Notices by Steve Canon (steve@discuss.systems), page 2

@thomasfuchs @Naranjadia humans can’t even do this reliably! (In the general case. Here it’s laughably easy.)

Unrelatedly, is it OK to see Stonehenge if you haven’t seen Carhenge yet, or should you visit the original first? … asking for a friend.

I’ll be in Oxford and London next month, let me know if anyone wants to say hi.

Seven-year old: “sometimes I wish I were a tiger because it’s scary to tell someone that you like them but tigers can just pee to let everyone know that they’re looking for a mate.”

On a scale of 1-10 how much trouble will I be in if I buy Riley a bag of 1000 googly eyes for a seventh birthday present?

@dev ❤️ Philly, don’t care

@dev bail and go to Menagerie Coffee, it’s like two blocks away. Then hop across the street to Omoi Zakka.

@thomasfuchs @ahl clocks are the original ridiculously over-engineered computers.

From a slack, for your enjoyment: we should prefix non-copyable data structure variants with "Presque" because they are not quite the "normal" value types. Thus, PresqueArray, PresqueDeque, PresqueQueue...

How can you write a listing description for this house and NOT MENTION THAT IT HAS A ZIGGURAT TO HOLD YOUR ALL-SEEING EYE? How is that not the primary selling point, justifying the $3.2M price tag?

#RealEstateShitposting

"Oversized two-car garage"

NO ONE CARES WHEN THERE'S A MOTHERFUCKIN' ZIGGURAT

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1129-Taber-Ridge-Rd-Stowe-VT-05672/227730461_zpid/

If any of you assholes buy this place, you better let me stay there.

Anyone remember when Ars wasn't sensationalist nonsense? https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/03/matrix-multiplication-breakthrough-could-lead-to-faster-more-efficient-ai-models/

99% of children have never seen an actual record player, and yet we still have the Fisher-Price™ record player rather than the Fisher-Price™ Echo™ or whatever.

@inthehands @regehr @jrose you can make NaN == NaN so long as you also have an IEEE compare by some other name.

@regehr @jrose how much of this is due to languages failing to expose the HW semantics in useful fashion, though? If we bound NaN to none in an optional, all of a sudden no one would be confused by it at all.

@thomasfuchs /glances uncomfortably at the pictures I have sitting around like that/

@inthehands @jrose @griotspeak I might settle for strict liability and a requirement that you carry a bond for the full liability if the data gets out.

@jrose @inthehands @griotspeak illegal to _gather_ it.

@griotspeak @jrose @inthehands there’s a little subtlety about what “gather” means—you need to have some of this stuff transiently, but storing it long-term and correlating it with other data gets bad quickly.