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young kids who start crying when you tell them that the Earth will get destroyed in six billion years are having the entirely appropriate reaction
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May 24
A "runaway sexy son Monte Carlo model" would be a perfectly legitimate thing in computational biology, but sounds pretty funny if you don't know what any of it means.
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May 8
type of guy who purposefully judges solo diners and moviegoers just to prove redditors wrong
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25 Nov 2025
The reason for the global fertility decline? It's only a puzzle for demographers because it's actually due to anthropics; it's the universe resolving the doomsday argument for you specifically, the observer
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7 Nov 2025
Simon Magus did nothing wrong.
He was part of a culture that assumed one paid for teachings, literally just wanted to be able to have people "receive the Holy Spirit", and regretted offering money *immediately* when rebuked.
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3 Nov 2025
Just noticed that Japanese transliterate Roman names using reconstructed classical Latin pronunciation, so Caesar is "Kaesaru" with a hard K, and Virgil is "Werugiriusu" with a W.
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3 Nov 2025
... but not when transliterating Shakespeare! Then Caesar is "Shīzā". Neat.
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2 Sep 2025
The term "clanker" is bad, as it has literally the inverse connotations of what current LLMs feel like.
LLM slop feels greasy, organic, pungent. Like a pool of nasty stale sludge. An appropriate slur has to capture this.
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25 Aug 2025
Roman inclusive counting seems crazy to us, though it survives in terms like musical "oct"aves or "en 8" in french weeks.
If we would have introduced 0-based indices too, i.e. calling the "first" entry in a list the "zeroth" entry, our current indices would sound just as weird.
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13 Jul 2025
Not resisting (or even surreptitiously supporting) your opponents terrible self-harming economic policies seems underexplored.
E.g. vegans should quietly welcome a meat consumers advocacy group that lobby for price controls to "make meat more affordable"
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17 Jun 2025
It's increasingly common that I avoid interacting with content because I dont want to be connected to the average interactor of the content and thus get the algorithm to associate me with them.
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31 May 2025
Telling Claude what it thinks of my post draft: "brilliant", "hits hard", "the analogy is perfect"
Claude when I tell it that it's from a guy I'm arguing with: "it veers between academic pretension and Reddit-style hot takes"
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21 Apr 2025
The X11 spec uses "card" for unsigned integers, from "cardinal number", e.g. "card32" and so on.
This sounds so much better than "uint" and should have caught on.
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10 Dec 2024
If at age 16 you did not log in to a riced-out compiz cube, you have no heart.
If at age 32 you are not logging in to tty0, you have no brain.
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16 Mar 2024
Roman corporate personhood was quite literal:
"[...] a jointly owned slave served as chief executive officer of the enterprise. As slaves were 'things' responsible for only their own cost, they liberated the owners of their personal liabilities" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public…)
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13 Mar 2023
I am a lawyer with a license to practice law in every state. Not only am I a lawyer, I am specifically your lawyer. All my statements are legal advice.
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16 Feb 2023
Fun linguistic coincidence #373:
In old Latin, to geminate a consonant, you'd add a little "backwards C" sicilicus character on top of the letter.
In vertical Japanese writing, to geminate a consonant, you add a little "backwards C" sokuon character on top of the letter.
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26 May 2021
The future of the web is wrapping your X11 server in a websocket so that websites can be wasm X11 programs that bypass the browser entirely:
youtube.com/watch?v=GVVeryv_…
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