lagrangian
1yr ago
(Have you ever used vi
Constantly, god I love (neo)vi(m). Unintentional buttmoji possibly related...
Never made it past my filter, no. I didn't look into it, let alone donate. I thought it was a bit crass, but at least it was static text, pretty unobtrusive really.
lagrangian
1yr ago
30% seems wildly exaggerated. I think suppressing the river to the sea sloganning on TikTok would only make it louder on other platforms, so I'll put the effect at "decreases by X%".
lagrangian
1yr ago
Not sarcasm, but definitely not a symbol I'd heard of before.
Perhaps less predictably, however, others focused on the octopus, interpreting it to be a kraken, a mythical, multi-tentacled sea beast that was occasionally used in Nazi iconography.
“What does the Kraken next to you on the couch mean @GretaThunberg?,” one account with more than 1,000 retweets wrote. “The Kraken was, and is, a well-known sign of the Nazis for the anti-semitic term international finance judaism.” The post included an image from a 1938 Nazi propaganda cartoon showing a person as an octopus whose tentacles are encircling the globe, with a Star of David over their head. (The image appears to be depicting Winston Churchill, who was not Jewish — but to be fair, the Mogen David over the octopus’s head doesn’t indicate the artist had warm and generous feelings toward Jews.)
In a follow-up tweet, Thunberg, who is autistic, clarified that the plush octopus on her shoulder was not a reference to a (frankly, somewhat historically obscure) anti-Semitic canard, but to a common toy used by neurodivergent people to express their feelings. “It has come to my knowledge that the stuffed animal shown in my earlier post can be interpreted as a symbol for antisemitism, which I was completely unaware of,” she wrote. “The toy in the picture is a tool often used by autistic people as a way to communicate feelings. We are of course against any type of discrimination, and condemn antisemitism in all forms and shapes. This is non-negotiable. That is why I deleted the last post.”
lagrangian
1yr ago
Do you stretch, like ever? Yoga is great, but if it feels like a high bar/difficult to motivate yourself too, you'd be amazed what two minutes stretching once or twice most days will do.
If you go the yoga route, consider 30 days of yoga with adriene. Minimal woo, beginner friendly.
lagrangian
1yr ago
Bone conduction headphones?
lagrangian
1yr ago
Meta: I think it's interesting how many responses assume you will damage the relationship if you are honest and wrong. That's not obvious to me. There's a short list of people in my life who could absolutely tell me "you can do better" or "nah man time to settle" and, right or wrong, I'd be thankful for the opinion.
lagrangian
1yr ago
PFR by calories, or by grams?
lagrangian
1yr ago
Bug: when collapsing a comment chain, the page moves down
Accessibility issue/personal complaint: animated gifs for user badges are crazy fucking distracting.
lagrangian
1yr ago
+1. You could get a power meter to see if you're near 600w, or use a calculator, but it seems likely. You've clearly put work into having good airflow/thermals, so this is the main thing that's left.
lagrangian
1yr ago
I make money passively so I don't have to really work more than an hour or two a week
Nice, how? I identify with the rest of your post, and aspire to also this part, but do worry that I'd end up with (even more of) your complaints about life.
lagrangian
1yr ago
$1.8B/5200 teachers = 350k/ea on average. $1.8B/8M people in NYC = $250/ea. Not nothing, but not that much really. Certainly less than the amount from one year's income tax that goes to education.
lagrangian
1yr ago
So how do you want me to interact with this post other than saying "nice blog bro!"? We aren't here to be your therapist.
The rest of your response is...alright, I guess, but this line we could do without. His post is exactly about culture war, and at that, a part of it that is relatively rarely discussed. I found it interesting.
lagrangian
1yr ago
"barefoot" shoe trend
Check our Xero (prio/hanna being my favorites)
lagrangian
1yr ago
How about http://meet.google.com/ieq-zixv-xwf
Signal boosting (albeit a bit late): Ask a FAANGer office hours scheduled for Thursday 7/13 at 6:00pm Pacific. Google meet link.
Edit: the markdown link handling has a bug. The link is meet.google.com/ieq-zixv-xwf
Edit2: current office hours population is three (including myself)
Edit3: had a second round of office hours, with three newcomers. Total people today: 7. Not bad! I will try again next week, probably at the same time.
lagrangian
1yr ago
I can pm you an account if you like, randomly generated or of your choosing
lagrangian
1yr ago
No info is required when signing up, at least for me (from the US)
lagrangian
1yr ago
Fascinating. I have held this to be true for a very long time, but your point seems to check out. The only counterargument I wonder about is if the dispersal is different in a way relevant to health risks. I.e., maybe Fukushima makes the immediate area very irradiated, but the Earth in general is ~unaffected, whereas coal makes the Earth in general relevantly more irradiated.
Wow, ok, let's do it. Provisionally scheduled for Thursday 7/13 at 6:00pm Pacific. Google calendar/meet event here.
I'm open to other platforms/schedules if people have input. Barring that, I'll be in the call as scheduled. I will post a reminder in the Wednesday Wellness thread.
Edit: link is http://meet.google.com/ieq-zixv-xwf
lagrangian
1yr ago
Yes
We have lots of programmers and aspiring programmers on here. Is there interest in my hosting a (possibly regular) "office hours" via discord etc? Career advice, code review, anything I can help with. --FAANGer
Edit: link is http://meet.google.com/ieq-zixv-xwf
lagrangian
1yr ago
Small automation tasks on my PC.
PyAutoGui for automating mouse/keyboard tasks (including browser), Selenium for more involved browser tasks (from Python or any language). A shmidge of bash/terminal/regex goes a very long way.
lagrangian
1yr ago
Withings sleep tracker. It's a pad that goes under your mattress. I doubt it's as good as a watch-based one, but I'm 100% guaranteed to use it every night. This means I have much more data to never look at or do anything with. I think it's good at tracking, snark aside.
lagrangian
1yr ago
My favorite thing to remember when things are atypically terrible: by definition, things are usually less terrible.
Maybe a reference to the zero hp lovecraft 'bantu maximizer' game that was a reskin of the paperclip maximizer (cookiclicker style) game?
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