luciole (he/him) @ luciole @beehaw.org

Doesn't know the lyrics. Just goes meow meow meow.

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Anyone knows good bands with Māori influence? Her chanting slaps.

Oh to prepare a mixtape on a dual cassette player... Now that I migrated as well to a digital mp3 library it would be dead easy to make playlists, but somehow the convenience kills the fun out of it.

To pretend Windows 11 might eventually require a Copilot key on keyboards is plain silly. That’s just not how things work. People have been using all sorts of compact keyboards with a reduced set of keys for ages. Maybe they’ll put pressure on laptop manufacturers or whatever. Those ones will probably get on board enthusiastically, considering how the day Copilot dies will make all these fine machines look just a little bit more obsolete.

I miss the anticipation.

X-mas

I played both Octopath Travellers games. The second is definitely a step in the right direction in terms of cohesion. There's also now a piss easy final boss, as well as an impossible-if-you don't-follow-a-cheese-strategy-online secret final final boss. Merely being level 99 doesn't cut it. Ugh. Octopath Travellers games are so charming but the devs still haven't figured out how to end them in my humble opinion.

About to be on vacations for the holidays. The season’s been hitting me hard and I (should) welcome a good two weeks of slouching about in unproductive bliss. On the other hand I’ve had so many bad Christmas that anxiety levels are mounting for no good reason. I’ve cut off a lot of unpleasant things from the holidays in the last years but I’m still coping with the aftermath.

Also I’m slowly coming to terms with the fact that I don’t know how to rest anymore. So I’ll do my best to keep positive and do nice things even though I’m a little apprehensive. There are some bits of my mind I could do without, ugh.

I wonder if Adobe will come back on their word that XD's a discontinued product now that they're not about to take over its competitor.

Add that whiff of eugenics from the pronatalism mixed with the longtermism and, if they get what they want, we have something closer to good old blue blood monarchs.

The basic idea is that the West has declined irrevocably, beginning with what Srinivisan calls the birth of the centralized state that disempowered wealthy industrialists with antitrust laws, securities regulation, central banking, and adversarial journalism. Now, the thinking goes, we’re on the backswing with wealthy individuals reclaiming their power over supposedly corrupt public institutions, and we have the internet and its currency—Bitcoin—to lead us out of the darkness.

So the billionaire techbros feel powerless (wtf) and are offended by criticism (oof) so they want their own techbro dictatorship with no free press. Also please no peasant to support, only exploit. Got it.

Evolutionary psychology does tend to strictly reduce human nature - and nature in general - to some cruel law of the fittest, as well as denying there is any debate to be had. It’s basically genetic determinism. Nevertheless, altruism is deeply seated in our behaviours and does go as far as collective child-rearing, or alloparenting.

There is still heated debate about why and how altruism expresses itself in human behaviour despite the apparent competitiveness of basic Darwinian evolution. In practice altruism and competitiveness are both present in humanity and we do have agency over how the balance tilts.

There’s a lot of strong wording in the thread so please let me bring a little bit of perspective. I’m not trying to change anyone’s mind.

The fact that endangered species are being hunted by domestic cats is often a consequence of humans transforming natural habitats into suburbs. Animal welfare organizations have also spoken out in the past against sudden outdoor cat bans. Some papers have had a more nuanced outlook as well, raising questions about the welfare of cats confined indoors for their whole existence, unable to act out on their natural behaviour.

What I’m trying to say is that as with all controversial topics, it’s easy to get caught up but it’s useful to remain cool and curious. ^{(Please don’t hurt me.)}

They do already.

Public Lending Right programs exist in 35 countries to compensate authors whose works are in libraries.

I don't see the contradiction. If you're doing CRUD operations on 10,000 points, I'm sure you're doing what's possible to send it to storage in one fell swoop. You most probably get out of those loops any operation that doesn't need to be repeated as well.

It’s fascinating how so many musicians gravitating around Knower (Louis Cole / Genevieve Artadi) are unique artists doing their own crazy thing. Mononeon, Sam Gendel, Fuensanta, Rai Thistlethwayte, Thundercat…

There’s some simple rules of thumb that can be inferred from Big O notation. For example, I try to be careful with what I do in nested loops whose number of repetitions will grow with application usage. I might be stepping into O(n^2) territory, this is not the place for database queries.

How do you even walk in there?

I’ve been holding the same office job with satisfaction for the last 20 years or so despite being an awkward yet likeable (citation needed) weirdo. Here’s how I manage:

• Pacing yourself is key. If you’re allowed breaks every couple of hours, take them. If not, take them anyways. If you struggle to stop for a break, it means you really need to take a break.
• The politics is part of the job. Treat it as such, with a cool head and a healthy distance.
• In a professional setting, nothing’s personal. Leave your ego at home (it’s safer there).
• Disconnect once the day is over. You’re not paid in the evening. Find some grounding activity to help if needed.
• Ideally, look for a job where it’s possible to somewhat care about the organization’s mission and to actively align with it. It’s more fun building a cathedral than stone cutting, even if it’s the same task.

YMMV of course.

Agreed. Sewers serve an important sanitary purpose. I propose to characterize Twixxer as an out of control tire fire.