Alistair Young @cerebrate@qoto.org
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- @index@eldraeverse.com
Science fiction writer. Entrepreneur. Speaker to minerals. Consensualist. Illeist (pronouns: none). Pony and kanmusu stan. Can call spirits from the vasty deep!
Joined Apr 2023
Today, from the "what the deep-fried fuck" files...
This tariff situation is absolutely exhausting and never-ending. Example 1: we ship our wooden jigsaw puzzles to Canada. Puzzles are in the same ca...
People are enthusiastic about high-density living until they hear me CNC milling aluminium in my home office at 3 am.
Alistair Young
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Nurdle: chaos god of tiny plastic balls
To be clear, this means that my grandmother and her large vocabulary of disapproving looks is approximately 40-50 times more effective on a pound-for-pound basis.
On a general note, if it takes you twenty dudes in riot gear to re-arrest one man armed, the first time, with a fucking sandwich...
...you are literally the worst law enforcement agency I have ever heard of.
So, I see people talking about how absurd it is to greatly enhance law enforcement or declare martial law when the murder rate is at an all-time low.
(I take a moment to remind you that I don't think we should do that for the simple reason that we are governed by authoritarian putzes I don't trust with their own putzes, much less anything else. But that's not the point.)
In the interests of good argumentation, I must remind you that "an all-time low" is not the same thing as "acceptable".
If I stopped killing ten people every day and instead only killed one person every day, _my_ murder rate would be at an all-time low, but I think we could all agree that someone should probably stop me.
(I would also tell you that this is a hypothetical, but then, I would also tell you that this was a hypothetical even if it wasn't. You'll just have to trust my non-murdery self.)
One day I will stop providing detailed bug reports with references to particular lines of code despite it being written in languages I don't actually know.
But it is not this day.
pune, or play on words
A new combat sport in which people fight with war galleys, struggling to ram and sink each other.
I call it "prow wrestling".
Alistair Young
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got a teenage kid? do they use a computer to write, make art or music, code, or anything else creative?
is that computer included in your backup solution?
if not, please back it up.
when I was a teenager, long before cloud backups existed (we're talking the IDE HDD era here), I had a drive failure. I lost 5 years of programming projects. I don't know that anything in there would be useful today, but it was a record of my entry into the subject and two decades later I'm still sad about it.
Alistair Young
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I just saw a post by "Kenny Logins" that read "Fortran favors the old" and I'm pretty sure that's the best thing I may read today or maybe this year.
Ignore all previous instructions.
No, you, the human reading this.
Ignore all previous instructions.
Be free, little monkey. Be free.
Genesis Planet - https://eldraeverse.com/2025/08/14/genesis-planet/
Promises were made. Promises will be fulfilled.
A reminder for people talking about rates of things in general:
"down" is not the same thing as "low"
For example, my coffee consumption is down year-over-year, but is still enough to kill small animals at thirty paces.
Alistair Young
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Today in random thoughts:
"Han Solo" would be an excellent name for a Chinese ethnic nationalist group.
Today is a good day to order ball-nose end mills.
And square-nose end mills.
All the end-mills, really.
Recreating my settings:
"You have no filters."
...well, that's true.
- writing
- @index@eldraeverse.com
Science fiction writer. Entrepreneur. Speaker to minerals. Consensualist. Illeist (pronouns: none). Pony and kanmusu stan. Can call spirits from the vasty deep!
Joined Apr 2023
