Predominantly Erroneous (Exohedron nonsense blog)

TIL that Shoujo Kakumei Utena apparently somehow acquired a reputation as being fluffy? I mean, yes, it's bright pink and purple and yes it's covered in rose petals but it's fucking dark, in the emotional sense. Back in the 00s you asked fellow anime fans "Have you seen Utena? And how much did it hurt you?"

 

Sometimes the response to "Can you help me understand this paper?" is "Sure" and sometimes it's "I don't have time" and sometimes it's "I read the paper but I can't even help me."

 

Surprisingly difficult to get the bookkeeping right for Gaussian elimination if you haven't implemented actual vectors.

 

My musical taste can be summed up as "pretty melody + angry bassline + lots of drums".

 

Having to keep reminding myself that Amish Paradise is the parody and not the original.

 

Of course! Your Reference Name is a hash of your public key. Short enough to transfer casually, long enough to distinguish from others. All you really want is collision-resistance, since the preimage is public anyway.

 

I could think of R taking expressions for inputs rather than values as R only caring about intrinsic equality and not extrinsic, but I'm pretty sure that's not a useful way to think about it. Also I'm pretty sure that there's some level of rewrite/substitution rules going on in R that breaks that model.

Anyway, the fact that R does that and yet still calls functions by names that, in almost every other case, act on values rather than expressions bothers me, and many other people but I don't care about their opinions as much.

 

Out of context it might almost seem like he's saying that you shouldn't encourage disasters because disasters are bad, but what he's actually saying is that if you bet that your counterparty can't pay you then being right means you don't get paid, and not getting paid is bad.

He's also generally anti-disaster, but this is mainly a finance column so he has to put the emphasis in the right places.

 

Wow, the node-ipc peacenotwar thing on npm has made the NIST National Vulnerability Database. It hasn't been evaluated yet, but it's listed there.
I mean, it is malware, and it's not hiding that fact at all.

But, uh, yeah. The node.js environment is not great, and really gives open source development a bad image. I mean, at least the leftpad thing was just dumb.

 

It's been a surprisingly long time since I've read a physical math book rather than an electronic math paper. Feels a little weird.

 

Fighting with the compressor

 

When the guy who called the meeting has to skip it to do something else but doesn't tell anybody, so everyone shows up and waits around awkwardly for five minutes and then leaves.

 

It really is interesting to work with someone who is much less of a...geek(?) than I am. It seems like every few weeks it's just "How do you know so much about Star Wars?" "How do you know so much about autotune?" "How do you know so much about weasels?"
Like, she's definitely deep in the technical weeds when it comes to work. It's just that apparently she doesn't spend her time doing random wiki-dives and it shows.

 

Telling people that the "blood" in "blood sugar" is the same as the "blood" in "blood diamonds".
Or vice-versa.

 

Kind of glad that churches have bells instead of giant tuning forks.

 

To see how the sausage is made, sometimes you have to go through the meatgrinder yourself.

 

When you discover your True Name and think that you're going to be able to unlock so much shit with your newfound admin privileges over yourself, but it turns out that the only thing that root access buys you is the ability to permanently delete your bios.

 

Making slow breakcore.

 

The whole "It's me, boy, I'm the PS5" lyric is so, so close to rhyming, or at least slant-rhyming.