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Cake day: June 4th, 2023

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  • Ok real talk here.

    Work to rule and malicious compliance only works when you have the backing of a strong union, or workers rights. In the US, for most jobs, they can fire you whenever they feel like it, and for no reason at all.

    If anyone senior decides you’re fucking with them, even if there’s no proof, and they’re completely running on vibes, they might just fire you anyway.

    My advice is copy the other porters. They know how much they can get away with, and find a decent hiding place for when you’re on a break.


  • If the data is present but difficult to restore, it’s annoying. You might need to spend a few days fixing stuff.

    If the data is gone, it’s devastating and can bankrupt a company. On a personal level it’s the same as having all your photos destroyed in a fire. And backups not containing the right data are very common.




  • No, you just use a standard technique like word2vec.

    Basically words are considered similar (and embedded to nearby locations in a high dimensional space) if they are likely to be used in the same context.

    And because slurs are used to indicate that you don’t like someone, they tend to occur in the same kind of context.

    So they’re all very similar. This is actual natural language processing being used, but it’s a shit post and the graphics aren’t very clear.










  • The Anti-Defamation League notes that though the symbol is popular with white supremacists, imagery resembling the black sun features in many cultures, and that such imagery should always be analyzed in the context in which it appears, as it may not necessarily be intended to serve as a symbol of white supremacy or racism.

    i just googled it. Apparently they’re just really into star wars, and didn’t realize about the Nazi symbol until it was too late.





  • There are things you can manage, but they tend to be about controlling your environment.

    JD Vance is the perfect example of someone that benefited from the military. Fit in (and let’s be honest being a straight white male still helps). Find a job that involves sitting behind a desk. Get some experience pulling a 9-5 for a few years, and then go to university for free. Don’t get injured. Don’t get PTSD.

    All of this attitude with a capital A is too late. You can’t Attitude yourself out of a missing leg, and you can’t Attitude yourself out of PTSD. You can learn to cope better but coping well with PTSD is still worse than not having it.

    Either have a plan to avoid danger or you need to be lucky.


  • Because it all connects together, and you can program them jointly to help solve tasks.

    Having email and version control inside emacs makes it easy to set up an email based patch system.

    Of course this system will then benefit from the existing code highlighting, introspection, and an integrated debugger.

    Integrating it with your time planner means you can automatically add commits to your journal as a way of tracking what you’ve been working on.

    The old joke always was emacs is a great operating system, it just needs a good text editor.

    The real downside for me is everything is just a little bit janky. It all almost works perfectly and the code is right there to fix it, if you can be bothered. Generally I can’t.