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troublewithwords

@troublewithwords@wandering.shop

Writing Speculative Fiction and Software to help people feel more human.

🔆 Pragmatic optimism when available. (Currently unavailable.)

Dramatis personae:
H……Partner. Brilliant. Known each other all our lives.
G……H's teenage son. Transgender, has a limb difference, and is amazing. We support him unquestioningly. 🏳️‍⚧️
Tig……Tabby cat. City initially licensed him as a dog.

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Fiat coding standards only have value because some manager says they have value

troublewithwords,
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@Binder Fungible coding standards.

Coding Standards Price Index.

Gross Domestic Coding Standards

Coding standards futures markets

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Just closed 71 browser tabs from yesterday. That might be my accomplishment for the day.

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@Vidyala @travisfw I'm cheating a bit. I'm on a new computer and just declared tab bankruptcy on my old on. Hundreds of tabs between multiple browsers. (I use different browsers for different tasks) Some tabs were open for years, linked to pages that no longer existed!

I'm trying to develop new habits, but I doubt if this one will stick.

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@travisfw @Vidyala I admire your dedication! Which I was that focused.

I use a lot of transient tabs for research. One document will reference 80 things I need to verify and can close when I'm done.
My plan is to try to use bookmarks for all the other stuff, and keep my bookmarks panel open. We'll see if it works.

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A shit so noxious that I toss a little apology note to the wastewater treatment plant w/ the second flush.

troublewithwords,
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@Binder Really the only benefit of return to office.

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Teen thinks I'm a weirdo technomage for having my own domain name.

sigh One battle at a time.

Binder, to random
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Hey, did Huey Lewis ever score that new drug or

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@Binder Yes, but it wasn't in the News.

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Maybe it's just because I'm an old computer toucher, but I don't as search engines questions. I input query terms. It's faster and more precise. (Or at least it used to be before search engines started ignoring search terms.)

I wonder if this is one of the reasons I bounce off of AI search so hard. Natural language search is worse in at least two ways.

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Technophobic is a compliment when I say it. People are right to not trust products.

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@Binder But doctor, I am the product!

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For my money, the most impactful scene in The Great Gatsby is in the denouement where she says “truly, he was a great gatsby” & what’s-his-name retorts: no, Daisy, he was THE great gatsby.”

I still get chills

troublewithwords,
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@Binder It’s up there with the scene from The Godfather when he turns to his estranged son and says, “No, Luke. I am the godfather.”

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Could we at least get a reliable grammar checker before we ask that grammar checker to diagnose cancer and perform law enforcement?

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    @Binder I won't be able to attend, but I do recommend all who have not seen it to invest some time. There's nothing quite like it.

    https://archive.org/details/true-stories/True+Stories.m4v

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    @Binder Civilian oversight groups cruising around, pulling over random cops, asking them leading questions about what they're up to.

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    Stealing Your Stuff as a Service

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    Finally, a mustard worthy of attending the royal ball w/ me

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    @Binder Has my driver stop next to you in my Rolls Royce and rolls down the window
    Pardon me, do you have any Gray Pou– Forget that department store rubbish, that looks amazing!

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    I'm not as compassionate as I'd like, but it does help that if I ever am completely taken in by some fake news, the worst I'll do is help someone.

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    I used to get work because I could solve previously unsolved problems.

    As far as I can tell, nobody wants that anymore.

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    I’m tthinking the guy next to me on the plane does not approve of my mask since as soon as the wifi became available he loaded The Drudge Report on his phone and looked for stories about masks (the NC law being the first hit).

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    @aardrian Give them some hard side-eye and put on another mask.

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    Bifocals let eyes focus every other week. Or is it twice a week?

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    @Binder Twice ocularly.

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    Not a joke that I hope Archie has new life.

    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/archie-the-internets-first-search-engine-is-rescued-and-running/

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    Today I learned that the endocrine system, CAN bus, and old time pagers work roughly the same way, pumping the system with messages that can be seen my everyone but are supposed to only be picked up by the addressee.

    This is not a useful analogy for anyone but me.

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    “What’s stopping you from ditching $msft?”

    My sister in FOSS, have you even heard of UX?

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    @Binder Are fossbros included in UX?

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    @Binder Algorithms for figuring out what ads are most effectively shown to other algorithms and algorithms to generate those ads.

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    squints at the animated weather map

    Is the weather going the wrong way, or am I?

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    @Binder It saddens me greatly that the fediverse is the only place I can get posts like this anymore.

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