Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
"Behind our efforts, let there be found our efforts."
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Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
2d ago
He stopped doing his thing from ten years ago and we stopped supporting, defending and promoting him.
Calling this a betrayal seems very overdramatic.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
2d ago
Helicopter parenting is a practice ruinous for children and parents alike. I see it around me all the time when turbo-neurotic mothers drive themselves and everyone around them and of course their children crazy with their unchecked overdramatic fears of absolutely everything that can imaginably go wrong going wrong in every moment, every day, all life long.
OTOH, full independence for kids has another set of pitfalls. Drugs, falling in with bad crowds, neglecting school are all entirely possible and I've seen them all happen very, very often in my immediate social circles.
The better solutions, as so often, are neither 0% nor 100% surveillance/independence, and require regular reevaluation.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
2d ago
he betrayed us
He did? Did he make us any promises?
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
2d ago
Sure it's falsifiable. Just wait a few billion years and see.
I'm just an ignoramus struggling to make it from day to day. What do I know of truth or eternities.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
2d ago
Thanks for the reminder!
I've read the article some months ago, but somehow it hasn't occurred to me yet to read the Cyropedia itself. I'll put that right. Xenophon is usually a smooth read.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
3d ago
In between work and kid, Easter. Time flies; feels like last Tinker Tuesday was mere minutes ago. Feels like I'll drop dead, grey and all wrinkles, before I get to write another line of code in private.
Thanks for keeping it up.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
3d ago
Ah wait, we're truth-seeking?
In that case we're all meatbags about to be ground to dust by an uncaring universe in which all conciousness exists only for a brief flash of hospitable conditions in between eternities of lifeless desolation and oblivion.
Great, truth found, now what?
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
3d ago
IMO it was reasonable for people at the time to throw their lot in with the Hitlerites in order to stave off the communist takeover of Germany. It seems less reasonable to consider Hitler a model anti-communist nowadays, with the benefit of hindsight. Even entirely without going into counterfactuals, I think it unfair to condemn the Germans of the 1930s for their making a bad choice in a highly uncertain and volatile epistemic environment given insufficient information, especially since the other choice was already very visibly proven to be calamitous.
In the end, we got something that was, I would say, just about as bad as some of the worst communist regimes. I wouldn't even blame it all on Hitler himself or just the hard core of the NSDAP - it was a fast-moving and overall somewhat shitty time for making reasonable political decisions, no matter who you were.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
3d ago
Bipedal meatbags driven by complex neural networks in dire need of something to believe in in order for their societies to function.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
3d ago
Yeah. My reflexively Trump-hating parents have already informed me of how inconsiderate if not monstrous it was of Vance to force a man on death's door to meet him; of how that may have been the strain that killed him.
Not that Vance or Pope make any difference in our lives here.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
3d ago
The council of pedantic Germans approves.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
8d ago
Speak for yourself. I truly do not get the visceral disgust people experience from hearing other accents or languages.
When those accents are Saxon, Bavarian, Swiss, Austrian or possibly even the rare breed known as French, fine. I can live with that.
But migrantisch pisses me off. Doubly so when ethnic Germans adopt it, but let's skip that case for now. It highlights that those people are not part of the same community but in fact either of a different parallel one or of none at all. Either way they can't be fully trusted.
And that's for accents. Foreign languages are tourists at best, but all that arabic, turkish and russian isn't tourism but a full-blown fifth column of opportunistic parasites who couldn't give less of a shit about this place if they can't even be assed to speak the local language. Trust or a feeling of community aren't even a factor at this point; this is migration warfare the way the Völkerwanderung or the colonisation of the Americas was. We may be at the turkey-eating stage right now, but if those Pilgrims don't stop speaking English soon, then I think I know where we're headed.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
9d ago
Family tinkering again. Visited two new Kindergärten closer to home and work. The first was in town near work, seemed alright but had no space. The other was in a village close to home, no bus connection there (though there will supposedly be one later this year), the people there seemed very motivated. Either one would be an improvement for me, but would also take the responsibility for getting the kid to Kindergarten from my wife (i.e., actually her mother, who can drive a car) to me. Which is good because that means no more daily vacillations about whether to go and whether grandma is willing to help and whether mom is fit enough to leave the house, so we can have an actual routine. It's also good because then the kid needn't spend the week with two depressive failed housewives. Sucks for my wife though, since that removes her from her childhood home and garden, and puts her in a place where, without a driver's license, she can't really do anything on her own. Then again, her mother's house will be sold this winter anyways, so the status quo isn't tenable in the long run either way. Also kinda sucks for my work, since I'll have to bisect my day for picking up the kid. OTOH I managed to rope my parents and our new neighbors into various kindergarten logistics schemes, so it may all be more easy and more social than expected. Wife still hopes we'll discover an affordable apartment directly adjacent to either kindergarten, but I doubt it and I am also, to be quite frank, not very motivated to move just so she can continue to refuse getting her driver's license. Not that I expect that to change.
Other than that I've poured most of my creative energy into work, exploring the wonderful world of Spring Batch backend development. It haunts me. It follows me into evenings and weekends. Do I use two steps with the first using a MultiResourceItemReader on one end feeding into a dummy ItemWriter that just stores the header data in a bean or the execution contextor or should I extend the functionality of the standard StaxEventItemReader to also read header information but that would cause too much overhead and also I'd need to add some custom logic to cycle through input files but hey maybe I can just repeat the step for one file at the time oh look there's a step partitioning feature but hmmm that seems to just partition into a fixed number of sub-steps is there some other component I can use to get one step per file or can I dynamically set the number of substeps to match the number of files but even then how do I make sure each substep gets a different input file and then I still need to extend the StaxEventItemWriter add the header information though that's really the easy part and I shouldn't forget about it. And so on and so on. Normally I leave work at work, but right now that separation isn't really working. And oh crap I need to rename six repositiories because the architects of two different teams didn't talk to each other and the concept work for this project still hasn't been done even though I'm four weeks into the implementation and they expect me to work off of verbal instructions and reverse-engineering older projects haha is this a joke we all know we can't fly this past quality control but no oh no they're serious. It's fun, really. I like those people. I tell them "this approach is laughably inefficient and you can't possibly expect this to work and get done on time." and they just go "Oh well yeah you're right we'll give you six times as much time and three additional people to actually do the required prep work right now.", and there I sit blinking and realizing that I have managed to find the mythical land of reasonable people who would rather fix mistakes than obfuscate them.
Kid and work, work and kid.
I did some light reading on Nav Meshes in Unreal, and found contradictory opinions on how they work on dynamic geometry. Did some research on various topics relevant to the setting, but haven't written one line of text or code.
Tell me to shut up and stop turning this into a blog.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
9d ago
Do you need to manually create your cards or are there prepared decks to download?
In some senses, not in all. I meant to paint a picture, not to provide an exacting argument. Equality in general is often taken to mean that all humans are somehow equally valuable/competent/moral, which is laughably untrue even on very casual observation, and equality before the law often comes with a lot of caveats regarding enforcement, court costs, procedural shenanigans. Fiat currency is valuable only because market participants agree to pretend that it is. I'm not saying that those concepts aren't useful and beneficial, or that they're eactly as untrue by some metric as believing some other fiction, but they do require some level of suspension of disbelief or kayfabe to work.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
9d ago
No worse a lie than equality, representative democracy, trans-anything, blank-slatism, pacifism, deindustrialization, fiat currency...
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
9d ago
Epicycles are good, actually.
There have always been atheists. There has never been a long-lasting atheist society. Maybe some of us are able to productively deal with a cold, uncaring universe that grinds us to dust for having the temerity to exist, but it seems that most can't, and epicycles give their minds something useful to work with; help them function.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
9d ago
I can see it. It's marked with a white-on-red "+18" though.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
9d ago
FWIW, the real estate prices are indeed too damn high. Rents, too.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
9d ago
Consider German villagers (and sometimes town-dwellers) trying to block everything from pork farms to wind power plants to power cables to roads to mosques to railway lines and stations getting built. They're not always wrong to do so, but NIMBY as a phenomenon clearly does exist here.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
9d ago
Even assuming that it's 100% viewpoint-neutral, and even in a hypothetical scenario in which there isn't a raging culture war being wages - how would you even classify people? How do you measure viewpoint diversity? How do you quantify conservative-ness or liberal-ness? What even is the spectrum on which to measure viewpoints, and what is the target value for balance?
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
9d ago
To any reasonable observer who's not already part of the in-group and selectively blind to conflict theory when it suits him, this is obviously DEI for conservatives.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
9d ago
How did the phone return to its owner, in the end?
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
9d ago
If that's true, then it was utterly beneath notice.
Yeah, I didn't take your post as advocating 100% surveillance helicoptering - just wanted to spell out my thoughts.
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