Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
dealing with money
@eniko Personally I ended up using a trick that a friend mentioned - mentally convert every price to "how many hours do I need to work to pay for this" (based on hourly rate as a freelancer, in my case).
It was originally meant to more easily reason about "is this worth spending money on if it helps me do my work more effectively", but I've also found it to help to ingrain a more accurate idea into my brain of what my *actual* financial situation is.
This does require having some sort of hourly rate to convert to. I guess if you don't work hourly it can be sort of approached by doing (totalMonthlyIncome/hoursWorkedPerWeek) or something like that?
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Muis gaapt altijd drie keer.
Maar hij hield het bij twee. Ik was heel verbaasd.
"Muis? Moet je niet nog een keer gapen? Die 'nu ga ik actie ondernemen'-gaap?"
Hij keek lichtjes om zich heen en vooruit.
"Heb ik dan je middelste gaap gemist?" vroeg ik hem.
Geen antwoord.
Ik wachtte.
Na een minuut kwam De Derde Gaap.
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Holy shit y'all
There's a black-crowned night heron at the pond
These are supposed to be nearly extinct in Germany but I'm looking right at one
@woodlandcat obligatory addendum: coffee is not water, and monster is also not water
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Wait no, postcards are FREE while the app is in beta
Dude. No. You shouldn’t have told me about your app. This is like when they didn’t have ordering limits on USPS flat rate boxes so as a teen I ordered 10,000 flat rate boxes to my house and the local post office in my rural Iowa town had to shut down for the day to process them all. Something like that might happen.
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Plurality question, 
Fedi has a bunch of plural critters, so let me ask here:
How would I, as one part of a system, unambiguously refer to a pre-plural self? Both "I" or "we" seem off there, and writing it out all the time sucks.
Context: System is a split with two headmates.
Links to external resources are also welcome.
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politics, 'calling the cops'
@sterophonick I guess this ultimately just boils down to "do your best to get it right, but don't expect everything to be perfect", like many things in life
politics, 'calling the cops'
@sterophonick I have mixed feelings about this. Feel like it would depend on a lot of factors - personal situation, whether you have alternative means of dealing with the situation, what the local cops are like, what risks are involved, and so on.
"Don't call the cops and sort it out on a community level in a constructive way" would be the ideal outcome but you do need to actually *have* a community to sort it out with, for that to work.
"Calling the cops" shouldn't be your *first* response, probably, but sometimes it's the one option you have.
spicy take, cryptocurrency
A lot of the scammy shit in cryptocurrency-land is basically the exact same thing that happens in the 'traditional' financial markets, just not behind closed doors this time.
And that's not a justification of cryptocurrency; it's an indictment of the 'traditional' financial markets, which are mostly fraudulent, and the absurd degree of regulation needed to keep them in check suggests that maybe we should not have them to begin with.
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Did you know it used to be illegal for a company to buy back its own stock? It was understood to be stock price manipulation. (Because it is.)
Reagan's "deregulation" changed the rules in 1982.
Like everything else, companies now pay politicians to keep it the way it is.
Food, capsaicin
@reinderdijkhuis This is second-hand knowledge, but $veganPartner has told me in the past that anything fatty in nature should work quite well, and very many of the vegan replacements for non-vegan things are fatty AFAIK
@taq With the caveat that I've not looked at all of it, I came across https://sites.google.com/view/why-we-are-covid-cautious/home a while ago which seems to be a quite extensive list of studies about all sorts of COVID things - that may be helpful?
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🎨 today we're doing literature collection for a meeting with my boss to try to get covid protections in the office. if you have articles or especially studies on long covid or on testing false negatives, i would *love* to hear from you
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I think today's plan is to stop procrastinating and actually do some literature review on IQ, so I can finally finish this section of my AI piece
I don't think it's needed, but people aren't going to be happy with accepting at face value that intelligence not only cannot be objectively measured, but doesn't even make sense as an objective measure either
web and framework stuff
To perhaps make it more explicit: aiming for performance and accessibility *does not* actually require eliminating diversity in technical approaches, and if you act as if it does, I'm going to be pretty suspicious of your intentions
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web and framework stuff
It sometimes feels like some of the "just use native browser features instead of frameworks" people are not so much arguing against frameworks, as they are arguing for browsers to be the only blessed framework going forward...
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web and framework stuff
Sure, it's undesirable to load massive JS bundles for basic functionality on websites, you'll find no disagreement there - I've been complaining about this for years too.
But arguing for all high-level framework-esque functionality to be handled by the browser and web specs...
Have you thought about what happens to the process of incremental technological improvement when the 'universal runtime' (ie. the browser) starts focusing on providing high-level abstractions instead of improving low-level mechanisms, and so the set of viable design strategies is essentially frozen in time?
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
