@alice

Looking forward to going back to Singapore / Malaysia where I won’t ever have to moisturize (because of 99% humidity)

Concrete from kde: koncrete

Until the 30°C monsoon attacks, then it's your innards that will dehydrate

A peaceful Loch Damh.

🤯 Dwarf Fortress creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis'

"They're trying to have a CEO press a button that makes a game, and then everyone else somehow buys it without a job. So I don't see that going anywhere sustainable, and I feel like there will simply be a pop and a reckoning and then [it's on repeat] unless people do something else."

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/dwarf-fortress-creator-says-the-industrys-in-shambles-over-ai-and-layoff-happy-ceos-everyone-i-know-their-bosses-are-slowly-getting-psychosis/

#AI #gamedev #aipsychosis

@jaredwhite The thing I worry about is some idiot billionaire looking at Silo and thinking, "Hey, that's actually not a bad idea, we should do that!"

The cat didn't want to go to work and is jealous of the cat that was abducted.

Watched an excellent short talk about eshell by @howard last night.

https://emacsconf.org/2022/talks/eshell/

Two things really stood out to me:

1. Piping to Emacs buffers with > #<buffer-name>
2. Virtual devices, e.g., piping to /dev/diary to trigger a certain Elisp function that does TheRightThing™.

#emacs

｢ instead of founders having a company that VCs would try to fund, now VCs publish extremist political manifestos, and “founders” are just the people who are selected to carry out parts of those plans ｣

https://anildash.com/2026/09/02/cancer-capital/

#vc #AI #startups

🧬 Everyone Assumes DNA Shapes Your Personality. It Turns Out Something Else Is Doing Most of The Work

｢ And knowing someone's genetic variants wasn't particularly useful for predicting their personality. When the researchers used the genetic information to make their best predictions in separate groups, they could explain less than 4 percent of the variation in personality ｣

https://www.sciencealert.com/everyone-assumes-dna-shapes-your-personality-it-turns-out-something-else-is-doing-most-of-the-work

#genes #DNA #personality

Watched an excellent short talk about eshell by @howard last night.

https://emacsconf.org/2022/talks/eshell/

Two things really stood out to me:

1. Piping to Emacs buffers with > #<buffer-name>
2. Virtual devices, e.g., piping to /dev/diary to trigger a certain Elisp function that does TheRightThing™.

@glyph … and then oopsie opened again because wait that wasn’t supposed to happen

I did not sign up to be a social worker for droud users or a voight-kampff administrator I just want to write computer programs with people who care about quality and craft and stuff https://github.com/twisted/twisted/pull/12838#pullrequestreview-5119337561

Longhorn bee in the flowers showing off her face full of pollen.

#garden #photography #ontario #bees

RE: https://turtleisland.social/@Yehuda/117213905488848259

The GIS nerd/professor in me always wants to point out that the Mercator projection is still extremely useful in the right circumstances, but it absolutely should be phased out for making maps of the globe.

The projection is very good at retaining shape and angles, and so is good for localized maps and is extremely good for navigation. The Mercator *shapes* of Greenland and Africa is far more accurate.

But how important is shape really when studying a map of the earth, where one of the most important lessons is comparisons between regions?

Now . . . let's talk about this whole "seven continents" nonsense. (Boy do I ever have a Take on that. . . )

@heidilifeldman With Trump, who knows, but I am having a hard time seeing how he would "halt trade" other than inventing huge tariffs

@lykso in particular, we can construct this inductively, because a parallel directory traversal always starts from a single root, and proceeds fully hierarchically, so to begin we have no problems with open()ing a file descriptor for the root directory.

and it was at this precise point where i learned from the maintainer of musl libc (who had just recently implemented POSIX 2024.1's genuinely good decision to formalize posix_getdents(), which by itself makes a great deal of progress towards true transactional semantics for VFS operations in the filesystem

it also helped me greatly to motivate a radically different and highly experimental refactoring of this unbounded pseudorandom recursive unstructured parallel problem in terms of discrete actors operating upon fixed-size queues (which is essentially like a shell pipeline although the data flows over a kind of tetradron around the individual actors, as opposed to the extremely uniform sequential semantics of a pipe and/or ring buffer