Notices by (⚗️ pnathan) (pnathan@imaginair.es), page 2

@somarasu SPICY ITALIAN. FOOTLONG. ALL VEGGIES EXCEPT PICKLES. NO SAUCE.

@hellojed what!!! that's kind of awful

@Elizafox ;) he's a GENIUS. Very stable too.

I know people who basically believe that too. Kinda low key cut then outta my lift. Did the ghost on em.

Badly typed clojure caused a null pointer error when I ran the test suite.

What a frickin joke.

Ah man. Coming into Seattle at 7:20 a m. Still dark out. Blaaaah.

@kensanata if you don't fix this by timestamp 1900 -08tz(12 hours from time of writing), hit me up. I should be able to help.

@Elizafox the java 8 library is actually quite nice as you get into it elucidating the differences.

remember timezones, too.

there are *political* time & calendars and there are *natural* time and calendars.

@Elizafox please be advised that there are no less (and likely more) than 25 systems

https://books.google.com/books/about/Calendrical_Calculations_Millennium_Edit.html?id=5r_kSKE4OdYC

naturally time systems vary as well

@Elizafox calendar or time? they are different.

@Elizafox calendrical systems are fun.

which one would you like, and when in history would you like to be using it? :D

huge sprawling Scala codebase I wrote mostly myself. a 6 week break mid-changeset over December and I'm coming up to speed again.

<3 types.

@seanl that's traditional progress bar display going back to at least the early 90s. :)

@nolan Could be a parody. Could be real life.

I miss when Nazis and sympathizers were relegated to the dusty bins of history, grandparent stories, and far out kooks everyone walked away from.

@nolan I don't know if this is a joke.

because it's totally a 2017 kind of statement.

@crazypedia Nifty. I'll have to listen this afternoon.

grubbing through Google Music, so much music appears to be racially segregated.

I like what's known as "indie folk", some heavy metal, and a few other common genres. It's like a sea of white people. I like it, but it feels... segregationist.

Jazz mixes races white/black. Classical, usually white/asian.

I don't like hiphop or rap as a musical form.

It's strange and uncomfortable to think about how race in the US intermingles into musical choices and where musicians direct themselves and what fans listen to.

@gcupc @enkiv2 Ah, how I love that quote.

I think that 2019 or 2020 is likely to be *that* kind of year.

2016 was bad. 2017 was shock and tingling. I think 2018 is going to have enormous amounts of energy building from organizations formed in 2017, and 2019 is when things will get crackling.

History has a viscosity. Normally it's thick, change happens slowly or in one or two places. It feels like right now, history is getting *fluid*, and the right people, the right movement, the right essay, can swing things in the USA to a new direction without, say, the enormous amounts of effort that change would have taken 15 years ago.

Feels that way to me. Not per se hope, but the *conditions coming into play where hope is feasible*.

It is exhilarating in its way!

@noelle my /played on WoW was well over a year when I quit. I'm vaguely afraid to go sum it all up even today. I had spent many many *many* hours before WoW playing video games.

I chose, for myself, to write code instead of play games. It scratched a similar itch (sit at computer, don't make loud noises, use mind), but directly fed into career/productivity type things. Games started feeling void and empty after a while. They still do, today. I want to look back in 20 years and know my crap is still there.

Now, I do want to make a point: I can sit on my arse and fail at something for hours. Or make tiny lame incremental progress. Call it debugging a program, call it grinding reputation in WoW. Six of one, half a dozen of the other. Not that different. Not everyone can do that...

I can aim that ability to be intellectual through tedium in other ways. I paint now. I wouldn't mind doing some other creative things with my hands.

I guess I genuinely don't mind low-impact failing: my ego is yuge, yuge, yuge, and most failures bounce off of it.

The other thing I want to note is that productivity is a journey of 10000 tiny steps. I.e., I don't just block time to Be Productive. I whack away a little bit at a time, constantly. Things Get Done that way. I've climbed 3000 feet of pathless mountain the same way. One foot after another, and then, after 5 hours, wow, you're up there. Other people do do it differently, but I can confidently assert that the "constant tiny steps over time" method is a winner.

Improving executive function (which is what this is) can be aided by notepads, Google Keep, MS One Note, JIRA, fossil, etc. Particularly when so very many things need to happen.