one of the best videos ever made. my fave part is about how pairs of "opposed" ideas are memetically selected for mutual incomprehension and ragebaiting each others' followers
youtu.be/rE3j_RHkqJc
I'm honestly surprised that U+130BA doesn't show up more often in moderation contexts already.
Every time someone says it around me, I jump in to correct them with the most deranged pronunciation I can think of.
Last time it was "seeboleyt"
Lore was Data's more emotional and erratic brother. Often showed up as an episode's villain.
memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Lore
well, they made Lore real. Data was better at arithmetic than poetry, but our AIs are weirdly the other way around
Learning to program was a combination of this, "that was proven logically incoherent", "that was solved in the '70s but we'd have to rewrite every computer program ever", "that's a problem only novices have, so by the time you're good enough to solve it you'll have forgotten", and "wow, great idea!"
thank you!
who's this about? what film?
A wild thing about the early Internet. They were called otherkin because they were kin to something other than elves.
Elf kin were ubiquitous in SF and fantasy spaces, and now they're so rare we just see the ripples of where they passed, like Vulcans.
Among the oldest surviving works like The Epic of Gilgamesh and Utterance 373 from the Pyramid of King Teti say outright "death sucks, it would be so great not to die."
Popular today to hide from this obvious and painful truth with sophistry to accept what we can't change.
We shouldn't give up.
The rules of hooks are untypechecked invariants that the programmer must maintain. The state monad is usable in Haskell because of the type checker.
It also undermined ecosystem interop by being the last significant library to support rendering custom elements. It was years slower than others.
Popularized the UI = f(state) paradigm with JavaScript people, for which I will be forever grateful. Made a number of choices that undermined the principles I value (the spooky action at a distance of hooks, the magic on top of magic of Next). The current undisputed champion of web frontend.
This one fits the bill: www.science.org/content/arti...
Excel helpfully converts values by making a guess as to their type. Some genes kinda look like dates. Data corruption ensues, much embarrassment, and geneticists actually renamed the genes to work around the misbehavior.
you replied to my post contesting "if it can be wrong why use it," so it being useless is under contention
excel is a calculator and has bugs and misfeatures that mean that people get wrong answers. people still use excel because it is very useful and saves them time. the same is true with AI
... so therefore computers are useless?
for myself, I'll continue using computer programs, which have made mistakes before, will make them again, and can't be held responsible. I do this because they enrich my life
I don't know about you, but I make mistakes at work sometimes, including when writing summaries. Am I useless because I can be wrong?
It is kinda odd that we named it after dirt. Not even wet dirt.
(ok, Flash had that last one, but oft missed in recreations!)
Better support for play / pause. Flash technically had that, but it failed more often than it worked.
Better sound control. Reliable, easy way to control sound in and out. Web supports this now I think.
Right-click download for preservation. Interactive social media cards, so an animation or game can play inline when linked in chat or a post. Super easy embedding that doesn't let the user-gen content do naughty things with cookies in the embedding site so boorus, boards, forums can natively support
Some forms to try, if words aren't coming easily:
"I liked it when [...]"
"It was too much when [...]"
"When [...], it would be even better if [...]."
Don't skip the aftercare! Once the scene is over, relax together in a cozy way and talk about it a bit. A chance to cool down from the highs, and to reflect.
It's vulnerable, so you need to take your time, and give room for each other sometimes to build up to what you want to say.
There are people who I'd trust to run a blocklist that was public and easily reviewed, and which had a specific targeted purpose.
mitigated chaos, another of the idiosyncratically-kinda-right-wing great tumblr writers wrote a good obituary: www.tumblr.com/mitigatedcha...
Died suddenly of an apparent heart attack a couple years ago after having incredibly weird post-covid health effects.
He had a knack for taking things that were happening today and connecting them with historical events that was incredibly valuable.
An American landed gentry. One of the best bloggers on tumblr. Kinda right wing but in his own way of it.
His special interest was American culture. I started following him because he saw Trump coming when everyone else dismissed him.
His top posts: kontextmaschine.tumblr.com/tagged/konte...
reminds me of a kontextmaschine classic (PBUH)
kontextmaschine.tumblr.com/post/1160794...
no no this is alphabetical:
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wow, fantastic new aesthetic!
I do alt text because in addition to a11y it also helps search, and it's a good place to explain a joke or reference without being ham-handed to those who don't need the explanation.
I don't post much though, so the cost is low for me.
The gap between human intelligence and corporate intelligence is fairly small. If we the delta in speed and peak capability between us (either individually or corporately) and ASI stays within that range, we'd perhaps be ok.
But what reason do we have to think it would stay in that range for long?
