Roman Glass

My PhD thesis is online. Read it, if you want to know how algorithms emerge as subjects, rather than objects. theses.hal.science/tel-04653943

essential latour. reject the separation between electric brains and man.

@faith_vtch a perpetual co2 poisoning explain a lot.

I grew up with a German parent, so imagine my surprise when I moved out and realized people do not open their windows. My roommates were SHOCKED when I would air the house out in the morning 😭 what do u mean youve never heard of air being stale

@Empty_America what about co2?

An increasing number of Americans never open a window. Newer houses are the same as cars, you just select the desired temperature on a digital thermostat.

at one point we will read these texts as prophecy.

@wylfcen just as the alpes, the mountain range

This is what elves looked like btw. The word “elf” comes from Proto-Indo-European *albʰós, which literally meant “white or pale person.”

even funnier will be the post apocalyptic un-fuckening. like a butlerian jihad

People who think science robs the world of its wonder have never met a mad scientist

@jarrodpchambers @Rothmus I feel offended as a Saxon. Prussia started it!

@Rothmus Started by Germany as well

@champtgram works for deep async work at night. sucks for normal 9 to 5

anyone who has travelled a lot knows that even though pics like this look cool, trying to half-work on your laptop in places like this absolutely fucking sucks and you’d be better off just enjoying yourself

@IAmManware When you're senior you have to do so much research and management-like stuff that is really hard to assign and track. and then you just randomly assign hours to make it fit. stupid work.

New joinee Indian PO: do we not log our hours on board? Chad European senior architect with 10+ yoe in company: ohhh nooo we don't do that here. PO: ok, let's start logging hours from now. SA: should I also log the hours when I am taking a shit thinking about the problem? PO: sorry what? SA: should I also log the hours thinking about the problem while I am jogging? PO: *yaps* ... so let's start the practice of logging our hours from now. SA: It's a useless metric. *explains gracefully* completely pointless metric. PO: It's useful for management to track how many hours were spent on a story point *yaps more* SA: I don’t (fucking) care. Other team members (all senior architects with 15-25 yoe btw) eventually hop in and proceed to completely destroy our PO. Blud really tried to 1v10 as a fresher against insanely cracked engineers 🙂 Mfw>

@JohnnyC4077 @Cobbsthecobbler @ASFleischman is fast. 3:26 min/km. if you can do it for 5k that's elite level

@Cobbsthecobbler @ASFleischman That's not even fast. I ran a 5. And I was slow compared to the fast guys.

I used to go running with a guy who said he was a ranger. I have no idea if he was legit but I ran a 530 mile with him, tasted blood, and he looked bored.

USA, Staat der Extreme? Anscheinend investierte man dort viele Jahre lang anteilsmäßig deutlich weniger in "Medium Tech" als in Deutschland:

@atlanticesque my prof was always telling this for that the bosporus is not the border between asia and europe.

As a book about medieval lotharingia once put it: “Rivers aren’t natural borders. They’re natural highways.”

also they created monkeys with human brain gene copies in 2019.

Jürgen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died. He was 96. apnews.com/article/juerge…

I think historians are really good scientists. For example they are really great economists. Here some comparison of industrial nations in 1913. Look at US supremacy in machine production (50% of the world market), and Germans in electronics (35%).

@wylfcen turks and the french do this, too. gökada for galaxy, bilgisayar and ordinateur. we germans have kraftwagen

I love how Icelanders make new words for modern concepts instead of taking words from other languages. For example, they call a galaxy a stjörnuþoka or ‘star fog’, and a computer a tölva or ‘number prophetess’.

@sciencegirl Loom

For those who used a computer between 1995 and 2001, what's the computer game from that time that sticks with you the most, and why

@Romy_Holland I don't want my children to be dependent on anybody. They shall roam the world freely like young aristocrats.

i don’t feel like my parents owe me any inheritance and would be happy for them if they had fun spending all of their retirement savings. but i also feel really good about the prospect of leaving my own children money that would make their lives easier, and thru this lens the boomer behavior of taking cruises while your kids are struggling to afford daycare and houses and stuff seems strange. like maybe when my baby is grown up i’ll feel differently, but i doubt it? i find myself wanting to promise him that as long as i live i want to help him and be there for him.

@BlanchardPhD Nobody can enforce the endonym. It's Turkey, Czech Republic (not Czechia), and Burma

I’m an old man and only recently realized that Turkey is now routinely called Türkiye. There is no ‘ü’ in English. Has everybody but me already looked up the pronunciation and memorized it?