Matt Parsons

my book is good and you should buy it

watched The Devil Wears Prada 1 and 2 this past weekend man, the sequel really isn't even on the same level at all

Claude, writing a poem: You can only see your blind spot by putting a thing inside it and watching what doesn't happen.

@SarahAMcManus > implying there’s an infinity beyond the lord god almighty

@mattoflambda ahahaha wait, wait -- they'd claim the halting problem is solved by predestination

everybody wants their LLMs to be buddhish right up til "all files are temporary in the long run" next thing, they'll be saying, 'well, the directory was empty in the sense of having no inherent essence'

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@sympatheticopp Mistborn Wax and Wayne sorta does this

women get overly romantic ideas about relationships from reading books like pride & prejudice. we need a romance novel about two people who don't have a spark at first, who both have to change in order to be ready for love

@SarahAMcManus this has happened to me on like 40% of my train trips in the last year. i am not good at the trains

nooooooo I got on the wrong train

@TheNoamLewis @TaliaRinger it's simple. just listen to me

@TaliaRinger This is what killed it for me: no universally accepted convention on *how to use Haskell* - instead every single library/program had its own little world of nice beautiful ideas

Probably a tiny write-only block littered with so much syntactic sugar in the form of custom notations that looking at it makes you diabetic. The problem with Haskell isn't the language, it's the conventions used by most Haskell programmers

@theodorvaryag no, it's the children that are wrong,

it's odd when someone you've worked before gets a little nutty later on when it happens more than once it becomes unnerving and you start wondering if you're somehow responsible

@LudditeHacker @theodorvaryag @shagbark_hick perhaps a 7 year old can be taught to pull espresso

@theodorvaryag @shagbark_hick The problem is that this is basically impossible to replicate. You can't involve your 7 year old as helper in your programming job.

During early childhood, not only should the mother not work -- the dad should really try not to work very much either. Families should go to great lengths to maximize time spent with mother, father, and child. This is a lot of why I've ever been into extreme frugality, anti-9-to-5, etc. Because I had an absent father, and it sucked. I noticed that many of my childhood friends whose fathers worked "real jobs" suffered similar problems as I did. Nobody was teaching the boys to be men; dads were too busy working to protect their daughters. Even if mom was home and didn't work, they missed out on their father's presence in the home. The kids that turned out the best seemed to have grown up in households where mom never worked, dad only occasionally worked (part-time, self-employed, various "hustles"), both parents spent tons of time with the kids, and usually, this lifestyle was made possible by the fact that the family owned their home outright, with no mortgage. "Jobs" as we know them are a novel product of the industrial revolution. Nothing about them is really anthropologically normal. And so far as family formation is concerned, a father who works a full-time job is almost as much of as hazard as a mother who works at all. The true key is a dirt-cheap, sub-$50k house, zero debt, and an ultra-low-cost lifestyle, so that dad can work very casually, occasionally, etc.

@shlevy Virtually: with great virtue

“Virtuosity” is a great word but “virtuosically” is incredibly infelicitous, sad!

Incredible thing to see as I land in Keflavík and open my phone

@vividvoid @eigenrobot This pattern works for our coloration but one must beware of looking like the help

@eigenrobot Hold on, I have a navy blue shirt I wear with khakis that I think looks dynamite Am I fooling myself

all of these are wrong. do not wear dark shirts. if you want color add a tie or a subtle pattern over the white base. otherwise save color for your jacket. thank you for your attention to this matter!

Thought process: Lol

Florence has good flowers

The wave of relaxation that washes over me as the Italian waiter speaks perfect English and forgives me my horrible grazie

Civilized yet undomesticated

Edinburgh is dope

Considering starting a micro school in Denver

Macklemore should update Thrift shop for inflation