Deltaphor

@iamaheron_ why unfortunate?

my coworkers are talking about traveling to San Diego for a music festival i’ve come to the unfortunate realization that music festivals are just furcons for normal people

I got a tablet in a half-hearted attempt to learn to draw, but instead ended up mostly using it to play Magic: the Gathering on the treadmill, which is... probably an above-average outcome, honestly

@RiledDragon simultaneously vagueposting about every post on every social media platform ever, all at once

@deltaphor this is a vaguepost vaguepost

is posting a moral and civic duty? if my overly abstract post displaces some more extreme or more negative content on somebody's timeline, is that a win? is there anything here?

@iamaheron_ I think it's a legal risk thing :-/

if i’m interviewing someone and they don’t pass part 1, i want to stop there and teach them how to interview part 1 was supposed to take 10 minutes and they took 30. they picked python but they don’t know it. why waste our time when i can give them the feedback they need?

@RiledDragon this invariably conjures up the image here eev.ee/blog/2016/10/3…

JavaScript is a blight upon the world

@SIUC_SPS @iamaheron_ I think they're less visceral—displaced factory workers don't continue to work alongside a machine whose output is ~fungible with theirs. And I'm sure you can find protests vandalizing factories when they were new. (I'm not excusing the destruction, just speculating a motivation)

@deltaphor @iamaheron_ Would you say that about coal miners? Or manufacturing?

the waymo thing makes me viscerally angry

@iamaheron_ I take my share of Waymos (as you know) but I do think it is one of the clearest and most visceral examples of job displacement through automation that we have

waymo is COOL. waymo is FUTURE TECH. why do we hate the future so

@iamaheron_ I have said and heard this at work I don't particularly endorse it, but it's expressive and gets the point across

successfully fought the urge to say “rawdogging” at work

what's your utility function of follower count? based on vibes only i would draw mine like this

@iamaheron_ I wish I could see things through your eyes

what makes someone tpot/ingroup this isn't like a gatekeeping question it's legit. like i click on an account and immediately i can tell whether it's gonna be chill fun posting or angry qt posting. but i legitimately have no ability to put it into words

@RiledDragon some citations: paranoia.dubfire.net/2011/04/how-dr… webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/5463…

@RiledDragon Even if the server verifies the hash, letting you determine whether a specific file has ever been uploaded before can be considered a privacy flaw or invite abuse of their bandwidth—I don't know for sure why but know that Dropbox used to dedupe files similarly and stopped in 2011

when i upload a video to a friend on discord, and then upload it to another friend, why in the world does it re-upload the whole thing??? why is discord not just using a good client-side hash and uploading the video once????????

@arithmoquine curious to hear more—the kind of person who self-selected there, the kind of post they make, the algorithm, other stuff, some combo? (myself I've all but given up on either site's algorithm if not shortform entirely, but want to fill a gaping hole in modeling others' preferences)

wow it's that bad

made a bsky and started scrolling just to feel something

@RiledDragon pandas hard? use xarray

np hard? use pandas

for what gain? From afar, maybe a big one—the chefs and connoisseurs have world-class infrastructure for sharing concoctions and forming community; some succeed at those things. Still, I like this model for reminding me that the alternatives I like are no less (and no more) valid

my new mental model of the Tweet is a food I don't enjoy—I can respect and admire friends who are connoisseurs/skilled chefs, but I lack the taste buds, maybe it's even genetic; not unimaginable that I somehow condition myself into enjoying it one day, but it'd be lots of effort

results: deltaphor.neocities.org/pov/

Dammit I need a ref sheet of my human form, don't I