I miss Dead Authors Podcast but I’m happy for his success.

It depends a ton on the person, and much more importantly how/if they integrate their experience into their day to day lives (see: great, you’ve experienced yourself as a node in a larger fabric of humanity. How are you going your act next week when the drugs have worn off and you’re back in the office? What’s your plan?)

I’d wager not a ton of people really do the work involved with that second part.

Shut up and take my investment money.

(Please note I have no investment money.)

AROOOOOO!! WELCOME TO THE MF’IN PACK!!!

I SEE YOU BROTHER AND I CRANKED THIS OUT FOR ALL OUR GIRL BROTHERS!

I SUCK AT PHOTO EDITING BUT IT’S ABOUT THAT 💯 EFFORT! AROOOOOOOO!!

Basic bitches: Can use their murder rock to scratch glass, I guess.

Bad bitches: Can evolve any Clefairy they come across at a moments notice.

My favourite part is his position that you can’t restore a person’s inherent autonomy in a meaningful sense while keeping the larger sociotechnological structures that limit it in place.

Take a look at the direction of the U.S. these days, and the significant rollbacks in the limited autonomy afforded liberals, commies, academics, women, and ethnically diverse individuals either actioned or on the horizon as evidence. There’s merit to this position.

I do not agree with all of Ted’s positions - I am a collectivist, ultimately and perhaps foolishly, at heart - but I find quips like yours to be distractions. These comments certainly shouldn’t be ignored, but considered within the larger context.

That said, if these comments are such that you don’t want to engage with the rest of it, that’s your decision and I respect it. And I mean that sincerely (trying to account for Poe’s law here - I really do mean that).

Took a few courses on American culture where it was notably absent. I think any course of study that starts with Eisenhower’s farewell address should end with at least a cursory look at Industrial Society - even if it means those last couple of classes are full of very heated, uncomfortable debate.

It’s an important document, regardless of how people feel about the author and what he did.

Fair enough. No worries!

I’m wondering if you’re confusing Ted K with Terence McKenna? Very dissimilar people but could be a function of reading both around the same time in your life, maybe.

If not and you remember what you’re thinking about, and it’s indeed a manifesto by a criminal ranting about elves, I’d love a name/title if you feel like sharing.

Do you have a link to the report?

All good my friend! Was more just interesting given the context- my bets are on elites these days believing they can reign in any unrest, rather than being as interested in reining it in. Hubris and such.

Made a lot out of a very common error, just thought it was neat. :)

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It’s “rein in any unrest”. I’m not pointing this out to be a grammar nazi, but because “reign in” is an interesting slip in the context of your post.

The biggest career mistake I’ve ever made is opening an Excel macro and changing two characters to make it count a thing again.

I was then permanently labelled Cracks the Technomancer, master of all things technology. It fucking sucks.

I’ve seen people say this, but haven’t actually seen it outside of one asshat who picked a fight with Beehaw a year+ ago.

As a user I’ve had a pretty great experience personally.

There’s lots of stuff about what I do that doesn’t make much sense :)

It works in this scenario because the stacks are reliably sorted by customer and date, and each form has a running tally of what cookies are on offer as things get added to the list.

Assume customer x’s forms are taken out, and you make two stacks of them without shuffling the forms. The very first form on the first stack from 2022-01-01 does not include cookie y. The first form on the second stack, from 2023-02-01, also does not contain cookie y. Based on this information and the conditions above, you can infer that the form you want is in the second stack.

Now, if the forms were not reliably sorted, or did not contain a running record, you’d need to approach this differently. Strategies would probably involve inferences or straight getting the info you need from other sources - custumer correspondence around “We want cookie y, how much?” (if it occurred when you were in a position to get such correspondence); knowledge of big changes to cookie offerings to the customer (contract renewals); bugging accounting at a regular, annoying cadence with progressive escalation until they answer/complain about you bugging them, etc.

It’s a crummy job, but someone’s gotta do it.

Imagine you work at a company that sells cookies. The company signs a contract offering a customer a set variety of cookies at various prices, with a clause stating that if the customer wants another type of cookie the company makes later on, it will be priced and added to their list. This should be in the form of regular contract amendments/addendums, but it isn’t.

Several years go by, and in the course of that several different varieties of cookies have been added by the customer. The price given to them at the time may not account for the cost of materials and labor today, or how many of those cookies not mentioned in the contract are being ordered v. how many were expected, the fact that you outsourced some of those cookies, or brought some of those cookies in-house, etc. The cookie executive asks you “When did we offer customer x cookie y at price point z?”

Now, the company has a perfectly good database of cookies and price points for customers, but it’s very old tech and requires certain access privileges, which are very hard to give people outside of the accounting department. Accounting is never able to help with this, and the cookie executives try poorly and fail to get people like you access. But you do have years and years of cookie addition request forms, which are kept in chronological order by customer and contain a list of all types of cookies requested up to that point in time.This is where binary search helps - you can pretty quickly find the one where the cookie y was added even though there are hundreds of these forms.

It’s not a situation that should exist - we have a god damn cookie database where you can just pop in customer x and cookie y to get price z, with an effective date - but in my crazy cookie factory it helps a ton.

There’s other examples but they’re all pretty much variants of this thinly veiled analogy.

Honestly, this was the comment that exposed me (regular office rube) to binary search as a concept and it is so. fucking. helpful.