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…and i¦ve been amazed at how people will, with no fear of repercussions, just out and say the most batshit things (from a technical perspective) and sign it with their full name and employer and forward it to the whole mailing list.

Probably the single greatest argument in favour of software work being any form of “engineering” is that you can’t just say blatantly wrong, infeasible, or uninformed shit in a professional capacity these days and have it be treated as mere “academic disagreement”.

On the one hand, i wonder if the internet making the whole of our professional lives, for those of us that work in the open, searchable and accessible hasn¦t magnified the reputational penalties of being wrong and stifled learning, growth, and innovation.

On the other hand, i want some·one technically‐minded to go thru the professional output of todays “tech greats” and see what batshit things THEY have said above a signature of their full name and institution. For certain figures i wish the reputational penalties were greater.

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» In my opinion, there is no real obstacle to establishing the registry in the ARPA network now, getting the standards organization to work, and being able to exchange documents in extended character sets as soon as the various installations can acquire the printers and display devices.

<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc373.html>="RFC 0373: “Arbitrary Character Sets”"

#Snippets

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‘<https://musicbrainz.org/release/a3defc19-b4f2-4939-8530-3033c25b73b3>="Phonetics On and On"’ (2025-02-14), by Horsegirl.

#OnRepeat

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I just want people to e·mail me about pokémon !

#mood

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they’ve added “orthographic at sign” using capital and small circled A because Unicode remains a coward and won’t encode it

new SIL fonts release: https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/charis-doulos-gentium-andika-v7-000/

pride moodboard no download

hey all you might not know this but. i’m a lesbian. and i have a partner who is a lesbian. so we are both lesbians. together

im being hugged. in bed

the wiki was sort of wrong

if @aescling somehow turns out to be an awakening fanfic writer i’m gonna be so upset

you may think “boon” and “bonus” are related, but it’s actually “boon” and “phone”

SOMEBODY is asleep in this bed and it’s NOT ME

video games

apparently some newer games use a sine curve instead which feels overly posh

i thought that fire emblem calculated percentages by rolling two d50s and adding them, but apparently it actually rolls two d100s and averages them, but turns out these are the same thing

did lots of thinking to realize that averaging two even numbers between 0 and 100 is the same as adding two numbers between 0 and 50

the internet is for saying cute things your partner did, posting pictures of food, and talking about the plants and animals you see on your walks. i can think of no other reasons to Post

i think the wiki is just Wrong about this level but we’ll see i guess