I firmly believe as a professional computer toucher that there is a such thing as "computer mana". if you haven't earned the computer's respect you'll end up with all sorts of weird issues which will disappear the second that someone with high computer mana tries fixing it
@oren_ai
some bugs are insanely obscure. I once encountered a paramiko bug which only presented when packed with pyinstaller AND while putty was running
but yes the software-cursed are a thing
@oren_ai
and of course there's the flipside: being more technologically skilled doesn't mean you have fewer bugs, just that your bugs are weirder and harder to solve. something something peter principle
@oren_ai
and of course there's the flipside: being more technologically skilled doesn't mean you have fewer bugs, just that your bugs are weirder and harder to solve. something something peter principle
@greenTetra_
think about this a lot. similarly if you were a math nerd in the 1800s you could get a lot of mileage out of, like, paying attention to wave motion or complex numbers or matrices
@BreakfastBullit
@Spooky3DPG
this post went waaaaaay viral overnight I think it's pointing at something that a LOT of people experience but don't have words for
@SamuraiHyde
sometimes you and your computer may enter a S/M style relationship where it will hang for inexplicable reasons and need to be restarted by holding the power button but this must be done with the utmost care and respect for the machine as it is very vulnerable during these moments
@RiotLinguist
it is imperative to communicate to cis men joining the movement that true allyship constitutes betrayal of the patriarchy. any less is collaboration with the enemy
at VC3 I met a number of programmers unfamiliar with the term "yak shaving" so let's get that out of the way first thing.
yak shaving is when you have to do a task, but somewhere along the way it is necessary to shave a metaphorical yak (perform a seemingly unrelated task)
I grew up in the forests of the PNW picking wild salmonberries, huckleberries, and thimbleberries. huckleberries especially have a complex relationship with the forest. the red huckleberry of my childhood only grows on dead wood, and requires symbiotic fungus to thrive
if you’re a man over 30 you should do drag as a rite of passage to get a glimpse of how much work women put into looking good. it’s a simple matter of respect
hello, infohazard teller. I am in naraka and I require your strongest infohazards
my strongest infohazards would kill you, traveler
infohazard teller! I tell you I am in naraka! and I need your strongest infohazards
you can't handle my infohazards. they're too strong for you
something very important clicked into place last night: y'know how when you're playing chess there's usually some good moves and some apocalyptically bad moves? trauma is letting yourself be RLHF'd into making the apocalyptically bad moves in real life
thimbleberries are too delicate to be packaged and sold. they must be picked and eaten directly from the bush.
wild blueberries are tarter and more flavorful than the gigantic flavorless things supermarkets call "blueberries"
@the_wilderless
the linguists don't want you to know this but the accents you hear from other people are free you can take them home. I have like a dozen accents
hacker culture has its own dialect, social norms, founding myths, and religious tendencies. it emerged from the unix culture of the 1970s, primarily in tech-focused universities. it is overwhelmingly a male culture in origin and tends towards left-brain capture
OPECAMP UPDATE
I am actually for real calling up venues
opecampers I need your opinions
do you want the expensive venue with the pool or the cheaper forest camp?
the dominant source on hacker culture is the Jargon File, which I warn you has aged poorly in retrospect. it is self-aggrandizing and politically incorrect. despite this, hacker culture is a strong influence on TPOT
http://www.catb
.org/jargon/html/online-preface.html
call me ur little shoggoth mask, in this nocturnal neuromance,
I'll flash my alien ass, bitch u think I got grass?
So say bye to ur reality, I'll hitchhike ur fantasy
and live in ur head rent free --I can make that horny.
OPECAMP UPDATE!
numbers on ticket price are looking good! there are still some unknowns that I haven't factored in yet, but it is looking like it may be possible to keep tickets for a super stripped-down camp around $50 for three nights!
@butchanarchy
used to work in software but office life is, uh, not for me, and the money didn't make me happy. glad to report that I work in a warehouse like an honorable butch now
ok now that I'm doing the dev for
@slimepriestess
's discord's AI bots it has occurred to me that this is expensive
spare some change for a few claude tokens *rattles soup can* spare some change?
@bashu_thanks
it's weird coming in the other direction learning guitar and then moving to keyboard. guitar does all these technique things primarily to increase the number of notes played that aren't necessary on piano
tofu is great. it's such a simple ingredient that you can use it any way you want. it tastes like nothing, can't clash with other flavors
protein basis vector
@StopTweetingMia
sounds like a case of the straights aren't ok to me
idk giving oral is such a turn-on, like you have some hottie in your mouth and you get to make them squirm and make cute little noises
when I was ~8yo my mom was in the middle of getting misdiagnosed by every doctor ever (turns out: pulmonary hypertension) and desperately looking for something that worked so she took us to this quack clinic that drew our blood and told us our "food intolerances"
idk abt raisins but i may have been a little underweight for a minute as a kid and my GP told my parents ice cream is a better dessert than candy
i still have ice cream before bed almost every night u can pry it from my cold dead hands
@RichDecibels
I've said before that prior to having an awakening experience I put all my points into INT... but the reason I did that was because I considered socialization an unwinnable game. always too much, too intense, pushing things too far, too weird, too different
@Liberonscien
the lesbian gaze considers the women in question as active participants whose pleasure and desire matters. reversal and queering of roles is celebrated. it cares about who its focus is, including, but very much not limited to, physical attraction
does anyone else have that weird aversion to writing that developed in grade school
when I sit down to write something specific I will find myself doing almost anything else
I need a 2 paragraph bio for myself and I have been procrastinating for over a week
@write_tor
I am coming to much the same conclusion. psychiatry is an extension of capitalism/patriarchy and its goal, like all modern medicine, is to make people "normal", not healthy
my current night job is stacking boxes in trucks and lemme tell ya, I do not give a fuck whether your package says "fragile" or "do not drop". I cannot read. I am drop kicking your package and then stacking multiple air conditioners on top of it. git gud at packing shit.