caesararum, BS, DOGS
@caesararum
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Dropped Out of Grad School (DOGS) // maybe we could try writing good software? // assume replies are "yes, and" // TC: $0
New York, USA
Joined May 2009
when children get into the "why" phase, it is the dad's duty to step in and drive the children to exhaustion with explanations deeper than they could have expected. from this perspective, it's clear that mansplaining serves an obvious evolutionary function.
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I know why this is here, but it will never be not funny
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i know this video is about shoes and running, but the arrow should have probably ended up closer to the shoe itself
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a woman at the grocery store spent a full minute staring at these trying to figure out if they were normal nutella or some kind of weird variant. your clever redesign is someone else's source of stress
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stuck doing IT for life
When I was young I fixed my parents’ computer and now that I’m older I fix computers for my kids. Are we the only generation that knows how computers work?.
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look at your 14 closest friends. if none of them is a millionaire, it's you.
One out of every 15 Americans is a millionaire, UBS has said.
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Beautiful blonde wearing bikini with normal number of teeth standing on beach during sunset not too many teeth looking alluringly at the viewer please with the normal number of teeth.
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"Redditors who have eaten at the Times Square Olive Garden, why?"
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in 2012, Disney bought Star Wars, and (as I understand it) haven't yet profited from their $4Bn purchase price. In 2014, Microsoft bought Minecraft, and the money printer hasn't stopped spinning since then.
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parents: talk to your kids about finite element analysis before someone else does.
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at least four different kinds of salt in this store. not a single one contains iodine. we're just eager to speedrun the "British sailors un-solved scurvy" approach, aren't we?
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"it's a good thing we stopped leading gasoline.". "yeah, except all small aircraft.". "wait, what?". so many cases of things like this.
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it surprised me that my daughter could recognize both of these toys as "pig" about as early as she could speak. and in turn made me wonder what facility allows us to recognize both these as pig
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Jorge Luis Borges: "In my short story "On Exactitude in Science" I invented the 1:1 scale map as a cautionary tale". Adobe: "At long last, we have created the 1:1 scale map from Borges' classic tale
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homeowners looking at loadbearing walls be all like
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a major gripe i have with US higher ed is probably one you haven't thought of. so, adjuncts. adjunct professors used to be roles open for e.g. people who were career professionals who wanted to give back by teaching a class or two in their spare time.
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"i have 10 years experience building stable, reliable, maintainable software systems". the software systems:
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problem 1: the US doesn't have the shipbuilding capacity it needs to support a modern navy. problem 2: the US is too dependent on fossil fuels and incapable of building civilian nuclear reactors . point 3: the navy is allowed to build reactors on ships. see where I'm going?.
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California told me wildfires keep burning down its neighborhoods so I asked how it's mitigating wildfires and it said it just rebuilds its neighborhoods afterwards so I said it sounds like it's just feeding neighborhoods to wildfires and then its residents started crying.
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"so it turns out that people are only really 3-D printing gaming miniatures and guns.". "so it didn't turn out profitable?". "profit? oh my god, we're raking in more cash than you could imagine".
remember “desktop printing ?”. did anybody ever desktop print anything besides war game figurines, paperweights and guns?.
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sergeant dog's words have been edited for the sake of the children
Yeah, they wouldn’t today make a children’s book with two pages like this. (1974)
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hearing a tumblr user express my most common complaint about twitter felt briefly like traveling to tribe living in a remote rainforest and finding someone who speaks perfect english
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it turns out the only thing worse than sleeping tightly in a room with poor ventilation is driving in a car with the AC in recirculation mode
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previously, in "well intentioned but problematic redesigns"
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you can just do things
A gentle reminder that the process of civilization is the process of forgetting that you can grab a rock and bash someone's skull in. The whole of modern society is built on this careful, delicate process and you will not enjoy what happens if people begin to remember.
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"everyone scores 1300". tell me you don't often interact with the general public without telling me . .
SAT scores as a measure kind sucks cuz basically everyone scores a 1300 and once you look up into the 1500s the difference in scores comes down to whether you sneezed once pr twice during the math section.
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question: if lab-grown meat became indistinguishable from wild/farmed meat, what would be the second-order effects?. not, what do you wish they would be; what would actual humanity actually do?. i think salmon would be extinct within a century.
Had the opportunity to try lab-grown salmon this weekend. Very good - texture was not quite as good as the animal-grown stuff, not enough bite, but would be perfectly good on scrambled eggs. It won’t be long until we don’t need to keep salmon around at all.
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yeah, but that battle was lost a long time ago. mostly because of the paradox of mansplaining
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paperclipping your liver with non alcohol fatty liver disease
One of my friends in undergrad wrote a linear optimization program to maximize nutrition per dollar for their protein shake. It ended up returning that the optimal solution was just 100% peanut butter.
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i dated someone for two months and they lived rent free in my head for the next 7-8 years. some relationships just tear you up no matter how long.
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by the intermediate value theorem, there was at least one point where he was just the right amount of rich to learn to drive.
I think this Alex Karp quote has the highest aura of anything this year. Think about it all the time
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anyway, for a full minute this woman was spending her precious attention trying to make sure she wasn't accidentally buying peppermint nutella or something.
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"I'm not going to raise rich failsons; instead i will give my money to some 501(c)3 so someone else's failsons can get a paycheck".
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what do you call the application of an incredible amount of talent to the wrong problem entirely. is there a word for this.
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expert-level trolling here. a while back there was a story of a math student who was carrying the title "Basic Algebra" across the quad and she got hit on by a guy who thought he could tutor her, not realizing it was Basic Abstract Algebra, an upper-level course.
A math department at a major university in the US is now offering a semester long course on “game theory”. Yes, you read that right. Games. The things tiny children play. The dumbing down of America continues….
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Credit scores enable a world where you can actually do things that require a credit score. "Hello, car dealer I've never met in town I just arrived in; i would like to make a $30,000 purchase but only have $2000 liquid". "Cool, the system vouches for you.".
Credit scores: people don’t like them because they hold a mirror to a broken world, but the alternative to them is not an unbroken world.
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@DefenderOfBasic they probably state this in the thread, but NASA used to walk the hydrogen lines waving brooms back and forth. if the broom caught fire, you knew there was a hydrogen leak there.
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parents: take seriously your interactions with your children. for them, you losing your temper will change their perspective on the world forever. even though for you, it was tuesday
@caesararum When I was 4-5 years old. I was super into the "Why" phase, my dad flipped out on me, and killed my sense of discovery. Mentally castrated me. I think about that 10 second interaction 30+ years ago a lot.
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called it
"One of those expelled. said protesting in high school was what helped get him into Vanderbilt & secure a merit scholarship for activists and organizers. His college essay was about organizing walkouts to oppose Gov. Ron DeSantis’ anti-LGBTQ policies."
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i have one rule for my daughter's dating life. never bring home anyone named /\w*a[iy]d[aeiy]n/.
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@Austen in the thread that i think inspired this question, there was a screenshot showing that official policy is ice is ok, but it's at the agent's discretion.
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PSA: never leave your high decoupling friends alone with your low decoupling friends.
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@prettywiseass There's a midwestern trait I miss. slap your knees with both hands, and say "whelp,". universally recognized sign of "time to call it" in certain parts of the country.
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now, you may ask, what would have happened had Disney bought Minecraft . and the answer is too terrible to imagine. they'd have f---ed it up somehow. Minecraft Park at Disney World would lose money, confusing everyone.
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Life pro tip: if you see something on the internet you like, save it. Otherwise when you go to look for it again, some combination of bit rot, bad site migrations, route schema changes, site shutdowns, user deletions, and search crappiness will make it impossible to re-locate.
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"no, my cat's name isn't HP Lovecraft's cat's name, it's 'HP Lovecraft's cat's name'. do we need to go over the difference between pass-by-reference and pass-by-value again?".
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civilizations are like huskies
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there are two types of responses to this:. - people who get it.- people who haven't come home with chili lime flavor toothpaste yet.
a woman at the grocery store spent a full minute staring at these trying to figure out if they were normal nutella or some kind of weird variant. your clever redesign is someone else's source of stress
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MyPassword123!. I bet 90% of passwords in places where policy requires a special character have an exclamation point at the end.
not being able to end/start my password with a special character is one of the dumbest requirements I've seen
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more significant than preventing the birth of third children, car seat laws reduce community formation. because it's now ~illegal to drive your kids and their friends somewhere without having extra car seats.
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seriously, every third boy under 16 i see is wearing Minecraft clothes or carrying a minecraft toy. disney properties are not nearly so hot as they were.
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@MostlyMonkey I expect the drink is well drunk by now, but in your shoes I'd have switched on RAW mode and captured the data and seen if I could reconstruct in post. a lot of New Yorkers struggled to take pics of the nightmare sky during the wildfires because phones automatically assume /.
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These are pretty neat. We should make a lot of them. Like A LOT a lot.
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this kind of smart, walkable, mixed use urbanism is illegal to build in most american cities
problem 4: the US is in desperate need of dense, walkable communities . point 5: Navy ships are dense walkable, communities . see where I'm going?.
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the rules that grew up around them - adjunct have strict course load limits, usually 2 per instructor per institution - were meant to prevent universities from displacing TT professors from work . but over the last 20-30 years they've become a form of wage slavery.
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"smart" or "high IQ" isn't the right frame. a lot of y'all are exotic supercars idling in the driveway.
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There's a guy who follows me who:.- has a locked account.- with zero followers .- and dm's me thoughts on my posts. of all the ways to use twitter, this is certainly one of them.
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The inventor of two-handle mixer faucets: "i really enjoy the feeling taking a differential equations exam. if only there were some way to have that feeling every time I wash my hands"
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Other than Game of Thrones, what is the biggest TV show that has left the smallest impact?. like, MASH reruns will still be playing after the apocalypse; meanwhile i feel like HIMYM kind of dried up after the finale.
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@amelapay Life pro tip: put a glass of water on your nightstand on the off chance you want a lukewarm, dusty drink in the middle of the night.
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return policy abuse makes me so uncomfortable.
Why do so many people return pressure washers to Costco?. I see them each week and wonder if there's any money in buying these store returns. Or if they are so complex that it would be a waste of time. What do you think?
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Describe famous scifi authors uncharitably; I'll start. Asimov was barely an author in the ways we usually think of them; he was more of a creator of logic puzzles. Annoying stuff like "characterization" and "setting" were just speedbumps he had to surpass to write what he wanted.
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i propose a new program; the US naval power reserve. the navy will be responsible for building nuclear powered ships; these will then be floated to any riverine or coastal city to provide power grid support. to justify the size of the reactors, we will need a new gen of weapons.
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"spaced repetition is the single fastest and most reliable way to learn and retain information.". "so, do you use it?". "lol no".
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there are only two maps of the united states, volume 1032
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a video game like a mix between kerbal space program and factorio, where you're a von Neumann probe sent to a remote star and have to bootstrap civilization starting from interstellar dust.
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since mofos can't read. A is like B. the British Navy forgetting how to cure scurvy. is like. moderns (being on the verge of) forgetting how to cure hypothyroidism . blocking the next person who says "scurvy is because of a lack of vitamin C".
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new insult just dropped . "your argument is so dumb, it would get shot down 8-1 with Sotormayor writing the dissent".
If SCOTUS had a liberal supermajority, it may have worked. But even most liberal jurists are severely skeptical. If this makes it to the Court, it’s going down 9-0 or maybe 8-1 (Sotomayor.).
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in any fantasy setting where what we call "magic" were real, it wouldn't be called magic, it would just be the way things were.
dude how tf did we take sand and make it into 3nm chips that can do numerical computations billions of times per second, and we use those chips to make machines "learn" !?!?!?. magic does not exist in the real world because this is what real magic is.
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we got a permanent underclass of PhDs who spend most of their time commuting between far-flung institutions for peanuts, living lives of precarity, without meaningfully strengthening instruction or institutions . good job, guys.
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Me sowing trees I'll never sit under: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!. My grandchildren, sitting in the shade of those trees: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!.
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4% loss, 27 g / 680. with a store brand mustard, I once tested and found that you will typically lose 10% of the product to the inside of the bottle
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contrast this:. you're 20 and you run a discussion section of econ 101 as a reward for standing out in the department, developing invaluable leadership skills. vs. you're 45 and you run five full intro classes at three different schools (tutoring on the side to make ends meet),.
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"tell me. what do you know about state pension liabilities?". "nothing?". "GREAT! so let me show you some condos".
Your daily reminder that there’s a 3-mile long stretch of beachfront condos selling for under $400k located just 5 miles from one of the best job markets in the US. Chicago remains unparalleled for its combination of good jobs, mass transit, and affordable housing.
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went to a kid's birthday party today.the party was held roughly here
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i really wonder at what point in tearing off drywall you see four sistered boards and say "yes, this is clearly a floating wall".
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I've long said this. the beginning of the road to accent reduction is to parody a native speaker of your target language speaking english, poorly. 1/.
My French friends always made fun of my American accent when I speak French. One day I decided to do just the most outrageously over-the-top stereotypical accent when speaking. “Wow Grant your French got *way* better, what did you change???”. The French are a parody of themselves.
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@Papapishu the NYT did a piece on how workers in TS get to work, and the entire area is littered with shortcuts that you'd never notice as a one-time visitor. but basically none of them are alleys.
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I'm going to make an AI powered app for clueless DIYers called "is this important". take a picture of a wall, it tells you if it's important before hitting it with the sawzall. take a picture of a screw, and it tells you how you messed up re-assembling the lawn mower.
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so the universities, in their wisdom, started to mine a different, inexhaustible resource: grad students and post-docs with delusions of tenure. so instead of getting passionate undergrads and early grad students to teach (and training them in indispensable skills),.
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it wasn't uncommon for teachers to wipe your calculator's memory before a test. the more clever of us would just spend the first five minutes of the test re-creating the critical helper programs we wanted. every single one of us is a professional engineer now.
@caesararum @cmhrrs Disallowed in some exams. Not sure if that’s the ultimate reason but it’s the one that occurred to me.
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Little known fact about birds: they are both a particle and a wave
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cooking with induction is always like. i start with a raw egg.at time t_n+1, my egg is a little more cooked than at time t_n.
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Going to Europe and getting the full Cookie Consent experience based on location, suddenly realizing what Euros have been dealing with for years
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living forever like you're still 25: no real job, barely any benefits, no savings, not developing meaningful skills in depth,. and (indirectly) depriving your brightest students of opportunity. it's the illness of our time (everyone deprived of the chance to grow up) writ small.
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whelp, TIL if you die in a submarine implosion, you'll become for one brief shining moment the compression stroke of a diesel engine
@DJSnM It’s essentially behaves like a very large and very fast diesel engine piston.
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