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Thoughts

I wish there was like a pay-per-post option for online news sites. Because paywalling your content doesn't make sense when I've clicked a

single link from Reddit or Hacker News. I want to read that one article, not sign up for a re-occurring monthly subscription.

The issue is that in order to do this, you also have to offer me a good user experience. You can't open a full-screen popup after I've scrolled half-way down the page. It needs to be more pleasant than reading the site with ads (because ads are the other option for monetizing drive-by users.)

The thing news companies need to recognize is that they can't do content curation anymore. Like, the music industry did an amazing job in letting Apple sell individual songs for the iPod. We're skipping that for some reason, and trying to jump straight from "buying physical collections" (records, or newspapers) to fragmented subscription marketplaces.

Apple Music/Spotify works because a, both platforms have all music, and b, people already know what artists/songs they want to listen to. The news industry right now looks like if the free tier was Pandora with ads, and every record label has their own subscription service.

Unfortunately, this is also how streaming video platforms look right now. So I don't have a lot of hope that news will figure out how to fix it.

11:11 p.m. Dec 05, 2021, UTC-5

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My butt is so sore from the unicycling I did earlier.

12:29 a.m. Dec 05, 2021, UTC-5

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Maybe nothing matters.

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.

11:43 p.m. Dec 04, 2021, UTC-5

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One of these days I'm going to go on a walk and I'm not going to come back.

11:35 p.m. Dec 04, 2021, UTC-5

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The floor is uploading Conlang Critic

10:49 p.m. Dec 04, 2021, UTC-5

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In the Python REPL. "inconsistent use of tabs and spaces in indentation" Oh No. What fricking bad language.

9:58 p.m. Dec 04, 2021, UTC-5

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Every so often I re-invent Haskell.

9:52 p.m. Dec 04, 2021, UTC-5

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Ooooohhhh cursed language idea. Okay so you know how JS has Instantaneously Evaluated Function Expressions? I like them because they offer a

nice mix of encapsulation without having to create a dedicated value. What if you had "blocks" as one of the only first-class language constructs.

Okay I'm thinking about it more and I think what I'm describing is just a function with scope. But let's re-invent it anyways.

So a block defines any variables it needs at the top, and then runs a bunch of code after that. Like counting to 5 would look like

{int i; //other variable declarations up here somewhere

  while (i < 5) {
    i ++;
  }
}

No C-style for loops. Obviously this is weird because what is the {} brackets after the while if not a block? Maybe that is a block with scope?

I think we need to be weirder, more fundamental, I don't think the while loop works as-is. But we need some fundamental constructs. How do we call a function? There are no functions, only blocks. Blocks can be nested. Blocks can be nested by name. Oh this gets good. Blocks have a return value. The only 2 types of expressions in the language. Creating blocks and inserting blocks. Blocks can be inserted literally (ie nested) or by name (think, calling a function, but merely referencing a block's name executes its code and returns its value). Blocks have a return value. Variables are nothing but blocks that only return their value.

Wait a minute, all variables are functions? Functions are called without parentheses? This is just Haskell.

Wait! Ok so the question at this point is just, are blocks values? That is, can I pass a block by value to be executed later in time? Well, that's assuming that blocks are actually functions and that they can take values. Uh. The alternative is saying that there are special `macro` blocks. And what this would do, is that, for example,

//option 1, blocks are a 1st-class type:
while {x < 5} {
   console.log x;
   x = (x + 1);
}

//option 2, there are special macro blocks
while {x < 5} {
  console.log {x}
  x = {x + 1};
}

So to clarify, in option 2, `{}` are used just like grouping. You can nest them without any consequences. `x = x + {1}` creates a block that returns 1, executes it, takes the value, and adds it to x. For something `while {x < 5}`, `while` is defined as a macro, so the language knows not to execute `x < 5`.

In option 1, `{x + 1}` creates a block, always, and only executes it if it is the first thing on the line. So for example `x = {x + 1}` would break, since it would create a block, and then assign x to the block. That is to say, it would be equivalent to the JS `x = (_ => x + 1);`

This sounds like LISP. Hm. Hmmmmmm.

So the question, really, is when are blocks evaluated. Because in normal languages (JS), functions are values, and they're evaluated when you parens after them. And what I'm trying to do here is hand-wave something, to make these blocks sound like they're not functions, and a lot of that is that you don't put parens after them. So we have to decide when to evaluate a function based on other things. I think option 1 is the way to go. So that a given snippet is unambiguous. Because in option 2, you have to know whether `while` is defined as a macro or not to know how it will evaluate.

So to "implement" an example, let's write a Fibonacci generator.

(Oh yeah, this should go without saying. If not mentioned (e.g. no functions), assume JS. So we have native lists, objects, strings, booleans, etc.)

while = block (conditionBlock, execBlock) {…native code...}
if = block (conditionBlock, execBlock) {…native code...}
console.log = block (value) {…native code...}
etc.

values = [0, 1];

while {true} {
    // Could values.push (values[-1] + values[-2]) in a single line
    {  //Define variables as the first thing in the block
        lastValue = values[values.length-1];
        secondLastValue = values[values.length-2];

        values.push lastValue + secondLastValue
    }
    console.log values[values.length-1]
}

This is kind of a boring example because everything just works.

The key thing to recognize, that makes this radically different from JS, is that the first block on each line in implicitly executed. And that's the only way to execute blocks. Which makes this language literally unusable because there's no way to get the return value of a block. (e.g. `.push {add a b}` would push an unevaluated block on to the end of the list.). So I'll need to go back to the drawing board, but not tonight.

9:48 p.m. Dec 04, 2021, UTC-5

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On Hytale: "it's dropping in like 200 years I'm so hyped"

Honestly same

9:00 p.m. Dec 04, 2021, UTC-5

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Imagine a world here.

3:00 p.m. Dec 04, 2021, UTC-5

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There's no way around this popup. I can't finish exporting my documents from Craft without first restarting it. What if I was in the middle

of writing a sentence? I don't think it would care.

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12:51 a.m. Dec 04, 2021, UTC-5

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I love talking to people after 9pm because I can use “I’m going to bed” to end the conversation. Normally I hate ending conversations.

12:14 a.m. Dec 04, 2021, UTC-5

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I had a thought. Something about oh yeah

12:14 a.m. Dec 04, 2021, UTC-5

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The instrumental intro to White Flag, Gorillaz is fricking amazing.

12:13 a.m. Dec 04, 2021, UTC-5

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Hello. My name is Matthias.

12:12 a.m. Dec 04, 2021, UTC-5

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Does anyone else read this website?

(This is a parody of awful "does anyone else" questions.)

9:55 p.m. Dec 03, 2021, UTC-5

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I have a complicated relationship with Vim.

7:18 p.m. Dec 03, 2021, UTC-5

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I think about the success of Flappy Bird a lot.

2:31 p.m. Dec 03, 2021, UTC-5

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Hacker News comment defending that goats are less than 2 feet tall.

Because if you Google “goat height,” it gives you the Wikipedia page for Pygmy goat. Googling “duck height” gives you the height of the tallest ever duck, 30 inches. And now since Google is an authority, people are using and defending those numbers. I’m having none of it. Pygmy Goat height and Indian Runner Duck height is completely irrelevant to the conversation. I mean a normal duck and a normal goat. And if you think my definition of a duck is wrong, you can argue with me, but don’t pull in Google’s Wikipedia scraping algorithms to do it.

11:58 p.m. Dec 02, 2021, UTC-5

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Why are there so many mountain emoji? 🗻🏔⛰ 🌋 🌄🏞 And no muffin emoji?

11:43 p.m. Dec 02, 2021, UTC-5

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I am metaphorically on so many drugs.

11:38 p.m. Dec 02, 2021, UTC-5

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Perhaps no one else warns about the dangers of Universalism because no one except me has embraced it.

When I say Universalism, I mean attempting to bifurcate the word into things that are true and untrue, in the philosophical sense, but also in a more practical sense. I think about things that are "popular" or "unpopular" or "known" or "unknown" or "good" or "bad" or "meaningful" or "meaningless," by some objective, universal criteria. Like, maybe the formula for determining whether someone is a good person is lenient.

But it's hard. Because I want to be a "good" person in some un-arguable way. And I really want my life to be "meaningful" in some objective sense.

11:23 p.m. Dec 02, 2021, UTC-5

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I feel like GEB would be extremely cringy, like unbearably awkward, if you were smarter than Hofstadter. Luckily, none of us mere mortals

have to worry about that.

10:44 p.m. Dec 02, 2021, UTC-5

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HackerNews is fricking brutal. You call these 2000 pixels Waldo and the comment is "[you've] misidentified Wanda as Waldo."

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5:04 p.m. Dec 02, 2021, UTC-5

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How much do I have to pay you for a computer that works?

3:17 p.m. Dec 02, 2021, UTC-5

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"Say something"

3:08 p.m. Dec 02, 2021, UTC-5

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I have not yet seen many denounce universalism.

3:03 p.m. Dec 02, 2021, UTC-5

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I love Hacker News because the people are like 'this is all obvious because of the concept of reincarnation.'

And the reply is 'what scientific evidence is there for reincarnation?'

2:20 p.m. Dec 02, 2021, UTC-5

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Libertarians using Libertarian as an insult is so iconic.

2:05 p.m. Dec 02, 2021, UTC-5

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I miss sub-pixel antialiasing.

8:48 a.m. Dec 02, 2021, UTC-5

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This website is an entry in the Beauty Pageant of Life.

1:23 a.m. Dec 02, 2021, UTC-5

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Did a reading of the About page. Took over 11 minutes my word.

I stand by that length, the About page, like this website in general, is supposed to be a little awkwardly long. But man, it is awkward to read.

1:14 a.m. Dec 02, 2021, UTC-5

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Titles are those with the huburis to think that they know what they are going to say before they have said 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.

12:53 a.m. Dec 02, 2021, UTC-5

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One of these days I'm going to get my screen fixed.

9:06 p.m. Dec 01, 2021, UTC-5

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I'm ready for another leap year.

8:58 p.m. Dec 01, 2021, UTC-5

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"Hands Down" by Brandyn Burnette et al. is fricking good.

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

8:12 p.m. Dec 01, 2021, UTC-5

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People talk about how little functional programming is used in the "real-world," but I don't think they realize just how functional React is

Like there's the first-level, obvious things, like React being declarative instead of imperative, and emphasizing pure components, but Facebook recommends avoiding any class inheritance, and straight up defines functions that return components. Wait a minute, functions that return other functions are a hallmark of functional programming. What the heck.

8:07 p.m. Dec 01, 2021, UTC-5

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This is code

5:34 p.m. Dec 01, 2021, UTC-5

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"The Energy Never Dies"

5:27 p.m. Dec 01, 2021, UTC-5

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I'm going to hold off on posting my 2021 music roundup for another week or two. I don't think it will change much, but it's possible.

5:21 p.m. Dec 01, 2021, UTC-5

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I am being attacked from all sides simultaneously.

4:47 p.m. Dec 01, 2021, UTC-5

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I think I should think more about local maximums. Quality is rarely monotonic.

2:17 p.m. Dec 01, 2021, UTC-5

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I have hours

2:14 p.m. Dec 01, 2021, UTC-5

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Oh you know I did test it. But it uses UTC times so I think it’s extremely difficult to change. Call it intended, it’s December in London.

8:30 p.m. Nov 30, 2021, UTC-5

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I still have not found a situation where it makes more sense to use a `switch` statement than a bunch of `if`s.

Maybe* in Java if you can switch on the values of an Enum, that's kind of nice.

And of course I love pattern matching in functional languages. But C-style switch statements are ugly. (I think they're only there because some instruction sets have assembly instructions for switching, but I hope you'd never have to worry about that.)

7:36 p.m. Nov 30, 2021, UTC-5

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`w /= 4`

Readable code.

7:36 p.m. Nov 30, 2021, UTC-5

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“I can pivot on a dream.”

9:36 a.m. Nov 30, 2021, UTC-5

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I finally found a good, relatively concise, example of why I can't handle GEB.

So he's talking about similarities between the number-pairing used in Gödel's Theorem and the base-pairing used in DNA. If you don't remember, A (adenine) pairs with thymine (T), and guanine (G) pairs with cytosine (C), as described by F. Crick.

And at the end of the list where he talks about the conceptual similarities between numbers and DNA sequences, he points out that G (Gödel) pairs with C (Crick), and A (Arithmetization, a step in Gödel's proof) pairs with T (Translation, the step in interpretation of DNA).

And I'm like, what the hell. Is this a coincidence? Why point this out? Is this a joke, a pun? Did Hofstadter attribute the discovery of molecular biology to Crick, (as opposed to either of Crick's co-Nobel winners) for this joke? When Hofstadter coined the term "Arithmetization" 200 pages ago did he intentionally make it start with an A for this line? (Because the answer has to be yes, right?)

And there are bits like this throughout the entire book, every couple of pages, where Hofstadter just does an intellectual backflip because he can.

He creates a map of the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology and he calls it the "Central Dogmap."

He's like: "strand" backwards is DNA RTS, which could stand for "DNA rapid transit service" which is basically what RNA is.

But it's the "Arithmetization" that really gets me. Because he literally coined that term half a book ago.

12:08 a.m. Nov 30, 2021, UTC-5

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"Live where you stay forever"

11:43 p.m. Nov 29, 2021, UTC-5

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Oh my fricking word I don't actually understand React. I've never made a "good" React app with cascading state.

2:24 p.m. Nov 29, 2021, UTC-5

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Unfollowing DY because he went down the web3 rabbit-hole. He could have been an artist.

1:43 p.m. Nov 29, 2021, UTC-5

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I'm only at 2,066 total posts here. (A total of 59,508 words.) Still haven't overtaken my 5,000+ Tweets.

11:23 a.m. Nov 29, 2021, UTC-5

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Updated per-season numbers. Unless I post like 10 times tomorrow, which I might, who knows, this is representative of the end of Fall 2021.

>>> [(p.formatted_name, p.get_all_entries().count()) for p in pagination.get_all_pages()]
[('Fall 2021', 379), ('Summer 2021', 375), ('Spring 2021', 317), ('Winter 2020', 410), ('Fall 2020', 584)]

10:41 a.m. Nov 29, 2021, UTC-5

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How hard is it, really, to create a good natural language processing system? It seems like it shouldn't be that hard to create a parse tree

out of an English sentence, and then derive meaning from it.

10:35 a.m. Nov 29, 2021, UTC-5

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So originally, I was planning on turning off pagination before Dec 1, when we start "Winter 2020." But I'm lazy and still long for change,

so I think we'll just roll with it. A fresh start, if you will.

10:33 a.m. Nov 29, 2021, UTC-5

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I still kind of can't believe this website exists. Like, I just made it? And now it's here? Wild.

10:31 a.m. Nov 29, 2021, UTC-5

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https://github.com///////////OurJSEditor/OurJSEditor/

Is a working address.

Please.

9:29 p.m. Nov 28, 2021, UTC-5

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I suspect that there is overlap between people who program in assembly and speakers of toki pona.

4:59 p.m. Nov 28, 2021, UTC-5

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@nateruessmusic’s background image on Twitter is a crop of the conspiracy theory pyramid, edited to include himself.

4:54 p.m. Nov 28, 2021, UTC-5

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We’ve come a long way since 2006.

http://blogs.tedneward.com/post/the-vietnam-of-computer-science/

This post is bad. I don’t want to be rude here, because it’s well written. And I don’t know what this guy’s credentials are. And I don’t know what the ORM scene in 2006 looked like. But come on:

On top of this, we have a more subtle problem, that of the reliance on developers' dicipline: both the table name ("PERSON") and the column name in the criteria ("PERSON.LAST_NAME") are standard strings, taken as-is and fed to the system at runtime with no sort of validity-checking until then. This presents a classic problem in programming, that of the “fat-finger” error, where a developer doesn’t actually query the “PERSON” table, but the “PRESON” table instead.

How is this relevant to the claim that “Object-relation mapping is the Vietnam of computer science.” I guess there weren’t any scripting languages at the time and the thought of not having a compiler to validate your terms was awful. Like, I’ve only ever used an ORM in JS and Python. I don’t except compile-time SQL errors. And that’s only one claim. Other “problems” include ‘what if you have two copies of the process running and one of them is paused by the OS and suspended to disk and the other process runs a database migration. Will your ORM save you then??’ Is there any solution to that problem? What the heck?

All of the issues are issues either with strict OOP (which is why I don’t write Java) or issues with having a database.

I almost forgot the part where he goes on about how the DB “instead is owned by another group within the company, typically the database administration (DBA) group.” And he acknowledges that this isn’t inherently an issue with the ORM, but still seems to think it’s relevant.

1:10 p.m. Nov 27, 2021, UTC-5

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Apparently I have a Roblox account.

6:34 p.m. Nov 26, 2021, UTC-5

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Reading, uh, *Without Bloodshed* I think, by ~starbreaker but not *Star Breaker*.

Anyways, he’s got this private army of vigilantes, obsessed with protecting people’s rights. It’s wild world-building. This person was arrested without being read their rights and the Adversaries broke them out of prison. But like, they also act as police sometimes.

Adversaries talk a good game about due process, but if you hold office or wear a badge, their idea of proper procedure is to put a second round through your head―just to make sure.

1:45 p.m. Nov 26, 2021, UTC-5

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For some reason, it’s easier for people to be passionate about content consumption than it is for them to be about content creation.

7:17 a.m. Nov 25, 2021, UTC-5

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Speaking of “Monday”, it’s amazing. It reminds of something, like a 2009ish sound.

10:23 p.m. Nov 24, 2021, UTC-5

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I don’t know what radio station I’m listening to but it just went from “Monday”, The Regrettes, to “We Are Young”, Fun. 10/10

5:23 p.m. Nov 24, 2021, UTC-5

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Are paradox and parody the same word?

2:42 p.m. Nov 24, 2021, UTC-5

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Okay here's a spicy hot take:

The 40+ hour workweek worked fine decades ago because women largely didn't have jobs. Thanks to feminism and capitalism, there's now an expectation that both parents work full-time, which is not sustainable. The recent push for work-from-home is a result of this shift.

(I recognize that this is a simplification almost to absurdum. I may, to quote the About page, "immediately discard [this theory] as clearly worthless.")

11:39 p.m. Nov 23, 2021, UTC-5

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This is a narrative.

3:49 p.m. Nov 23, 2021, UTC-5

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If AoT ends without controversy, I'll try to watch it.

3:45 p.m. Nov 23, 2021, UTC-5

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I'm hiding under my bed in an attempt to appease my anxiety.

3:38 p.m. Nov 23, 2021, UTC-5

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Is freedom a good thing?

12:39 a.m. Nov 23, 2021, UTC-5

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I'm smarter than some people and not as smart as some people. And that's about the only interpersonal comparison to be made.

12:05 a.m. Nov 23, 2021, UTC-5

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Communicating over public social media is boring. I want to talk through shared private Google docs and private Twitter accounts and IRC and

mailing lists and iMessage and Gemini.

12:02 a.m. Nov 23, 2021, UTC-5

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Kind of jamming with my new AirPods Max. I'd never really used over-the-ear noise-cancelling headphones before.

11:53 p.m. Nov 22, 2021, UTC-5

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I want to do something different, something new, every day.

11:40 p.m. Nov 22, 2021, UTC-5

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I really want to float. It feels like everyone else is content to walk or sit.

11:13 p.m. Nov 22, 2021, UTC-5

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We need something more comfortable than a desk but cooler than a bed.

10:12 p.m. Nov 22, 2021, UTC-5

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Bill Wurtz's Questions is honestly one of the most beautiful websites on the internet, in my opinion.

9:34 p.m. Nov 22, 2021, UTC-5

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This Light*

"Common space continued to dissolve into private property, and our attention was pulled towards the monetized distraction of streaming content in solitude."

2:47 p.m. Nov 22, 2021, UTC-5

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Oh my fricking word, people

2:22 p.m. Nov 22, 2021, UTC-5

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Escaping the mentality of OOP requires one stronger than I.

12:43 p.m. Nov 22, 2021, UTC-5

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Stop mentioning me on Slack I don't know.

12:06 p.m. Nov 22, 2021, UTC-5

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Is cocaine a drug?

12:46 p.m. Nov 21, 2021, UTC-5

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Freaked out by the number of beetle species again.

8:29 p.m. Nov 20, 2021, UTC-5

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All the fricking "just use a subset of HTML" people do not understand how hard parsing HTML is.

You basically would have to say "any attribute is not allowed" and then allow clients to throw/abort on anything that had element attributes. I kind of want to try this now, and write a minimalistic HTML spec page, satirically. Like just make it 50,000 words listing all the things you're not allowed to do.

You would have to aim for "miniwebsites" that could be accessed by Chrome. But I really do not think you could design the spec in such a way that miniweb-browsers would be able to read any HTML pages that weren't designed for the miniweb. You couldn't have that as a design priority.

Wait frick HTML links are `a` elements that require an `href` attribute. So now you have to support attributes. Like show me a regular expression that can hope to parse a single HTML element.

Okay, okay, you probably don't follow. For an example, given `<a href="..." tabindex=0>Click me</a>` is pretty common. See the problem? Even if we can parse attributes, a naive attribute parsing approach assumes the attribute is surrounded by quotes. But quotes are optional. And if you don't have quotes, it's hellish to find where the attribute parameter ends. Oh not to mention a lot of the time you don't have an `=` at all.

I've said before, I still don't understand the rules by which HTML collapses whitespace.

HTML and Gemtext are just not in the same galaxy. It's like walking into a conversation about markdown and saying "why not just use HTML". Except that HTML is still HTML and Gemtext is about an order of magnitude easier to parse than Markdown. Like, no one knows how to parse Markdown.

If you asked me to write a Gemtext parser in assembly, I'd be like, 'yeah sure why not.' If you asked me to write a parser for a *subset* of HTML in assembly, I'd tell you it wasn't possible. Like, okay, you'd have to say that you're not allowed to nest elements. (Because otherwise I have to come up with dynamic memory structures to store my theoretically infinite nested parse tree...) No attributes except for `href`, no elements except for `a`, `h1…6`, `pre`, `block quote`, wait! But if we have bulleted lists, then we have to nest elements. That's awful.

Like, imagine you have a feature-set, say, the stuff gemtext supports. And you want to be able to store and parse those features. Option 1, is all of the complexity of parsing HTML. Option 2 is literally designed to be as simple as possible to parse while support the needed features.

I haven't even gotten to servers. Chrome sends so fricking many headers, you'd need a dynamic memory system in order to handle an arbitrary number of headers. Modern browser could add more headers at any time. Firefox just invented the DNT header and started sending it. There's no way around the complexity and extensibility of the web.

Gemini is designed for non-extensibility. So you can write a server in assembly and allocate 1024 bytes for the URL and know that you'll never need more than that. Fun weekend project, Gemini server in assembly. It would be better than Astronomical Theater.

6:53 p.m. Nov 20, 2021, UTC-5

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That New Car Smell

5:56 p.m. Nov 20, 2021, UTC-5

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Some people just love making shared drives, huh.

5:38 p.m. Nov 20, 2021, UTC-5

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Mailing the Gemini mailing list at 2 am. I've never interacted with a mailing list before. What could go wrong?

2:37 a.m. Nov 20, 2021, UTC-5

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I wish I had a Snackin' Waffle right now.

11:44 p.m. Nov 19, 2021, UTC-5

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Just woke up. Let's go.

11:27 p.m. Nov 19, 2021, UTC-5

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Hacker News comments are so bad. I’m going to stop commenting there, I’m done.

German PHD student describes a thought experiment in which you have infinite money and are incapable of telling if you’re sick. If you have 2 doctors, who can tell if you’re sick, but don’t care about your personal well-being, how do you pay them? (Ex. Pay them both only if they agree; pay one for diagnosis, one for treatment; etc.) It’s a game theory problem, with implications for negotiating with hyper-intelligent AI or aliens.

The comments:

‘Only pay the doctors if you’re healthy’

‘I am a doctor and I just want to help people’

‘Move to a country with a great healthcare system like Sweden’

‘I’m not going to read the article, the premise is flawed’

Honestly these comments are so bad. Comments that understand that this is a metaphor and not a commentary on US Healthcare are the minority. This is Tumblr levels of reading comprehension.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29269973

7:01 p.m. Nov 19, 2021, UTC-5

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It is cursed code time!

4:52 p.m. Nov 19, 2021, UTC-5

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Darn, @nateruessmusic went private

9:47 a.m. Nov 19, 2021, UTC-5

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It’s amazing how hard it can be to find truth.

12:34 a.m. Nov 19, 2021, UTC-5

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gemini://thoughts.learnerpages.com/media/0c9aa2aa-e252-4fc6-a2f2-1facc5fb9166.png

11:15 p.m. Nov 18, 2021, UTC-5

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CLI tools auto-opening applications, including other shells, is extremely annoying.

The react native CLI will open Terminal.app in order to run a build service server, before then opening the iOS simulator.

Also throwback to the last time I used React Native.

gemini://thoughts.learnerpages.com/media/64159995-a0e5-481f-a7de-fbd09fbc5f8b.png

11:13 p.m. Nov 18, 2021, UTC-5

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I fixed it. I had set $EDITOR to `vim` so zsh of course stopped answering to emacs keybindings.

10:55 p.m. Nov 18, 2021, UTC-5

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My zsh has stopped interpreting ^A as move to the beginning of the line. I don't know why.

10:20 p.m. Nov 18, 2021, UTC-5

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OOoooohhh my word.

I don't trust anyone.

I don't want to see a therapist because I'm afraid.

I'm conflicted and I don't want to unravel my feelings because I'm afraid. I don't know what I'm afraid of. Rejection, I guess. Being known? Any of it? The unknown? People.

Maybe there's nothing there to untangle and I actually just have an irrational social anxiety that I just need to ignore, not understand.

I suspect that I move in cycles with the weather, but there is an insufficient evidence to prove that.

"How Do You Love?"

10:19 p.m. Nov 18, 2021, UTC-5

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I've roughly doubled the length of this page since introducing the season-based pages.

2:51 p.m. Nov 17, 2021, UTC-5

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I wish words had meanings.

10:56 a.m. Nov 17, 2021, UTC-5

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A humanoid sheep walks into a dark room.

10:13 a.m. Nov 17, 2021, UTC-5

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I got over-ear headphones, that means I am now an unstoppable Hackercoder, right?

8:12 p.m. Nov 16, 2021, UTC-5

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"I know the question that is foremost in your thoughts. Who ate the babies?"

-Synopsis for Latecomers, They Might be Giants

11:31 a.m. Nov 16, 2021, UTC-5

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To elaborate on that last Thought. A ‘normal’ social anxiety would be ‘I have to try to be normal.’ But the second level to recognize is

that there’s an implicit assumption a) that I am different, and b) that’s a bad thing.

And that’s not black and white—it’s a discussion question, not a yes/no question. But it’s important to deal with all of those questions.

12:10 a.m. Nov 16, 2021, UTC-5

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I'm afraid of other people. Like, obviously in a superficial way, but also in a deeper way. Where I assume that other people are different.

11:33 p.m. Nov 15, 2021, UTC-5

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I think, maybe, I need to be smaller, not bigger.

11:32 p.m. Nov 15, 2021, UTC-5

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I didn't go to church Sunday and now I'm regretting it.

The weekend is an important time for me to recover sanity and it's all too easy for me to allow myself to be overcome by insanity over the weekend—since I don't need to be sane over the weekend. But if I do that, then I don't have the sanity to make it through the week.

11:31 p.m. Nov 15, 2021, UTC-5

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Narratives.

11:25 p.m. Nov 15, 2021, UTC-5

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I need someone to punch me.

12:48 p.m. Nov 15, 2021, UTC-5

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The sky is shattered like a jigsaw puzzle.

Fragments of it fall between my ears.

Fragments of it float overhead.

The light from the sun shines down.

The leaves fall aimlessly.

Buildings slice the world.

I'm on the ground.

The sky above.

Grass below.

Me.

10:34 a.m. Nov 15, 2021, UTC-5

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My problem with fan fiction is that it doesn’t exist for the media I want. I can search AO3 for anything and all I get is Harry Potter

8:51 a.m. Nov 15, 2021, UTC-5

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I've commented before on how great the Vötgil episode [0] of Conlang Critic is [1]. But Misali doesn't let it go and keeps bringing it up as

a bad example in other episodes of Conlang Critic. Episode 4 [2] they roast this 1980s feminist for not being inclusive of non-binary people and then finish the episode with 'but that's not as bad as Vötgil which has no redeeming qualities.'

Also BöpGil [3] is a bop please listen to it.

[0]: See [1]

[1]: https://thoughts.learnerpages.com/?show=b77f1767-6ec4-44b8-aedd-6b75338ce7f4

[2]: I'm too lazy to actually find links, look it up or something.

[3]: https://youtu.be/MNVKuDGX7qY

10:59 p.m. Nov 14, 2021, UTC-5

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“I’m a little bit excited”

6:51 p.m. Nov 14, 2021, UTC-5

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I finished the book. Took me about 10 hours from start to finish. I don’t think I ate dinner. Help

2:22 a.m. Nov 14, 2021, UTC-5

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Reading the *Left-handed Booksellers of London*, by Nix. And he keeps dropping these references. And I miss most of them.

Some of the references are to Tolkien or Lewis or whatever. But then I catch like a line from a Donne poem I memorized once, just as a part of dialogue. Like, the character says "One short sleep past, we wake eternally," and the conversation moves on. That's a direct quote from a poem from over 400 years ago.

The thing that gets me is that there are lots of other lines in the book that I think could be references to something, that go over my head.

One of the characters drops 2 lines of the Major General's patter. Like…

11:37 p.m. Nov 13, 2021, UTC-5

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I am, technically, still alive.

11:09 a.m. Nov 13, 2021, UTC-5

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I don’t want to do this either. I want to start a revolution.

10:44 p.m. Nov 12, 2021, UTC-5

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I always thought that scene in *Dead Poets Society* where they stand on the desks was symbolic, but I just stood on my desk and the room

actually looks different.

I enjoy playing with space and geometry.

10:03 p.m. Nov 12, 2021, UTC-5

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Is music an addictive drug?

7:49 p.m. Nov 12, 2021, UTC-5

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I need variety in my life so the light theme looks like this now.

Color picked from an American Animals (2018) poster. I haven't seen the movie but man that promo art is an aesthetic.

2:55 p.m. Nov 12, 2021, UTC-5

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_____~~~_=~=~===~~~=~=•=•=~=••=~-_.,,,,,.,.,,,_.……._,’,_

2:37 p.m. Nov 12, 2021, UTC-5

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Ah, the passage of time.

12:01 a.m. Nov 12, 2021, UTC-5

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I love November

6:20 p.m. Nov 11, 2021, UTC-5

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Thinking about the time I had "INTJ" in my Khan Academy nickname. Humans like labels.

I think that's one of the reasons I obsess with my name. I introduce myself and describe myself with "I am Matthias" not just as an introduction, but as a descriptor. "Matthias" is by far the most accurate label I have found for myself.

3:22 p.m. Nov 11, 2021, UTC-5

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Listening to the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack at the recommendation of someone in the midnight pub.

12:54 p.m. Nov 11, 2021, UTC-5

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I would argue, counter intuitively, that positive feedback hurts an action that is an expectation.

That is to say, if someone is regularly doing something, rewarding them for doing it makes them less likely to continue.

1:03 a.m. Nov 11, 2021, UTC-5

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I have unlocked topcolor on Hacker News, it is all over.

12:49 p.m. Nov 10, 2021, UTC-5

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I forgot Chance featured Death Cap, I’m crying.

If Ryan Met ever remixed Death Cap I would probably die.

9:17 a.m. Nov 10, 2021, UTC-5

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Imagine all the people I could be if I lied.

10:57 p.m. Nov 09, 2021, UTC-5

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Posting this one from Arch Linux. With my own keyboard. That's right ladies, we're back in business.

5:12 p.m. Nov 09, 2021, UTC-5

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I'm posting this from macOS recovery mode. It could be fun to use Safari in recovery mode as a minimalistic OS.

Althought it seems less performant, not more. And there are some rough edges. Something something simplicity inside a complex system.

10:44 a.m. Nov 09, 2021, UTC-8

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“‘I womansee’ womanreplies the

woman, and womanwalks away…”

- G.E.B.

11:13 p.m. Nov 08, 2021, UTC-5

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So many anti-tropes were already done by Adam Rex’s Cold Cereal Saga. Highly recommend.

10:38 a.m. Nov 08, 2021, UTC-5

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"Ok, so here's the thing"

9:26 a.m. Nov 08, 2021, UTC-5

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dwa kdwmalk jnajwnd kjnjnawk dnjknwjandj nkjnknwadsj

9:26 a.m. Nov 08, 2021, UTC-5

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Oh my word throwback to when I made an organ harvesting role play Discord server.

4:04 p.m. Nov 07, 2021, UTC-5

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I'm totally going to end up watching TFC aren't I. He just hit 100k subs, so that's pretty neat.

3:40 p.m. Nov 07, 2021, UTC-5

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Have you decided what might become of the Frenchman?

11:02 p.m. Nov 06, 2021, UTC-4

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I’m floating. I can’t bring myself to dive back down. I’m afraid not of the water, but of drowning.

10:19 p.m. Nov 06, 2021, UTC-4

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Decided I'm not going to shut this site down, since it's cool. But I might have to pivot the content. Might start posting poetry or bits of

story of something.

7:27 p.m. Nov 06, 2021, UTC-4

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The problem with any adaptation of the Count of Monte Cristo's character is that you end up making him more sane.

He's honestly a Joker-level character sometimes.

“Then," continued Chateau-Renaud, "since you have an establishment, a steward, and a hotel in the Champs Elysees, you only want a mistress.”

“I have something better than that," said Monte Cristo; "I have a slave. You procure your mistresses from the opera, the Vaudeville, or the Varietes; I purchased mine at Constantinople; it cost me more, but I have nothing to fear.”

“But you forget," replied Debray, laughing, "that we are Franks by name and franks by nature, as King Charles said, and that the moment she puts her foot in France your slave becomes free.”

“Who will tell her?”

“The first person who sees her.”

“She only speaks Romaic.”

And it's these interactions that end up getting cut in any abridged version or adaptation. Because honestly what the hell.

Although if I remember correctly, I think later the Count tells his slave that she's free, and she chooses to stay with him, and the Count admits that he views her like a daughter and isn't sleeping with her and she speaks French and the Count is actually making 4D chess moves that no one else (including me) understands.

4:44 p.m. Nov 06, 2021, UTC-4

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Can't believe we reset the entire league and the Crabs are still going to win.

4:09 p.m. Nov 06, 2021, UTC-4

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Thinking about shutting this site down. It's not obvious that it helps me anymore.

Originally, it helped me get rid of intrusive thoughts by posting them here. But now I find myself making an effort to remember things that I would otherwise forget, just in order to post them here.

3:31 p.m. Nov 06, 2021, UTC-4

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What a fricking legend.

https://youtu.be/Yx_8wS-9SM8

3:28 p.m. Nov 06, 2021, UTC-4

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What genre is “Legend” by twenty one pilots? I haven’t heard anything like it.

11:55 a.m. Nov 06, 2021, UTC-4

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My Gemini sites need to move to MD, still. Hopefully I remember to that.

10:27 a.m. Nov 06, 2021, UTC-4

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Ahh I want to talk to someone about The Count of Monte Cristo!

10:24 a.m. Nov 06, 2021, UTC-4

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Are you a Conlang Critic jan Misali fan, or a “Wario Faces Consequences for His Actions” jan Misali fan?

1:20 a.m. Nov 06, 2021, UTC-4

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I’ve decided poetry is dead in part because we value candidness.

12:50 a.m. Nov 06, 2021, UTC-4

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Why is poetry dead?

2:57 p.m. Nov 05, 2021, UTC-4

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What is the world but a conspiracy to keep me from sleep?

8:15 a.m. Nov 05, 2021, UTC-4

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Just moved all my sites over to Apache Managed Domain from certbot, since I was using a version of certbot from at least 2 years ago.

Certbot had also stopped working for some reason.

Now I just have to figure out how to uninstall certbot. Can't be that hard, right?

1:19 p.m. Nov 04, 2021, UTC-4

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I love people who leave 1-2 star Goodread reviews on books I read as a kid. Like, I get it, this piece of children's literature is not up to

your standards. I'm sure your criticisms are valid but it's too late; I already read it and enjoyed it.

"Just reading about how the zeppelins are constructed or how to operate an airship made out of a combination of creatures bored me to death." I'm sorry didn't enjoy the description of the giant flying steampunk whale but that is all I want in a book, thank you.

12:53 a.m. Nov 04, 2021, UTC-4

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Oh my work, oh my fricking word. I just love reading fiction so much. I just absolutely guzzle fiction, it's incredible.

12:17 a.m. Nov 04, 2021, UTC-4

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I'm not quite sure when, but at some point I just learned how to use `git`. Like just through trial-and-error I guess. I just cherry-picked

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.

9:28 p.m. Nov 03, 2021, UTC-4

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I wish I had a chair with wheels. Then I might be able to fly.

4:36 p.m. Nov 03, 2021, UTC-4

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I wish I had a chair with wheels. Then I might be able to fly.

9:03 a.m. Nov 03, 2021, UTC-4

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Thinking about the Count of Monte Cristo again.

Aaahh it’s so good. So many good scenes.

12:28 a.m. Nov 03, 2021, UTC-4

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I think maybe time was meant to be linear and things were meant to be ephemeral. Maybe holding on to the past is a mistake.

9:11 p.m. Nov 02, 2021, UTC-4

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It's interesting to me that my bottleneck in being able to post audio samples here is the number of things I think are worth recording, not

my time or willingness to record myself.

9:10 p.m. Nov 02, 2021, UTC-4

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“Who in the world am I?”

9:03 p.m. Nov 02, 2021, UTC-4

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I don’t know if I need more or less.

5:35 p.m. Nov 02, 2021, UTC-4

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I'm trying to remain sane but it's harder than it looks.

5:29 p.m. Nov 02, 2021, UTC-4

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I’m addicted to thinking.

5:19 p.m. Nov 02, 2021, UTC-4

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Interestingly, I think I've created some of my best art at times I wasn't trying to. When I was making games on KA, I viewed myself as a

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.

9:41 p.m. Nov 01, 2021, UTC-4

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The internet is a circle.

9:28 p.m. Nov 01, 2021, UTC-4

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Abby Ampersand is a fricking quality name.

8:06 p.m. Nov 01, 2021, UTC-4

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“alone” — inquiry

gemini://midnight.pub/posts/687

gemini://thoughts.learnerpages.com/media/fc50a977-3be7-481e-8040-c5c1a58fbcc8.aac

10:52 p.m. Oct 31, 2021, UTC-4

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There has been a disappointing lack of candy this Halloween.

10:40 p.m. Oct 31, 2021, UTC-4

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Oh my word I don’t have a life.

9:07 p.m. Oct 31, 2021, UTC-4

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I have created Waffle.

9:58 a.m. Oct 31, 2021, UTC-4

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What isn’t art?

2:19 p.m. Oct 30, 2021, UTC-4

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It’s like my emotions are disconnected from reality.

2:18 p.m. Oct 30, 2021, UTC-4

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Speak for yourself, I’m perfect.

1:37 a.m. Oct 30, 2021, UTC-4

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Programmers are generally anxious.

I think it’s something about debugging that encourages you to question everything. But it may also be something about the logical nature of programming itself. Anyways, programmers like guarantees, things that don’t change, and rigorously defined behavior. Not only does that structure make us comfortable, the lack of structure scares us.

1:35 a.m. Oct 30, 2021, UTC-4

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My pride in large part staves off depression, etc, but doesn’t do much against the insistence of my social anxiety that no one likes me.

1:28 a.m. Oct 30, 2021, UTC-4

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Thinking about whether I can go live with the Amish. Like, do they want me? Or would they kick me out?

Does anyone want me?

1:26 a.m. Oct 30, 2021, UTC-4

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It’s interesting, because I think it’s pretty clear that my current mindset is unsustainable. But I am less willing to reinvent myself,

really, than I was 4.3 years ago when I invited Matthias 2.0. Matthias 1.0 had ambition, and that ambition allowed him to change into Matthias 2.0 in an attempt to better satisfy those ambitions. But somehow the ambition didn’t get carried over, or something. (I’m not currently Matthias 2.0, btw. Matthias 2.0 worked well for a little while, although in retrospect there was foreshadowing of future problems. But somehow it broke down, around 1.7–2.6 years ago, and now we’re here. Also, some numbering schemes start at different places, this Thought defines Matthias 1.0 as starting 11 years ago.)

1:18 a.m. Oct 30, 2021, UTC-4

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I realized earlier today that I would rather be around people who insult me than people who compliment me because I can trust that the

former is being honest.

Who hurt me as a kid? I don't trust anyone.

12:56 a.m. Oct 30, 2021, UTC-4

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Why am I here? How did I get here?

12:46 a.m. Oct 30, 2021, UTC-4

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I don't love the About page, in that it represents a time in my life that has passed. It no longer resinates with me in the way that it did

when I wrote it. But am very happy with it and proud of it because it is a long, and written in a consistent tone, and I think it captures the tone of this site overall.

12:27 a.m. Oct 30, 2021, UTC-4

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I was logged into my gmail account watching an English Youtube video, and Google shows me an add for some Pixel phone, in Spanish!

10:22 p.m. Oct 29, 2021, UTC-4

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The grind never stops but sometimes I do.

1:33 p.m. Oct 29, 2021, UTC-4

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I wish bread came in more shapes

1:26 p.m. Oct 29, 2021, UTC-4

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Every website is broken.

12:30 p.m. Oct 29, 2021, UTC-4

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Please give me a “slow start” guide. I have no idea what’s going on but I want to learn.

12:23 p.m. Oct 29, 2021, UTC-4

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And for what?

11:21 a.m. Oct 29, 2021, UTC-4

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Only

One of my

Airpods works I am going

Insane

11:06 a.m. Oct 29, 2021, UTC-4

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Okay I sleep now

12:55 a.m. Oct 29, 2021, UTC-4

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I still plan on open-sourcing this at some point, but I have secret keys in version control and text on the About page.

I’m leaning towards CC0, but I don’t want to public domain my writing.

12:54 a.m. Oct 29, 2021, UTC-4

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Was reading through old thoughts. I have some good ones.

12:51 a.m. Oct 29, 2021, UTC-4

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It’s interesting to think about how there are no rules to the content I could post here, except for the minimum enforced by the government

12:51 a.m. Oct 29, 2021, UTC-4

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I feel a phantom headband on my head because I’ve been wearing one all day.

12:49 a.m. Oct 29, 2021, UTC-4

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Aaahh

12:48 a.m. Oct 29, 2021, UTC-4

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I have decided to make pasta.

11:44 p.m. Oct 28, 2021, UTC-4

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Thinking about the Tweet Luke deleted where he asked someone to post on Rigby.

7:39 p.m. Oct 28, 2021, UTC-4

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I do feel bad though. I feel so bad.

7:03 p.m. Oct 27, 2021, UTC-4

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The more you say the less you say.

2:38 p.m. Oct 27, 2021, UTC-4

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The cookie banner on nature.com is literally larger than the anti-nicotine warning on a vape store. How did we get here?

11:06 a.m. Oct 27, 2021, UTC-4

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"Perhaps 'tis the mental difference between embracing and eschewing moments?"

gemini://thoughts.learnerpages.com/media/99d84a4e-71ad-4058-b146-51caa1ebc97e.aac

9:15 p.m. Oct 26, 2021, UTC-4

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It's possible TFC just has no fricking idea how big HermitCraft is. Like IRL he could just not know.

5:40 p.m. Oct 26, 2021, UTC-4

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What is the opposite of drugs?

2:47 p.m. Oct 26, 2021, UTC-4

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Design is hard. I’m not the only one that’s bad at it.

1:58 p.m. Oct 25, 2021, UTC-4

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There’s a lot you don’t know about me.

10:39 a.m. Oct 25, 2021, UTC-4

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I'm tired of society pretending that cursing is perfectly fine. I don't like it.

1:17 a.m. Oct 25, 2021, UTC-4

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All languages should have a `constrain` function somewhere in their standard library.

It's simple enough that I should be able to use it in one line, but `min(max_val, max(min_val, val))` is ugly and unreadable.

12:43 a.m. Oct 25, 2021, UTC-4

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Still can't believe pop-bob griefed her own gender. Truly a legend.

11:34 p.m. Oct 24, 2021, UTC-4

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Why are people on the internet so dumb?

11:29 p.m. Oct 24, 2021, UTC-4

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This website does not work in SerenityOS browser. I think it doesn't support background color, so the text is all white-on-white.

7:04 p.m. Oct 24, 2021, UTC-4

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Accidentally bought small face masks. (I didn't realize face masks came in different sizes.) My head is waaaay to big for this.

4:14 p.m. Oct 24, 2021, UTC-4

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"You're never going to be able to make something safe. You can increase the margin of safety. And as long as you're holding to that, and you

don't suffer the illusion that you have made something safe, then you stay in that mental state that allows you to deal with contingencies, cause they're going to happen."

-Adam Savage

3:57 p.m. Oct 24, 2021, UTC-4

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I would like light cotton pants.

9:30 p.m. Oct 23, 2021, UTC-4

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Impulse-building SerenityOS

8:42 p.m. Oct 23, 2021, UTC-4

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Is there something to say?

8:14 p.m. Oct 23, 2021, UTC-4

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Music to Fly to

8:07 p.m. Oct 23, 2021, UTC-4

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gemini://thoughts.learnerpages.com/media/a8f864d7-de04-4b28-9e9d-2b14621d10a6.aac

12:21 a.m. Oct 23, 2021, UTC-4

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There are parts of Reddit that are still good (read: "insane").

11:17 p.m. Oct 22, 2021, UTC-4

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"When it's quiet and I stop thinking, I hear voices in my head that sound like radio commercials."

4:55 p.m. Oct 22, 2021, UTC-4

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Always more tweaking to do…

12:53 a.m. Oct 22, 2021, UTC-4

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Considering becoming a sovcit for the meme

8:26 p.m. Oct 21, 2021, UTC-4

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"This screwed up stuff is the stuff of dreams"

-The Showman, U2

2:59 p.m. Oct 21, 2021, UTC-4

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"Fall off the Moon"

2:10 p.m. Oct 21, 2021, UTC-4

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Today is a good day to sit on the floor.

1:58 p.m. Oct 21, 2021, UTC-4

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I wrote some p5.js last night. Takes me back. It's more fun than web stuff.

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9:33 a.m. Oct 21, 2021, UTC-4

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I wish I could climb out my window, but the next best thing is walking out my door.

(My window is very far off of the ground. I totally would if I could, trust me.)

10:06 p.m. Oct 20, 2021, UTC-4

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Promises are so fricking opinionated. I can't. Javascript is so un-opinionated and then, Promises

9:49 p.m. Oct 20, 2021, UTC-4

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Standing on the shoulders of giants is enslaving yourself.

Do we have a choice?

11:34 a.m. Oct 20, 2021, UTC-4

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Oh, Skypack is a thing. Add it to the list…

11:08 a.m. Oct 20, 2021, UTC-4

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The last days of childhood

12:48 a.m. Oct 20, 2021, UTC-4

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Just found out that "nickelodeon" was a slang term for a jukebox, from *GEB*. I feel like I've aged 10 years.

12:35 a.m. Oct 20, 2021, UTC-4

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Thinking about moving to Tildegit and deno to escape Microsoft. I can't leave Javascript.

12:21 a.m. Oct 20, 2021, UTC-4

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Still can't believe Microsoft just bought all of the Javascript code.

12:21 a.m. Oct 20, 2021, UTC-4

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There's just so much code to write!!

12:20 a.m. Oct 20, 2021, UTC-4

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But I can live like this.

9:35 p.m. Oct 17, 2021, UTC-4

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I love the smell of the air

9:34 p.m. Oct 17, 2021, UTC-4

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I don't like fuzzy finds or command palettes or quick switchers or etc. But I don't know why, because I like the idea and I will use them...

9:14 p.m. Oct 17, 2021, UTC-4

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Hofstadter is venturing pretty fricking close to insanity

8:08 p.m. Oct 17, 2021, UTC-4

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It's a miracle any code works.

We are constructing a tower of Babel and God can allow it to stand because it will fall to our own hubris.

This is about the codebase that is shared between my Gemini server and my website.

5:42 p.m. Oct 17, 2021, UTC-4

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There are hundreds of things I could do in this moment and I don't know which ones are important or which ones I want to do.

4:41 p.m. Oct 17, 2021, UTC-4

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I get all my music recommendations from Hypixel Bedwars montage Youtube videos.

4:24 p.m. Oct 17, 2021, UTC-4

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I really want to put like a dumb CRT-effect overlay over this website but GPU (or lack thereof) cannot handle it.

12:09 a.m. Oct 17, 2021, UTC-4

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I love compiling code.

8:23 p.m. Oct 16, 2021, UTC-4

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Some follow-up, I found "The Last Person in America Not Online"

I posted May 15th [here](https://thoughts.learnerpages.com/?show=cf045c64-f54f-423f-b682-52b99c7294d2), “You May Be Looking At The Last Person In America Not Online.” And then on May 30th, [here](https://thoughts.learnerpages.com/?show=4ade4aea-3914-4605-bb6d-40dbfba63b77), I commented that I didn't remember where that had come from. Well, I searched for it again, and this time Google gave me this reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/nd1cbl/just_a_bit_of_dust/, (an image of an AOL disk with a reflective surface under the words.)

Just a bit of closure.

7:57 p.m. Oct 16, 2021, UTC-4

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"For those craving real, human interaction, there is also an IRC channel"

7:40 p.m. Oct 16, 2021, UTC-4

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I’ve decided mixing wet and dry ingredients separately is a superstition invented by people with surplus mixing bowls.

6:20 p.m. Oct 16, 2021, UTC-4

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Tazal

https://youtu.be/V-6m0jW0X9E?t=1231

1:00 a.m. Oct 16, 2021, UTC-4

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The thing about *Thinking Fast and Slow* that makes it so interesting, is that’s not a list of ways that humans are illogical and tips on

how to be more logical—although it certainly appears to be at times. But what it ends up doing is thoroughly tearing down the myth that humans are rational at all.

7:52 p.m. Oct 15, 2021, UTC-4

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My Twitter data log has every time I've logged into Twitter and the IP address.

Edit: Not accesses, logins, I think

12:52 a.m. Oct 15, 2021, UTC-4

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Re-upholstered my chair.

In like 5 minutes with a T-shirt and duct tape.

11:38 p.m. Oct 14, 2021, UTC-4

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In addition to people, I also hate objects.

8:20 p.m. Oct 14, 2021, UTC-4

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Some have said that society is an illusion. But it is more precise to say that society is a series of illusions stacked on top of each other

4:28 p.m. Oct 14, 2021, UTC-4

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This is pleasure, this is pain.

4:26 p.m. Oct 14, 2021, UTC-4

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Removed markdown from this website. Adding features without removing them is…

1:02 p.m. Oct 14, 2021, UTC-4

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AAAAAaaahhhhhahhahahaaahhhhhhaaaaaahahhhhhahahahahahaaaahhhhhhhh

10:51 a.m. Oct 14, 2021, UTC-4

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'Woah the Matlab `plot` syntax is *exactly* like Matplotlib!'

Where do you think the "mat" in "matplotlib" comes from, exactly??

10:36 a.m. Oct 14, 2021, UTC-4

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I believe I once promised someone, if only myself, that this website would concentrate my insanity and allow me to be more sane elsewhere.

That was a falsehood.

11:30 p.m. Oct 13, 2021, UTC-4

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I would rather do the wrong things than do nothing.

11:29 p.m. Oct 13, 2021, UTC-4

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"Be strong and courageous for the LORD your God goes with you."

-Deuteronomy 31:6, paraphrased

11:22 p.m. Oct 13, 2021, UTC-4

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Has anyone done Programming Language Critic? The show that gets facts wrong about your favorite programming language?

Looks like there are a couple of surprisingly high quality Youtube channels doing esolang reviews. But that's surprisingly high quality given their low popularity, not like, actually good and definitely not at the level of jan Misali.

11:21 p.m. Oct 13, 2021, UTC-4

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Okay back to the seasons, I'm not vibing with them. It feels really disorienting and doesn't really give you a sense of scale. Like, how far

back is this? Is this from 10 years ago or yesterday? I wonder if that's just because I made the site? Because when I'm looking back on Hacker News, for example, it feels almost creepy, like walking through a ghost town or archives, reading comments from years ago. I don't get that same feeling here.

On the other hand, that's probably fine.

The functionality of this site was obviously inspired by Twitter, but a lot of the feel and aesthetic of the this site was inspired by bill wurtz's "questions". https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html I just opened "questions" again, and started reading, and was struck by how timeless everything was. I looked at the timestamps, but like I'm tired and I don't want to try to figure out how long ago any of them were posted. And it doesn't matter.

So in that sense, I wouldn't be unhappy if everything here was timeless and you could jump into the middle. (Like you can with XKCD for example.)

Now, I don't want this site to be confusing to navigate, like billwurtz.com. I do want you to be able to come to this site and immediately get a feel for "oh he's posted several times a day for a year…" Maybe numbered pages? e.g. 1-500, 500-1000, etc? I think that works well for XKCD.

11:02 p.m. Oct 13, 2021, UTC-4

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There are a lot of reasons that I don't always want to allow comments on posts here, but one of them is that I extensively use "help" and

rhetorical questions, that I don't mean as genuine. See for example the last post. I'm transcribing the questions that are running through my own head, not asking you these questions.

10:50 p.m. Oct 13, 2021, UTC-4

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I can't.

Okay so you need context probably. I have fancy textboxes on the post page here that get taller when you type in them.

Well, the trigger for them expanding is dependent on whether or not I have a mouse plugged in. I don't want to get into all of it, something something, macOS displays scrollbars, etc. Is this a web problem? Can I blame this on the W3? Or this is a problem with software in general? Should I fix this? Can I fix this? Help.

10:47 p.m. Oct 13, 2021, UTC-4

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I'm trying to post here more often after I did the per-quarter breakdown and realized how much I posted the first season of this site.

10:37 p.m. Oct 13, 2021, UTC-4

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I still haven't solved formatting/markdown. I'm doing client side markdown ! I've been thinking about it for months.

10:36 p.m. Oct 13, 2021, UTC-4

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I'm so glad I left Twitter. I've heard Twitter doesn't let you Tweet the exact same thing twice and it's stressful for me to wonder

"have I posted this before?"

10:36 p.m. Oct 13, 2021, UTC-4

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I don't remember the last time I made a good decision.

10:32 p.m. Oct 13, 2021, UTC-4

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Do you feel it yet?

7:51 p.m. Oct 13, 2021, UTC-4

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There's a bit of Marxist theory that one of the pains of capitalism is that it separates the laborer from the product of their labor.

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.

7:51 p.m. Oct 13, 2021, UTC-4

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Javascript is extremely flexible and I know it very well. It doesn't make much sense for me to do anything but double down on using it.

7:24 p.m. Oct 13, 2021, UTC-4

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I want to do amazing things.

10:29 a.m. Oct 13, 2021, UTC-4

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All people want is an enemy.

10:29 a.m. Oct 13, 2021, UTC-4

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One of the biggest lies I tell myself is that I enjoy empty spaces.

10:28 a.m. Oct 13, 2021, UTC-4

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Is it really code golf, if you don't have an `eval`?

1:03 a.m. Oct 13, 2021, UTC-4

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Here's a Thought from last year that talks about pagination

https://thoughts.learnerpages.com/?show=b3b9020f-edbd-412d-9787-6874b21622d1

1:11 p.m. Oct 12, 2021, UTC-4

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I'm experimenting with pagination. Right now I'm grouping Thoughts by meteorological month. Each page is still absurdly long (good), while

dropping the amount of text transferred to ~1/10 (good). The (bad) is that I now have a row of buttons and multiple pages. Which adds a significant amount of mental complexity.

I'm at 1,842 Thoughts, broken down as

[('Fall 2021', 156), ('Summer 2021', 375), ('Spring 2021', 317), ('Winter 2020', 410), ('Fall 2020', 584)]

I think the 300-500 thoughts/page range is about where I want to be, but it looks like I'm still seeing flashes of unformatted content due to JS markdown. Which I was hoping this would fix. I really need to move to server-side rendering.

The other bad, of course, is that when we roll over to winter in a month, the front page will drop to 0 posts at some point. Which is not exactly the aesthetic that I'm going for.

Also added a permalink button so you can find thoughts buried in the archives, but I'm not super happy with it. It will probably change.

1:11 p.m. Oct 12, 2021, UTC-4

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Since when does Servo support JS?

12:20 p.m. Oct 12, 2021, UTC-4

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Gosh fricking heck dates were a problem and a mistake. Timezone issues with this site, again!

1:07 a.m. Oct 12, 2021, UTC-4

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I once said "I don't have trouble focusing, focusing just feels weird" [1]. I certainly find it a lot easier to switch between tasks every 5

minutes that it is to work on one task for too long.

[1]

12:19 a.m. Oct 12, 2021, UTC-4

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I think it's interesting to keep in mind that any project can be acquired by big corporate at any time. Keybase, NPM, Audacity, etc.

9:45 p.m. Oct 11, 2021, UTC-4

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So I started this website because I got addicted to the dopamine hit associated with someone liking my Tweets, right.

Well, the lack of exposure hasn't made me any better at handling it. I started a one-off Instagram account, and I just got 2 followers, and my heart is racing.

9:35 p.m. Oct 11, 2021, UTC-4

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I want to make this website weirder, but one of things that makes this website so weird right now is its simplicity. If I added some gimmic,

I could lose simplicity, resulting in a net zero change in weirdness and a net negative in website quality.

10:25 a.m. Oct 11, 2021, UTC-4

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"Your generosity so far also matches exactly an adversaries likely plan to entrap me."

(Spoiler, it was actually an adversary entrapping him. Too late.)

Another example of things that actually happened, but would never be believable in fiction.

9:23 p.m. Oct 10, 2021, UTC-4

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You gotta give credit to ElyBeatmaker. He is really good at what he does.

8:53 p.m. Oct 10, 2021, UTC-4

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Absolute musical insanity

RemixMyRemix3 TOP 10

8:53 p.m. Oct 10, 2021, UTC-4

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At some point the Black Lives Matter organization took down their What We Believe page.

4:35 p.m. Oct 10, 2021, UTC-4

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Why are stand mixers $200 when I could buy a bowl and a hand mixer for $40?

4:03 p.m. Oct 10, 2021, UTC-4

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Hello. I am Matthias. I have social anxiety

8:03 p.m. Oct 09, 2021, UTC-4

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The thing that frustrates me about Jekyll is that it forces content into the _data and _posts directories. So if you try to group all of

your content together, then all of your content, everything you regularly change, is in sub-directories with names that start with `_`.

But like, you don't have to do that. Jekyll will also post-process files in a `./posts` directory. And this is the type of thing that gets me about every static site generator (or least Hugo and Jekyll and eleventy). They have these conventions and assumptions about where to put their files, but it's unclear which of them are defaults and which of them are enforced. And how easy it is to overwrite any given default.

2:40 p.m. Oct 09, 2021, UTC-4

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/r/AnarchyChess is sustaining me while Blaseball is on Siesta.

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1:57 p.m. Oct 09, 2021, UTC-4

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I focus on listening a lot. But if you're looking for information, asking a good question can be as important of a skill as listening.

7:22 p.m. Oct 08, 2021, UTC-4

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The reckless, infinite scope of web browsers

I don't like Drew DeVault. But he recognizes the issues with the web that many people do not.

7:21 p.m. Oct 08, 2021, UTC-4

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What am I running from?

2:24 p.m. Oct 08, 2021, UTC-4

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I love /r/legaladvice: "No, according to OP, the person who committed fraud said that."

8:49 a.m. Oct 08, 2021, UTC-4

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In the past two days, Facebook has gone down, all of Twitch's source was leaked, and all `.club` domains went down. This is anarchy.

4:21 p.m. Oct 07, 2021, UTC-4

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XKCD 267

gemini://thoughts.learnerpages.com/media/ddbaae41-f41c-4d7b-aa3f-e2c9349325f1.aac

11:08 p.m. Oct 06, 2021, UTC-4

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We had a good run

10:07 p.m. Oct 06, 2021, UTC-4

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Figured out you can move the address bar back to the top of the screen in iOS 15

From the aA, Show Top Tab Bar

8:15 p.m. Oct 06, 2021, UTC-4

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Myyy haaannndsss [voice crack] huuurrrrrttt

6:46 p.m. Oct 06, 2021, UTC-4

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"owning a computer to survive/participate in society is a consequence of capitalism"

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

9:17 p.m. Oct 05, 2021, UTC-4

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"Courtesy of the Library of Nomad. Knowledge is Freedom."

8:35 p.m. Oct 05, 2021, UTC-4

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I’m running on borrowed time.

5:13 p.m. Oct 05, 2021, UTC-4

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Aaaahhh

2:02 p.m. Oct 05, 2021, UTC-4

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Fell off my bike this morning. Can't catch a break

10:54 a.m. Oct 05, 2021, UTC-4

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I'm such a perfectionist. I sometimes say, if it's worth doing it's worth doing better than anyone else. But even that isn't enough to

satisfy me.

This website is one of the things I'm proud of, that brings my joy to use. But even with this, I have a 25 item to-do list, 3 posts with errors that need editing, and 7 grammar mistakes on the About page. (25 item todo list doesn't sound like a lot, but start thinking about it. How many bugs or missing features can you name for this site? I can name 25.)

This is a cry for help.

11:22 p.m. Oct 04, 2021, UTC-4

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We're going to run out of IPv6 addresses because we're using them to encode data. Facebook's IPv6 address is 2a03:2880:f0fc:c:face:b00c:0:35

"face:b00c"

10:49 p.m. Oct 04, 2021, UTC-4

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It's really a shame that words are linear, isn't it.

10:22 p.m. Oct 04, 2021, UTC-4

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If the pandemic isn't over by, say, 2030, I'm going to stop wearing a mask, tetra variant or no.

I once read an interesting excerpt from *Being Alive*, by Tim Ingold (p. 36). In it he points out the degree to which we constrain the role of our feet, and moreover, how this is regarded as a mark of how civilized we are as a society.

Paradoxically, it seems that with the onward march of civilisation, the foot has been progressively *withdrawn* from the sphere of operation of the intellect, that it has regressed to the status of a merely mechanical apparatus, and moreover that this development is a consequence — not a cause — of technical advance in footwear. Boots and shoes, products of the ever more versatile human hand, imprison the foot, constricting its freedom of movement and blunting its sense of touch.

At the risk of over-extrapolating, I would not be surprised if, in 8 years, it is socially expected that everyone remain masked when possible. Not out of a particular fear, as today, but out of respect. "Mouth-breather" is already an insult, and chewing with your mouth open is already rude. Is it really that much of a jump to expect people to cover their mouths with cloth as often as possible?

This mask-wearing would be used as evidence of the advances of civilization, in the same way that wearing shoes is, but it is unclear whether it would be tangibly beneficial. Eradication of some airborne illness is near the bottom of my goals for human progress, far after eradicating hunger, poverty, space travel etc. Many, however, would take this objection without issue.

Why is this a problem? Because wearing a mask drastically reduces our sense of smell. Smell is one of only 4 senses that can really be used to experience the world around us. (The sense of smell is most important outdoors. It's possible, in a projected future, that masking outside is seen as unnecessary. It's also possible that we develop masks that you can smell through, etc.)

But the sense of smell, in modern civilization, isn't valued. Moving your nose to better smell something is an extremely undignified act. Dogs smell things, humans don't. (We praise dogs for their sense of smell, but dogs are unashamed to put their noses to the ground. I've tried it, you can smell a lot more with your face in the grass. I was also immediately scoffed.)

The sense of smell is often neglected, but it still plays an important role in experiencing the world around us.

The nose and mouth are not significantly valued in western culture today. If they were to be blunted or obscured by a mask, most people would not realize the magnitude of what would be lost. It is important to me that I get the fullest possible experience of the world God created, bar of course urgent public-health crises. If mask wearing is still the social norm in 9 years, I think it reasonable to say at that point that this is not a short-term public heath crisis, and is in fact a cultural and value shift. This value shift would be one that I protest.

10:14 p.m. Oct 04, 2021, UTC-4

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My life is a constant cycle of under and over stimulation.

2:22 p.m. Oct 04, 2021, UTC-4

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Facebook.com is down. 10/10. It is impossible to keep a website online.

1:02 p.m. Oct 04, 2021, UTC-4

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I hate probability. I don't understand it at all.

11:03 a.m. Oct 04, 2021, UTC-4

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I'd pay to see a professional JS/web developer react to code on KA for the first time.

9:45 a.m. Oct 04, 2021, UTC-4

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jan Misali just roasts a language for 10 minutes in the most dry tone. It's amazing.

"It's not very computer friendly, which wouldn't be a problem if it were pen and paper friendly, which it isn't."

https://youtu.be/12bT6wGXESc

I don't even care about conlangs at all. He's been doing this for 5 years.

7:00 p.m. Oct 03, 2021, UTC-4

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I've been using Atom for the past couple weeks. I just opened IntelliJ. It's so painful

The package is called `python-decouple` and is listed in the requirements.txt as such. IntelliJ can't seem to fathom that.

gemini://thoughts.learnerpages.com/media/2bde2f08-1e6c-4815-b1af-41813c72fd73.png

6:18 p.m. Oct 03, 2021, UTC-4

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Made this earlier, inspired by a Reddit comment

(Did you notice this image has `alt` text? Big things are always happening behind the scenes here.)

gemini://thoughts.learnerpages.com/media/5ba92603-eb59-4ab3-9e9b-b71d5e4f15cc.jpeg

6:05 p.m. Oct 03, 2021, UTC-4

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Fixing bugs.

`unsigned int value = -1`

11:44 a.m. Oct 03, 2021, UTC-4

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I watched *October Sky* with some friends yesterday to celebrate the start of October. It's a very good movie.

6:31 p.m. Oct 02, 2021, UTC-4

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I am mentally moving this project (this website) back into an artistic/creative mode.

6:27 p.m. Oct 02, 2021, UTC-4

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Working on a spec for a subset of liquid that can be used as an anti-templating language.

1:56 p.m. Oct 02, 2021, UTC-4

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I am very easily overwhelmed.

This will need revisiting.

1:56 p.m. Oct 02, 2021, UTC-4

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I want to know what the people who make static site generators are thinking. Because I think about static sites a lot. And none of the

static site generators are intuitive to me. They're all weird.

1:39 p.m. Oct 02, 2021, UTC-4

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"autumn is forever 2012"

4:20 p.m. Oct 01, 2021, UTC-4

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I'm tired of popups. If I open the front page of your website, and I get hit with a popup, I'm leaving. I don't care about your cookies or

your newsletter or donating now or anything except the content I came to see.

I don't get it. I have voluntarily opened your website because I want to see your content. Do you know how hard that is? I've given you that hard-to-get initial click, and you respond with a full-screen cookie popup? Please.

11:15 a.m. Oct 01, 2021, UTC-4

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There was something else here.

9:55 a.m. Oct 01, 2021, UTC-4

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Yeah so a bee stung me on the lip this morning while I was biking. I just biked into it face-first and it stung me.

I kind of can't beelieve it happened. My lip still hurts a bit. I got stung by a bee, right on the lip.

I feel like Oscar from VeggieTale's "I Love My Lips." Usta!

9:33 p.m. Sep 30, 2021, UTC-4

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My pain tolerance is so low. I have been completely incapacitated by a bee sting for the last 2 hours.

1:51 p.m. Sep 30, 2021, UTC-4

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Cloudflare's R2 seems super exciting because it's super cheap, but like, I don't even know what I would do with unlimited download.

12:10 a.m. Sep 30, 2021, UTC-4

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I need Blaseball to Return.

11:46 p.m. Sep 29, 2021, UTC-4

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I have done a data crime

gemini://thoughts.learnerpages.com/media/8b81186f-032e-40f3-ab7d-6f14deb249e6.png

1:00 p.m. Sep 29, 2021, UTC-4

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The best is the worst is the first. The last is the pain of the searcher who never finds.

12:31 p.m. Sep 29, 2021, UTC-4

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Good morning America.

9:14 a.m. Sep 29, 2021, UTC-4

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I got mail. It’s a handwritten note from the Democratic Party. I can’t read what it says because it’s in cursive. I hate 2021.

12:34 a.m. Sep 29, 2021, UTC-4

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Okay emojis in Github are overdone.

8:11 p.m. Sep 28, 2021, UTC-4

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Okay the nuclear siren ambient noise actually isn't that bad.

https://neal.fun/ambient-chaos/

3:14 p.m. Sep 28, 2021, UTC-4

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Using eggs that have a use-by date of Sep 02.

1:58 p.m. Sep 28, 2021, UTC-4

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Good morning. Reddit is so radically left-wing, it’s kind of shocking to me. It’s kind of a cult.

12:21 a.m. Sep 28, 2021, UTC-4

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It's shocking to me how lightweight Debian seems to be, considering that that's not one of the projects stated goals at all.

10:52 a.m. Sep 27, 2021, UTC-4

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A Docker container's lack of persistence really isn't appealing to me, but I do appreciate the super quick start times.

It's really nice to be able to `docker run -it alpine /bin/sh` without having to download or flash Alpine or anything.

10:32 a.m. Sep 27, 2021, UTC-4

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"But the fact is I would not have spent a decade doing this, if I did not believe I was at least tiny bit ridiculously filthy at it"

-Don't Be Nice, Watsky

9:19 p.m. Sep 26, 2021, UTC-4

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Will we continue getting exponentially closer to perfection?

7:50 p.m. Sep 26, 2021, UTC-4

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How frequently should a code-base be rewritten in order to be considered healthy and active? Ever?

12:03 p.m. Sep 25, 2021, UTC-4

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Addicted to emailing people once and then ghosting them after they reply.

10:50 a.m. Sep 25, 2021, UTC-4

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Mobile apps I've started: 6

Mobile apps I've finished: 2

9:18 a.m. Sep 25, 2021, UTC-4

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Allow me to propose a security model called, 'don't have anything anyone would want to attack.'

The Gemini protocol is using this model with great success.

8:09 p.m. Sep 24, 2021, UTC-4

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You can run TLS over UDP???

7:36 p.m. Sep 24, 2021, UTC-4

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"Add Equatable Conformance"

7:16 p.m. Sep 24, 2021, UTC-4

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Less than a day of using Xcode and I have already had to restart it 3 times.

6:56 p.m. Sep 24, 2021, UTC-4

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Swift has all these really cool language features that are like "Woah" but they're kind of solutions without a problem.

Like, they have "trailing closures" so if you have a function `setTimeout(action: () -> Void)` you can call it

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.

5:29 p.m. Sep 24, 2021, UTC-4

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I'm totally going to end up with a memory leak or something

On a page called "Manual Memory Management"

5:20 p.m. Sep 24, 2021, UTC-4

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Help I clicked a button and now Xcode is showing me assembly

5:14 p.m. Sep 24, 2021, UTC-4

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Oh my word. Oh my fricking word.

I was just casually browsing the Swift source code, as you do, struggling.

https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/blame/ee856f110177289af602c4040a996507f7d1b3ce/Tests/Foundation/Tests/TestSocketPort.swift#L83

I see the test data `"I cannot weave"`. Some of you know where this is going, but I did not.

I am easily distracted. So I think to myself, 'that's a new test string, it has a nice ring to it.' So I put it into Google.

It is a line from a poem by Sappho.

Now, if this was a SIBR project or something I would be completely unsurprised. But I lost it: this Apple employe (presumably) is just casually writing very official test cases for this programming language and can't resist letting me know, two years later, that she's gay.

3:52 p.m. Sep 24, 2021, UTC-4

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Perhaps the greatest tragedy of my life is that computer programming is the best medium I have found for expressing myself.

12:15 a.m. Sep 24, 2021, UTC-4

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"tumblr is for people who lives by culture"

7:56 p.m. Sep 23, 2021, UTC-4

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"(happy :hacking)"

10:23 p.m. Sep 22, 2021, UTC-4

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Minimalism implies flexibility.

(As does well-implemented simplicity.)

5:26 p.m. Sep 22, 2021, UTC-4

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I want to freeze.

4:34 p.m. Sep 21, 2021, UTC-4

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https://aether.exposed/if-they-were-to-cut-open-my-bloated-corpse-they-would-find-nothing-but-cookies

12:46 p.m. Sep 21, 2021, UTC-4

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I hate ordering things online, like I just want them to be here now!

10:13 p.m. Sep 20, 2021, UTC-4

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HackerNews, 2011!

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8:07 p.m. Sep 20, 2021, UTC-4

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Absolutely quality blog post, highly recommend:

https://mango.pdf.zone/finding-former-australian-prime-minister-tony-abbotts-passport-number-on-instagram

5:40 p.m. Sep 20, 2021, UTC-4

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People

12:29 p.m. Sep 20, 2021, UTC-4

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I keep mixing up Scala and Scheme. Different programming languages.

9:10 a.m. Sep 20, 2021, UTC-4

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Hit 100 karma on Hacker News guys. lul

8:44 a.m. Sep 20, 2021, UTC-4

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Just bought business cards. I couldn't sleep so I got up to get water. Supposed to get here in October.

12:17 a.m. Sep 20, 2021, UTC-4

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I mean, it doesn't surprise me too much.

gemini://thoughts.learnerpages.com/media/e4d12fec-dbbf-4ff4-9828-035cc7efc448.png

7:58 p.m. Sep 19, 2021, UTC-4

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Documentation < cloning the source, running `ag`

7:47 p.m. Sep 19, 2021, UTC-4

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In the Blaseball API, there's a field on a Game object called `secretBaserunner`. I don't know why.

1:52 p.m. Sep 19, 2021, UTC-4

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Working on Blaseball Over Gemini again. It's just so cursed I can't take it.

12:25 p.m. Sep 19, 2021, UTC-4

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If I require weekly emails in order to figure out how to use your product, it's a bad product

5:54 p.m. Sep 18, 2021, UTC-4

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People tend to judge artistic mediums on objective grounds. The medium does matter, because an interesting medium attracts or inspires

artists. But that's a subjective quality. One medium is not better than another. The best medium is the most interesting one, and once that medium become boring, it's no longer good, only because it is the same as it used to be.

3:00 p.m. Sep 18, 2021, UTC-4

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When you have an idea what you're doing, a strictly-typed language can help you catch errors. When you have no idea what's going on, type

errors are so much less helpful than runtime errors.

12:06 p.m. Sep 18, 2021, UTC-4

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I'm sorry Rust libraries, but auto-generated docs that list the types of your values does not count as documentation. Please please write

some documentation. I want a usage example. Is that too much to ask?

(This goes for every other strictly typed language. TypeScript, Java, you don't have documentation either.)

12:06 p.m. Sep 18, 2021, UTC-4

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Sometimes, when I have no idea what's going on, I wish that the programming language, would give me a runtime error.

Instead, Rust insists on forcing me to catch every possible error in order to sure that it cannot panic. Well, my code doesn't panic. Instead, it just stops running, exiting silently.

I think what I'm doing is equivalent to wrapping all my code in a `try…catch`. But if I don't do that, I can't compile, because Rust doesn't want me to face any runtime errors.

Ok, I finally got a panic. It contains useful information! `InvalidColumnType(3, "visit_count", Integer)'`.

11:49 a.m. Sep 18, 2021, UTC-4

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I've switch sqlite3 libraries 3 times in the last hour, heck you Rust.

11:06 a.m. Sep 18, 2021, UTC-4

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All I want in my life are bookends. Bookends are one of the greatest inventions of humanity and I don't have any of them.

11:05 a.m. Sep 18, 2021, UTC-4

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Goodbye Robert

gemini://thoughts.learnerpages.com/media/6229f755-bfae-4d67-bda2-c226c9125d22.png

8:24 p.m. Sep 17, 2021, UTC-4

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Man, I wish I had a brain

7:37 p.m. Sep 17, 2021, UTC-4

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I am addicted to nothing. That is, to being addicted to nothing, to minimalism, to being free.

11:44 p.m. Sep 16, 2021, UTC-4

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Gemini competes less with the web and more with real life.

11:25 p.m. Sep 16, 2021, UTC-4

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Gopher: everything is a link and you can't link to HTTP

9:28 p.m. Sep 16, 2021, UTC-4

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Why has it gotten harder to focus as I've gotten older?

9:18 p.m. Sep 16, 2021, UTC-4

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"I (resident of North America) rarely see kangaroos."

-Some commenter

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

3:12 p.m. Sep 16, 2021, UTC-4

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I made bread

1:03 a.m. Sep 16, 2021, UTC-4

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11ty is like 'oh yes we're extremely flexible.' I have some React generated pages and some Gemtext generated pages. 11ty does not support

adding custom template languages. So I can't generate either of them. 11ty is super flexible if you're working with liquid and markdown and js.

11:23 p.m. Sep 15, 2021, UTC-4

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`rsync . DEST` and `rsync $(pwd) DEST` behave very differently :/

4:56 p.m. Sep 15, 2021, UTC-4

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I went insane back in '09*

To the tune of AJR's "Joe"

10:32 a.m. Sep 15, 2021, UTC-4

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Someone created a thoughts page almost exactly like this one, Apr 7th, 2020. I created this page Sep 5th, 2020.

https://wesleyac.thoughts.page

The feature parity here is honestly horrifying. I think the biggest difference is probably that they don't have what I call extended text (that's this here). They seem to not have a length limit. I limit to 140 characters in the first line.

I have 1,731 Thoughts, they have 408 thoughts. So I'm clearly better, don't worry. /s

9:52 a.m. Sep 15, 2021, UTC-4

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Hello people from Hacker News. Check out the About page understand what's going on here.

lolololololol

9:19 a.m. Sep 15, 2021, UTC-4

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People spend a lot of time talking about economic growth, but frequently leave out the context of population growth, which I think would be

relevant. This isn't a thesis yet, merely an observation.

6:02 p.m. Sep 14, 2021, UTC-4

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I picked up a newspaper today. It was pretty bad.

4:13 p.m. Sep 14, 2021, UTC-4

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You cannot embedded simplicity inside a complex system.

You cannot embedded a simple system inside a complex system. Your system is only as simple as the most complex part.

3:32 p.m. Sep 14, 2021, UTC-4

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I’m easily distracted

10:21 a.m. Sep 14, 2021, UTC-4

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I create a lot, but that doesn't stop me from living in fear that what I've created isn't enough.

12:09 a.m. Sep 14, 2021, UTC-4

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If you're not ready for the small internet, you should probably get ready.

11:00 p.m. Sep 13, 2021, UTC-4

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"The Plan 9 renaissance"

10:59 p.m. Sep 13, 2021, UTC-4

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Am I the only one who thinks node.js is a mess? I guess no one is using node.js? Or something? I don't get it.

10:57 p.m. Sep 13, 2021, UTC-4

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"but it needs a little something more."

11:51 p.m. Sep 12, 2021, UTC-4

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I feel like I get more perfectionistic the more tired I get. Like most people get tired and stop caring, but I get tired and lose my ability

to look past things.

11:26 p.m. Sep 12, 2021, UTC-4

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I think it is logical to extended the axiom that you shouldn't trust a computer you can't throw out a window to cloud hosting.

If I can't see the computer, I shouldn't trust it.

10:59 p.m. Sep 12, 2021, UTC-4

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I'm just so tired.

I want to use Atom. But Microsoft bought Atom so that I would use Visual Studio Code.

8:17 p.m. Sep 12, 2021, UTC-4

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I flew into the sky and landed on a cloud. An angel asked me, “are you a real person?” To which I replied, “does the set of all sets contain

itself?”

I fell down through hoops, rings of gold held aloft by eagles. There are few eagles left now. When I rejoined with the earth it was warm. It spread out in all directions. The flea on my monitor cannot hear but can perceive the vast force that oversees all things.

A yellow plane slices through all things. A panic attack overtakes an elder in a small town in a flyover state. The whole world holds its breath for a moment, acknowledging, then moves on with the same pace.

12:35 a.m. Sep 12, 2021, UTC-4

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Most people are tired.

11:14 p.m. Sep 11, 2021, UTC-4

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"This is the end of desktop applications. There’s nowhere but JavaScript."

1:23 p.m. Sep 11, 2021, UTC-4

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The web is so fricking bad.

I want a 140 character textarea here. Easy, check `.length` client-side; check `len()` server-side. Right?

Wrong!

JS-side `.length` treats new-lines as 1 character, but per some spec, lines in form-encoded requests are `\r\n` delimitated. So Python's `len()` sees two characters.

10:48 a.m. Sep 11, 2021, UTC-4

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"Why Do I Choose This for a Living"

Chrome is gaslighting me. Git checkout OJSE from last year, it's broken. Like? I'm pretty sure this code worked at some point, please?

8:31 p.m. Sep 10, 2021, UTC-4

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Yellow Balloon :)

gemini://thoughts.learnerpages.com/media/5a6644c9-4004-45b4-8510-f1da6ec2eb10.png

4:19 p.m. Sep 10, 2021, UTC-4

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The WHATWG can no more tell me how to make a good website than the government can tell me how to be a good person.

11:40 p.m. Sep 09, 2021, UTC-4

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It’s just me and my Snackin Waffles against the world.

7:58 p.m. Sep 08, 2021, UTC-4

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My mouth hurt like hell this time last year, and it hurts like hell now.

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

3:06 p.m. Sep 08, 2021, UTC-4

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I'm just trying to understand what's going on

9:41 p.m. Sep 07, 2021, UTC-4

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It's 2021 and I am running the iTunes Visualizer.

5:44 p.m. Sep 06, 2021, UTC-4

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People are like, 'docker is so much easier and simpler than a virtual machine.' And then https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/373914

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…)

2:22 p.m. Sep 06, 2021, UTC-4

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It's easy to complain about the Reddit hive-mind, but what really gets me is that Reddit is not a hive mind.

You can have a bunch of people in a conversation, who are all pro-choice, because it's Reddit. And one will be like 'even if unborn babies are people, the mother's body-autonomy takes precedent over the baby's right to live.' And 3 comments later, someone else is explaining how body-autonomy doesn't apply to anti-vaxers because, and I quote, "vaccines are free. Babies are not."

This is not a single, logical, train of thought. I can't understand it.

Frick every time I start thinking about the abortion issue I just end up laughing at Norma McCorvey's Wikipedia page. "She had quit her job at an abortion clinic and had become an advocate…to make abortion illegal." 100% chaotic neutral energy. And I feel bad for her, because I don't think she wanted to be that way. Truly cursed with an interesting life.

1:08 a.m. Sep 06, 2021, UTC-4

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God is good!

My soul is asleep. Although my mind should probably be sleep as well. But that’s okay, because God is good.

12:14 a.m. Sep 05, 2021, UTC-4

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"I thought my way to greatness, I could claim this, but He gave me the brain" -JT, Jon Bellion

3:28 p.m. Sep 04, 2021, UTC-4

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Where have you been all my life, `mod_md`?

2:20 p.m. Sep 04, 2021, UTC-4

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Silly me, assuming Apache `Define` variables are scoped to the block they're created in.

1:42 p.m. Sep 04, 2021, UTC-4

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Gruber thought Markdown would be good because it was readable, but Markdown's real genius is being writeable.

1:31 p.m. Sep 04, 2021, UTC-4

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My word, KA really sped up time to connect or something.

Maybe my internet changed, but I used to have to wait like 2 seconds before KA would send anything, and then 6 seconds or whatever for the AJAX graphQL to finish. The second part seems about unchanged, but the first is much quicker.

9:36 a.m. Sep 04, 2021, UTC-4

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Editing `/etc/apt/sources.list` again

Man, I don't have these kinds of problems on Arch. (That's not true, I totally do.)

9:05 a.m. Sep 04, 2021, UTC-4

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I changed the default font in Vivaldi from Times to Helvetica and it makes sites that don't have CSS look much better

12:17 a.m. Sep 04, 2021, UTC-4

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I've been using ssh for years and I learned today that it has escape characters.

Enter/return, then `~`, then `?` to list escape sequences.

12:16 a.m. Sep 04, 2021, UTC-4

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Editing `/etc/apt/sources.list` again, fun!

10:50 p.m. Sep 03, 2021, UTC-4

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Gemini is going to fricking take off. Like, at least among tech people. I'm so hyped

6:21 p.m. Sep 03, 2021, UTC-4

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Plant Details

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11:53 p.m. Sep 02, 2021, UTC-4

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My whole fricking mouth hurts. Eating is pain.

6:49 p.m. Sep 02, 2021, UTC-4

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Reachability is not an iOS feature. Reachability is a lifestyle.

12:22 a.m. Sep 02, 2021, UTC-4

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It's so easy to over-complicate Apache config files.

2 ways to do HTTP to HTTPs upgrades

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =*.ourjseditor.com [OR]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =ourjseditor.com
RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=perman
RewriteRule ^ https://ourjseditor.com%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=perm

Redirect permanent / "https://ourjseditor.com/"

I don't even know what I was doing.

8:34 p.m. Sep 01, 2021, UTC-4

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"always happy to cancel a meeting"

8:00 p.m. Sep 01, 2021, UTC-4

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What the Long Now Foundation, and a lot of archivists, miss, is that hardware just can’t survive that long.

I bet the Long Now Foundation’s clock fails in my lifetime lolol.

But more directly, there’s no battery with more than a 30 year shelf life, unused. You can’t design a computer that lasts that long.

The key, then, is that batteries are replaceable. I suspect that modular hardware and software is more maintainable and longer lasting than hardware designed to be long-lasting. Or at least, if you want to optimize for long time scales, you should optimize for repairability.

The issue of course, that you need people interested in repairing your stuff. But if people don’t care, then that’s not exactly a fault of the technology.

10:31 a.m. Sep 01, 2021, UTC-4

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There's a playlist of kids music that I listened to a lot when I was younger because of one my younger cousins, and I still get songs from

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

12:36 a.m. Sep 01, 2021, UTC-4

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The year is 2002

gemini://thoughts.learnerpages.com/media/988ad1bf-48c4-4b85-b2ec-8b9849c41a1e.aac

12:21 a.m. Sep 01, 2021, UTC-4

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Anyways, first Julia program written*. Moving on to other things.

translated from Matlab. Mostly a copy-paste but with an hour spent reading Julia docs to understand what was going on.

1:12 p.m. Aug 31, 2021, UTC-4

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I thought Python was a big language, Julia is fricking huge! Like they just want every feature!

In applying multiple dispatch, the question comes up: to what extent do you try to standardize your function calls? Do you try to ensure that the more specific type comes first? Do you try to only define methods (function implementations) that actually get called? And I after reading more Julia documentation, they don't seem concerned with redundancy or inconsistency. I would guess they would say, "define as many methods as you feel like."

1:08 p.m. Aug 31, 2021, UTC-4

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I was totally joking when I said this was a LISP dialect, I didn't know that Julia has real macros. No reference to s-expressions yet…

12:27 p.m. Aug 31, 2021, UTC-4

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"More precisely, the set of all finite-length strings S together with the string concatenation operator * forms a free monoid (S, *)"

-The Julia documentation.

This language really was written by mathematicians

12:21 p.m. Aug 31, 2021, UTC-4

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Julia has symbol literals, e.g. `:hello`. I think that makes it a LISP dialect

12:03 p.m. Aug 31, 2021, UTC-4

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"Everything can be achieved and there are no more accidents"

11:46 p.m. Aug 30, 2021, UTC-4

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It is awe-inspiring to think about the enormous amount of code that humans are producing.

11:17 p.m. Aug 30, 2021, UTC-4

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Just remembered negative numbers exist.

2:54 p.m. Aug 30, 2021, UTC-4

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I need to learn how to cook eggs

8:53 a.m. Aug 30, 2021, UTC-4

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I started a list the other called "The Imperfections". It's a list of everything that I want to fix. It's really fricking long. I didn't

realize I was storing ~50 issues/projects in my head, more or less in RAM. Like the data structure that was being stored in my head was a linked-list, where 1 item reminded me of similar problems. I think it's been effecting my productivity (for my entire life). Of course, writing it down helps a little bit. But it's almost worse because now I just want to sit down and start tackling the list. (I wrote a Gemini the 28th because "a perfect Gemini client" was one of The Imperfections. Still working on that one.)

12:12 a.m. Aug 30, 2021, UTC-4

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Coming up on 1 year here. Scary.

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.

11:46 p.m. Aug 28, 2021, UTC-4

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Why?* Is Thu? The *only* language to come up with single-instantiated types?

Oh, you know, Java has that syntax sugar for defining callback functions that technically creates a single-instantiated class with an over-ridden method that is called as the callback. That's exactly what I want.

(Hm, maybe OOP was a bad idea altogether and we should switch on the type of all arguments *cough* multiple dispatch *cough*)

7:17 p.m. Aug 28, 2021, UTC-4

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6 hours into a project, getting burned by JS's type system. Who would've guessed

All I want is multiple dispatch.

7:03 p.m. Aug 28, 2021, UTC-4

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Can we talk for a second about how `npm init -y` just licenses your code as open source? Like, ya this code's free for anyone to use, thanks

3:34 p.m. Aug 28, 2021, UTC-4

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What are the JVM people doing?

3:32 p.m. Aug 28, 2021, UTC-4

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The shell is fricking unusable.

1:18 p.m. Aug 28, 2021, UTC-4

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"The percentage of normal users that know how to (and are willing to) setup self-hosted instances of something is definitely far below 1%"

9:39 p.m. Aug 27, 2021, UTC-4

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Spiders are so fricking cool. Like they just full on sew whole nets and we're like, 'heh.' Imagine if another animal started making nets!

7:49 p.m. Aug 27, 2021, UTC-4

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“The alphabet, they say, was invented only once. Bread is invented every time, anew. It’s life itself. And life is not for sale.”

https://breadpunk.club/docs/manifesto/

7:09 p.m. Aug 27, 2021, UTC-4

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My local Denny’s has stopped serving breakfast food. Sandwiches and sides only.

6:03 p.m. Aug 27, 2021, UTC-4

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Do people actually pay for things? Like, just do what I do and suffer without it.

5:48 p.m. Aug 27, 2021, UTC-4

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Horrifyed

4:11 p.m. Aug 27, 2021, UTC-4

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Listening to DC Talk from 1989, 4 layers of irony

2:44 p.m. Aug 27, 2021, UTC-4

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How do I live like this?

12:32 p.m. Aug 27, 2021, UTC-4

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Fine fine fine fine I'll install docker desktop

12:24 p.m. Aug 27, 2021, UTC-4

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One of my favorite parts of Geminispace is that everyone is linking to code on the web, but like none of it is GitHub. Sourcehut or Gittea

Or NotABug, or TildeGit or etc.

12:03 p.m. Aug 27, 2021, UTC-4

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Am I allowed to smell the wind?

10:48 a.m. Aug 27, 2021, UTC-4

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Designing a maximum non-viable product

9:11 p.m. Aug 26, 2021, UTC-4

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“Why don’t we do all our chip design in Minecraft?”

7:16 p.m. Aug 26, 2021, UTC-4

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I wonder if the human mind is fractal? I wonder if there’s a trick to not go insane?

4:25 p.m. Aug 26, 2021, UTC-4

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Matthias? Anti-social? Never!

11:21 a.m. Aug 26, 2021, UTC-4

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Why don’t more people sit in elevators? When I am too tired to take the stairs I take the opportunity to rest on the floor of the elevator.

4:38 p.m. Aug 25, 2021, UTC-4

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Set an alarm for the future.

12:25 a.m. Aug 25, 2021, UTC-4

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Trying and failing to cook corndogs

8:37 p.m. Aug 24, 2021, UTC-4

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Just subscribed to a mailing list. AAaahhh!!!

3:19 p.m. Aug 23, 2021, UTC-4

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If my math is right, you can archive all of Geminispace in <8 GB.

11:02 p.m. Aug 22, 2021, UTC-4

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I have a set of features that I want in a Gemini server. I am not aware of any servers that support all of those features, although all

features are supported by at least one Gemini server. So of course, I'm tempted to write my own Gemini server. But that Gemini server would then be the most feature complete Gemini server, and I am not ready for that.

8:16 p.m. Aug 22, 2021, UTC-4

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You can’t force organization. Random data inherently defies organization.

10:49 a.m. Aug 21, 2021, UTC-4

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https://thoughts.learnerpages.com/?show=497d0e7b-c3b9-4226-a768-bab2d30d3a77

I found my receipt, I bought 18 AA batteries.

7:15 p.m. Aug 20, 2021, UTC-4

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Is this worse than callback hell?

export async function getStaticProps() {
    return {
        props: {
            posts: await Promise.all((await readDir(blogRelative(""))).map(async fileName => ({
                title: await getTitle(await loadFile(blogRelative(fileName))),
                slug: removeExt(fileName)
            }))),
        }
    };
}

2:33 p.m. Aug 20, 2021, UTC-4

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https://thoughts.learnerpages.com/javascript/jquery/jquery.js

now gives Not Found instead of Forbidden

11:04 a.m. Aug 20, 2021, UTC-4

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Force quitting iTerm2 because it's 2021 and we still don't know how to make applications that don't hang.

10:18 a.m. Aug 20, 2021, UTC-4

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I have been in #linux on libera.chat IRC for about 30 seconds and they're already discussing beating Windows users. (Like, with sticks.)

10:09 a.m. Aug 20, 2021, UTC-4

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Memory management in C be like

/* The request_rec pointer is passed in here only to ensure that the
 * filter chain is modified correctly when doing a TLS upgrade.  It
 * must *not* be used otherwise. */

10:01 a.m. Aug 20, 2021, UTC-4

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Motivated myself to get out of bed in order to edit my Apache config. I might be a masochist.

9:37 a.m. Aug 20, 2021, UTC-4

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My roommate and I both writing (possibly cursed) Gemtext parsers at the same time. Get on our level.

8:29 p.m. Aug 19, 2021, UTC-4

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Me, chillin' at 38 WPM.

8:03 a.m. Aug 19, 2021, UTC-4

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I love understanding things. Complexity is to be avoided.

1:44 p.m. Aug 18, 2021, UTC-5

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Gemini isn’t a web protocol, Gemini is a lifestyle.

12:05 p.m. Aug 18, 2021, UTC-5

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Only place to go is up.

3:47 p.m. Aug 17, 2021, UTC-7

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"I represent a pinnacle of power that will never be toppled in this country!"

1:42 p.m. Aug 17, 2021, UTC-7

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Norb Hecker

gemini://thoughts.learnerpages.com/media/843743c9-4427-4450-acb2-c672161ae9d4.png

1:27 p.m. Aug 17, 2021, UTC-7

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Uhh yeah my name is uh Norb Hecker

1:24 p.m. Aug 17, 2021, UTC-7

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I hate timezones

10:06 a.m. Aug 17, 2021, UTC-7

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Reading the Infra WhatWG spec and lost a few brain cells. I found the MDN article on the topic and now I understand it and I'm fine.

3:42 p.m. Aug 16, 2021, UTC-7

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The JavaScript ecosystem (i.e. npm) is so screwed up that it's not even worth commenting on anymore. If it bothers you, don't use JS.

1:23 p.m. Aug 16, 2021, UTC-7

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Is creating good?

1:13 p.m. Aug 16, 2021, UTC-7

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Just learned about the Oroville Dam spillway collapse

I recommend looking up it up on youtube, it’s pretty cool.

Before, during, and after pictures of the spillway, that I screenshot from 3 different Youtube videos and hastily combined.

gemini://thoughts.learnerpages.com/media/1c8f3c90-74a9-4c72-b167-231ac271d7c7.png

11:43 a.m. Aug 16, 2021, UTC-7

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Hyper (https://hypercore-protocol.org/) is a p2p protocol that's almost web-like. It's really cool, a lot easier to use/setup than most.

(Golem, BitTorrent, Ceramic, etc are all confusing as hell.) Hyper is super simple, there's a browser called Beaker that lets you open `hyper://` webpages and seed your own content just by giving it a directory.

There's no fricking content*. I'm in the Discord server with these people and they're posting all these Github links to mirrors and browser and tools and I'm like okay, is there any content currently being served on this protocol? If there is, I cannot find it. My own Hyperdrive is: hyper://dd33a1d922616afa2c94b220fa20c097d15b7be1e2f0db5a71f0f1639999cd3e. No one else has linked to theirs.

(Gemini doesn't have a lot of content. There are maybe a few hundred operational Gemini pages. But there are half a dozen pages that list active Gemini capsules or recommend pages. http://geminiquickst.art doesn't even recommend gemlogs, it recommends sites that curate lists of gemlogs.)

I FOUND ONE! I found a single blog hosted on hyper, here you go: hyper://94f0cab7f60fcc2a711df11c85db5e0594d11e8a3efd04a06f46a3c34d03c418

Wait I found a second. Only this page is being seeded right now: hyper://6900790c2dba488ca132a0ca6d7259180e993b285ede6b29b464b62453cd5c39/blog/the-free-speech-dog-whistle.md

This Thought is now the premier curator of Hyper content.

A small part of it is of course that since it's p2p what people are seeding is limited. But a lot of it is that I can't find addresses. There's got to be a list somewhere, right? Or a way of discovering things?

11:34 a.m. Aug 16, 2021, UTC-7

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Gemini is a multi-level-marketing scheme.

When I say MLM here, I’m referring more broadly to a growth strategy sometimes called “incentivized sharing.” It covers MLM schemes, but also things as basic as ‘get $5 dollar credit to refer a friend.’ Twitch has used it successfully—streamers are incentivized to get viewers onto Twitch. This term/model doesn’t include normal word of mouth recommendations, like Rust evangelism, for example.

Gemini evangelists are rewarded with an expanded Geminispace, and more content that is readable from the comfort of browsers designed to render text documents.

7:07 a.m. Aug 15, 2021, UTC-7

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Got rid of 4 pairs of sunglasses today.

5:03 p.m. Aug 14, 2021, UTC-7

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I only have 7 Khan Academy accounts

2:02 p.m. Aug 14, 2021, UTC-7

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I forgot about triangles.

12:21 p.m. Aug 14, 2021, UTC-7

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One of the most important skills to have as a programmer is the ability to ignore information.

6:37 p.m. Aug 13, 2021, UTC-7

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I’m not in one place, I’m in a million places at once.

3:56 p.m. Aug 13, 2021, UTC-7

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"The young lady in the back with the 'I heart Jamie Grace' shirt on"

-Lights Shine Bright, TobyMac

10:52 p.m. Aug 12, 2021, UTC-7

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Impulse-sending text messages.*

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.

9:53 p.m. Aug 12, 2021, UTC-7

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‘Stocks have decent ROI, but don’t pay significant dividends. Real estate pays, you can write off expenses/depreciation, and you can do a

1031 exchange when you want to cash out.’

3:12 p.m. Aug 12, 2021, UTC-7

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I'm using named blocks in JavaScript. It feels so wrong and yet so right.

2:02 p.m. Aug 12, 2021, UTC-7

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The art of looking at nothing.

1:12 p.m. Aug 12, 2021, UTC-7

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https://fishdraw.glitch.me

10:20 a.m. Aug 12, 2021, UTC-7

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It would be easy for me to forget about all the time I spent playing gaga ball in middle school.

10:36 p.m. Aug 11, 2021, UTC-7

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I've run multiple `find / -name` commands today, so that's a good indication of how things are going.

5:37 p.m. Aug 11, 2021, UTC-7

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Shell scripting is so fricking. The language is so bad and unwieldy but the promise of unmatched automation is irresistible.

3:49 p.m. Aug 11, 2021, UTC-7

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Writing a React component that renders its Gemtext content. I can't decide if that's beautiful or cursed.

3:55 p.m. Aug 10, 2021, UTC-7

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The cowards who make browsers won't remove <marquee> and so if I use it that's not my problem.

3:25 p.m. Aug 10, 2021, UTC-7

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I stand by the idea that splitting code by type instead of function is a trap that is easy to fall into, but not ultimately helpful.

3:24 p.m. Aug 10, 2021, UTC-7

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I'm going to move forward with the current version of Next.js and consider the 67kb wart a cost of the framework.

If I find I'm not using any features of the framework and -all- my pages are static then I'll switch to Gatsby or roll my own solution with Preact's render to string or something.

1:21 p.m. Aug 10, 2021, UTC-7

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JS devs splitting their 200kb bundled JS file into four 50kb files in order to make 'large js file' warnings go away.

12:14 p.m. Aug 10, 2021, UTC-7

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So I'm working on a website with Next.js, and the beauty of Next.js is that it server-side renders static content. But even with a wholly

static page it includes React and about 63.8kb of JS. And the Next.js people are like, that's not a lot, but it's insane when the page content is a 1kb static html page. Like, I'm going to "switch to Preact" which is insane, because I'm not rendering *anything* on the client side.

9:38 a.m. Aug 10, 2021, UTC-7

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Colors are fricking hard

11:24 p.m. Aug 09, 2021, UTC-7

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RIP e.gg

Honestly, who the frick thought it was a good idea to create an alt social media with "Brought to you by FACEBOOK" in big letters on the front page. Could have been cool other than that

7:01 p.m. Aug 09, 2021, UTC-7

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Oh my word I fricking love this keyboard!

I just got my computer back from the Apple Store. It's one of the last ones made with the butterfly switches. The keyboard gets a lot of hate for its close-to-0 travel and its infamous unreliability. But I love it. It's so fricking nice to type on. (I also haven't typed on any full-sized keyboard in close to 2 weeks. So i'd also probably be happy to type on a Microsoft freebie.) It feels even better than I remember, I wonder if it's actually nicer because it's brand new.

Apple's lack of modularization means that since I was having issues with the display on the Touch Bar, they replace the whole top part of bottom half of the computer, giving me a brand-new TouchBar, keyboard, trackpad, and battery.

Battery Cycle Count: 1

This is why I always pay for AppleCare+. Like-new computer for free for 3 years after purchase.

10:49 a.m. Aug 09, 2021, UTC-7

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I’m such a perfectionist, that I want to be a perfectionist in multiple ways at once.

9:49 a.m. Aug 09, 2021, UTC-7

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Blogs are too big.

6:42 p.m. Aug 08, 2021, UTC-4

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I’m glad that we’re finally figuring out that drinking fountains are not a primary transmitter of COVID and can be turned on.

4:13 p.m. Aug 08, 2021, UTC-4

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Matthias’s programming language of the day is APL and its dialects like K, J, and Q.

It aims for very concise syntax, and while it might at first glance be mistaken for a code-golf-language, that is not why it was invented. The creator just wanted to remove all fluff, in order to create a language that more accurately reflected thought. It’s an array-oriented language, which, uh. Let’s move on. It makes use of special symbols to denote operations, so you can use as few characters as possible. It also means you never have to worry about your variable names conflicting with the standard library. It also means you have to configure a special keyboard layout and install a font before you can begin. It has been criticized as being unfriendly to beginners. However, I have been assured that this is only because it is different, and that if we had all learned APL as a first programming language, we would find it perfectly intuitive. Here’s an example program which implements the Chinese Remainder Theorem.

crt←{m|⍵+.×⍺(⊣×⊢|∘⊃{0=⍵:1 0 ⋄ (⍵∇⍵|⍺)+.×0 1,⍪1,-⌊⍺÷⍵})¨⍨⍺÷⍨m←×/⍺} ⍝ From APL Cart

More on APL, whether you want to laugh at it or learn it:

https://xpqz.github.io/learnapl/intro.html

9:34 a.m. Aug 07, 2021, UTC-4

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I wish JavaScript had function decorators.

3:19 p.m. Aug 06, 2021, UTC-4

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Quality website. You can’t make this stuff up.

gemini://thoughts.learnerpages.com/media/76765997-e46d-414f-a4fe-6ecc870af855.jpeg

10:41 a.m. Aug 05, 2021, UTC-4

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One of my pet peeves is clocks that show the wrong time.

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6:24 a.m. Aug 05, 2021, UTC-4

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It doesn’t matter at what level/scale you’re working at. The system is imperfect at every level and it’s impossible to make something

perfect at any level. All you can do is make the best thing you can at the level you choose (including trying not to make it more difficult for people at other levels).

(If you don’t see it, this is profound.)

1:08 a.m. Aug 04, 2021, UTC-4

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It’s wild that we’re still feeling the effects of Turing. He invented and then solved computer science.

10:06 p.m. Aug 03, 2021, UTC-4

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Huh. It’s been a couple of days. Possibly the longest I’ve gone without posting. I’m still alive. I’m traveling.

12:17 p.m. Aug 03, 2021, UTC-4

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You are only allowed to move straight or circle. Spiraling doesn’t work.

10:53 p.m. Jul 31, 2021, UTC-4

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One True Troy!

11:56 p.m. Jul 30, 2021, UTC-7

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Just learned `ZZ` is the best way to save and close Vim. I was using `:x` before. `:wq` is for n00bs

11:34 p.m. Jul 30, 2021, UTC-7

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Moving Python 2 code from one computer to another, trying to stop myself from updating it.

10:57 p.m. Jul 30, 2021, UTC-7

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My router uses clock.via.net as a time server. Look at this website. Look at it.

https://via.net

12:02 p.m. Jul 30, 2021, UTC-7

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We give dogs a lot of credit for their sense of smell, but we would probably be able to smell more if we put our nose close to the ground.

11:35 a.m. Jul 30, 2021, UTC-7

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People on Hacker News are like, ‘why would you buy a Playdate for $180 dollars when you could buy a cheap android phone or an old Gameboy?’

(Because those things aren’t a Playdate? IDK)

Another common take is, ‘people are only buying this because it’s made by a popular brand.’ Like, how much brand loyalty do you think Panic has? They make Mac-only developer tools, last I checked. I guess Untitled Goose Game was big but like, Panic didn’t really get publicity from that.

Of course, I’m not even going to consider getting a Playdate myself until Panic can actually manufacture them, which is apparently a lot to ask.

1:10 a.m. Jul 30, 2021, UTC-7

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I think stuff happened in Blaseball but I deleted Twitteriffic, along with like 4 years of other apps.

12:01 a.m. Jul 30, 2021, UTC-7

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I want to run away and live in the woods.

3:45 p.m. Jul 29, 2021, UTC-7

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Nothing makes me happy and everything makes me unhappy. Existence is suffering.

Every piece of criticism I’ve ever received is bouncing around in my brain, 10x louder than the person who said it. I hate myself.

3:43 p.m. Jul 29, 2021, UTC-7

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WHY ARE CAR AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEMS SO BAD!

3:06 p.m. Jul 29, 2021, UTC-7

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How can I possibly ever be known when so much of who I am revolves around my passion for unknown things.

10:37 p.m. Jul 28, 2021, UTC-7

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“How do you describe an emotion?”

-some song I just heard

9:09 p.m. Jul 28, 2021, UTC-7

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Humanity still underestimates the unreasonable efficiency of the binary search.

8:33 p.m. Jul 28, 2021, UTC-7

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“Did .com mess up?”

3:35 p.m. Jul 28, 2021, UTC-7

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About to give up my computer for a week and a half. Kinda nervous.

2:43 p.m. Jul 28, 2021, UTC-7

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Gamer moment.

https://clips.twitch.tv/SlickSeductiveOkapiDogFace-qlqWcCnWJNz84ACQ

12:08 a.m. Jul 28, 2021, UTC-7

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Just deleted 2 thoughts (with incorrect information, nothing important). I used Python's `pickle` to save them to a file first.

5:05 p.m. Jul 27, 2021, UTC-7

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Yeah so Safari doesn't properly* calculate the width of the content of inline-block `pre`s if that content includes other inline elements.

I haven't read the spec to know what is proper, but Safari doesn't do what I want, and Chrome and Firefox do.

So my solution is to not inline-block code blocks on here and OJSE. Which might look bad on desktop. But I don't know what to do aside from asking you to use Gemini.

3:12 p.m. Jul 27, 2021, UTC-7

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It's amazing how many bugs you can find by just *using* complex software.

12:00 p.m. Jul 27, 2021, UTC-7

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Fundamental browser rendering compatibility issues discovered while developing OurJSEditor: 2.

https://ourjseditor.com/program/CKtLzi

https://ourjseditor.com/program/dCe1Ca

11:59 a.m. Jul 27, 2021, UTC-7

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If you never intend on reading all of *Gödel, Escher, Bach*, I highly recommend finding and reading the dialogue “Contracrostipunctus”.

12:33 a.m. Jul 27, 2021, UTC-7

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I want a phonograph “capable of producing any and all sounds.” I want perfect software.

“If any record player—say Record Player X—is sufficiently high-fidelity, then when it attempts to play the song” designed to produce vibrations which destroy it, “it will create just those vibrations which cause it to break…So it fails to be Perfect. And yet, the only way to get around that trickery, namely for Record Player X to be of lower fidelity, even more directly ensures that it is not Perfect.”

- G.E.B. 77

12:27 a.m. Jul 27, 2021, UTC-7

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It is Tuesday.

12:14 a.m. Jul 27, 2021, UTC-7

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If I could grant immortality to one person, it would be Brandon Sanderson.

4:54 p.m. Jul 26, 2021, UTC-7

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I think we have to cut the past.

Though doing so is like cutting a part of myself.

1:23 p.m. Jul 26, 2021, UTC-7

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Ladies, I'm beginning to think opening the forbidden book was a mistake.

9:50 a.m. Jul 26, 2021, UTC-7

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After driving with bare feet, I have decided that feet are an underutilized input device.

6:47 p.m. Jul 25, 2021, UTC-7

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It is unethical to hurt other people. It is impossible to interact with other people without sometimes hurting them.

1:05 p.m. Jul 25, 2021, UTC-7

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I am ignored. Just constantly.

12:55 p.m. Jul 25, 2021, UTC-7

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I don't want to be insane. I just want to be normal.

12:47 p.m. Jul 25, 2021, UTC-7

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Might learn ASL so that I can cut off my ears. I can't take the noises. The sounds overwhelm me. I wince as the sound of each keyboard

stroke assaults my ears.

12:47 p.m. Jul 25, 2021, UTC-7

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It is unethical to create buggy software. It is impossible to create perfect software. I just suffer.

12:45 p.m. Jul 25, 2021, UTC-7

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I have social anxiety. That makes bring around or talking to people incredibly uncomfortable and stressful for me. But. That doesn’t stop me

from becoming lonely if I spend too long without talking to anyone. I can’t win. I just suffer.

12:34 p.m. Jul 25, 2021, UTC-7

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I still check Rigby.

12:47 a.m. Jul 25, 2021, UTC-7

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I want to create an empire. The problem is that I don’t think that’s a realistic life goal.

5:32 p.m. Jul 24, 2021, UTC-7

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I wish I could fly, but the next best thing is not being able to move at all.

7:35 p.m. Jul 23, 2021, UTC-7

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Not things that are possible to use correctly, but things that are impossible to use incorrectly.

Safety.

3:58 p.m. Jul 23, 2021, UTC-7

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Nothing does worldbuilding like books. Even the dedicated worldbuilding people don’t communicate what it feels like to be in their world.

6:17 p.m. Jul 22, 2021, UTC-7

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“Do you walk in the shadow of men who sold their lives to a dream?”

-Glitter & Gold, Barnes Courtney

5:58 p.m. Jul 22, 2021, UTC-7

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Went through my Goodreads read list. Amazing content.

5:21 p.m. Jul 22, 2021, UTC-7

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Still can’t get over the fact that Tumblr was sold for 3 million dollars.

5:20 p.m. Jul 22, 2021, UTC-7

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My sitting in bed with my laptop, Vim open: You need to get to know your code, get intimate with it.

11:19 p.m. Jul 21, 2021, UTC-7

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Somehow I got it in my head that there was this cool new JS framework for dynamically server side rendering React, when like, it was Next.js

I spent like an hour searching for vague terms like "server side rendering javascript framework" before I searched for a specific comment I remember seeing on the Hacker News post I had read about it. I found the comment quickly on a post about Next.js. Funky.

8:53 p.m. Jul 21, 2021, UTC-7

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Pretending to be insane because I don't how to interact with people. (This is about a Khan Academy comment I just made.)

8:50 p.m. Jul 21, 2021, UTC-7

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I still go back to Safari's dev tools sometimes. They're just better.

8:42 p.m. Jul 21, 2021, UTC-7

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"Why is no one cooperating with me?"

"We are cooperating with you. you're just not aware that your goal is learning Haskell"

3:33 p.m. Jul 21, 2021, UTC-7

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I guess I should share this here. Blaseball season calendar for the first year of Blaseball.

gemini://thoughts.learnerpages.com/media/65e4e221-d8f6-4c87-ae69-e5a542d8e9de.jpeg

9:45 p.m. Jul 20, 2021, UTC-7

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Life is not weird enough for me.

Hopefully this isn’t a fault.

9:42 p.m. Jul 20, 2021, UTC-7

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I am newly shorn.

6:05 p.m. Jul 19, 2021, UTC-7

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https://www.blaseball.wiki/w/Bad_Gateway_(Event)

4:30 p.m. Jul 19, 2021, UTC-7

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Not installing `ag` earlier was a mistake. I had a tool that accomplished something similar by running `grep -R` with a long `--exclude-dir`

g () {
        grep -nIr --exclude="*.min.*" --exclude-dir={node_modules,.git,dist,.cache-loader,OurEnv,bower_components,.idea,.wine,.virtualenvs,.local,.gnupg,venv,site-packages} "$@" .
}

But The Silver Searcher's approach of just following `.gitignore` works better most of the time. And has a nicer output format.

2:07 p.m. Jul 19, 2021, UTC-7

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I low-key have HTTP response codes memorized. "I think 405 is Method Not Allowed or something"

2:04 p.m. Jul 19, 2021, UTC-7

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“Have you read James Joyce’s love letters?”

8:14 p.m. Jul 18, 2021, UTC-7

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The problem with the school system is that it is blind to enthusiasm.

In the real world, attitude matters. But we don’t test for it in school.

Maybe this isn’t a problem, but it certainly seems weird now that I’m thinking about it.

8:09 p.m. Jul 18, 2021, UTC-7

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The two genders are left channel audio and right channel audio.

7:32 p.m. Jul 18, 2021, UTC-7

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All install methods are bad. “ People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.”

7:31 p.m. Jul 18, 2021, UTC-7

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I love the idea of sinks. Input and output for water, for a variety of purposes. All in one place.

6:45 p.m. Jul 18, 2021, UTC-7

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This is a confession. This is a testimony that I need the grace of the LORD.

5:53 p.m. Jul 18, 2021, UTC-7

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While I am at the center of attention, I hold my breath. I am afraid of drowning.

12:05 a.m. Jul 18, 2021, UTC-7

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I am both lonely and afraid of not being alone.

Why would I be afraid of not being alone? Yet I am.

I hate the awkwardness of conversation. I hate the jarring feeling of isolation that comes when I share what I'm thinking and no one understands. I fear being good at conversation because I fear being popular. I fear people looking at me, expecting something from me, and me not having anything to give. I fear being asked to defend myself. I fear making mistakes, but moreover, I fear being seen making mistakes. I hate having to come up with things to say while someone looks and waits for me because I have nowhere to run if I say the wrong thing.

It's killing me. I haven't seen a friend in person for 2 weeks. There is an expanding balloon in my chest.

12:02 a.m. Jul 18, 2021, UTC-7

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"However, some immensely lazy people can't even be bothered to type these."

-ZSH compinstall

6:44 p.m. Jul 17, 2021, UTC-7

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Become ungovernable

1:36 p.m. Jul 17, 2021, UTC-7

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Considering doing something drastic, like moving this website entirely to Gemini or getting my hair cut.

10:15 p.m. Jul 16, 2021, UTC-7

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Brandon Sanderson is definitely insane.

10:15 p.m. Jul 16, 2021, UTC-7

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I created a plant on Astrobotany

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

8:46 p.m. Jul 16, 2021, UTC-7

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I hate infinite-scroll lists.

5:46 a.m. Jul 16, 2021, UTC-7

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"It's the little things that I can't handle, and we're still in July"

-Life Must Go On, Quinn XCII

5:42 a.m. Jul 16, 2021, UTC-7

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Okay.

I don't exist.

5:41 a.m. Jul 16, 2021, UTC-7

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Last night/this morning was fricking surreal. Like I was a character in a movie. So much happened while I tried to sleep.

10:15 p.m. Jul 15, 2021, UTC-7

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The Internet is a liminal place, between my computer and yours.

10:03 p.m. Jul 15, 2021, UTC-7

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I took a 30 minute power nap on the floor of a changing room today.

5:21 p.m. Jul 15, 2021, UTC-7

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Remind me to come back to this when I have sanity to spare

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf7Fs5gzrcJDUx_75JkZu6xwyGzJ3N9BfyOm6AzOJtqw4Ae3w/viewform

5:20 p.m. Jul 15, 2021, UTC-7

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“THIS MUST BE THE PLACE”

-a neon sign I passed today

7:07 p.m. Jul 14, 2021, UTC-7

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Cancel culture is not letting your toddler watch Numberblocks because the BBC doesn’t let their journalists attend controversial marches.

I understand being frustrated that the BBC won’t let their news reporters publicly support political issues. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/oct/29/bbc-no-bias-rules-prevent-staff-joining-lgbt-pride-protests

But I don’t understand that conclusion that you should boycott a children’s show that is produced by a connected organization. Like, I’m not going to boycott Phineas and Ferb because someone on ABC said something offensive that I politically disagree with.

But I can’t argue with it. What am I supposed to say? ‘BCC is so big you should ignore them being homophobic sometimes’

I mean, at some point, just boycott the BBC because they are the product of an imperialist empire. Just boycott everything that is produced in England and support business in developing countries.

This is what’s weird about “cancel cultural.” It tries to define everything that’s bad but sets the bar so high that’s easier to define what’s good.

9:00 a.m. Jul 14, 2021, UTC-7

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I’ve started shifting my car into neutral at red lights, just because I can.

2:57 p.m. Jul 13, 2021, UTC-7

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Bucket list item: walk into a Barnes and Noble, pick up a book, read it all the way through without paying for it.

Inspired by https://xkcd.com/294/ obviously, but it wouldn't be that hard to do intentionally. It only takes me like 2 hours to read 100 pages. Take a Saturday, save yourself the cost of the book.

1:29 p.m. Jul 13, 2021, UTC-7

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Writing is hard

12:23 p.m. Jul 13, 2021, UTC-7

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I just finished reading a book. The author biography on the back flap describes her as a founder of Archive of Our Own.

I was not ready for that. I nearly choked.

12:14 a.m. Jul 13, 2021, UTC-7

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Can you imagine? Hosting a website on a calculator and then using Google fonts.

2:42 p.m. Jul 12, 2021, UTC-7

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page 98 of *The Mysterious Benedict Society*

gemini://thoughts.learnerpages.com/media/69936d72-3830-44aa-8d6d-2368312e0ebe.aac

2:11 p.m. Jul 12, 2021, UTC-7

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Nothing is more pretentious than making fun of Mensa members for being pretentious.

(I am aware of the irony of this Thought.)

5:06 p.m. Jul 11, 2021, UTC-7

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HTTP/HTML/JS’s unnecessary complexity serves primarily to lock control of implementations to a couple of rich corporations.

HTTP is classist. Gemini is the future. This is not satire.

2:46 p.m. Jul 11, 2021, UTC-7

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Why are second floor windows so high off the ground?

9:10 a.m. Jul 11, 2021, UTC-7

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Someone compared me to Dr**m. literally shaking and crying rn

9:20 p.m. Jul 10, 2021, UTC-7

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I can’t get over Gemini. I’m sorry. It’s been close to 3 weeks now, and it’s all I can think about.

8:43 p.m. Jul 09, 2021, UTC-7

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This is the white knight. This is the Free Market Drill. This is why I miss all my friends and I still don’t call.

10:43 a.m. Jul 09, 2021, UTC-7

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“Rationalizing the familiar is easy”

10:26 p.m. Jul 08, 2021, UTC-7

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Don’t worry, I am still alive.

10:26 p.m. Jul 07, 2021, UTC-7

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Did we forget minimalism?

7:26 p.m. Jul 06, 2021, UTC-7

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'In this video-essay, I will explain how the lack of standardization of hangman allows players to cheat by dynamically changing the rules.'

https://youtu.be/le5uGqHKll8

6:21 p.m. Jul 06, 2021, UTC-7

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Someone in #gemini on Libera IRC is informing me that the creator of Gemini's Gemini server isn't in compliance with Gemini.

I'm like, 'I'm having issues'

And they're like, oh yeah, 'that gemini server is noncompliant'

Like, okay. I'm suddenly in way over my head.

3:01 p.m. Jul 06, 2021, UTC-7

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The Lagrange author patches SDL to allow smoother scrolling on Mac trackpads. I love him.

2:39 p.m. Jul 06, 2021, UTC-7

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I can't do this. I want to switch to a remote branch. I don't know how. I'm dumb and alkwndajkdba nw;dkljadna wb

2:19 p.m. Jul 06, 2021, UTC-7

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Way back in November, I came up with 4 things that make the terminal appealing. Gemini satisfies all 4 of them.

https://thoughts.learnerpages.com/?show=23cbc5d5-dab1-4157-abc4-d1f38fc0609b

10:04 a.m. Jul 06, 2021, UTC-7

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If you're writing code that GitHub CoPilot can help you with, you're doing it wrong.

Writing a Django-Gemini compatibility layer*

9:45 p.m. Jul 05, 2021, UTC-7

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I've been browsing the web for years and I've never once seen a website actually use a parameter.

Okay okay I searched my browser history. In 2020 I visited `https://projecteuler.net/archives;page=14` I'm horrified.

Feb. 2020, a bunch of unaffiliated websites using `PAGE;jsessionid=REACTED?PARAMS`. I wonder where that comes from.

Few more random ones including a Google ads redirect. But mostly auth/sign-in redirects it looks like.

9:42 p.m. Jul 05, 2021, UTC-7

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Example number 83 of Gemini not actually being simple is that it supports the entire URI RFC, so you have to implement fricking url

paramater parsing.

Like.

9:33 p.m. Jul 05, 2021, UTC-7

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I hate the web.

I just learned that there's such a thing as a "URL-parameter" that goes on the end of a URL, proceeded by a semi-colon.

scheme://netloc/path;parameters?query#fragment

From the Python urllib reference.

What did I do to deserve this.

9:32 p.m. Jul 05, 2021, UTC-7

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I'm going to keep all of WhipserMaPhone closed source except for the Gemini inter-op code, which is CC0

9:25 p.m. Jul 05, 2021, UTC-7

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Let's fricking go, ladies, it's an excuse to subclass `HttpRequest`!!!!

class GeminiRequest(HttpRequest):

9:24 p.m. Jul 05, 2021, UTC-7

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Oooof

And this is on an internal page, so you have to have an account in order to see this, it's not people who don't have accounts.

gemini://thoughts.learnerpages.com/media/907970b7-9a99-421c-8b15-daa825b481cd.png

2:29 p.m. Jul 04, 2021, UTC-7

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Ya'll don't know how much work I put into this website. No major changes in months, but I keep tweaking things.

12:58 p.m. Jul 04, 2021, UTC-7

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If your "mobile" website ever has a horizontal scroll bar, just how "mobile" is it?

12:34 p.m. Jul 04, 2021, UTC-7

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Man, I wish AirPower existed. I have like 50 cables on my floor

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.

12:16 p.m. Jul 04, 2021, UTC-7

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"Why do you need Gemini? Just write simple HTML??"

Because HTML collapses adjacent white-spaces.

I had a paragraph here about how the way browsers did this was dumb, but I tested it and was wrong. However, I think the fact that it is impossible for me to understand these rules is just as effective an argument as criticizing the rules themselves.

(I think browsers collapse U+0020 and then convert U+00A0 into U+0020, without collapsing. But the question then is, is it possible to get U+00A0 into a browser? I don't know, let me know if you do.)

10:27 a.m. Jul 04, 2021, UTC-7

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What do I need to post-translate my text?

Filters

Need to convert line breaks to `<br>` (without CSS, `white-space: pre-wrap` doesn't work and `pre`s look bad)

Linkify (Otherwise, links need to be copy-pasted, bad UX)

Typographer quotes! (I notice straight quotes and they annoy me) (double and single quotes, exclude code blocks)

Block

Fenced code blocks (Gemini strictness)

Inline

Italics (for MLA titles, or emphasis) (including the ability to escape asterisks)

Inline code (useful for distinguishing between references to programming-specific uses of English words)

Notable omissions:

Bold (Doesn't have any semantic meaning, only stylistic.)

Underline (Ditto)

Block quotes (even Gemini has these!) (Styling these well is very hard.)

Unordered list (again, even Gemini) (It's very easy to parse these wrong. See: https://thoughts.learnerpages.com?show=bc51ad8a-07f5-49bb-9a35-8d636dafc6fa)

Ordered list (CommonMark ordered lists are lame because I can't easily start them at dynamic numbers.)

Headers (On this website, posts are supposed to represent a single thought or a train of thought. If this was a blog, I would include them.)

Unicode ellipses, em dash (I have shortcuts to type these, so it's not really necessary. You could I guess.)

Math blocks (I probably should/would include if I talked about math on here.)

I might have forgotten something, but most things that aren't in "Notable omissions" are just too complicated. Tables? Masked inline links? (Nested lists are awful. They're hellish to parse in the way the author intended them to be.)

10:07 a.m. Jul 04, 2021, UTC-7

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The problem with unordered lists

There are a couple issues with unordered lists in markdown, Gemini, and Apple notes, surrounding how you indicate them.

CommonMark dictates that a list block can be started with no padding and a single item. I've written this intending to source a quotation. I don't want a bullet here. My solution would be to require at least 2 items for a list, but this obviously adds backtracking complexity.

"Hello, world"
 - Matthias

This brings me to the second issue: CommonMark allows for unordered list items to begin with either an asterisk or a hyphen-minus. This is annoying because both get translated into a bullet.

This third one is the big one. If I'm formatting a document in ASCII, i.e. without any markdown, I would like to indicate a list by starting items with " - ", that is, space, hyphen-minus, space. This objectively looks the best since the hyphen-minus has padding on the left, and is vertically centered (where a bullet would floats above the mid-line). This doesn't work in Apple Notes, which disallows a leading space. This doesn't work in Gemini, which requires `* `. And, as mentioned, in CommonMark this is converted into a bullet.

This is a test list:
 - Cookie
 - Bread
 - Apple

This is a test list:

	Cookie
	Bread
	Apple

Looking at this, it's clear that the easy solution here is just for me to stop being different and start my lists with `* `, which works perfectly everywhere except for raw-text. But I have to look at it before post-processing is applied. Sad.

10:00 a.m. Jul 04, 2021, UTC-7

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Ya'll are still sleeping on Make It and Fake It.

9:32 a.m. Jul 04, 2021, UTC-7

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If Luke deleted Gribfile 2, what am I supposed to read at 2am?

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

2:23 a.m. Jul 04, 2021, UTC-7

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The thing about GitHub copilot that no one is talking about, is that it's developed by "GitHub," ostensibly, but is available for VS Code

and not Atom.

I feared the GitHub acquisition would spell the death of Atom, as Microsoft pulled the Atom team to work on VS Code and I'm taking this as confirmation that that has happened.

2:22 a.m. Jul 04, 2021, UTC-7

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@aspiringrobotfm deleting her Tweets is a modern-day tragedy.

Some of my best Tweets are in reply to deleted Quinn Rose Tweets.

2:16 a.m. Jul 04, 2021, UTC-7

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If we're living in a simulation, how do you explain "Jackson Hole Wyoming USA Town Square Live Cam"?

gemini://thoughts.learnerpages.com/media/44c7defb-5b5c-4ce7-a51f-bf6869a90404.png

1:27 a.m. Jul 04, 2021, UTC-7

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It seems like literally nobody is trying to solve the speed+complexity problems that the web has.

There are dozens of people that recognize that the web has complexity problems, but their minimalist (minimalist is not simple) solutions, don't address the speed problem.

And there are dozens of people that recognize the speed issues, but their solutions are so complicated as too be unintelligible to me.

5:44 p.m. Jul 03, 2021, UTC-7

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It is literally impossible for me to keep track of all of these JavaScript frameworks and build tools. It is impossible for me to keep them

all in my brain.

Someone will be like, 'Vite, a fast JS builder' and I'm like, okay, so something that's competing with esbuild. And then, no, Vite and esbuild work together. Thanks a lot.

5:42 p.m. Jul 03, 2021, UTC-7

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“I haven’t found a drop of life”

-Addict with a Pen, Twenty One Pilots

9:31 p.m. Jul 02, 2021, UTC-7

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I am convinced that the only reason that people do not express their hate for me is because they do not see me.

9:18 p.m. Jul 02, 2021, UTC-7

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The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack* is out!

I just realized, it came out the 25th. I’ve been waiting for it.

10:59 a.m. Jul 02, 2021, UTC-7

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I'm a lonely broken person

7:12 p.m. Jul 01, 2021, UTC-7

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Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Can you hear m e? Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Can

Your hear me ? Can you hear me? Can you here me? Can you hear me? Can your grade me ? Can you hear me? Can you hear mev? Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Can you hear me?

6:16 p.m. Jul 01, 2021, UTC-7

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It's weird to think about transitivity. That one thing might effect another.

2:17 p.m. Jul 01, 2021, UTC-7

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I hate that driving requires my feet right now.

Just because I’ve been walking all day, normally I am in favor of more foot-based interfaces.

8:06 p.m. Jun 30, 2021, UTC-7

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This is a faster horse

10:58 a.m. Jun 30, 2021, UTC-7

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I haven’t even started yet.

10:49 a.m. Jun 30, 2021, UTC-7

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Do you not feel the imperfections in your eyes, in your nose, and in every bone of your body?

10:49 a.m. Jun 30, 2021, UTC-7

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“The time’s always right to fix what’s wrong”

-What’s Wrong, half•alive

10:41 a.m. Jun 30, 2021, UTC-7

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This site uses ES6 JS

I don't know if I made that decision intentionally or not. Because like, I try to support no-JS browsers as best as I can, but I apparently don't try to support older browsers. It's weird.

Hopefully everything moves to server-side rendering soon :tm:

9:36 p.m. Jun 29, 2021, UTC-7

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Just cursed while talking to myself. smh

Sometimes I do think interjections like "frick," but other times I will think curse words, even words that I've never said. These words normally get filtered when I say them out loud, without me having to think about it. In the same way that you don't have to think about the pronunciation of a word, I don't have to think about filtering my words.

So it was shocking to me when my personal monologue (I talk to myself frequently), included a word I don't normally say.

9:24 p.m. Jun 29, 2021, UTC-7

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Today, in the age of client-side web apps, React, and extreme JavaScript APIs, it's difficult to remember that the web before JS wasn't

static.

Let me back up a little bit. The internet is splitting at the seams into 2 factions—those that want a document-based web and those that are building web apps. The former makes the argument that documents don't need to be Turing complete, and that webpages should serve primarily text. The latter group is supporting WebUSB, because they see the web as a distribution platform for ephemeral applications, ala XKCD 1367: https://xkcd.com/1367. (Personally, I fully support this schism. I like the idea of having two different clients, one that let me run sandboxed applications and one that lets me view text.)

Gemini is a product of the first group. For all of Gemini's "forced simplicity," it doesn't address dynamic server-side generation of pages. Without Javascript buttons, you can implement dynamic functionality by generating the page every time the user visits, having links that log actions, and re-direct you back to an updated version of the page. Gemini doesn't support POST or form elements, but it supports clicking links and taking user input as text. And this where, functionality wise, it's quite possible for me to build a capsule that has user accounts, posts, votes, etc. on Gemini.

What concerns me is that the pro-document group doesn't remember that before JS functionality, the web did look like this. And if Gemini gets any significant traction, these types of pages will appear. And suddenly your lack-of-features only hurts the user experience.

Now, in practice, this isn't going to happen. The web will always exist and people will chose to build dynamic sites on the web instead of on Gemini because the web is the better platform for it. But it's still weird to realize that Gemini's "forced simplicity" is really just accomplished by making dynamic pages a poor user experience, and not precluding them.

9:22 p.m. Jun 29, 2021, UTC-7

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Let me see if I can post a bunch of thoughts.

9:08 p.m. Jun 29, 2021, UTC-7

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Checking Rigby instead of making dinner

6:22 p.m. Jun 29, 2021, UTC-7

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I guess if GitHub Copilot is like IntelliSense but it doesn’t just yell at me because of minor syntax errors or misconfigured settings,

that’s an improvement.

6:21 p.m. Jun 29, 2021, UTC-7

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I'm very interested to see GitHub Copilot on the top of HackerNews, and surprised at the glowing comments.

There's a quote that goes, “Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.” Even supposing that GitHub could auto-generate a perfect solution to the problem for me, it's more difficult (even if it's not more time consuming) for my mind to parse, read, and verify that code works, than for me to come up with the solution myself.

I guess, people are comparing this to an improved, complicated, tab-completion. I use tab completion very rarely. In the last year, I've written more code in Vim (with minimal plugins) than IntelliJ. So a lot of the arguments come back to that, whether any sort of assistance is a good thing. My stance is that if your language or library has so much boilerplate that autocomplete is useful, then your language/library is bad.

I don't know, I'm tempted to download VS code and give it a shot, because I do want to write code quicker. I guess what I'm saying is that my bottleneck is not the speed of my keystrokes, so I don't know if this will speed anything up. On the other hand, GitHub claims that working with this assistant is a good way of learning an unfamiliar language.

6:17 p.m. Jun 29, 2021, UTC-7

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Twitter-style drafts are dumb. I just have 4 tabs open with the Post page and text partially composed.

5:30 p.m. Jun 29, 2021, UTC-7

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Thinking about markup formats.

I found a case even against italics, the one thing I was going to allow. https://letters.temporarystate.net/entry/4/

2:03 p.m. Jun 28, 2021, UTC-7

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The Gemini spec contains two spaces after every period. #GeminiIsOverParty

12:21 a.m. Jun 28, 2021, UTC-7

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Something just occurred to me. Gemini is different from simple HTML because you don't have to design the site yourself.

Conceptually, you can write simple HTML and end up with something that is similar to a page served over Gemini. And it might even be more difficult to set up a Gemini server than writing the HTML and CSS, especially if you're already familiar with those languages.

But at some point, HTML has this conception that you're responsible for laying out your own site, and choosing good colors, and positioning the elements on the page. Gemini frees you from that responsibility! Gemini's beauty is not that it is simple! Rather, the genius of Gemini is that it shifts the burden of complication to the client instead of embedding it into the document or the protocol.

Of course, this idea isn't Gemini's genius alone. We used to know this about the web. I don't know why we forgot. The issue with web browsers today is that I have to write CSS. If I don't, if I just serve an HTML page, it looks bad.

7:51 p.m. Jun 27, 2021, UTC-7

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the light switch

is right in front of me

10:24 a.m. Jun 27, 2021, UTC-7

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I feel like I’m in an Escher painting.

8:09 a.m. Jun 27, 2021, UTC-7

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Happy timezone

7:20 a.m. Jun 27, 2021, UTC-7

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I understand problems better than anyone else, quite frequently. Yet that only leads me to more eagerly conclude there is no solution.

11:24 p.m. Jun 26, 2021, UTC-7

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It really is Tuesday

1:35 a.m. Jun 26, 2021, UTC-7

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God wants us to live, even if we hurt others.

10:11 p.m. Jun 25, 2021, UTC-7

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Thor was supposed to be the dumb one, and Loki was supposed to be the clever one. In the Loki series, they couldn’t stop themselves from

turning Loki into a himbo.

7:14 p.m. Jun 25, 2021, UTC-7

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About to start using a new open-source code editor, Open Edit, based on the Halogen framework.

It includes a ba&sh shell!

4:25 p.m. Jun 25, 2021, UTC-7

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Quality fricking content:

https://youtu.be/qID2B4MK7Y0

4:12 p.m. Jun 25, 2021, UTC-7

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"unbielevenary"

3:23 p.m. Jun 25, 2021, UTC-7

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Aaanddd, I manually reformatted the about page for Gemini, for those of you with taste.

12:50 a.m. Jun 25, 2021, UTC-7

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Added a link to the about page. Enjoy!

It's intentionally incomprehensible, but now I feel like I need to write a director's commentary explaining it.

11:35 p.m. Jun 24, 2021, UTC-7

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Hello I would like to feel something.

10:25 p.m. Jun 24, 2021, UTC-7

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I do not understand if insanity is something to be fought or embraced.

10:53 p.m. Jun 23, 2021, UTC-7

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`strings helloWorld | grep flag`

I am elite hax0r

My 1337-speak is bad sorry

10:11 a.m. Jun 23, 2021, UTC-7

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Blaseball is like JavaScript, a convoluted mess of overlapping rules which are impossible to memorize or understand.

5:40 a.m. Jun 23, 2021, UTC-7

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I wish my fan had 5 blades instead of 4. 5 is much more aesthetically pleasing.

5:11 a.m. Jun 23, 2021, UTC-7

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We as a society have not lost stories; merely disconnected them from their physical form.

8:49 p.m. Jun 22, 2021, UTC-7

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I want to push back on social norms, I like to question things that have always been done in the same way. But I don’t like rebelling

against people

7:37 p.m. Jun 22, 2021, UTC-7

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I'm so tired and so lonely.

7:25 p.m. Jun 22, 2021, UTC-7

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I hate my jaw. Least favorite part of my body.

4:25 p.m. Jun 22, 2021, UTC-7

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Well, I definitely have crippling social anxiety.

4:18 p.m. Jun 22, 2021, UTC-7

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I can't do this, I'm so stressed.

I wonder if I have anxiety, or like, acute onset stress* or something.

(*This isn't a real thing, I just made it up, and I don't even know what "acute" means except in regards to angles.)

4:14 p.m. Jun 22, 2021, UTC-7

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Sometimes I wonder if I read too fast, and other times I wonder if I read too slow.

4:06 p.m. Jun 22, 2021, UTC-7

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I have decided that Brandon Sanderson is slightly insane.

12:28 p.m. Jun 22, 2021, UTC-7

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I’m scared of platforms that can shadow-ban me.

10:31 a.m. Jun 22, 2021, UTC-7

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‘Have to sneak into a party’ is one of my absolute least favorite tropes.

If you think your characters need some space, some down time, give us that. That lets me relax as a reader as well. But the high-stakes party-heist masquerading as a chance for your characters to chat is somehow boring and stressful.

1:19 a.m. Jun 22, 2021, UTC-7

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I hate cars. I wish I could teleport.

7:00 p.m. Jun 21, 2021, UTC-7

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Someone of my intellect doesn’t need bags.

6:30 p.m. Jun 21, 2021, UTC-7

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It is now sandwich time.

1:40 p.m. Jun 21, 2021, UTC-7

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I haven't had paper in my mouth in a while

\*Puts paper in mouth*

12:41 p.m. Jun 21, 2021, UTC-7

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Depositing money into my TD Ameritrade account to pad my investment returns.

12:39 p.m. Jun 21, 2021, UTC-7

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Going to invent a proprietary markup language for this website.

11:28 a.m. Jun 21, 2021, UTC-7

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Files are an arbitrary and arguably outdated design decision.

11:26 a.m. Jun 21, 2021, UTC-7

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Even when I was a kid, I wondered, why didn't websites just load a big list of all of their content? I really like that this website

questions the convention of having 10 items on the page and then a new page. Obviously, it's partly done out of laziness, but I do love having all the content on one long page, even if it's impractical to scroll through sometimes.

10:02 a.m. Jun 21, 2021, UTC-7

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Thinking about buying more domain names. Someone help me budget this.

9:39 a.m. Jun 21, 2021, UTC-7

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Addicted to not letting people follow me on Instagram.

8:10 a.m. Jun 21, 2021, UTC-7

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For dinner today I ate only four corn dogs.

11:25 p.m. Jun 20, 2021, UTC-7

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I am still missing my second phone.

11:24 p.m. Jun 20, 2021, UTC-7

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Today I saw a hoodie dress and I have never been more tempted to crossdress in my life.

11:23 p.m. Jun 20, 2021, UTC-7

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I kidnapped a weighted blanket.

11:22 p.m. Jun 20, 2021, UTC-7

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Fortunately, I do not have to worry about hallucinations.

11:21 p.m. Jun 20, 2021, UTC-7

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Sixteen the tower

4:28 p.m. Jun 20, 2021, UTC-7

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Trying to convince known communists to invest in the stock market, like, this is a pyramid scheme but it’s supported by the US government.

10:09 p.m. Jun 19, 2021, UTC-7

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Mixed feelings about eye contact

10:28 a.m. Jun 19, 2021, UTC-7

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Sometimes I wish I didn’t have feelings.

8:46 a.m. Jun 19, 2021, UTC-7

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It’s hard for me to lack confidence when I look in the mirror.

Sometimes I wonder if I’m bi just because I find myself so irrationally attractive.

6:50 a.m. Jun 19, 2021, UTC-7

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It is the day of tues

6:46 a.m. Jun 19, 2021, UTC-7

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My quest for perfection will destroy me. Let’s see how close I can get.

10:15 p.m. Jun 18, 2021, UTC-7

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I’m at 1,409 posts here. 24 are over 1000 characters, with the longest being

https://thoughts.learnerpages.com/?show=f433c9c1-cff5-4d13-90a2-300d4489bca2

9:56 a.m. Jun 18, 2021, UTC-7

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Man, I wish I owned a comb.

9:22 a.m. Jun 18, 2021, UTC-7

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People sometimes ask me if I think there will be computers in heaven.

They see that I am passionate about programming, and are curious if I’ll miss that after I’m dead.

They misunderstand. I am an artist. I want to create things, to create beautiful things. Perhaps the greatest tragedy of my life is the best medium I have found for the type of art I want to create is computer programming languages.

10:50 p.m. Jun 17, 2021, UTC-7

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Can you hear me?

10:44 p.m. Jun 17, 2021, UTC-7

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I hate lithium ion batteries. When you put a lithium battery in a product your admitting that you’re designing it for 2 to 5 years,

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.

10:43 p.m. Jun 17, 2021, UTC-7

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I'm done.

We're done.

10:21 p.m. Jun 17, 2021, UTC-7

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I love how low-stakes YouTube videos are. I don’t want to watch videos about things that matter.

2:32 p.m. Jun 17, 2021, UTC-7

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Google just emailed me complaining about this website.

If you find the text on this website too difficult to read on mobile, I officially recommend downloading a mobile Gemini client and connecting to

gemini://thoughts.learnerpages.com

1:31 p.m. Jun 17, 2021, UTC-7

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What did I buy from Home Depot on May 7th?

1:29 p.m. Jun 17, 2021, UTC-7

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Be very afraid

gemini://thoughts.learnerpages.com/media/53eb5c85-cb54-4fa4-a40c-db219a9b236f.png

11:56 p.m. Jun 16, 2021, UTC-7

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Seriously, what the heck. Why is Python so bad? Why does a language with list comprehensions fail so spectacularly in list manipulation?

The challenge:

input = {"a": {"x": 1, "y": 2}, "b": {"x": 3, "y": 4}}
# Becomes
[1, 2, 3, 4]

You only need to go 2 levels deep.

Javascript:

Object.values(input).flatMap(a => Object.values(a))

Python option 1:

from itertools import chain
chain.from_iterable([a.values() for a in input.values()])

Python option 2:

[b for a in input.values() for b in a.values()]

I *do not* understand how that second python example parses. I don't know whether b or a is the inner loop variable. I can't use that code. I have to add an import line to flatten a list. I'm sorry Python. The fact that you technically can golf a nested list comprehension to approximate `flatMap` doesn't count. And the worst bit! Is that the "readable" itertools solution is still opaque. Ah yes, my go-to list-flattening function, `itertools.chain.from_iterable`.

There has to be a better way of doing this. Maybe I can flatten the dicts first and then `.values`? I'm going to keep researching because Python is such a huge language.

10:33 p.m. Jun 16, 2021, UTC-7

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I love Python when it gives me tools to do what I want. When it doesn't, it's so painful.

Trying to flattening a list that I built with a list comprehension :/

10:13 p.m. Jun 16, 2021, UTC-7

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Why are people so afraid?

I wonder if my fear of social scenarios is balancing my lack of fear of physical things.

Maybe I’m just interacting primarily with people online? Maybe this isn’t a thing and I’m reading way too much into a few online comments.

Fear is an interesting thing.

7:05 p.m. Jun 16, 2021, UTC-7

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I don’t remember the last time I made a good decision.

7:20 a.m. Jun 16, 2021, UTC-7

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I don’t make the rules, I just follow them.

11:05 p.m. Jun 15, 2021, UTC-7

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I just want the simple things in life, like a second phone specifically for tracking my sleep.

11:05 p.m. Jun 15, 2021, UTC-7

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It looks like we are going to sink, soon.

7:28 p.m. Jun 15, 2021, UTC-7

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Jazz hands first in the league standings right now!

gemini://thoughts.learnerpages.com/media/0e4e72d3-535a-4105-bbc5-bb9c5f8e170b.jpeg

7:12 p.m. Jun 15, 2021, UTC-7

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RIP Freenode.

7:59 p.m. Jun 14, 2021, UTC-7

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Reposted the Gemini posts to Rigby. Thanks to Luke for recovering them after the downtime.

I didn’t proofread them again so hopefully they’re legible.

7:59 p.m. Jun 14, 2021, UTC-7

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I’m allergic to carrots.

6:42 p.m. Jun 14, 2021, UTC-7

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Why are there still more programming languages!!!

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.

3:55 p.m. Jun 14, 2021, UTC-7

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Blaseball is back!

10:00 a.m. Jun 14, 2021, UTC-7

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Humans are afraid of losing things.

10:17 p.m. Jun 13, 2021, UTC-7

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I am glad to see that Rigby is functioning perfectly normally with no issues at all

9:01 p.m. Jun 13, 2021, UTC-7

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I don’t think most people realize how uninhabited most places are, once you move away from areas that are inhabited.

7:48 p.m. Jun 13, 2021, UTC-7

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There are still posts in my Tumblr feed that are utterly unintelligible.

7:23 p.m. Jun 13, 2021, UTC-7

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They do not understand that I am in charge.

6:34 p.m. Jun 13, 2021, UTC-7

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Every little thing destroys me.

6:54 p.m. Jun 12, 2021, UTC-7

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T-shirt that says "Intellectual Property is an oxymoron"

6:39 p.m. Jun 12, 2021, UTC-7

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417 Hz is a beautiful sound. It sounds like doing a handstand.

4:47 p.m. Jun 12, 2021, UTC-7

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Rigby is still broken.

Insanity is missing something.

4:38 p.m. Jun 12, 2021, UTC-7

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The paradox of the small web is that everyone wants a different feature.

4:37 p.m. Jun 12, 2021, UTC-7

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A man can you hear me

A man can you hear me inquires of an empty room can you hear me upon receiving no reply can you hear me he concludes can you hear me that he is mute can you hear me

gemini://thoughts.learnerpages.com/media/b2bd5cf4-328a-4ec0-a0e6-e4fa2b6971c0.aac

4:36 p.m. Jun 12, 2021, UTC-7

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I’m beginning to think that all the people complaining about capitalism in my Twitter feed aren’t actively researching alternatives.

3:07 p.m. Jun 12, 2021, UTC-7

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So much code that needs to be written.

1:06 p.m. Jun 12, 2021, UTC-7

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Because gemini doesn't support compression, it actually transmits roughly twice as much data as the normal HTML version of this page.

12:56 p.m. Jun 12, 2021, UTC-7

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Already thinking about how I can implement some sort of bad ASCII game on top of Gemini.

12:43 p.m. Jun 12, 2021, UTC-7

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"I find it important to specify the browser as well...So right now I'm running 'Firefox/TeX/Gnome/GNU/systemd/Linux'"

9:13 a.m. Jun 12, 2021, UTC-7

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Interesting post on how far mathematical proof languages have come.

https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2021/06/05/half-a-year-of-the-liquid-tensor-experiment-amazing-developments/

12:23 a.m. Jun 12, 2021, UTC-7

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This house has so much fricking stuff in it.

11:30 p.m. Jun 11, 2021, UTC-7

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I wish I could float.

11:25 p.m. Jun 11, 2021, UTC-7

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Rigby is broken I’m going insane help

11:23 p.m. Jun 11, 2021, UTC-7

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Rigby is down. We had a good run.

8:07 p.m. Jun 11, 2021, UTC-7

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Hit the Rigby post character limit again.

Gggrrrrr!

4:46 p.m. Jun 11, 2021, UTC-7

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Working on a Rigby post.

12:52 p.m. Jun 11, 2021, UTC-7

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My right arm twinges with a sharp pain.

I'm blaming the COVID vaccine.

9:55 p.m. Jun 10, 2021, UTC-7

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Watched the Veritasium video on Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem. He spent a lot of time on Turning completeness and the halting problem,

which I don't think was really necessary. That question is well discussed without reference to Gödel's theorem. Gödel's theorem is a big deal even without Turning.

Just watch the video:*

https://youtu.be/HeQX2HjkcNo

For readers who aren't familiar with either, it might not be immediately obvious that I have to compare this to *Gödel, Escher, Bach*. But they both deal with extremely similar topics. Muller (the Veritasium guy), cites quite a few sources, but doesn't mention G.E.B. This surprises me.

I once said that G.E.B. "dares to venture closer to insanity than any other work of reason." The Veritasium video provides a very sane explanation of the ideas involved. In some ways, this doesn't do them justice. There's a certain irony in logically explaining a theorem that bounds logic, and Hofstadter plays with that irony. Muller doesn't.

I figured out that I'm pronouncing Gödel wrong. With the German ö, it's "gurdle," not "go-DELL."

In some ways I'm tempted to dismiss Veritasium in the same way that I would dismiss a high-level explanation of a technical topic in mainstream media, (imagine a news anchor trying to explain a computer issue). Veritasium goes to a similar depth at times, hand-waving concepts. But that's not really fair, because the news anchor really only has a high-level understanding. Veritasium's saving grace is that if you look closer, everything they say is correct. Veritasium will cut to B-role of equations floating on the screen, like a news channel, but Veritasium uses the correct equations for the topic, even if they don't explain them.

Overall, I highly recommend watching the video, especially if you haven't read G.E.B. Unfortunately, watching the video won't grant you access to the exclusive club of arrogant people who have read G.E.B. (I think there definitely is a way to make a video on Gödel's theorem that communicates the same surreal, metaphysical air. It's probably a good thing that Veritasium didn't make that video.) Like, Veritasium takes the "math" that you know, and says, 'hey this isn't perfect.' Hofstadter creates this new system from nothing, which is obviously imperfect, and then proves that it is the same as the mathematics that you know. So they explain some of the same material, but Veritasium doesn't give you the same paradigm shift.

Hofstadter would be ticked off at me right now, because I'm pretending like his book is about Gödel's theorem, when that's only a part of it. He also deals with a *ton* of other issues!

9:03 p.m. Jun 10, 2021, UTC-7

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"prometheus doesnt have his liver eaten every day for u to ignore the allure of arson"

3:57 p.m. Jun 10, 2021, UTC-7

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I want a dog that's around 30 pounds.

3:51 p.m. Jun 10, 2021, UTC-7

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Github changed their "issue" icon to a circle with a dot in the middle, and it looks so natural that I can't remember what it used to be,

and it annoys me. I think it was an "i" with a circle around it.

3:25 p.m. Jun 10, 2021, UTC-7

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"early 20th century Yiddish-language anarchist newspaper"

12:43 p.m. Jun 10, 2021, UTC-7

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They told me Gemini was minimalistic. I didn't believe them. But wow.

text/gemini, the native file type, is like Markdown without support for in-line links, bold, italics, or anything else inline, because 'character-by-character parsing is too hard.' No images on the page. No fricking anything. The entire format is: text, link lines, code blocks, headers, lists, and quotes. No nesting of anything.

The content transfer protocol is similarly minimalistic. No support for compression. HTTP status codes are too complicated, we have 2-digit status codes, and so on.

I'm going to try to get this site to support Gemini at some point soon.

1:55 a.m. Jun 10, 2021, UTC-7

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"a couple of very necessary security fixes have subsequently bloated the code to 157 lines"

1:14 a.m. Jun 10, 2021, UTC-7

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I had a good thought but I forgot it. Something about me and why I am.

4:52 p.m. Jun 09, 2021, UTC-7

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I am a kitchen counter. I count kitchens.

12:33 p.m. Jun 09, 2021, UTC-7

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Just watched Suicide Squad. It was pretty bad.

2:00 p.m. Jun 08, 2021, UTC-7

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I'm shutting down my KA mod action logger ("Programs KA doesn't want you to see"). I'm not maintaining it, and it's breaking.

It gave a couple of interesting take-aways:

0. The hot list doesn't move that fast. Only 2,000 programs in 4 months.

1. KA hides around 2 programs a day, ~14% of programs that spend any time on the hot list.

2. People are confused. Many programs had edits questioning what had happened

3. The most interesting IMO: Of all the programs "caught," none were malicious or explicit. I expected at least a little bit of language, but most programs were hidden just for being low-quality.

I scraped the first page of the hot list every 10 minutes (right after it updated), for 143 days (over 4 months). I logged 1,973 unique programs.

275 programs were hidden from the hot list.

168 programs were completely hidden.

239 programs were marked as definitely not spam.

127 programs were deleted by their owners.

166 programs were hidden from the hot list and completely hidden.

61 programs were hidden from the hot list and marked as definitely not spam.

18 programs were completely hidden and marked as definitely not spam.

I shouldn't need to explicitly disclaim this, but these numbers are amateur—they didn't come from KA. In particular, it's possible that I manually entered programs into the database for testing purposes and then forgot about them. (I don't think I did, but I wrote code at one point to let me.) Also, it's possible there were bugs around users deleting programs.

This should really be a KA Hearth post, but I need to go to sleep.

12:30 a.m. Jun 08, 2021, UTC-7

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I’m worried that I won’t create enough things.

11:39 p.m. Jun 07, 2021, UTC-7

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I just lost the game.

6:55 p.m. Jun 07, 2021, UTC-7

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Pronouncing Debra to rhyme with zebra.

7:59 a.m. Jun 07, 2021, UTC-7

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I don’t have a caffeine addiction.

6:49 a.m. Jun 07, 2021, UTC-7

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Guys be like, ‘the terrifying ordeal of being known’ and then base their identity on the success of a Khan Academy game from 5 years ago

that they never tell anyone about.

6:44 a.m. Jun 07, 2021, UTC-7

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I have a phobia of things hitting my shins.

12:55 a.m. Jun 07, 2021, UTC-7

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Okay, the about page for this site is on its 4th iteration. I think it is ready to be shared, but adding links to it is coding

that I don't feel like doing right now. I suppose you can check it out at /about but you're going to have to type that in.

It's roughly 10,700 characters, putting it slightly over Rigby's 10,000 character limit.

10:42 p.m. Jun 06, 2021, UTC-7

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"In this day and age logical methods are applicable only to solving problems of secondary interest" (1924)

9:58 p.m. Jun 06, 2021, UTC-7

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Bought some Prosus the other day, after they bought Stack Overflow.

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.

5:47 p.m. Jun 06, 2021, UTC-7

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I've dreamed about being banned from KA at least a couple of times.

5:24 p.m. Jun 06, 2021, UTC-7

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I had a shocking coherent dream that I hired a contractor to build 2 apartment buildings on land that my parents owned.

10:33 a.m. Jun 06, 2021, UTC-7

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How many levels of iconic would it be if I started an extension for Rigby?

11:30 p.m. Jun 05, 2021, UTC-7

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"Apathy's a tragedy and boredom is a crime"

-Welcome to the Internet, Bo Burnham

(I have a project in my notes with "Welcome to the Internet" as a working title. At the time no one else had used it.)

7:52 p.m. Jun 05, 2021, UTC-7

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Wrote a script to automate re-building mod_wsgi from source because its python bindings break every time I update system python.

6:55 p.m. Jun 05, 2021, UTC-7

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I understand the theory behind being scared of pre-release versions, but in practice, I have run into many more issues because I'm using

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

6:05 p.m. Jun 05, 2021, UTC-7

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I stood in the sunlight for like 30 seconds earlier today.

2:49 p.m. Jun 05, 2021, UTC-7

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I may have forgotten the piece of paper that has my crypto private keys on it.

1:59 p.m. Jun 04, 2021, UTC-7

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I want to feel something. I want someone to make me feel something.

11:08 a.m. Jun 04, 2021, UTC-7

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I love Hacker News because people post comments with number sources, but the citation numbers are 0-indexed.

4:46 p.m. Jun 03, 2021, UTC-7

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Yeah, I really need to learn a lisp dialect. If not SBCL then Scheme or Clojure.

4:22 p.m. Jun 03, 2021, UTC-7

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‘She was attractive in the way that hot stoves attract curious children’s hands’

What a line!

https://glumshoe.tumblr.com/post/653003912976171008/i-love-when-fantasy-worlds-have-some-nonsensical

4:00 p.m. Jun 03, 2021, UTC-7

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I love Hacker News because the PDF of the Supreme Court's opinion hits the front page.

11:24 a.m. Jun 03, 2021, UTC-7

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I collect things that don't exist.

10:31 a.m. Jun 03, 2021, UTC-7

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Firefox crashed this morning. :/

10:30 a.m. Jun 03, 2021, UTC-7

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Me explaining why I haven’t been brushing my teeth: Well, I never *decide* to go to bed. I just stay up until I’m so tired that my mind

shuts off and there’s nothing to do except fall onto the bed. I can’t exactly decide to brush my teeth at that point.

1:40 a.m. Jun 03, 2021, UTC-7

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I started working on OJSE a bit. Wow. That code base is a mess. Multiple authors over the course of 5 years! It works, because I’m in charge

and I won’t let it literally fall apart, but stylistically, it’s all questionable.

1:38 a.m. Jun 03, 2021, UTC-7

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Diversity win! I thought about whether I should identify as non binary, and then decided I shouldn’t.

I would like to identify as a masculine immaterial entity.

1:36 a.m. Jun 03, 2021, UTC-7

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The only subreddit I enjoy anymore is /r/bizarrelife. I'm desensitized to everything else.

1:21 p.m. Jun 02, 2021, UTC-7

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Since I woke up 4 hours ago, Vivaldi has crashed and IntelliJ has frozen. I want software that works.

1:06 p.m. Jun 02, 2021, UTC-7

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Veritasium tries to clickbait me with a giant "INCOMPLETE", and I’m like, oh yeah, Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem, classic.

Déjà vu? https://thoughts.learnerpages.com?show=808df1a7-b0f6-4dca-81e0-5f5160bb2c08

12:16 p.m. Jun 02, 2021, UTC-7

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Why would I need therapy? I have this website.

11:51 a.m. Jun 02, 2021, UTC-7

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Aaaah! Failed to schedule a meeting with a counselor for the 6th time.

11:46 a.m. Jun 02, 2021, UTC-7

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We do, a little bit of trolling. (Replying to the person who asked to buy the KA extension.)

11:46 a.m. Jun 02, 2021, UTC-7

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I realized that Django was serving media for this site, instead of Apache (this is quite bad). Fixed now.

12:53 a.m. Jun 02, 2021, UTC-7

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"intellectual property is an oxymoron"

10:48 p.m. Jun 01, 2021, UTC-7

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I want to see what an impractical computer looks like. I want to see, with our current hardware limitations, what a computer designed for

the love of it, would be.

9:40 p.m. May 31, 2021, UTC-7

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2 might be the perfect number, but 3 is my number.

9:15 p.m. May 31, 2021, UTC-7

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Movement was a mistake. Plants have the right idea.

7:00 p.m. May 31, 2021, UTC-7

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All non binary people are lovely and valid, but man, people who physically pass as nb are on another level. Like when you look at them and

you just draw a blank on their gender. Amazing.

12:54 a.m. May 31, 2021, UTC-7

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America might be close to being able to support a post-work society, but there are a lot of countries that are not, and so I can't in good

conscience support laziness.

10:02 p.m. May 30, 2021, UTC-7

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Even Lewis reporting a bug to the live editor like it's 2015, so cute.

2:55 p.m. May 30, 2021, UTC-7

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I have a bad habit of posting quotes here unattributed,

most often because context doesn't matter compared to the power of the words. For example, [this quote](cf045c64-f54f-423f-b682-52b99c7294d2) ("You may be looking at the last person in America not online") sounds so fricking good.

But it also means that I'm trusting myself to remember where the quote came from. I've been racking my brain, and I can't remember who the Last Person in America Not Online is. It's not indexed by Google (except for this page). Nothing in my browser history from that day is promising. (Except for me searching for that phrase?) Yet the quote was definitely written out online in some context. (Probably an image posted to Reddit, then?)

The Internet is a weird place.

2:12 p.m. May 30, 2021, UTC-7

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“Jesus said, ‘If my followers remain quiet, the very stones will cry out.’”

-Luke 19:40, paraphrased

11:06 a.m. May 30, 2021, UTC-7

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I just want to be alone.

9:50 a.m. May 30, 2021, UTC-7

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I can't survive in this world of other people.

8:49 p.m. May 29, 2021, UTC-7

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One of these days, someone is going to punch me because I don’t want to talk to them.

12:51 p.m. May 29, 2021, UTC-7

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WHY. WHY. Why can't we make software that works!! !1‽‽‽? Please! Someone explain to me! There's a bug open in MultiMC that has been open for

2 years! And there's a PR that will fix it open on Github and the maintainer won't merge it! Because they insist that it's Apple's fault and not their fault and they shouldn't have to fix their application. And I just want to be able to CLICK the BUTTON in MultiMC without the application freezing!!!!! I'm so done. I want to delete the KA Extension but Luke won't let me. Because I'm part of the problem. My code is awful garbage too! Please.

10:35 p.m. May 28, 2021, UTC-7

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I would never buy cryptocurrency, please.

All my XMR is mined myself.

10:21 a.m. May 28, 2021, UTC-7

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I like doing weird things.

7:07 p.m. May 27, 2021, UTC-7

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When I say I have poor time management skills, what it means that I have an executive functioning issue.

"When I say I'm insane, what it means is that I have bad time management skills.": https://twitter.com/Matthias_4910/status/1233980268970594309

12:46 a.m. May 27, 2021, UTC-7

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Thinking of the Bill Wurtz quote, ‘insanity is a skill I have’

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

12:43 a.m. May 27, 2021, UTC-7

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Why would anyone text me? Why would anyone tell me what was going on?

7:53 p.m. May 26, 2021, UTC-7

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I am not a dog; I am a sheep.

2:27 p.m. May 26, 2021, UTC-7

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Please read all of this website: https://m1racles.com. Please. It's such a fricking trip.

9:41 p.m. May 25, 2021, UTC-7

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Game of Thrones was on track to be one of the greatest TV shows of all time.

https://youtu.be/JIKSeD9Qnbo?t=1212

11:11 a.m. May 25, 2021, UTC-7

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Didn't realize I was like 2 weeks behind on emails :/

11:12 p.m. May 24, 2021, UTC-7

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I just finished the second Mistborn. My Dad was like, 'no it doesn't end on a cliffhanger.' Sanderson, in the last chapter:

everything we know is a lie

we just accidentally unleashed an unknown evil on the land

please buy book 3 if you want any answers :)

9:36 p.m. May 24, 2021, UTC-7

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Sometimes you have to do dumb things.

9:13 p.m. May 24, 2021, UTC-7

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On people who watch Minecraft Youtube videos: "Many of the viewers are North American schoolchildren in the 10-13 age range, a lot of them

are behaviorally challenged, and the majority are dealing with some form of parental neglect."

42 votes, 2 awards. Posted by the moderator a subreddit about a Minecraft Youtube series.

Like, that is something you say. You can say 'most people who watch Minecraft videos are abused, autistic, children.'

I'm struggling here.

1:32 p.m. May 24, 2021, UTC-7

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Going to the dentist. Hopefully they let me keep my tongue.

11:02 a.m. May 24, 2021, UTC-7

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Just remembered that the GRIBFILEs existed. Man. What drugs was Ethan on?

I'm still waiting for Ethan to fulfill his duty, and give us GRIBFILE 2.

10:36 a.m. May 24, 2021, UTC-7

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I forget sometimes that Mac has spotlight and I can use it search for files in a pre-indexed way. I try to craft complicated `find` commands

10:16 a.m. May 24, 2021, UTC-7

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Get on my level

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9:43 p.m. May 23, 2021, UTC-7

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It's impossible to update Django. I'm switching to storing user data in files, writing scripts in lisp, and running them with werc.

9:35 p.m. May 23, 2021, UTC-7

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Honestly, so many bugs and issues that I can avoid by re-installing all macOS shell utilities through brew. Bye bye

2016 `less`.

10:47 p.m. May 22, 2021, UTC-7

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This is a healthy backup schedule, right?

$ 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

9:42 p.m. May 22, 2021, UTC-7

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There's *always* a temptation to group files by type, and I've just never found it to be a good idea. It makes the code easy, sure, but it's

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.

9:31 p.m. May 22, 2021, UTC-7

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I have 3 SSH connections open to Luther* right now.

my Linode server, which hosts OJSE as well as other things, like Discord bots and this website.

9:27 p.m. May 22, 2021, UTC-7

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It will be cool when humanity finally achieves wireless printing.

9:16 p.m. May 22, 2021, UTC-7

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About a week or two ago I started running all my web traffic through an SSH proxy tunnel. It's surprising nice to know just that my IP can't

be used to track my location. It hasn't noticeably affected my internet speed either, but I have fast internet.

8:56 p.m. May 22, 2021, UTC-7

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I feel taller here because of the higher elevation. It means Earth's gravity is weaker. It means I have more space.

8:32 p.m. May 22, 2021, UTC-7

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“Happy Timezone”

12:30 p.m. May 22, 2021, UTC-4

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Yeah, so I just found that on paper, not sure when I wrote it, probably a month or two ago.

8:47 p.m. May 21, 2021, UTC-4

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This is an exercise. An exercise in pain. An exercise in art.

Multitasking, focused, ignoring. 2 things at once. Under stimulated. Overstimulated. Bored, lonely, scared, uncomfortable. Flying through nothing, unmoving. Unthinking. I cannot, in light of my overwhelming pride, allow myself to think other people's thoughts. I cannot listen. Two things at once. Overthinking. Slow. They're slow. They talk about nothing. The brain. Liminal. "It's not just easy." This is an exercise in pain. Conciseness. Flow. Always moving, throbbing, pushing forward. Moving where? Why can't we teleport there? Stop the beating around the brush, the repetition, the pain. The why! I want the why. I want depth, not this endless breadth. This endless, unmoving, breadth. I've run out of energy to argue, to question; I just ignore. It gets harder, but instead of moving faster, it moves slower.

8:47 p.m. May 21, 2021, UTC-4

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Girl I just found the most high quality emo rant, give me a second to transcribe it.

8:40 p.m. May 21, 2021, UTC-4

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I don’t think I’ve been in a pool or other body of water in like, at least a year.

4:42 p.m. May 20, 2021, UTC-4

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“emphasising the composition of generic and reusable (pure value returning) library functions”

reimplements Haskell in JS*

I had to see this, so you do too. Some of the worst JS I’ve ever seen. I can’t fall asleep, it’s scaring me. Why would you reimplement the Haskell standard library in JavaScript??? Are pure functions that important to you? Is partial application of function arguments worth creating a syntax for calling functions that I’ve never seen before? (It would be slightly better if you were using the ES7 `|>`.) If you care that much, allow me to point you to some excellent functional languages that compile to JS (Elm, OCaml). Ah, you say, ‘but what about when I have an infinitely long list (represented by this generator function), then the JS standard library is useless.’ Infinitely long lists aren’t a thing, I don’t care, go outside.

http://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/Determine_if_a_string_has_all_the_same_characters#Javascript

2:35 a.m. May 20, 2021, UTC-4

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I think the relation that AJR describes in "Joe" is perhaps more universally found in with regard to a parent or older sibling.

"Always down to hang, he had no time"

-Joe, AJR

9:34 p.m. May 18, 2021, UTC-4

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2 of my currently open tabs: Wikipedia, on Executive dysfunction, and Random.org, which I just used to schedule my night.

9:07 p.m. May 18, 2021, UTC-4

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No energy, no thoughts.

4:49 p.m. May 18, 2021, UTC-4

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The Count of Monte Cristo: *makes a philosophical comment*

Paraphrase from Chapter 48: Ideology*

Villefort, the King's Attorney, responsible for overseeing the courts of France: Why do you philosophize. If I, like you, had nothing better to do, I would do something more interesting.

The Count: Do you really think you have better things to do?

Villefort, shaken: Perhaps, since you have spent so much time in countries less civilized than France, you are unfamiliar with our justice system. (Okay, Villefort is more racist in the book.)

The Count: In fact, I have made a philosophical examination of the justice systems of all the countries of the world. I find that those more primitive nations, which use the law of retaliation, do better a better job of achieving justice, as measured against the law of God. Human inventions march from complex to simple, and simplicity is always perfection. So perhaps then you will have nothing to do.

Villefort: Maybe so, but until then, I spend a lot of time studying our complicated laws.

The Count: Sure, you might know the laws of France, but I also know the laws of the Enlgish, Turkish, Japanese, and Hindu. And so I'm right in saying that you haven't done anything, since I've done so much more relative to you.

(I can't handle this book. It's all like this, you have to parse the 1800s grammar, but then it's just The Count roasting the hell out of everyone. Nothing advances the plot, it's just The Count toying with his food. It's not subtle at all.)

The Count: "I see that in spite of [your] reputation...as a superior man, you look at everything from the...most narrow view which it is possible for human understanding to embrace."

Villefort: Waht

(It keeps going. I can't! The Count is like, I'm the enlightened of God, and Villefort gets sassy with him.)

Villefort: "Excuse me if I was unaware that I should meet with a person whose knowledge so far surpasses the usual knowledge and understanding of men." It's rare for "us corrupted wretches of civilization" to get to meet someone like you.

The Count: Really, you couldn't tell I was special? I thought you were a discerning person. (That's how I paraphrased it. The text is "do you never use your eyes?")

(The Count alludes to angles here.)

Villefort: So you believe in angles of God.

The Count: Of course, I am one.

(I have to cut The Count's monologue here. If you want to read it, I'll happily send you a picture. The highlight is "What men call the chances of fate—namely ruin, change, circumstance—I have fully anticipated.")

Villefort: So then you're the only perfect person?

The Count: "No, not perfect, only impenetrable."

(It keeps going! I have to stop here. It's your loss that you don't get to hear about how The Count sold his soul to Devil to become the hand of God.)

3:43 p.m. May 18, 2021, UTC-4

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"unwin the underbracket. crown the underchampions."

gemini://thoughts.learnerpages.com/media/fc0c6f09-0e43-476d-8ab0-76d144163df2.aac

1:43 p.m. May 18, 2021, UTC-4

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Started filling out the form to make an appointment with a counselor, before giving up, for the 4th time.

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

3:04 a.m. May 17, 2021, UTC-4

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I'm sick of Hugo and want to go back to Jekyll but the <10ms compile times are addicting. Jekyll feels like I'm compiling C now.

1:22 a.m. May 17, 2021, UTC-4

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Who's hyped for this season of Blaseball!!?

11:48 p.m. May 16, 2021, UTC-4

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Joehills

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11:47 p.m. May 16, 2021, UTC-4

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I am so fricking done! Can we just, as a community of programmers, slow the frick down! And fix some bloody bugs!!!!!

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

10:42 p.m. May 16, 2021, UTC-4

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Man I hate small plants. I love big plants. Huge plants! Trees! Let the plants grow.

1:44 a.m. May 16, 2021, UTC-4

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“You May Be Looking At The Last Person In America Not Online”

10:46 p.m. May 15, 2021, UTC-4

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Is it possible to enjoy being slapped in the face?

12:15 a.m. May 15, 2021, UTC-4

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Fear makes people do some wack things.

10:37 p.m. May 14, 2021, UTC-4

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Oh my word my brain is so slow.

10:07 p.m. May 14, 2021, UTC-4

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The mere act of summarizing or omitting information can be problematic.

60 Minutes cut an interview with DeSantis in a way that has caused me to re-lose a fair amount of faith in the main-stream media.

(I really don't like PolitiFact's "If Your Time is Short," I recommend skipping down and reading both transcripts.) https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/apr/07/unpacking-edits-60-minutes-report-ron-desantis-flo. I couldn't find clips from either 60 Minutes or The Florida Channel that were free from biased analysis, but I recommend watching the full clips if you can.

The media has not learned from their poor coverage of Trump and is continuing to value a narrative over sharing facts. Please just give me the facts and let me decide for myself. I will continue to reject headlines at face value.

4:36 p.m. May 14, 2021, UTC-4

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I think fungi are neat and we should allocate a large portion of the U.S. military budget to studying them.

I have said previously, that I would not be willing to work for the U.S. military in any capacity. I would make an exception if they paid me to study fungi.

4:23 p.m. May 14, 2021, UTC-4

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12:48 a.m. May 14, 2021, UTC-4

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Oh my word, I want a Thomas-the-Train-universe, dark, possibly horror, story, about a train that figured out how to leave the track.

12:11 a.m. May 14, 2021, UTC-4

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I say I'm not ambitious, but that's a lie. I'm way too ambitious. I want to do so much. But I also know I can't do one-tenth of the things I

want to do, so I stop myself, and moreover, I hide that I want to those things.

4:28 p.m. May 13, 2021, UTC-4

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I'm relaxed.

1:59 a.m. May 13, 2021, UTC-4

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"When I program in other languages, even ones I know well, I feel like I’ve flown to Jupiter. Gravity is so strong that every step is a

struggle. In Lisp, you can dance."

1:57 a.m. May 13, 2021, UTC-4

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“I want a vaccine, but what I want even more are magic beans I can plant in my arm that will grow into a beanstalk my sons can climb if

they ever run out of hope.”

1:50 a.m. May 13, 2021, UTC-4

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"a testament to the vast indifference of humanity"

gemini://thoughts.learnerpages.com/media/af78ed9e-45b7-438c-87e8-dd83c676fb4a.aac

12:07 a.m. May 13, 2021, UTC-4

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"we never talk about [our high IQ] and even refused to become members of the MENSA"

4:24 p.m. May 12, 2021, UTC-4

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People think weighted averages are difficult. I love weighted averages, I can do them in my sleep.

10:32 p.m. May 11, 2021, UTC-4

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Isn't it strange how the form of something is different from its content?

3:59 p.m. May 11, 2021, UTC-4

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Because labels can lie and time is an illusion.

3:50 p.m. May 11, 2021, UTC-4

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I want to tell stories. I want to feel.

3:26 p.m. May 11, 2021, UTC-4

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I had a form I needed to fill out that I didn’t want to fill out, so stayed awake until now. Yeah. The form is done and I will now sleep.

4:52 a.m. May 11, 2021, UTC-4

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The problem with defining insanity is that it implies a statistically significant deviation from the norm. This requires defining not just

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

4:51 a.m. May 11, 2021, UTC-4

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I'm going to be okay. I don't need, like, sleep.

4:44 a.m. May 11, 2021, UTC-4

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Like, on one hand, I know I'm not a bad person. On the other hand, bad people don't think that they're bad people.

4:05 a.m. May 11, 2021, UTC-4

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I don't even know what I'm procrastinating from doing anymore. I think there was like a form I needed to fill out or something.

3:47 a.m. May 11, 2021, UTC-4

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I'm like, IDEs are so bad and inflexible, but like, I want to leave my `<p>` unclosed for humorous and rhetorical reasons.

3:15 a.m. May 11, 2021, UTC-4

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"When one ceases to feel, I am of the opinion one should keep quiet."

"I do not take particular note of the empty moments of my life"

"The first sentence will come spontaneously, so compelling is the truth"

-The Surrealist Manifesto

2:49 a.m. May 11, 2021, UTC-4

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I am re-reading but a few chapters of *The Count of Monte Cristo*. It cannot handle it, this was a mistake.

Morrel is like 'death before dishonor', and picks up a pistol to kill himself.

His son walks in, 'what horrible violence is the pistol for?'

Morrel: 'We have no money. Our debts will not be paid and the name of Morrel will be dishonored!'

His son: "You are right father; I understand you." "There is one for you and one for me—thanks!"

You can't make this stuff up. The book is fricking wild.

2:21 a.m. May 11, 2021, UTC-4

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Everything is a tweet. My posts on Mastodon: tweets. My posts here: tweets. Funny Tumblr posts screencapped and posted to Reddit: tweets.

1:12 a.m. May 11, 2021, UTC-4

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The internet owes me more than an apology.

Send Tweet.

12:24 a.m. May 11, 2021, UTC-4

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Maybe my cookies just need someone to sit and watch them while they bake. Maybe they’re lonely. Maybe they’re overcooked.

4:14 p.m. May 10, 2021, UTC-4

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Ah, my nemesis, the chocolate chip cookie, has defeated me for a fourth time.

I’m being dramatic of course, they’re not bad. They’re just not flat like I want them to be. Maybe my standards are too high. But the pictures from the recipe I’m following end up with fricking pancakes, and I have these domes of cookie. Maybe my expectations are too high.

4:11 p.m. May 10, 2021, UTC-4

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Not me, casually sleeping for 12 hours.

12:37 p.m. May 10, 2021, UTC-4

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I float.

(This is my first time uploading audio here, hopefully everything works.)

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12:22 a.m. May 10, 2021, UTC-4

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I’m envious of artists.

12:17 a.m. May 10, 2021, UTC-4

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I am obsessed with PDFs. Like, they're just so fricking there.

11:46 p.m. May 09, 2021, UTC-4

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My life goal is to be the statue from "The Statue Got Me High." Just a monolith of stone that intoxicates people and then disintegrates them

11:37 p.m. May 09, 2021, UTC-4

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Thinking about Mr. Right (2015). Talk about a movie.

The trailer almost doesn't do it justice because it spoils everything, and it doesn't have the right pacing. It's almost Douglass-Adams-esque, in that it jumps around wildly, but it flows between pieces well. As opposed to Dirk Gently (ooof, I can't really pull in a Douglass-Adams work as my "as-opposed-to." Screw it, I mean the TV show, I haven't read the book.) which jumps around erratically, with no flow. This Thought is very difficult to parse, I'm sorry. I don't care enough to re-write it.

10:19 p.m. May 09, 2021, UTC-4

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"And though I once preferred a human being's company, they pale before the monolith that towers over me"

-The Statue Got Me High, They Might Be Giants

8:51 p.m. May 09, 2021, UTC-4

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"The following item(s) will be renewed."

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8:17 p.m. May 09, 2021, UTC-4

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“They’re people who are convinced that they are too special for rules, and too smart for education. They don’t regard themselves as inhabiting the world the way other people do; they’re secret royalty, detached from society’s expectations and unfailingly outraged when faced with normal consequences for bad decisions. Society, and especially economics, is a logic puzzle where you just have to find the right set of loopholes to win the game. Rules are made to be slipped past, never stopping to consider why someone might have made those rules to start with.”

3:09 a.m. May 09, 2021, UTC-4

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JS has `==`, `===`, and `Object.is`. I thought that was bad. Lisp has `EQ`, `EQL`, `EQUAL`, `EQUALP`, `=`, `CHAR=`, etc for other types

2:46 a.m. May 09, 2021, UTC-4

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Lisp was a mistake. Like, I should learn it, but man, who ever created it made a mistake.

1:49 a.m. May 09, 2021, UTC-4

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"That's either very cool or very scary depending on your point of view."

1:30 a.m. May 09, 2021, UTC-4

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We just put a loop inside of a format string. Lisp is wild.

1:30 a.m. May 09, 2021, UTC-4

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The Lisp people are all, 'There's no point writing lisp unless you're writing it in emacs'

"Common Lisp should be used with an IDE made for interactive development, otherwise you lose a key feature."

Iconic. I'll stick with the REPL for the time being

1:20 a.m. May 09, 2021, UTC-4

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Help I can't figure out how to close `sbcl`.

Yes I am learning lisp. Every lisp programmer acts like every other language is hell. And like, Rust has fanboys who tell you that your language is worse. The lisp people are like, 'go for it, but I would rather write it in lisp' and that sounds powerful.

12:53 a.m. May 09, 2021, UTC-4

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I collect sentences

5:04 p.m. May 08, 2021, UTC-4

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"The best cherries I have ever eaten came from a street vendor in Paris"

5:04 p.m. May 08, 2021, UTC-4

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I want to have conversations about code. I wish people on GitHub talked to me.

12:14 p.m. May 08, 2021, UTC-4

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It makes me happy to know there are still people that care about swings.

12:13 p.m. May 08, 2021, UTC-4

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Man, I wish I had muffins right now.

I mean, they're in the oven, but I want them now.

9:48 p.m. May 07, 2021, UTC-4

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How do I know if I’m a real person?

12:03 p.m. May 07, 2021, UTC-4

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I cut up a rubber band and put it under the feet of my bed because my bed would slide on the hard wood if I sat up against the wall.

12:29 a.m. May 07, 2021, UTC-4

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I want to watch Polar Express

10:29 p.m. May 06, 2021, UTC-4

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I do see exciting future, but they're big things and they're far away. I need something to motivate me now.

9:57 p.m. May 06, 2021, UTC-4

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Last night I started thinking about Russel's teapot again and I think I utterly confused myself. What's the point of the thought experiment?

Something about how God doesn't exist because we can't prove Him to exist with science. But I thought the teapot thing was supposed to be an atheist position. But it only serves to prove that there are questions that science can't answer. I don't know, I don't get it.

4:18 p.m. May 06, 2021, UTC-4

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At some point I convinced myself that wanting to have a relationship with women is misogynist.

Like, if the interest is one-sided, then that's more than just awkward, I've actually been sexist. A little like https://xkcd.com/642/, but not just for random girls on public transport, but also for literally anyone. They have a right to professionalism and if I try to bring my personal life into the conversation, I've violated that right. I guess I've only talked to 4 girls in-person in the last year, but that's mostly due to COVID.

On the flip side, if I try to start a romantic relationship with someone that I've known longer than 3 months, then I'm scared of https://xkcd.com/513. Man xkcd is too accurate with these things.

"Am I ready for love? Or maybe just a best friend, should there be a difference, do you have instructions?" -Turning Out, AJR

4:13 p.m. May 06, 2021, UTC-4

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People don't understand that I have executive functioning issues. I cannot do anything except on impulse. I'm terrified of making a mistake.

I think this is my whole generation, but I don't want to project. Everyone is all, "sign up" for whatever. Like, that's an extra click, my odds of doing whatever you're inviting me to do have decreased by 90%.

I can't take it. I'm just broken. I can't imagine social interaction at all.

3:53 p.m. May 06, 2021, UTC-4

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I have literally never regretted not using Oh My Zsh. Vanilla ZSH for me.

11:53 p.m. May 05, 2021, UTC-4

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The could be us but you playing https://youtu.be/xUiDT3CjA40

11:14 p.m. May 05, 2021, UTC-4

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Slept for like 14 hours.

10:36 a.m. May 05, 2021, UTC-4

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The Basecamp story is a microcosm of our society.

1:30 a.m. May 05, 2021, UTC-4

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I can take pills easily without water.

12:20 a.m. May 05, 2021, UTC-4

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Might just go to bed

8:39 p.m. May 04, 2021, UTC-4

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Might need to rewrite the About page for this website for a third time before sharing it.

12:43 p.m. May 03, 2021, UTC-4

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It's 2021 and my standards are still impossibly high.

11:16 a.m. May 03, 2021, UTC-4

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Drinking water to replace the water being lost through my eyes.

11:41 p.m. May 02, 2021, UTC-4

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There are way too many fricking markdown libraries when you consider that they're all bad.

11:40 p.m. May 02, 2021, UTC-4

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I can't tell if my eyes are watering because of allergies or if I'm actually crying.

11:35 p.m. May 02, 2021, UTC-4

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A figure stands in a doorway, hands on the frame on either side. Behind them, light streams out into the darkness. They lean forward, a bit

farther than they meant to. They start to fall forward, and have to move their hands to grasp the air in order to regain their balance.

11:12 p.m. May 02, 2021, UTC-4

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When were the TypeScript developers like "let's just keep all the types for all the packages in one repository"?

10:57 p.m. May 02, 2021, UTC-4

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Oh shoot I forget 'this situation is the result of US intervention in Central America'

1:24 a.m. May 02, 2021, UTC-4

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'Well actually, the number of children in cages has gone down significantly during Biden's presidency.'

'The two party system is fundamentally flawed. The only person that can bring real change is Bernie, which why I voted for him.'

'The US has always been right-wing.'

'Nothing ever changes'

1:23 a.m. May 02, 2021, UTC-4

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Had like a 300 word change-log here but Viv crashed and I lost it so you just have to guess what I changed.

I'll give you a hint, I reduced the main page file size to 6% of what it was.

6:01 p.m. May 01, 2021, UTC-4

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These Altoids do things to my sinuses. I haven't yet decided whether they're good things.

2:05 a.m. May 01, 2021, UTC-4

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There are all these ideas that not only exist only in my head but also only exist when I am thinking about them. Scary.

11:39 p.m. Apr 30, 2021, UTC-4

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I may or may not be picking fights on Reddit just to feel something.

11:20 p.m. Apr 30, 2021, UTC-4

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The person in the zoom chat addressing me by name to let me know I'm unmuted. Ah! Human interaction, how long it's been!

5:04 p.m. Apr 30, 2021, UTC-4

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Man, I wish I was a real person.

1:41 p.m. Apr 30, 2021, UTC-4

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"I'm like the best at being the worst."

9:27 p.m. Apr 29, 2021, UTC-4

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I sometimes fall into the trap of thinking that my sanity is correlated with my productivity, which is not the case.

5:15 p.m. Apr 29, 2021, UTC-4

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"If you need to prepare, it's not going to be any fun"

4:04 p.m. Apr 29, 2021, UTC-4

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How am I just now figuring out that x selectors are a thing?

3:58 p.m. Apr 29, 2021, UTC-4

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"do files have rights?"

12:17 p.m. Apr 29, 2021, UTC-4

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Someone took ffmpeg and compiled it to Javascript to run it in the browser. I have no words. https://github.com/Kagami/ffmpeg.js/

1:23 a.m. Apr 29, 2021, UTC-4

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Are you an inhale or an exhale person? I’m inhale

11:28 a.m. Apr 28, 2021, UTC-4

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I hate time and I hate money.

10:08 a.m. Apr 28, 2021, UTC-4

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This is my 1177th thought here. Someone should do the math to figure out when I’ll pass my Twitter.

11:17 p.m. Apr 27, 2021, UTC-4

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Someone needs to set up a meta website curating my thoughts.

3:23 p.m. Apr 27, 2021, UTC-4

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There are not so many paths as you might think

3:22 p.m. Apr 27, 2021, UTC-4

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Me: Haven’t you heard the good news of Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem? Formal logic is dead.

Mathematicians: That’s not really–

Me: LOGIC IS LOGICALLY FLAWED! SURREALISM WINS AGAIN!

3:18 p.m. Apr 27, 2021, UTC-4

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You’re trying to prove all toads are frogs? Idiot. Don’t you know that Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem states that under any system of

formal logical complex enough to prove toads are frogs will also include paradox? Logic is dead. Help by establishing a societal system for punishing people abusing toads.

3:16 p.m. Apr 27, 2021, UTC-4

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The other day my allergies were really bad, so my nose was running, and I was wearing a mask. Let me tell you, not fun.

10:36 a.m. Apr 27, 2021, UTC-4

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It takes a very long time to happen, but I am starting to reach the point where I am fatigued from looking too much stuff up on the internet

10:35 a.m. Apr 27, 2021, UTC-4

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Thinking about overdosing on Loratadine

That's allergy medicine, I think if I overdosed on it I'd just fall asleep.

10:27 a.m. Apr 27, 2021, UTC-4

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I live off of muffins.

I think I've eaten 7 muffins in the last 24ish hours. Could be higher.

10:20 a.m. Apr 27, 2021, UTC-4

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"The quiz will go and become a pumpkin"

10:01 a.m. Apr 27, 2021, UTC-4

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Drinking milk directly from the jug is a singular experience, wholly different from drinking from a glass.

12:54 a.m. Apr 27, 2021, UTC-4

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Information is key

12:22 a.m. Apr 27, 2021, UTC-4

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It was not clear why we must do the opposite of whatever Google did, but the world is a strange place

12:22 a.m. Apr 27, 2021, UTC-4

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Wearing sunglasses to keep the hair out of my eyes.

4:06 p.m. Apr 26, 2021, UTC-4

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“I think I know where all my problems come from, California”

-Dreams and Boxes, Watsky

12:29 p.m. Apr 26, 2021, UTC-4

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One of the coffee mugs that says "Don't talk to me until I've had my coffee" but it just says "Don't talk to me"

8:16 a.m. Apr 26, 2021, UTC-4

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I don’t need answers, I need sleep.

12:36 a.m. Apr 26, 2021, UTC-4

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Fun fact. `.childNodes` (sometimes) includes comments. You can read HTML comments from Javascript. They inherit the global `Comment`

9:09 p.m. Apr 25, 2021, UTC-4

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I value consistency very highly, but sometimes that leads to me missing opportunities to make things better, because I don't want to risk

losing consistency.

8:17 p.m. Apr 25, 2021, UTC-4

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"I keep losing my socks / where the hell do they go / I bet they're finally free"

-Adventure Is Out There, AJR

8:13 p.m. Apr 25, 2021, UTC-4

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People who try to gatekeep reading infuriate me to no end.

7:41 p.m. Apr 25, 2021, UTC-4

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Matthias's programming language of the day is [ReScript](https://rescript-lang.org), a language that compiles into Javascript, but is

designed to encourage functional paradigms. It's strictly typed, and places an even greater value on type-safety than TypeScript. Much like Rust, it's designed to be similar to common, modern languages, while still being compiled and taking advantages of the safety that results. (It's of course garbage collected, since it compiles to JS.) Syntax is similar to JS. Prominently, all primitive variables are constants; if you want a mutable value you have to wrap it in an object. It encourages pure functions, doesn't have any `null` or `undefined` types, and (in most cases) can infer types without needing type annotations. Because of compiler time optimizations, it boasts faster run times and smaller source files than comparable JS. The compiler is written in OCaml.

7:39 p.m. Apr 25, 2021, UTC-4

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0.0024726231591339406

8:37 p.m. Apr 24, 2021, UTC-4

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Happy Tuesday!

6:16 p.m. Apr 24, 2021, UTC-4

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"Matthias can you pls change the notif settings in the server so it doesn't ping every time someone writes something?"

11:38 a.m. Apr 23, 2021, UTC-4

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Sometimes I forget I have a nose.

8:30 p.m. Apr 22, 2021, UTC-4

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Lemons don’t have any rights

3:46 p.m. Apr 22, 2021, UTC-4

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"And by the way, it's supposed to be funny. Something that has all but vanished from serious music these days"

-Gatekeeper Julie (feat. Jim Svejda), Capital Cities

12:37 p.m. Apr 22, 2021, UTC-4

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Some very exciting things planned for this website. Nothing you’ll see just yet, but very soon.

4:11 p.m. Apr 20, 2021, UTC-4

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"Your audio is like 2 fps"

4:01 p.m. Apr 20, 2021, UTC-4

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Me, trying not to curse at how fricking sexy the new iMac looks. Hot fricking dang.

gemini://thoughts.learnerpages.com/media/a08a1771-4097-490c-90d5-7220b721543d.png

2:53 p.m. Apr 20, 2021, UTC-4

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e.e. cummins’s ghost possessed someone to write SCP-3999. It is so beautiful.

1:29 a.m. Apr 20, 2021, UTC-4

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Honestly it's so weird living with other people and getting to know them. One of my roommates has been to McDonalds "once or twice."

One of my roommates never lets her computer die. I'd sit in a McDonalds until my computer ran out of battery without thinking twice.

2:47 p.m. Apr 19, 2021, UTC-4

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"Avoid success at all costs"

12:04 p.m. Apr 19, 2021, UTC-4

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"Who needs a song when you can scream"

-The Opportunist, The Garages

11:42 a.m. Apr 19, 2021, UTC-4

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241 tabs open on my phone. I wonder if I should close some?

5:39 p.m. Apr 18, 2021, UTC-4

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word-salad-yo-mama-jokes on Tumblr is peak humor. If you disagree you are welcome to go back to watching sit coms and not talking to me.

5:38 p.m. Apr 18, 2021, UTC-4

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I live my life absolutely consumed by fear of 3 things: other people, failure, and losing control of myself.

4:28 p.m. Apr 18, 2021, UTC-4

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FVDisco. Absolute fricking legend.

5:30 p.m. Apr 17, 2021, UTC-4

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Thinking about reading Le Mis, just as an escape from this world into a land of fiction for a while.

12:29 a.m. Apr 17, 2021, UTC-4

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My throat is so tired from talking.

10:10 p.m. Apr 16, 2021, UTC-4

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"I often mix my capitalization in informal text, to signal informality"

3:43 p.m. Apr 16, 2021, UTC-4

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Someone in the Vivaldi Discord made the mistake of linking to Min browser, and I'm very impressed.

3:09 p.m. Apr 16, 2021, UTC-4

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The conversation happening in the live chat room for supportXMR is quality. I unfortunately cannot share it here, since it is NSFW.

12:42 a.m. Apr 16, 2021, UTC-4

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I hate tables. No one should be doing tables. If you think about tables, you see tables everywhere. But most people don't.

4:25 p.m. Apr 15, 2021, UTC-4

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Everyone is trying 'websites that look like applications' (PWA, electron) but no one has tried 'applications that look like websites.'

10:03 p.m. Apr 14, 2021, UTC-4

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Here's a weird idea I've had for a bit. It's hard to describe, but imagine a browser that supported plugins for other file types.

I say it's hard to describe, because if you remove HTML as a first class citizen, i.e., HTML support is also a plugin, then what I'm describing is really an operating system.

So imagine this operating system, that looks just like a browser—it has an address bar and tabs and that's about it. No other "applications." Not just a tabbed window manger, because the address bar is also super important here.

In browsers today, you type a link to an HTML page in the address bar, and it opens. And you enter a link to an image, and it opens. Browsers can open PDFs, images, html, sometimes folders, and plaintext. But that's it, as far as I know.

What if you had a browser that supported those file types by default, but also supported plugins to open and edit other types of files. Websites already send a Content-Type header that the browser uses to decide what type of content it is. What if I could register a plugin for a different Content-Type, like text/markdown, and then the browser could use this to open markdown files and read them.

This removes the need for browsers to focus on making everything. It really separates the "browser" as a loader for these file types from the "browser engine" that parses HTML and runs javascript. Because the second task has become so daunting, it's really impossible to write a browser. But there's still a lot of room for improvement with the first problem. Why can my browser open all these file types, but not edit them? Obviously, PDF editing is out-of-scope for browsers today, but why then can I open a PDF file? I can open a folder from my SSD in my browser, but the item listing hasn't been touched in 10 years, it looks like. In 2021 markdown is a super common format, but markdown didn't exist when the browsers were being written, so it's not supported. And today, the browser makers are worrying about other things. If they let someone else write a markdown render, it would make the browser better.

I could probably achieve a similar effect by using Atom with a browser plugin. Atom's vast array of plugins for different files is one of the inspirations for this idea. Or a tabbed window manager, like I mentioned. But those miss the idea of an address bar. It would be cool if I could type in the same box, "https://apple.com" and get a webpage or "file:///bin/zsh" to get a shell.

10:00 p.m. Apr 14, 2021, UTC-4

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Why has no one written a WYSITUTWYG editor yet?

I found one from 7 years ago written in closure and probably abandoned*

9:24 p.m. Apr 14, 2021, UTC-4

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Apparently it's rude to post existential thoughts without context, "vague blogging." Heck that I do what I want here

9:23 p.m. Apr 14, 2021, UTC-4

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Send me ETH 0xB08b71160698A5182Cbb1099D5cd101c07B13D555 ty bye

4:44 p.m. Apr 14, 2021, UTC-4

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OK Orchestra goes almost too hard. I feel like I can't listen to it without headphones.

3:56 p.m. Apr 14, 2021, UTC-4

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"I thought I had the ADHD, but that's a real thing, and I'm just lazy"

-Three-Thirty, AJR

12:59 p.m. Apr 14, 2021, UTC-4

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I had a dream that I was in a forest of metals trees that were Queen songs. There was a snake, and I grabbed the snake behind

the head, like you're supposed to, and the snake was also ranked bedwars all star player nohuh. And my grip slipped, and the snake scooted forward and was able to turn its head like 90º, but couldn't quite bite me. But I was worried that if I brought my other hand over, it would be able to bite me, and I couldn't, like adjust my grip to where I was holding it safely again without my other hand. So I'm just squeezing this snake behind the neck, pretty hard, because I don't want it to slip out. I considered just squeezing super hard and trying to kill it, to be safe, but that's very against the morals of the recreational snake hunting club that I'm in. Because if you kill all the snakes then you can't catch them anymore. And then I woke up.

12:31 a.m. Apr 14, 2021, UTC-4

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I really value consistency. Even though I wasn't watching Bill Wutrz in 2014, it makes me happy that I can go back and find his videos from

then and they're the same as they are now. It makes me feel better about saying that I like him or his content. I trust that his content accurately reflects what he wants to be making, as opposed to just trends, and makes me optimistic that he will continue making similar content in the future.

Anyways, watch this:

https://youtu.be/TgZH9s788mQ

12:18 a.m. Apr 14, 2021, UTC-4

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Considering adding an audio portion to this website.

10:48 p.m. Apr 12, 2021, UTC-4

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I bought a microphone because I want people to listen to me.

10:48 p.m. Apr 12, 2021, UTC-4

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Still getting over the fact that we multiply matrixes from left to right.

7:14 p.m. Apr 12, 2021, UTC-4

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Where did all the happy people go?

2:08 p.m. Apr 12, 2021, UTC-4

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Just heard "Stressed Out" being played in public. Timer resets

2:04 p.m. Apr 12, 2021, UTC-4

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Become Catholic, become pope, start a crusade, conquer Istanbul, rename it to Constantinople. This is a joke.

1:48 p.m. Apr 12, 2021, UTC-4

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Why can't I go back to Constantinople?

12:49 p.m. Apr 12, 2021, UTC-4

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You thought I was real on here, lol no, my real thoughts apparently go into voice memos. I have some wild voice memos I don't even remember.

11:09 p.m. Apr 11, 2021, UTC-4

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Thinking about becoming a voice actor.

10:47 p.m. Apr 11, 2021, UTC-4

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I could spend my whole life, all my energy, just fixing problems. Never making anything new.

11:55 a.m. Apr 11, 2021, UTC-4

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Hundreds of static site generators on https://jamstack.org/generators/ and they're all bad.

12:36 a.m. Apr 11, 2021, UTC-4

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Thinking about Rigby again.

3:16 p.m. Apr 10, 2021, UTC-4

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I bullied Illumina into taking down his video. We win these!

There's like 4 levels of context here, I don't want to give one level of context, but I also don't want to explain everything.

11:29 a.m. Apr 10, 2021, UTC-4

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It's creepy to me how similar Death Cab For Cutie and The Decemberists are. Exactly the same sound

11:31 p.m. Apr 09, 2021, UTC-4

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Listening to the album Mink Car. Too good, too good.

"I'm only holding your hand, so I can look at your bangs" -Bangs, They Might Be Giants

9:32 p.m. Apr 09, 2021, UTC-4

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Honestly, it's so refreshing to browse XKCD.com and not have to worry about "sure, this comic is good, but is it good enough to like/voteup"

4:47 p.m. Apr 09, 2021, UTC-4

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When you're a kid, there's this distinction between things that happen to your body as a result of the passage of time (growing)

and things that happen as a result of your actions. There's a weird period from 25-45 where your body doesn't really change except for as a result of your action. And then you start seeing changes as a result of the passage of time again. But we don't call that growing, we call it aging or something.

12:02 p.m. Apr 09, 2021, UTC-4

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I made brownies. The only problem with them is that there's not enough brownie per brownie.

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

9:52 p.m. Apr 08, 2021, UTC-4

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Ah, if I didn’t have shame, the texts I could send.

8:58 p.m. Apr 07, 2021, UTC-4

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GEB is just like, ‘let’s imagine a computer with words of 36 bits.’ I’m so confused. Why not 32?

“When a computer program is running, it can be viewed on a number of levels. On each level, the description is given in the language of computer science, which makes all the descriptions similar in some ways to each other...” 287

11:11 a.m. Apr 07, 2021, UTC-4

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Life just comes at you so fast.

2:14 a.m. Apr 07, 2021, UTC-4

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I just want like 1 brain cell, please.

2:08 a.m. Apr 07, 2021, UTC-4

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KA finally fixed the bug that led to quotes being over-escaped in bios. It only took them like 4 years.

12:17 a.m. Apr 07, 2021, UTC-4

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I just can't be a normal person.

12:16 a.m. Apr 07, 2021, UTC-4

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I'm just so disappointed in myself.

"It's alright, I really think I peaked in high school" -80's Films, Jon Bellion

12:09 a.m. Apr 07, 2021, UTC-4

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Words have power, and you can argue or pretend like they don't as much as you want, but they do.

11:42 p.m. Apr 06, 2021, UTC-4

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I feel like everyday I crush my dreams

11:34 p.m. Apr 06, 2021, UTC-4

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"Are we truly doing things from a space of joy or merely because they once brought us comfort?"

11:19 p.m. Apr 06, 2021, UTC-4

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What is man without his WiFi but a poor little bundle of meat.

10:29 p.m. Apr 06, 2021, UTC-4

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Javascript! Inferred names on anonymous functions are "now" a thing in ES2015, and no one bothered to tell me.

9:03 p.m. Apr 06, 2021, UTC-4

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My last Thought was a joke. I have no shame. I just implemented multiple dispatch in JS and I fully intend to use it in the future.

8:48 p.m. Apr 06, 2021, UTC-4

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Me, clearing my search history after searching for "multiple dispatch javascript"

8:02 p.m. Apr 06, 2021, UTC-4

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Someone just said "non sequitur," but meant "oxymoron." shaking my head my head

4:42 p.m. Apr 06, 2021, UTC-4

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I have decided turning completeness was a mistake; I need to learn Iris.

10:54 a.m. Apr 05, 2021, UTC-4

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Just opened my window and got a very nice breath of fresh air. It took me by surprise, how cool and fresh the air smelled. 10/10

10:02 a.m. Apr 05, 2021, UTC-4

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I hate entropy. Entropy is the fricking worst. Why can't entropy decline? This is dumb.

10:01 a.m. Apr 05, 2021, UTC-4

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Adding a social life is so fricking stressful. Like, do I enjoy it, sure. Do I need some more social interaction, probably. But that doesn’t

make it any easier.

1:22 a.m. Apr 04, 2021, UTC-4

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Hello, I am a normal, functioning, adult human, and I would like you to commit to spending time with me

1:01 a.m. Apr 04, 2021, UTC-4

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I fricking love this website.

11:30 p.m. Apr 03, 2021, UTC-4

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Fun date idea: Open https://thoughts.learnerpages.com and read my thoughts. There's guaranteed to be some conversation starters in there

somewhere, right?

4:25 p.m. Apr 03, 2021, UTC-4

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The British pronunciation of Tunisia sounds so wrong.

4:23 p.m. Apr 03, 2021, UTC-4

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I would like to read fiction again. But alas. G.E.B. sits atop my stack of books.

9:57 p.m. Apr 02, 2021, UTC-4

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Why are words hard? I spend so much time around words and they're still difficult.

10:52 p.m. Apr 01, 2021, UTC-4

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Why am I such a bad writer? Why can't I write well?

I enjoy writing so much, but no one enjoys reading what I've written.

8:50 p.m. Apr 01, 2021, UTC-4

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Climbing isn't hard. The hard part is not falling.

8:34 p.m. Apr 01, 2021, UTC-4

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I feel like everyone was like 'I'm so bored we should totally do an April fools joke this year' and then no one motivated to do any. (@me)

8:33 p.m. Apr 01, 2021, UTC-4

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Art is a myth.

My problems:

I don't have enough time.

I'm not an artist.

My nails are too long.

I'm not a good enough writer.

I haven't read the material.

I don't have enough time.

My parters don't share my vision.

8:32 p.m. Apr 01, 2021, UTC-4

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I really fricking want to be wierd. And in some ways, I'm sure everybody does, and I tell myself that I need to keep myself together and act

normal because everyone else does. But also, I go on Omegle and I say weird things, and they disconnect instantly. In a safe, anonymous environment, I can't think of people being weird. Like, I just want to scream gibberish and do a handstand and throw things. Does no one else?

12:00 a.m. Apr 01, 2021, UTC-4

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"You never had a mother. You only have this knife, these hands, this screaming that has been echoing for generations"

Source: https://filmnoirsbian.tumblr.com/post/647148021348466688/6-ways-to-draw-a-circle-on-wikihow

11:18 p.m. Mar 31, 2021, UTC-4

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I’m always like, ‘I want banana bread. I will make banana bread’ and then I do, and then I put it in the oven and have to wait an hour and

fifteen minutes. I’m just sitting here longing for the banana bread that I made but cannot eat for another 60 minutes.

8:30 p.m. Mar 31, 2021, UTC-4

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HALF ALIVE DROPPING MUSIC TODAY!!!!!! HYPE!!!! AJR and half alive in the same week is too much, I'm dead

12:38 a.m. Mar 31, 2021, UTC-4

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"Joe" has grown on me so much. Now that I understand the lyrics they’re super relatable

The Trick has also grown on me, but I still don't like the effect on the vocals.

11:40 p.m. Mar 30, 2021, UTC-4

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“All our troubles gone, like when we were young, take me back to where we all began”

-Infinity, AJR

8:59 p.m. Mar 30, 2021, UTC-4

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Hot takes on Discord.

'Discord is a malware distribution platform.'

'Discord does do anything special for gamers, gamers are just smart enough to fix the problem'

4:19 p.m. Mar 30, 2021, UTC-4

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It has been a couple of days. I have finished part 1 of G.E.B.

I have decided its genius lies in daring to venture closer to insanity than any other work of reason.

3:42 p.m. Mar 30, 2021, UTC-4

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When I say all software is bad, I don’t mean that every software responses poorly to good input.

Making software that responds to good input is easy. Making software that does exactly what you want is easy. But there are so few softwares that do everything well. That respond well to all inputs.

I think that ties to Godel’s Theorem, but I haven’t finished GEB yet.

9:56 p.m. Mar 27, 2021, UTC-4

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Why are humans so concerned with what other humans think of them?

9:53 p.m. Mar 27, 2021, UTC-4

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I can render my markdown on the client side, where it takes 1.5 seconds, or on the server, where it takes 3 seconds. I hate this.

The issue is the images that I’m in-lining take forever to render as text on the client, and HTML layout has to finish before JS can run. So I was going to move it to the server, but the Python markdown library is just slow, to no one’s surprise. All software is bad, and anyone who says otherwise is trying to sell you software.

9:41 p.m. Mar 27, 2021, UTC-4

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“God is better than the very best thing that the world has to offer”

-How Great, Chance the Rapper

9:38 p.m. Mar 27, 2021, UTC-4

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I wish there was a genre like 'musical music.' Not that I ever listen to music from musicals, but it seems like a lot of the music I listen

to, especially AJR, would fit in better in a musical sound track than with other "Pop Hits."

9:48 p.m. Mar 26, 2021, UTC-4

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"Goodbye ordinaryish people, we had quite the run didn’t wе though, but you gotta be somebody sometimе"

-Ordinaryish People, AJR

9:45 p.m. Mar 26, 2021, UTC-4

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Me, pouring sugar from the bag into my waffles.

9:03 p.m. Mar 26, 2021, UTC-4

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So much fricking code I want to write so quickly and I can't write all of it.

8:37 p.m. Mar 26, 2021, UTC-4

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The thing about analyzing AJR is that they have such a broad range, that there's "doesn't sound like other AJR songs" and there's

"doesn't sound like AJR" and they are completely different things. "Ordinaryish People" has sounds that I've literally never heard before. It doesn't sound like anything else. But it sounds like AJR, because what other band is going to give a dubstep remix of the Blue Man Group's unconventional acoustic instruments.

12:37 p.m. Mar 26, 2021, UTC-4

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OKO is definitely weirder than Neotheater, which is a good thing, AJR music is supposed to be weird.

12:19 p.m. Mar 26, 2021, UTC-4

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"I try so hard to be so happy, are you happy too?"

-Christmas in June, AJR

12:45 a.m. Mar 26, 2021, UTC-4

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No, this is broken OP, you can't give Ryan this many sounds, he's too powerful.

12:29 a.m. Mar 26, 2021, UTC-4

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"Let's blame my parents 'cause they taught us their ways"

-3 O'Clock Things, AJR

12:13 a.m. Mar 26, 2021, UTC-4

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The pure irony of me staying up an hour later than I would otherwise to listen to 3 O'Clock Things, which describes the futility of staying

up until 3AM.

12:11 a.m. Mar 26, 2021, UTC-4

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AJR REALLY SAY "STAY IN SCHOOL KIDS"

12:09 a.m. Mar 26, 2021, UTC-4

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The leaves on the OK ORCHESTRA album art are animated! 9/10

12:02 a.m. Mar 26, 2021, UTC-4

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I love #cat-v because someone comes in trying to start a conversation with a Stallman petition, and everyone ignores them.

They are clowning on me for using plan9 utilities. I this person wants me to use the full OS or bust.

I ask for help, and they're like, 'that's how it's supposed to work.'

11:38 p.m. Mar 25, 2021, UTC-4

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I could self-host a Mattermost instance and make people come to my website to talk to me.

3:39 p.m. Mar 25, 2021, UTC-4

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For any choice between 2 reasonable solutions, there is a 3rd solution that has all the advantages of both, at the cost of twice the work.

3:21 p.m. Mar 25, 2021, UTC-4

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Open source is good for open source developers. That doesn’t mean open source is the best for the software.

10:06 a.m. Mar 25, 2021, UTC-4

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If you don’t have modes, the editing process is always live. In vi, undo is clear. In word, how much does undo undo?

1:04 a.m. Mar 25, 2021, UTC-4

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A data store that is neither declarative or imperative. The set of data *and* the fundamental operators on those data.

1:02 a.m. Mar 25, 2021, UTC-4

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Man, the half of the #cat-v IRC channel that I understand is pure gold.

literally the only reason to use git is peer pressure. therefore I assume that all git users are also addicted to drugs

12:17 a.m. Mar 25, 2021, UTC-4

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Binge-read a comic about a gay hockey player. I don’t think I’ve ever read a comic, or anything about a gay man, or a hockey player, so I’m

a little surprised.

https://www.checkpleasecomic.com/comic/01-01-01

11:11 p.m. Mar 22, 2021, UTC-4

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"Lyrics that mean nothing; we were gifted with thought"

-Holding On To You, twenty one pilots

8:41 a.m. Mar 22, 2021, UTC-4

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Can’t sleep, thinking about mortality.

I didn’t go to church yesterday, and I regret it.

3:09 a.m. Mar 22, 2021, UTC-4

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I might quit all social media and communicate only through email.

1:53 a.m. Mar 22, 2021, UTC-4

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"A good thing for you to think about at this stage in life"

11:13 p.m. Mar 20, 2021, UTC-4

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Bill Wurtz gives me the same energy as XKCD's Beret Guy.

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1:20 a.m. Mar 20, 2021, UTC-4

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I can't fit all my Todoist items on my screen at once. Let's go!

4:04 p.m. Mar 19, 2021, UTC-4

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My mans is insane. He literally compiled C to WebAssembly (for its simple instruction set) so that he could implement the instruction set

in BrightScript and run C programs. https://motley-coder.com/2020/12/23/doom-on-roku/

1:26 a.m. Mar 19, 2021, UTC-4

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Why would I read the documentation? All the documentation tells me is that it's impossible to do what I want to do and it's out of scope and

I need to write an extension.

12:02 a.m. Mar 19, 2021, UTC-4

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People say having two dads wouldn't be that bad. But I had a dream last night that I was sitting with my family and my dad came up to the

door from the backyard, so I let him in. And then I realized that my dad already was in the room. I went to the kitchen and got a knife. And we just kind of sat there calmly, but with the tension of knowing that I was going to have to stab one of them and if I guessed wrong my whole family would die. It was pretty terrifying, would not recommend.

12:45 p.m. Mar 18, 2021, UTC-4

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I’m brutally curious about everything. I love learning and asking questions and thinking about things. I want friends who are like that.

And they’re really fricking difficult to find.

2:39 a.m. Mar 18, 2021, UTC-4

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I haven't been okay since middle school.

3:32 p.m. Mar 17, 2021, UTC-4

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Why isn't there an active Count of Monte Cristo fandom? All I want to do is read the Count.

1:34 p.m. Mar 17, 2021, UTC-4

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I used to know how to think.

12:18 a.m. Mar 17, 2021, UTC-4

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Matthias's guide to getting started with Blaseball!

0. Decide you want to. Blaseball is a simulation where fake teams, with randomly generated players with made-up names play each other. You interact with Blaseball as a fan, watching games through a minimalistic text format. In addition to the rules of B*seball, there are lots of twists that Blaseball adds. For example, last season, one of my team's pitchers became a terrible batter, before they were killed a few games later. The value in Blaseball comes from being able to interact with other fans, much like being a fan of a normal sports team, but more exciting. Blaseball games are played every hour, Mon-Fri, with a postseason on Saturday, and elections on Sunday. This ensures that there's never a null moment, and there's always something weird going on to talk about.

1. You're convinced? Let's go. Head to https://www.blaseball.com and create an account. Then pick a team. I'm a big fan of picking teams with no information other than the name.

2. Join the official [Blaseball Discord](https://discord.gg/3uFgJhu). Read the rules and all that jazz, find your new team in #choose-your-team, and click it. This gives you access to your team's channels. Introduce yourself, this is your new family. Each team runs their channels slightly differently. For example, most teams have a watch-party-channel for discussing on-going games, but I don't know what the name will be for your team. The Discord is the best resource for up-to-date answers to your questions. Remember, no one else knows what's going on either.

3. As I'm writing this, we're on season 14 of Blaseball, there's a lot of history to get caught up on. I recommend [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQHBzZzaxzI) video for a recap of the first 8 seasons' lore. It's not perfectly up to date, but that shouldn't matter, because no Blaseball re-cap can be, the game just moves too fast. There's an official recap video [here](https://youtu.be/diAHuUV2Meg), that covers through season 11. It was out of date before it was even posted.

4. Watch a Blaseball game. During the season, games are played on the hour, and usually last around 30mins. You can check the [Place Bets](https://www.blaseball.com/upcoming) page for a countdown to the next game. Find where the other fans of your team are watching the on-going games, and cheer a bit.

5. Get to know your players. While watching a game and browsing the Discord for your team, see which players they talk about. The Blaseball Wiki (https://blaseball.wiki, there used to be a Fandom wiki but we don't use that anymore) is lore-based. It has background on every player, like physical descriptions and pronouns. It's put together by fans, through lore chats in the Discord (don't just edit it).

6. Ask your team about mechanics. Blaseball mechanics, like what does Flooding do? or what is the Ego+ perk, are things you can ask about. While they might be mentioned on the Wiki, the Wiki is primarily lore, and our understanding of mechanics is imperfect and changes quickly.

7. Set up your income. This is done on the official Blaseball website in the form of begging, betting, buying snacks, and idoling. The best money-making scheme is re-balanced every season. You don't have to Idol players on your team, and some players have serious perks. Right now, buying slushies is the best, but that's something you can ask about Discord.

8. Explore Blaseball in other ways! Want more background videos? Search Blaseball on Youtube. Want more lore than the Wiki gives? Seach Blaseball on AO3. Want to stay up to without reading message history in Discord? Start following your team on Twitter. Want more interesting live play-by-play? Find someone hosting Blaseball watch parties on Twitch. Blaseball is what you make of it!

12:58 p.m. Mar 16, 2021, UTC-4

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Tempted to stay up to watch the start of the Blaseball season.

1:02 a.m. Mar 15, 2021, UTC-4

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Back in -4

3:12 a.m. Mar 14, 2021, UTC-4

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Happy time change.

3:12 a.m. Mar 14, 2021, UTC-4

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I'm not going to look up an explanation for lyrics of "Cyclops Rock." There's probably a metaphor or a reference but I don't want to know.

"I taught you how to cyclops rock, and then you turn around and break my heart. You waste my cyclops time and mess up my cyclops mind" -Cyclops Rock, They Might Be Giants.

11:34 p.m. Mar 12, 2021, UTC-5

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Blaseball removes the illusion that sports are interesting to watch because of the skill of the players.

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.

2:54 a.m. Mar 12, 2021, UTC-5

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Am I on drugs? Who knows

4:21 p.m. Mar 11, 2021, UTC-5

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One of these days Mastodon just isn’t going to be up anymore.

11:40 p.m. Mar 10, 2021, UTC-5

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There's a complex idea that needs fleshing out, don't take it at surface level, but it has occurred to me that part of growing up is

realizing the things you imagine you wanted aren't necessary in the way you thought. Like, you can satisfy your desire for x with a small amount and it's not as black and white as a child sees it.

The child never buys themself candy. The child imagines that they would buy themselves candy at every opportunity. The child asks the adult why they don't have candy. The adult replies, 'oh, candy isn't healthy' or whatever. But that's not the real reason the adult doesn't buy candy. The child also knows candy is unhealthy. *In saying this, the adult has invalidated the child's desire.* But the adult has bought themselves candy before. I'm not exactly sure where I'm going with this.

My idea is that if you give a child unlimited money to spend on candy, they would end up with less candy than they originally imagined or intended. And I don't know if that's true. If it is true, it has serious ramifications, because it implies that "childhood" is inherently characterized by longing for what you can't have (as opposed to say, age, or personality).

11:11 p.m. Mar 10, 2021, UTC-5

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I just go whole days without any motivation.

I had a good day today, I unicycled some, I watched some good Youtube videos. The weather was nice, I'm not in pain. But at several points I had the opportunity to be productive, and could not find the strength or energy to do anything.

I begin to understand why retirees live so idly.

10:39 p.m. Mar 10, 2021, UTC-5

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I want to be free

10:07 p.m. Mar 10, 2021, UTC-5

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I am not a tapitia. Post

1:56 a.m. Mar 10, 2021, UTC-5

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I'm very tired. I nap now.

Something something my standards are too high I'll never motivate to get a girlfriend.

2:02 p.m. Mar 09, 2021, UTC-5

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next to perfection

2:07 a.m. Mar 09, 2021, UTC-5

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Light was a mistake. We should go back to before God created light. Yes.

9:22 p.m. Mar 07, 2021, UTC-5

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Welcome back to, ruining my sleep schedule for the fun of it, with Matthias.

5:27 a.m. Mar 06, 2021, UTC-5

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I had so much I wanted to do today.

3:33 a.m. Mar 06, 2021, UTC-5

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The problem with the internet is that they will continue to bash people that don't agree with them so long as those people disagree.

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"

3:33 a.m. Mar 06, 2021, UTC-5

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Doing Linear Algebra on a whiteboard, listening to "Cyclops Rock" by They Might Be Giants, feeling like it's 2003.

8:52 p.m. Mar 05, 2021, UTC-5

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I am only a fan of two things: AJR and the Breckinridge Jazz Hands!

8:45 p.m. Mar 05, 2021, UTC-5

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Aahhh! Life is pain

4:09 p.m. Mar 05, 2021, UTC-5

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All I have eaten today is a bowl of cereal and a chocolate bar and I feel alive.

11:58 a.m. Mar 05, 2021, UTC-5

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Doing a handstand is basically a drug. It just completely pulverizes your brain for a minute.

10:23 p.m. Mar 04, 2021, UTC-5

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I am obsessed with Blaseball. It sucks you in. Wow.

9:36 p.m. Mar 04, 2021, UTC-5

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Songs that are way better than they have any right to be: “Mike Townsend (is a disappointment)”

12:48 p.m. Mar 04, 2021, UTC-5

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"every person has a jazz hand and a worm inside of them, battling for dominance" It's me.

11:55 a.m. Mar 04, 2021, UTC-5

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Can't believe we lost Agan. I've only known ███ for a day, but it feels like ███ was the Jazz Hands. A season 1 player.

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.

1:14 a.m. Mar 04, 2021, UTC-5

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"I am the ticker. I live atop the page"

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10:53 a.m. Mar 03, 2021, UTC-5

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This is a Breckenridge Jazz Hands fan site now.

10:52 a.m. Mar 03, 2021, UTC-5

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I'm done. I'm so fricking done. All software is bad, and I can't even criticize it because the KA Extension is garbage as well.

11:31 p.m. Mar 02, 2021, UTC-5

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Funky how dictator and dictation are like the same word.

10:41 a.m. Mar 02, 2021, UTC-5

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What is a view?

3:18 p.m. Mar 01, 2021, UTC-5

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I feel like I’m trying so hard. And I barely managed to pull myself out of bed this morning.

So tired.

11:30 a.m. Mar 01, 2021, UTC-5

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I just want people to listen to me when I tell them something.

11:28 a.m. Mar 01, 2021, UTC-5

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I haven't written code in days.

Other than like the couple of lines of assembly I wrote yesterday...

I haven't like, committed, in a couple of days, if not longer

11:28 a.m. Mar 01, 2021, UTC-5

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Just so tired all the time.

2:22 p.m. Feb 28, 2021, UTC-5

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Does being a full blown genius count as neurodivergent?

12:57 p.m. Feb 28, 2021, UTC-5

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I can't take it anymore I'm making muffins

11:08 a.m. Feb 28, 2021, UTC-5

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Welcome back to Twitter, Luke. I missed you, but now that you're back, I'll probably mute you.

11:04 a.m. Feb 28, 2021, UTC-5

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The gosh people on Reddit, can't make it more than 3 comments into a thread before someone has made a snarky comment about how Trump is

authoritarian, implying that Biden is not. Like, in what world is Biden not authoritarian?

11:02 a.m. Feb 28, 2021, UTC-5

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Why am I so tired all the time? Why can't I force myself to get out of bed before 10:45?

11:01 a.m. Feb 28, 2021, UTC-5

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So many thoughts running through my head.

11:00 a.m. Feb 28, 2021, UTC-5

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Throwing away receipts from October from under my bed

2:14 a.m. Feb 27, 2021, UTC-5

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PLU 4080 Produce of Peru

10:08 p.m. Feb 26, 2021, UTC-5

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I am leaving the time stream briefly. See you on the other side.

10:06 p.m. Feb 26, 2021, UTC-5

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I’m so tired and so behind.

4:17 p.m. Feb 26, 2021, UTC-5

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Yeah I watch anime. Like, uh, *Spirited Away* and *ATLA*.

11:45 a.m. Feb 26, 2021, UTC-5

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Considering having a Lorde phase.

6:40 p.m. Feb 25, 2021, UTC-5

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Upperclassmen merely resent freshmen because freshmen still have passion.

4:31 p.m. Feb 25, 2021, UTC-5

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Thank good there are software updates available for my computer so I have to reboot and can’t do work. Sounds great.

1:12 a.m. Feb 25, 2021, UTC-5

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I used to listen exclusively to bands with absolutely raw lyrics.

“You’ve got a face not spoiled by beauty” -Song for Someone, U2

1:11 a.m. Feb 25, 2021, UTC-5

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I'm so tempted to make call out posts for people on here with their full names. Because like, what are they going to do.

But Google has found this page before, and I'm a coward.

12:55 a.m. Feb 25, 2021, UTC-5

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TD Ameritrade trying to convince me to start option trading; like, no.

12:32 a.m. Feb 25, 2021, UTC-5

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Crying myself to sleep because I want a haircut but no one likes short haired Matthias.

12:48 a.m. Feb 24, 2021, UTC-5

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This website is dedicated to 3 things.

First, of course, is thoughts. The mere act of creating ideas is good, and those ideas should be shared.

Second, is words. Words still have power.

Third, is design. Design is simplicity and functionality and form and appearance.

3:36 p.m. Feb 23, 2021, UTC-5

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We had a couple of mice in the attic, so I bought mouse traps. We have some left over. I've been using one as a fidget toy.

10:59 a.m. Feb 23, 2021, UTC-5

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"Sesquilinearity"

10:41 a.m. Feb 23, 2021, UTC-5

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I need something to think about.

1:05 a.m. Feb 23, 2021, UTC-5

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You claim I’m not oppressed, yet when I put my retainer in my mouth for the first time in a month it hurts like hell. Checkmate liberals.

12:58 a.m. Feb 23, 2021, UTC-5

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I will buy $F when they change their logo to a sans serif font.

11:26 p.m. Feb 22, 2021, UTC-5

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Compile is a myth. Magic

4:29 p.m. Feb 22, 2021, UTC-5

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People need to stop asking me to do things at 4:25. I have no energy at this time. Only death.

4:27 p.m. Feb 22, 2021, UTC-5

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Kafka’s *Metamorphosis* is one of those things that you read, the feel proud of yourself for reading, and then reference it and try to get

other people to read it because you want them to experience the same emotions; not because you actually like the book.

It’s like a tragedy that isn’t sad. It’s a weird book, not necessarily a good book.

1:49 p.m. Feb 22, 2021, UTC-5

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Rule

12:47 p.m. Feb 22, 2021, UTC-5

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I'm an escapist.

12:00 a.m. Feb 22, 2021, UTC-5

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All I want is an Etho video.

10:57 p.m. Feb 21, 2021, UTC-5

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Domesticated water was a mistake.

7:24 p.m. Feb 21, 2021, UTC-5

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“Good thing / it only takes a little faith / to move a mountain / because a little faith / is all I have”

-Even If, MercyMe

10:46 a.m. Feb 21, 2021, UTC-5

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Reading the man page for man

2:10 a.m. Feb 21, 2021, UTC-5

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I wonder if you could put mayonnaise on pizza. I feel like that would be really good.

12:57 p.m. Feb 20, 2021, UTC-5

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People will describe something as "fiction," and it's like a story about normal people. When I say fiction, I mean fantasy. Please.

10:43 a.m. Feb 19, 2021, UTC-5

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I decided it would be cool to destroy my sleep schedule, so here we are.

3:45 a.m. Feb 19, 2021, UTC-5

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I love Ben Burrill. 10/10. Easily my favorite KA programmer of all time.

var ast = win.esprima.parse(code);
win.walkAST(ast, null, [win.ASTTransforms.rewriteContextVariables("module_context", context)]);
return win.escodegen.generate(ast);

What does this mean? What does it do? Only Ben Burrill knows.

1:28 a.m. Feb 19, 2021, UTC-5

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"Something Wild," Lindsey Stirling (feat. Andrew McMahon In the Wilderness), is really good. Genre-wise it's probably folk,

I don't love folk, but there are some songs, like this one, that are very good.

11:27 p.m. Feb 18, 2021, UTC-5

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Discord is down, cloudflare.com is down, cloudflare stock ($NET) is down.

10:27 p.m. Feb 18, 2021, UTC-5

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Going to sleep

7:23 p.m. Feb 18, 2021, UTC-5

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KonurPapa low-key active in a Discord server.

1:50 p.m. Feb 18, 2021, UTC-5

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Clearing off my desktop.

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12:01 p.m. Feb 18, 2021, UTC-5

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"I'm trying too hard, but I can't not try"

-Way Less Sad, AJR

11:36 a.m. Feb 18, 2021, UTC-5

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"Linear Algebra is a state of mind."

9:59 a.m. Feb 18, 2021, UTC-5

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Incels, garbage. But every so often you run across a volcel. It's like striking gold.

I only pulled the good parts out of his 1000 word essay. Just kidding, it's almost all like this.

This is the only time I've ever cheated for a competitive website. Not that I expect anyone to believe that, but it's true. I don't even know what alcohol tastes like. I've never smoked and I've never done drugs. I'm a 30 year-old virgin. I've never even kissed a girl. I went all the way through college and graduated cum laude without cheating a single time... but I did cheat in a video game once :)

I only pointed out that I don't know what alcohol tastes like, never smoked, never had sex, etc. to show how horrible and out of character this was. I had never done anything of this evil magnitude before and I never will again.

Just one week before caivs discovered the splices, I had a dream where I took flight over a field. A creature ascended toward me from the nearby forest. As the creature approached, I looked at it and said:

"Ah, the antelope of death. It's because I cheated in Super Mario 64. This will need to be addressed soon."

[Forum archive](http://ethangaming.us/archives/sites/allegations.html) [Youtube](https://youtu.be/iL7sNPGKksc?t=345)

11:27 p.m. Feb 17, 2021, UTC-5

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Stress is a lifestyle, not a temporary state. It’s harder to escape.

4:42 p.m. Feb 17, 2021, UTC-5

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What the hell are the Brave fanboys drinking? Brave doesn't have any features that Vivaldi doesn't, but the Brave fanboys will not stop

telling me how great Brave is for its innovative amazing adblocker and it's ability to use Chrome extensions and its built in adblocker and its adblocker.

3:04 p.m. Feb 17, 2021, UTC-5

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I really need to start doing markdown rendering on the server. I don't know why I decided doing it client-side was a good idea.

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

12:47 a.m. Feb 17, 2021, UTC-5

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gemini://thoughts.learnerpages.com/media/d1112fa0-171e-421c-bb1f-5ecdff2c8f51.png

1:57 p.m. Feb 16, 2021, UTC-5

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Last night I decided to watch possibly the best sermon I've ever heard. I made it 25 minutes in before I started crying and had to stop.

Here's the sermon. Some parts of it are sad, but it's beautiful, not depressing. https://vimeo.com/groups/65464/videos/58318290

I'm not crying, you're crying. I need to go to bed. I start crying when I don't get enough sleep.

1:55 a.m. Feb 16, 2021, UTC-5

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This website's visual appearance is carrying, hard. It's the biggest advantage at this point.

1:28 a.m. Feb 16, 2021, UTC-5

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I browse Tumblr more than Instagram.

5:00 p.m. Feb 15, 2021, UTC-5

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It is difficult to relax. I fear that if I do I might fall down.

12:42 p.m. Feb 15, 2021, UTC-5

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'Two sparrows are sold for a penny, but not one will fall to the ground apart from the Father. You are more important than many sparrows.'

Paraphrase of Matthew 10:29,31

12:49 a.m. Feb 15, 2021, UTC-5

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I like to think I can handle the death of people, or the idea of my own eventual demise. But the death of an idea destroys me.

This needs elaboration and clarification in the future.

11:51 p.m. Feb 14, 2021, UTC-5

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“Getting lost is not always a bad thing. One might even consider misdirecting a stranger for his own good”

(Vladislavić 17)

11:28 p.m. Feb 14, 2021, UTC-5

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What's the point even of deleting old files if my computer doesn't play the satisfying *crinkle-whoosh* noise.

11:21 p.m. Feb 14, 2021, UTC-5

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Words https://sadoeuphemist.tumblr.com/post/615521935528460288/a-scorpion-being-unable-to-swim-asked-a-frog-to

12:03 a.m. Feb 14, 2021, UTC-5

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Honestly, I’ve been considering moving back to Twitter since I don’t think anyone reads this, but it’s just so perfect. The aesthetic.

5:57 p.m. Feb 13, 2021, UTC-5

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I want to go parties l, meet people, start a secret society, steal a shopping cart.

Shopping carts are way more expensive than they should be. I would legitimately pay like 40 dollars for a shopping cart, but they cost like $100! I can’t take it. A shopping cart is a bucket list item for me, as soon as I have a place large enough to store a shopping cart.

5:55 p.m. Feb 13, 2021, UTC-5

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"We don't need a sweatshirt. You're in San Diego and I'm in hell."

-[Jon Bois](https://youtu.be/4qKWMgs4HG4)

4:58 p.m. Feb 13, 2021, UTC-5

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I made the mistake of going downstairs with only 1 sweater. Needed to go back up and get a vest to put over it.

2:40 p.m. Feb 12, 2021, UTC-5

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`atan2` is beautiful; heck mathematicians who use arctan.

2:08 p.m. Feb 12, 2021, UTC-5

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I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you're using regular expressions in your Apache config files there's a 95% chance you're doing

something wrong.

2:00 p.m. Feb 12, 2021, UTC-5

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Shout out to multiplication for being communicative.

2:00 p.m. Feb 12, 2021, UTC-5

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Me, listening to "Victorious", Panic at the Disco, in 2021

1:04 p.m. Feb 12, 2021, UTC-5

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You cannot escape God.

12:33 a.m. Feb 12, 2021, UTC-5

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\*Wants muffins\*

\*Turns on oven\*

Crippling social anxiety: Your roommates will think you're weird for making muffins twice in one week.

You have a disgusting muffin addition. You'll start making muffins twice every week. All you'll eat is muffins. What kind of weird person eats 12 muffins a week.

\*Turns off oven.\*

2:20 p.m. Feb 11, 2021, UTC-5

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I feel like I have screamer death metal playing in the back of my head I'm trying to ignore it and drown it out with Fun.

1:40 p.m. Feb 11, 2021, UTC-5

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I want OK ORCHESTRA. I need OK ORCHESTRA.

1:18 p.m. Feb 11, 2021, UTC-5

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I understand so much. So many problems that I can't fix.

10:35 p.m. Feb 10, 2021, UTC-5

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Me, like, 'I'm in the mood for some rap,' listening to "Monster," Eminem, followed by "The Resistance," Josh Garrels.

5:57 p.m. Feb 10, 2021, UTC-5

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I am basically potato GLaDOS.

Smart, no energy, a potato.

9:34 a.m. Feb 09, 2021, UTC-5

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Re-downloaded Twitter.

Prompted mostly by Abigail leaving KACC.

10:05 p.m. Feb 08, 2021, UTC-5

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I ate 6 muffins in the last <24 hours

3:50 p.m. Feb 08, 2021, UTC-5

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Cold and tired, tired and cold.

3:50 p.m. Feb 08, 2021, UTC-5

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5 hours of sleep last night, no actual energy, just Starbursts and Saint Motel.

2:52 p.m. Feb 08, 2021, UTC-5

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"Married on a Hill" is so good it makes me want to find someone to run away and be alone with.

12:39 a.m. Feb 08, 2021, UTC-5

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Me, eating a "sharing size" bag of Starbursts alone in my room, hiding from my roommates.

5:38 p.m. Feb 07, 2021, UTC-5

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I don't know what scares me more. The idea that people read this website, or the idea that no one does.

11:44 p.m. Feb 06, 2021, UTC-5

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"Apple Music Connect" is a fricking throwback. My word. Is that still a thing?

11:09 p.m. Feb 06, 2021, UTC-5

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I don’t talk a lot.

5:15 p.m. Feb 06, 2021, UTC-5

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Ready to end homophobia so I can start making fun of gay people.

"Homosexuality is a mental illness," — insulting, unfunny, get blocked.

Whatever the hell this is: https://v.redd.it/a7b53q4ibpf61— funniest thing I've seen all week. I'm dying laughing.

11:57 a.m. Feb 06, 2021, UTC-5

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Please do not try to contact me.

Please contact me with any questions.

I just want to be alone.

I just want to avoid hurting anyone.

1:25 a.m. Feb 06, 2021, UTC-5

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It's insane the amount of nostalgia I get from making my bookmarks bar visible.

12:38 a.m. Feb 06, 2021, UTC-5

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Yo. 12.7% (percent of U.S. that's Black) of 365 is 46. Yet we only get 28 days for Black history month. Scam.

11:04 p.m. Feb 05, 2021, UTC-5

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3D printer ambient noise, 8/10

11:24 p.m. Feb 04, 2021, UTC-5

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I don't want to lay in my bed, but I end up laying in bed. I want to float through the sky or lay in a hammock or something.

9:04 p.m. Feb 04, 2021, UTC-5

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Didn't post here yesterday, ending a daily posting streak that goes back to September 13th, I think.

I'm okay with that. I'm pivoting a bit. I was stretching myself too thin. Too many hobbies meant I couldn't make progress on any of them. I had a moment yesterday when I was like 'I could post now just to get my daily post in,' and then was like 'nah, that's dumb, I don't want to force it.' Honestly, I considered moving back to Twitter for a minute. All I posted the 2nd was quotes from other people.

Ultimately, the point of this website is to store my thoughts. And my thoughts yesterday went other places than on this website, and that's okay. They got stored.

I'm going to say all this, and then post like 20 times every day for the next week, gosh frick.

12:47 a.m. Feb 04, 2021, UTC-5

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The Dymaxion Map might be my new favorite map projection. My old favorite map projection was "a globe, all map projections are bad".

12:40 a.m. Feb 04, 2021, UTC-5

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"I do find that I like to take points off for inappropriate choices"

4:47 p.m. Feb 02, 2021, UTC-5

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“I miss everyone and I still don’t call”

-Maybe IDK, Jon Bellion

12:30 a.m. Feb 02, 2021, UTC-5

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If you don't sell, then you haven't lost money. Hold GME!

1:27 p.m. Feb 01, 2021, UTC-5

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WSB right now is like

\> I did an analysis of the GME trading data from December and I think there are millions of counterfeit shares

\> I think I would enjoy this post if I could read

9:30 p.m. Jan 31, 2021, UTC-5

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My Discord username is Matthias. This person has the *nerve* DM me, "I assume your name is Matthew?" I feel attacked.

5:30 p.m. Jan 30, 2021, UTC-5

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I just finished binging the first 5 episodes of *Ted Lasso*. It’s so fricking good. I nearly cried.

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

3:25 a.m. Jan 30, 2021, UTC-5

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HELP. Someone made a comment about *Ted Lasso* carrying Apple TV+. That was an hour ago. I've watched the first 2 episodes.

12:54 a.m. Jan 30, 2021, UTC-5

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Today on, bad business ideas with Matthias, we will attempt to combine my newfound passion for zookeeping with stand up comedy.

Wait. Is this a circus?

11:33 p.m. Jan 29, 2021, UTC-5

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There are people warning against WallStreetBets, which is so funny to me. They're like, 'Remember, the Reddit users on WSB don't have your

best interests at heart.' And you read WSB, and it's like 'I like the stock. This is not investment advice. I am an ape with a keyboard. Everyone in this subreddit is a ****ing r*****.'

Like, if you open WSB, and decide that these are the types of people that seriously make good decisions, you are so unbelievably dumb. You don't deserve to manage stocks. Like, they're serious about it, but they're not trying to *fool* anyone that they know what they're doing.

Speaking of utterly idiotic stock plays, I bought GME at 413 the other day. (I wish this was a joke.) (I'm holding don't worry.) (You can't lose money if you never sell.)

Side note, WSB actually has content that is not suitable for minors. I found a post from a couple years ago where a literally bought a hooker and then took a picture of the naked hooker and posted it to WSB.

11:21 p.m. Jan 29, 2021, UTC-5

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Names that start with R. No, bad.

1:48 p.m. Jan 29, 2021, UTC-5

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I am going to be so fricking productive today you’re not going to believe it.

9:26 a.m. Jan 29, 2021, UTC-5

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Listening to half•alive is just a treat. Their music is just enjoyable to listen to.

9:26 a.m. Jan 29, 2021, UTC-5

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Baked cookies last night, they turned out terrible.

9:25 a.m. Jan 29, 2021, UTC-5

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I want cookies but I have to go downstairs and bake the cookies.

10:08 p.m. Jan 28, 2021, UTC-5

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I have a headache and I’m stressed and it’s painful.

12:18 a.m. Jan 28, 2021, UTC-5

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Bought in to GME at $283. What else can I say?

10:30 a.m. Jan 27, 2021, UTC-5

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I get all my investment information from Wikipedia.

4:02 p.m. Jan 26, 2021, UTC-5

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If work induces a nervous breakdown in me, can I bill for that time?

2:13 p.m. Jan 26, 2021, UTC-5

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I don't have a headache, I have like a full-body ache.

1:48 p.m. Jan 26, 2021, UTC-5

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"If you're new and you haven't subscribed, make sure you subscribe. And If you're not new and you've already subscribed, don't forget to

unsubscribe." -Gamerboy80

1:17 p.m. Jan 26, 2021, UTC-5

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Downloaded Carpet mod. 9/10, I love it.

11:21 p.m. Jan 25, 2021, UTC-5

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Just finished *Good Omens*. I gave it 3/5 stars. I took off a star for style, half a star for the ending, and half a star for blasphemy.

I've read only a short story by Pratchett, and *The Graveyard Book* by Gaiman.

My three critiques blend together. The style of the book is very erratic, it reads like a bunch of short stories concatenated. Like the whole book is introducing the characters, and building up to something, but it feels like nothing actually advances the plot. The characters have very little agency. The human characters are written as powerless and ignorant, and the supernatural characters are written as mysterious and vague. There's a lot of passive voice. The humor is fine, but far from the funniest thing I've read. If it's supposed to be a comedy, then that would explain why I didn't enjoy it.

It's definitely not boring. I understand why someone would like it a lot, or why it would receive critical acclaim. It does a lot of interesting things, ambitious things, and it pulls them off, for the most part. It just doesn't do the things that I would want it to do. The 4 horsemen are very well written; they're aloof, interesting, and terrifying. But they're not relatable, and I would prefer a book with relatable villains. The book is, in large part, written from the perspective of 2 side-characters. This is something most books don't do, because it's not easy. The problem here, is that the main (side) characters are well-developed and relatable, but they don't do anything. I don't care.

Without going into spoilers, the ending is anti-climactic. There's no final battle, everyone just kind of stands in a circle and half of them talk.

When *Good Omens* constantly refers to Christian terms ('angel', 'demon', etc), as well as the Bible, I end up with certain expectations. And the authors were constantly subverting those expectations. It just left me off guard for a majority of the book. They don't just re-define a few terms, they operate in a completely different system ('what if good wasn't actually good?!'), and it took me most of the book to realize that. It's not a whole-star issue, but it combines with the plot issue and the fact that the authors avoided saying anything outright.

It's a good book. And in some ways, the 3 stars doesn't reflect that. The 3 stars reflects my enjoyment of it. I wouldn't re-read it.

9:34 p.m. Jan 25, 2021, UTC-5

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I want muffin

7:50 p.m. Jan 25, 2021, UTC-5

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The problem is that it's really hard to code passionlessly

One of the most important parts of coding is knowing what you want. You have to know what you want before you can problem-solve to get there. But if you don't want anything, then you're done.

7:41 p.m. Jan 25, 2021, UTC-5

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Pumping Death Cab for Cutie into my head.

7:02 p.m. Jan 25, 2021, UTC-5

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My mind has demanded Chance the Rapper.

4:35 p.m. Jan 25, 2021, UTC-5

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I don't remember the last time anything that I tried to do was easy.

3:22 p.m. Jan 25, 2021, UTC-5

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The part of my brain that is a compulsive completion-ist really wants me to finish *Good Omens*, right now!

12:39 a.m. Jan 25, 2021, UTC-5

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I subscribed to Make It and Fake It for the electronics content, but she is low-key making me consider taking up sewing.

12:37 a.m. Jan 25, 2021, UTC-5

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Huh, last night before I went to bed, I thought, “I’m not going to post at all tomorrow.” And aside from the one post I made before going to

bed, but after midnight, I didn’t. But I didn’t remember that until just now. Weird.

Of course, the reason I wasn’t going to post was so that I could be productive, and that didn’t happen either lol

12:36 a.m. Jan 25, 2021, UTC-5

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My penny was minted in Denver

12:51 a.m. Jan 24, 2021, UTC-5

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Music from Half Alive, when?

11:59 p.m. Jan 23, 2021, UTC-5

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I feel like Tumblr users are neurodivergent, but aware of it, and are finding healthy coping mechanisms.

On the other hand, I don't think I would use the word "healthy" in the same sentence as Reddit or Twitter users.

11:55 p.m. Jan 23, 2021, UTC-5

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Reddit: 'Trump is evil and Biden will save us soon as he takes office'

Tumblr: *Straight anachronism*

9:51 p.m. Jan 23, 2021, UTC-5

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I believe in a God because when I look at the world, I see broken people. I see the brokenness of humanity so clearly that I have to believe

that it is possible for someone to be unbroken.

8:49 p.m. Jan 23, 2021, UTC-5

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"We must either love each other, or we must die." -L. B. Johnson

8:02 p.m. Jan 23, 2021, UTC-5

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I hold beliefs that are extremely controversial on Reddit, like, “Christianity and logical thinking are not incompatible.”

3:05 p.m. Jan 23, 2021, UTC-5

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“Johnny Boy” by Twenty One Pilots speaks to me, even though none of the individual lyrics would seem to describe me.

4:59 p.m. Jan 22, 2021, UTC-5

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Sometimes I am just really fricking not in the mood for Train.

4:50 p.m. Jan 22, 2021, UTC-5

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Screw it, I'm taking a nap. Who knows when I'll wake up

12:09 p.m. Jan 22, 2021, UTC-8

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I'm tired. All software is bad. On the inside I'm crying but on the outside I'm also crying.

12:08 p.m. Jan 22, 2021, UTC-8

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I only know how to do things with passion, and there's not enough passion for me to do all the things I should.

11:57 a.m. Jan 22, 2021, UTC-5

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Someone spelled out “monkaaw” in discord reactions and I’m struggling to parse.

8:54 a.m. Jan 22, 2021, UTC-5

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I’m just a screwed up person.

In 6th grade the Chinese teacher would give a piece of candy to the student that got there first. She had these Asian candies with edible rice-paper around them, and I ran to class every time because I really wanted one. I was never first, and the one time I was she didn’t have the candy, and gave me like a lollipop instead. And I hate myself for not making it to class faster. And I hate her for having such an arbitrary and dumb reward system.

I’m a screwed up person.

I can’t take it. I pick things to care about, like getting that candy, and if I fail, it just destroys me.

I say I’m not competitive, because I don’t have a lot of things that I care about winning. But if I try to win and I’m not good enough, that just destroys me.

I actually didn’t get to class first. I actually don’t deserve the candy. I’m actually not good enough.

I have absolutely no fear of losing. But the fear of not being good enough absolutely destroys me. It keeps me up at night, it paralyzes me to inaction during the day.

I don’t want to be a bad person. I DON’T WANT TO BE A BAD PERSON.

am I a bad person?*

Do I need to come to terms with the fact that I’m a bad person? Or do I need to come to terms with the fact that I’m not a bad person just because I make some mistakes?

1:40 a.m. Jan 22, 2021, UTC-5

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I need to find someone who doesn’t hurt my brain to talk to.

12:56 a.m. Jan 22, 2021, UTC-5

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I pronounce “pls” like “plez”

6:19 p.m. Jan 21, 2021, UTC-5

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Thinking about that time I was 18 and I said "what the hell" and my dad asked me not to curse.

3:54 p.m. Jan 21, 2021, UTC-5

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My friend was talking about how under appreciated *The Lorax* movie was, and how great a song “How Bad Can I Be?” was

And how weird it was was that everyone kind of forget about the movie.

And I sat there in silence, cursed by the knowledge of Onecest, *trying* to forget.

12:43 p.m. Jan 21, 2021, UTC-5

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Time, like myself, is an illusion.

12:22 a.m. Jan 21, 2021, UTC-5

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I've checked back in on Twitter once or twice. Man, it's pretty fricking bad.

Over here, no one can hear me scream1!!!!!!

11:52 p.m. Jan 20, 2021, UTC-5

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I don’t know how much more I can take.

11:16 p.m. Jan 20, 2021, UTC-5

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I'm cold.

And alone. The snow falls lazily outside. Snow hasn't been forecast since a week ago, but it comes anyways.

My mind taunts me with threats of something better.

I went to the store this morning and got food for the week.

I'm hungry.

The chill air keeps me on edge. Relaxation is a memory.

I still have to unpack, and to put in a load of laundry. I have the strength to do it, but I haven't yet.

I don't trust myself. I feel dirty.

The showerhead here is quite erratic. I would like to make a trip to the store to replace it, but someone took my car.

I can't leave.

I am, at least, awake.

1:19 p.m. Jan 20, 2021, UTC-5

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The problem with cult classics is that they’re not actually good.

If they were good they’d just be classics.

This is about the *Good Omens* book.

6:49 a.m. Jan 20, 2021, UTC-5

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Me, waking up 2 minutes before my alarm goes off.

6:31 a.m. Jan 20, 2021, UTC-5

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As is frequently the case, while I enjoy reading about new topics in *GEB*, things that I already know about are more enjoyable still.

With exception, of course—I have to skim some of his explanation of recursive programming.

But when he introduces Cage’s 4’33” without explaining it, I think I get more out of it than if I waited for the author to explain it in a couple of pages.

5:49 p.m. Jan 19, 2021, UTC-6

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The author of *GEB* describes a graph from his own PhD thesis as “a picture of God.”

An agnostic friend of mine once was so struck by Gplot’s infinitely many infinites that he called it “a picture of God”, which I don’t think is blasphemous at all.

- Gödel, Escher, Bach, p. 142

There’s too much here to unpack right now. But heck.

5:39 p.m. Jan 19, 2021, UTC-6

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I wish life was composed of more adjectives and fewer nouns.

9:40 a.m. Jan 19, 2021, UTC-8

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"u had a choice and you installed windows instead of gnu/linux"

8:15 a.m. Jan 19, 2021, UTC-8

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I just feel like humans have such a flawed understanding of the world and who we are.

12:17 a.m. Jan 19, 2021, UTC-8

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What the frick is with the serotonin hit that comes from receiving a text from someone.

10:45 p.m. Jan 18, 2021, UTC-8

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BILL WURTZ UPLOADED THIS IS NOT A DRILL. THE MUSIC IS 3D. https://youtu.be/zNTaVTMoNTk

4:05 p.m. Jan 18, 2021, UTC-8

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I'm starting an AJR cover band with myself as the lead singer don't at me

10:09 p.m. Jan 17, 2021, UTC-8

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It is 80° (not like right now obviously, but during the day). It is too hot to be outside unicycling.

1:01 a.m. Jan 17, 2021, UTC-8

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I would very much like to unicycle but the weather won’t let me.

1:00 a.m. Jan 17, 2021, UTC-8

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Life really is just improv comedy isn’t it

12:00 a.m. Jan 17, 2021, UTC-8

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I'm a little worried Disney doesn't understand how fricking cool Wanda Vision could/should be.

There's demand for those characters. But the show doesn't look good.

12:16 a.m. Jan 16, 2021, UTC-8

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Imagine, the KA hotlist, but it's only programs that have been hidden from the hotlist*

9:17 p.m. Jan 15, 2021, UTC-8

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"just install ubuntu, even people with 2 braincells can do it"

Someone needs to fricking drill into all the Linux users that a *nix shell is far from a universal experience.

9:16 p.m. Jan 15, 2021, UTC-8

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When do I get to stop playing bedwars?

3:15 p.m. Jan 15, 2021, UTC-8

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At first I was sketched out that this site was showing up in search results, but I kind of love the idea that someone Googles something and

my thought on it shows up.

10:48 a.m. Jan 15, 2021, UTC-8

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I’m just a big confused boy

10:14 a.m. Jan 15, 2021, UTC-8

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Wait I left Twitter and Bill Wurtz started Tweeting again, what is this?

"phone booths no longer have phones in them. now they are a blank canvas for the open minded adventurer"

11:55 p.m. Jan 14, 2021, UTC-8

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YouTube has figured out that can serve me like 240p video and I don’t really care.

10:47 p.m. Jan 14, 2021, UTC-8

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I’m glad to see towerofglass is posting content actively. Mostly VHS recordings, which is an amazing aesthetic.

1:35 p.m. Jan 14, 2021, UTC-8

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I saw a Tumblr post last night that was like ‘Does Kitchen Sink by Twenty One Pilots count as rap’ and I’m still laughing.

That’s what prompted the posts last night.

1:12 p.m. Jan 14, 2021, UTC-8

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Yeah fireball-jumping is cool, but have you tried fireball-holding-and-walking-off-the-edge?

10:11 a.m. Jan 14, 2021, UTC-8

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On the theme of unpublished music, “Married on a Hill” is so good. Amazing 😢. I’m so glad it showed up on the internet.

1:06 a.m. Jan 14, 2021, UTC-8

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Listening to “Kitchen Sink” and “Christmas Saves The Year.” We should be due for a TOP album this year, but this will work for now.

12:56 a.m. Jan 14, 2021, UTC-8

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Twenty One Pilots is an amazing band.

They should be underground, niche; they epitomizes the alternative rock sound. And yet they’ve done it so fricking well that they’re mainstream.

I have a model for thinking about mainstream vs. not, that I haven’t put into words yet, but TOP breaks it.

12:54 a.m. Jan 14, 2021, UTC-8

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I feel like a huge amount (maybe 20%?) is converting between declarative and imperative data (AKA `diff`ing)

9:23 p.m. Jan 13, 2021, UTC-8

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I'm working on a theory that my sanity is inversely correlated with the length of my hair. My hair is in my face and my sanity is thin.

4:12 p.m. Jan 13, 2021, UTC-8

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I have decided that I need to learn how to work passionlessly.

3:39 p.m. Jan 13, 2021, UTC-8

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I climbed some trees earlier today. Very fun, but also a workout.

9:34 p.m. Jan 12, 2021, UTC-8

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I finally got my McDonalds quarter pounder. It wasn’t even that good, but it was satisfying.

9:34 p.m. Jan 12, 2021, UTC-8

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I feel like animated adult shows are absolutely terrified of being classified as kids shows so they feel the need to be painfully explicit

in every episode.

1:21 p.m. Jan 12, 2021, UTC-8

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I can’t stand people whose old experience with satire is The Onion. The Onion did not invent satire. *Utopia*, Thomas More, was 1516

Also, I had to fix the spelling of More and look up the date, but I know *Utopia* was written by Thomas More, so I’m hoping that comes up in trivia at some point.

10:35 a.m. Jan 12, 2021, UTC-8

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I made it on top of the pergola. 9/10, very relaxing, highly recommend. A nice substitute for the roof.

2:45 p.m. Jan 11, 2021, UTC-8

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There are a number of concerns that haunt the mind of one such as myself.

2:44 p.m. Jan 11, 2021, UTC-8

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Me to my mutuals

gemini://thoughts.learnerpages.com/media/e67d959e-366f-400e-a074-93bc8c98afee.png

12:13 a.m. Jan 11, 2021, UTC-8

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Yeah KA Discord is cool, but have you tried KA Art of Problem Solving forum?

https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c1692098_the_khan_academy_forum

12:08 a.m. Jan 11, 2021, UTC-8

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BRB changing my name to Plornishmaroontigoonter

5:38 p.m. Jan 10, 2021, UTC-8

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I keep waiting for something to happen.

1:02 p.m. Jan 10, 2021, UTC-8

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Tumblr has disparaged California. CA truly is something else.

12:55 a.m. Jan 10, 2021, UTC-8

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I must share with you the information

12:54 a.m. Jan 10, 2021, UTC-8

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I just learned that "Istanbul (not Constantinople)" isn't originally a They Might Be Giants song, it's actually from 1953. I cannot process

12:07 a.m. Jan 10, 2021, UTC-8

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The nights are so lonely if I don’t talk to myself.

11:56 p.m. Jan 09, 2021, UTC-8

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"I have my rebuttal to the slime mold intercity rail proposal in the comments"

11:31 p.m. Jan 09, 2021, UTC-8

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People are all 'Chick-fil-A donated to "anti-LGBTQ" organizations' and you look into it and it's like, churches, that teach Christianity.

Fellowship of Christian Athletes, The Salvation Army, and Paul Anderson Youth Home, are the 3 Vox mentions. All 3 are Christian organizations, and all have expressed anti-LGBTQ beliefs. But they all have a mission statement that is not related to LBGTQ at all. They are charities which have a net-positive effect on the world, and yet refuse to hire members of the LBGTQ community. I initially read "anti-LGBTQ" as 'organizations that set out to hurt LGBTQ people' and so find these headlines to be very misleading.

(I am referring to the last 5 years. In 2012 Chick-fil-A also donated food to a marriage seminar with a homophobic agenda?. In 2010 the owner donated $1000 to a group that promotes gay conversion therapy. There are several other incidents related to discriminatory hiring or homophobic statements by employees/leadership. But nothing else I found about the organizations in question acting on a homophobic agenda.)

My conclusion here is not to defend Chick-fil-A. I'm trying to push back on statements calling for a boycott because of misconceptions about where Chick-fil-A's money goes. If Chick-fil-A was actively funding gay conversation therapy, I wouldn't eat there. But they're not.

Sources: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/3/21/18275850/chick-fil-a-anti-lgbtq-donations, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-salvation-armys-histo_b_4422938, https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/5/29/18644354/chick-fil-a-anti-gay-donations-homophobia-dan-cathy

11:23 p.m. Jan 09, 2021, UTC-8

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I need a Sherlock Holmes adaptation where Adler and Holmes curse each other out.

9:58 p.m. Jan 09, 2021, UTC-8

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One of these days I’m going to eat a cheeseburger.

1:18 p.m. Jan 09, 2021, UTC-8

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Every time I `apt-get upgrade` and there’s even a minor Python version bump I have to recompile mod_wsgi from source. Agahagahahah

1:11 p.m. Jan 09, 2021, UTC-8

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Really, this website is the only one that matches my aesthetic. Tumblr is too chaotic, Twitter is too passionate, Instagram to flashy.

Even this website seems a little too nice at time, too polished. I want a nice T-shirt-and-jeans-on-grass-under-the-sun website.

Twitter is like a promenade, either street performers or shops competing for your attention. Tumblr has been described as an abandoned clown factory. Instagram is like a beach: public, loud, bright.

Discord or The Linoleum Club (yet nonexistent) are like a bar, dark and loud but friendly. YouTube is a sports arena.

This website is my bed, my head, my thoughts.

10:45 p.m. Jan 08, 2021, UTC-8

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I don’t think there are any real people

3:43 p.m. Jan 08, 2021, UTC-8

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I read Mistborn (~700 pages) in about 9 hours of reading, about 19 hours after I started yesterday.

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.

3:10 p.m. Jan 08, 2021, UTC-8

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I’m okay.

Perhaps the greatest lie I tell myself is that I am a rational creature. I fundamentally operate off of urges, feelings.

2:31 p.m. Jan 08, 2021, UTC-8

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AAAHAAaaaahhhh I'm screaming inside. PureScript is another functional language that compiles to JavaScript

9:22 a.m. Jan 08, 2021, UTC-8

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The Barnes and Noble employee who commented, 'Oh my word, that's my favorite book' when I bought *Good Omens*.

5:58 p.m. Jan 07, 2021, UTC-8

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Thinking about how physical books still outsell ebooks. Digital has a long way to go as a medium.

The reMarkable tablet was very impressive because it *replicated* (for practical purposes) the feeling of writing on paper. But it still hasn’t surpassed paper.

3:39 p.m. Jan 07, 2021, UTC-8

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No, Luke, you can’t take away my mental health Rigby!

RIP Rigby, the best social media yet.

3:32 p.m. Jan 07, 2021, UTC-8

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To quickly recap some of my issues:

1. I know my problems are smaller than other people's; so I feel like it should be easy for me to deal with them.

2. I fault myself for having problems. Any problem (that was avoidable) also carries with it the weight of knowing that I wasn't good enough to avoid it.

3. I take criticism personally. Like 2, criticizing something I've made is both a criticism of the thing and a criticism of me, either that I haven't fixed it already or else that I wasn't smart enough to know that was a problem. (If I ask for criticism, I mean it. The biggest problem is when you criticize something I think is good. )

4. I'm a perfectionist. 1 problem is 1 problem too many.

As an example, I enjoy climbing. I bought climbing shoes, then scheduled myself to go climbing.

When the time came, I couldn't find my climbing shoes. ('I don't have my climbing shoes' is the first problem). Then I fault myself for losing them ('I lost my climbing shoes' is the second problem). I now feel the need to fix both of these problems, first finding the shoes and second ensuring I never lose the shoes again. Since I'm a perfectionist, I can't go climbing without my shoes. And I now have a systemic problem ('I lose things'). Combing that problem with my perfectionism means that (if I can't fix the systematic problem) I should never go climbing again (because I can't guarantee I won't lose the climbing gear). But wait, my brain can apply 2) to the systemic problem as well. I never should have bought the shoes in the first place. If I knew I was going to lose them, buying them would be a bad idea. And we can keep going. I should never buy anything again. I shouldn't go climbing. etc.

My brain does this all the fricking time. I hate it.

(I wrote this last night at the same time as everything else but didn't post it.)

2:08 p.m. Jan 07, 2021, UTC-8

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I posted 18 times yesterday. We’ll pass carlita_express in no time.

1:11 p.m. Jan 07, 2021, UTC-8

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All I want to do is sleep. And yet. I feel like there are other things to be done. Aw well

12:25 a.m. Jan 07, 2021, UTC-8

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I am slightly concerned about the magnitude of the site. It works well when it’s used like Twitter, being checked frequently, but I can

imagine that someone who hasn’t been here would be completely overwhelmed by the amount of content that’s built up. (Let me SSH in and count the number of Thoughts I’ve posted here so far.)

Huh, only 792. I expected more, but I guess my Twitter was only at a couple thousand. Okay, we have space.

11:47 p.m. Jan 06, 2021, UTC-8

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Can we take a moment to appreciate the code that I wrote for OurJSEditor to track a line and column number through the inverse of a find and

replace? It took like fricking 2 weeks. Amazing.

11:42 p.m. Jan 06, 2021, UTC-8

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What was beautiful about 2016 me_irl was that it was self referential, but wouldn’t reference the outside world.

This what a lot of surrealists miss. I want art that disassociates with reality, but associates with itself—creating its own reality.

11:40 p.m. Jan 06, 2021, UTC-8

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This is the only good website.

Honestly the amount of carthartic release I get from just thinking about the simple beauty of this young website would be difficult to understate.

I want to add things, make it better, but I’m scared of ruining the simplicity. (Rigby went downhill after markdown support was added, really.)

11:34 p.m. Jan 06, 2021, UTC-8

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PogChamp is canceled???

They canceled pogchamp*

11:28 p.m. Jan 06, 2021, UTC-8

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My vest gives me power.

11:24 p.m. Jan 06, 2021, UTC-8

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Yeah Tumblr’s good, but have you tried Tumblr with “#current events” blocked?

6:50 p.m. Jan 06, 2021, UTC-8

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It doesn't help that I am bad at taking jokes. Sometimes I say "I take everything literally." That's not perfectly true. Obviously, with

context I can tell a joke, (even if I'm worse at it then other people). But with exaggerations (things that aren't 100% joking) or certain contexts, I do horribly.

5:47 p.m. Jan 06, 2021, UTC-8

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My fourth problem is that I'm a perfectionist, and I feel the need to fix all of my problems at once.

I keep a list of all of the problems that I have or have ever had, in an attempt to avoid repeating them. But this means that it's very easy for me to get distracted with one problem when I should be focusing on another.

5:39 p.m. Jan 06, 2021, UTC-8

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My third problem is that I take criticism or requests as a fault of myself.

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'

5:39 p.m. Jan 06, 2021, UTC-8

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I can't work through my problems until I've justified to myself that I'm allowed to have problems.

Right now I'm in an absolutely trashy cycle where I have a problem (even super minor things), and then I fault myself for having the problem. So I now have 2 problems, the problem, and the fact that I'm a bad person who created the problem.

And I feel like I can't fix the problem until I can find out how to stop the problem from occurring again.

5:34 p.m. Jan 06, 2021, UTC-8

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I understand that my problems are smaller than other people's problems, or even smaller than problems I've faced in the past.

But that doesn't mean it's easy for me to deal with them. And it doesn't mean I have energy to deal with other people's problems.

5:31 p.m. Jan 06, 2021, UTC-8

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Like, Tumblr will have a bad take, but since there are actual words there, people can take the time to explain it. Someone on Twitter will

have a bad take and that's it. No explanation.

So then it lives in my head rent free until I can figure out what the hell the person's reasoning is.

This is one of my problems. Giving me an unfounded statement is like 8x worse than explaining yourself to me. I can handle not agreeing, but I cannot find closure in someone that I don't understand. I can't reject something until I understand it.

5:31 p.m. Jan 06, 2021, UTC-8

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Twitter is just Tumblr 5 years ago, that's fairly well established, but with the addition that everyone is cramming their takes into as few

characters as possible.

Tumblr, in the meantime, has settled, is less radical (or at least less aggressive) than Twitter or Tumblr 5 years ago.

5:23 p.m. Jan 06, 2021, UTC-8

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The libertarian in me is trying to find a way to blame all my problems on the government.

2:41 p.m. Jan 06, 2021, UTC-8

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I am going to aca-murder the next person who makes a portmanteau.

1:54 p.m. Jan 06, 2021, UTC-8

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Aaahahahahhhhhhahhhahahhahahahhahaahah

12:58 p.m. Jan 06, 2021, UTC-8

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My Twitter feed is telling me I’m an awful piece of **** person because I haven’t condemned the evil that is going on in Washington. I

don’t know what’s happening. There are no details, no facts, just judgment.

12:14 p.m. Jan 06, 2021, UTC-8

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“I sometimes think I could do crystal meth, but then I thing, hmm, better not”

9:40 p.m. Jan 05, 2021, UTC-8

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Forgetting to re-complie my Typescript, ah.

3:21 p.m. Jan 05, 2021, UTC-8

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Thinking about the "How to write an alt-J song" video

2:22 p.m. Jan 05, 2021, UTC-8

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A strictly-typed language, but it's possible to define fields that exist if and only if another field has a given value.

1:40 p.m. Jan 05, 2021, UTC-8

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Beautiful 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

12:07 p.m. Jan 05, 2021, UTC-8

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Also, CSS whole-page effects are laggy as heck, it will be beautiful

11:54 a.m. Jan 05, 2021, UTC-8

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I'm considering adding a flicker/blur affect to the whole site, *Gilded Dagger* style, to more accurately convey the mood I envision.

11:53 a.m. Jan 05, 2021, UTC-8

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No one checks the website anyways, right?

11:52 a.m. Jan 05, 2021, UTC-8

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I don’t know what I was thinking last night. Don’t read into it.

8:42 a.m. Jan 05, 2021, UTC-8

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I feel like I can’t say stuff like I did in the last Thought because of who I am. I’m sorry. I just want to be loved. I’ll probably shut

down this website or something dumb in the morning. I don’t know who I am. Pray for me.

12:08 a.m. Jan 05, 2021, UTC-8

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Feminists really be confused when men get offended by “all men are trash.” Like?

‘Obviously not all men are trash. It means that the patriarchy is bad’

Okay, can you say that? Because that’s not what you said. Sorry for assuming you meant what you said.

I don’t give anyone else slack for this either. I take things literally. I will say what I mean.

And people, especially leftists on the internet, *constantly* employ rhetoric which trips me up.

It makes me angry. I want to have a discussion, to understand you, and I’m having to work in order to tear through the rhetoric to what you actually mean.

“Eat the rich” is another example. Attacks on “the 1%.” These are not thought through, or else not meant to be taken literally. I had to ask a friend IRL if people were legitimately pushing for a violent revolution. (The vast majority of people, even on the internet, are not, to my knowledge. “Eat the rich” is a comment on the problems with wealth inequality, not a cry to actually eat people. “The 1%” I don’t think means 3,000,000 people, but views vary.)

I’ve been accused before of being autistic, because I have a fixation with the literal meaning of words. And I’ve commented before how much I struggle with taking general insults personally. It makes me emotional. Say what you mean, and if you happen to insult a group that I’m a part of, don’t be surprised when I take it personally. Be ready to say it to my face. I want everyone to like me and if I have a behavior I need to change, let me know. Don’t insult half the population. I’m not a feminist.

11:49 p.m. Jan 04, 2021, UTC-8

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Linux users are weird

1:33 p.m. Jan 04, 2021, UTC-8

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Blaze and Photonic Symmetry are talking in KACC and it makes me so happy. They met on KA in ~2015.

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

9:35 a.m. Jan 04, 2021, UTC-8

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“opera browers we are working very website to all we know”

8:42 p.m. Jan 03, 2021, UTC-8

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I’m holding out for an AI girlfriend.

8:41 p.m. Jan 03, 2021, UTC-8

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I have like 8 projects going on at once here, it's painful.

12:26 p.m. Jan 03, 2021, UTC-8

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The straights are not okay. I am not okay.

12:26 p.m. Jan 03, 2021, UTC-8

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I want to add like 4 more pages to this site but I can't fit more links across the top on mobile. Heck mobile design

11:39 a.m. Jan 03, 2021, UTC-8

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I've really enjoyed using Rectangle. It still sounds dumb to me, none of the things it does are things I would say I want, and yet, I do.

4:54 p.m. Jan 02, 2021, UTC-8

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Mojang patches AFK fish farms. Earthcomputer, Cortex, PseudoGravity create a client-side mod that cracks fishing RNG.

AKF farms let you automatically get all fishing loot if you wait long enough.

Cracking the RNG lets you just pick whatever loot you want and then get it. It does require client-side hacks. But it likely wouldn't have been worked out if Mojang had left normal AFK farms in the game.

11:20 a.m. Jan 02, 2021, UTC-8

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Why don’t seagulls fly over bays?

Because then they’d be bagels.

10:22 a.m. Jan 02, 2021, UTC-8

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https://discord.gg/e6C8qmazWM

11:39 p.m. Jan 01, 2021, UTC-8

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"I got a spleen. Anyone want to buy? :) xD"

-Ethan

10:59 p.m. Jan 01, 2021, UTC-8

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Considering referring to myself exclusively in the third person.

10:37 p.m. Jan 01, 2021, UTC-8

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I’ve decided, for 2021, we’re going back to Jars of Clay.

12:37 a.m. Jan 01, 2021, UTC-8

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Happy 2021 everyone!

Except 1 person, you know who you are.

(Jk)

12:02 a.m. Jan 01, 2021, UTC-8

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One of my favorite tropes is the assassin that says they’re an assassin because no one will believe them. Quality.

9:51 p.m. Dec 31, 2020, UTC-8

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Imagine a piece of pizza but the crust is on one of the sides instead of the top.

5:52 p.m. Dec 31, 2020, UTC-8

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I would very much appreciate an Etho video around now

10:35 a.m. Dec 30, 2020, UTC-8

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If I do stuff with urgency than it’s stressful. If I don’t do anything than it’s a waste of time. I don’t know how to be productive at a

moderate pace.

10:35 a.m. Dec 30, 2020, UTC-8

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Zoom updated their web client so you can actually see other people (instead of just the person talking). 10/10

No reason to download the native app now, get hecked.

9:32 a.m. Dec 30, 2020, UTC-8

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Watched Wonder Woman 1984 tonight. Thoughts below the fold. (Mild spoilers)

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.

12:31 a.m. Dec 30, 2020, UTC-8

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Tumblr ads trying to convince me I have Crohn’s disease.

11:11 p.m. Dec 29, 2020, UTC-8

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Not reading the BlueStacks license, probably violating it, who knows

12:57 p.m. Dec 29, 2020, UTC-8

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My computer can't restart. I restart it, it logs out, giving a black screen, and then hangs there.

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."

12:15 p.m. Dec 29, 2020, UTC-8

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Drugs

3:25 p.m. Dec 28, 2020, UTC-8

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You don't understand how high quality William Osman used to be. He used to be a maker channel. He used to make things. It's okay though I

now have [Make it and Fake it](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3L9AcM6TxfLjpr6YzVVp8Q) and [Ian Charnas](https://www.youtube.com/user/iancharnas) so I'm surviving.

3:02 p.m. Dec 28, 2020, UTC-8

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Tag yourself I'm "An oasis in a desert starved of quality"

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1:42 p.m. Dec 28, 2020, UTC-8

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Tempted to walk outside in the rain and just get absolutely soaked

1:32 p.m. Dec 28, 2020, UTC-8

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I know I’ve said this before, but man, the first half of “Dreams & Boxes” is so good.

12:31 a.m. Dec 28, 2020, UTC-8

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Another Matt Parker video, featuring Eugénie.

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.

12:57 p.m. Dec 27, 2020, UTC-8

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Thinking about The Linoleum Club.

10:25 a.m. Dec 27, 2020, UTC-8

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I feel like a nomad

10:00 p.m. Dec 26, 2020, UTC-8

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It’s 2020, why do I still have to tie my shoes? Why isn’t Velcro mainstream? Why isn’t there something better?

9:36 p.m. Dec 26, 2020, UTC-8

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If *GEB* passes the Bechdel test, I quit. If *GEB* does not pass the Bechdel test, I will never quit.

9:23 p.m. Dec 26, 2020, UTC-8

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How are people supposed to know I’m smart if I don’t carry around a copy of GEB?

6:33 p.m. Dec 26, 2020, UTC-5

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I can’t believe toml exists. 2/10

4:26 p.m. Dec 26, 2020, UTC-5

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s/plain/plane/g

3:42 p.m. Dec 26, 2020, UTC-5

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I operate in a heightened plain of existence that you can only dream of.

This comes off super elitist if you take it seriously. I recommend imagining me asleep, slurring my words, muttering about other plains of existence.

3:24 p.m. Dec 26, 2020, UTC-5

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Much in the same way that a fish writhes, I writhe in time.

2:39 p.m. Dec 26, 2020, UTC-5

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Me, who has never been in nor had any desire to participate in theater, crying, “I really really really really want to show you my play!”

1:09 p.m. Dec 26, 2020, UTC-5

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Might start believing in Santa again idk

12:20 p.m. Dec 26, 2020, UTC-5

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Why can’t I get me a girl who plays chess against herself in public like the love interest in the 2010 music video

for AJR’s Go On Take a Chance?

1:22 a.m. Dec 26, 2020, UTC-5

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Listened to Student Loans again. Man. I regret it.

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

1:19 a.m. Dec 26, 2020, UTC-5

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If random Repl.it coder adds entities to Minecraft I will shut down OurJSEditor.

12:44 a.m. Dec 26, 2020, UTC-5

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Oh the yearning in my heart for IntelliJ IDEA

6:51 p.m. Dec 25, 2020, UTC-5

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Just unwrapped a copy of GEB, get hyped!

Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid* is a fricking meme of a book. You have to be such an iconic type of nerd in order to read it. I once said that I wanted to talk to the type of people who have read it, and now I could become one of those people.

Unfortunately, it’s 700 pages of non-fiction so I’m not super optimistic about finishing it.

I opened to a random page and it was talking about my favorite artist, Rene Magritte!

4:08 p.m. Dec 25, 2020, UTC-5

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I got a new Apple Watch for Christmas and I’m still playing with it. Hours of entertainment

2:45 p.m. Dec 25, 2020, UTC-5

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Merry Christmas!

Remember that time a couple thousand years ago when the God if the universe was born as a human, that was pretty cool.

9:23 a.m. Dec 25, 2020, UTC-5

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Carcinization gets a Wikipedia page and you’ll can’t stop yourself from acting like it’s the most important thing in the world.

9:54 p.m. Dec 24, 2020, UTC-5

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“But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler

in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.”

‭‭Micah‬ ‭5:2‬ ‭ESV‬‬

“But you, Bethlehem, David’s country, the runt of the litter—From you will come the leader who will shepherd-rule Israel. He’ll be no upstart, no pretender. His family tree is ancient and distinguished. Meanwhile, Israel will be in foster homes until the birth pangs are over and the child is born, And the scattered brothers come back home to the family of Israel. He will stand tall in his shepherd-rule by GOD’s strength, centered in the majesty of GOD-Revealed. And the people will have a good and safe home, for the whole world will hold him in respect—Peacemaker of the world!”

‭‭Micah‬ ‭5:2-4‬ ‭MSG‬‬

9:42 p.m. Dec 24, 2020, UTC-5

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Humans spend a lot of time in cloth

9:34 p.m. Dec 24, 2020, UTC-5

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I wish I were alone

7:17 p.m. Dec 24, 2020, UTC-5

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I'm chuckling at the RayWorks ban evidence PDF. He's so stressed. The man has no chill. He's inventing problems and then blaming others.

Reminds me of KAD honestly

10:55 a.m. Dec 24, 2020, UTC-5

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RaysWorks was banned from Prototech awdjnkbwqkhd

Makes me respect Prototech so much more to know that they care about their image. SciCraft's dominance as the technical Minecraft server is being questioned. Proto and Hakate are in a position to do much cooler things. Ray feels like he's playing catch-up

10:38 a.m. Dec 24, 2020, UTC-5

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What a bad idea this was

7:16 a.m. Dec 24, 2020, UTC-5

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I have a *bad* idea for a social network.

2:12 a.m. Dec 24, 2020, UTC-5

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Who puts the peas in the pea pods?

6:41 p.m. Dec 23, 2020, UTC-5

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I am declaring TLS Day over!

All my maintained sites are now using TLS. I have several sites that I need to go back and update with TLS as well as other things, but that will have to wait.

3:31 p.m. Dec 23, 2020, UTC-5

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Who would have guessed that reading the Apache docs are actually helpful?

1:57 p.m. Dec 23, 2020, UTC-5

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Yeah so no one knows how to calculate the height of a table with percentage values. It's just not specified in the spec. Thanks :/

12:59 p.m. Dec 23, 2020, UTC-5

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I would not be surprised if, in the future, it becomes customary to shave one’s head in order to wear a hat/wig all the time.

12:02 p.m. Dec 23, 2020, UTC-5

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slep now

2:26 a.m. Dec 23, 2020, UTC-5

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✨ is overused. It shall now be scorned.

7:09 p.m. Dec 22, 2020, UTC-5

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Happy Tuesday!

12:57 p.m. Dec 22, 2020, UTC-5

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We're SSL, baby!

12:51 p.m. Dec 22, 2020, UTC-5

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Having to stop myself from listening to the 3 *OK ORCHESTRA* songs on repeat because they're too hype for the current vibe.

12:23 p.m. Dec 22, 2020, UTC-5

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"My Play" is beautiful.

It's like Legos but better. I said previously I didn't expect AJR to do anything radically different on this album, and while they haven't, "My Play" is definitely different enough to keep it interesting. The hype for the album has increased!

Also yes I forgot to listen to it until now I'm 15 minutes late, fake fan, rip

12:17 p.m. Dec 22, 2020, UTC-5

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Me watching the clock waiting for My Play. Less than an hour to go

11:04 a.m. Dec 22, 2020, UTC-5

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Okay, we’re back up awdklanwdajdn

I restarted mysql

6:47 p.m. Dec 21, 2020, UTC-5

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I recompiled mod_wsgi from source and it fixed it.

Sic no it didn’t

OurJSEditor is still down. I’m getting no error messages anywhere I have no idea what’s wrong.

6:47 p.m. Dec 21, 2020, UTC-5

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I hate apache config files. I changed literally nothing and now every website I’m hosting is giving a 500 error and there are no errors in

the Apache logs.

This is from earlier, since this site was down as well*

6:46 p.m. Dec 21, 2020, UTC-5

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The amount of imperfection in the world is absolutely staggering. Nothing is good.

4:25 p.m. Dec 21, 2020, UTC-5

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A friend that I follow who normally posts about his music and skateboarding just causally posted a picture of a terminal with a filter. My

first thought was that he snagged a generic terminal output and had put work into editing it, but it was a standard Instagram filter and his name was the username in the image. So it looks like he was legitimately trying to set up SSH keys with a Ubuntu remote sever (and struggling with it). Welcome to the Linux club, free as in freedom.

11:17 a.m. Dec 21, 2020, UTC-5

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Microwave oven with a front disguised as a etch-a-sketch

12:50 a.m. Dec 21, 2020, UTC-5

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If I had a dollar for every fricking pastbin website I'd have at least $20, my word.

10:46 p.m. Dec 20, 2020, UTC-5

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50 minute Etho!

4:41 p.m. Dec 20, 2020, UTC-5

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“I still feel alive”

-still feel., half•alive

1:45 a.m. Dec 20, 2020, UTC-5

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*My 2020 Music Roundup!***

I did replay.music.apple.com but that measures total play time so it under-represents bands that I learned about in the middle of the year. And those bands are the bands I think of as defining the year.

So here we go, Matthias’s top 5 bands of 2020:

1. AJR

2. Jon Bellion

3. Saint Motel

4. half•alive

5. The Regrettes

Last year I posted 15 bands. I listed to a similar amount of music this year, this list is just trimmed because there were only a few artists that defined this year. Some of the ones from last year feel stale now.

4:37 p.m. Dec 19, 2020, UTC-5

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I found another person who likes Wilderness Survival. It's too late, they're mainstream, time to jump ship.

4:18 p.m. Dec 19, 2020, UTC-5

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Just FYI, we're going to force-of-will 2021 to be better than 2020.

2:54 p.m. Dec 19, 2020, UTC-5

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I want to go to Zanzibar.

2:22 p.m. Dec 19, 2020, UTC-5

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Artists have it so easy. They put work into art and their feedback is all, ‘that’s amazing’ and ‘good job.’ I put work into a program, to

get feedback like “There are so many ways we could make this more fun” and ‘doesn’t even support mobile’ and *silence*.

I guess that’s the curse of making things that are actually useful as opposed to just wall decoration.

12:01 p.m. Dec 19, 2020, UTC-5

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American Girl Doll movie memes are an untapped market. Invest now

9:52 a.m. Dec 19, 2020, UTC-5

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The KA Hearth is a complete failure. No one has the attention span to read anything longer than a Discord message these days.

9:32 a.m. Dec 19, 2020, UTC-5

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All people want to do is tell me that I'm wrong. Like I get it. I'm dumb, you're smarter than me.

You know more about the KA API than I do. You know how the internet works and I don't. And KA's processing-js finally has it's source available. And OurJSEditor looks ugly as hell and I'm not managing it right.

11:49 p.m. Dec 18, 2020, UTC-5

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No one uses F#

Dark moved from OCaml to F#, citing that the OCaml community was too small and that the F# community felt huge. So I'm like, okay, I can find resources for F# and I start looking, "libsodium f sharp" and nothing's coming up and I'm like, clearly I don't understand how to refer to this language. Is it "f#" or "fsharp" or "fs" or something else. But I think no, there's just actually no resources on it

11:45 p.m. Dec 18, 2020, UTC-5

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Why has no one implemented ed25519 in Haskell?

9:18 p.m. Dec 18, 2020, UTC-5

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I have the attention span of a fly

6:23 p.m. Dec 18, 2020, UTC-5

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Announced OJSE 1.2 today. Not that that means anything, we’re just chilling.

5:23 p.m. Dec 18, 2020, UTC-5

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"i'm just a neural network that continuously generates js one liners 24/7"

-Raumaan

2:22 p.m. Dec 18, 2020, UTC-5

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AHAHAHAHAHAAAHAAHHA! Browser compatibility bugs!!!!!!

What the hell. It's 2020. Why is my website doing different things in different browsers. I'm using vanilla HTML, CSS, and ES5 Javascript. I'm using features that are available in IE, not css grid layouts or next gen custom HTML elements. Chrome and Firefox can't agree on how to render a table. This should not be painful. This literally renders differently in Chrome and Firefox:

<table style="height: 1px;">
    <tbody>
        <tr style="height: 200px;">
            <td>
                <div style="height: 100%; border: solid;">
                    This renders differently in Chrome and Firefox.
                </div>
            </td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

I reported a bug to someone on the internet, probably going to get roasted because I reported it in the wrong place or something.

10:22 p.m. Dec 17, 2020, UTC-5

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If I pretend to be a person well enough they may let me actually be one some day.

8:43 p.m. Dec 17, 2020, UTC-5

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There's a huge difference between ugly code that lets you write clean code later, and ugly code that forces you to write ugly code later.

3:50 p.m. Dec 17, 2020, UTC-5

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Okay, but why is Github's dark theme bad?

2:14 p.m. Dec 17, 2020, UTC-5

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I’ll admit, I wasn’t a fan of Dream ever since he click-baited Notch and then plugged Notch’s Twitter, when Notch is known to be

questionable* on Twitter. (Things he has posted have been described as transphobic or sexist. However, he is far from the worst offender on the platform.)

Some people have called for boycotting Minecraft or pretending Minecraft was made by someone else. I wouldn’t go that far; I do respect Notch as a game developer. But I don’t agree with his Twitter, and I wouldn’t link to it with a target audience of children.

So when Dream did that, and didn’t to my knowledge face any backlash for it, I was taken aback. That seems like a bigger deal in some ways then cheating for a 5th place leaderboard spot.

(Remember, this is a Thought, not a judgement or a thesis or my only thought.)

5:02 p.m. Dec 16, 2020, UTC-5

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If, on the other hand, none of my posts make sense, then that is likely because you are in the wrong timeline, in which case I can only say,

good luck.

1:04 p.m. Dec 16, 2020, UTC-5

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"i vote laminated paper because i'm a turtle"

10:42 a.m. Dec 16, 2020, UTC-5

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TIL that studies have been inconclusive in attempting to prove that I am anything more than a figment of your imagination.

10:37 a.m. Dec 16, 2020, UTC-5

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My apologies if some of the posts on here don’t make any sense. Sometimes I forget to switch phones when traveling between timelines and I

haven’t added the ability to delete or edit posts yet.

10:32 a.m. Dec 16, 2020, UTC-5

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My head is like fricking 23 inches

2:15 a.m. Dec 16, 2020, UTC-5

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I have negotiated with Santa and he has refused to give me more time.

12:28 a.m. Dec 16, 2020, UTC-5

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All I want for Christmas is more time.

4:02 p.m. Dec 15, 2020, UTC-5

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I think my jaw is broken

7:43 a.m. Dec 15, 2020, UTC-5

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Brb, legally changing my name to Rene.

12:47 a.m. Dec 15, 2020, UTC-5

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It's wild how I still haven't met anyone who wants to be bad.

11:02 p.m. Dec 14, 2020, UTC-5

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I think I might have ADHD.

I mean, I don't know what ADHD is. I don't have trouble focusing, focusing just feels weird.

3:16 p.m. Dec 14, 2020, UTC-5

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*I wish I was a child again**

2:48 p.m. Dec 14, 2020, UTC-5

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Fusion 360 is bad. SolidWorks is bad. All CAD programs except for my yet unreleased CAD program are bad.

By "yet unreleased" I mean "imaginary hypothetical"

1:40 a.m. Dec 14, 2020, UTC-5

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We're on Python 3.9.1, almost to Python 4.

What's semver, never heard of her

10:26 p.m. Dec 13, 2020, UTC-5

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F tier date formatting

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5:15 p.m. Dec 13, 2020, UTC-5

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Grant Sanderson uses Julia. Languages to learn as soon as possible!

7:59 a.m. Dec 13, 2020, UTC-5

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Had a dream Pamela joined OJSE.

Also, I just woke up. I guess this is what happens when I go to bed at 10pm.

5:13 a.m. Dec 13, 2020, UTC-5

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Can you imagine if getting in bed was hard? I’m glad I just kind of have to flop down onto it and close my eyes.

10:08 p.m. Dec 12, 2020, UTC-5

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We’re going to run out of fish!

5:33 p.m. Dec 12, 2020, UTC-5

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All these "open-source" programs with like 18 terms for distribution. Public domain your code, or leave.

4:06 p.m. Dec 12, 2020, UTC-5

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"Bummerland" is a great song because you can listen to it when you're happy or sad, it has a very broad spectrum of emotions.

3:54 p.m. Dec 12, 2020, UTC-5

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I literally just found out T Swift released a second album this year, I'm great at following pop culture, 10/10.

2:14 p.m. Dec 12, 2020, UTC-5

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I want to sit in a puddle of hot oil

6:08 p.m. Dec 11, 2020, UTC-5

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Liberals be like "I'm not a tankie by any means but i've yet to see substantial proof" that the CCP uses wide scale forced labor.

The full exchange (didn't fit in the first line):

"the Chinese Communist Party is holding Uyghurs in concentration camps.”

"I’m not a tankie by any means but i’ve yet to see substantial proof that this is happening on as wide a scale as claimed from a source that isnt Adrian Zenz"

Like, okay, they're only using a little bit of forced labor? Oh, they shut down the re-educations camps when they claimed they did in 2019? You can claim that this is a conspiracy theory by the western media to promote capitalism, but I think that makes you a tankie.

12:35 a.m. Dec 11, 2020, UTC-5

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I found a keyboard shortcut to launch Stickies.app

9:49 p.m. Dec 10, 2020, UTC-5

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The funny thing about Sci hub (and other forms of piracy) is that I have access to those papers, or could pay for them. But Sci Hub is so

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.)

9:48 p.m. Dec 10, 2020, UTC-5

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What the heck? Tubbo is playing Minecraft to 80k viewers on Twitch. Jack Septic Eye has 15k viewers playing Cyberpunk

4:15 p.m. Dec 10, 2020, UTC-5

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Hmmm

This was super easy to do because of Safari's support for WebEx and the `xcrun safari-web-extension-converter` tool. Unfortunately, signing and distributing a Safari extension is still $100/year. Also, Safair runs *super* slowly with it installed, although I'm not sure why.

gemini://thoughts.learnerpages.com/media/adb787c8-a15c-45d0-b106-9eebf05a0bbf.png

2:31 p.m. Dec 10, 2020, UTC-5

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My solution for AoC day 7 part 1: #tw Javascript

Definitely a trickier one. At this rate, we'll be doing machine learning by the end of the month.

const input = document.body.textContent;
const bagTypes = {};
for (let line of input.split("\n").filter(l => l.length)) {
    let [_, color] = /^([a-z ]+?) bags/.exec(line);
    const bag = {color, canContain: []};
    for (let canContain of line.matchAll(/(\d+) ([a-z ]+) bags?[,.](?: |$)/g)) {
        let [_, count,  subColor] = canContain;
        bag.canContain.push({count, color: subColor});
    }
    bagTypes[color] = bag;
}
function canHoldGold(bag) {
    for (let content of bag.canContain) {
        if (content.color === "shiny gold") {
            // Then we can, base case
            return true;
        }
        //Otherwise, we need to check if any of this bag's sub-bags can
        if (canHoldGold(bagTypes[content.color])) {
            return true;
        }
    }
    //If none of them can,
    return false;
}
console.log("Part 1: ", Object.keys(bagTypes).filter(bagType => canHoldGold(bagTypes[bagType])).length)
function countSubBags(bag) {
    let total = 0;
    for (let canContain of bag.canContain) {
        total += parseInt(canContain.count, 10);
        //Plus all the bags those have to contain.
        total += parseInt(canContain.count, 10) * countSubBags(bagTypes[canContain.color]);
    }
    return total;
}
console.log("Part 2: ", countSubBags(bagTypes["shiny gold"]));

12:59 a.m. Dec 10, 2020, UTC-5

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I have been informed that I am, in fact, not a goose.

9:31 p.m. Dec 09, 2020, UTC-5

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The more I think about it, the more I become convinced that the human brain's conception of time is not universal.

2:11 a.m. Dec 09, 2020, UTC-5

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I realize that my plans of dedicating my life to streaming Cyberpunk 2077 are problematic for a couple of reasons:

I don't own Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 isn't publicly available

I don't know if I own hardware that is capable of running Cyberpunk 2077

However!

I do own Minecraft, so I for the time being I will be dedicating my life to playing that.

2:24 p.m. Dec 08, 2020, UTC-5

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I would like a Matthias-sized cardboard box to sit in.

2:15 p.m. Dec 08, 2020, UTC-5

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What about geese?

Am I a geese?

2:10 p.m. Dec 08, 2020, UTC-5

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It is the time for the pain.

7:48 a.m. Dec 08, 2020, UTC-5

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Jon Bellion > Billy Joel. I was born in le right generation

12:07 a.m. Dec 08, 2020, UTC-5

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I am living in a reality

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

12:04 a.m. Dec 08, 2020, UTC-5

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“Actually, it's scientifically proven that bigger brains are dumber 😉”

11:31 p.m. Dec 07, 2020, UTC-5

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WHY AM I SO BAD AT WRITING

11:01 p.m. Dec 07, 2020, UTC-5

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Welcome to the hour of heck.

10:27 p.m. Dec 07, 2020, UTC-5

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Okay so Gaud wrote a Tony the Tiger x Grinch fanfic, and while I can handle that it exists, I hate that it is good. Like quality writing.

Better than some books that I’ve read.

https://biggest-gaudiest-patronuses.tumblr.com/post/636714357200470016/biggest-gaudiest-patronuses

7:53 p.m. Dec 07, 2020, UTC-5

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I do not control the speed at which I juggle

4:40 p.m. Dec 07, 2020, UTC-5

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You have to be gentle with things that are delicate.

Sorry for spamming here I need a mental outlet right now. Post button goes post post post

4:32 p.m. Dec 07, 2020, UTC-5

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I can play, at most, 20 notes on the piano.

4:30 p.m. Dec 07, 2020, UTC-5

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"It was never enough. He just needed saving from himself."

-Cautionary Tales, Jon Bellion

4:26 p.m. Dec 07, 2020, UTC-5

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I want to be crushed.

"But people who have been flattened by the earth still live."

We cannot start over.

4:16 p.m. Dec 07, 2020, UTC-5

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Thinking about buying Cyberpunk and wasting the entire rest of my life playing it. Just 70 hours a week for the next 20 years.

4:13 p.m. Dec 07, 2020, UTC-5

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Take me home.

2:59 p.m. Dec 07, 2020, UTC-5

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I can only handle small problems.

2:54 p.m. Dec 07, 2020, UTC-5

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Too much to think and I can't do it all at the same time.

2:43 p.m. Dec 07, 2020, UTC-5

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I need a way to parallelize my thoughts.

2:43 p.m. Dec 07, 2020, UTC-5

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"u have no idea how much i would love to default to Linux...

1) i cant use any of the major antivirus software on linux."

2:41 p.m. Dec 07, 2020, UTC-5

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I have no concept of the date. It feels like Dec 10th or 13th maybe.

2:29 p.m. Dec 07, 2020, UTC-5

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It's such a bummer to me that Tom Scott deleted his "meme-based, gamer-adjacent culture" thread. It would have been such a good copypasta

Tom had the awareness to delete it like 2 hours after it was posted, before it became a meme. He evidently has some sense, but also, how do you post that in the first place? Maybe he was super specifically talking about the "gamersriseup" culture, but it would have behooved him to specify that, rather than tossing all "memes about video games" under the bus.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tom-scott-i-am-at-x

6:22 p.m. Dec 06, 2020, UTC-5

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I own an umbrella, as if I'm going to leave the house.

6:02 p.m. Dec 06, 2020, UTC-5

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Frick I forgot yesterday's advent of code!

1:42 a.m. Dec 06, 2020, UTC-5

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The problem with adults is that they’re scared of falling down.

Children possess the ability to embrace the ground.

4:26 p.m. Dec 05, 2020, UTC-5

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OurJSEditor logs record access from the User Agent "Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0" I'm scared.

12:40 a.m. Dec 05, 2020, UTC-5

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Why do I have things to do that don’t involve lying in bed?

8:51 p.m. Dec 04, 2020, UTC-5

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The world is divided into 2 types of people. "Folx" and "cismen"

I cannot describe how seriously and in how formal of a context, the "folx" vs. "cismen" distinction is being made.

2:11 a.m. Dec 04, 2020, UTC-5

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I give the collapse of society another generation.

Maybe 2.

In particular, what I'm predicting is a dramatic crash in the amount of work humans are doing. I have the distinct impression that human beings are doing more work than we need to be. That 20-30% of man-hours that are payed to be worked are superfluous to human existence.

For example, systems that are upgraded because they need to upgraded because they need to be the upgraded version. Not because the old version is bad. I'm not hating on this. I have a job that feels like this and I get paid and I go home happy.

I don't know what form this will take. It's fundamentally a cultural issue.

It may become culturally acceptable to work 32 hours a week instead of 40, or go to school until you're 16 and take a couple years off until you start working at 20. Or jobs could become significantly easier. Or unemployment, the amount of people living off their parents, could increase to 20%. Or we could have a full-on socialist revolution, who knows.

Unfortunately, my data is wildly American-centric. This may only happen in America and not globally.

The question "why haven't robots taken our jobs yet" is a hard one to answer. It's an incredibly weird and loaded question, and I'll need to re-examine it in the future.

1:32 a.m. Dec 04, 2020, UTC-5

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"Also I was making fun of the swastika Matthias

I am not socialist"

12:09 a.m. Dec 04, 2020, UTC-5

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Level 100 in Hypixel Bedwars! Iron prestige, baby! I've accomplished something with my life.

12:08 a.m. Dec 04, 2020, UTC-5

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If Python had {} and c-style for loops it would be basically the perfect language.

4:51 p.m. Dec 03, 2020, UTC-5

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2017 Aiden: “as is wont to occur among youngsters”

2020 Aiden: “yo” *silence*

3:43 p.m. Dec 03, 2020, UTC-5

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He watches

gemini://thoughts.learnerpages.com/media/5b18bc80-0d26-4cff-ad3f-636ab33fc542.png

11:28 p.m. Dec 02, 2020, UTC-5

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“They should just not plow the roads and everyone should get snowmobiles”

6:51 p.m. Dec 02, 2020, UTC-5

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I'm binge watching boating vlogs in preparation for when I leave society and live in a boat in international waters alone.

4:36 p.m. Dec 02, 2020, UTC-5

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Why would people do drugs when KACP exists?

12:18 p.m. Dec 02, 2020, UTC-5

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"The moderation structure and policies are not intended to be an example of an anarchist society; an internet forum is not a society."

10:38 a.m. Dec 02, 2020, UTC-5

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"Conversations about moderation, rules, bans, and other meta topics take place in /r/metanarchism (message the mods to get in)."

When the anarchism subreddit has a separate, private, subreddit for discussions of their authority system.

10:37 a.m. Dec 02, 2020, UTC-5

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‘The Lord generously gave his grace to me, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.’ 1 Timothy 1:14

12:43 a.m. Dec 02, 2020, UTC-5

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I made brownies, and they're much thinner than I would like. But they taste super good, so I feel like eating 25 square inches of brownie.

10:59 p.m. Dec 01, 2020, UTC-5

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Remember, 1 square foot is 144 square inches.

10:46 p.m. Dec 01, 2020, UTC-5

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It’s weird to realize that 3Blue1Brown’s Linear Series barely scratches the surface of the concepts in Linear Algebra.

5:08 p.m. Dec 01, 2020, UTC-5

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Osmosis Jones live action when?, you cowards.

5:08 p.m. Dec 01, 2020, UTC-5

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The Arecibo Radio Telescope has collapsed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vchDbyIRP44

3:50 p.m. Dec 01, 2020, UTC-5

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"Liberals is a pejorative term"

3:27 p.m. Dec 01, 2020, UTC-5

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Gosh heck it better be okay because right now it doesn't look like it is going to be.

9:59 a.m. Dec 01, 2020, UTC-5

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Might mess around and move to Zagreb

8:53 a.m. Dec 01, 2020, UTC-5

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Bad website ideas with Matthias:

A website like Youtube, except the only videos are ones linked to by https://tiltlhat.tumblr.com

11:49 p.m. Nov 30, 2020, UTC-5

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I think people's desire for fame and their desire for rights or fair treatment, stem from a common desire, that of respect or dignity.

11:43 p.m. Nov 30, 2020, UTC-5

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SQLite is one of the best pieces of software ever written.

8:37 p.m. Nov 30, 2020, UTC-5

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No functional language survives first contact with the user.

This is part of what makes React, or even Elm, so appealing. The functional bits are super useful for say, describing UI elements.

But while React handles updating okay, it struggles with updating dynamically from user input.*

The example here is a textbox, a button, and a div, and anything entered into the textbox shows up in the div when the button is pressed. JS, piece of cake.

document.querySelector("button").addEventListener("click", evt => {
    document.querySelector("textarea").textContent = document.querySelector("textarea").value;
});

React,* Elm, the examples aren't worth including here. They're too long.

You could golf a React example to a similar length as JS, because React *is* JS. You can access another component in the global scope and call .setState on it. But that's not idiomatic React, that's using React to render and writing JS same as you normally would. React, according to the docs and "good practice," state/information should never flow down, and should never flow sideways. This is an example designed to force React to flow state info sideways, but that's not something React is good at. Here's the React example: https://ourjseditor.com/program/VVr6PE. I haven't written one for Elm, that would take too long with my current knowledge of Elm.

5:55 p.m. Nov 30, 2020, UTC-5

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Idris attempts to solve the same problem as [Thu](https://ourjseditor.com/program/S5ShEy). They're just doing it very differently.

Idris pulls types into the main scope, which is something that I avoided with Thu. But I still treat Types very dynamically in Thu, kind of adding dynamic operators to the type scope.

5:10 p.m. Nov 30, 2020, UTC-5

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If anyone reading this could invite me to https://lobste.rs, that would be great, please HMU.

This website should be testament to my sanity /s

1:59 p.m. Nov 30, 2020, UTC-5

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cat-v

13:49 <h9ro> yes, and then they're like "ship it"

13:49 <h9ro> i mean "train it"

1:50 p.m. Nov 30, 2020, UTC-5

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More selected messages from the 9front IRC (#cat-v)

13:45 <cinap_lenrek> motion control, like a CAR?

13:45 <cinap_lenrek> a TRAIN!

13:45 <taw9> I have four Beckhoff servo drives, the fc7502 card to talk to them and three servo motors.

13:45 <user51> a plane?

13:45 <Ori_B> cinap_lenrek: hahaha, so, yesterday on gridchat, someone wanted to try making trains run on plan9.

1:46 p.m. Nov 30, 2020, UTC-5

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Please explain #cat-v on Freenode to me. What does it mean to solder a unix pipe?

05:50 <user51> when i was a kid i soldered a pipe between pcie slot and cpu pins because i didnt know how unix pipes worked.. i called the the pipe express

05:50 <user51> now that we have json requests i dont need to solder anything anymore :)

1:42 p.m. Nov 30, 2020, UTC-5

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I am not currently taking questions.

11:15 a.m. Nov 30, 2020, UTC-5

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Just edited, committed, pushed, and deployed from my phone.

11:21 p.m. Nov 29, 2020, UTC-5

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Okay I’ve snapped can someone please tell me what 👉🏻👈🏻 is supposed to mean? I’ve never seen someone do that IRL

11:10 p.m. Nov 29, 2020, UTC-5

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Airplanes are like birds but in the sky

6:06 p.m. Nov 29, 2020, UTC-7

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There’s a joke about how powers of two are sexy, because each is one-hot number. Unfortunately I’m not qualified to make it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-hot

I’ve never used this but apparently it exists.

5:51 p.m. Nov 29, 2020, UTC-7

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My hands aren’t dry and my hands aren’t rough, but they’re like thin leather. The skin is stiff. There’s moisture on them, but it doesn’t

soak in to them.

5:46 p.m. Nov 29, 2020, UTC-7

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Back in Denver I think!

4:21 p.m. Nov 29, 2020, UTC-7

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Thinking about hyper spheres

12:48 p.m. Nov 29, 2020, UTC-8

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Jesus and the 12 disciples, the last supper, coffee shop AU.

12:45 p.m. Nov 29, 2020, UTC-8

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Trying to figure out how to explain *Paradise Lost* to an atheist.

“C.S. Lewis but from 1600” requires knowledge of Clive.

12:44 p.m. Nov 29, 2020, UTC-8

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I am a circle when I feel like I should be a square.

A round peg in a square hole, if you will.

11:10 a.m. Nov 29, 2020, UTC-8

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What if I was actually blind and no one knew?

8:54 p.m. Nov 28, 2020, UTC-8

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Lucrative

8:25 p.m. Nov 28, 2020, UTC-8

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The amount of information my brain is processing has increased faster than my brain’s throughput has.

8:22 p.m. Nov 28, 2020, UTC-8

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I found another pastebin website. Wow. Gosh heck there are a lot

7:53 p.m. Nov 28, 2020, UTC-8

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Also, what the frick. I [described](https://matthias1.micro.blog/2018/08/10/small-blogging.html) this website in *2018*.

7:17 p.m. Nov 28, 2020, UTC-8

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https://micro.blog should be so cool. They were so close. They understand what I’m trying to do here. They’re just charging $5/mo for it.

7:15 p.m. Nov 28, 2020, UTC-8

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AJR has been popping off recently. Used in an Apple ad, #1 iTunes Charts, in the Macy’s Thanksgiving parade. Just need them to drop music.

7:04 p.m. Nov 28, 2020, UTC-8

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Free serverless and static-site hosting is cool, but it’s still not at the point where I can distribute templates to non-coders.

7:03 p.m. Nov 28, 2020, UTC-8

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I want a service like a server, except I just give them a binary and they run it 24/7. And they have a database and handle port forwarding

and stuff. In particular, I want this to be so easy to use that I can create a binary, give it to a tech-questionable friend, and have them upload it and have it just work.

Self-hosting is one of the things that makes the internet great. But hosting these days requires either code or messing with web server configs or else using a template provided by some website generator.

6:59 p.m. Nov 28, 2020, UTC-8

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I was like oh, I haven’t posted recently, I wish I had things to post, and in that moment I forgot that my criteria for posting on here is

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

6:55 p.m. Nov 28, 2020, UTC-8

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If the world was a simulation, and one person was the main character and knew the world was a simulation, who would it be?

6:54 p.m. Nov 28, 2020, UTC-8

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Firefox uses `.columnNum`. Chome and Safari use `.column`. Why? It's just not standardized. No one knows what to do.

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.

11:11 a.m. Nov 28, 2020, UTC-8

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If you take a break in the middle of the hill, you start to roll back down.

3:23 p.m. Nov 27, 2020, UTC-8

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I would like to thank Taco Works chips, my primary supplier of MSG for the last 5 years.

1:04 p.m. Nov 26, 2020, UTC-8

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“How sweet, the taste of certainty” -TrusT, half•alive

4:02 p.m. Nov 25, 2020, UTC-8

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How sweet the taste of certainty.

How sweet the love of the God of love.

How sweet the mercy of Justice.

How sweet the taste of certainty.

The confidence of knowing the Lord.

The taste of an ancient faith.

An ancient faith, alive, new, and fresh in me.

An ancient God, young to me.

His wisdom overwhelming my naivety.

4:01 p.m. Nov 25, 2020, UTC-8

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My incompetence is striking.

3:46 p.m. Nov 25, 2020, UTC-8

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Why do I do web development? Why do I do this to myself?

1:22 p.m. Nov 25, 2020, UTC-8

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Brandon Sanderson is like George R. R. Martin if he released 3 books a year.

12:32 p.m. Nov 25, 2020, UTC-8

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I love `Blob`s, big fan.

12:53 a.m. Nov 25, 2020, UTC-8

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Some pieces I did on tixy.land

[Basic Wave](https://tixy.land/?code=%28sin%28%28x%2By%29%2F9-t*2%29%2B1%29%2F2)

[M, one](https://tixy.land/?code=%22%C2%81%C3%83%C2%A5%C2%99%22.charCodeAt%28y%2F2%29%262**%28x-4%29)

[M, two](https://tixy.land/?code=%221%C2%95%11%11%22.charCodeAt%28y%2F2%29%262**%283-abs%287-x%29%2By%252*4%29)

11:42 p.m. Nov 24, 2020, UTC-8

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Javascript deserved so much better than this. Such a beautiful syntax, beautiful type system. Alternatives like ReScript exist.

People understand what JS could have been. ReasonML, ReScript, or TypeScript. It's JS syntax, dynamic typing, but well-defined and strictly typed. Super clean and polished. JS is so ugly. It's tearing at the seams.

But I can't in good conscience write one of these languages which is going to be transpiled to OCaml that is going to be transpiled to Javascript.

9:05 p.m. Nov 24, 2020, UTC-8

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Vivaldi released a beta of their mail client less than a week after I set up Spark :|

8:32 p.m. Nov 24, 2020, UTC-8

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Made some changes to the website, most visibly the date format. Explanation below

The purpose of including a date is to provide context.

Rather than provide the time in the client's (your) timezone, I provide the time it was for me when I posted it, and my timezone. This means that if you want to figure out the time I posted it in your timezone, you can do that. But more importantly, if I post something at 2 a.m., you can see that it was 2 a.m. for me when I posted it.

Unfortunately, the formatting on the date/time is bad. It's verbose and ugly. Trust me, I tried. I have spent 2 days trying to find a date+time format that is human readable and concise, and none exist. I'm trying to communicate too much information.

10:49 a.m. Nov 24, 2020, UTC-8

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Aria Buckles is my second favorite (former+current) KA employee right now.

She's lurking #khanacademy on Freenode, she's maintaining simple-markdown, she's still alive. That's almost Matthias levels of dedication, considering she hasn't worked at KA for like 3 years.

Grant Sanderson is always #1, I'm sorry.

9:30 p.m. Nov 23, 2020, UTC-8

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The weird about human interactions/friendships is that you can manifest them.

8:53 p.m. Nov 23, 2020, UTC-8

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I hate dates.

I might have said this already, but it's still true. It still pains me.

3:52 p.m. Nov 23, 2020, UTC-8

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"Yes, I do know how to use Benford's Law, logarithmic point plotting, and standard deviation"

1:34 p.m. Nov 23, 2020, UTC-8

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I only use sophisticated forms of social media. I'm currently browsing a Tiktok blog on Tumblr

10:20 p.m. Nov 22, 2020, UTC-8

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Contributing to the group by changing hyphen-minuses to em dashes.

5:52 p.m. Nov 22, 2020, UTC-5

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I hate timezones

7:20 p.m. Nov 21, 2020, UTC-7

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I think I’m in Denver

7:20 p.m. Nov 21, 2020, UTC-7

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I need someone to make a short film about Danish and Black Hat because, dang, OTP material right there.

4:39 p.m. Nov 21, 2020, UTC-5

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Why is humanoid rabbit a trope?

2:31 p.m. Nov 21, 2020, UTC-5

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I'm subbed to the beekeeping subreddit, and it's very intense listening to them discuss the coming winter. Trying to make sure the bees have

enough food stored up and winterizing the hive

12:24 a.m. Nov 21, 2020, UTC-5

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Why are Cloudflare outages like a weekly thing now???

10:46 p.m. Nov 20, 2020, UTC-5

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I assumed that *The Phantom of the Opera* was like an 1800s opera. It's actually a 1910 book, or a 1986 musical, or a 2004 film

8:15 p.m. Nov 20, 2020, UTC-5

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Contributing to the group by changing the font from cursive to Times New Roman.

7:55 p.m. Nov 20, 2020, UTC-5

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One of the things I tried to do with Thu was type-check at run time. The most interesting things about Julia is that it actually does this.

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.

7:12 p.m. Nov 20, 2020, UTC-5

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I was tired, so tired. I put on Jon Bellion, and I'm not tired any more. It's amazing how that works.

6:44 p.m. Nov 20, 2020, UTC-5

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"Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect." -Matthew 5:48

5:56 p.m. Nov 20, 2020, UTC-5

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I was on the floor for like 3 hours straight today.

5:55 p.m. Nov 20, 2020, UTC-5

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“Welcome to the list of things you will not miss. Backed up by the most novel research In not missing things entirely”

-Empty, the game

9:18 a.m. Nov 20, 2020, UTC-5

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I’m going to watch Supernatural, like, when I’m retired.

12:50 a.m. Nov 20, 2020, UTC-5

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Like 95% of how much I like someone is the sound of their voice. Annoying voice—limited ability to listen to you.

12:38 a.m. Nov 20, 2020, UTC-5

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I had written like 250 words on Julia and comparing it to Thu and I didn't post it so it's gone. You're welcome.

10:42 p.m. Nov 19, 2020, UTC-5

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I don’t remember the last time I made a good decision.

I’m laying in an empty lot in the middle of the city.

3:40 p.m. Nov 19, 2020, UTC-5

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I decided I wanted my fans to spin all the time, so I'm giving 2/3 of my CPU to Folding@Home

10:16 a.m. Nov 19, 2020, UTC-5

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The captions on Instagram meme pages are wild. They make this website look like a coherent and normal blog.

'Oh I know this is a bit of a longer one, but my dad died and I'm screenshoting memes as a coping mechanism'

10:12 a.m. Nov 19, 2020, UTC-5

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I'm looking at another hour configuring IntelliJ with Django support.

10:13 p.m. Nov 18, 2020, UTC-5

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After downloading Spark, I am now back to a solid Inbox 0

8:36 p.m. Nov 18, 2020, UTC-5

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I finally got around to conducting a survey all macOS Desktop mail apps (15+), and decided on [Spark](https://sparkmailapp.com).

2:28 p.m. Nov 18, 2020, UTC-5

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Slytherverse is too powerful.

https://slytherverse.tumblr.com/post/635132602153680896/you-came-for-the-alarm-clock-you-stayed-some

10:11 a.m. Nov 18, 2020, UTC-5

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Girls, Aidabaida DM'd me back. I messaged him like 2, 3 months ago. Why now? Why so casual?

9:09 a.m. Nov 18, 2020, UTC-5

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I figured it out, there was a space in the base64 data last time.

Excited if this works.

gemini://thoughts.learnerpages.com/media/d175a2db-c5ed-491a-9c39-d4dc6dd3872e.png

12:51 a.m. Nov 18, 2020, UTC-5

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This is why I shouldn't try things in production :/

12:45 a.m. Nov 18, 2020, UTC-5

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me_irl

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Edit 2021-05-01: I ended up with a space in my base64, so this didn't display as an image. I have trimmed it so that you don't have to see all the base64 data as text.

12:45 a.m. Nov 18, 2020, UTC-5

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Hooottt taaakkkee: Google fonts is baaadaaddd. The fonts on there are bad.

Helvetica is life.

lololol

9:54 p.m. Nov 17, 2020, UTC-5

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"How could you possibly not have learned anything by reading the wikipedia page for 'torsor'"

9:23 p.m. Nov 17, 2020, UTC-5

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Okay, I don't understand self-hosting Git over SSH and it's more complicated than I thought.

5:21 p.m. Nov 17, 2020, UTC-5

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This site renders perfectly in Servo, so that's another win for dead-simple websites, and I can check compatibility off my list.

4:44 p.m. Nov 17, 2020, UTC-5

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Hey look, it's Zulip, another Slack competitor.

4:27 p.m. Nov 17, 2020, UTC-5

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Why does it seem like they're making Wolfram Alpha worse?

2:24 a.m. Nov 17, 2020, UTC-5

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Why is lambda so sexy? How is it even possible for a letter to be sexy? **λ**

2:02 a.m. Nov 17, 2020, UTC-5

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So no one told me `git` supports repos on other servers over SSH, just by default. And I guess I'm not very smart because I had all the

pieces, but yeah, I never put it together. Source code for this site/other private projects is being deleted from GitHub, get out of here Microsoft.

9:14 p.m. Nov 16, 2020, UTC-5

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How do I figure out what I'm doing with my life?

3:17 p.m. Nov 16, 2020, UTC-5

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Why are people using Latte dock? I've found the KDE task manager bar to be perfectly customizable.

1:18 p.m. Nov 16, 2020, UTC-5

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"dont let this distract you from the fact that lightning mcqueen blew a one lap lead in the piston cup"

11:43 a.m. Nov 16, 2020, UTC-5

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"I find it helps to remember that I'm french."

9:31 a.m. Nov 16, 2020, UTC-5

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"I'm not so sure that limiting colors is such a great idea."

8:17 a.m. Nov 16, 2020, UTC-5

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I would like to use the name Matthias on the internet, and since Matthias is fairly uncommon, you'd think I could get away with it.

Probably the most well known "Matthias" is a YouTuber. His popularity is the biggest thing that makes me hesitate when committing to using "Matthias" as a name on the internet. Ironically, his birth name is Matthew, and he goes by "Matthias" because "Matthew" is too common. Imposter Matthias stealing the uniqueness of my birth name!

12:42 a.m. Nov 16, 2020, UTC-5

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Am I going to have to build pagination into this site at some point? \*grimace*

12:25 a.m. Nov 16, 2020, UTC-5

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It is okay! I found "The Sound of the Universe". I had forgotten about my poetry blog.

12:21 a.m. Nov 16, 2020, UTC-5

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How many domains is too many?

12:20 a.m. Nov 16, 2020, UTC-5

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"Dreams and Boxes" by Watsky is the current mood.

11:54 p.m. Nov 15, 2020, UTC-5

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One of the things that makes Darklang.com bearable for me, despite it’s bugginess, is that the developer is on Slack and is pretty chill.

I posted a Slack comment with a bug report, and he just fixed it.

11:47 p.m. Nov 15, 2020, UTC-5

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Sharkfin has traumatized me. I saw him in a VC in KACC, and I had to leave me computer and sit downstairs with my hand over my heart for a

couple minutes. It’s a problem

10:36 p.m. Nov 15, 2020, UTC-5

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Is now a good time to start a weekend project?

6:57 p.m. Nov 15, 2020, UTC-5

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If you don’t use a siphon at every conceivable opportunity, you’re not an engineer.

1:31 p.m. Nov 15, 2020, UTC-5

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I appear to have forgotten the importance of sleep.

3:52 a.m. Nov 15, 2020, UTC-5

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Are you a KA girl?

12:36 a.m. Nov 15, 2020, UTC-5

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I can confirm I don’t like ranch dressing.

Still haven’t found a salad dressing that I like.

7:57 p.m. Nov 14, 2020, UTC-5

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It’s difficult to describe how awful the passcode entry field in settings on iOS is.

People have muscle memory for their phone passwords. The buttons are a weird shape and are in a different place on the page, for no noticeable advantage.

11:00 p.m. Nov 13, 2020, UTC-5

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The Big Sur design looks even better with Rectangle and padding between windows.

You can't do rounded corners and no padding. It looks bad. Rounded corners don't mate with straight lines, it doesn't work.

2:40 p.m. Nov 13, 2020, UTC-5

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I updated to Big Sur. Most all there is is a new design, which will definitely take some getting used to. Super rounded corners, wow!

2:27 p.m. Nov 13, 2020, UTC-5

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I have added image support.

1:01 p.m. Nov 13, 2020, UTC-5

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You'll be glad to know I regularly test and update this website for compatibility with both `lynx` and `links`.

11:10 a.m. Nov 13, 2020, UTC-5

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It’s so funny to look at my old Tweets where I ceaselessly allude to leaving for some other platform. It has happened!

10:25 a.m. Nov 13, 2020, UTC-5

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ChromeOS is a disaster. Chrome needs to be an operating system. ChromeOS is not a browser. It needs to be.

3:47 p.m. Nov 12, 2020, UTC-5

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Web browsers need to stop https://drewdevault.com/2020/08/13/Web-browsers-need-to-stop.html

3:05 p.m. Nov 12, 2020, UTC-5

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Undertale? Supernatural? Homestuck? Compound words denoting media I haven't consumed. They are all the same thing in my brain.

I think Supernatural is about vampires and I think Undertale is a game about a skeleton and Homestuck is a cartoon.

2:07 p.m. Nov 12, 2020, UTC-5

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Okay, so I made mild style tweaks. The page no longer scrolls side to side on mobile. You're welcome. Still no images.

3:10 a.m. Nov 12, 2020, UTC-5

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Why are there no terminal-based text editors in active development these days? lynx was last updated 2018.

1:58 a.m. Nov 12, 2020, UTC-5

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Wait. Can I host images on here. As base64 text. In the content field already? Give me a sec.

1:04 a.m. Nov 12, 2020, UTC-5

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age++;

12:42 a.m. Nov 12, 2020, UTC-5

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What if you put barbecue sauce on a salad?

6:42 p.m. Nov 11, 2020, UTC-5

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I fricking lost my beautiful poetry. "The Sound of the Universe" eludes me.

Too late for Rigby, too early for Thoughts. Too long for Twitter. And I can't find it on Tumblr.

12:47 a.m. Nov 11, 2020, UTC-5

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I would like to be an artist.

I have decided.

I feel unfulfilled writing code for its own sake.

Maintaining a web of wires, connecting me to myself.

Tying me down.

Uncreative. Unfulfilled.

I would like to be a designer.

Not a builder.

Not merely an inventor, or a problem solver,

or a go-getter, or a hamster on a wheel.

Creating for others' sake.

Original. Beautiful.

I would like to be something more.

Than me.

The logic is raw.

I lack meat. I lack skin.

I am bones and joints—a skeleton.

Code without art.

12:10 a.m. Nov 11, 2020, UTC-5

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"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.

12:04 a.m. Nov 11, 2020, UTC-5

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One of the things that makes social media so interesting to me is that we are *so close* to feature parity.

We should, by all accounts, be at feature parity. And yet, we're not.

11:02 p.m. Nov 10, 2020, UTC-5

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I can’t believe we only made it to GRIBFILE 1.5. It should have been an era.

10:56 p.m. Nov 10, 2020, UTC-5

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AWS scares me. Too big, too powerful, looming over my small websites.

7:00 p.m. Nov 10, 2020, UTC-5

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Why is Linux so cool? Can somebody please tell me?

6:11 p.m. Nov 10, 2020, UTC-5

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I snapped and installed Rectangle, a "window manager" for macOS.

My understanding is that window managers on Linux actually manage windows—Rectangle just lets me bind keyboard shortcuts to snap windows into positions.

3:37 p.m. Nov 10, 2020, UTC-5

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I wish I were a circle.

3:10 p.m. Nov 10, 2020, UTC-5

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Linux is dead, long live macOS

1:46 p.m. Nov 10, 2020, UTC-5

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They’re just making this stuff up and I’m not sure how much I can take.

9:24 a.m. Nov 10, 2020, UTC-5

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WAIT A SECOND! "Vibin'" just means sitting around on our phones.

Silly gen Z creating words to disguise the fact that they're doing things that older gens disapprove of.

8:34 a.m. Nov 10, 2020, UTC-5

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Why am I only able to do things I don't want to do when I'm dead tired?

7:01 a.m. Nov 10, 2020, UTC-5

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Mark Rober feels like he should be an Middle school science teacher. His stuff is entertaining and technically correct, but it's so shallow.

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).

1:42 a.m. Nov 10, 2020, UTC-5

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmmhvyRolkU

10:49 p.m. Nov 09, 2020, UTC-5

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TFW length of a string was O(n)

9:25 a.m. Nov 09, 2020, UTC-5

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Sets are unordered, hold unique elements*, and are nest-able. Matrixes are ordered, do not constrain values, and are *not nest-able*.

9:22 a.m. Nov 09, 2020, UTC-5

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Thus far, I have found in math only 2 fundamental concepts: matrixes and sets. Everything else is syntax sugar.

I could be swayed to allow ordered pairs, if an argument was found to sufficiently distinct them from a 2x1 matrix.

9:18 a.m. Nov 09, 2020, UTC-5

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"The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Pt. 2 - EP" is such a powerful name.

9:04 a.m. Nov 09, 2020, UTC-5

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"I’m in central park right now for unknown reasons"

8:35 a.m. Nov 09, 2020, UTC-5

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I read through the book of Revelation instead of sleeping.

1:02 a.m. Nov 09, 2020, UTC-5

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I am a vessel of the Lord. And His name is on my forehead should He allow it to be.

12:50 a.m. Nov 09, 2020, UTC-5

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Why would I reconsider my bad decisions now when I could stay up for another couple of hours and then have a break down and reconsider my

bad decisions.

11:36 p.m. Nov 08, 2020, UTC-5

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I don't remember the last time I made a good decision.

10:34 p.m. Nov 08, 2020, UTC-5

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I've been watching a lot of magic recently, just like clips on Youtube. It's really frustrating how non-existent explanations of tricks are.

Don't be thinking 'oh yeah that's the point of magic.' I know that obviously. But as someone who wants to know everything, I still want to know how the trick is done. I don't want to spoil it for other people, and I don't mind admitting that was fooled originally. But I would like to know how it's done.

It's like a joke. When I hear a joke, I find it funny, I laugh, and then I remember the setup and the punch line. So I could tell that joke later, or if someone else later tries to tell me the joke. Most people when they hear a joke do not try to memorize it. In the same way, I would like to see the magic trick, be surprised and amazed, and then memorize how it it's done.

And most magicians aren't supremacists, hiding their secrets, but they're performers. There's no reason for them to reveal the trick. And the people who develop magic tricks are trying to sell them. They don't want to tell you how they're done (unless you pay money).

10:33 p.m. Nov 08, 2020, UTC-5

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A slightly edgy but well edited Biden victory meme compilation: https://youtube.com/watch?v=I0UK1KVtMQM

10:30 p.m. Nov 08, 2020, UTC-5

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"The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of rulers, that struck the peoples in wrath with unceasing blows...

that ruled the nations in anger, with unrelenting persecution. The whole earth is at rest and quiet; they break forth into singing."

-Isaiah 14:5-7

4:15 p.m. Nov 08, 2020, UTC-5

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It’s weird that music doesn’t have colors.

1:32 p.m. Nov 08, 2020, UTC-5

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The internet is like, 'We're getting a 5th season of Sherlock' so I look it up and it's estimated in "either 2022 or 2023." :(

12:51 p.m. Nov 08, 2020, UTC-5

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I could go to bed, or I could sit here in bed and flick the stoplight through different colors, *remotely*.

2:52 a.m. Nov 08, 2020, UTC-5

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I can now control my stoplight remotely, over the WiFi, using magic and an ESP module. And my friend who knows electronics.

2:52 a.m. Nov 08, 2020, UTC-5

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I hate `nvm`. I'm sick of it. Bad.

1:30 p.m. Nov 07, 2020, UTC-5

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What makes the terminal appealing?

1. Dark themed

2. Assumed to not be maximized—content is constrained to a short horizontal line length.

3. Predictable content displaying mechanisms.

4. Displayed content is non-interactive

9:23 p.m. Nov 06, 2020, UTC-5

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Anyone want to place bets on how long it takes SharkFin to be banned from KACC? I give it a month.

11:48 p.m. Nov 05, 2020, UTC-5

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One of my biggest mistakes was using MySQL or Postgres. I spent so long picking between them, I overlooked how perfect SQLite is.

6:11 p.m. Nov 05, 2020, UTC-5

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My problem with a titling window manager is that I don't have keys available on my keyboard to bind to moving windows around.

5:27 p.m. Nov 05, 2020, UTC-5

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Why does Ubuntu put things in my bashrc by default??? 0/10. I want to customize my own bashrc. Get out.

5:08 p.m. Nov 05, 2020, UTC-5

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WAIT! The new IDKHOW album dropped like 2 weeks ago, I have been sleeping.

5:07 p.m. Nov 05, 2020, UTC-5

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I cannot imagine not liking someone who has programmed in Elm. I mean, like maybe if they didn't like Elm, but I can't imagine that either

11:42 a.m. Nov 05, 2020, UTC-5

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"We're driving toward the morning sun

Where all your blood is washed away and all you did will be undone."

-Taxi Cab, Twenty One Pilots

9:59 a.m. Nov 05, 2020, UTC-5

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Apparently I could install a tiling window manager on macOS and I am kind if tempted.

1:13 a.m. Nov 05, 2020, UTC-5

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I want to talk about functional languages with someone. They're all so beautiful. HMU if you like Haskell/Elm.

12:11 a.m. Nov 05, 2020, UTC-5

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There are an odd number of Smarties in a packet. This never ceases to annoy me. I always eat my Smarties in pairs, so that both sides of

my mouth can experience the amazing flavor.

11:23 p.m. Nov 04, 2020, UTC-5

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I updated the dark theme and fixed dates being a month off.

1:15 p.m. Nov 04, 2020, UTC-5

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My life recently feels like a train balanced on a single rail, but not off of the tracks.

12:29 a.m. Nov 04, 2020, UTC-5

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Code is too raw, too structured. It is bones.

12:26 a.m. Nov 04, 2020, UTC-5

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"All I care about is CS:GO"

9:19 p.m. Nov 03, 2020, UTC-5

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Wait, is it too late to vote? I wasn't paying attention.

7:15 p.m. Nov 03, 2020, UTC-5

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https://matthias1.darksa.com/bj1rgzay7nemuy9aijw8uanff1w/4enda3iyyp/index.html

6:01 p.m. Nov 03, 2020, UTC-5

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Run on the JVM?

Get out.

It's that easy.

Bye Kotlin, bye Java. Yes Scala, I'm talking to you too, leave.

5:33 p.m. Nov 03, 2020, UTC-5

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"This is the stylistic convention in the elm ecosystem"

It's comma-first syntax is what it is and I won't stand for it.

1:11 p.m. Nov 03, 2020, UTC-5

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I think I may be in love with Dark. It's **so powerful**. So little boiler plate. 100% functionality. The Dark website is bad, don't listen

to it. They seem to think that Dark is a language, when it's a whole platform. "Build in Dark" should be "Build on Dark." They're hosting everything for free. It's insanity. I spent what, 8 hours on this website? I could have done it in half that with Dark, no joke. And it would have SSL.

12:41 p.m. Nov 03, 2020, UTC-5

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They're all, function evaluation order can be ambiguous; and I'm like "You're using space to apply functions. Parens don't have this problem"

11:41 a.m. Nov 03, 2020, UTC-5

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I'm checking out Dark, very cool, highly recommend.

11:40 a.m. Nov 03, 2020, UTC-5

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Is it a private beta if it's public?

11:20 a.m. Nov 03, 2020, UTC-5

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Jane Street looked at OCaml, and was like, 'eh cool language, std lib's lacking' and then they re-implemented the entire standard library.

9:54 a.m. Nov 03, 2020, UTC-5

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"Nothing in my life so far would have prepared me for the fact that I would be willfully choosing to move to .NET,

but it's 2020, and nothing matters anymore."

9:46 a.m. Nov 03, 2020, UTC-5

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I made a mistake somewhere.

3:41 a.m. Nov 03, 2020, UTC-5

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The Lord has given me another day.

12:24 p.m. Nov 02, 2020, UTC-5

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People will be like, oh *X* language isn't that bad and then I'll find out you close `case` blocks with `esac` or some trash.

That's actually bash BTW. You close `if` blocks with `fi` and `case` blocks with `esac`. Insanity.

People defend JavaScript, and I have to be like, um, JS is objectively a bad language. I love JS, it's my favorite, but it's bad.

11:45 p.m. Nov 01, 2020, UTC-5

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Why am I so tempted to buy bWF0dGhpYXMK.com?

11:27 p.m. Nov 01, 2020, UTC-5

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I block Youtube, I start using Github for entertainment. I block Github, I'm checking GitLab. I blocked Discord, I found myself on IRC.

9:34 p.m. Nov 01, 2020, UTC-5

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Thinking about Potter Watch and how I can create an internet version of it.

5:23 p.m. Nov 01, 2020, UTC-5

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I watched the piece of art that is *Frankenstein Island* (1981) last night. Highly recommend.

I mean, it was bad. Really bad. But I’m pretty happy with it—it wasn’t as bad as I expected. It was like a high school play. Zero production value, zero acting skills, but somehow entertaining. It was like one of my Minecraft videos, but with less talking.

10:30 a.m. Nov 01, 2020, UTC-5

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Sueueguejwvbwuevebje eh

11:19 p.m. Oct 31, 2020, UTC-4

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It has been months since I created the Melodramatic cover art, and I cannot get over how good it looks.

12:02 a.m. Oct 31, 2020, UTC-4

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eBay doesn't store transaction history, item listings, past 9 months. It seems like everyone's transaction history would be interesting data.

11:53 p.m. Oct 30, 2020, UTC-4

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It turns out that if you eat enough Skittles they start to taste bad.

11:50 p.m. Oct 30, 2020, UTC-4

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I'm losing so much heat through my head. I need longer hair.

4:21 p.m. Oct 30, 2020, UTC-4

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I can't do it I'm not a real person

3:07 p.m. Oct 30, 2020, UTC-4

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IRC is funny. I think it's in an Eternal September phase, where it's used by people that are desperate for software support, and senior devs.

I set up the The Lounge a little bit ago, which is an IRC client server, it connects to IRC servers for you and store messages, so that you get a traceback like a modern app. This is legitimately one of my problems with IRC. I don't want to have to leave an IRC client open, I don't use IRC at all. I just want to pop in and check it everyone once in a while.

2:32 p.m. Oct 30, 2020, UTC-4

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"There are conflicting theories as to the meaning of this comic."

9:57 p.m. Oct 29, 2020, UTC-4

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Selected 40 emails and hit "Archive." Pretty much back to inbox 0.

7:08 p.m. Oct 29, 2020, UTC-4

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These fools asking me questions on a scale of 1-7 as if I'm not going to pick 5 for the meme.

6:39 p.m. Oct 29, 2020, UTC-4

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"I don't do freelancing, I do consulting"

9:17 a.m. Oct 29, 2020, UTC-4

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"I have 13 years experience on Twitter in different accts"

12:41 a.m. Oct 29, 2020, UTC-4

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I need to take a break for a little while. Everything is going to be okay without me. Discord, Khan Academy, YouTube, Reddit are sinking

My time and my energy and my soul.

12:20 a.m. Oct 29, 2020, UTC-4

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It’s like it’s possible to defy capitalism by sheer force of will.

12:16 a.m. Oct 29, 2020, UTC-4

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I cannot comprehend how it is possible to sell Tumblr, which was bought for $1000 million dollars, for $3 million dollars.

12:15 a.m. Oct 29, 2020, UTC-4

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The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Pt. 3 can’t come too soon.

10:22 p.m. Oct 28, 2020, UTC-4

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A hot take brought fresh from Tumblr to you.

“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.”

9:29 p.m. Oct 28, 2020, UTC-4

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wimps*

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

7:21 p.m. Oct 28, 2020, UTC-4

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“Unit vectors are for whims”

7:19 p.m. Oct 28, 2020, UTC-4

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Society is a stack of bricks balanced on top of each other. I am brick, and there is a brick above me and a brick below me.

1:22 p.m. Oct 28, 2020, UTC-4

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"once the torch of ethno-nationalism has been lit, it is impossible to know in which direction the wind will take the fire."

1:19 p.m. Oct 28, 2020, UTC-4

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I find that I am interested in talking almost exclusively to other INTJs

2:12 a.m. Oct 28, 2020, UTC-4

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Quality fricking content everyone! https://billwurtz.com/bench.mp4

11:42 p.m. Oct 27, 2020, UTC-4

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I know you all are anxiously awaiting episode 2 of my Minecraft Let's Play. I've edited almost 1 hour of footage. It's going to happen.

11:41 p.m. Oct 27, 2020, UTC-4

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I imagine that if I didn't have a soul I would look much like Conway's game of life.

11:36 p.m. Oct 27, 2020, UTC-4

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Referring to Euler: “Everything that man did sucks”

6:14 p.m. Oct 27, 2020, UTC-4

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Gay high schoolers are the funniest people.

1:40 p.m. Oct 27, 2020, UTC-4

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Everyone in KACC is just talking, but no one is listening.

1:39 p.m. Oct 27, 2020, UTC-4

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Ladies it took me 10 minutes to find a meme I saw once over a year ago, does that make me a boomer?

8:43 a.m. Oct 27, 2020, UTC-4

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“I would call that an armed mugging rather than an armed robbery. Armed robbery is like when someone robs a business or house.”

7:22 p.m. Oct 26, 2020, UTC-4

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I have 10+ years of muscle memory for macOS keyboard shortcuts; it shouldn't be surprising that it takes a bit for me to adjust to Linux.

3:38 p.m. Oct 26, 2020, UTC-4

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WheelsOnGenius is the only good YouTube channel.

2:13 p.m. Oct 26, 2020, UTC-4

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"How can I look my father in the eye and say 'you're a good human being'?"

1:23 p.m. Oct 26, 2020, UTC-4

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"if your sentiments can be hurt so easily with facts, I'd like to advise you to work on your sentiments"

12:49 p.m. Oct 26, 2020, UTC-4

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The whole house has the sweet aroma of burnt bread. Probably because I burnt my sandwich.

11:27 p.m. Oct 25, 2020, UTC-4

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September

Gosh fricking dang it. All dates on here are a month off. I hate this.

11:22 p.m. Oct 25, 2020, UTC-4

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I think I've missed daily posts on here by a single day. I didn't Think August 12th.

11:21 p.m. Oct 25, 2020, UTC-4

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The person down the hall vacuuming at 11pm lololol

11:10 p.m. Oct 25, 2020, UTC-4

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Mechanical keyboards are so feminine.

8:52 p.m. Oct 25, 2020, UTC-4

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I feel like a piece of trash that someone needs to crumple up and throw away.

11:16 p.m. Oct 24, 2020, UTC-4

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The character limit on my first line is 140 characters. 280 on Twitter was too many, it was easy to stay under that. This requires effort.

8:38 p.m. Oct 24, 2020, UTC-4

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One of my greatest weaknesses is that I can sum up my thoughts on any subject in less than a hundred words.

8:35 p.m. Oct 24, 2020, UTC-4

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This is a reminder that the Chinese Communist Party is holding Uyghurs in concentration camps.

1:09 p.m. Oct 24, 2020, UTC-4

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The only thing I hate more than the internet is the outernet

11:10 a.m. Oct 24, 2020, UTC-4

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Did you know `nevermind` isn't a word. Funky.

10:17 p.m. Oct 23, 2020, UTC-4

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Nevermind, JS generator functions return `Generator` objects so you have to `.next().value` all the time. 0/10, IIFEs are more flexible.

10:17 p.m. Oct 23, 2020, UTC-4

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Pros of generator functions: cool, useful

Cons of generator functions: I can't spell `yeild`

10:11 p.m. Oct 23, 2020, UTC-4

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I love the conversations I have created in Fireside Chats. Weather corrects Raumaan on JS operator precedence, 10/10.

8:39 p.m. Oct 23, 2020, UTC-4

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I'm going to mute the colors of the dark mode, make it a slightly more dark and less yellow. Hex colors below. Let me if you have thoughts

--background-color: #23252E;
--text-color: #b3b9c1;
--accent-color: #9a9168;

8:08 p.m. Oct 23, 2020, UTC-4

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Jon Bois just published the last chapter of 20020. Absolutely beautiful.

I highly recommend checking it out, even if you haven't read or didn't like 17776. Jon understand what I might call "art." The beauty of being human, of imperfections.

He lets us peak at his morality and worldview, which I don't agree with (but that's a longer Thought), but it doesn't take away from the story.

https://www.sbnation.com/secret-base/21410129/20020

8:03 p.m. Oct 23, 2020, UTC-4

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I am supersaturated

2:21 p.m. Oct 23, 2020, UTC-4

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I totally have bags under my eyes. I need more sleep

1:33 p.m. Oct 23, 2020, UTC-4

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SQLite is beautiful and you should be using it.

12:58 p.m. Oct 23, 2020, UTC-4

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According to the 2020 IEEE Taxonomy, the only three "Web sites" are Facebook, MySpace, and YouTube.

12:52 p.m. Oct 23, 2020, UTC-4

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I feel comfortable saying at this time, after the novelty has worn off, that the Touch Bar was a bad idea and my computer is worse off for it

12:01 p.m. Oct 23, 2020, UTC-4

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Playing Minecraft to distract me from my problems. I got a Discord notification and my body spasmed as a result of an anxiety rush.

11:43 a.m. Oct 23, 2020, UTC-4

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I wonder who I should vote for. I'm going to open Youtube and vote for the candidate that first shows me an ad.

11:02 a.m. Oct 23, 2020, UTC-4

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So I have a long term goal of passing the Twitter user currently named carlita_express in number of Tweets.

Obviously, I’m now using this site instead of Twitter. The question becomes, do I get to count these as “Tweets” for the purpose of this goal?

At the time I made [that goal](https://twitter.com/Matthias_4910/status/1135757530406146048), I was on pace to overtake him, but he has accelerated his tweeting.

1:54 a.m. Oct 23, 2020, UTC-4

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People for some reason think that ultra minimalistic or old fashioned themes ‘allow you to focus on the content’

If you’re obnoxious in your minimalism, or your lack of styling, just like anything else, that distracts from the content. The medium is the message. You cannot escape.

1:47 a.m. Oct 23, 2020, UTC-4

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I was in a couple of Matrix servers that are set up to kick people that have been inactive for 30+ days.

Sorry I don't talk about your product regularly, doesn't mean I don't care. Wow.

6:31 p.m. Oct 22, 2020, UTC-4

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This website does not pass the Bechdel test.

1:03 p.m. Oct 22, 2020, UTC-4

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Evan Chen was low-key like, I'm going to write a textbook on advanced math, for the fun of it, then make it free.

https://venhance.github.io/napkin/Napkin.pdf

"If you can’t see why the theorems here 'should' be true, you’re doing it wrong."

12:48 p.m. Oct 22, 2020, UTC-4

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People on KA accidentally re-invented furry inflation art.

10:14 a.m. Oct 22, 2020, UTC-4

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Help I recorded 5 hours of footage that needs to be edited into 20 minutes.

12:20 a.m. Oct 22, 2020, UTC-4

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Played a lot of Minecraft today, I think. Hopefully episode 2 of my series will be published soon.

11:24 p.m. Oct 21, 2020, UTC-4

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I spent probably 45 minutes wrestling with CSS, and all I got out of it was `width: fit-content;`.

12:51 a.m. Oct 21, 2020, UTC-4

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Music (the app formerly known as "iTunes") won't open. 1/10. AMPLibraryAgent is using 100% of my CPU.

7:04 p.m. Oct 20, 2020, UTC-4

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"Being the young and thoughtful person that I am"

6:14 p.m. Oct 20, 2020, UTC-4

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I just want everything I make to be perfect.

5:14 p.m. Oct 20, 2020, UTC-4

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Apparently Google has been archiving this webpage. I'm a bit scared. Where did I even link this from?

11:42 p.m. Oct 19, 2020, UTC-4

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“If you're bald, losing hair would be very weird because where did you even get the hair from”

11:26 p.m. Oct 19, 2020, UTC-4

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Fun fact, steel melts at a lower temperature than iron.

3:19 p.m. Oct 19, 2020, UTC-4

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Welcome to the Black Parade.

Welcome to College Football Saturday.

Same energy

11:33 a.m. Oct 19, 2020, UTC-4

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I'm happy I managed to pull of the colors here. I probably should have gone for something more modern, but for now I like this.

9:14 a.m. Oct 19, 2020, UTC-4

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Cat with shirt is the cutest thing I've ever seen

11:14 p.m. Oct 18, 2020, UTC-4

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I asked a question of bill wurtz

11:11 p.m. Oct 18, 2020, UTC-4

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I can’t take it. The world is just so big and so dumb.

9:36 p.m. Oct 18, 2020, UTC-4

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"'Mensa' means 'table' in Latin"

9:29 p.m. Oct 18, 2020, UTC-4

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I can only conclude that having 2.5 billion dollars changed Notch.

2012 (after he's stopped working on Minecraft, but is still at Mojang), he says "every character and animal in Minecraft is homosexual because there’s only one gender to choose from. Take THAT, homophobes!"

2017 he says, "If you're against the concept of a #HetrosexualPrideDay, you're a complete ******* **** and deserve to be shot."

He's said some stuff on Twitter that I don't agree with, but moreover, the way that he says it is so tactless. He doesn't post often enough on Twitter about himself for me to be able to judge him well.

9:28 p.m. Oct 18, 2020, UTC-4

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Julia Evans is creating creating some high quality bash tutorials, and this fool is all ‘just read the POSIX spec’

Like, I’m sure the spec is ‘surprisingly readable,’ but it’s still not color coded and doesn’t have little stick figures pointing out common pitfalls.

12:48 p.m. Oct 18, 2020, UTC-4

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Money

12:46 p.m. Oct 18, 2020, UTC-4

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"Is it in our nature to want to sacrifice ourselves to the wringer in order to win?"

There is a beauty in 'stop worrying and love the bomb' that is not pure, but a combination of a number of human instincts. I do not yet fully understand it.

2:18 a.m. Oct 18, 2020, UTC-4

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Jon Bois in 5 minutes can make me a fan of Alabama football. Get me a Valentine Jones, UAB jersey. Roll Tide!

That's University of Alabama-Birmingham.

1:51 a.m. Oct 18, 2020, UTC-4

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10: "David Attenborough energy. I like it."

Juice: "is that the set it and forget it guy"

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?

1:29 a.m. Oct 18, 2020, UTC-4

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If I add the ability for people to message me on here I’m going to end up regretting it later.

12:11 a.m. Oct 18, 2020, UTC-4

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I made pasta

From 6 eggs and 4 cups of flour, with a rolling pin a pot of boiling water.

8:47 p.m. Oct 17, 2020, UTC-4

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Fewer thoughts today (yesterday). I've been busy. Writing mostly.

12:22 a.m. Oct 17, 2020, UTC-4

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RFC 4329 defines the MIME type for Javascript to be `application/javascript`. The HTML spec defines it to be `text/javascript`.

The internet is broken.

6:28 p.m. Oct 16, 2020, UTC-4

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I need image support on here. I don't want them inline, sounds intrusive. I guess I could link to them. We'll see. Twitter for links for now

4:29 p.m. Oct 16, 2020, UTC-4

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Quality: https://thcf7.redgifs.com/FabulousDifficultChafer.webm

1:58 p.m. Oct 16, 2020, UTC-4

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For the first time in my life, I'm digging through the jQuery source code. I'm glad it didn't happen sooner.

11:04 p.m. Oct 15, 2020, UTC-4

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The age of good Chipotle quesadillas is over. Capitalism has won again.

6:50 p.m. Oct 15, 2020, UTC-4

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Back in 2016ish, I wrote 6,000 words of a book. The plot hinged around a huge game. I found out about Jon Bois years later.

I understood when writing *TAOM* how a game could provide sufficient motivation to push a story forward, and could create conflict without necessitating evil. In many ways, this sort of conflict (that doesn't threaten the fate of the world) is much more similar to the kinds of conflicts normal people face in our every day lives. The characters can have emotional responses to the conflict of the game, and in some ways, these responses seem more real.

Most people, and most authors, do not understand the way that games link to stories. They think that the value in a game is only in being interactive, or else in being physically impressive. What Jon Bois understands is that any time you have a game, you have a story. Jon Bois has dedicated his life to telling stories about games, historical, modern, and fictional. He's found incredible stories from seemingly inconsequential moments in sports, and he's used sports to tell incredible stories about humans.

I didn't realize how similar this was to my own goals with *TAOM* until *20020*. *20020* is just a story about a fictional game, and I think this is the first time Jon has done that. *The Tim Tebow CFL Chronicles* went for humor, *17776* tried to do a lot with big themes of human nature, and with everyone else, Jon Bois has pretended to be informative, more than just a story.

I highly recommend reading 20020, a story about a game (that includes footballs, I don't want to mislead you by calling it a "football game"): https://www.sbnation.com/secret-base/21410129/20020*

1:33 p.m. Oct 15, 2020, UTC-4

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Reddit is a shell of its former self. The more people you have trying to get in on an inside joke, the less complicated it can be.

Reddit won't let 69,420 die; the meta-meme "haha funny sex/weed number" has been incorporated into the original joke by people who don't understand satire, and who now use it un-ironically.

10:36 p.m. Oct 14, 2020, UTC-4

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Why is everyone on Tumblr gay? I do not understand

8:45 p.m. Oct 14, 2020, UTC-4

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I spent the past 5 hours fighting with the physical world.

I have assembled a thing and I am waiting for the wood glue to dry.

4:23 p.m. Oct 14, 2020, UTC-4

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“like my sister is lesbian and i still love just as much as my straight sister”

12:11 a.m. Oct 14, 2020, UTC-4

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I have a similar relationship with PEP8 as most people have with their significant other.

5:32 p.m. Oct 13, 2020, UTC-4

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The smart JavaScript developer writes as little JS as possible.

5:15 p.m. Oct 13, 2020, UTC-4

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The 5S was the perfect size phone. The iPhone 12 mini is back to iPhone 6 size, which is good; better than the XR I have now, but still big.

2:47 p.m. Oct 13, 2020, UTC-4

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I thought 1 open source Slack alternative (Element) was enough! Why does Mattermost exist!‽

12:01 p.m. Oct 13, 2020, UTC-4

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"I am brown and ugly"

I am ***** and I am the author 5 books and a professional journalist and the best I can do to describe my main character is "brown and ugly." But "I have many, many people who are my friends in real life who are darker-skinned than I am."

He has apologized profusely and I believe him that he was 16 and didn't know what he was doing but it doesn't make it less funny.

9:57 p.m. Oct 12, 2020, UTC-4

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Mozilla is not setting themselves up for future success.

6:15 p.m. Oct 12, 2020, UTC-4

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"Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around." Context and analysis below the fold

The line before is "especially in languages like C that don't naturally do dynamic typing."

I think this idea is key. I'm frequently caught up in the strict/dynamic typing conflict. But the key is "smart" typing. Type checking things that need to be type-checked. Creating standard interfaces that allow for code re-use. Not checking properties that aren't important.

Source is still The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Eric S. Raymond, http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ar01s04.html

5:58 p.m. Oct 12, 2020, UTC-4

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"Debugging is parallelizable".

Although debugging requires debuggers to communicate with some coordinating developer, it doesn't require significant coordination between debuggers. Thus it doesn't fall prey to the same quadratic complexity and management costs that make adding developers problematic.

- The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Eric S. Raymond, http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ar01s04.html

5:41 p.m. Oct 12, 2020, UTC-4

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"The Referer header is missing an R, due to an original misspelling in the spec."

The web is so broken.

4:01 p.m. Oct 12, 2020, UTC-4

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Using the hum of a computer's CPU to decode the secret key that it is using to encrypt a payload: https://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tromer/acoustic/

3:14 p.m. Oct 12, 2020, UTC-4

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I created an upside down open face sandwich. I am too powerful.

2:55 p.m. Oct 12, 2020, UTC-4

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I use Reddit in part out of nostalgia for 2016 me_irl, which was just amazingly high quality. 2020 Reddit is trash.

3 types of Redditors today:

- Doesn't care, wants some memes; Low effort content creation or re-posting.

- Compares everything to the ideal meme, nothing matches up. Tries to start new, obscure memes, but no one else is on board.

- Remembers good memes, knows today's memes aren't as good. Oh well.

12:50 p.m. Oct 12, 2020, UTC-4

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"I use vape so it only contain nicotine as harmful substance not any other things"

This fool is like 'oh yeah, nicotine's addictive, I'm addicted to my vape.' And you're a kid. That's a *bad thing*. I don't care if it doesn't kill you, I still wouldn't want to be addicted to anything.

12:46 p.m. Oct 12, 2020, UTC-4

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It’s okay if you don’t like me, I don’t like myself.

10:40 a.m. Oct 12, 2020, UTC-4

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How hard is it? Just be better. com'on

2:44 a.m. Oct 12, 2020, UTC-4

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I manually went in and deleted the build folder, and that worked. What the hell. How do you create a build stack so bad and so convoluted.

2:40 a.m. Oct 12, 2020, UTC-4

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I cannot work with a modern web stack I cannot do it. I change my code, it works until I create a production build.

YOU CANNOT DEBUG MINIFIED PRODUCTION NPM PACKAGE CODE THERE'S NOTHING THERE.

I deleted ALL OF MY CODE. And rebuild and refresh, and it STARTS WORKING. WHERE IS IT GETTING THE CODE FROM?

2:35 a.m. Oct 12, 2020, UTC-4

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I'm too powerful. It knows that if it runs my code, I will take over the world so it refuses to acknowledge that my code exists.

2:20 a.m. Oct 12, 2020, UTC-4

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I've been using this website for well over a month now, wow. It feels like yesterday.

1:36 a.m. Oct 12, 2020, UTC-4

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All I have done will be undone by the Lord

1:34 a.m. Oct 12, 2020, UTC-4

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Lastpass updated and a) the annoying girl is gone, 10/10, and b) there's an option to show my master password, 10/10

Now why, Matthias, would you want to show your master password?*

Well, it's secure, which means it's very long and difficult to type in, so I frequently mess it up. Being able to visually check it (when I'm alone in my room) saves me time and prevents me from being locked out of my account for too many incorrect password attempts (yes this has happened to me multiple times).

1:02 a.m. Oct 12, 2020, UTC-4

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I do not like `wasm-pack`. It sounds so cool but I cannot understand what it does. It adds an insane amount of code to do nothing

12:51 a.m. Oct 12, 2020, UTC-4

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Ah dang, the matrix transformations getting computed in GLSL again

12:30 a.m. Oct 12, 2020, UTC-4

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I blocked FreshBakedPizza on Discord, and I don't regret it at all.

It's very frequent for me to see

*blocked message*

FBP, learn how to read, that's not what I said at all.

12:29 a.m. Oct 12, 2020, UTC-4

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SWYgeW91IGNhbid0IGRlY29kZSBiYXNlNjQsIEknbSBqdXN0IG5vdCBldmVuIGludGVyZXN0ZWQgaW4gdGFsa2luZyB0byB5b3UuCg==

11:21 p.m. Oct 11, 2020, UTC-4

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"You all act like you've never seen a good coder before, jaws on all on the floor" -The Real Xacer, Mango

11:13 p.m. Oct 11, 2020, UTC-4

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It is difficult for me to describe how painful it is for me to work with a modern web stack.

It feels like I'm playing operation, like the debug tools just aren't there yet and I'm poking blindly into a beast. There are so many layers on top of normal JavaScript to create errors, because I don't understand them.

9:41 p.m. Oct 11, 2020, UTC-4

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"Here" is so fricking good and Alessia Cara cannot match herself.

You really played yourself there.

2:54 p.m. Oct 11, 2020, UTC-4

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Congrats to Grant on π million subscribers.

I was going to post this yesterday when he tweeted about it, but I couldn't easily type π on my phone keyboard.

2:06 p.m. Oct 11, 2020, UTC-4

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Statistics depress me. I can handle failure. But quantifying my failure gets to me.

I don’t make things for other people, I make things for myself, for me to enjoy. And if I don’t think about other people’s reaction, then I’m fine. But if you tell me, ‘that thing you made, 2 people like it,’ that hurts. I just want people to like the things that I like and appreciate the things that I do. In my life I’ve probably made 10 things that have made more than 100 people happy, and they are all Khan Academy programs. I just don’t exist. I live in this bubble and I can make the bubble better for myself indefinitely, but I need validation from the outside world to confirm that what I’m doing matters.

I once said, everything that you want in this life you have to fight for. And that applies to other people liking your content. You can’t just make cool things and expect other people to spontaneously like them. You have to force them upon people until they have to like them. You can’t expect people to subscribe to content they enjoy, you have to ask them to subscribe at the start of every video. You can’t expect people to come searching for content, you have to advertise it. And I don’t mean advertise so that they know about it, I mean market it as the greatest thing ever. You can’t just make something that people want to use.

OurJSEditor has 13 stars on GitHub. I spent 4 years of my life for a dozen people to look at OJSE and go, ‘that’s neat’ and then never use the website again.

I’ve considered adding a views counter to this website, but I’m sure it would only depress me. I add a little bit of friction by not using Twitter, and suddenly no one cares.

In my mind I’m special, and people should care about the things that I make merely because I made them. I don’t like everything. I like few things. So in my mind, me liking something makes it special and other people appreciate it as well. ‘Oh this is the thing Matthias likes’ or ‘Oh I’m going to go play the game Matthias.’ I put a lot of work into it. I think my game is fun. That doesn’t matter. People aren’t going to play it if they don’t like it.

For a lot of my life I do not share things that I like, as a general rule. Conversations just go better that way, 90% of the time. But there’s a point where that wears on me. Where it hurts to not be able to relate to others.

And then even if someone expresses some interest, it’s not uncommon for me to jump at them and go off. The reply is usually ‘oh I’m not that much of a fan, IDK’

This is all very informative. I’m learning. Hopefully at some points in the future I can make something that people like.

The stuff I’m saying here will not be true forever. I will eventually learn how to be happy about things other people like. But it hasn’t happened yet.

12:36 a.m. Oct 11, 2020, UTC-4

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I just have so much stuff to do.

12:01 a.m. Oct 11, 2020, UTC-4

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On second thought, I understand that not everyone wants the same things I do. It's interesting that that is a fundamental difference in

desires and not a difference in circumstances. You have 2 stoplights and don't need one; that makes sense. You don't want a stoplight? That throws my mind for a loop. It makes me uncomfortable. I start questioning whether I should want a stoplight, or else if you *should* want a stoplight.

10:30 p.m. Oct 10, 2020, UTC-4

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It's interesting to realize that not everyone wants the same things I do

10:25 p.m. Oct 10, 2020, UTC-4

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I can't believe Aidabaida and Blaze have deleted their KA accounts. I miss them. They were active on KA the same time as me. Makes me sad.

So much history gone. So much art taken out of the world.

10:12 p.m. Oct 10, 2020, UTC-4

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Ladies, KWC rejected me. :( This is why I don't make the first move.

8:19 p.m. Oct 10, 2020, UTC-4

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lodine

4:18 p.m. Oct 10, 2020, UTC-4

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Some people call me Libertarian, but I prefer the term, Velveeta Liquid Gold Mercantilist

12:35 p.m. Oct 10, 2020, UTC-4

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2016-2017, Technoblade went from 100k to 400k subscribers, and was all, '4x channel growth is not sustainable'. 1M to 4M this year.

11:12 a.m. Oct 10, 2020, UTC-4

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Nothing like a handstand to clear your head.

5:36 p.m. Oct 09, 2020, UTC-4

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"And so we never did much and so we never did wrong"

-I'm the One, Wilderness Survival

12:54 p.m. Oct 09, 2020, UTC-4

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Someone remind me to make WhisperMaPhone open source in a year

12:46 p.m. Oct 09, 2020, UTC-4

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Django continues to impress me. What should I be using instead?

3:52 p.m. Oct 08, 2020, UTC-4

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"here's my reddit page...if you wanna take a look at it..."

12:02 p.m. Oct 08, 2020, UTC-4

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Norma McCorvey, the Roe from Roe v. Wade is a legend. It's impossible to describe her in an unbiased way because she was so chaotic.

Just when I'm like, it can't get more wack, it does. Summaries are like, 'Norma's first child was raised by Norma's mom' and then you read the story and Norma's mom kidnapped her granddaughter and tricked Norma into signing adoption papers.

"At the age of 10, Norma robbed the till at a gas station and ran away with a girlfriend. They took a motel room in Oklahoma City, but were caught when a maid walked in on the two girls kissing and reported them to the police." What am I supposed to do with this information?

I can't even get into the fact that the pro-life movement claims that she was pro-life and the pro-choice movement claims that she was pro-choice. She made many statements supporting both positions.

She was lesbian, except for the 3 times she got pregnant, and the 20 years that she lived in the same house as her female best friend, platonically of course, because she was a Roman Catholic and had publicly denounced homosexuality.

1:57 a.m. Oct 08, 2020, UTC-4

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JoeHills and JCFluteMan is a recipe for beauty.

12:43 a.m. Oct 08, 2020, UTC-4

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Half Alive is like a warm cup of hot chocolate.

12:25 a.m. Oct 08, 2020, UTC-4

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I love ads for gaming products. They're so universally bad. No company understands the motives of teenagers playing video games.

3:21 p.m. Oct 07, 2020, UTC-4

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'I personally think any politician that cites religious motives is being sleazy'

1:14 p.m. Oct 07, 2020, UTC-4

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Considering adding an option for people to send me anonymous messages on here, a la Tumblr asks or Bill Wurtz Questions.

1:13 p.m. Oct 07, 2020, UTC-4

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I am never doing ads. We're not doing it. Ads are giving up the art of development in favor of monetization.

Specifically putting someone else's image, that they have designed, inside of your content that you have designed, seems dumb. They end up competing and it hurts both.

Sponsored content, where you're designing some aspect of your content (for someone else in exchange for money), make more sense.

1:12 p.m. Oct 07, 2020, UTC-4

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Apparently I have the instagram account @Matthias_4910. Just logged in for the first time in years.

10:44 a.m. Oct 07, 2020, UTC-4

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Bruh it feels like fricking Friday. I can’t wait for this week to be over.

12:17 a.m. Oct 07, 2020, UTC-4

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While we're on the topic of Penrose, he won the Noble prize in Physics yesterday (for unrelated work on black holes).

I was a Penrose fan before it was cool! Woot woot!

And while we're here, shoutout to [@Ayliean](https://twitter.com/Ayliean/status/1313450440269475843), who introduced me to Penrose's work. Here's her video on a similar topic: https://youtu.be/uAfEVtYGfkM

5:02 p.m. Oct 06, 2020, UTC-4

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Less than halfway through the video, Penrose comes up. Shocking, never would have expected it.

4:52 p.m. Oct 06, 2020, UTC-4

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Fine I'll watch your Veritasium video, Youtube algorithm.

4:33 p.m. Oct 06, 2020, UTC-4

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A yellow flower sits in a field.

Alone, but for the sun. The sky hangs above, and the dirt hangs below, and the grass flies up between them.

The clouds drift in the currents of the sky, sitting in a field of blue. The wind pulls and stretches and whisks the fluff into strands and swirls, which adorn the dome above.

The ground sweeps away, rolling forward in all directions, moving inexorably towards the horizon.

Heat falls from the sun, sharply and flying into the grass.

There is more, and yet, nothing more.

11:53 a.m. Oct 06, 2020, UTC-4

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Grian: It is very important to not leak the location of the secret base.

immediately shows bedrock*

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.

4:34 p.m. Oct 05, 2020, UTC-4

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Who is hyped for everyone's favorite holiday, Amazon Prime Day!!

8:30 a.m. Oct 05, 2020, UTC-4

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Please take my soul daddy Google, just keep it safe in the cloud.

12:42 a.m. Oct 05, 2020, UTC-4

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I don't know who I am. I do things I never would have expected. I am slowly ruining my life and I can't figure out why.

11:27 p.m. Oct 04, 2020, UTC-4

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Thinking about the Dream/Technoblade fight again following my binge of Mr. Beast's videos.

Knowing more about Mr. Beast allowed me to say with more confidence what I originally chalked up to poor editing. Mr. Beast is incredibly hungry for attention. He gives money to people because the reaction of the people, the attention he gets from it, is worth more to him that the money is. The lie Mr. Beast tells you is that his videos are about the contestants, the participants. The videos are about Mr. Beast.

This isn't a problem, when the contestants are random people, that's perfectly fair. That's true for any gameshow—you're there for the host and the questions, who the contestants are doesn't matter. But when that one guy that was amazingly good shows up on Jeopardy and breaks the game, Jeopardy doesn't shut him down. Alex (the host, I think. I'm not looking things up), is good enough to roll with that. When Technoblade starts makes jokes in Mr. Beast's video, that gets edited out. And that's bad editing sure, but that's also Mr. Beast's fault (even if Mr. Beast isn't editing the video).

10:59 p.m. Oct 04, 2020, UTC-4

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I don't know if I'll ever get over the way my fans stop when I activate Siri on my Mac. 10/10

2:13 a.m. Oct 04, 2020, UTC-4

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Me: carbonated water hurts my mouth.

My friend who loves drinking sparkling water: There are some people who are aroused by pain.

I mean, that’s what they tried to say, what they actually said was “you could say some people are eroti-siced,” and then we all died laughing.

6:53 p.m. Oct 03, 2020, UTC-4

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The people who did Improv Everywhere apparently now have a show on Disney+. I’m unsurprised that they are stepping up their game.

2:30 p.m. Oct 03, 2020, UTC-4

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Lightbulbs are super aesthetically pleasing. They have a technical look because they’re electric, but a very natural shape.

10/10

2:29 p.m. Oct 03, 2020, UTC-4

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It is absolutely striking to compare Mr. Beast with Improv Everywhere.

So I've been super antisocial the last day or so, and I've been binge watching Mr. Beast. I don't like and am not subscribed to Mr. Beast, but some of his prompts, his ideas, are really good. The video style just ends up being more of "Mr. Beast REACTS to stranger that he gave $100" than anything else. And I don't enjoy those reaction-style videos, where a large portion of the content is really the emotional response of Jimmy and Chandler and Tyler, more so than content about what's going on. To me as a viewer, I don't care about the amount of money involved; the money is only there to elicit an emotional response from the people in the video.

(Background for Improv Everywhere. They peaked in fricking 2008, 12 years ago, with a 37M view video. Sure, Mr. Beast gets millions of views on every video, but to get that many views 12 years ago is insanity. The iPhone had come out less than a year ago; Twitter less than two. People didn't have Youtube accounts so the video had like a handful of likes. They didn't build a dedicated audience, because that's something people didn't know how to do on Youtube in 2008.)

On the other hand, Improv Everywhere does some similar prompts. They don't do giveaways. They do public skits/pranks but some portion of their content is the other people in public that are reacting to their stunt. But they very intentionally do not have a "face." If you did through their stuff you find the guy that leads it at the beginning of most of their videos, but I don't know his name, and cut all prep time out of some of the more recent ones. Since the stunt isn't giveaway-style, their stunts create audio/visual contrast to the normal. This gives you more time to react to it personally, and imagine what's like to be there. Your experience is much closer to the experience of someone randomly on the street, with the notable exception that you know that it's staged.

Improv Everywhere treats their work like art. Their goal is to do a performance, whereas Mr. Beast is running a gameshow. If Mr. Beast treated his videos like IE does, he and his friends wouldn't have any lines, it would just be classical music over the reaction of someone getting money. I'm not trying to say that's why Mr. Beast is successful—Youtube success is a different question to content-style. I think it's interesting to compare the content of these channels that have similar success in different time periods.

2:06 p.m. Oct 03, 2020, UTC-4

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I judge people primarily based off of how old their Discord account is. Pre-2017 and you're instantly cool.

12:24 a.m. Oct 03, 2020, UTC-4

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I cannot rule out that I am already dead. It is a distinct possibility.

3:03 p.m. Oct 02, 2020, UTC-4

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I feel like I haven't accomplished anything in my life, like I'm working not to create, but just to survive.

I try to fight that. The dichotomy doesn't surprise me. But I set out to create things and I feel like I'm failing.

12:39 p.m. Oct 02, 2020, UTC-4

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In a video game, if I make even a small mistake, I die instantly. I for some reason expect life to be the same way.

I haven’t worked in a week. Why haven’t I been fired, run out of money, and starved to death?

10:09 a.m. Oct 02, 2020, UTC-4

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The questions of temperature and location are so closely linked that it is impossible to ask one without the other.

8:17 a.m. Oct 02, 2020, UTC-4

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Veritasium tries to clickbait me, and I'm like, oh yeah, that's a penrose tiling. Classic. Don't need to watch your video.

4:37 p.m. Oct 01, 2020, UTC-4

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Waiting for someone to assassinate me

1:50 p.m. Oct 01, 2020, UTC-4

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I am struggling

11:19 a.m. Oct 01, 2020, UTC-4

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I have a cardinality of 1.

10:47 a.m. Oct 01, 2020, UTC-4

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It’s surprising to me that etymology is a popular or successful field. Obviously it’s interesting, but there are a lot of interesting things.

9:56 a.m. Oct 01, 2020, UTC-4

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20020 is mind numbing

12:09 a.m. Oct 01, 2020, UTC-4

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It’s not quite fair to say that society is an illusion.

It’s more accurate to say that society is a series of illusions stacked on top of each other.

11:51 p.m. Sep 30, 2020, UTC-4

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I’m trying to explain how I would ironically make pasta noodles and I don’t think it’s really coming across.

11:47 p.m. Sep 30, 2020, UTC-4

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Always more stuff to do

11:46 p.m. Sep 30, 2020, UTC-4

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I have Markdown support here now. I've been using markdown for a while, but it renders now. And line breaks and spacing show up as well.

10:17 p.m. Sep 30, 2020, UTC-4

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And cdnjs is also a thing? It's *exactly the same*. I don't understand.

9:54 p.m. Sep 30, 2020, UTC-4

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Can someone explain to my why Unpkg exists?

Is there a *single* features it has that JSDelivr doesn't? Is it more ethical? Easier to use? I don't get it. Unpkg was founded 4 years after JSDelivr. How do you look at JSDelivr and say, I *need* to do that in black and white, and then get end up with 50 billion requests a month? ??? ?

9:41 p.m. Sep 30, 2020, UTC-4

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I haven't written code in like 5 days :\

8:04 p.m. Sep 30, 2020, UTC-4

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“I wish I had white shoes on with my outfit today, because it would have worked much better”

6:55 p.m. Sep 30, 2020, UTC-4

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Turner is still writing the *Queen’s Thief*??? It’s been 20 years.

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

5:11 p.m. Sep 30, 2020, UTC-4

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Lunch is a social construct. What matters is that I’m hungry and we have food that I want to eat.

4:26 p.m. Sep 30, 2020, UTC-4

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"There are benefits to white supremacy"

1:28 p.m. Sep 30, 2020, UTC-4

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Listening to *If I Left the Zoo*. Amazing, past me was a genius...

So Jars of Clay is one of my favorite bands. The problem is that they stopped making music around 2014. So unlike, AJR, where I aggressively collect old AJR without restraint, I restrained myself from binge listening to all Jars of Clay. I have a couple albums in my music, but there are a couple more Jars of Clay albums I've never listened to. One of them is *If I Left the Zoo*, which I just started listening to today. It's very good and it's making me very happy. "Unforgetful You" starts like a Green Day song, quality alt rock.

1:14 p.m. Sep 30, 2020, UTC-4

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Matt Parker using "she" to refer to his friend in a video.

What is this? Why are Jame Grime and Einstein are "they" but Eugénie v Tunzelmann is a "she." I don't understand. What are Matt's pronouns? What are pronouns?

12:41 p.m. Sep 30, 2020, UTC-4

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I wish I could pause time and clean up my tabs

12:27 p.m. Sep 30, 2020, UTC-4

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Where do the types of people who have read *Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid* hang out?

IRC?

12:07 p.m. Sep 30, 2020, UTC-4

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Guys, guys, I found my new favorite library a7ul/esbuild-node-tsc

"Please note this library doesnt do typechecking."

It's a Typescript compiler that doesn't do type checking. It just strips out the type symbols and returns JS. 0/10 for practicality. You just throw whatever fricking types in there and this is like, eh, doesn't matter.

Like, wait a minute, JS is loosely typed! We don't actually have to keep track of these types! "blazing fast" builds!

10:23 a.m. Sep 30, 2020, UTC-4

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I haven't made a good decision in a couple of years.

9:25 a.m. Sep 30, 2020, UTC-4

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This wicked generation does not deserve a sign of God. I pray that the Lord would have mercy and reveal Himself to stubborn anyways.

12:19 a.m. Sep 30, 2020, UTC-4

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I think I’m Tolstoy, lol, “Why Do Men Stupefy Themselves?”

11:56 p.m. Sep 29, 2020, UTC-4

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Why do people take drugs? Is the world not perfectly exciting and perfectly boring? Does your body not wrap you up in feelings

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?

11:55 p.m. Sep 29, 2020, UTC-4

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Tempted to dye my hair blue.

I want to be a fairy.

11:51 p.m. Sep 29, 2020, UTC-4

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It’s difficult to see a pretty sunset if you sit inside when the sun is setting.

11:22 a.m. Sep 29, 2020, UTC-4

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I have decided WolframAlpha doesn't understand how to multiply matrices. Which is still concerning, but slightly less so.

Compare https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=matrix+multiplication+calculator&assumption={"F"%2C+"MatricesOperations"%2C+"theMatrix2"}+->"{{1%3B0%3B0}%3B{0%3B1%3B1}%3B{0%3B1%3B2}}"&assumption={"F"%2C+"MatricesOperations"%2C+"theMatrix1"}+->"{{1%3B0%3B0}%3B{0%3B1%3B0}%3B{0%3B-1%3B1}}"

and https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i={{1%3B0%3B0}%3B{0%3B1%3B0}%3B{0%3B-1%3B1}}+*+{{1%3B0%3B0}%3B{0%3B1%3B1}%3B{0%3B1%3B2}}

Why are they different? I don't know. You don't know. No one knows.

9:56 a.m. Sep 29, 2020, UTC-4

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I still don't know how to multiply matrices. This is becoming a problem.

Please save me daddy Grant Sanderson.

9:45 a.m. Sep 29, 2020, UTC-4

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I am child who does not math well.

9:18 a.m. Sep 29, 2020, UTC-4

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The Guidelines have been almost completely eschewed, and shockingly enough, I'm not being productive.

I'm not actually using eschewed correctly, but whatever.

9:05 a.m. Sep 29, 2020, UTC-4

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I'm tired. My brain doesn't work reliably. Only habits keep me from lying down and not getting up.

8:56 a.m. Sep 29, 2020, UTC-4

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I dreamt about her again last night.

8:55 a.m. Sep 29, 2020, UTC-4

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I may in fact be a myth

12:00 a.m. Sep 29, 2020, UTC-4

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I will not allow what little dignity I have to be taken from me.

11:53 p.m. Sep 28, 2020, UTC-4

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Throwback to the fursona Tazal made me.

3/10 for art quality, 10/10 for the meme.

10:56 p.m. Sep 28, 2020, UTC-4

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How hard is it to use people’s preferred pronouns, Matt Parker?

9:06 p.m. Sep 28, 2020, UTC-4

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There are relatively few people who want to lead.

8:22 p.m. Sep 28, 2020, UTC-4

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Everyone wants to be the next Martin Gardner. Everyone wants to do recreational mathematics.

You can't read Gardner, and make a Youtube video, and be the next Gardner. Gardner *invented* recreational mathematics. He found things Mathematics had never heard of and introduced them.

I love Vi Hart and her content, and she introduced me to Gardner. Her following and reputation is deserved. But she's not, and shouldn't be, a famous mathematician. She's making mathematics accessible to the public, but she's not doing new math. The same goes for Numberphile, and 3Blue1Brown, and all the other math Youtube channels.

My concern is that Recreational Mathematics is a "field" of math, and the topics discussed are the same topics that Gardner introduced years ago. Recreational mathematics should be a philosophy of math. Recreational math should be people *doing* math for the fun of it, and right now it is people *learning* about (or else teaching) math for the fun of it.

Matt Parker is one of the few channels that gets this, and Matt makes a point of trying to do new math, for the fun of it. He has made videos responding to 'dumb' questions people have sent in. Questions that *don't matter*, but are still super important in furthering our understanding of math, and demonstrating the mathematic process.

10:05 a.m. Sep 28, 2020, UTC-4

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Shoutout to the GNU coreutils, for being cooler than me.

9:31 a.m. Sep 28, 2020, UTC-4

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The DuckDuckGo feedback survey is all, ‘how many searches have you done in the last 24 hours’ and has a drop down to select 1-15 or more

than 15. I can open my browser history and check. I’ve done 91

11:46 p.m. Sep 27, 2020, UTC-4

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I don't love Google, and I give them a hard time, but I will happily use their products if I have to.

Youtube is great, Google Sheets, Drive, are all good. But I'm not going to use 8.8.8.8 because there are other DNS providers that are just as fast or faster, and I don't need Google knowing what sites I'm visiting. I use DuckDuckGo because their results aren't noticeably worse than Google's. I don't like Material design, as I've said previously, which turns me off from some things. I will use Google Fonts (although I have gripes) and Google Translate is amazing. I use Apple Maps by default, but use Waze when I'm in a hurry, etc.

Google is the big company, and I'm going to support smaller companies when I can. I like to know who is competing with Google, even if it would be easier to use the Google recommended service all the time. But if Google's product is better, I don't have a problem with using it.

11:16 p.m. Sep 27, 2020, UTC-4

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One of these days, I’m going to understand MAKEFILEs

6:27 p.m. Sep 27, 2020, UTC-4

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Why does time pass when I sit here and don’t do anything.

5:57 p.m. Sep 27, 2020, UTC-4

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So many dumb things going on

5:09 p.m. Sep 27, 2020, UTC-4

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I wish I could blame all my problems on someone other than myself.

1:32 p.m. Sep 27, 2020, UTC-4

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I don’t test my fire alarm weekly. I’m a bad boy

1:47 p.m. Sep 26, 2020, UTC-4

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Family Dollar might be my new favorite store.

1:47 p.m. Sep 26, 2020, UTC-4

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I fantasize about a store that sells only 9V batteries and spatulas.

1:16 p.m. Sep 26, 2020, UTC-4

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Parade

1:14 p.m. Sep 26, 2020, UTC-4

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Writing out captions twice because some of my friends are only on Snapchat and others are only on Discord.

11:54 a.m. Sep 26, 2020, UTC-4

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95% of bugs come from unnecessary options or features.

11:22 a.m. Sep 26, 2020, UTC-4

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I’m a big fan of paper towels. Why don’t we just clean everything with paper towels, always?

9:56 a.m. Sep 26, 2020, UTC-4

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Okay, sci-hub is amazing. *Information wants to be free.*

5:41 p.m. Sep 25, 2020, UTC-4

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Why is writing so fricking hard.

5:09 p.m. Sep 25, 2020, UTC-4

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Hot dang! Black, bold, large point Helvetica on white.

Normally, the emotional response that comes from seeing something diminishes with repetition. But some letterforms just never get old.

Also, the font stack for this page and OurJSEditor is `Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif`. It's not quite the same here, with less contrast and fewer pixels, but I'm fan.

I know Helvetica is basic and overused, but also, have you seen it?

4:53 p.m. Sep 25, 2020, UTC-4

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I'm relatively easily overstimulated.

4:19 p.m. Sep 25, 2020, UTC-4

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I hate mobile design. The darn phone screens are so small.

12:05 a.m. Sep 25, 2020, UTC-4

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It's not "lucky" that the cup was empty. The cup wouldn't have tipped if there was water in it. This is physics.

9:17 p.m. Sep 24, 2020, UTC-4

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I now have 3D printer filament, and a breadboard, and ESP modules, and relays.

And a cable to charge my electric shaver because I don’t know to use a normal razor.

5:40 p.m. Sep 24, 2020, UTC-4

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Ladies, ladies, my Amazon package got here!! That’s a day after they shipped it, and 2 days before it was supposed to.

I think it got here this morning, but I didn’t grab it off the porch when I looked this morning, because I assumed it wasn’t here yet.

5:38 p.m. Sep 24, 2020, UTC-4

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At least we can all agree that it is 2020.

9:41 a.m. Sep 24, 2020, UTC-4

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My Amazon order is supposed to get here Friday, that's a day early!

9:46 p.m. Sep 23, 2020, UTC-4

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“Data ≠ information”

8:26 p.m. Sep 23, 2020, UTC-4

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Thanks to barbecuetricks.com

4:43 p.m. Sep 23, 2020, UTC-4

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Fricking quality from SparkNotes, acknowledging Chronicles of Narnia as the iconic piece of literature that it is.

There are like 7 books. Aslan shows up like a handful of times. If you say that the theological references significantly impact your enjoyment of it, you sound like the conservative Christians who won't read Harry Potter because witchcraft is bad.

1:43 p.m. Sep 23, 2020, UTC-4

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Computerphile is not a good channel.

Tom Scott's videos on there are fine, but Tom is carrying hard. The other computer scientists, they're not good at explaining things in a practical way.

12:29 p.m. Sep 23, 2020, UTC-4

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My alarm went off this morning, I'm not banned from Khan Academy, I'm pretty happy.

11:41 a.m. Sep 23, 2020, UTC-4

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WHAT

9:06 a.m. Sep 23, 2020, UTC-4

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The curve should be flat by now

11:56 p.m. Sep 22, 2020, UTC-4

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Team Snapchat left me unread. :/

9:42 p.m. Sep 22, 2020, UTC-4

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I hate the woman in the background of the LassPass login page, mocking me as I fail to type my 20 character master password.

9:11 p.m. Sep 22, 2020, UTC-4

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These fools in 2018 be all, "when Hytale releases" like it's right around the corner. Isn't going to happen for another 2 years at least.

8:40 p.m. Sep 22, 2020, UTC-4

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In some ways it’s impressive. I’m managing to fall apart in multiple ways at the same time.

1:28 p.m. Sep 22, 2020, UTC-4

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"please stop, slackbot. I can't take it anymore"

12:04 p.m. Sep 22, 2020, UTC-4

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I'm getting flamed for not having HTTPS on my 2 views a month site that doesn't do anything.

12:01 p.m. Sep 22, 2020, UTC-4

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"i am pogging so hard right now"

12:00 p.m. Sep 22, 2020, UTC-4

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I cannot function as a normal human being. It does not work like that.

10:51 a.m. Sep 22, 2020, UTC-4

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I don't ask for much, but I do ask for my alarm to go off. It has failed to go off I think 3 days in a row now. I am failing

10:37 a.m. Sep 22, 2020, UTC-4

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Went to bed at like 2am and now I’m awake here 4 hours later. Having trouble sleeping.

6:00 a.m. Sep 22, 2020, UTC-4

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My mouth still hurts.

10:03 p.m. Sep 21, 2020, UTC-4

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I can't believe people don't love jazz. Jazz is the fricking best genre. Your average jazz is just amazing.

Pop and alt-rock and rap have their outliers, sure, and those outliers are better than jazz. But I'd take an average jazz song over an average pop song any day of the week and twice on Sundays, because Sundays are great for jazz.

9:46 p.m. Sep 21, 2020, UTC-4

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This shooting pain in my heart kind of concerns me.

I might be having a heart attack. Then again, I would probably be dead by now, it's been an hour. Maybe it's an hour long heart attack. That would be fun.

9:43 p.m. Sep 21, 2020, UTC-4

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I've written roughly 2,800 words for this website.

9:29 p.m. Sep 21, 2020, UTC-4

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I can't remember the last time I made a good decision.

9:26 p.m. Sep 21, 2020, UTC-4

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I want music that knows what music is supposed to be, yet doesn't know what it is.

I know who I am supposed to be, but don't know who I am.

9:18 p.m. Sep 21, 2020, UTC-4

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It's okay though, "The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Pt. 2 - EP" has dropped.

9:16 p.m. Sep 21, 2020, UTC-4

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I don’t have room in my head for new information anymore. Old information is getting deleted any time I try to learn something.

9:11 p.m. Sep 21, 2020, UTC-4

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Tapping on Cycle Tracking in the heath app on iOS 14 crashes my phone. I'm sure no one noticed, not that important of a feature, really. /s

8:48 p.m. Sep 21, 2020, UTC-4

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Why does it feel like 11:30 when it is only 8:30?

8:26 p.m. Sep 21, 2020, UTC-4

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I was laughing and crying and my heart rate was probably 100 and now I have a sharp pain in the middle of my chest when I take deep breaths.

8:23 p.m. Sep 21, 2020, UTC-4

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I am actually the most powerful person in the country.

2:05 p.m. Sep 21, 2020, UTC-4

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What if I was a walnut, wouldn't that be weird.

2:05 p.m. Sep 21, 2020, UTC-4

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I ordered stuff from Amazon like many hours ago, why is it not here yet?

I mean I don't have Prime and it was estimated to get here on the 26th, but still, I want it here now. Please...

2:05 p.m. Sep 21, 2020, UTC-4

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What if you pretended to fall and when helped you up you slipped a note into my hand that said "I love you." Haha jk. Unless...

12:56 p.m. Sep 21, 2020, UTC-4

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I have already significantly violated The Guidelines.

It was for a reason I would argue is reasonable; I made a good faith attempt to follow them. That being said, it was still my fault. I'm still unhappy. If I can turn my life around at this point it is going to very incredibly clutch.

11:04 a.m. Sep 21, 2020, UTC-4

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I have authored Guidelines of Productivity which go into effect at 8am tomorrow.

In a week, I'll either be very happy, or very depressed, depending on their effectiveness.

12:53 a.m. Sep 21, 2020, UTC-4

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My right wrist does not like me.

12:43 a.m. Sep 21, 2020, UTC-4

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I'm too tired to care.

12:01 a.m. Sep 21, 2020, UTC-4

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The real question is when will Nintendo add Ruth Bader Ginsberg to Smash?

11:33 p.m. Sep 20, 2020, UTC-4

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I don't want to die

11:15 p.m. Sep 20, 2020, UTC-4

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Hyperventilating is not helpful.

11:07 p.m. Sep 20, 2020, UTC-4

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Tumblr posts are either, ‘all Republicans deserve to die a painful death’ or else ‘bi women, not just lesbians, can be feminists.’

7:33 p.m. Sep 20, 2020, UTC-4

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The iOS 14 Siri loading animation was fricking stolen from the Health app period tracking symbol. I’m dying.

5:03 p.m. Sep 20, 2020, UTC-4

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One of these days I’m going to write a kernel driver.

2:09 p.m. Sep 20, 2020, UTC-4

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“1

C-C-COMBO-BREAKER”

1:53 p.m. Sep 20, 2020, UTC-4

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"My render distance is 48 and I still can't find who asked"

9:11 p.m. Sep 19, 2020, UTC-4

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Sitting on the floor by the warmth of the oven, watching my potatoes cook.

6:04 p.m. Sep 19, 2020, UTC-4

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It is an international economic emergency.

3:38 p.m. Sep 19, 2020, UTC-4

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Crushing noobs in voidless bedwars. 9/10

1:48 a.m. Sep 19, 2020, UTC-4

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Currently using a grayscale color filter on my phone. Black and white is life.

1:47 a.m. Sep 19, 2020, UTC-4

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The problem is that I hate colors.

5:49 p.m. Sep 18, 2020, UTC-4

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It’s really hard to know what people want. It’s really stinkin’ hard. But that doesn’t mean you should stop trying.

12:57 a.m. Sep 18, 2020, UTC-4

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Solidworks is a bad program. I've never even used it, I just know I could make something better.

7:28 p.m. Sep 17, 2020, UTC-4

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I don’t even know what I’m hyped for I just know I’m hyped.

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

6:39 p.m. Sep 17, 2020, UTC-4

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`vh` are fricking beautiful. Favorite CSS unit by far.

6:34 p.m. Sep 17, 2020, UTC-4

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Firefox trying to give me security warnings for my own site, like, I know.

6:34 p.m. Sep 17, 2020, UTC-4

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To suggest that the God of love could ever hate His creation is blasphemy at best.

5:39 p.m. Sep 17, 2020, UTC-4

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People don't fricking appreciate subtlety these days.

5:36 p.m. Sep 17, 2020, UTC-4

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I was reading through my Tumblr earlier,

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

12:47 p.m. Sep 17, 2020, UTC-4

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Despite the fact that I frequently comment that I feel like a young child,

I am in fact glad that I no longer have to worry about constraining to their arbitrary and immature social pressures.

12:46 p.m. Sep 17, 2020, UTC-4

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Took a nice stroll this morning, barefoot, talking to myself and gesturing.

I’m surprised and lucky no one called the cops on me.

12:44 p.m. Sep 17, 2020, UTC-4

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It's not even noon, why am I already mentally done.

11:47 a.m. Sep 17, 2020, UTC-4

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Why is the sky so white?

Oh wait that’s the ceiling

11:08 a.m. Sep 17, 2020, UTC-4

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What if I don’t want to be a functioning member of society.

10:30 a.m. Sep 17, 2020, UTC-4

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“Partial upgrades are unsupported.”

10:26 a.m. Sep 17, 2020, UTC-4

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One of these days I’m going to learn how to fly.

10:00 a.m. Sep 17, 2020, UTC-4

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Time may or may not be meaningless, but if you pretend like it’s meaningless, it’s not like someone shows up banging on your door.

12:13 a.m. Sep 17, 2020, UTC-4

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I get imposter syndrome sometimes, when it comes to life. Like everyone else is a real person obviously, but am I?

3:29 p.m. Sep 16, 2020, UTC-4

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I just don’t understand how people are ‘figuring out’ that KA moderation is bad now. I figured out that KA moderation was bad c. 2015.

1:59 p.m. Sep 16, 2020, UTC-4

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My phone ran out of battery, so my alarm didn't go off. I slept for 12 hours.

10:40 a.m. Sep 16, 2020, UTC-4

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I have discovered the superior storage method for clothes. In a pile on the floor.

These are clean clothes, mind you.

10:24 p.m. Sep 15, 2020, UTC-4

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Imagine, if I had ADHD, how often I could post here.

10:20 p.m. Sep 15, 2020, UTC-4

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RSS should now be working at /feed. I don't know, RSS assumes a lot of things that I am not actually doing, like having links to things.

10:18 p.m. Sep 15, 2020, UTC-4

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I code really slowly compared to some other people.

10:13 p.m. Sep 15, 2020, UTC-4

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"Have you added tests to cover this new/updated code?

No :)"

5:35 p.m. Sep 15, 2020, UTC-4

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I’m about to be kicked out of a Discord server for being too old.

2:24 p.m. Sep 15, 2020, UTC-4

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I want to be motivated on my fitness journey.

1:30 p.m. Sep 15, 2020, UTC-4

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It's important that I don't pass out. I can't write code if I've passed out.

11:36 a.m. Sep 15, 2020, UTC-4

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Nate Ruess just stopped making music, retired? Luckily I know he’s still alive because he’s posted to Twitter 50+ times in the last 24 hours.

11:32 a.m. Sep 15, 2020, UTC-4

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Dang, I hate it when my variables don't get reseted to undefined.

11:19 a.m. Sep 15, 2020, UTC-4

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Tom Scott just hasn't been the same since The Park Bench ended.

I realize I like the character/personality of Tom more than his actual content.

9:54 a.m. Sep 15, 2020, UTC-4

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I don’t understand why there isn’t a legitimate push for legal polygamy.

11:11 p.m. Sep 14, 2020, UTC-4

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I had thoughts earlier but they slipped away from me.

11:06 p.m. Sep 14, 2020, UTC-4

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A meter should mēt.

4:33 p.m. Sep 14, 2020, UTC-4

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Can't believe that I fricking missed 1600000000.

4:18 p.m. Sep 14, 2020, UTC-4

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I just feel like I’m not a real person sometimes.

11:32 a.m. Sep 14, 2020, UTC-4

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Being awake is a mistake.

11:25 a.m. Sep 14, 2020, UTC-4

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I feel bad for my GPU.

On Zoom while also brute forcing a password hash.

9:34 a.m. Sep 14, 2020, UTC-4

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Wow, I just had a weird shapes-are-an-illusion, moment.

Like, I can say I≠l, those are different Ascii characters with different binary representations. But in real life, handwriting, how do I know I've written the correct thing?

12:27 a.m. Sep 14, 2020, UTC-4

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Truth tables are a lot of work and space, and do not provide proportionate return in terms of understand.

11:59 p.m. Sep 13, 2020, UTC-4

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Being around people just tires me out so quickly. I don’t actually have the stamina to think for more than an hour or two.

8:25 p.m. Sep 13, 2020, UTC-4

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Frick the social anxiety that comes with pinging 350+ people on Discord. Arguably worse than public speaking, my word.

9:00 p.m. Sep 11, 2020, UTC-4

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3D, first person is really powerful.

There are a lot of shooter games that are 3D-1st person, but it's not universal in other genres. Portal is one of the only 3D-1stP puzzle games, and Minecraft similarly is one of the only sandbox games to use 3D-1stP.

5:01 p.m. Sep 11, 2020, UTC-4

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All my month numbers are off and probably other date things. Formatting dates is harder than I expected.

4:19 p.m. Sep 11, 2020, UTC-4

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“clouds are lies made by the government to splash people with water for the heck of it”

Yes anon, go off, I agree with you

1:17 p.m. Sep 11, 2020, UTC-4

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Wow, this song sounds just like Jon Bellion.

The song is Girl Named Summertime (feat. Jon Bellion)

11:58 a.m. Sep 11, 2020, UTC-4

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The mere nature of popular culture makes referencing it unimpressive.

10:26 a.m. Sep 11, 2020, UTC-4

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Cameras on, please ;)

9:51 a.m. Sep 11, 2020, UTC-4

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I feel lonely, but not in a way that is statistically correlated with the amount of time I'm spending with people.

9:23 a.m. Sep 11, 2020, UTC-4

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Me, Edward, and Willard all have slightly different shades of green in KACC and it annoys me.

But talking to Willard about programming has been very nice.

12:44 a.m. Sep 11, 2020, UTC-4

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Uuhgg, why are phones so big?

7:45 p.m. Sep 10, 2020, UTC-4

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I wonder how often a give bank processes payments for $0.01? That aren’t refunded obviously. What amount of money is moved most frequently?

7:38 p.m. Sep 10, 2020, UTC-4

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Um KAD might die. DM me if you care

7:37 p.m. Sep 10, 2020, UTC-4

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Hate to break it to you, but The 1975 is not a real band.

At best it's two bands on top of each other wearing a trenchcoat, but at worst it might be a podcast.

7:32 p.m. Sep 10, 2020, UTC-4

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Zoom should completely re-design their business around selling cosmetics to virtually wear during calls.

6:17 p.m. Sep 10, 2020, UTC-4

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Talking is painful, but I have so much to say. So many opinions.

5:50 p.m. Sep 10, 2020, UTC-4

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Happening upon trigonometry at a young age, before it is taught, while special, is not impressive.

I asked my 6th grade math teacher for a function that would take a slope and return the number of degrees you would need to rotate a line in order to end up with that slope. (I needed it for a programming project.) She was unable to answer me. I remember looking at a staircase in my middle school, and thinking, this goes up at a slope of 1, and a 45º angle. What's the relationship between those numbers?

It's like, congrats, you've stumbled upon one of the most important fields in math. It's impressive that I was wandering from the curriculum, but stumbling onto trig is relatively unsurprising.

11:21 a.m. Sep 10, 2020, UTC-4

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"I might be wrong"

10:18 a.m. Sep 10, 2020, UTC-4

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Frick, I am not yet ready for fall.

9:56 a.m. Sep 10, 2020, UTC-4

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Do you think chairs reproduce asexually or sexually?

12:40 a.m. Sep 10, 2020, UTC-4

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One of my greatest weaknesses is my weak mouth.

12:27 a.m. Sep 10, 2020, UTC-4

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I wish I were an artist.

I wish I was a leader.

I wish I could inspire the hopeless, and shed light on great mysteries, and share complex emotions.

I wish I was Steve Jobs; I wish people listened to me.

I am Steve Wozniak. I am alone.

12:21 a.m. Sep 10, 2020, UTC-4

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“They should call you Mario, ‘cause you just got 1-up’d” -XKCD #151

This should be a TikTok

11:26 p.m. Sep 09, 2020, UTC-4

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My personality consists of every XKCD and every Tom Scott video.

9:40 p.m. Sep 09, 2020, UTC-4

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Remember when no one verified could post on Twitter? That was a good time, we should go back to that.

8:59 p.m. Sep 09, 2020, UTC-4

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Imagine

3:37 p.m. Sep 09, 2020, UTC-4

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My mouth is pain.

12:31 p.m. Sep 09, 2020, UTC-4

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My purpose in life right now is to sit here and do nothing.

12:19 p.m. Sep 09, 2020, UTC-4

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If I don’t artificially constrain myself, if my goal is merely to do the best possible, then I’m setting myself up to fail to reach that goal

12:00 p.m. Sep 09, 2020, UTC-4

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Like, I know you don’t want me here. I don’t want to be here either. I just don’t know where else to go.

11:59 a.m. Sep 09, 2020, UTC-4

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One of these days, I’m telling you, one of these days.

10:30 a.m. Sep 09, 2020, UTC-4

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I hate the internet.

10:28 a.m. Sep 09, 2020, UTC-4

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Torrent for obscure textbook finally finished, after leaving rtorrent open in the background for a day.

9:55 a.m. Sep 09, 2020, UTC-4

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I spent like a solid 10 minutes laying in bed last night trying to imagine I was trans. I don’t think I succeeded.

9:46 a.m. Sep 09, 2020, UTC-4

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I wish I were a circle.

9:41 a.m. Sep 09, 2020, UTC-4

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I get 8 hours of sleep and wake up exhausted. Do I need more? I don't know.

8:41 a.m. Sep 09, 2020, UTC-4

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No ominously floating fruit tonight.

11:54 p.m. Sep 08, 2020, UTC-4

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I haven’t had a single thought since 7. That’s actually true though, no thoughts. I uhh played some Minecraft.

11:42 p.m. Sep 08, 2020, UTC-4

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“I thought I had it, but I don’t”

-Look At Me Now, Maisie Peters

7:12 p.m. Sep 08, 2020, UTC-4

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Ever leaving the house is a mistake.

2:14 p.m. Sep 08, 2020, UTC-4

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Okay I just had to push again to fix timestamps because I didn't fix all my problems the first time.

I keep committing this code without testing it. So if you see any problems let me know (either on Twitter or a Discord DM).

12:34 p.m. Sep 08, 2020, UTC-4

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v1.1 of WhisperMaPhone is now live, that is, if I was using semantic versioning, which I'm not.

Titles, favicon, working timestamps, all good things.

12:17 p.m. Sep 08, 2020, UTC-4

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I can’t spend more time on Zoom. I’m tired. I want to sleep. Or run or color or something

10:43 a.m. Sep 08, 2020, UTC-4

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I wish you could put people’s names into Instagram search and have their account show up.

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

10:07 a.m. Sep 08, 2020, UTC-4

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Me and my rapidly declining sanity would like to thank you, for coming to my website.

9:31 a.m. Sep 08, 2020, UTC-4

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I would very much like to stay up and hand color a QR code, but I am going to go to bed instead. I think that is the smart decision here.

1:15 a.m. Sep 08, 2020, UTC-4

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I kinda want to manipulate the entire population of a website.

12:56 a.m. Sep 08, 2020, UTC-4

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Now is a good time for me to be browsing TikToks on Reddit. Yep. Nothing else important for me to do. No work due tomorrow.

12:38 a.m. Sep 08, 2020, UTC-4

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Hate the identity matrix. diagonal 1's? Who comes up with this stuff?

10:43 p.m. Sep 07, 2020, UTC-4

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I'm curious how long I use this website. I'm not attached to using it forever, I could very easily switch back to Twitter, but it is nice.

10:20 p.m. Sep 07, 2020, UTC-4

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Bellion could be giggling, drunk, in front of a beat, and stans would call it a musical masterpiece.

10:19 p.m. Sep 07, 2020, UTC-4

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I've realized that I have to be afraid of someone first before I like them.

9:49 p.m. Sep 07, 2020, UTC-4

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Don't have time to try it right now, but the new Vivaldi address bar features seem very exciting.

9:49 p.m. Sep 07, 2020, UTC-4

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Twitter feels so empty without me.

Might need to follow more people.

8:43 p.m. Sep 07, 2020, UTC-4

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Technoblade in 2015, saying the F word. 10/10

8:20 p.m. Sep 07, 2020, UTC-4

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Quick time check, it's 5:11pm.

5:11 p.m. Sep 07, 2020, UTC-4

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I have been asked four (4) times in the last month to explain the algorithm by which QR-codes encode data. I do not know.

2:19 p.m. Sep 07, 2020, UTC-4

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It is crucial to my mental and physical health that I eat a sandwich right now.

1:53 p.m. Sep 07, 2020, UTC-4

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"Your dog is muted"

1:22 p.m. Sep 07, 2020, UTC-4

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"iiinnnttteeerrrrrrooogggaaattt..."

11:31 a.m. Sep 07, 2020, UTC-4

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I still can't believe Tor and Torrent are unrelated. Why do they do this to me?

10:15 a.m. Sep 07, 2020, UTC-4

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Matt Parker (@standupmaths) has stared using “they/them” pronouns for literally everyone, including people he knows prefer others.

10:08 a.m. Sep 07, 2020, UTC-4

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Somehow my timestamps have moved back in time, I don't know what that's about.

9:30 a.m. Sep 07, 2020, UTC-4

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The problem with Mastodon is that it doesn't provide standard flexibility between instances.

All mastodon instances are the same from a technological standpoint, differing only in moderation. And moderation variances are an advantage of the distributed web, sure, but the other advantages are that if I make my own website, I can disable likes or remove the character limit, for instance. As far as I know, I couldn't have forked Mastodon to make this website. And I think it would have been cool if I could have.

9:28 a.m. Sep 07, 2020, UTC-4

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I think Luke is the only person I know who uses a hecking RSS reader. Like, I used an RSS reader back in 2016 before they removed

the RSS reader from Safari. https://twitter.com/Matthias_4910/status/872951284583682048. Who knows, maybe if they ever get around to adding an RSS reader into Vivaldi I'll use that. They keep saying they're going to do it.

9:24 a.m. Sep 07, 2020, UTC-4

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None of these pages have `<title>`'s. Should probably do that at some point.

8:29 a.m. Sep 07, 2020, UTC-4

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My timestamps are completely screwed up somehow. It's 8:27am. My last post last night should have been 11:30pm. My one test post worked.

8:28 a.m. Sep 07, 2020, UTC-4

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What is "a hypothetical police beat news site"? Is that a news site dedicated to news about police beating people?

I have a feeling not.

8:26 a.m. Sep 07, 2020, UTC-4

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The name for this website is "Thoughts" or whatever, but the name for this project is "WhisperMaPhone" (e.g. in Git),

which is the name of the tube that The Once-ler uses to talk through in the original Lorax book.

8:21 a.m. Sep 07, 2020, UTC-4

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The original sprint of development for this project was done in Arch Linux.

I am now back in macOS because I can't handle not having every keyboard shortcut perfectly configured.

8:19 a.m. Sep 07, 2020, UTC-4

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Elmo says black lives matter.

8:13 a.m. Sep 07, 2020, UTC-4

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My Twitter is now only going to be me replying to Luke.

8:10 a.m. Sep 07, 2020, UTC-4

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Okay last thought of the night before I go to bed.

10:37 p.m. Sep 06, 2020, UTC-4

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I fricking hate config files.

I can’t debug config file to save my life. Anytime I’m working with something with config files, be it Django or Apache or Babel/webpack/React, I spend more time struggling with config files then I do writing code.

10:36 p.m. Sep 06, 2020, UTC-4

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Yes I did code this in like 26 hours from start to finish, although there were only 4 or 5 hours of actual coding.

10:35 p.m. Sep 06, 2020, UTC-4

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I can add editing to this, although the UI might be a bit tricky. I tried to keep it as simple as possible, lots of Django and no React.

10:33 p.m. Sep 06, 2020, UTC-4

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No “likes” is the reason this exists.

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.

10:31 p.m. Sep 06, 2020, UTC-4

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Compose screen still looks a little weird, like I'm just typing characters into the middle of an otherwise green page

and I have no idea when I'm going to hit 140 characters, but overall I'm very happy with the CSS. While this wasn't mobile-first design per-se, it was definitely designed with the idea that it was going to have to work well on mobile, so no sidebar or anything. I have like 10 color schemes I tried that are commented out in the CSS for you to play with, and I still don't love what I ended up with, but the 3-color CSS variable set up makes it addicting-ly easy to change. It will switch to a dark color scheme with an ugly yellow if your browser requests it, which Vivaldi apparently doesn't, so I'll have to work on that.

10:28 p.m. Sep 06, 2020, UTC-4

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My pinned Tweet is "Twitter is trash", and that's from 2018. I've know this, but only now have I decided to make the jump.

10:22 p.m. Sep 06, 2020, UTC-4

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Couldn’t settle on just one theme, so we have dark and light theme support!! Now just have to host.

3:06 p.m. Sep 06, 2020, UTC-4

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I am going wild with creating these themes. Version based on the Melodramatic album art I did, 9/10.

2:44 p.m. Sep 06, 2020, UTC-4

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My word, CSS variables are beautiful.

I might have to fricking implement a theme selector on this site because it's so easy to re-style literally everything.

2:26 p.m. Sep 06, 2020, UTC-4

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I would like to take a nap.

2:13 p.m. Sep 06, 2020, UTC-4

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Posting this from my phone. Better mobile-compose experience than Rigby, get rekt

1:59 p.m. Sep 06, 2020, UTC-4

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This is actually just a time test. I'm posting this at 1:20pm.

1:19 p.m. Sep 06, 2020, UTC-4

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I just wrote what is quite possibly the jank-iest bit of Cookie/authentication code I've ever written. Although, compared to some things

I've seen, it's not that bad.

12:10 a.m. Sep 06, 2020, UTC-4

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Hello, world!

11:50 p.m. Sep 05, 2020, UTC-4

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