The etymologically correct terms would be citizen and villain

in 2021 a vendor applied to run the vacant zilker cafe near barton springs and wanted a permit to sell beer and wine. the surrounding neighborhood associations assembled like voltron to make sure it didn’t happen and next year that retail space will mark its 10th year of vacancy

This could just be wacky internet people but I’ve seen a lot of gentle parenting stuff extended to “you should never reward your child for anything” which is unfortunately the only way a lot of kids are potty trained

Someone recently offered to help me with an open-source project I maintain. I happily accepted and they submitted a pull request. It has a number of poor or confusing choices that make me think it was written by AI. I pointed this out and wrote a probably-overly-annoyed response

Isaac King 🔍 That's not just confusing—that's antisocial behavior.

I must object to the often-repeated idea that Lisp has "almost no syntax". The syntax of Lisp (and Scheme, and Clojure) is easily the number one adoption barrier. The majority of people just don't want S-expressions.

When I say I want dependent types because they make my life easier, I don't mean that I always want to prove functional correctness proofs about my program. Dependent types can do that, yes, but they also can do much simpler things such as precondition checking that comes for

interstellar is a great spectacle, but with a nonsense story, and live laugh love tier message. we are so hungry for optimistic depictions of human triumph on grand scales, and that this is all we have is bad. we need more, better movies.

"I've sometimes had uv take up to 200ms to install packages, so you could feel a slight delay between pressing enter and the next shell prompt You don't have that problem with Poetry. You go make a cup of coffee for a couple minutes, and it's usually done when you come back."

Oof. Polygenic scores for IQ lose 75% of their explained variance when adding family controls, even worse than the attenuation for Educational Attainment. These are the scores Silicon Valley is using to select embryos 😬. A few thoughts on this study ...

Every once in a while I try to play videogames to see if they're fun again and the answer is no.

Michael 🔸 games I've enjoyed within the past 2y: - Half-Earth Socialism - The WereCleaner - Who's Lila? - Aragami - Achilles: Legends Untold - Still Life (2005)

Fernando 🌺🌌 Video games were great when the alternative is school. Everything you do is fake anyway and at least video games let you progress at your own pace. When you can do things that actually matter games feel less fulfilling.

Why was Africa so empty, and for so long? It is not appreciated enough that there was perhaps only 100 million Africans in all of Africa in 1600. Marcella Alsan argues that it was the TseTse fly which did it, by rendering vast swathes of land uninhabitable.

i have a theory that all "indescribable mental motions" are actually subtle physical motions we're not consciously aware of, and my latest confirmation is noticing that when i'm out of connection with the world and ppl around me, there's a distinct firming around my lower gut ->

whenever i hear an abstract, mental, or spiritual statement, i think it's worth considering whether it could be more literal and direct than it seems, bc every living system is built into the scaffolding of what came before, and any apparent separation between layers is a fiction

so my wife wants to learn programming ~zero prior experience, current career has ~nothing to do with computers i don't have a great idea how to introduce someone to programming starting from scratch any advice?

Please share your mundane life wisdom so that I can make a cheat sheet for life. Stuff like: - Tegaderm is great for most wounds - Buy shoelaces that are secretly made of elastic for rapid de-shoeing - Lubricate your feet if you want to avoid blisters

I'm here and ready to share any and all opinions or experiences I had with Microsoft, Google, and Amazon now. It's been more than long enough and they can't hurt me anymore. Curious about anything? Ask away. I'll queue up some answers for later (stepping offline here shortly).