chenoehart @chenoehart@mastodon.social
Interested in the intersection of the internet and the built environment.
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error. - Bertolt Brecht
@therealslim_kt gets to be an addiction you can’t control. There’s a reason some people spend all waking hours in headphones.
@mwotton @vgr @zacharius music is deployed more often by others to manipulate your mood (movies, retail muzak, etc), and tolerance makes you less susceptible, is I think what @vgr was getting at.
I've found my own tastes in music to be a moving target. It can sometimes be hard to find the next thing that'll strongly move me. Often unexpected, but once I find it, I'll mine it for pleasure.
Coming back on here again. Not directly related to Facebook boycott efforts so much as because I find myself missing the old internet (to the extent that even existed outside of my imagination) where it seemed easier to find niche communities. Lately feels like tech has become too sanitized and lost its edge, even as it is becoming more directly connected to destructive political & social implications.
Today is a good day to be paying attention to Mastodon instead of Twitter
today I learned: blockbuster still exists primarily in Alaska due to longass depressing winters and notoriously bad internet connectivity.
I guess this is the place I should go to complain about not being able to fall asleep. Normally wouldn't bother me, but I have events scheduled for tomorrow which I'd rather err on the side of being well-prepared for.
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Today I deleted 1.64 gigabytes of photos from my phone just so that the monthly Windows patch could download. I have no idea what, if anything, this patch improves for me, the user. Probably it means Russian/Ukrainian ghost wizard draculas are now another month away from biting me, if I keep running hard.
But for sure it means my photos are not on my phone anymore.
Just in case anyone at Microsoft is keeping any kind of user-satisfaction score.
To measure how tribal a group is, just start a competing project. If the response is negative and emotional, the group is tribal. A sane group will applaud its new competitors."
-- Pieter Hintjens
My life is a series of unfinished side projects
Am remembering the case study of a commercial aircraft design where engineering team, brought up in the era of AutoCAD, designed a new aircraft with an interior cabinet that couldn't be fit through the vehicle doors, necessitating the disassembly of half the plane in order to for said cabinet to be installed.
Imagine how those who built analog computers felt about people with punch cards who hadn't ever cobbled a device together from scratch.
Imagine how someone who learned assembly felt about people writing C++.
There's always gonna be these gaps. :\
Best I figure can be done is accept that those experiences are going to get lost, and tell the stories as best one can.
But, that's me. <3
The people who made Unicode really are unsung heroes of the age. Thirty years of work wrangling together all the world's writing systems into a single consistent standard. It's a huge accomplishment, one that touches the lives of billions of people dozens of times every day. But it's the kind of accomplishment that never gets celebrated, because it's simultaneously too abstract and too ubiquitous. So for them there's no parade, no book deals, no fame.
I'd read that book, though!
@cypnk Sad, but "too much of that in the real world" may be the reason why. Easy to sell simple distractions, and fake blood is cheap (CG is also relatively cheap and easy now.) Good writing? Hard to say if it's just not easy to find it or studios are not willing to bet on it. Bloody stuff sells, they know that it's safe.
