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recursive

@recursive@hachyderm.io

Queer hacker girl/muscle girl.

Cursed systems appreciator who has spent a lot of time thinking about CI/dev tools/platform eng.

Frequently interested in things people think are "too difficult" or "witchcraft": analog electronics design, music, chemistry/materials science, qualia, math?

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recursive, to random
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Very amused by the social class implications of food as interpreted by soulless marketing departments that I see every time I shop at a Whole Foods. There are 24 kinds of salami and 0 bologna.

(Also very annoyed by this.)

recursive,
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They're both even Italian words! But they have different histories in 20th century America

recursive,
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Anyway, I was there to get ingredients for Olivier Salad which I have been missing for approximately 40 years, and which I think is wonderful because it is the opposite of American yuppie food values. (I am making this one with summer sausage)

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If the sun wants to kill me (and give me wrinkles), why does it feel so good?

recursive, to random
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I was recently prompted to read this 2015 article about raising kids https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-secret-to-raising-smart-kids1/ again and it's given me a chance to reflect on how I was praised for being smart as a kid, but the only feedback I got around effort was disappointment in my lack of it.

It's only been concurrent with transitioning that I've learned to overcome fear of failure and find a kind of ambition based in the idea that maybe if I put more effort in, I'll (sometimes) get more results out.

recursive,
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Letting go of beliefs about my inherent competence (and incompetence) at certain things and just trying them has probably changed me more than anything else in life. You don't know how good you can be until you try to improve. You don't often even know how much you'll enjoy it until you're partway through that process.

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Me: "Ah, time to enjoy some simple CodeCAD, where if you take care, everything is reasonable"

CAD: "You have found today's Algorithm Surprise API! This object will henceforth have its coordinate system rotated by 180 degrees, but only 50% of the times you click render! Hopefully all your followup operations are rotationally symmetrical!"

recursive,
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@danderson every time we do floating point arithmetic, Dedekind and Cantor are rolling in their graves

recursive, to random
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lol

It's definitely academic software/data when their homepage tells you how to cite it in BibTeX format, but you can't find a license file anywhere

recursive, to random
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New tom7 video out, and this one is both enjoyable and cursed:
https://youtu.be/Y65FRxE7uMc

recursive, to random
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I'm just trying to teach myself to prove some math things (writing them down in LaTeX because my handwriting is not great) but the computer is horny 😂
https://hachyderm.io/@recursive/112567880580781567

recursive,
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Yes, I first used TeX a very, very long time ago, and even if I never learned a lot of the usual LaTeX macros, it feels rather comfortable to me.

recursive, to random
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TFW not sure if the thing you're thinking of is actually something which is uncountably infinite or just another Hilbert Hotel.

recursive,
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Oh, now I can see how I'm going to be interested in topology

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So apparently Washington has a specific state regulation prohibiting the use of shoe fitting fluoroscopes.

https://app.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=246-220-080

I wonder how long that one's been on the books for. I hope nobody's been trying to use those in the last century...

recursive,
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@azonenberg I think both my parents remembered them still being around in the late 1940s

recursive, to random
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TFW you learn that Galois died at only 20 years old

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Me: I don't really care about Game of Thrones franchise stuff

Philosophytube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eZIOns-4PuU

Me: Okay, suddenly this is compelling

recursive, to random
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I don't own a witch hat but it feels like @warandpeas really gets me https://warandpeas.com/2023/10/22/flatmates/

recursive, to random
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I'm thinking back to the time, earlier in my career, I was employed to do devops stuff related to web crawling, fixed one of the toilets in our small office (converted old house) rather than wait for the useless property management company.

Everyone seemed amazed, and I just had applied a little knowledge and 30 seconds of effort to a situation outside of the job description

https://mstdn.social/@ElleGray/112553996887681566

recursive, to random
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The most striking experience of being queer was realizing that sometimes your mind can't tell the difference between wanting to be like a person and wanting to date them

recursive,
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The thing where I've been realizing this is that I had a certain idea of a woman I wanted to date about 20 years ago... and actually that's the person I've become.

A lesson I take from this is that it's wonderful to seek other people for connection, open-ended experiences, new ideas, but you need to consider that if something more concrete feels missing in your life, you maybe just need to do/become that thing.

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listening to Xenakis when you’ve only ever heard Disintegration by the Cure: “Getting big Disintegration by the Cure vibes from this”

recursive,
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@c_reider Thanks for reminding me of Disintegration, now I'm listening to the whole album. It's a but melancholy for me, but it got me through some difficult teenage years

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I was that kid who was always happy to use extremely precise technical language, so of course now I am excited to have to pause and think for 20 seconds about whether "homomorphism" or "isomorphism" is the correct word to use in an everyday conversation.

(Sorry not sorry)

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I'm still not accustomed to being an ambitious person

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Okay, but: "I'll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror" is at the same time one of the most clever and most devastating lyrics in recent pop history.

I'm almost willing to forgive her latest album because of how good the last one was.

recursive,
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@tess That is the song that finally got me to like her

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"Men will add an OS feature that constantly screenshots your computer rather than learn to take notes."

I shitpost, but the folks I know with ADHD and amazing note taking are all women

(Cc @GossiTheDog )
https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/112513245526178602

recursive,
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@whitequark @GossiTheDog Its certainly a good idea if it were easy to turn on and off and be fully informed of the consequences of

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