Moonless Nights
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My personal channel, largely replacing those I used to have on other systems, back in the client-server days.
This channel is mostly for just writing personal thoughts about inter-personal relationships, technical opinions, the direction of humanity and its cultures, and a search for purpose, more broadly.
Personally, I am a software developer (systems programming, if you were interested). In my personal life, I am polyamorous (however you feel about that). Socially, I like to associate with the goth scene (which I have done since early 2003).
This channel is mostly for just writing personal thoughts about inter-personal relationships, technical opinions, the direction of humanity and its cultures, and a search for purpose, more broadly.
Personally, I am a software developer (systems programming, if you were interested). In my personal life, I am polyamorous (however you feel about that). Socially, I like to associate with the goth scene (which I have done since early 2003).
Fitness for Human Interaction (on Jan. 26, 2025, 10:45:07 p.m.)
For some time, I have been noticing that I am becoming "stranger". I blame this on general isolation and lack of humanization. I don't really know how to interact with people, these days, so I just seem to intensely babble or just generally act [...]
Re: This hits close (on Jan. 26, 2025, 10:39:35 p.m.)
I do wonder how we got to this place where they needed to make such dramatic and sudden changes to international student enrolment. I wonder if the issues had been growing for a long time, were sudden, or were not directly related (like if it was a [...]
Re: Licensing (on Jan. 18, 2025, 2:42:23 p.m.)
I hope that this is progressing well and that you get this licensing issue sorted out. Good to hear that the MRI results were normal.
Re: Silly Meme (on Jan. 14, 2025, 6:56:50 p.m.)
Congrats! I hope that getting started goes smoothly and that the job is good.
Re: Illness finally caught me (on Jan. 13, 2025, 2:27:27 a.m.)
Ear was really plugged so I went to get it flushed on Thursday. That seemed to work (I feel "clearer") but I still can't really hear out of my right side. Not sure what that is about. They did say my other ear looks like it is still slightly [...]
Re: Silly Meme (on Jan. 12, 2025, 11:32:57 p.m.)
When I looked it up, I found a song called "So Sick". I haven't heard it and that doesn't sound very promising.
Re: Excited about Job Prospect (on Jan. 11, 2025, 7:47:53 p.m.)
Hopefully that goes well. Good luck!
Re: 2024 in review... (on Jan. 4, 2025, 7:58:15 p.m.)
That was a big and difficult year for you so hopefully 2025 is off to a better start.
Illness finally caught me (on Jan. 4, 2025, 7:56:27 p.m.)
After weeks of just sort of being tired, but not actually getting sick, I think it finally caught up with me, last night.
A few hours before I planned to head out to a monthly event I like, I suddenly felt excruciating ear pain. I tried flushing [...]
A few hours before I planned to head out to a monthly event I like, I suddenly felt excruciating ear pain. I tried flushing [...]
Re: All of us Strangers (on Dec. 28, 2024, 12:02:31 a.m.)
Hard to get much of a sense of it from just the trailer but it looks potentially interesting.
Re: This new-ish (2 month old) playlist rocks (on Dec. 24, 2024, 8:48:02 p.m.)
Ha, not bad! I hope that your holidays are going well.
Re: Such tiredness (on Dec. 21, 2024, 3:40:10 p.m.)
I was wondering that, too. It seems like a bunch of people I know have been sick with something pretty rough within the past few weeks.
I assume it is either that, a lot of overcast days leading up to the shortest day (which I guess is today), or [...]
I assume it is either that, a lot of overcast days leading up to the shortest day (which I guess is today), or [...]
OP on track (on Dec. 20, 2024, 4:03:29 a.m.)
Managed to get a lot done on OctoberPeaks, today. I think all the work required for the RC0 build is complete so I should be able create the release, tomorrow. I hoped to get it done today until I realized I planned to introduce a sky in this [...]
Back on track (on Dec. 18, 2024, 8:04:54 p.m.)
I managed to find a way to take of the aforementioned "short-cuts" and that seemed to provide a big win (that benchmark is now down to 17.6 seconds). I suspect that the real-world benefit will be even greater since it involves removing a [...]
Re: Such tiredness (on Dec. 17, 2024, 11:33:54 p.m.)
Still feeling oddly tired, all the time.
On top of that, I think that the initial results showing an 80% win seemed to have been a bug related to a bogus write-back in a prototype resulting the algorithm exiting earlier without being complete. So [...]
On top of that, I think that the initial results showing an 80% win seemed to have been a bug related to a bogus write-back in a prototype resulting the algorithm exiting earlier without being complete. So [...]
Such tiredness (on Dec. 16, 2024, 3:52:37 p.m.)
I have no idea what it is but I have been so tired, these past few weeks. Yesterday, I hardly managed to do anything since I kept just feeling like I needed to sleep. After sleeping in little stints throughout the day, I still managed to get more [...]
Re: An interesting conversation should be had here (on Dec. 16, 2024, 3:44:14 p.m.)
The cross-section of the species represented by social media discourse is very troubling, much as you pointed out, and would lead the most optimistic person to assume we are dying out.
Honestly, I don't really know all the ways people could [...]
Honestly, I don't really know all the ways people could [...]
Not of this world (on Dec. 11, 2024, 11:58:26 p.m.)
I met a former coworker to talk about a potential job, today. Despite it sounding somewhat interesting, and not completely outside of my domain, it is another remote-only position and that just doesn't work for me, these days (unless it is in the [...]
Re: Hang yourself upside down. (on Dec. 11, 2024, 11:38:48 p.m.)
Good news that things are improving since getting out of the chair. I have heard that the lack of mobility is only the tip of the iceberg, when confined to one of those, so it is good that you were able to get out.
It is hard to believe that all [...]
It is hard to believe that all [...]
Tired days (on Dec. 9, 2024, 2:36:34 a.m.)
Work on OctoberProject has been slow-going since I spent the past few days agonizing over how to approach this network optimization (since none of my ideas seemed both elegant and containable) only to eventually just quickly hack in one approach to [...]
Centralization of Power and the Weight of Knowledge (on Dec. 3, 2024, 3:12:37 p.m.)
Seeing what is going on in South Korea reminds of something I have been thinking about lately: I strongly oppose authoritarianism and centralization of power. This has more to do with business than government, but it still applies there. I don't [...]
Re: More Walking, More Music, and Getting Festive. (on Dec. 3, 2024, 2:56:59 p.m.)
Good to hear that your stamina is higher and that you are in good spirits. Hopefully the snow we might see soon continues to produce the right holiday vibe.
Re: hello there! (on Nov. 30, 2024, 3:10:42 p.m.)
Good to hear that you mostly managed to get out of the wheelchair. If you manage to keep moving, you will probably find that easier to maintain. I also keep thinking I need to look into getting a new coat. I have had this one for probably about [...]
Re: Tiredness (on Nov. 28, 2024, 1:51:14 p.m.)
Still not sure what the issue is but I have been having trouble getting good sleep (although at least I felt awake, yesterday). A piece of good news is that the health scare close to home turned out to be not an issue.
I hope that you have been [...]
I hope that you have been [...]
Re: The Population Paradox (on Nov. 28, 2024, 1:50:01 p.m.)
I think that part of the issue with modern AI is finding an actual application. Most of it seems to be used to replace jobs which shouldn't exist (writing rage-bait "journalism" online) or have needless overhead (using AI to convert points into [...]