. Like I'm not communist and I'm not trying to gatekeep being communist. I'm just saying that some of these people are clearly not communist and are just joking about it because they're trying to appeal to an audience that is.

They just met an ornithologist.

Going back to => https://thoughts.learnerpages.com/?show=c62d40fd-2d69-49f3-bdb7-61238c26c90b "the first item on my TODO list is: 'Make every piece of software in the world perfect.'" Someone used the analogy of climbing/digging out of a hole, and it's like, I don't even feel like I'm in a hole, I feel like I'm in the middle of an endless, bottomless, pit. In my life philosophy there is no "good enough" and there is no "too bad" there's just this infinite vertical tube stretching above and below me. And somewhere, miles above me, is "make every piece of software in the world perfect," but like, that's not what I'm going to do today. So I need to focus on moving upwards even when it's not clear that I'm making progress, because the tube is so long, or because there aren't nice landmarks.

about treating functions as operators.

The box-mix brownies are super fricking thin when poured into a 9"x13".

SO is far from a well-run company, they've mismanaged their community a couple of times. But that means that it's unlikely that Prosus can screw it up that much. Prosus also owns like 20% of Tencent.

inflicting pain on your characters. I see a lot of dramatic writing as no better than slap-stick comedy.

I'm all for trying to convince people, but once you've made your case and I'm on your side, I don't enjoy listening to you repeatedly insult everyone who's not on your side. "Welcome to the club" "What do you do here?" "Well mostly we sit around insulting everyone who isn't in the club" "Why?" "For not being in the club"

Bare minimum context: I’m reading *Fat Vampire* by Adam Rex. The central conflict of the book is that the main character, a vampire, needs blood. But for unexplained reasons sucking the blood from someone is a sex act and the main character is very homophobic.

the address bar is spectacular. I do not understand why other browsers don't do that. I almost suspect it is because they are reliant on money from search engines.

almost there. It just has a couple of downsides that make me keep looking for perfection.

Type-checking at run-time is this thing that sounds really random and totally useless. In most compiled languages, the types are used to compile and then thrown away. Shouldn't there be a way to get benefit from types at runtime? This is one of the things that I noticed, and that frustrates me about OO languages. (A more detailed description of this problem can be found in the [Thu design document](https://ourjseditor.com/program/S5ShEy), under "Problem 2".) It was very cool to see Julia identify the same issue that I had identified. I watched, in particular, [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc9HwsxE1OY) video (which unfortunately assumes knowledge of Julia). The solution that Julia implements is called Multiple Dispatch, and it's not specific to Julia. Multi-dispatch is similar to function overloading, except that instead of doing Java-style logic to decide the type of an object, the type is determined, and matched against, at run-time. It was also very cool to be able to compare my solution to that of multiple dispatch and Julia. I really like OOP, it's something that is relatively intuitive (as far as programming concepts go), and something that I've been using for a while. So Thu was definitely designed around OOP paradigms. While this has the obvious advantage of allowing you to write object oriented code, it means that the language probably wouldn't be able to take advantage of the looser type system. People would just end up writing OO code in Thu. Julia doesn't try to allow OO code. It seems to take after a functional language much more. Using functions instead of methods is what allows multiple dispatch to be powerful. You can write functions that match on the object type instead of defining those functions as a method of that object. So instead of `Integer.add()` and `Float.add()` you just call `add` and it does the right thing, switching behavior to handle different types correctly. In this way, multiple dispatch allows for code re-use. Lastly, I want to point out that I have never written so much as a line of Julia. This is purely a ~~academic~~ recreational exploration.

It has motive, which most conspiracy theories lack. Not just for Fox but for corporate America. That's the angle /r/AntiWork should be taking. Like you could sell that so hard. Ban that one person from the subreddit, and post an announcement about how they were bribed to throw the interview. It's like they haven't even read the instruction manual on how to start a communist revolution. Oh yeah context I guess is important: https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/sd9ohb/whats_going_on_with_rantiwork_and_the_fox_news/

Except 1 person, you know who you are. (Jk)

minutes that it is to work on one task for too long. => /?show=65a832f0-c86e-4595-89af-6dd25eb8f67d [1]

And VS Code has that. And vim has that (and neovim by virtue of compatibility). But that's it. (Okay I imagine emacs has to as well, right?) Vim Polyglot is freaking amazing. It just has syntax highlighting for 600 common languages. I install it once, and in 5 years of opening files the only things it hasn't been able to syntax highlight are IBM RPG and Gemtext. (And it's easy to find Vim syntax highlighting packages for both of those.) => https://github.com/sheerun/vim-polyglot Vim Polyglot I just don't understand why that isn't priority number 1 for people making text editors. Anyways this Thought was inspired by BBEdit bragging about supporting "over two dozen built-in languages."

I’ve been whittling them down.

It was really bad a couple of days ago. But I still don’t want to talk to people because it’s painful.

Power was out for a while, most of today.

My phone, watch, second phone, computer, display, and speakers all need power. Honestly, I don't use the external display or speakers, I should probably get rid of them.

tag that specifies theme, so Vivaldi has to guess. It does that by taking all of the colors in the favicon and mixing them together like a small child mixing paints. Imagine yourself as that small child. You take the beige that underlines the T, and mix in some of the background green, but the result is an ugly greenish-brown. What else did you expect from mixing green and brown? You try to salvage it by including some of the barely-not-white from the T itself. But it's too late; there's nothing to be done but throw it all over the browser window anyways. Vivaldi, being a computer program, lacks even the artistic sense of a small child, and so it feels no shame in framing my website with this disgusting color. Edit (3:58): reworded to be more rhetorically enjoyable

There are extensions for VS Code to let me open and edit Excel files. I can almost use VS Code as a browser (there are extensions for it but these seem really bad.) Sooner or later someone is going to create an application that supports plugins to open any file type, and it is going to be incredible.

-The Showman, U2

echo -n ${"$(git -c color.status=always status)"[0, -1]} fi fi } zle -N my-accept-line bindkey '^M' my-accept-line ```

Not to imply that Arch requires 250GB; it of course doesn't. But that's how much I allocated for it and I'm not going to try to resize it now.

You just can't describe a commit in 50 characters in a complex project.

Eventually the shutdown process times out and it is smart enough to force-kill itself without me having to do anything, but when it starts back up it gives me "your computer was restarted because of a problem."

That's kind of what you have to do when you're doing science for a mass appeal audience. In some ways it's very similar to Mythbusters (which I love). Both understand the scientific method, understand the science behind what they're doing, and are doing original science. But their goal, first and foremost is to be entertaining. Since I can tell that, it makes the science less appealing. Mythbusters didn't have to compete with the internet; Mark Rober has to compete with Youtubers are doing much better science (if less fun).

there’s also nothing good. There are a few funny jokes. There are other books that I’ve given 2 stars to because they only get 2 stars on the things that I care about. But normally those books have something else going for them. I don’t enjoy tragedies, so when I’m rating books I don’t take into account how good of a tragedy it is. And *Fat Vampire* (Adam Rex) is a tragedy so it gets rated the same as other tragedies, but it’s bad. It’s a bad tragedy. Also, somehow the ending is more homophobic than the rest of the book. Which is kind of impressive. It is one of the worst books I’ve ever read. The first half is bad and funny, so at least I had things to say about it. But the second half is bad and not funny. I don’t read books this bad unless there are unusual circumstances. I don’t understand how Rex turns it around and writes one of the best books I’ve ever read 3 years later. I guess this is a romance and a tragedy strung along by jokes. And Cold Cereal is an adventure and a comedy. And Rex is a lot better at one of those things than the other. I don’t think this book would have been published if it wasn’t in the middle of the Twilight movies coming out.

I want to throw up. I want to To quote myself, "Past like 10pm the solution to existential crises is simple; go to sleep, deal with it in the morning." Hopefully I was wiser then than I am now.

You have to be able to push yourself. But you also have to know when to push yourself. Edit: https://twitter.com/Matthias_4910/status/1250315557791887360

Since Wordle is fundamentally about finding information, and yet, the information is right there in the source code if you're willing to peak behind the veil. So you end up with a whole spectrum of amounts of information that you can convey, in between knowing nothing to knowing tomorrow's word. And it's really hard to define a strict line between cheating and not cheating. Like, is using hints or guides in a puzzle game cheating? I think this gives rise to the more fundamental question of 'what is platonicWordle?'. Since you inherently come into it with knowledge of English words, and yet, everyone has a different list of five-letter English words in their head. Someone who doesn't know English very well is playing the game at a different difficulty. I think what I'm getting at is that cheating, and to a boarder extent, playing, puzzle games is a function of your mind. And no matter how tempting it is to turn the game into a black box of re-playability, that's just not the nature of the game.

momentum. It lacks flow. One sentence comes after the next in a steady beat but there's no crescendo. Edit (2:52pm): This is, of course, not true.

If nothing mattered, if I were an atheist and a nihilist, I think I would build a tower. Or maybe a tree house. I'd run into the woods somewhere and build a tree house. And I might die but that would be okay because nothing would matter.

Okay yeah that’s based

it stuck in my head. "my yellow bus is takin' too long, it's takin' too long my yellow bus…"

gives up on storing scrollback but I'm currently at 29,000+ lines with no issues.

Or NotABug, or TildeGit or etc.

Mouse gestures in Firefox are bad -> Move to Vivaldi

pandemic had been largely for (arguably) a year by the time the movie was released. The movie doesn't state this, but the attitude of the characters towards the covid pandemic would have me estimate the movie takes place in June of 2020.

This is why I don’t read that much—not because I can’t, but because I can’t stop myself. I’d rather sit down for 10 hours on a weekend and do nothing but read than space out a book into my free time. This means that reading is a greater commitment than other things, like a 10 minute game of bedwars. This is for fiction of course, I have no ability to focus on more than 20 pages of nonfiction at a time.

But then again, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get qemu to do anything, so maybe that's my best bet. (Also going to check out podman…)

-Some commenter What does this mean? I think they're trying to make a point, I don't know.

(just fidgeting again)

board with more interesting pronouns. (Unfortunately, I’m not about to guess what pronouns, that’s a slippery slope to retconning the gender of historical figures.)

happen to me.

shortcut to switch.

room for error as possible. If I have a line of code that doesn't work, my style generally is not to look at it or think about it or even "rubber-duck" at this point. I tend to jump immediately to assuming nothing and either wildly printing variables or binary-searching between the present and a previous working state.

thinking critically about the book and analyzing its impacts and effects. But that's not what's happening. People are analyzing it to determine whether its a good book or a bad book, whether the characters in it are good or bad, and whether the author is good or bad, and whether the fans are good or bad. One commenter argued, 'most of the characters support the slavery of House Elves, therefore Rowling supports slavery and any fans of the book support slavery.' But with the House Elf question, Rowling has created moral nuance. She's introduced a question into the world building of the book that doesn't have a right or a wrong answer. The book doesn't make a judgement on the treatment of House Elves and it doesn't tell you what to believe about slavery in real life. You're supposed to think critically about the issue. You're supposed to see analogues between certain parts of the issue and certain aspects of real-world issues. But you're not supposed to "solve" the moral issue and then assume that anyone that disagrees with you about the treatment of House Elves is transphobic in real life. This is about a Tumblr post arguing 'it's fine if you liked Harry Potter as a kid, just as long as you now recognize it's garbage.' I liked Harry Potter as a kid and if I read it today I would still like it. It hasn't changed as a book. I'm not even a moral-relativist; I believe in absolute right and wrong; I just don't think a children's novel is either.

it until today, I don't think, but I've remembered, if not most of it a lot of it (should have taken the goat, women are better at climbing than men, the three-strike system, climbing is more expensive than you thought, suave motherfool (at the time I was using a browser extension (that I wrote myself (okay it was a bookmarklet)) that replaced curse words with alternatives like "fool"), the perfectly-nested multi-level parentheses, ah!). This is deep in the Matthias Lore Archives. "suavemotherfool" was a computer password of mine for a while. => https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3157lu/comment/cpz2x14/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 content warning, strong language, sexual themes

I'm dying here, Juice, "Set it and forget it" is the motto of the Showtime Rotisserie & BBQ, created by Ron Popeil. David Attenborough is a voice actor famous for nature documentaries. How? Jon? Please?

I actually didn't get a chance to see it! I'm crying inside.

He is risen indeed!

want from me sometimes what is going on

Tom Scott on why he won't make a video on a video game: > I'm not writing off video games. I was on a charity Among Us stream yesterday, it was fun. But I am writing off that gamer-adjacent culture, and trying to avoid the perception of even being _remotely_ connected to it.

to tell you what to care about.

It's not common knowledge that you can find locations in the world from bedrock patterns, but I am always surprised when I know something that a professional Minecraft YouTuber doesn't. Okay, 5 minutes and some Googling later, a bunch of nerds have already found the coords, this is old news. I love the internet.

It seems to me that should be table-stakes. But the feature-parity (last I checked) was that you could disable an error entirely in a config file (e.g. I could tell the linter not to check "too-many-arguments to function" period) or you could disable it for a line with a comment (e.g. "// eslint:disable too-many-arguments" on the line with the function declaration). I think it should go without saying why both of those are unacceptable to me. But apparently I need to spell it out. I would be okay with the linter letting me know "hey you're using a lot of arguments here, that's an anti-pattern." I would then think about how I could refactor that section of code, and possibly come up with a better solution. But sometimes I wouldn't; sometimes I'd decide passing a lot of arguments is the idiomatic solution. It doesn't make sense for me to disable the error globally, since in this case there would just be one exception to the rule. And I don't want to disable it in-line because I don't want my linter config to be mixed in with my code. I'm here to write beautiful code and adding a linter-specific config comment that is unintelligible to anyone who hasn't read the linter docs or written a linter doesn't help my code readability. (What does `AbcSize` mean in `rubocop:disable Metrics/AbcSize`? Obviously Assignment, branch, complexity size. How do you calculate that? (It's not addition.) Rubocop delegates explaining that to a page that only talks about C++. Apparently "lint rules should be understandable by the person writing the code" is not a goal linters try to achieve.)

being a total tongue twister. I was proud of it after finishing, I only really paused once, but listening to it again, I end up hesitating on every fifth syllable because cummings has invented a word. Might post it tomorrow if I remember.

nuanced views. Edit: Reverse Occam's razor: The side that is more convoluted is better able to satisfactorily account for edge cases. Matthias's Blade: The side that is obviously wrong is more accustomed to being challenged on their beliefs, and develops a sophisticated ability to reply to those challenges. I'm kind of trolling with the premise here.

Someone asking me to do something gets filed as a problem I have ('I have to do it') and then also 'why haven't I done it already' and then 'why am I the type of person who hasn't done it'

perceive a subset of truth, but that everything that we see is slightly 'blurry'. We don't perfectly know anything. We create abstractions on our side of the glass that let us talk about the thing that do exist on the other side, but those abstractions are not the true objects. This epistemology can be used as an answer to many philosophical questions. Is math invented or discovered? Is physics invented or a universal truth? What is the platonic form of a chair? Where does a person's body start and end? For all of these, there is a real answer, which completely defies human understanding. I'll need to break this into more thoughts.

Think about how many people started that series identifying as a different gender from how they will when finishing it. Wild.

most of the plot, but the vibes are etched in my brain forever.

Installed lwm. I can't figure out how to open an application. I don't want a fancy fuzzy-finder application list with professionally made icons. But I NEED TO BE ABLE TO OPEN AN APPLICATION. IT has to be POSSIBLE. So I decided to try to ask for help in #linux on Libera.chat, right. Sounds reasonable. I don't have a window manager working, so I decide to install irssi, which is a very popular terminal-based IRC client. It open with, I kid you not, 'if you're new, open our website to learn how to use irssi' It is inexcusable in my mind to have to read online documentation to learn how to use software, period. I'm not learning a programming language. I'm trying to connect to an IRC server. I don't have a window manager installed. So I open, in `links`, irssi.org (luckily irssi.org doesn't have any JS, so it works), select "Read Tutorials" > "Startup How-To" > "First Steps." We're now a different program and 4 levels deep to try to learn how to connect to an IRC server. IRSSI doesn't *do anything* without walking through this. But it gets worse. It explains that it's configured with some default servers, and gives the example that we can use `/CONNECT liberachat` and `/JOIN #irssi` to join. That sounds great. That's all I want. I close `links`, open issri again. Enter `/CONNECT liberachat`. Doesn't work. Liberachat isn't found. It's not a preconfigured server. And like. I'm using a terminal-based IRC client. I want minimalism. This isn't "Discord is good because it has stickers." I want pure-text communication. And I can't figure out how to use. So I search for liberachat on my phone because I can't remember their domain name. And I open a second tab on my phone with the irssi docs because I now need to add a new server. I try it without the port, hoping that the port is standardized in 2022 but no. The examples given in the irssi docs don't specify ANYWHERE how to add a server including the port, for the record. So I try "irc.libera.chat:6697" and that doesn't work and then I try "/connect irc.libera.chat 6697" and that at least tries to connect but I get 'connection closed by remote peer' instantly. I give up at this point. I use neovim as a my primary editor. I'm no stranger to terminal apps. But I can't guess how to use your software.

a dream.

imagines a conspiracy against him. When he escapes, he punishes Villeforte and the others for their imagined crimes. It's shown that Villeforte and the others are not good people and probably deserve what's coming to them, but they weren't the ones who threw The Count in jail.

that components work as a way to re-use rendering, and not as a way to re-use logic. This is the problem that functional-style react and hooks were supposed to address, because you were supposed to be better about writing functional components. In reality, it made the problem worse, because JS developers aren't Haskell developers. They think of functions as a way to re-use business logic. So when React said "components are just functions" people started putting *more* business logic into components, not less.

=> gemini://astrobotany.mozz.us/public/b0b6c327852d4f4690fea43b59a1eee6

I didn't count scientifically, but Matt refers to her as "her/she" 4 times, and "they/them" 3 times. Ben Sparks and Howard Carter are another 3 "they/them"s All I want, Matt, is consistency.

fools pranks in one. - A bunch of random buttons that light up or make sounds or do nothing - Crab button that adds crabs to the page. Clicking on crabs captures them and spawns money. Crabs display little textboxes of what they're on top of. If they stay alive for long enough, hovering over them gives a "Friend <3" textbox. - Sponge button that covers the page with dirt and gives you a sponge to clean it off. - A button that opens a tiny minigame with bars that you move up and down for points (I can't play it because the hundred crabs on my screen keep getting in my way) - Wizard button that generates emoji spells, and a gravestone button that generates quotes - Brick Whartley, a brick in a suit that is behind this click-a-thon. They have a Tumblr account and a LinkedIn account. - Typing in the post box makes Honking sounds. - I'm even sure how I got on this page: https://www.tumblr.com/humans.txt No idea how much content is here I haven't bothered going through it. - There's a button that adds a train to the bottom of the page. Started that and forgot about it.

Though doing so is like cutting a part of myself.

'Number of pages to allocate' is an unsigned int and it underflows and no one cares. https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/37314 I'm crying.

that nuance. Once I've found it, I always feel more satisfied, like I have a more complete view.

my mouth can experience the amazing flavor.

JSX-like syntax for DOM elements, so you're writing these Haskell-style arrays that represent HTML elements and it's ugly. It's ugly.

Okay fine we can word dump sheep yellow flowers, actually poe and edger and summing s and aah my mind my brain is full of thoughts thaat don't have meaning and yet are more thaan the sum of their parts and thier soul and their fingers overflow with light and with meaning. I don't know if these word dumps are interesting to other people. They're low effort, even for this site. (I use them like a pre-writing exercise, like warm-up.) But I kind of enjoy coming back to read them. I'll probably keep posting them, but clearly labeled like this one.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

and yet your heavenly father feeds them Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren’t you far more valuable to him than they are?

Functional programming is a drug and I am addicted. I am wishing I knew how to make this point-free, this doesn't really need to be a lambda.

verbose AST, which was the canonical, maintained version of the code? So you'd like, write the code, it would get compiled to this IR, and then you'd delete the original and check the IR into version control. Someone else can then take the IR on their computer, read it, decompile it into the shortened form, edit it, update the IR, etc. If you were unhappy with the generated IR, you could edit it by hand. The challenge is creating an IR that is simultaneously explicit and verbose, and yet still readable. The problem is that this is addressing a strawman. Concise code that relies on implicit behaviors is oftentimes easier to read than more verbose and explicit code.

more intuitive to have files that relate to each other in the same place, rather than with files of the same type, that might have completely different content. Like you shouldn't put your images in one folder and your text in another. You should make one folder for each post, and have the images and text for that post in it.

It's very frequent for me to see > *blocked message* > FBP, learn how to read, that's not what I said at all.

=> https://web.archive.org/web/20220121181332/https://aether.exposed/if-they-were-to-cut-open-my-bloated-corpse-they-would-find-nothing-but-cookies Edit (Nov 7, 2022): updated to archive.org link since the site is down, which pushed us over 140 characters, so now the link is on the lower line

outdated software than because I updated to the latest version too quickly. This is about rolling release operating systems.

pulled out a compacted mass of lint that was definitely interfering with the phone’s ability to charge. So that’s a life pro tip.

out that I had some Islamic friends. I don't remember what age I was at the time, middle school age maybe. There were a couple kids that would come over and play football or soccer with us on our street. And this woman said to me, and I quote, because I wrote the quote down, "Muslims are not friends with Christians. Those are not your friends." And this is almost a comically extreme example, because "friends" is such a loosely applied term. But it's an example of a line of argument that is surprisingly common. It goes, in general, 'this group of people is not like us, and so when they say that they feel a certain way, they're really lying, and they're really trying to manipulate you.' And in the general form, this is super common any time you're generalizing about a group of people. I've heard Christians say, 'Atheists don't know God's love, so they're incapable of loving like we do.' And I just saw a post from a liberal perspective about how right wing people 'don't love their children in the same way that we do.' Or the classic, 'conservatives don't actually care about children, they just want to make women's lives difficult.' And for me, this is just a complete non-starter. If your argument is, "those people over there are lying about caring and I actually care" then I just can't take you seriously. I've met way more people who care a lot about the wrong things or who care too much and draw conclusions that are dumb than I've met people who pretend to care in order to manipulate you. And moreover, while individual people may pretend to care in order to manipulate you, I have a very hard time believing that a group of people has been orchestrated in order to pretend to care. It's a lot easier to convince a group of people to care about something, than it is to convince a group of people to *pretend* to care about something. Coordinated, large-scale, intentional, deception, does not happen. So if I see someone saying "this group of people is lying to you" I pretty immediately assume that that person is too far gone, and their version of "this group of people" is a "group of people fundamentally unlike us." And I just don't think that groups of people are that fundamentally different. Anyways, send post.

that wasn't copy-pasted.

I know I've said it before but Feinberg is goated.

Trying to be less hypocritical and actually share my code where I can. This is a small project and I don't think anyone will use it. It's just about the principal of it. Also about padding out my TildeGit page.

Edit a minute later, it's flagged again. The post was actually submitted once before with the original title, and it was flagged because "Urgent: Sign the petition now" is a clickbait title, so someone resubmitted with the title "YC is asking for a bailout." But then the title of the second submission got changed to "Urgent: Sign the petition now" since HN hates "editorializing titles" and then the second one got flagged away because that's a clickbait title. It will be a miracle if HN discussion quality can withstand this event.

Software doesn't have to have bugs. It is possible to make bug free software. And yet! EVERY SINGLE PROGRAM has bugs. Please!

Gatsby will import it into a graphQL database and then you can create pages based off the result of querying that database. But there's no docs on how to use that. I quote: > A GraphQL query is made in the second half of the file to get the Markdown data. Gatsby has automagically given you all the Markdown metadata and HTML in this query’s result. > > Note: To learn more about GraphQL, consider this excellent resource And then it links to a 45 minute video course on GraphQL.

like numbers. You're welcome"

too focused on whether they've been asked a good question.

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that experience. The most obvious example in the digital age is screen size. Designing something for multiple screen sizes is next to impossible, and yet, has to be done. How can you do that? Design a piece of art with the knowledge that the user can come along and resize the window to literally any size they want, from 50-pixels wide to 5,000 pixels? You can't. So so often you see webpages or apps that only look good at a certain resolution, and you know, oh, that's how big the designer's screen was.

for the author to maintain or that it's buggy or slow or stylistically inconsistent. You *have* to appeal to other code that has been written. It is bad because it is different. In "Typing the Technical Interview" the programmer implements a program in Haskell using only types, never instantiating the types or creating variables or values. But it works. You have to appeal to the fact that there's a way that you're supposed to write this type of program, as ordained by the creators of the language and endorsed by every other person who's ever written Haskell. => https://aphyr.com/posts/342-typing-the-technical-interview

```css body { animation: flicker 0.5s infinite; } @keyframes flicker { from {filter: hue-rotate(30deg) blur(0.7px) contrast(95%);} to {filter: hue-rotate(0deg) blur(0.5px) contrast(105%);} } ``` Anything more than 1px of blur makes the site unusable. I need a way to get some shaking or horizontal lines or something. Also it's quite laggy lol

I need to stop using this website like a personal journal, but whatever, here we go. I tend to conflate manipulating or impressing someone into liking me with loving them. This seems weird now that I realize that. When I say love, I mean of course a Biblical, self-sacrificial, love. *Ted Lasso* (TL) does a phenomenal job showing what it looks like to love someone, and for them to see that and to like you back. Ted gets to know someone, and then gives them what they need. (This is where the show is a comedy, see, because Ted is freakishly good at this, and the people are never ready for it.) I’m a very ends oriented person. Even if you say something like “love someone,” I ask, what does that mean? Loving someone is a means, a verb, not an end. I’ve asked people, years ago, pastors, “how do I love someone” and I got told that it’s doing nice thing for them or whatever. But I hear also, you should give anonymously and you can make a lot of money in CS. So one of my life’s goals is to commit a lot of time up front to making money, so that I can then donate it to charity. I fixated on the end of “helping people” and decided that the most efficient person-helped-per-hour strategy was to become a philanthropist. Of course, this was me as a child. I knew I was missing something. I figured out that I was missing friends, around 11th grade, and fixated on “friends” as the end. I was class president 12th grade. Everyone knew me. And it worked, right. I legitimately had more friends. (People get all worked up about “doing things for the right reasons.” One of my most controversial beliefs is that that’s BS. I’m ends oriented. If you donate $x to a church for your own self-esteem, your own image, you’ve done 2 things. You’ve committed a sin of pride, and you’ve made a charitable gift. One good thing, one bad thing. The good thing doesn’t go away, the charity still gets their money.) When I focused on getting friends, I got friends. But I was asking myself, “what can I do to get them to like me?” The key is to ask the other person about themselves first. To *understand them*. I fricking love understanding things. I don’t know why the idea of understanding people hasn’t come to me before. I’m normally like, I need to understand this person so that I can best make comments to get them to like me. Or, even more often, I need to understand humans so that humanity will like me. (When I say “like” here, btw, I mean a respect, regard, “think I’m a good person.” Not just “think I’m enjoyable to be around”, although that is included.) Ted tries to understand people first, then help them. I think I was skipping that. I’m a good listener, because I want to be nice and listening is a way to do that, but I never thought of listening in order to help someone. I have an anxiety, a phobia, of appearing presumptuous. I don’t want to assume people need my help. My solution should be to listen to their problems. But for some reason my solution to that was to make sure they had the ability to help themselves and then get out of the way. That’s the philanthropist philosophy. **I guess what I’m saying is that I always thought love was one step—help people. And it’s really 2 steps–understand people, then use that understanding to help them.** I don’t know why it’s taken me so long to think about this. I think about Buddy the elf. He “loves” people. He tries to do things for them constantly. But he doesn’t know what the heck is going on so he ends up making things worse. I hate that so much. I’m ends oriented. Buddy misses the understanding part, the listening part. Because sometimes people need you to hold their hand, and sometimes people need you to give them tools and leave. But that’s different for the person and the situation, and you have to understand someone first before you can know which. [X] Understand someone -> act such that they like me [X] Do things for people without understanding them -> make things worse [Checkmark] Understand people -> do something for them -> they like me

years ago.

He just moves so fast and is so experimental, but he does such a good job of maintaining AJR's sound.

=> https://www.businessinsider.com/jpmorgans-nickel-bags-turned-out-to-filled-with-stones-2023-3

=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vd8Wfk9im0&lc=Ugx6laRJCMHFax73eNB4AaABAg

I wonder if I just chose a bad stack, if I should have used Rails. Or if web dev is just kind of inherently tedious for me since I know so much about it.

“The problem with catboy culture is that it tries to erase dogboy culture and detract from it whereas dogboys have no choice but to be aware of and surrounded by catboy culture. it’s very unfortunate and exhausting to live in a catboy-geared society as a dogboy when no one will acknowledge that dogboys are the ones holding all the pieces together.”

a commit from one repo onto another. And like, I'm not a git expert. There could have been a better way to do what I wanted. But I managed to do it what I wanted first-try, no errors. Which I'm pretty impressed with.

=> https://www.putorius.net/moreutils.html

separate from the reality experienced by mostpeople. One of my hopes, is that sometimes, I can bring some people into my reality

This is reproducible too, btw.

editor open."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-hot I’ve never used this but apparently it exists.

Might need to follow more people.

Like, they have "trailing closures" so if you have a function `setTimeout(action: () -> Void)` you can call it ```swift setTimeout(action: { print("Hello") }) ``` Or, you can use a trailing closure and call it like ``` setTimeout() { print("hello") } ``` Like, would I use that? Absolutely. Would I miss it if it wasn't there? Probably not. The parens in the second example are optional, you can also `setTimeout { print("hello") }`. Wild.

No replies, no app, and no images are all cons, but I think I can add more pros. Stuff like better search and markdown are planned.

I'm very excited about Sapling. As much as I like git, I do think there's room for a more opinionated tool. Unfortunately, as far as I understand, it is designed for a workflow built around 1-commit-per-pr. This is an established philosophy, see, https://git-ps.sh/, but it is not super common, compared to feature branches. So it looks like Sapling can't make PRs with more than one commit. Which is a shame, because I wouldn't mind working locally with an absorb/amend/etc workflow. I already frequently rebase and amend my commits locally before creating a PR. But I would like to still be able to push up multiple commits for the sake of code history and review. I guess that sounds weird when I say it. But it also sounds really weird that Sapling doesn't let you put multiple commits into the same PR. I don't know, I need to play around with it.

One of these days I’m going to add editing.

``` $ l -1 backups 2017-06-30.sql 2017-08-24.sql 2019-02-10.sql 2019-04-14.sql 2019-06-04.sql 2019-06-05_1.sql 2019-06-05_2.sql 2019-06-05_3.sql 2021-05-23.sql ```

Hm, almost like I have an executive functioning issue. Maybe I should talk to a councilor about that.

themselves.

I'm going to run with it, because reading it back it doesn't feel abbreviated, and there are a lot of chapters to go. But I suspect that I'm not describing nearly enough. Like "dodged past some cars" is enough to evoke the entire scene for me, since the worldbuilding exists in my head, but I think that actually needs to be a paragraph describing the width of the street, the number of cars on the road, the design of the cars (since we're not on Earth), etc. And similarly, "an inconspicuous, almost invisible, door in the building on his left" is enough for me, but we should probably describe the street again, the building itself (residential vs. commercial area), and how the character feels (is he tired, is he scared). But I don't know.

rough day today

Not "hard" as in, I forget, "hard" as in I don't like it. And of course, that the thinking doesn't matter at all, but just that I don't credit for it itself. Although, what do I "get credit for"?

and was shocked to remember that some of the things that I wrote for there were actually relatively high quality.

There are a lot of things, that I would’ve done slightly differently, or that didn’t line up with what I expected. Overall, it was very good, at or above the MCU-superhero-movie average. I remember the first Wonder Woman being far above that, so my standards might have been too high. Perhaps the biggest was that the first Wonder Woman movie was really a war movie, super dark, and this one was was much lighter. It still dealt with serious themes, don’t get me wrong, but wasn’t nearly as gritty. I had to check that they were the same director, because I didn’t believe it. I actually really liked the villain, and his arc, but the final battle was anti-climactic. Throughout the movie the fight choreography was weird. Possibly just because it was different from the MCU melee style, but I don’t remember thinking about it on the first movie. Whereas this featured several fights that were just Wonder Woman pushing people over. And low-effort special effects of them sliding across the floor didn’t help either. I liked the time period set. Somehow it was super obvious about it without being annoying. Overall, quality super hero movie. I was hoping for something special, but I guess that’s on me.

virtually non existent, so yeah, here’s what I’ve been thinking about.

Instead you get like 100 influencers with the same name but more followers. Why does everyone have the same name?

Every so often in a sports game, there will be a moment that exists outside of what the score is or what team wins or loses. If you're watching a basketball game, and a player just full on slugs another guy across the face, you feel that, beyond the 2-pt technical foul. If you're watching a baseball game live with your friends, and your pitcher pitches a perfect inning, in that moment, the score of the game doesn't matter. In Blaseball, if you have the best pitcher in the league, and she gets some stars sucked out of her, it doesn't matter that she's still pretty good. There's a narrative arc. Blaseball is about those moments.

Had to edit the link on the Thought from Jan that referenced it.

Life is a finite cube. I am a red pulsing box. The end of the age may come soon, but probably will not. There is only doom.

The concrete example is the assembly line worker that feels no passion for their job, and Marx attributes this to them not being able to take responsibility for the product that rolls off of the assembly line. I think this is only one symptom of a larger phenomena of corporate capitalism. Corporations are, in a sense, magical things because they are more than the sum of their parts. This shows up in other places, but in this example, no one at the corporation is passionate about making whatever product they are making. And yet, the corporation as a whole appears to have motives, which don't align with the motives of any of its members. This can be a good thing, sometimes. The communist commune model of "everyone does what they're passionate about" doesn't work in practice or at scale. But it's interesting to think about.

Edit (:16), it looks like it’s back up!

I should just loop My Play and stop caring. I want Students Loans so badly though.

This is the issue with the web. There are no other issues. All bugs are browser compatibility bugs. If there was one browser, there would be no issues with Javascript. It is 2020 and the specification is just like, eh. Who cares. No one uses the web anyways.

Xapian-haystack is distrubuted under GPLv2 => https://github.com/notanumber/xapian-haystack/blob/master/LICENSE I maintain and distribute a fork of xapian-haystack => https://tildegit.org/matthias/xapian-haystack GPL also contains a requirement that "You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating that you changed the files and the date of any change." which I didn't do! Frick! I might be able to argue in court that I didn't modify the files myself, I only resolved merge conflicts between two already existing forks, but I don't think that would stand up. I would consider that a modification. Dang it!

Because then they’d be bagels.

I understand conceptually that there are a lot of programming languages and that there are programming languages that I don't know about, but I'm still not mentally prepared to open a Github repository and find code written in Crystal.

I was watching a video (BobbyBroccoli's *America's Missing Collider*) and one of the thing that the author claims is that the particle physics community does/did a bad job with public outreach and education about quantum science, and he contrasted that to the job NASA does with space education. And my first reaction was "but Mars is a real, tangible, object that I can see, unlike quantum particles." But like. I've never seen Mars. I can't touch Mars. My knowledge of mars as a planet comes almost entirely from cartoon drawings in space exhibits funded by NASA. Quantum particles are a little harder to explain; it's physically impossible to take a picture of one, for instance, but you totally could come up with a standard representation of quantum particles and push to popularize it like we did with the clipart atom representation. And again, it is more difficult since we discovered these particles more recently than we discovered Mars or atoms, so maybe it will get better with time. Quantum particles exist inside of everything, right here in front of us, and people know they exist, but we can't name them, don't learn about them, and can't picture them. It's difficult to conceptualize something that small, but it's also difficult to conceptualize an object like the Earth, so large it looks flat, or something like Mars, so far away that it can't be seen with the naked eye. Quantum physicists definitely could do a better job communicating.

commit happened, and there's no way to reach it anymore. Git has a garbage-collection-like system that cleans up unreachable commits after 30 days. On the other hand, if you save the commit's SHA hash, then suddenly it is reachable, and you can resurrect it with cherry-pick, for example.

All I want is arbitrary precision numbers and it feels like `bc` is the only language that supports them.

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Huh, only 619 for the season (plus this one and whatever I do in the next 3 days). Not a record. What was I on in winter 2021? 2022 - Fall: 619 2022 - Summer: 527 2022 - Spring: 456 2021 - Winter: 692 2021 - Fall: 386 2021 - Summer: 375 2021 - Spring: 317 2020 - Winter: 410 2020 - Fall: 584 We're up to 144k words across 4,366 Thoughts. Kinda fun.

I'm so tired.

ETA for actually implementing it is, uh, 3 months.

-Only Connect - Series 10 - Episode 5

I think it’s because I’m currently pumping Jon Bellion directly into my ears.

PEP8 is impossible to programmatically enforce. PEP8 is ambiguous. PEP8 defers to human judgment about what makes code look good. You CANNOT implement a tool that programmatically enforces PEP8. The fact that you think that you can, tells me that you fundamentally do not understand PEP8, fundamentally do not understand the concept of aesthetically pleasing code (which by definition subjective), and are either dumb or arrogant to try to implement it anyways. We've been through this already. There was linting tool called `pep8`. And they CHANGED THEIR NAME because THE CREATOR OF PYTHON asked them to because PEP8 is not programmatically enforceable. And it was causing confusing from people who looked at the tool called "pep8" and assumed that it would output things that were consistent with PEP8 (which is impossible because PEP8 is subjective). => https://github.com/PywCQA/pycodestyle/issues/466 Please rename this tool But now, years later, someone else comes along and they've figured it out! They've got an auto-code formatter that actually implements PEP8 correctly! And so they're going to call it autopep8! Despite the fact that it like, has open bugs, from years ago, where it syntactically changes the behavior of your program!, as is clearly required by PEP8. => https://github.com/hhatto/autopep8/issues/539 I've blocked the creator of auto-pep-8 on Github. I have no interest in interacting with them. I have more respect for Black. I'm not opposed to the entire category. But the two paragraph introduction to Black does not mention aesthetics or PEP8 at all. Black's position is 'code should not be formatted by humans. Uniformity is more important than human judgment.' I do not agree with Black's position. I think that code should be beautiful. And I do not use a linter because I do not believe that it is possible for the linter to recognize beautiful code. Edit: The post was written under the assumption that autopep8 was a newer tool, which in fact it pre-dates the mentioned request to not call things pep8.

are so intuitive and useful that I feel like they should be in every programming language. `where`/`let` clauses that are expression-scoped! Guards! Pattern Matching in general! Implicit Currying/partial function application! The ability to create your own infix functions! And the ability to call native operators as not-infix, and pass them around as values! List comprehensions! Infinite Lists! Any of those could be added to any language. They don't require a strictly-typed, functional, language to use.

that I do could cause someone else to lash out and hurt me. Do you want to guess if I’ve eaten dinner yet?

There just kind of aren't any good Python markdown libraries, and I don't want to break the formatting on existing posts.

There are a lot of Ask HN posts made, most of which seem to take Hacker News as a divine bestower of knowledge. It's like Quora but a super specific demographic. Ask HN exists to function like Ask Reddit. But it gets used like StackOverflow or worse, /r/Relationship_advice. 'Ask HN: How to deal with join pain?' 'How to stop people from stealing my SD cards' 'Should I buy my 4 year old color blind glasses' A whole bunch of questions that technically fit because they're tech, but should really be Google searches. 'Where to buy cables?' 'What YouTubers make JS tutorials?' Ah. The internet.

'what's easiest' I tend to answer along the lines of 'just do something quickly and consider it over with.'

fricking easy. I could find my library portal and do a search for the author or a similar document, or I could throw the DOI into scihub and just *have it*. (I wrote this before the paper loaded, and it just doesn't exist now. Like that SciHub doesn't have that paper or isn't working. Heck you SciHub.)

This will need revisiting.

Basically, I don't like tomatoes. There are pretty much no foods which I enjoy which include tomatoes. So if a group of my friends had a party dedicated to wearing tomato themed costumes, and talking about how much they loved tomatoes, and, of course, eating a lot of tomato-based foods, I probably wouldn't go. This has never happened to me, but it feels like it with almost every social situation. It's just kind of a miserable hypothetical, but it's no one's fault, no one's to blame, nothing's gone wrong. I don't know. If I end up seeing a therapist for social anxiety, this will definitely come up.

ah the pain in my stomach never ceases

"Twice and counting" is Just incredible. Just amazing. When I hear that a task is difficult, because it has never been done before, I think, but. "Twice and Counting" was the first. The first piece of poetry to flow from the thought of a can on a mat.

the norm, but also the standard or acceptable deviation from it.

You'll be glad to know I consulted Merriam-Webster for the correct usage of `et al.` there.

Anyways maybe I don't have social anxiety, maybe I'm just shy.

couple hours old. (I use Vivaldi, which has a vertical, scrolling, tab bar.)

happy butterflies. yellow submarine apple pie sheep baaroogah yes liminal catastrophe microphone eater subnautica hurancha ba doe deer pier fear tear we're lear mere acrobat

which your mind can comprehend and understand but could never create? Does the light not dance along the walls in new ways, ways it never has before? Why must you pretend the light is brighter or newer or more exciting than it is? Is light not perfect and beautiful, and the essence of light and energy, without drugs. Do you need your mind to sleep, to rest? Why not a light sedative then, to help you sleep in your bed? Why do you wish for your mind to sleep while your lips are awake? Does the fear of the consequences of actions without thought not paralyze you?

the batteries just don’t last longer than that. I guess that’s acceptable a lot of the time, but think about the implication of that when it effects every device. I would buy an iPad if I could use it to take notes and have confidence that it would store those notes for the rest of my life, but I have to use paper. It’s weird that paper is better than digital for permanence, only because of the batteries.

I'm still mostly using Atom, but there are some things Atom doesn't do well, like in-line git diffs or remote file editing.

Also these 3 htop screenshots are from 3 different servers. Also I don't understand what's going on, I don't think node.js is actually using that much memory.