In other words, assignment of the "is equal to" relation is subect- and context-dependent.
People typically resist this concept because they've been taught (often implicitly) that equality is a universal or absolute condition.
But five minutes of thought show that to be untrue.
Every assertion of equality or inequality, similarity or dissimilarity, implies (first order implication) a conceptual frame within which that assertion holds; the existence of which frame then implies (second order implication) a universe beyond itself where the assertion may fail.
No wait this is better
#janet-lang
A screenshot of computer code
Working on my graph data structure library for Janet
Inline ASCII commutative diagram, very satisfying
"India" is too large and diverse to characterize either it or its people with simple, univocal statements.
Almost any single thing, asserted about "all India" or "all Indians," will fail to bear out across one and a half BILLION people.
A screenshot of the Advent of Code website showing 16 stars in 2024, 16 stars in 2023, 8 stars in 2022, 6 stars in 2021, and 6 stars in 2020
So counting as of the end of Christmas day, I did not *beat* my personal best, but I did *tie* my personal best so we're gonna call that a mostly win
@spiralganglion.com I'm sure you've already seen this—thoughts? computer.tldraw.com
Like I guess, find a shape
Is it a triangle
Survey says, PROBABLY YES
I have this intuition that most shapes are triangles but I have no idea how one would even
. . . . . . . . . wait.
I just straight up guessed a vim keybinding that I've never used before, and got it right on the first try.
Anyway, the whole process ended up being way, *way* smoother than I expected. Balena Etcher has a "clone drive" option, and it just... worked.
I plugged the freshly cloned SSD into the same port where I had the thumb drive. The Pi booted straight up and it's like it's the same device. Very pleased!
Well, the Pi has been acting weird lately—intermittently it starts complaining about the file system being read-only in the middle of use, which I expect means the USB drive is on its last leg and about to catastrophically fail.
So I decided to get around to the migration already, I guess 🙄
So for a while now I've had a spare 256GB SSD sitting around from when I upgraded my laptop to 1TB. I've been meaning to set it up as the boot drive on my Raspberry Pi-based home NAS, which up until now has been booting off of a cheap 128GB USB thumb drive.
I've attempted Advent of Code every year since 2020, but I've never finished
This year I'm aiming for a personal best, seventeen stars or more (I got 16 last year) 💪😎
I suppose your frustration with this comes not from wanting elections to be any less trustworthy or secure than they could be, but from feeling like an existential clock is ticking re: climate change and other issues and so this will move the needle exactly none at all on issues that matter to you?
This phenomenon has a name: Narcissism of Small Differences
A perfectly named phenomenon if ever there was one
Hey there 👋 Friendly softball question from one of the 700: Would you say that dbt-core is awesome, and if so why?
Python is *so weird.*
When a publication gets relevant information, it should feel intense legal pressure to disclose it RIGHT THEN and not later when it is expedient to some ulterior objective like trying to sway the outcome of an election. Is what I'm getting at.
ESPECIALLY if the entity that sat on the information is even ostensibly in the business of informing the public
If it can be shown that a journal or newspaper learned of some detail six months before publishing it at a *critical juncture*, there should be swift and severe consequences
Purposefully and strategically waiting to bring forward scandalous information about a public figure until scandal is maximally politically damaging to the accused party should be prosecuted as libel even if the scandalous information turns out to be true and the scandal deserved
CSV is a programming language?
I would say we send Remote Procedure Calls to one another with it
There's a sort of stigma around "having a short attention span" that has pushed me to try to finish every thing I start (book, movie, podcast episode, article, blog post)
But if the issue is that I'm not enjoying or learning from the thing, that's not my attention span's fault
A recent revelation that's been making a difference: if some piece of media isn't doing it for you, you can just DNF it and move on
(Just in case it wasn't clear, the "bit of an empath" line here is very tongue-in-cheek, I'm making fun of myself for being too easily wound up by movies with awkward social situations)
One of the most charming aspects of the first movie is how interconnected the "inner" and "outer" worlds are. That dynamic is a little less clear in the second one—the inner characters encounter and overcome problems without always a clear cause/effect relationship in the outer world.
I would say the screenplay needed another couple months at the ideation stage—a number of concepts are under-explored, are referenced without follow-up, or aren't quite integrated into the themes of the story. Meanwhile, other themes dominate a little.
(Easy for an armchair quarterback to say.)
I found it uncomfortably intense on the vicarious emotional scale at more than one point (bit of an empath over here, IYKYK)
So we had to split it across two evening sessions so I could decompress before continuing 😅
Just finished Inside Out 2, a couple months late
Overall a decent movie. Pretty confident saying it's not as good as the first one. But still useful/valuable in similar ways (as illustration/conversation starter/learning aid)
