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i like emails: finch@plaidfinch.net age123456789pqc3kgk33jrca6vqlf7pl8me3vqzjqj7jf60qdm9l42sm5ffva λ □ · ν ○ · □ ◇ Δ ○﹕□ ( □ ○ → ○ ) → □ ○
you can also use this to prove that a block of code won't panic (only works when panics unwind): play.rust-lang.org?version=stab...
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plaidfinch@plaidfinch.net · 2mo ago"we have linear types at home" play.rust-lang.org?version=stab...
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henry@hdevalence.bsky.social · 3y ago2B0D5DC3EF9C1755CA123F6E0B43591AC674F49AAB41C550484C01436CDA86D0
but wherever we live, whatever our scene, we have a choice! we can choose not to defect!
plaidfinch@plaidfinch.net · 3y agohypothesis: flakiness as a friendship norm is a nash equilibrium in cities because city social patterns encourage people to believe life is a series of uncorrelated finite games rather than a continuous interconnected infinite game, as it obviously is in smaller communities
hypothesis: flakiness as a friendship norm is a nash equilibrium in cities because city social patterns encourage people to believe life is a series of uncorrelated finite games rather than a continuous interconnected infinite game, as it obviously is in smaller communities
Well There's Your Problem should do an april fool's episode entitled "weehawken-alameda burrito tunnel collapse"
the next level is realizing that when you do this, the film also has a vivid mental experience of where you were when you watched it
Lúcás Meier@cronokirby.com · 3y agoSometimes I can also have a vivid mental experience of where I was when I watched the film too
realizing that if i've seen a movie once or twice, i can listen to the audio track alone and have an extremely vivid mental experience of the film
"When staff for a task force of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee asked the Congressional Research Service (CRS) to update its 2008 calculation of criminal offenses in the USC in 2013, the CRS responded that they lack the manpower and resources to accomplish the task."
plaidfinch@plaidfinch.net · 3y ago"ignorantia juris non excusat"
better yet: ffmpeg -i "Top Gun (1986).mp4" -vn -acodec copy "Top Gun (1986).aac"
plaidfinch@plaidfinch.net · 3y ago"Opening Theme from TOP GUN" (including the jet sounds and the transition into "Danger Zone") is the perfect alarm clock ringtone, change my view
"Opening Theme from TOP GUN" (including the jet sounds and the transition into "Danger Zone") is the perfect alarm clock ringtone, change my view
guy rolling up to the DMV in a car with four flat tires, the paint somehow keyed completely off, with every window & mirror broken: hello. I would like to return a license plate
Possum Acquainter@possumacquainter.bsky.social · 3y agowe recently got a specialty license plate that lets us into state parks for free, but our first NH license-plate attempt was the worst thing a random-number-generator ever did to me
self-care as altruism: you cannot give what you do not have. if you want to provide stability, you must be stable. if you want to provide clarity, you must see clearly.
there can be a certain innocence or obliviousness to being an agent of chaos, which serves an important smokescreen function for those in the social ecosystem for whom it is guilty and entirely deliberate. that people sometimes cause problems by accident also makes it easier to cause them on purpose
marshmallow test fail: if lions read a little charles darwin they would be snacking instead on the Fastest, Strongest antelopes to breed easier prey
𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂@aub.bsky.social · 3y agocancelling obligate carnivores for being ableist to prey animals
from your current ideological perspective, the concept at hand is occluded in the semantic shadow of a different, similar idea
the real consent of the governed was the friends we made along the way
this kind of dense, walkable, mixed-use polycule is illegal to build in most cities
apropos of nothing, i recently had a conversation with someone who claimed as an established obvious fact that if one thinks one can personally meaningfully contribute to making the world a better place, one is practicing "adventurism, which is a kind of fascism"
gary gensler's Focusing technique for internally oriented psychosecurities regulation
"It is not your duty to configure the options, but neither are you at liberty to neglect them." — Rabbi Tarfon, Pirkei Avot 2:16
qntm@qntm.org · 3y agoMaking something a configurable option does not void your responsibility to assign a good default value
