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Random trivia question for which you probably need to be a mathematician:
Complete the following sequence:
1, 1, ∞, 5, 6, ???
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Climate refugee in #Duluth Minnesota. Parrot and coffee enthusiast. If it bleeps I probably listen to it. Come for the computer nerdery, stay for the poop jokes.
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I like modal editors, but I can't help feeling like Helix is the DVORAK to neovim's QWERTY: possibly better, but not better enough to be worth relearning how to do things.
And it's not like my vim usage is sophisticated enough that I couldn't switch. I know fewer than 50 vi commands because I'm terrible at remembering commands, which is why I switched to vi in the first place.
(Seriously, I can't remember how to use visual mode or macros without looking it up. Give me time, it's only been about 30 years.)
mathew@mathew@universeodon.com
So, about this “social media can’t be fixed” article:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/study-social-media-probably-cant-be-fixed/
I had a personal social media project I was working on, but a few years ago I came to the same conclusion: that the world needed another social media platform like it needed airborne Ebola. I quietly abandoned the project.
Any lingering hope I had that social media could be fixed has been comprehensively demolished by LLMs. It’s just a cancer at this point.
So why am I here? Well, this is the last platform I’m still posting publicly on as I try to wean myself off social media entirely. Every now and again I encounter someone who acts like radiation therapy.
mathew@mathew@universeodon.com
Those spam texts attempting to fundraise for Democrats? They’re scams.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/mothership-strategies-democratic-consultants-fundraising-pleas/
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@alcinnz@floss.social They’re all terrible. Typically when a new one turns up and I wonder if I should try learning it, I read the intro and FAQ and some example code and see if I can make it through those without a combination of disbelief and horror. Usually I can’t.
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@alcinnz@floss.social Actually I just remembered I wrote a whole article about this:
https://lpar.ath0.com/posts/2023/12/language-wish-list/
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When I moved to the US it took me an embarrassingly long time to work out why there were bears on the Charmin toilet paper wrapper.