Notices by Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io), page 2

Why the cable Internet company is issuing Mastercards, well, that's an interesting question, isn't it.

@shibao One of the points people miss in the Geeks, Mops, and Sociopaths essay is that it's a description of how things *used to* work, in a "subculture" era that ended around the year 2000. Seems like this article is making a similar point.

@lain This is because in Italy, most people's nonna's have mob connections and commit crimes.

@lain (my own crime is that apostrophe)

@lain Seems like at least sometimes, he didn't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momus_(musician)#Lawsuits

@lain The sad part is that orange fool is actually a pretty good dessert.

@lain But it was cute when Bowser did it.

@lain One thing about the Orthodox, they always have awesome hats.

@lain They did. I stayed in one, in Tokyo, because I hadn't been warned. Literature rack in the room full of stuff that would probably have been illegal back home.

@lain No copyright intended.

Just once, Mastodon, can you tell me that an *expected* error occurred?

@h4890 @nicholas @lain Yeah, they're called Canada geese in English. Not sure I'd care to eat one, given their filthy habits and likely toughness.

@lain It took me many years to figure out that I don't like duck. Because I don't *hate* it, I just don't really like it much. I'd see it on a restaurant menu, think "That sounds fun to try!" and then be disappointed, and I was pretty far along in life before I realized that it goes that way every time. I thought I was just getting duck dishes that were individually not very good.

@lain checking it twice

@lain Dragon's Blood. There's probably a guy named Dragon.

@lain All my vicar friends use the Oxford comma.

@lain Whassamatta, what have you got against xyz?

@lain As for the other four,

@lain @harblinger I'd endorse this one, and have heard others say the same. Wonder where it fits on the log plot.

@lain This one again. I still haven't read the paper, but my first thought was of a crank who used to post on sci.crypt a lot about how all functions in security applications need to be injective (indeed, bijective - he really had a thing about permutations). My second thoughts are in the directions of numeric precision and thermodynamics. Time-reversal symmetry of physics doesn't mean you can unscramble an egg.