I was there with the kids three weeks ago and yes.
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I was there with the kids three weeks ago and yes.
“Textiles were perfected 4000 years ago“ NO THEY WERE NOT
exactly right. before the spinning wheel (1000 CE), making clothing alone is half your waking hours at minimum
”Put into working terms, the basic clothing of our six person farming family requires 7.35 labor hours per day, every day of the year.”
acoup.blog/2021/03/19/c...
Lotho Sackville-Baggins cleans up nicely!
Thank you! Think I’ve squirreled away enough sanity points to hang out here a few more days again.
Had log back in to share this piece by @segyges.bsky.social about LLMs and consciousne— wait, where are you going? Come back! It’s actually pretty good! www.verysane.ai/p/might-an-l...
FWIW, since this is of my bugbears — I’ve seen this pop up all the time, over decades.
It is definitely a signifier (“I can’t remember a lick of undergrad physics“), but these guys didn’t invent it.
This tracks with slipping into a pre-literate society. The Big Man and his family don‘t need to read, we have scribes for that.
Cosma Shalizi has been idly wondering about this for a while now: bactra.org/notebooks/nn...
God damnit to HELL, Ryan
I thought that the title of “Soda Pop“ was an admirable attempt by Maggie Kang to bridge the divide
Same, I just saw it once as a kid too. In my memory, the movie is that wholesome.
Am I remembering the movie right, did John Lithgow end up breaking down and dancing at the end?
Singing *and* dancing you say?!
Tom Clancy’s The Screwtape Letters
It is very good, and also a significant (downward) mood enhancer.
my evergreen take is that "building software" is a bad metaphor because just like any other artifact made out of language, software is written
the dominant activity of building is actually building (laying bricks or whatever); the dominant activity of writing is determining what to write
In this continuity, Supergirl is shaping up to be a bit grittier than her cousin, in that she likes to get drunk and use salty language. But blood spatter would be a whole nother level of gritty.
For a second I thought that was blood spatter on her hands, but I’m about 95% sure it’s actually red paint.
Going back many decades, every physics department would receive a steady stream of crank physics manifestos. Typically from a retired engineer, using dimly remembered undergrad math.
Kalanick & friends have discovered that this hobby is a lot less lonely if you have an LLM providing flattery.
Rick actually seems like a kinda mature, chill dude, wish he were on the right side
Voyage of the Mimi.
The older teens has gotten into programming. He now asks with genuine interest what I did at work each day. I don’t have the heart to tell him, “Five hours wrestling with dependencies, blinking back tears, then some code reviews as a treat.”
fair — I was eliding the distinction between what you wish you *had* done, and what you *can* do now
Real talk, logistics wins over dishes. Do the planning for the family vacation. Fill out upcoming paperwork. Know where all the things in the house are. Women do 90% of this work and they fucking hate it.
Ha, the Teen™️ just asked about why software libraries are called “libraries,” and all I could come up with was “I think Grace Hopper did it and I can’t remember why.”
My pet peeve is when people introduce classes with examples like “Dog has a bark() method and inherits from Animal!” Your example of Checkout is excellent for all the reasons Dog and Car are not.
In the early 1980s, my mom taught Lamaze classes at our house. The dads were floored that she forced them to go outside to smoke.
INDIANA JONES AND THE LEAVERS OF THE LOST ARK ALONE BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE FUNDING FOR THAT AND ALSO FIGHTING NAZIS WOULD BE DEI I GUESS
Strongly recommended.