Dagon @dagon@schelling.pt

Mr. Incognito.
https://jwz.org/b/yj-j

“The reason most public transportation is seen as ‘losing’ money is precisely because it charges for trips. If you don't charge fares, suddenly it can't ‘lose’ money. It just costs money, the same as the roads.”

This random comment has given me my new favourite argument for removing fares from public transit.

The FreeBSD Journal asked me to write about filesystems?

"First off, understand that storage devices are lying liars that lie. The newest solid state storage maintains a malformed compatibility with hard drives released in the previous century, which were built on standards designed for punch cards, which had their roots in 17th-century looms and the Luddites, so every time you plug in a storage device you’re putting someone out of work but there’s no ethical data storage under capitalism so go for it."

They might complain, but what did they *expect* I would say?

It’s well established that open offices are really bad for productivity
It was extremely popular among companies to switch to open offices in spite of this.

So, it shouldn’t have come as a suprise to see productivity deteriorate when people are forced to return to the office

"Too frequently, everyone in a multistakeholder system thinks they’re uniquely responsible for all of the good created by the ecosystem and merely a passive observer of all of the bad."

It seems like the majority of medically-recognised #Autistic traits are not autistic traits per se.

They are trauma responses common in autistic people.

I'm "more interested in things than people?" Maybe "things" don't turn hostile on me for unexplained reasons.

I'm dogmatically insistent that nobody can understand my mind but me? Maybe my entire childhood was spent resisting adults telling me they knew my mind better than I did.

This is also why "autistic traits" can seem contradictory. Both "talks about their interests all the time even in inappropriate settings" and "never talks about their interests" can be part of a diagnosis.

Because the latter is a trauma response to having the former shut down.

Is there an untraumatised autistic person?

I actually don't think so. So the map of what autism looks like to clinicians is shaped by our trauma.

And this probably compounds their impression that we're somehow defective, which in turn compounds the attitudes used to break us.

I just wanna be seen as a person.

the zeroeth law of robotics is that a robot may not decrease shareholder value, or, by inaction, allow shareholder value to decline

In which I discover that geeks REALLY CARE about monospace fonts, and survey 16 free ones, and recommend 3: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2023/02/09/Monospace

Me, as aspiring staff eng: I want to be in the room where decisions are made

Me in the room where decisions are made: I wonder if the window is locked and how far the drop would be if I climbed out

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself rewritten in Rust for performance reasons.

How to write a dystopian novel:
Write about what already happens to marginalized folks, but let it happen to white people

It’s very funny to me that the dominant Twentieth Century conception of AI was a slightly awkward nerd with an inhuman mastery of facts and logic, when what we actually got is smooth-talking bullshit artists who can’t do eighth-grade math.

Sometimes I wonder if the most interesting effect of AI is that it creates a sudden impetus to measure the reliability and consistency of the human processes AI is replacing in a way that was never pushed before? #ai

wait did they really retcon <b> as the "bring attention to" element lol https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/b

Hey you

Keep being a good person

you are the dreams of dead stars

As of today you can legally make "The Heffalump of The Baskervilles".

I shall look forward to someone doing so.

The feature i miss about usenet: there were people who were reasonable to work with in comp.lang.perl, were annoying in rec.gardening, and were utter asses rec.sf.fandom. And I could block them in the groups I didn't like them.

$TSLA crashing because the company is on autopilot is the most fitting end to 2022 possible