orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es
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Trans, guy of center, well over 18.
I'm in tech and it feels weird.
Joined Jul 2019
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it's a testament to america's shitty racist DNA that it is taking this long to decrim and legalize/tax weed when it's way better revenue than arbitrarily imprisoning/enslaving minorities and stealing their shit
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science, pol, (not so) hot take
The replication crisis is a problem of capitalism. The need to earn grants and to publish "ground-breaking" research lest you lose your job means that no one really gets to focus on making sure all that older stuff gets published. You're better off trying to show some cool new fact than to replicate (or fail to replicate) something done 20 years ago.
Robotnik, but with Trotsky's weird hair
A version of Moby-Dick where every word hyperlinks to every other instance of that word, front to back, in a cycle. So, the first word, "call," links to the last instance of "call" in the book. The next instance of "call" links to the next-to-last instance, etc.
The first gen of Pokemon was a base 151 encoding where one of the numerals was a secret, and you could generate new glitch numerals
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@avi Pokémon is just a base-890 number system
Ivysaur (pokedex number 2) + Ivysaur (pokedex number 2) equals Charmander (pokedex number 4)
Math, but with Pokemon instead of numerals
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corvids
'is the pope a bear' is, at first glance, a typical malaphor. but it's absolutely possible that the pope at some point in time would actually [i]be[/i] a bear. and that's hilarious to me
lewd
When I was, like, 12, I thought Sonic 3 & Knuckles was the greatest game ever. When I was 18, I actively enjoyed Weezer, particularly the first album. Tastes change. People change. I don't like Sonic or Weezer anymore but I do own a blue penis. Every little thing influences you in a certain way.
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do you ever get so overcome with affection for someone that you just want to chew on them? or am i just a cat
Shorter than real Elijah Wood? Check
Furry? Check
Chubby? Check
Thick glasses with keyhole bridge? Check
Buttondown shirt layered under maroon sweater? Check
Going for that "everyday 2019 Elijah Wood but as a hobbit" look
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love to be a programmer reinventing stuff from the 70s every ten years for no reason
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from now on we're calling them boobs (boy boobs), goobs (girl boobs), and noobs (nb boobs)
I really don't understand this aspect of tech culture. That it's commonplace for people to push back on documenting their work for others to use, or to act like testing and code reviews are a big burden. There is so much money involved and you want to be fast and sloppy. Wtf.
I mean, if I were to so much as design a flyer for a company, I'd expect there to be at least 3 emails of back and forth before we had a final version, and probably a lot, lot more.
When I write, I expect to get feedback and iterate on it until it is polished.
When I code, I deal with people who think they can just type out any slop, and that planning, testing, and reviews are a distraction.
It's bizarre.
I came to tech from writing and design work, where you are expected to save your work, share it, and get it reviewed, but all of these things seem to get treated as alien when you ask programmers to do them.
I think being a fan of things ruins you. You get really defensive about trivial bullshit and start buying garbage. I'm not going to be a fan of anything ever.
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How I Defeated Fascism With the Power of Love
by Luigi
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Chapter 1: The Power of Love
The first step in my journey was realizing that it is impossible to defeat fascism with the power of love.
Chapter 2: The Power of Incredible Violence
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Trans, guy of center, well over 18.
I'm in tech and it feels weird.
Joined Jul 2019
