Notices by Jesse Morris (aubilenon@peoplemaking.games)

@inthehands I mean I do think the right people making the right decisions can improve government! But yeah they’re not engineers who don’t understand any of the problems they’re trying to solve, just the same way they’re not MBAs who don’t understand any of the problems they’re trying to solve

@inthehands My daily driver is the Hakko FX-888, but that probably is overkill (in terms of cost and physical size). I haven't ever used one myself but I have heard a lot of good things about the Pinecil, which is small and affordable, and I'm pretty sure that's the "correct” recommendation for you.

@annika What is the bicycle of the computing world?

@annika are service peeves allowed though?

@annika Do you like that better or worse than Oracle Park?

@annika (Obviously it's worse than the now closed Monster Park)

@inthehands Oh! That didn't occur to me that it would be a little self-healing. It feels weird that it wouldn't happen at all the rest of the time, but I guess possible. Do you usually use TouchID to unlock it so it's only relatively infrequent and especially after being locked for a while that you have to type the password?

@inthehands I find it interesting but not super surprising that this was probably happening for non-password stuff too but you didn't notice because you just automatically corrected stuff that you were typing that you can see.

@annika I had to click through to find this is talking about a game and not real life.

@annika The fanbase has come up with an elaborate flowchart based reading order on the wiki.

@annika Protip: You're only meant to eat the potato chips inside, not the "whole tube”.

@inthehands What would cause one async task, with lots it can do without waiting, to get suspended for some other async task? How would this be implemented efficiently?

@inthehands It's a waste of time because this isn't a real argument meant to convince a thinking audience, but a part of my brain can't help but to think about what the logistics and cost would be like to pay tens of thousands or millions of people to show up with signs and t-shirts and hats and pins to stay for several hours protesting and marching and chanting and so on. How much infrastructure would that take? How many people do you have to try to recruit for each 100 that actually showed up? How would you verify which people to pay? How would you find that many people without accidentally sending an invitation to, say, a journalist from The Atlantic?

@inthehands if using ai absolves you of responsibility one can trivially game that to “use ai” to launder basically any decision by selectively using its results and retrying with different parameters/prompts.

@inthehands @Nonilex I guess my dreams of reducing American hegemony involved a lot more giving everyone else a leg up and a lot less shooting ourselves in the face

@inthehands That seems kind of meaningless as a mode of censure. If the people affected were to list “Degree from Columbia, later revoked” on their C.V., with a footnote linking to this whole idiocy, whose hiring or further education admission decisions would that affect?

OTOH it sure does make it less appealing to apply to and spend 4 years working one's butt off to _get_ a degree from Columbia, the idea that you are forever after beholden to their political agenda.

@inthehands CallCentric is an IP telephony service that is not free but is cheap as heck. It doesn't have any out of the box "record your name" settings, but it does let you set a telemarketer block that makes them press a number to be connected. You can either have it forward to your regular number, or use a VOIP app (I like using an app better because it makes it easy to see whether calls are coming from it vs from my personal phone number. I personally use Acrobits Softphone but there's a lot of VOIP apps and I haven't evaluated any of them for 3 years). We use it for the escape room business. IDK if it's a good fit for you, but I'm pretty happy with them

@inthehands @sundogplanets My old 2003 Subaru has bad fuel efficiency but I drive it so little that I'm sure the math works out the same. Until it breaks too much to fix, and then I have to make harder choices.

@inthehands Another thing about being wrong is it’s also a lot easier to do

@inthehands My take is that this fits into the same category of whether something is art, or music, or a game, or a sport, or drug paraphernalia, or a toy, or a tool, or a vacation. None of these are intrinsic properties of the object or activity, they're ways of engaging with it.

The reason this is even a topic to talk about arises because one can totally use a WSIWYG editor and treat HTML as "text with some parts in italics” which is _not_ a programming type interaction, but you can also do more complex stuff that has to account for a bunch of different situations both today and tomorrow, which is not materially different from the sorts of things what someone writing C++ has to do.