Jay.
I stopped studying the cello. I started studying Arabic. I grew up on the other side of the middle of nowhere and am an inveterate urban dweller now. I like mathematics, fountain pens, and TTRPGs. https://sidewalks.meangrape.com
- It's almost time for my optometrist's appointment. Time to start budgeting for those $1000 lenses
- Using GHC's llvm backend seems to increase compile time a bit
- Why are 0.092% of 500,000 files corrupt? Cosmic rays? Bit rot? This is not what I want to be tracking down this morning
- Reposted by Jay.Oh so the Canary’s straightforwardly anti-Semitic. Good to know.
- Reposted by Jay.The reason for this is capitalism’s lack of end-game. It HAS to innovate. “Good enough” isn’t. And when there is no way to make the product better for its user, the innovations turn extractive. 17/
- Got to love fdisk "Command (m for help)" m? Short for what? Mnemonic?
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- Reposted by Jay.The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
- I will be performing the first two stanzas of Neruda’s “Cat’s Dream” with tropical bird finger puppets tomorrow
- I would like Monday to be here already
- Reposted by Jay.*while npm install scrolls by on my terminal* incorporating code into my codebase? without reviewing it? that's irresponsible
- I will not engage in discussion about homebrewing D&D to support entirely new things like social/political play because it is "SO FLEXIBLE AND CUSTOMIZABLE!!!" I will not.
- Let's save 85GB of space by pruning docker caches, yay! I knew I should have gotten the 4TB SSD. I've thought about it for the last two laptops, didn't because of the price, and regretted it both times
- Just found out the Super Bowl was this weekend. My inattention to sports sometimes even impresses me
- Snippets from the Jewish seminary: “Jesus is Cthulhu” [insert chabad girl waving her arms and going “blurblubeer”]
- I really don’t want to eat 350 calories
- Reposted by Jay.Here’s what they found: Women are interrupted more often than men—by about 10–20% in economics seminars. Those interruptions are more likely to: - Cut women off mid-sentence - Come from men - Be adversarial rather than clarifying in nature
- My fiber gummies taste pretty good
- An excellent pastrami on rye from Cardullo’s
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- I need to stop dwelling on my shoulder
- I’ve been sitting in a chair for 10 minutes. It’s going pretty well. I might stay here for a while more
- Izzie’s basic criteria for deciding if she might like someone: “I look at their clothes. Do they seem competent. Do they ask stupid questions. Do they have a base level of knowledge appropriate for the environment. Do they listen.”
- Or perhaps having insufficiently specified it
- I am suffering from not having adequately thought out a problem
- New GHC 9.14.1 can use LLVM 20 for the backend, yay! No resolver for 9.14.1, boo!
- Reposted by Jay.Sometimes I get a really good quote in. “Pointing out that AI is prone to giving ICE bad information is missing the entire point of ICE,” EFF’s @evacide told @RollingStone. “They don’t care if the information they have is good.” www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
- Reposted by Jay.🚘 Somerville's Traffic Calming is working: "For the third year in a row, no fatal crashes were recorded in Somerville. Serious injury crashes decreased by roughly 50% compared with 2024...We also saw a significant decrease in all reported crashes, from 618 crashes in 2024 to 516 crashes in 2025."
- I lack the words to express how much I dread shoulder surgery and recovery
- I don’t know why they left Syria. The Old Country became the Dead Country, never to be spoken of. The other side has been here since the 1700s.
- I’m not tracking my food since I’m not going to the gym and what I can say is that I eat waaaay less when I don’t have a caloric goal to work toward
- Slow Gods by Claire North is a very good book. Big sci-fi
- I think tomorrow I’m going to sit in a chair
- The walk and flight of stairs were much easier than I expected. Overall, the post-op pain is much less than I was expecting.
- The bad ultrasound means my appointment with the orthopedic surgeon is in a week instead of two months
- 218 ttrpg books, 107 systems. Household II
- My plan for this morning is to talk 250 feet to Dunks and back picking up some cold brew while I’m there.
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