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so i'm currently asymptotically approaching not gonna have to touch this monstrosity again for a while

there is a bunch of stuff in triggers so orm stuff can be made simpler and i gotta say while pl/pgsql is less awful than oracle it still takes for-eeever to write

dorian @doriantaylor.com

the more i work on this cursed sql database the more i want to blow it up and replace it with an rdf graph

the integrity constraints are okay i guess but i think my whole disposition toward data management is irrevocably changed at this point

2 days ago

it's funny i spent my teens, 20s, and a chunk of my 30s being something of an edgelord and eventually came to the conclusion that it's a precarious position if you a) alienate everybody decent and b) have your schtick disintermediated by somebody kinder/gentler; kinda paints you into a RWNJ corner.

i guess the question is "why didn't the double-entry bookkeeping system use negative numbers" since they were both happening in italy and there was almost a century of overlap in the most conservative assessment

randomly occurred to me this morning to check whether negative numbers and double-entry bookkeeping overlap, and the answer is barely (fibonacci did negative numbers a few decades before double-entry)

since the list of the employer's set of entitlements under an employment contract is arbitrarily long, they can easily find a directive in there that is so onerous that people would rather quit than obey it, and thus they save themselves the mandatory severance payment associated with a layoff

one thing that is forever burned into my mind is a remark in coase's paper (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) about how employment contracts, unlike e.g. ordinary vendor contracts, are defined in negative terms (i.e., here is a list of things we're *not* allowed to make you do)

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17 hours ago

heh i actually keep pretty exhaustive records so i'm tempted to verify this (y'know, once i've taken care of all the actual urgent things, lol)

i mean i can cook a steak just fine it's just something in my brain insists that a meal at home should not cost >$20 a head (unless it's some kind of special occasion, but like tuesday night dinner or whatever?)

dunno maybe it's a canada thing but it's crossed a line in terms of "too much to pay for if i'm gonna cook it myself"

convinced ads on podcasts for other podcasts is indicative of massively unsold inventory

definitely steak for me the calculus is like "if i'm gonna buy that, cook it, and clean up after, i might as well go out to dinner and have it served to me" but then pretty sure even something as innocuous as going to the pub has 2x'd since before the pandemic

question there would be could you do the same thing or better with old-fashioned bayesian filtering à la spamassassin or a more sophisticated yet purpose-specific model that you train on your own data (that you would also own instead of lease out to openai)

yeah that's what i assumed

the fact that there are not a lot of blue things in nature is actually kinda crazy tbh (and lots of the things that are blue are doing some kinda iridescence thing)

fascinating dot jiff

i mentioned this cause i faintly recall something about either strawberry or banana being the first artificial flavour created and the two are extremely close together chemically so strawberry-banana candy is particularly easy to implement

i listened to this while commuting this morning and i think one issue with explaining to the public at large is that the o-g discriminative machine learning they've been using for a decade and change (and is useful) has been eclipsed in terms of attention by the generative stuff (which is not)

one thing i have always wondered about "blue raspberry", which is not a thing that occurs in nature, is: does the artificial flavour also happen to be blue (or does the blue happen to taste like or at least suggest raspberry), i.e. is this just a cost-saving measure on the part of the manufacturer?

lol cause you eventually alienate everybody decent, and/or whatever people were putting up with you in order to get is now being served by somebody else in a kinder, gentler way

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1 day ago

phew i knew that would eventually be useful one day

uhhhhhh wat

what is with these tiny flies that are like "i'm gonna go straight up your nose lol"

i think they come from the houseplants?

twist ending: i actually bled out and am skeeting from beyond the grave

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topped it off with girlfriend's gremolata from last week and some fresh arbol salsa i bought yesterday

i used it to shave up a bunch of little purple potatoes which i then sautéed in a cast-iron pan with caramelized shallots and diced bacon, then dumped four beaten eggs on top and a pile of grated cheddar and parmesan then into the oven under the broiler

no fat in that breakfast at all, nope no sir

i used a mandoline for the first time today and didn't die

i remember being in i'm gonna say grade 3? and being told about james bay for the first time except it was french so it was "baie james" and the entire class of eight year olds erupted in laughter

also lots of topics are well-documented enough that somebody who had, like, reading comprehension and a little time could train up on $TOPIC enough to detect a good chunk of inside-baseball bullshit

lol

this always reminds me of that episode of batman the animated series when he realizes he's dreaming because dreaming happens on the other side of the brain that reading does (or something)

eeenteresting. just g&t over here; bought a couple things of little fever tree bottles a couple weeks ago for a dinner party but didn't try this one yet. thinking i prefer the o-g though.

fever tree cucumber tonic water 🧐🥒

the ability to make your decisions stick

actual lol

serious.

ugh, worst. had to deal with this back in 2016. took months to surmount:

• empty out the closet, dresser, etc
• wash everything hot that can handle it
• put the rest in one of those big vacuum ziplocs and freeze it for a month
• diatomaceous earth everywhere in the apartment, not just the closet

lol guess the richmeister's third act isn't going as expected

casting couch??

by that i mean if i blew this up and remade it in rdf i would have to hand-roll (ish) the integrity constraints but honestly i feel like that would be net less work than what i'm currently dealing with

the more i work on this cursed sql database the more i want to blow it up and replace it with an rdf graph

the integrity constraints are okay i guess but i think my whole disposition toward data management is irrevocably changed at this point

inconceivable

species of purpose-specific hate-read takester?

commitment to the bit

somebody outside rocking out to def leppard in their car at 6:37am on a saturday

also doesn't the "rare" in "rare earth" have more to do with the refinement process than the actual scarcity of lanthanides