got one of these a while ago and i like it!

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i first saw people using these as macropads for things like anki or digital art programs or ereaders. i think it works best as a macropad, too. i don’t like using it for most games because i find that the buttons require more pressure, which is satisfying for keyboard shortcuts but tiring and hand-hurty when constantly pressing buttons

i’d been nervous about getting one because at first it didn’t…

okay so here’s a rant about an opinion on ai i saw the other day and got mad at

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the take was basically: the correct, centrist^[1], unbiased view on AI requires actually using AI, because a first hand experience is more worthwhile than seeing a bunch of second-hand accounts warped through the lens of social media

different kinds of source

firstly, no! a first-hand account isn’t necessarily better! it gives a different kind of experience and there’s a…

my partner can’t have caffeine when he’s had his adhd medication that day (side effects), so the days we remember to and we want coffee, we’ll have a decaf.

sometimes i’ll still want some caffeine, and it’s too much work in the morning to make two separate cups of coffee instead of one double batch. what a conundrum!

then i remembered hong kong 鴛鴦 (yeun-yeung). it’s a combination of coffee and milk tea, and it’s called that after mandarin ducks…

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i saw this article by jeny on the interlock bind-off and i wanted to really understand how it worked so here’s my own notes

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structure

the structure is a regular knitted row, except every stitch is interlocked with the ones on either side

sewing knit/purl stitches

traditionally, stitches are made by pulling a loop through the stitch on the row below. it’s a knit stitch if pulled from back-to-front, and a purl if pulled from front-to-back…

“average person has too many opinions” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person has 0 opinions per year. Opinions Georg, who lives in cave & tweets over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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i emptied out my email inbox!

inflows and outflows

one way to think about getting rid of emails is like a bathtub, where the inbox is the bath, the emails are the water, and you’ve got an inflow (the tap) and an outflow (the drain)^[1]

inflows are the emails that come in. you can reduce these by doing things like unsubscribing to emails (search “unsubscribe”), making filters, or properly marking emails as spam

outflows are how you get rid…

i’m discovering that perhaps i might have lacked the Vitamin. and i think i underestimated the parts of the vitamin fantasy where (a) the deficiency is found because someone else looks after you and (b) people acknowledge your prior suffering

sorta hits different when you have to do those parts yourself. oh well. at least there’s still the part where (c) the issue is relatively^[1] easily fixable and available

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footnotes

1. if you can handle the lack of regulation, the…

can someone lead me to water? i promise i’ll drink 🥺

and i have a body that is either really sensitive to dehydration or needs a lot more water and often doesn’t notice until i’m near heat exhaustion 🙃. back to lying in bed for meeee^[1]

also i will Punch^[2] anyone who makes a glib comment about how They can handle the heat

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footnotes

1. and after i made my nowpdate (now update) being so happy about the outdoors ↩︎

2. please don’t call my bluff ↩︎