The common sort of #lisp hacker, #MartialArtist, spiritual nomad, and father. I like #conlangs, #coding, and #BeeKeeping. I live near #boston. I run the cantos.social instance.
I am shutting down cantos.social very soon. I didn't intend to have a single-user instance - It was an experiment on my part to see if I could get an instance purely from an invite tree. I learned that you can't.
The way I see a lot of successful instances go is by having a compelling niche and open reg and _then_ going invite-only.
Anyway, a good run. I will be moving to @glitchf . I'll set up the account move so my followers shouldn't have to do anything.
QOTD:
“It's fascinating to me that my biggest contribution to the world was the smallest, accomplished in a single evening, and mostly over dinner.” – Rob Pike, on UTF-8 (https://hachyderm.io/@robpike/110890432036139629).
What makes a thing predestined? Well, something with a lot of energy. Lots of dying or loving or both. Crazy coincidences seem to happen the most when people meet and have children later. Magicians can unhinge themselves sufficiently to imbue a desired future with enough energy to make it self-causing.
I'm not saying it is this way, it's just fun to think about.
This divination would obviously only work if the reader were in the critical path of a predestined event. So it might detail your job and love life but not the covid-19 pandemic. Unless, of course, you're that lucky person who was critical to it happening and it was actually predestined and not just one of those things that happens.
IF causality can go both directions in time, and a future event can cause an event in the past/present, what would that look like? I imagine it would look like random processes coming together to make a result, like its antecedents were being arranged.
If one were to take a deck of cards and shuffle them, it wouldn't matter _unless_ they influenced the reader to bring about the future event in some way.
Therefore, divination with cards or other random things would work but only for believers.
This point by @scalzi from his blog needs so much boosting:
My personal observation about [..] liberals is that many seem to vote to “solve” things, and once they think things are “solved” they let their attention wander off to whatever else it is they are doing. Many [..] conservatives, on the other hand, seem to vote to “push” things in the direction they want them to go. They are in it for the long term. If as a voter you’re a “pusher” rather than a “solver,” you show up for every damn vote.
At the risk of sounding like one of those open-source crazies... Mesa drivers will NEVER do this to you.
We argue over whether or not having an app hacks system in a fully open driver is sufficiently transparent. Don't want that driver hacking around games behind your back!
The notion of scraping your web history in a GPU driver would never even occur to us. If someone ever proposed it, it'd get NAK'd so hard they'd be feeling it for a year.
@blinry amazing! I've read that it's tough when you take it off after a long time.
@karolherbst Wintermoor Tactics Club!
For nearly 5 years, I've been trying to figure out what this adapter is supposed to connect to. It's still a mystery. Someday, the right person is going to see this post and they'll finally solve this puzzle.
@WEATHERISHAPPENING It's a proper measure because the higher it goes globally the more Fd we are.
@wordshaper @cstross Flipping that around, all dystopias are utopias for somebody.
@rodhilton While I agree that Chrome's default tab rendering is superior here, I love the Firefox Tree Style Tab extension so much, and it obsoletes the whole issue for me. It's sadly not possible to do gracefully in Chrome. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/
SunOS 4.1.4 says it can't possibly be the year 2023: "WARNING: preposterous time in filesystem -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!"
sorry SunOS, there's nothing i can do to fix 2023.
Hello to our new followers, which, for the one and only time, is everyone...
We'll be verifying our account very soon, but in the meantime, our top level domain should hopefully help confirm our identity, and we've also written about why we're here on Mastodon, what was involved to get here, and the other BBC accounts you can follow.
Say hi, follow and give us a boost!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub
@kissane Thank you so much for doing this work! I found your summary interesting and entertaining.
@Lila Don't you see a lifetime effect here because where a person is "from" is understood to be constant?
It seems like the other interpretations "Jessie was from Canada, but no longer"
and "Jessie was from Canada. She still is, but she was too." would take some response time to discard without context.
