Abstraction maker, abstraction breaker. FUN FACT: things I prefix with FUN FACT are sometimes fun and sometimes factual, but very rarely both.
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Last Notes npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen stop hiring necromancers for big construction jobs. once again, someone rolled up with a skeleton crew npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen they have one plant in China and one in North America, but it's really mostly Europe, and specifically over half of it really is in Germany https://www.miele.com/en/com/production-sites-2157.htm#item-0-0 npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen alas, Gütersloh, not Melee Island npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen btw, to whom it may concern: Miele is a German company, not French, that odd parallelogram over the "i" is just a fancy logotype and not some sort of accent, and it's pronounced ME-leh not me-ELL npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen you could seriously hurt someone with a washing machine npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen These last few years have broken something deep within me and I have no idea what to do with myself now. npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen Never looked at the specs of the original SGI RealityEngine, and holy shit https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/166117.166131 npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen FUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf". npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen Turns out daylight doesn't save after all 🕶️ npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen I mean, I have to. You know the rules. Definitely don't want BSD to pass without congratulating at least two other people. It's not worth the risk. npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen Happy Black Square Day! npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen In my over 40 trips around the sun, I have accumulated some profound wisdom I fully intend to pass on. npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen far be it from me to wish them a fulfilling life with lots of friends npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen free pitch for a Star Wars villain: stormtrooper but they hit with every shot npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen Out of curiosity: trying to find out how well-known root beer is outside North America npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen "If this goes badly and I make a crater, I want it named after me!" -- Iain M. Banks npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen BREAKING: SCE insider confirms PS6 "more powerful than 768 PICO-8s duct-taped together" npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen (en.) MTBF = (de.) Brechmittel npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen random thought: if you see someone's record collection, you know what music they like npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen Wookash interviewed me a while back and the video is now public: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7nIghaXJ80 npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen You ever think about how you can taste protons, and they're sour? npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen "Do Red Dead Redemption 2's Power Lines Connect to Anything?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTtMCoJrGxk this is incredible npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen steel wool in dire circumstances npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen I think so, Brain, but where would we even get an amplifier large enough to turn a volcano into a subwoofer? npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen My sister (who is a psychology prof) has been lamenting that her students now frequently have no idea how files or directories work. npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen It's also the reason I get livid every time some major Windows update rearranges the UI (for the umpteenth time) and throws in some new pushy feature that won't shut up nagging me to use it. npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen Think of it like breaking into someone else's home to leave a gift. npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen I don't think that's the problem at all. npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen Pretty sure this is something different npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen This is the result of something you eventually find a cryptic note suggesting you do npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen "That's never happened before" npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen E.g. to test whether pop count of something <= 2, you can do npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen Small note: npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen "\n" vs "\ npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen 🤷 it be like that sometimes npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen The less said about Final Fantasy, the better, but I will say that nobody seems to trust FF, they're all "these 4 are the good ones" npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen The "Final Fight" franchise by now has 6 installments and I ask you, why would you still trust any franchise that has betrayed its fundamental premise that often npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen This year, I celebrated Black Square Day with the traditional "read a novel chapter on the bus". npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen Definitely not Spacechem, I never made it past the first 7 levels or so npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen I usually make it until the day of to even learn when the date is, and I usually don't know which teams are playing, so thank you for ruining my streak npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen look I'm not a complete Grinch but I really can't commit to "jingle all the way" npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen Every time someone self-describes as "content creator" I die a little inside. npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen we hold these truths to be self-evident: that the use of ragged-right text alignment is not justified npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen This was one of those things where I figured "I should write this up some day!". It's done! Alas, I checked the git log on when I first committed that and it was... May 2017. Welp. npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen New blog post: "BC7 optimal solid-color blocks" https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2024/11/03/bc7-optimal-solid-color-blocks/ npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen Anyway, why do I mention this? npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen This randomly popped up in my brain, don't know why. npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen Most immersion-breaking moment (not really, but go along with me here) in the original Jurassic Park film: John Hammond, the CEO/owner of this amusement park, not only knows how the generator system for his park works, he knows the emergency power restart procedure by heart to the point of being able to describe the function, operation and appearance of the primer switch handle all before even glancing at the blueprints. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmzUx3XSzvg npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen the 4 food groups: HFCS, dark fiber, caffeine, microplastics npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen art project idea: "The British Museum", which is housed somewhere outside the UK and will accept and display any donations from anonymous donors into its collection that were provably stolen from Great Britain npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen Video title "Yes, you can visualize 4D!" speak for yourself, but I can't even visualize 2D so I doubt it npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen Since Free Will is apparently a problem, has anyone tried Freemium Will instead? npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen While I do in principle agree with "bros before hos" it's just for lexicographic reasons npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen 0x28 npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen You know that annoying thing where a 1.25x (+25%) improvement in throughput (work per time) is the same as a 0.80x (-20%) reduction in time for the same amount of work? npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen - keep someone on the line for 2:30 minutes like it's a 90s thriller and you want to trace the phone call npub14543yx8s43zq0n5drjdelp7cusy5x6ua2zxqxwrdmfl70udtqvpql40k9g Fabian Giesen It's actually way easier to become a successful cat burglar than most people seem to think, but also a lot less profitable, because most cats don't really have any valuables
