I have been reading PUA twitter for the last two days and _man_
Alternate title: 10 Things I Hate About Men. On ethics: It is not wrong for straight men to want to have more sex.It is fucking weird how you will humanize women for one post and then dehumanize women for nine posts and then say “what, I’m not a misogynist” and point to the one post.…
Divide and conquer
This is just how I see it. To deal with marginalized people, normative culture uses a strategy of divide and conquer. I kind of feel like the game of prisoner’s dilemma starts like this: “We need you to sell out someone specific. We’ll give you a mouthpiece or even a job in exchange for it.…
How to get Self running on Windows (via WSL2)
It doesn’t work on Windows, so you have to use WSL. Here were my steps: install Ubuntu 20.04 on WSLcopy the files to \\wsl$\Ubuntu-20.04\home\nyeogmiinstall dependenciesset up an X servergrant myself ownership and run perms, then run self Here’s how to install the dependencies: To set up an X server I used this tutorial. Here’s how…
Ancient Voices (Russ Landau)
In the software world you’ve got businesses that graze their money from users who buy their product. These are like vegetarian animals. Then you have businesses that extract value from the process steps between users and businesses; these are like parasites. You have businesses that eat other businesses; these are like carnivores. Evolutionary forces have…
This post ends with some poetry
I think Online Politics is mostly about hating the right people. That’s probably bad! I think it’s OK to hate people as a byproduct of your political views. You should probably see billionaires as exploiters and you should see exploitation as a crime — meaning you should feel moral injury which might, as a side…
Beating a dead strawman
One other thing that I didn’t include in the last post, which was about distinguishing smart people from crazy people. It’s kinda relevant but kinda tangential. In online engineering spaces, you’ll run into a lot of takes that aren’t heterodox at all, but people certainly think they are. They happen to be really defensible. Design…
Mundane, sharp, crazy
When someone claims to be fourish standard deviations off the mean — 160 IQ, for instance — they’re probably lying or mistaken. Most of the time, when someone says “I’m competent,” you have to weigh the odds that they really are against the odds that they’re is completely wrong. Especially when it’s a really tall…
Experts agree: stop citing jonathandata1
jonathandata1 is a security researcher who has posted a lot of disinformation on Twitter. This article exists basically so you can send it to journalists who have cited jonathandata1, or to management folks who are tempted to hire him. There are two reasons I’ve singled him out: one is that some of this disinformation has…
Trip report, theories: Mulholland Dr
Hey! I watched this movie yesterday and liked it. For people who don’t want to be spoiled, you should definitely watch it! It’s really easy to follow and it’s a lot less cynical than I expected. It comes off as kind of a moral fable — the characters make a lot of serious life-and-death decisions,…
What’s Axie Infinity?
EDIT: Redditors looked at this post and while my theory is appealing for a few reasons (it implies that VCs, like retail investors, are dumb enough to be defrauded), it’s probably wrong. Retail investors are likely being fleeced, but my (elaborate) theory isn’t necessary as an explanation of this — crypto investors will basically buy…
IT KEEPS HAPPENING
(CW; child sex abuse) This article is inspired by a thing I hate which Keeps Fucking Happening. To be less ambiguous for a few specific people who wonder why I’m typing, it’s about HypnotistSappho and SPLURT. Unlike most posts on my blog, it’s targeted to all age groups. Let’s say you’re sixteen. You meet a…
Certain things are not the Vampire’s Castle
This post won’t make very much sense unless you read Exiting the Vampire Castle by Mark Fisher. Preemptively: I like Mark Fisher’s post. However, I think it’s legacy has been kinda weird. Starting with the places where I think I agree with Fisher: There are basically two tendencies of identitty politics. There’s a basically legitimate…
Assessing Haskell
Most college-educated programmers know a few different languages before they enter the workforce. At my school we learned Java and C, and we were expected to pick up some Python on the side because it made things easier. Meanwhile, I see a lot of self-taught people learning Lua, thanks to Roblox. I think people who…
pytype probably should not be your last line of defense
Python is a dynamically-typed programming language with cursory support for static typing. What that means specifically is that, at compile-time: You can annotate any variable name with a type.The types can be parameterized: List[str] — “list of strings” — and List[int] — “list of integers” — are different types. At runtime: Python ignores all type…
A double standard for posts about controversial subjects
Today I wanted to write a post about grift in the functional programming community. I still want to do that, but I got caught up in another topic which I’m thinking about first. Some of the claims I want to make here are a little controversial. Saying controversial things can really suck, because people will…
Greetings!
Hey, I’m Nyeogmi! Some of you have encountered me on Twitter before, where I post about kink and furry topics. However, I’m also interested in code, politics, philosophy, and social adaptation. In real life, I’m the lead backend developer of a dating site, where I have a particular interest in infrastructure and performance. Sometimes you’ll…
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