"this sucks. I am X years old and I should know how to do <seemingly basic thing> by now, I'm a failure!"

no little one, we are not born knowing these things and we do not evolve automatically like pokemon. someone has to guide and teach you or it takes *forever* to learn on your own.

you are not a failure. someone failed you.

Here’s a three month old screenshot of a tweet that tickled me

dystopian fiction doesn’t work because no matter how much you confront the average person with the flaws in our current system, they still won’t understand that alternative systems are possible or what those would look like, so they either descend into doomerism about it or learn how to turn off their empathy for others

we need fiction with a proactive message - like fiction that juxtaposes two societies, one better than the other - or fiction that shows how to fight for a better world and how/why that works. or hell how about you just show people a society that they would prefer to live in and show them how it’s possible to create that

but you can’t just be like “capitalism bad” because everybody already knows that homeless people and starvation exist

my high school classes may not have taught me anything of value whatsoever but they did give me a lifelong deep-seated hatred for the entire field of math, the English language, symbolism, poetry, the entire field of literary analysis, anything considered “high art”, and anything involving American history

I'm playing "Doom 2" for the first time after not touching the first game in roughly 8 years, and MAN does playing this game make me appreciate "Duke Nukem 3D" even more. I can't tell you how many times I just wanted to be able to jump or to look up and down; things we take for granted in gaming these days. It's almost crazy to think HOW MUCH Duke changed FPSs, adding these now "simple" plus also adding more precise aiming vs in "Doom" where you kinda just aim in the general area of an enemy and bullets just find their way to nearby enemies. Hail to the king baby.

#gaming #RetroGaming #fps

I am once again watching Jenny Nicholson’s four hour review of a Star Wars hotel that I would never want to visit and that no longer exists

there should be Fedi instances hosted on port 3. just imagine:

catgirl.cafe:3

I see :3

some random youtube video: “how fast can you softlock every Animal Crossing game?”

me, who has never cared and will never care about Animal Crossing: omg I can’t wait to find out

okay I’m going to try learning Clojure one more time but if I can’t get into it this time then I’m going to give up on Lisps forever and move on to either learning an old version of C or F#

it’s frustrating because the parenthesis syntax and the “everything is an expression” philosophy was kinda growing on me but like, wow these languages are from the 1960’s and it really feels like it too

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Happy spooky month everyone

I was starting to get the feeling that Fennel’s functional style was at odds with the imperative Lua that it was acting as a thin wrapper on top of. so I’ve been learning Scheme lately instead, because Lisps are still interesting to me but I was starting to think that maybe Fennel was giving me a bad impression of what a Lisp can be

unfortunately Scheme has problems that I would consider much worse than Fennel, and those are:

a lot of its functions have strange legacy behavior and there are often multiple ways to do the same things, some of which have footguns that you have to memorize. for example just look at how complicated a simple equality check is in this language

its “documentation” is also its standard, which is written in very hard-to-understand academic-speak

since Scheme is a standard for a language and not a language per se, its ecosystem is fragmented between a bunch of different interpreters and compilers which have subtly different behavior from each other - some (but not all) of which include extra libraries on top of the standard library. so I really wonder how portable Scheme code is even between these different interpreters/compilers, let alone between different operating systems

the Scheme interpreter that I’m using, called CHICKEN, has a really bad REPL that can’t even handle me using the arrow keys. I was trying to find a better REPL but searching for “Scheme REPL” and “Scheme CHICKEN REPL” gives no useful results

I wonder if there’s a modern #Lisp that doesn’t have these problems, and also ideally has good tooling (like a good LSP or whatever the Lisp equivalent of an LSP is). I’ve deliberately avoided learning Common Lisp because I get the feeling that it’s going to have even more chaotic legacy behavior, footguns, etc. which I find very ugly in a programming language

I think that pacman‘s command-line syntax is incredibly arcane, difficult to document or explain, and makes it way too easy to bork your entire install by accidentally typing one wrong letter

but I will give it one thing: every single time I have to type sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade && sudo apt autoremove it makes me wish I could just type sudo pacman -Syu. it’s very very terse and fast to type

One of my favorite takes ever on "male vs. female socialization" ever, that I still use in my analysis to this day, was one that was purported by Jesse Early (the YouTuber). It goes something like:

It's not simply that people assigned male are socialized as male and people assigned female are socialized female. Rather, all persons are both taught the rules and expectations for males as well as females. Then, the go out in the world and police themselves and others accordingly.

Put simply, we are all given both male and female socialization.

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