This started as one of my Euclid videos, and ended up being an interesting conversation over an entire range of topics. The Euclid parallel copy question got answered, at 01:37:34. The first two hours or so are about the Euclid series as a whole, explaining the idea and what my plans are with the series. […]
Tag: Stupid
The financialization cycle
The process of an economy shifting its optimizations from productive activity to the accumulation of money is called “financialization”. To add more confusion to the mix, people on the left-end (idiot-end) of the Midwit Curve can tell something is badly wrong and the game is being rigged, but can’t tell what forces are conspiring to […]
Diaries of a non-consensual JavaScript developer, episode 2: my grand scheme to make my code style more readable has failed mildly
From https://gitlab.com/DoctorAjayKumar/sidekick/-/commit/8ac7cd86892882f57f84e5043041a0ed1bd55c95 my grand scheme to make my code style more readable has failed mildly did you know that javascript is retarded Idea: transform async function foo_doo(bar: baz, quux: quuz, buzz: fuzz) : Promise<fuzz> { … } into async function foo_doo(bar : baz, quux : quuz, buzz : fuzz) : Promise<fuzz> { … } I […]
Diaries of a non-consensual JavaScript developer, episode 1: dumdum JS object pointer logic
As part of an elaborate S&M fantasy roleplay, I have over the last handful of months been forced to spend significant time developing a real commercial project in JavaScript and TypeScript. During this period, I have learned quite a lot about both languages and how they work. And I’m going to share what I have […]
Erlang: LOL
A follow up to “erlang-questions: A tale of push VS pull and authority VS lolberty“… The Central Authority has Decided that the “Erlang community” now officially consists only of people willing to eagerly submit to having the Woke CoC shoved into everything. Anyone suspicious of this sort of thing has no opinions worth hearing. See, […]
Nonsensical Surveys
At the bottom of some mystery fear porn article on MSN about it being such a puzzle that Japan is doing fine despite no mandates, no lockdowns, no shutdowns, etc. this survey appeared asking readers how they felt about about Japan’s “handling” of the situation: This is ridiculous as there is no option for “This […]
Random: How the Web was Designed
The Steins
And then there’s the family of Stein. There’s Ger, there’s Epp, and there’s Ein. Ger’s stories are bunk. Epp’s programs are junk. And no one can understand Ein.
How the Internet of Things Will Change the World: Not by Much
Are you ready for the enormous, revolutionary, ground-shattering changes coming with the IoT? If you said “yes” and by “yes” you meant you were prepared for breathtaking changes, you are a naive child wading in a murky pool of lampreys, your will putty in the hands of the same charlatans who brought you terms like […]
XML: Xtensively Mucked-up Lists (or “How A Committee Screwed Up Sexps”)
XML sucks. I believe that it is, to date, the most perfectly horrible corruption of one of the most universal and simple concepts in computer science: sexps. ZOMG! Someone screwed up sexps! Let that one sink in. What a thing to say! How in the world would one even propose to screw up such a […]