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blaise

@blaise@hachyderm.io

Open Source Apothecary, Internet Elder
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#ADHD #autism #bass player #boricua #ComplexityWranglers #coop #fountainpens #HamRadio #mycology #Sanskrit #neurodivergence #yoga

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howtophil, to random
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Basically, any forum that destroys itself by using Discourse instead of phpBB is dead as far as being a proper forum goes. Bulletin Boards DO NOT need to be more like other social media shit. They NEED to be their own thing.

blaise,
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@howtophil
I'm generally a fan of discourse for forums, precisely because they are more structured than social media.
Then again, I'm not familiar with PHPbbs.

I do tend to replace the default theme for something more like reddit.

dan, to random
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For this one brief, glorious moment I have all of my calendars syncing correctly to the devices they're supposed to sync to.

I do not expect this to last more than a day.

blaise,
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@dan
Just be perfectly still, don't change timezones.

ctietze, to random
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๐Ÿ‘‰ Zettelkasten (Not) Needed? https://christiantietze.de/posts/2024/05/zettelkasten-not-needed/

blaise,
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@ctietze
What keeps me from starting...

In no particular order.

  • Anxiety that I will do it wrong and have to start over.
    Then getting lost in video tutorials looking for one with concrete, opinionated cards. Morganeua on you tube has good, concrete examples.

  • Impatience that it's faster to just have project cards.

Both of those are common among people with ADHD (who may benefit most from the system)

pustam_egr, to random
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Mathematicians throw shade like no others

blaise,
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@pustam_egr
I don't know what Alt text should be here, but I think it deserves some.

dlakelan, to statistics
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Here's the logical structure of what you will be taught in terms of as a masters student in pretty much any field.

If MY DATA is a sample from two random number generators of PARTICULAR TYPE, and MY TEST has a small p value then MY FAVORITE EXPLANATION FOR THE DIFFERENCES IS TRUE.

This is, quite simply, a logical fallacy. The first thing wrong is that your data IS NOT a sample from a random number generator of that particular type. So we can ignore the rest logically.

blaise,
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@rythur @kalfatermann @dlakelan

This is a subject I desperately want to know more about.
May I drop in?

I have noticed these anti patterns in venture-funded Internet startups since 1997 and I lacked the math knowledge to be able to describe them more formally.

I do have some observations about the relationship of the money flow the level of rigor. As
@sennoma
suggests, it's about funding but also how accounting treats investments as expenses.

Under the influence of blame management,
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blaise,
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๐Ÿงต
the level of rigor is related to the distance between the author and the first accountability event.

Accounting doesn't have a way to depreciate investments in maintenance or efficiency, it treats them as overhead (expense).
So there's an unexamined relationship between the level of rigor and the consequences of failure.

If quality is "too expensive" it's easy to cut. If failure can be delegated, it's easier to take risks.
(Boeing, etc al)
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@rythur @kalfatermann @dlakelan @sennoma

blaise,
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๐Ÿงต
I aspire to introduce the notion of confidence intervals intervals in my work (when I'm not thinking of giving up altogether)

But most of my statistics I learned from Hubbard's "How to measure anything"

@rythur @kalfatermann @dlakelan @sennoma

blaise,
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Good example, and it is timely.
In fact, the cost for the recovery will show up as an expense on someone else's balance sheet.
So the only financial incentive is to save money on insurance premiums.

The example that brought me to this discovery was trying to answer the question
"How much can we spend to test the service before we release to the customer?"

The answer was "we can't spend more than our overhead budget for any single project."

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@dlakelan @rythur @kalfatermann @sennoma

blaise,
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I call this pattern "hire 9 women to have a baby in a month."

Investors keep doing this because every now and then they get a baby. Usually, they don't.
Accounting has no way to record that one of the women is 8 months pregnant.

@dlakelan @rythur @kalfatermann @sennoma

blaise, to Victoria
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I'm thinking about visiting in with my 19yr old son. We would take a ferry from the Seattle area.

I would love suggestions or warnings for activities, lodging, etc

blaise, to sourdough
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Finally, a loaf I feel proud of.
Or should I say, proud of the inside. My starter was not sufficiently active before and now I feel like I concentrate on the shaping.

blaise, to random
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Water grains settle to the bottom of the jar.
I stir them every few days. Is that a bad idea?

blaise, to random
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With so many new people on this server since I joined, it's time for an #introduction.

This is my personal account, where I share special interests (mostly related to justice, knowledge and communication).

https://archive.is/XmP8c and
https://youtu.be/j6F_zawRL_0
have perspectives on technology, consciousness and work.

HMU if you know about a tech #coop for Internet infrastructure.

Tambiรฉn me interesa promover proyectos de cรณdigo libre a comunidades hispanoparlantes.

jezlyn, to fountainpens
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Hello, fountain pen peoples: any recommendations on how to clean out a moldy fountain pen? Perhaps Iโ€™m not searching well enough, but I havenโ€™t found a definitive answer or instructions. I saw a few mentions about using a bleach solution to clean, but no measurements on bleach to water ratio. Supposedly this bleach solution could be used to clean fountain pen parts like the cap also, but Iโ€™m not sure if itโ€™s really okay.

blaise,
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@jezlyn
Flushing the pen or cap is meant to accomplish two objectives

  • Keep the cleaning solution away from the outside of the pen.
  • use kinetic energy to dislodge precipitates and mould from the insides.
blaise, to random
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There's so much beauty, terror, wisdom and wonder in this 30 minute lecture
https://youtu.be/Ts0aetinnvw
about
...
it will break my heart when YouTube eventually succumbs to

blaise, to USpolitics
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If I could create a content warning that said something like:
spirituality psychology ethics NSFW

Then this dialogue between Michael Cohen and Tony Schwartz would get it :
https://youtu.be/1Rjr_QgSnXI

Much of what they say is unsurprising, but it's so interesting to hear them dig into the psychological and spiritual void that creates the space for so much of what is wrong with the US society, politics and law today.

blaise, to Czechia
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In my journey to learn about as an alternative to , I noticed this new video from the excellent YouTuber Asianometry.

https://youtu.be/c2O5PIt7-Y0

Highlights include Franzitec Cuba, innovatio, -op structure,

macosken, to random
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Hello friends. Thoughts on the Lamy Safari?

blaise,
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@macosken
Thoughts?
I mean it's a great pen for the money.
Reasons to not buy one:

  • You already have too many. (Just kidding, that's never a reason to refrain.)
  • you have exceptionally small hands
  • you abhor cartridge/converter pens.
quintessence, to random
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Premise for a scifi novel (or something) that I'm not sure if it exists already or not:

There is only one soul in the universe, and while as a life form the soul experiences linear time but can be reborn as any species, on any world, at any time. Not sure what happens once the being is born as every beetle, cat, human, non-terrestrial species, etc.

blaise,
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@quintessence
Another story is that the Buddha remembered all previous incarnations, he said that being a tree was hard because he lived so long and was unable to communicate with humans or other animals.

I think it's a great premise for a book, particularly as we have a broader understanding of quantum effects and how arbitrary our experience of space and time is.

In the Bhagavad gita, Arjuna begs Krishna to remove his human costume and reveal his original form.
For an instant,
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blaise,
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@quintessence
Arjuna sees the real Krishna.
The thing is, Krishna is a snapshot (avatar) of Shiva (the dynamic aspect of reality)
So Arjuna basically sees everything that ever happened everywhere, all at once.

He immediately begs Krishna to get back into his human suit.

blaise, (edited ) to academia
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I don't know who needs this summary of advice I gave to a young woman about her academic career.

is subject to like many other institutions.
Members of marginalized groups can apply practices like social engineering to overtake the power structures.

For more detailed, practical guidance, I recommend the underground classic:

"Hacking Capitalism" by Kris Nova
https://hackingcapitalism.io/

my Audio reading
https://youtu.be/baGHDYFI810

blaise, to sourdough
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The bubbles in the are just right.
I look forward to baking a loaf for @vance_maverick to make up for the previous one.

blaise, to sourdough
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My fifth loaf of . The first I can be proud of.

kfogel, to random

Hypothesis: Publicly-traded or IPO-bound companies will always be opposed to local-first computing and will inevitably try to obstruct it in their products.

(Convince me otherwise, please, if you can; I do not wish it to be so. In the meantime, long live FOSS.)

blaise,
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@kfogel
The crowning achievement was Adobe's Post script licensing fee.
They got something like USD $30 for every laser printer for decades.

Sadly, the fee was one time, per printer.
If only they could come up with a way to monetize every time someone looked at an image. They could charge a recurring fee... but that's another story.

The bias towards uniformity results from a desire to reduce the cost of engineering.
The accountants treat engineering as an expense (not an investment) ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ
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blaise,
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@kfogel
Accountants conflate price with value, so they don't record the recurring benefit of improvements.
The financial analysts enters the accounting data to their model and voilรก, they have a revenue stream that grows, compounds; selling something that costs little to reproduce.

In that model, they strive for fewer SKUs, fewer locations, less integration. Higher switching cost, more lock in.

In the service of growth within a rolling 90 day window tending towards infinity.

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