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trying to find a context appropriate dialogue option like

flirt
meow <
:3
complement shoelaces
ramble about computers
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i need to listen to less british podcasts, always makes me insecure when they pronounce something wildly differently.

just heard "diaspora" as "dia-SPORE-a".
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putting xxx in front of your name is also what you do when you want the least number of people to find you in the phone book
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weird that the entire internet has seemingly confused the activities of the FBI and NSA
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reminder that making fun of fictional characters appearances is not without consequence

lots of real people that look similarly will interpret those comments as applying to them as well.
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Content warning: fediblock meta
if you're gonna call someone out on something, maybe provide some way for people to verify what you're saying??

otherwise it makes it quite easy to spread misinfo about things.
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ways to find a needle in a haystack:
* use a magnet
* burn it, run the ash through a sieve
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Content warning: not serious
making all the characters canonically bi to appeal to fanfic writers
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complaining about software


the firefox search/address bar is nondeterministic.

not only can you type some letters and press enter, then have the enter press processed first somehow, but also the autocomplete can kick in and cause you to search for something way more specific than you were trying to.


the increasing complexity of computer programs


i had a question about the julia programming language, and (naively) thought i would just take a look at the source code.

after looking at various files written in several different programming languages, i was even more confused.

i couldn't tell you if julia code runs through lli, llc, the femptolisp vm, a custom bytecode, some combination of these, or something else entirely.

with everything abstracted away so much, all documentation tells you about is how to use a tool, and nothing about how it works.

it's hard to express the difference between something like plan9 where you can easily find and change a single line of code to make the system do what you want, and something like this.

#julialang #progamming

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i hate the idea that admins "shouldn't have to do the work" to manually select their blocks like yes u do thats ur job lol thats the whole point

if you want someone else to do this for you join their instance, its that ez

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friendica is a surprising good rss reader actually.

handles images better than some actual rss readers


friendica ui looks like it belongs on a 2010 iphone

it's kinda nice honestly


the problem with CEOs with mental health conditions is the first part, not the second


first significant annoyance with friendica:

it reflowed the ui because of a new post and caused be to press the wrong button.


so i set out to write what i thought was a fairly simple probability curve.

i though i needed some trig function, i typed some reference points into a graphing calculator, and started looking for a function that matched...

after a lot of finding nothing that was even close, i found an exact match for all my reference points...

after rewriting it in lua, i finally had it:

`-(2^(-absn)-1)/2*n/absn+0.5`

why is this so complicated...

#programming #gamedev #lua

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A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore, a computer must make a management decision

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A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore, a computer must make all the most profitable decisions for which a human would incur penalties for.

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