Western societies have this down to a science already, Just look at all the wannabe-anarchists who rush to vote for the most Cathedral-friendly candidate when they get the chance

People try to be too clever

Has anyone ever tried doing a study on how legibility impacts algorithm design? For instance, we might tend toward algorithms with more easily analyzed complexity than algorithms that actually give better results.

To lead requires two things: The first is a continual act of suspension of disbelief, getting oneself to believe the absurd - the second is to get the world to believe the same absurd you believe.

Every political philosophy that does not start from the individual is just an egregore waiting to be born.

happy weed day!

Does anyone have any idea why russian coders like Java so much?

Whenever I read BAP or BAP-adjacent folks, all I can think of is this Onion article local.theonion.com/this-here-is-p…

To live is to build machines. If you have not built machines in your image, you have not yet lived.

TIL resizing your terminal while urbit is starting up causes it to crash lmao

I exist in a perpetual state of low-grade annoyance at American writers who attempt to forecast the direction in which the world is going based on very US-specific assumptions

Whenever I read blogposts about coding that have been written by C++ programmers, it feels like I've entered Bizarro World. I just read one that went very out of its way to explain that you can just use these things called "functions" that are not part of a class

Amazing how it's always the biggest idiots who get the mindless following "Very strict lockdowns" lmfao

Haskell gripes: people should be less afraid of name overlap. The whole reason we have modules is to allow it. I would love Conduit streams to use Conduit.take instead of takeC for instance. The whole "regular word, but with a letter at the end" naming pattern hurts.