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you know i think it may be significant that when i talk about why the work in the cancer lab motivated me i say "these VERY SMART grad students were held back by their coding environment" because it should be very clear why that matters but it occurs to me that robert pike sees people as essential scaffolding for him to be very smart. which. maybe i do too? but my success metric includes whether i succeed
just exited the shower......they're saying that shit was QC approved ✅✅✅
? did you know we had a QC?
! yeah but it's been disabled ever since that guy went on vacation four years ago
! shit just popped up
! a new green box for once
? pandora ?
! you know that wasn't her box right
? do you think hope lives in a containerized development environment
? do you think we put it there
there's this incredible bit to start chapter 2 of the holes book by louis sachar where you know as context spoiler alert for chapter 1 he gets framed for this cartoonishly evil and also clearly improbable crime and is sent to a desert where they dig holes and the desert is clearly full of holes and it emphasizes not only how remote it is but how part of its remoteness is how it's covered in this moat of essentially their own graves. i don't know if the book ever says that part.
but chapter 2 starts and he just previously had one kid talk to him and tell him oh you think this is bad? the second hole is the worst. because the injuries beget their own pain now and the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune and then.......
second sentence. the third hole's the worst. the fourth. but stanley knew that wasn't true. he was getting stronger.
idk maybe that's the most improbable part of the text. but the slings and arrows can't rely on outrageous fortune forever. fortune can mean luck, wealth, fate. some of these end up reducing to the others but the transformation is one-way. information is lost.
one thing i never get tired of is reading documentation i wrote. like damn you are so right and you know what? this is new information to me. this also happens for like other text i write. i promise you the ocd makes it take hours to figure things out but usually once it's out i don't find my own reasons to fix it beyond nitpicks. no clue why i was granted this gift but it happened immediately the first day i took an SSRI
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i'm having a normal amount of emotions reading my own documentation for the first time in years so i think it's safe to continue. i did have a powerful and positive burst of emotion on the home page where we use the term "pants empowers you" and it's actually talking shit very specifically about starlark here and holy shit that is bona fide trash talk. maybe this is a safe space
this documentation is so goddamn empathetic and i did not write what i'm reading now but someone got the message. they're getting a thank you card if this c++ backend becomes more than vaporware
god damn we have macros now and they're Good for reasons that you would agree with. erdős would say they're in the book
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