Notices by Thor, the Norseman has moved! (thor@snabeltann.no), page 7

Vacuum seal

Integers and floating-point numbers have different feels. Integers feel rigid, blocky and practical. Floating-point numbers feel soft, fluid and mathematical.

I rather like floating-point numbers.

Deleting all your Facebook posts is harder than it should be. Judging from the various how-to's I've found, the process is slow and unreliable, even with automated tools, and I'm willing to bet that none of the content is actually erased from Facebook's servers. I feel a bit uneasy about that. I want to control my data.

I have one or two male relatives on Facebook with shocking attitudes towards women. I just saw a list that compared a woman to a ship. The first item? "Should be steered by a man." It was meant as humour, of course, but I found it vulgar and distasteful.

My former boss once invited me to a Facebook group full of dirty sexist jokes. The group was basically a safe space for male chauvenists. It made me uncomfortable and I left it.

Why this need to disrespect women? It's bizarre.

Canadian
Canadese
Canadanian
Canadish
Canadi
Canadier
Canawegian

Don't ask me why I picked Canada for this.

@lain Ah, the Internet, where you're forced to choose between self-righteous social justice warriors and perverted libertarian trolls.

It's one thing to know that you're supposed to develop new habits. It's another thing entirely to teach your subconscious mind to follow that up even when you're relaxing and your mind is elsewhere. The subconscious mind is a rather slow learner and doesn't adapt unless you're very persistent with it for a very long time. Also, it doesn't really care unless it gets a reward. It's not very different from training an animal, except the animal is you.

@SuperFloppies When did everyone start using Hugo? I was asked on Friday to fix a Hugo site and had no clue what Hugo was. I sometimes wish there was a news site or mailing list for developers who "didn't get the note".

The strange thing is that you'd expect anyone capable of having one great idea to be capable of having another. That's what a genius is, isn't it?

It seems to me that genius is more of a singular event or epiphany than a personality trait. Yes, it helps if you're very bright or talented, but having those traits does not automatically or perpetually result in acts of genius. Inspiration does, and it is a fickle mistress indeed.

Facebook just kicked its affected users figure for Cambridge Analytica up from 50 million to 87 million.

Richard Stallman is on print in The Guardian and he has some radical ideas about how to dismantle our surveillance society: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/03/facebook-abusing-data-law-privacy-big-tech-surveillance

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-02/apple-is-said-to-plan-move-from-intel-to-own-mac-chips-from-2020

One of these days, I'm going to research Matlab type software. I keep running into references to Matlab when I'm researching computer science. I've never even touched it, and there are times when you want to calculate things like matrix products, dot products, integrals and derivatives or find simplifications or equivalents of equations, and it gets a bit clunky to try to input it all into Wolfram Alpha's search field. I imagine that Matlab would be handy for such situations.

Ceiling light. At 2000K, my bedroom is pretty much lit like a submarine at night. Admittedly, it gives bedtime a bit of a devilish and sinful feel, and might make the neighbors wonder what's going on, but it's merely meant to help me sleep.

My mood today: I want to have a job that involves working with graphics, light, color, sound and music on a computer. I think I would've enjoyed working somewhere like Adobe, Autodesk, Alias|Wavefront, Steinberg or Pixar back when they were startups, but who founds startups like that these days? Everyone in the business is too busy making web and mobile apps that don't do anything very sophisticated.

I am wandering, if there mor blind folks arround here to share thoughts and ideas to deal with this network.