What's up with men and actually showing up when they agree to volunteer? Almost every woman who signs up to volunteer for things I'm coordinating has followed through. Hardly any men sign-up to begin with and even fewer show up.
Teenage boys don't have this problem. They're good for their word. It's just older men.
I hate to say this, but if I see a guy on my volunteer roster. I immediately put a question mark next to his name because I'm going to need an alternate lined up just in case.
@sysop408@PerryM “A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once”
Welp, Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene ii gonna hit different next time
@mhoye once in a. blue moon a huge customer needs the form factor for market reasons and then Apple bumps the specs rather than letting Samsung get the order. Then they forget about it until the next time
Which is, of course, a side effect of reading PKD.
A long time ago I was able to mitigate some pretty bad insomnia by reading an early PKD novel every night. I would eat an early dinner, read until the end, and fall assleep. I lived alone at the time
I was even doing them in order of publication for a while, and that is what broke the streak: I got a misprint of “The Games-Players of Titan" which had the first ten pages missing and the next ten pages doubled up. By the time I had a different printing (and an ebook version) I had lost momentum; on the other hand I had skipped to "Lies, Inc." which had an extended prologue that sets up "Ratatouille" and also a violently disorienting depiction of a militarized hallucinogen delivered via small-arms fire that sets up “Gravity's Rainbow”
@flockofnazguls I don't think i made it to that one as an insomnia read, but I think it was one of his more optimistic ones in that Eldritch was defeated.
I know better than to read anything in the VALIS trilogy after 4PM though
@flockofnazguls yeah, he takes "simulated reality" jump scare and runs it in both directions: reality itself is contaminated by hallucinations, like the famous holographic recording scene in A Scanner Darkly. That's also what I love about Borges, and I do owe myself a read of The King in Yellow
@flockofnazguls I have an English translation anthology of his key stories "Labyrinths" with an excellent introduction by William Gibson, it's at least as good as Jonathan Lethem's introduction to Ubik
I swear, so much complexity of my life right now comes from me wanting to be able to graphically draw out an interconnected hypergraph but also have a convenient textual representation of said hypergraph
I'm sure this makes zero sense to people. But ugh. It's so frustrating to have the ideas in your brain and just not be able to really tease them out in a useful way for others
Signed,
trying to figure out how to map "do the platform engineering thing more better" into strategy and architecture
@hazelweakly if you see a hyperconnected graph, that's a sign that there are missing dimensions to the domain that could simplify things a lot: oblique strategy - normalize the data model. I try to find the things that cast shadows and to give them names.
By analogy: imagine a bicycle manufacturer that does not have any understanding of the term "bicycle”. They put together bicycle parts in a consistent way, but when it come time to ship them to the store, they take the bike apart and put each part in a separate envelope. Then they leave it to the store to put the parts back together solely by the order number. God help them if someone orders two bikes at once.