I’m skeptical about having a model of utility actually being sufficient to solve optimizers curse. isn’t that just kicking the can down the road, finding something that fools both your utility and your utility model?

@thewismit@twtxt.psynergy.io @jlj@twt.nfld.uk in old school terminal jargon the ^H means control H or the sequence used in some terminals to indicate backspace. The “joke” is that the term failed to interpret it correctly and you can see the partially typed word before they changed it.

@thewismit@twtxt.psynergy.io @jlj@twt.nfld.uk in old school terminal jargon the ^H means control H or the sequence used in some terminals to indicate backspace. The “joke” is that the term failed to interpret it correctly and you can see the partially typed word before they changed it.

it’s uncool on purpose to avoid you clicking

Awesome! do you have the svg available to add to my logo?

Awesome! do you have the svg available to add to my logo?

But I want to get back to reasonable hours so I can work on personal stuff and study

@jlj@twt.nfld.uk “Anyone running Urbit? Thinking about having a play with a comet. ☄🌒” -> Just as @movq@www.uninformativ.de has problems with his reading queue, I have problems with my “things to explore” queue. I even bought a planet a while back, but haven’t had time to dive into the extradimensional madness of the urbit system. Subjective impressions & reviews highly anticipated!

the longer my teammates and I bang our heads on this Stupid Error™, the less bad I feel for not having been able to solve it myself

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feels good to be using tmux again more regularly. ansi-term in emacs is well, special.

Pushed small updates to tw. Next: make discoverability optional.

@prologic@twtxt.net Exactly, but that reduces the argument for URLs in the post. The client should figure out how to search based on the hashtag.

Either you die a good person, or you get old enough to see yourself turn into an Omohundro monster.

I’m unclear if I’m going to do the twtxt.net discovery protocol; neither my web server nor Plan 9’s default capture agent strings. :-/

@prologic@twtxt.net @anth Sounds like a good idea. The hash to conv/search url should stay local to a pod.

@prologic@twtxt.net @anth Sounds like a good idea. The hash to conv/search url should stay local to a pod.

@prologic@twtxt.net Looks like twtxt.net is already happy with it, so that’s good! I’m just going to aim for that.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yes, I often read the raw messages. But more to the point, the simplicity of the format is the bulk of the appeal.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de No argument that threading is an improvement. But I think (#hash) does that, and I think figuring out how to search should mostly be up to the client.

@jlj@twt.nfld.uk “@niplav (#4qeibma) Hadn’t heard of this; thanks for the tip! Been getting lost in your text reviews; the Benatar piece piqued my interest: I’d been reading a critique of his earlier work – in Overall’s Why Have Children? – that really wasn’t up to scratch. Now I’m reading about pure replicators, which is a new concept, to me. :-)” -> Nice :-) Looking over my text reviews, they’re not quite finished (especially the Benatar one), so take it with a grain of salt

@darch@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net Technically it should be at the start.. Though the parser doesn’t currently care where it is. Though that leads to artifacts like any random string inside perens becoming a subject.

@darch@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net Technically it should be at the start.. Though the parser doesn’t currently care where it is. Though that leads to artifacts like any random string inside perens becoming a subject.

@prologic@twtxt.net tricky.. punctuation is being grouped in with other text. i need to break up string tokens.

@prologic@twtxt.net tricky.. punctuation is being grouped in with other text. i need to break up string tokens.

Hey @xuu@txt.sour.is another mention that didn’t render ☝️

@thewismit@twtxt.psynergy.io Hey! It’s easy. Just install the twt CLI with something like:

go get github.com/jointwt/twtxt/cmd/twt/...

Then use it in some hooks/scripts to post some content to your Pod.

@prologic@twtxt.net its the puny code for the yarn emoji. Though you would want the type-able version to redirect so its not hard to type on non mobile.

@prologic@twtxt.net its the puny code for the yarn emoji. Though you would want the type-able version to redirect so its not hard to type on non mobile.

@prologic@twtxt.net we would want:

• a way to reply to the current thread. We have this.
  
• a way to reply to a specific twt. Need this. Maybe make all the replies start new conversations?
  
• check if twt is start of a conversation.. we kinda have this in the main feed with the conversation button. need to extend it for forked convs
  
• a way to inline first replies. maybe show one or two in the sub thread with a link to view.
  
• for convenience have a link to parent conv?

@prologic@twtxt.net we would want:

• a way to reply to the current thread. We have this.
  
• a way to reply to a specific twt. Need this. Maybe make all the replies start new conversations?
  
• check if twt is start of a conversation.. we kinda have this in the main feed with the conversation button. need to extend it for forked convs
  
• a way to inline first replies. maybe show one or two in the sub thread with a link to view.
  
• for convenience have a link to parent conv?

We Want Our 4 Causes Back!

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Aristotle, in his Physics argued that there are four causes behind everything that exists.
These causes answer the question of “How” or “Why” something is the way it is.

The Material CauseThe material from which something is made.
E.g. the stone of a statue.The Efficient CauseThe external force that causes something to be made.
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I ran fortune for something to stick in a text-centric side project, and it said “You can’t build a bomb at 300 baud.” which is just about perfect.

@prologic@twtxt.net would that need a NLP library? The lang would be great for a search engine to find language prefs.

@prologic@twtxt.net would that need a NLP library? The lang would be great for a search engine to find language prefs.

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Wanna learn LaTeX?

Basically, it’s how big boys write and format documents.
Every public brief, scientific article, book, cryptocurrency whitepaper or even outline written by people who know what they’re doing is written in LaTeX.

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Really looking forward to the release of Go 1.16

added biramp to sndkit: @!(sndkitref “biramp”)!@.

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java makes my head hurt. to be fair, every strongly typed lang makes it hurt.

proposal: let’s ignore 2020 data when trying to argue about anything

Last night I spent about 30 minutes putting together the bare framework for a dumb project I want to do. I’m so excited to work on it, I keep checking the website to see if I’ve posted anything new.

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trying to get myself to reach for !links browser instead of firefox for locally testing my wiki. For the most part, it really doesn’t need the heft of firefox. When links -g is used, it really really doesn’t need firefox.

One of these days I will learn not to argue with the bitcoin bros.

to date, 138 pages in my wiki. wowee :)

Upgrading the MacPorts packages on my 2009 Mac Mini via ‘port upgrade outdated’, mostly to get Python 3 > 3.6 and be able to run the current jrnl program #cli #macos

Upgrading the MacPorts packages on my 2009 Mac Mini via ‘port upgrade outdated’, mostly to get Python 3 > 3.6 and be able to run the current jrnl program #cli #macos

History is what we choose to remember “History is what we choose to remember”*… | (Roughly) Daily

Wallpaper gray on LARBS?
If after a recent update, xwallpaper isn’t setting your wallpaper on boot in LARBS, it’s because xwallpaper is giving an error with the recent version of glibc.

There’s already an issue up about this on the xwallpaper Github and hopefully it will be fixed soon. Out of my control.

You can spend a little time learning alternate ways to set wallpapers in the meantime, or learn to love gray. ⌘ Read more

@jlj@twt.nfld.uk @thewismit@twtxt.psynergy.io Custom Pod Logos are now available with PR 358 🎉 if you’d like to checkout this PR on your pods and recompile and let me know how it goes that would be swell 👌

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If you are leading and or managing a team, one of the most important things you need to know are how do people want their feedback. My experience is that it varies from person to person (I suspect that there are many more than two camps :-)) and as such it is unlikely that you can meet that need in group feedback. Toxic positivity does more harm than good | Hacker News

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I wonder if email would be a reasonable way to enable interaction on twtxt… something like publishing an email address for replies in the preamble of your feed, then like twtxt the rest is up to you, but I could imagine a simple moderation queue that could be checked periodically allowing the admin to move approved comments into some public space… I keep thinking I’ll add activitypub comments to my site but it seems more complex than I care for. Ironically because of available tooling email actually feels simpler for this… of course, there is spam…

with !zet and !zetdo, I find myself constantly needing to type out UUIDs. thing is, they aren’t the easiest thing to type. might invent an intermediate typer-friendly intermediate UUID format that can then convert to the regular UUID format. #halfbaked

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@jlj@twt.nfld.uk oh dang the reply didnt add the reply. It was to @hxii@0xff.nu because Firefox shows his shruggy like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@jlj@twt.nfld.uk oh dang the reply didnt add the reply. It was to @hxii@0xff.nu because Firefox shows his shruggy like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Are you able to coax your webserver to add the charset to the content type header? Browsers are having a hard time thinking you are sending latin-1

content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

Are you able to coax your webserver to add the charset to the content type header? Browsers are having a hard time thinking you are sending latin-1

content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

@prologic@twtxt.net @hxii@0xff.nu I’m certain that it is a markdown thing. Its that way on other markdown sites like Reddit. Because the underline is being escaped to prevent the underline style. Gotta double it up ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@prologic@twtxt.net @hxii@0xff.nu I’m certain that it is a markdown thing. Its that way on other markdown sites like Reddit. Because the underline is being escaped to prevent the underline style. Gotta double it up ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

challenge for qualia relationism: it seems plausible that for a relation between two qualia to be established to actually create the quality of the experience, they should occur at near points in time. however, people in great pain don’t usually at the same time seem to recall memories of especially pleasurable moments.

: qualia relationism: the properties of qualia are defined by their relations to other qualia (but distinguish ordinal rankings for properties of qualia without a zero-point from cardinal properties of qualia without a zero-point). E.g., the hedonic treadmill is not accidental, but a deep fact of the universe.

: qualia internalism: the properties of a quale are internal to the quale, and therefore the properties of different qualia can be projected onto a cardinal scale with zero point.

Started the #gsoc application for Plan 9 yesterday morning; spun up a new cpu server last night; poking at it today. I miss being able to spend more time on this.

All I wanna do / is go to bed / I got a feelin’ / I’d just rather be dead…

@jlj@twt.nfld.uk “Wow. I think much of what drew me to zettlekasten – and then letting it languish :-( – really belongs in Anki.” i have only used SRS for ~3 months now, so I’m not sure how long i’ll continue

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@pbatch@pbat.ch “Writing a “tweet” is low-friction, and the medium forces you to chunk out ideas into (mostly) self-contained thoughts.” <3

if I could figure out a way to integrate scheduling tasks in !zetdo, and maybe clock in/out, I think I wouldn’t really need org-agenda anymore.

a supplementary component to !zetdo called something like “due”, which schedules items in the TODO and dynamically creates schedules similar to org-agenda. #halfbaked

I really need to feel less guilty about not doing bullshit. I decided not to do bullshit work, and it ended up being a nice day.

it really feels like I spend a few hours every day trying to will myself into doing what other people want. I suppose everyone has that to an extent. It’s just really hard to do things that I know are stupid, when there are other more important things to do. Really winds me up.

today was one of those “do what you want to do, not what you’re supposed to do” kinds of days for me

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note to self: don’t go to the bay

Is there a german word for the situation where somebody jokingly asks for the german word for an obscure phenomenon, and some Germans half-ironically half-sincerely trying to come up with words to describe the phenomenon?

“Everyone who had serious philosophical conundra on that subject just, you know, died, a generation before. The Bitchun Society didn’t need to convert its detractors, just outlive them.”

I wonder why it isn’t more common for parents to give their children courtship advice. Maybe it is and I don’t know enough anthropology?

There seems to be a moral bias towards inaction.

Different utilitarian approaches to COVID-19 vaccination order, by order of complexity: Maximize {probability of infection*probability of counterfactual death, probability of infection*expected life years lost, probability of infection*expected severity of illness, probability of infection*expected severity of illness+probability of infecting n others*fudging for spreading}

Listening to Modern Lovers for the first time https://www.mmone.org/modern-lovers/ #rock #70s #boston

Listening to Modern Lovers for the first time https://www.mmone.org/modern-lovers/ #rock #70s #boston

Hoping this will be my last twt from this Ctrl-C Club locale; my pod is up & running at twt.nfld.uk. :-) Planning to migrate this week!

Hoping this will be my last twt from this Ctrl-C Club locale; my pod is up & running at twt.nfld.uk. :-) Planning to migrate this week!