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@m3 “what is yarn?” once started an argument on a fiber arts forum I like that is still raging to this day- but I know facebook has nothing as interesting as that in mind—and yet! What *is* yarn??? 🧶

@futurebird @cstross Somewhat unrelated but this could be why we who are masking constantly are immune to this kind of thing: they look at the mask and always guess wrong. And so we know they are full of shit. Might not be so obvious if they keep guessing right, which is the case for most people.

@kelpana @xgranade @futurebird "Roko's Basilisk" is Pascal's Wager."The Singularity" is Evangelical rapture."Recursive simulated reality" is Mormon eternal progression.

@LJ @david_megginson @dpnash @mzedp @necedema @Wyatt_H_Knott @grammargirl Or even better, maybe you look at a set of records, as I often have for my students and I DON'T know what I'm seeing. I can't say "this student is struggling because of X and needs Y they don't fit any pattern. Details don't work. LLMS kind of smooth that over and just shoehorn an answer that sounds good. And some people do that too, but I don't like it. Just say "I don't know really. Never seen this before."

This is the best "love advice" you will ever get:

@futurebird Real 1979 wood panelled living room PopeMobile energy there.

@rk @trochee @ferrix I'm always happy to talk about ants.

one of my favorite stupid methods of reversing is "break it"what's this function do? well, lemme disable it, and see what breaks.Apparently this is the "restore the image under the cursor" function.

@futurebird By far the most tragic mysterious text for me is:Rongorongohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RongorongoThe ability to read this language was permanently lost due to colonialist bullshit in the 19th century. The story is maddening.It is, or would have been, of extraordinary linguistic importance, as it appears to be a completely independent origin of writing.It's probably ideographic, and might not be true writing, but more like a mnemonic.But I guess we'll never know.

@futurebird Oh wow that is so cool. Reminds me a bit of Nancy Whang's MicroKorg setup which is also several machines into a cool custom enclosure.

@jannem "His new method to solve polynomials also avoids radicals and irrational numbers, relying instead on special extensions of polynomials called ‘power series’, which can have an infinite number of terms with the powers of x."So power series are a new way to solve polynomial equations??? Not new - hundreds of years old. They don't "avoid" irrational numbers, but they can be used to compute irrational numbers.And so on....