I’m not sure I like how homebrew will try to build a package if the download fails. I don’t need a second go binary, really.

Generate a PDF in Go ⌘ Read more…

Oh, right. If my main computer is tethered to my phone’s LTE connection, it’s not going to be accessible from my tablet, will it? Darn.

Automatically scheduled bank payments
So, you sign up for a gym, or another service, that gives you a small discount for paying using an automatic scheduled withdraw from your bank’s checking account. Things go well for a while, then they go sour—or you simply change your mind—and you want to sever that agreement, to disconnect the link between them and your bank account. Guess what? You can’t. Not through your mobile banking app, nor through a bank’s web site, call, or in-person … ⌘ Read more

Elections 2020
Election time is always an important time. We, the people, get to vote for the person that will be our nation’s president for at least four years—and with any luck, eight. The presidential election of 2020 is going to be an interesting one. I know, I know, we could say the same for every election. This time, though, it’s easy to understand why the upcoming election holds an extra weight.

I could go on, and describe the reasons why Trump shouldn’t get re-elected. They ar … ⌘ Read more

i just started using i3 (i3-gaps) on my laptop and holy shit this is so wonderful… i had no idea tiling WMs were so amazing but i’m never going back

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Nobody going “woo” for portrait-mode coding? Hunh.

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i wanna go camping

Met Lily, who could become our new dog if things go well

Today I learned that onions are a sulfur-rich food. You can experience this yourself if you caramelize down roughly seven onions and eat half the batch in one sitting. Try not to do this if you’re going to be around people with functioning noses.

Finally reinstalled twtxt. Hope all is going well

Finally reinstalled twtxt. Hope all is going well

Walking through stopped time isn’t as easy as one would believe: Even if you have the gift, you must leave causality unbroken. You can only step sideways in time, go where your past steps could plausibly have taken you.

The Spectacle vs Capitalism (Snowpiercer vs Go West) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opMAQzMEkGg

Go Left Dems, The ‘Center’ Is Just GOP-Lite https://peterdaou.com/go-left-dems/

Apparently, not only is Netflix making more FMV VNs, but Youtube Red is going to produce some too? As a VN author I can’t complain too much but jesus are we in 1993 again? The return to forgotten history in the tech industry gives me whiplash

going without was fun and all, but i’m glad to have something to use again

despite the temporary break of last weekend, i still feel like i’ve been going at full power

my no-laptop experiment is still going alright… although i’m kind of just excited to start messing around with my new one when it comes

holy shit did the domekano anime cut like most of the literature club shit? i don’t remember them going camping & hina getting stung by a wasp

i’ve been insanely productive this week… usually my manic states don’t go on for this long but we’re pushing three days

today was the day of the triennual trying of the fish shell only to go back to bash within an hour or two

i’m going without a laptop for a week… i’m really excited about it and day 1 was great so far

We ought to be suspicious of business plans that resemble manifest destiny: expansion into supposedly-unclaimed regions, turning inhabitants into tools & discarding the resistant (who now have nowhere to go) or worse.

Why Conspiracy Videos Go Viral on YouTube - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/02/reason-conspiracy-videos-work-so-well-youtube/583282/

A lot of people are going to start watching Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka, and then say ‘this looks like trash’ and stop watching it. They’re right, and it’s a shame. Higurashi had the same problem.

Bad idea of the day: Do a free machine-generated text class at a library (using tracery or something), self-publish the course materials as a book (with proceeds going to the library as donations), & get a couple copies for the stacks.

Notes on structured concurrency, or: Go statement considered harmful — njs blog https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-go-statement-considered-harmful/

Bitcoin, Snapchat, Drugs And Death: How A Woman Followed Two “UGNazi” Hackers’ Lies To Her Tragic Killing https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/tomi-masters-down-the-rabbit-hole-i-go

Unusual core features for a dream language for small computing: MUMPS-style disk persistence of otherwise normal variables indicated by sigils, go-style piping between coroutines or greenthreads, message passing & guards like erlang, parsing backtracking like icon, constraint solving like prolog

i think it’s going to take some time before i can actually Do School again…

One of the ideas I was playing with in MfoM was the distinction between player & player character with a ‘possession’ metaphor, & how that relates to the time loop. I didn’t go so far with it. Maybe in Book of the Damned I’ll have the player be a possessing-spirit.

@kas@enotty.dk I should have gone for the two-hour nap (to a first approximation, I can’t powernap). Ended up going to bed at 5 without having had a two-hour nap previously. Failed experiments are the price of knowledge, I guess.

My furnace broke & the furnace repair guy is snowed in, & it’ll be going below zero tonight. So, I had to run to walmart & buy a bunch of space heaters, & I’ll be up all night making sure nothing catches on fire :(

Where did all the utopias go? Well, nobody writes utopian novels anymore, but everybody writes utopian code

Many replies go unposted as commenters find that they prefer the sphinx’s conversation to that of the other commenters

raised by machines, the feral kids of the robotic undercity recite ads as greetings, talk in beeps and whirrs and modem chirps, go still and make fan noises when stressed

We all know about social constructs vs reality, but there are levels of spookiness (and no upper bound). We can define them as how far a lie can go before the truth gets its boots on. Spookiness level one – money – already goes basically perpetually.

Broken Chain Restaurants: When Fast Food Franchises Go Solo https://tedium.co/2018/12/04/broken-chains-fast-food-restaurants/

80: innocuous-looking, but refuses to output anything. instead, random things in my room go bump. ‘u’ reliably closes the curtains, while the first ‘del’ the made my room shake with generator hum. have yet to figure out where it is. help I can’t sleep

Remember: unless your turkey sees its shadow, you must go back underground and avoid buying anything until halloween of next year.

Oh no… The Alita movie is going to try to cover the rollerball arc in addition to the first arc.

I’m going to be periodically posting research resources for the new book here, as I find them: http://www.lord-enki.net/resources-survey-of-alternatives.html

Bunny-Girl Senpai is an interesting show. It seems to be going for a theme with the various arcs: each one seems to be about how communications media change our behavior & self-image by exerting social pressure with expectations.

@khuxkm@khuxkm.tilde.team yeaaaaa buddy go get em. hack-n-slash-em hacktober!

Because of the use of ‘rune’ to refer to unicode codepoints in go, a fulthark transliteration program might have somewhat confusing source…

Lexical Scanning in Go - Rob Pike - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxaD_trXwRE

At work for only 70 min and I already want to go home.