CAUSES OF ENGINEERING DISASTERS:

I don't want to say "you should never listen to a non-linguist about anything involving language", but like... man, people are so wrong about language. If you are learning a language and want to know how it works, don't ask a native speaker! They don't fucking know! Ok, they do, but not in a way they can convey to you. They'll tell you some wrong shit!

"How does this grammatical construction work in your language?" — you'll get the wrong answer

"How is your language different from English" — you'll get the wrong answer

"What is unique about your language" — you'll get the wrong answer.

"Oh ho ho, I am the exception, I am a very educated person in general and I would never—"

Wrong. You don't know shit. Language doesn't work like that. The things you think about language are wrong. "I always heard it was—" wrong. "I always figured it was—" wrong. Oh my fucking god you guys you would not believe how furiously wrong everyone is about linguistics all the time. It's wild.

Art that interprets Laios as an it/its agender tgirl and art that depicts Laios as a whorish gay man are both correct in equal measure to my estimation but both of these have to still be built like a brick shithouse. If you make Laios skinny or give it a six pack you're just oncologically incorrect.

HI Maia, i don't know if u answer questions like these but i feel like this is up your alley way... do you have a note taking software you would recommend/use that doesn't have AI bull shit in it and is somewhat okay privacy wise. I have grown tired of notion after my many years but every notes app I look into is screaming 'we use AI' at me. anyway, greetings...

i personally use obsidian and like it enough to pay for some of its features (which are all possible to achieve with free community plugins instead, there's like basically no reason you'd HAVE to pay them)

i dont think the "ocean at night in the dark" thing is intended to be in reference to color, necessarily - more just unseen immensity. my take was that porch collapse is meaningfully gray and vaporous, but within the pale itself, color is more metaphorical than anything. like it might be "the morning", "white light", "dark gray and orange" or whichever, but these are more ideas related to colors than colors themselves

quick question to the lore masters: is the pale white or black? the paledriver says it's like looking into the ocean at night when harry asks how it looks. but it's called pale lol and in some canon artwork i saw it look like white clouds. i suppose realistically, the light should not be able to penetrate it at some point right? and if it's the opposite to things existing it makes more sense it's a literal hole in the world so should look pitch black?

From 'Dungeon Meshi'

to be honest, to me starting at the top seemed easy. the way i learned was basically a sequence of "this is how x really works under the hood"-type revelations, which suited my learning style reasonably well. im sure i could have gone the other way around too, though i feel like you might have lost me starting at assembly because a high level language was relevant to my other interests then in a way assembly wouldnt be

half of the mystique around "tech stuff" that most people experience is mostly just because they don't know the difference between a "tech enthusiast" as constructed by Apple et al's marketing team and "people who know computers work" and how there's very little actual overlap between these two categories. the only actually good programmers are the ones who want to fuck the computers or perchance have undergone some other technopsychosocial adaptation, which does not correlate with knowing how many dozen cameras the latest iphone has or being able to get along well with the business major interviewer at a startup called Zyergote who drives a tesla

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not to promote misogyny but i think this should happen i think it would be really funny

*you can change the desicions you make, gowever you do not retain the knowledge of it that you have

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Father John Yogurt was defrocked from the clergy today for being asexual, following a papal ruling that "vows of chastity don't count without temptation." The Pope later commented "You gotta have that dog in you"

"does a story need to mean something" i think i know what people are trying to get at here but it is also worth reiterating that 1) stories or narratives always convey meaning, question of 'need' irrelevant 2) that meaning is not necessarily or solely determined by authorial intent and it's not a property that the story in itself possesses transcendentally but comes about also as the result of an interpretive act occurring within a given set of social relations and circumstances. the iliad probably did not mean to homer exactly what it does to me. a generative language model can't imbue its output with its own 'intent' and yet if i read that output and interpret it, i'm engaging with it in a way that creates meaning, structured by the particular narratological frameworks or schemata i've learned. a story might 'mean' something internally, and 'mean' something quite different when that internal meaning is contextualised in its social and historical circumstances. etc.