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blah!
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ideas with no tangibility;
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ideas with irrelevant supports;
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ideas without value;
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ideas' witlessness;
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ideas' witnesses;
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ideas-
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2022-06-21
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Some things I learned this week
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Instead of grating vegetables, you can peel very small sections off of
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them to get essentially the same effect. It works better if you dice the
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peelings after you're done. A grater will do the job much better but in a pinch
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the peeler will work fine.
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A teaspoon is 5mL, a tablespoon is 15mL. They aren't the same.
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You can never have enough paper towels. If you think you do, you're
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wrong. Aspirin is bad for you, acetaminophen is especially bad for you,
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ibuprofen is bad for you, you can have either pain or pain.
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The GNU debugger is awesome. Compile programs with `-g` and run gdb
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[program], then execute `start`, then `step` through statement by statement and
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inspect variables with `print`. I've been printf(3) debugging since I was eight
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years old (about a decade ago). This is a total game changer.
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The first pancake is always the worst. Don't be afraid to screw up the
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first time, instead ensure the environment is controlled so that when beginners
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make that first pancake the customers don't eat it.
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People believe the dumbest stuff because they're so used to dumb things
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happening. You can't be sane in an insane world.
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Food I'm craving
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Pizza (good pizza, not something from Pizza Johns or Papa Hut). I could
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make it myself but dough seems hard and I'm procrastinating learning how bread
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and stuff works. I also don't wanna go to the store, carry the ingredients
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home, and figure out what to do with the leftover stuff. Perhaps all my
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problems could be solved with one of those Hello Fresh startups or whatever but
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the point of pizza is that it's cheap and delicious and I don't wanna pay more
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for less.
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A bagel, but I could always go for a bagel. I'd like some veggie cream
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cheese right now on a dark toasted bagel.
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Pancakes. I haven't had pancakes for a couple seasons now. I like
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pancakes with good maple syrup, maybe not the really expensive stuff in glass
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jars (I haven't tried that stuff so I wouldn't know) but the stuff that comes
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in the gray-cream colored pitchers with the small handles and black caps, with
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instructions on the back for what to do if there's a skim on top of the syrup.
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Thin, Maine maple syrup, no corn involved in the process. Though Aunt Jemima
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(or whatever name by which she goes nowadays) is alright in a pinch.
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I'm trying not to eat so much meat. The exceptions are (a) trying
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something new, (b) home-cooked meals by someone else, and (c) East asian
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restuarants. And of course food that would otherwise go to waste. I've found
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that limiting myself to these situations gives me a pretty good amount of meat
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in my diet ("pretty good" being a small amount, I eat meat maybe thrice a week
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at most). I don't have a moral stake in this in terms of animal cruelty, though
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I do believe farming animals is cruel, because I didn't kill the thing and
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Capitalists will never voluntarily decrease the amount of product they churn
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out. I just don't see a future where humans can have meat in nearly every meal
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and I'm trying to acclimate in advance. As past, so will pass - I'm sure we'll
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go back to some sort of primarily-grain diet, though maybe "grain" will be corn
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and corn derivatives and not much else. Meh, could be worse.
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That being said, I could go for some turkey mixed with egg. In a pan,
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put a couple of slices (or even just the giblets left over from the slicing
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process) of turkey beast on some butter as the oil, and crack an egg over it.
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Break the yolk if the yolk isn't already broken and keep flipping the egged
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turkey until the egg is cooked. Serve alone or as part of a breakfast sandwich.
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It's the perfect mix of texture and flavor. I had this with some turkey that
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would have otherwise gone to waste and it was very good.
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2022-06-20: Some thinks I've been thinging about
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The world would be a more interesting place if any biologists or
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researchers focusing on transmissable diseases took a look at Internet memes or
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"fake news" (cognitoviruses).
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If a policy tangibly hurts people it's not a good policy. Whether or
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not I believe it's good, if something I supported takes food out of a mouth, I
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was wrong. Humans come before statutes.
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Nobody's applied the second amendment to the abortion debate. The
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intent of the founding fathers regarding the second amendment was clearly to
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allocate for the self-defense of the populace even if it may be to the
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detriment of an offending party. Does a pregnant individual not have the right
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to stand their own ground and fend off entities that will do them harm?
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Plastic is the new lead. Humans shouldn't be drinking animal milk (I
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drink a lot of chocolate milk, so this is a dig at myself too). Meat is as
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essential to the culinary arts as sugar, but it's also as essential to human
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sustenance as sugar. The next "got milk?" will be disseminated through Internet
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memes.
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I'm not in favor of banning anything; abortion or firearms. I think a
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national firearm ban to some extent may be inevitable but I'm not too torn up
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about it. A bullet doesn't have much practical use beyond taking a life or
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practicing for it.
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I want a Nintendo Wii powered through USB-C.
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A holocaust will happen before 2050. This game of "telephone" that is
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generational education didn't impress upon this generation the gravity of the
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Holocaust committed by the Nazis in the 1940s. The Nazis had a fetish for
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documentation; the next holocaust will be recorded literally in 4K Ultra HD.
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In a desensitized world, will that even make a difference for the children of
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2160? In the information war that will be World War III, who will win - the
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Americans, who can't tamp down obvious misinformation such as "Pizzagate" or
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that the COVID-19 vaccines have microchips, or the Russians, who manufactured
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these rumors? "Americans" and "Russians" here are not literal names.
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To me it's conceivable that gender nonconforming and non-heterosexual
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individuals would be targeted as scapegoats for a future manufactured
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"struggle" in the same way the Nazis chose Jews to be the primary scapegoats
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for "degeneration". Outliers are routinely paraded as examples of the queer
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community by those who wish to discredit it. External parties try to break the
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LGBT+ umbrella into the "LGB and others" or "lesbians and gays, but not
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bisexuals". The latter for acceptance (exceptance?) from those who conduct the
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former. All wins temporary at best.
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2022-06-19: Some things I've been thinking about
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The UNIX philosophy ("create things that do one thing well") is a
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mandate rather than a suggestion; programs can and will fall under their own
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weight if you allow them to become too complex with too many things dependent
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on other things. From a software design standpoint I've found this to be very
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useful.
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However, I think focusing on software complexity is treating the
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symptoms of Bad Computing rather than the disease. The core issue is that
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humans should not have to change themselves for a machine - the machine should
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only ever be changed for the human. After all, a computer is simply a tool.
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Interchangeable (right?), repairable (right?), intuitive (right?), and a means
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to an end (right?).
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Lately humans have been having to change themselves for machines. There
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are easily comprehendable issues - e.g. "I don't have a first name, how do I
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fill out this form?" - but there are also denser, deeper problems in this
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regard - in fact, even computer literacy education is itself changing humans in
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favor of machines. Software should be designed to be basically intuitive to
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someone that's never used a computer and ideally need no further skills.
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This probably started with the Old Engineers who were basically
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breathing computer before computers were even existent in their modern form.
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Graybeards (women and nonbinary fellows included within this word, use your
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imagination) didn't need to change themselves for computers because they and
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machina were already kin. Then they made simple interfaces for the restivus and
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hoped it was enough, and it was for a while.
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Once we defeat the status quo, the rest will be easy.
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The Center for Disease Control in the United States isn't perfect but I
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trust them a bit more than a bald guy on Spotify.
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Today's Juneteenth, which is a memory to a pretty cool event, the end
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of lawful slavery in the United States.
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