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I would like to know about your music. Please tell me: what was the last track that came up for you on shuffle that reminded you, I haven't heard this in a long time, but this song is great?
(Boosts welcome, let's share some great music.)
@[email protected] Epic, Faith No More (youtu.be/WkqPVMKsN20 )
I would like to know about your music. Please tell me: what was the last track that came up for you on shuffle that reminded you, I haven't heard this in a long time, but this song is great?
(Boosts welcome, let's share some great music.)
The year is 2026. Every native app is either made for a VT100 or renders like a game engine.
@[email protected] @[email protected] I wish that 'or' was an 'xor', but unfortunately our timeline won't even give us that much.
I was reminded of the existence of Welsh rarebit yesterday ("Welsh rabbit"), a food that is not Welsh and has no rabbit in it.
It is quite tasty though. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_...
(cc @[email protected] on his entertainingly named food hunt)
A young mathematician named Micah Zarin interviewed me. It was fun, but I forgot to say some obvious yet important things about AI. So read this first:
https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2026/06/02/interview-with-micah-zarin/
@[email protected] @[email protected] oh, yes! Especially because 'pull me up' can have the same figurative meaning as a 'pick me up' in English, and it's made mostly of coffee, sugar, and liquore...
I needed to write recently about how VisualInk is different from other #visualnovel software in being designed primarily for teaching, and I think this paragraph captures most of it.
Many of these tools also suffer from being too powerful! For example, Ren'py gives you the full power of Python and the ability to completely customize the look and feel of your game, while Atrament allows you to design your own style sheets and custom JavaScript extensions to develop on line interactive fiction. The flexibility these systems give is actively confusing to the youngest learners or total beginners, and gets in the way of being able to use the tools to focus on specific topics when teaching. VisualInk takes the approach of using a narrative scripting language that allows flexibility in story telling mechanics - without forcing complexity - but deliberately limits all but the simplest configuration. A simple 'tagging' system shows characters, changes locations, and adds audio, and VisualInk ensures that the resulting visual novels display correctly across different browsers and devices.
@mavnn amazing!
@[email protected] I only just thought about it, but I've also just realized that vermicelli (the type of pasta) is a derivative of vermi (worms).
This is actually a really good write up of #ChronicFatigue / #LongCovid in general even if it is framed from the point of view of joint pain.
@[email protected] The Italians refer to trifle (the jelly and cream dessert) as 'zuppa inglese' (English soup)
@[email protected] also, saltimbocca - literally 'jump in mouth'. It is, in fact, very tasty.
one of my lowkey obsessions is foods with funny names. of which there are depressingly few. besides this one:
- stargazy pie (don't look it up)
- oyakodon
- spaghetti alle vongole fujute
if you know of more, tell me!
@[email protected] The Italians refer to trifle (the jelly and cream dessert) as 'zuppa inglese' (English soup)
@skinnylatte @irene oh! I have a whole theory about abstraction levels in Chinese food names! Let me see if I can remember it...
Level 0: the name of the dish describes how to prepare it (e.g., 回鍋肉, twice cooked pork; 樟茶鸭, camphor-smoked duck)
Level 1: the name of the dish specifies the flavors but leaves the exact implementation unspecified (e.g., 孜然羊肉, cumin lamb)
Level 2: the name of the dish specifies an abstract notion of the flavor only (e.g., 怪味鸡, strange-flavor chicken)
Level 3: the name of the dish conveys only a shared understanding of the subjective experience of eating the dish (e.g., 口水鸡, mouth-watering chicken)
Level n: the name of the dish describes something that could possibly be considered food but, thankfully, is unrelated to the one actually served (e.g., 夫妻肺片, husband and wife's lung slices)
Level ∞: the name of the dish is fully abstract and bears no relation to the dish or any other food (e.g., 佛跳墙, Buddha jumping over the wall; 蚂蚁上树, ants climbing a tree)
This commentary on Eric Schmidt's ill-received commencement speech at University of Arizona is spot on:
https://youtu.be/tlQ7EoJDTQY
It is a thoughtful, stern public call-out of a man who had all the power and opportunity to make the right, ethical decisions at Google, but didn't – and who now demands that students inhabiting the technofascist dystopia he helped create go in and fix it.
The booing at that commencement speech was a rare and much-needed moment of accountability for Schmidt.🔥
@mavnn It took me nearly 15 years after I started listening to Metal in general to be able to even make sense of what they're doing.
@[email protected] ha. Yes. Regular insomniac with a shifted circadian rhythm over here. Society was designed for other people!
There's lots of ceremony out there on the fitness stuff but one sports scientist summed it up really well in my opinion: unless you're a world class athlete, a few percent performance here or there is going to have far less impact than the fact you carry on. So his take was beyond what you've already mentioned, nothing mattered more than making it easy and fun enough not to stop. And that if you were a world class athlete you should be getting a coach, not listening to YouTube videos!
@[email protected] @[email protected] Yeah, not an expert but I looked into this a year or two ago and the evidence for anything beyond "make sure you get enough protein, and do some exercise" was tiny. That said, one person pointing out the lack of evidence did also point out it's not much fun exercising if you're feeling hungry, and shakes are a relatively quick and easy high protein snack.
@[email protected] @[email protected] Oh! And sleep. Unless you're sleeping too excess (in which case I'm massively jealous) don't cut sleep to exercise, apparently it doesn't work.
@sylvia not really. The science is pretty well established and it amounts to “A regular diet of real food, with extra protein over the course of the day: https://dl.ww0.ca/i/42be4ebd.png
Find a copy of Mark Rippetoe’s “Starting Strength”, set your own fitness goals and don’t worry much about basically anything else.
@[email protected] @[email protected] Yeah, not an expert but I looked into this a year or two ago and the evidence for anything beyond "make sure you get enough protein, and do some exercise" was tiny. That said, one person pointing out the lack of evidence did also point out it's not much fun exercising if you're feeling hungry, and shakes are a relatively quick and easy high protein snack.
@[email protected] oh, definitely that too, but I suppose I was trying to put why they're so annoying into words. It having being part of life for years, it happening to me is infuriating... @[email protected]
@[email protected] For me, there's a minimum choice cost. Let's call it roughly equivalent to the 'normal' cost of choosing a course from a menu. Now imagine every one of those 'trivial' questions takes as much energy to answer as being sent back to the starters and having to choose again @[email protected]
Meanwhile, my unexpected detour into Korean #beatboxing is the gift that keeps on giving. Not my favourite Wing track musically, but his new single has a bass line that hits like a truck and 'but how?' levels that are off the charts. That said, I'm not even a huge fan of EDM and I still liked this because of how insanely well it uses the tools of the genre, so if you are I suspect you'll love it.
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