Musings
Enter at your own risk, most likely whiney bullshit ahead!!! Everything on this page is my personal feelings about the referenced topics and other digestibles, and may not in any way correlate with popular opinion, logic, reason, common sense, or professional critique. You have been warned!
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The $10 Seat Belt Ticket That Somehow Costs $142.50
I recently got pulled over for three things: The officer ticketed me only for the seat belt. The statutory penalty is just $10, but the court adds another $132.50 in fees and surcharges. That brings the actual amount due to $142.50. In other words, I received a $10 ticket that costs nearly $150. A Nearly…
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Entropy and Consciousness
In this video, Veritasium mentions a statement about how at the heat death of the universe things will get so “boring” that it wont matter if time is going forwards or backwards, and I thought it was really neat because that is the same concept found in Isaac Asimov’s “The Last Question” wherein people ask…
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AI, General AI, and other thoughts on the current state of AI
This video is somewhat pertinent AI is really starting to take off in a big way. You cannot find anything anywhere without AI shoehorned in, for better or worse. Google has AI chatbots serving up nonsense in search that you cannot turn off, Shopify has AI “helpdesk” bots that provide no better solution than just…
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Mummy Groaning
Me and my dad thought this was hilarious, and so it was his text message tone in my phone until the day he died. I remember fondly when he would text me at a random time and my phone groaned. Very funny!
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Important research: was the Eudora “New Mail” chime from Ren & Stimpy’s “LOG”?
LOG chime This occurs from second **Edit: 0:59** of this video: The chime when extracted without further processing, sounds like this: Eudora Chime I found a copy of Eudora Mail 1.44 for Windows (bundled up in an archive quaintly called “internet.zip”) here. The EUDOR144.EXE file is itself a Zip archive, and contains several files. The…
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A Short Introspection on the nickname ‘Timber Tom’
This is extra short, but just a fun little explanation either way: I never really knew my dad as Timber Tom. That was a nickname he used as a forester and parks service worker, which he was never during my “memory years” (>10 years old). It was also his IRC name along with friends Tor…
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BASIC and the Timber Tom ‘Beep Boop’
So, I was going through Y Combinator and saw a post about this dude who created a free version of BASIC (freebasic.net). BASIC is one of those really old programming languages, so it seems kind of pointless in this day and age because basically any modern programming language can do the same stuff easier, better,…
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Differences in LLMs
This is gonna be a long post filled mainly with documentation. Not really gonna be a page turner, but interesting to think about the differences as time passes. Editor’s Note: While moving my site from MkDocs to WordPress, I started copying this and realized: wow! who the fuck cares? Anyway…
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PDFs are literally the worst thing ever
They fucking suck. Possibly the worst PC invention of all time. We have this arbitrary file type that exists only to be rendered EXACTLY the same on all computers. That is a novel and purposeful idea, but when it is monopolized by a single company (Adobe) and requires sketchy 3rd party software (Foxit) or expensive…
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‘Girl Dinner’, Mental Illness, and MySpace
A while ago, there was a meme on TikTok of a girl sing-talking the phrase ‘Girl Dinner’ alongside what this girl ate for dinner, and the dinner was always very low quality and unhealthy (originally nicotine vape and iced coffee). In my lifetime, I have met a lot of girls that seem to be perpetually…