there are many ways to make a man hate you passionately. you can steal his car and kill his dog. you can piss on the rug that really held the room together. or you can give him free software.

"equipoise" look I love me some five-dollar words, but,

Another day, another bunch of entitled people yelling at free software maintainers. The older I get the more impressed I am about how nothing ever changes. apenwarr.ca/log/20211229

idk what this is I'm just here for the warm, comforting embrace of illegibility

there is a fixed amount of hell in the system, it has to go somewhere

I don't know if this is a sign that I should read _less_ early modern history or _more_ of it, but the shape of my shitpoasts is probably not neutral

More seriously though people assume the wrong things are hard and that all cumulates into the pipelines of who gets to design evidence. Ppl assume coding graphs is hard and designing research is easy. It's the opposite pretty much.

rumbledethumps

I wouldn't call it "favourite", but I'm excited to have a chance to re-poast this pun I'm very pleased with bsky.app/profile/arac...

that actually sounds really cool

kids these days don't read the Bible any more smh my head

opened google maps on my phone, it was showing northern Italy for reasons that probably made sense to me late at night the last time I used it, and the suggested search was "gas stations" gemini, welcome to the Resistance

(looks at the internet this morning) it's such a nice day, I think I'll have a coffee on the balcony and read about the Sack of Rome no, the other one no, the other oth- the 1527 sack, okay damn, Rome needs to draft better O-line

Yeah so like, I know it’s all hip to doom-jerk about how nobody is going to hire juniors or middle managers anymore because of AI (directly or as an excuse), and I think it’s high time to invest in the counterfactual here, because it’s gonna hit faster than you think

this explains a lot, including the frustrated backlash to zirp (various)

is C malware because of undefined behavior? (yes)

is ken thompson's trojan c compiler from Reflections on Trusting Trust malware if you never compile login with it

good thread

made a Yud joke in work chat to calibrate how Online (derogatory) the meeting crowd is

woke up at 6am for some stupid fucking reason

This one for me really hits home. Like, has the current generation never seen *actual* pollution? Maybe they haven’t. That’s… amazingly great news.

humanity: we want fusion power! the universe: we have fusion power at home the fusion power at home:

show of hands, should I leave the phrase "post-incident clarity" in an H2 planning document

ships!

autistic friendship is encouraging your friend to infodump about the history of stamped receivers in AK-pattern rifles because a) he's having so much fun and b) there's like three other metallurgical angles where you kinda want to see if they intersect

sometimes life gives you amazing things sometimes it gives you a ridiculously over-topped pizza when you need it the most

hummingbirds and sugar, obviously, what do you think syrup is

mood

GRUNDRISS is TESCREAL's mother in the Icelandic saga

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why is my left cuboid fucking with me. why has it chosen violence. I just want to walk around dawg

I didn't realize this until recently, but you can get up to Shenanigans with dirt in Timberborn like building an industrial area over your crops and timber without chewing through x6 overhangs worth of metal, and leaving plenty of capacity for quantum depo^W^W that's DF I mean underground storages

@nasboat.org you will like this

congrats to Linus, who can finally be an asshole about contributions again with a good conscience (sincerity: ambiguous)

reminding myself that "go Pope Leo" skeets are mostly better interpreted as "thank goodness at least _one_ elite institution has a different take than the uniform terribleness" and not "actually I endorse this sexist homophobic institution that puts way too much effort into defending child abusers"

Manifest #4687 from █████ ███████ ██ (CLASSIFIED) 1. Empire of Shit 2. Dense Emptiness

Tangentially, it continues to bug me that people are willing to structure information for machines that they weren't willing to structure for other people, e.g. coworkers.

Fellas, is it gender-critical to doomscroll?

Idk who needs to hear this but ACAB includes visiting scholars

Sitting on a patio, weed seltzer in hand wearing a Pinewood Derby tank top, Jets hat, and baggies. It requires no skill and yet is a Skill Issue.

McKinsey’s clients are pushing back against the billable hours model given its clear AI makes that a farce. Instead clients are increasingly tying payment to actual results. I expect every white collar field that bills based on human effort to face a similar shift to a performance based model.

I'm not gonna quote-skeet that take you don't want to see again, but,

When you can't help but sit down and write JUST FOR ONE DAFT PLAY ON WORDS.

do you prefer to abbreviate "transaction" as "txn" or "trx"?

buy Sublimation by Isabel J Kim so she doesn’t have to go back to the law firm and can keep bothering me at work

so how is the openai erdös planar distance result (2026) qualitatively different from the SAT-solver erdös discrepancy result (2014)? far as I can tell both were ground out by machine and improved by humans (2014: generalized, which might be the big deal)

all time favourite: Talisker 25 beer category: Péché Mortel mixed drink: Negroni, I'm basic staple: Driftwood Fat Tug IPA mainstream lager: Kokanee Miller Lite: sure

John Totleben and Stephen Bissette, from “The Garden of Earthly Delights” Swamp Thing #53, 1982