Notices by chris mort💀ens (chrisamaphone@hci.social)

how on earth does someone make a podcast interviewing almost 60 people in programming language research in the last five years and only talk to 1-2 women

a generation of people enjoying the prosocial power of the internet before the age of slop: lets put all this cool stuff online for free! :)

emboldened capitalists in the 2010s-20s: wow look at all the stuff these suckers put online for free. I wonder what’s the worst possible thing we could do with it

@skinnylatte oh god that curry paste made me feel so gaslit, honestly this post is so validating. it says to use something like a tablespoon in a whole pot of curry, and i would always wind up using the whole jar being like where the hell is the flavor

fedi etiquette thing i feel like i’ve picked up as an unspoken rule: @-mentioning someone in a thread they’re not already participating in is not often done? I sometimes want to do this (I think used to somewhat often on twitter) but not sure if it will be well received. does this seem rude to you?

somehow we never seem to call languages “domain specific” when the “domain” is implementing programming languages 🤔

sometimes it feels like in PL the only type of example program we’re allowed to put into papers are PL implementation related: “here’s how you could express a type checker” or whatever. if you give any other kind of example, reviewers overindex on your language being “for” that specific kind of program and accuse you of being “domain specific.” I don’t know what to do about this.

gonna cross the date line… never done that before

i’m flying to tokyo today!! well, it’ll be tomorrow when i get there

I think we crossed it pretty close to midnight though so i was gonna be like wow it’s tomorrow now… well

I accidentally paid for a ¥200 charge with a ¥10000 note (meant to use a ¥1000 note). 🤦🏻 not sure if that was more the unfamiliar currency or just not being used to using cash these days in general

i’m on a train!

also the immigration line was long af and i definitely messed up the train transfer multiple times so it took me way too long to get to the hotel. i should sleep before any further misadventures

and of course the person i gave it to didn’t say anything to suggest this was surprising or rude, just very graciously gave me a large pile of notes back which i was super confused about until i got back to my room and figured out what happened

I think i was told “if you try to speak japanese you will just get spoken to in english anyway” but i have definitely needed to “eigo ga hanase masu ka? 😓” myself into mutually intelligible conversations

awake and having breakfast

somehow I didn’t realize this was a drive on the left side of the road place

i’m like an average sized person here it’s so cool

there’s so many joggers?? mostly older looking people??

hmm… should i go to the tiny old school “granny” bouldering gym https://granny-ueno.com/price/ or the huge famous B-PUMP gym which looks like it has some cool rooftop boulders https://pump-climbing.com/gym/akiba/

[Blooming status]