Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)

17 Apr

visiting our beloved Mirror's Edge zone

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oh wait god the death note plot aspect of needing to know how to write someone's name to kill them doesn't translate well outside the sinosphere does it, in most of the world's languages it is easy to spell someone's name if you have heard it spoken

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YAGAMI LIGHT IS IMMUNE TO BEING KILLED WITH THE DEATH NOTE BECAUSE NOBODY WOULD EVER THINK 月 IS HOW YOU WRITE ライト

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guy who gets the shinigami eyes because he just really likes encountering unusual kanji

I love it when an image CDN has the parameters in the URL and lets anyone change them. if I'm curious what the text in a thumbnail says, I can just make it bigger. way bigger. I can even adjust the aspect ratio and crop. even if that wasn't what the website authors intended…

www.svtstatic.se/image-news/2... is fun to play with :3

svtstatic.sesvtstatic.se

you ever think about Yomiko Readman (読子・リードマン)? what an incredible character name

Yomiko Readman, codename “The Paper”, agent of the Special Operations Division of the British Library (character in “Read or Die”)

gotta be honest I feel trapped by this “loss32” project I've supposedly taken on. I don't know what to do about it. writing a blog post about what I've done so far, releasing what I have so far, opening it up to contributions, all of this keeps being delayed by this feeling

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I feel like this would be a lot easier if I were one of those manic angel girls who runs on amphetamines

as much as it's a pitfall, the unassailable confidence that mania gives you is also very useful, because you charge ahead instead of dithering, possibly in a useful direction

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now, at the same time, it is something we also want for ourselves. it's something we could pursue as a true side-project. but in that case we aren't going to make any promises about it

the other elephant in the room is that there's competing projects already, because I made the classic mistake of talking about an idea before releasing anything, and that colours my thinking enormously. I don't enjoy “competing” in an open-source context. maybe it's emudev trauma

it ought to be easy enough to write up what I've done so far, there's a lot of exciting stuff to talk about, a journey I can take people on. if nothing else I get to talk about interesting aspects of WINE but I also need to talk about the future, and that's the troublesome part

the elephant in the room is that we're unemployed, and have been for long enough now that this only feels worth seriously recommitting to if we could somehow make money off it, and it's a project that is very late, has no moat and what must be a very niche appeal at this point

youtube.comYAMAHA QY22でYMOのTechnopolisを演奏してみたYouTube video by k k

the kanji studies are slowly but surely bearing fruit, it's helping a lot with understanding this video (I still have to look up a lot of words) www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX9y...

打ち込む=program(MIDI), huh…

the algo era of Twitter sucks because it turns the site into Reddit. instead of tweets spreading in groups of people who know eachother and can get along, it's all interest-based recommendations. every Monogatari fan sees eachother's posts even if they have nothing else in common

the kind of engagement this produces is very hollow. people seeing my tweets don't know me any more, and I don't know the people whose tweets I see. there's no context. it's very hard to bond with anyone in a meaningful way if there's such a tenuous and fleeting link between us

5.01km/31m36s running is more fun without warming up first…

“Trillions of Java objects are created every day,” (JEP 401)

just sitting here repeating “Trillions of Java objects are created every day” to myself and laughing maniacally

it's been a long time since a phrase last hit us like that. Trillions of Java objects are created every day. Trillions of Java objects are created every day. Trillions of Java objects are created every day.

just learned about “One institution with two names” this is an aspect of Chinese governance that is… unsettling to a Western audience

4.99km/33min geez… one bad week can set you back so far… well, at least I'm getting back into the rhythm again

(I saw “才能” in the title of a YouTube video and with the unfortunately non-Japanese-style default CJK font on this Linux install, I was very confused)

the PHP security bug patch is a nightmare, our server is patched but this thing looks more like a desperate attempt to patch hundreds of different leaks than a straightforward single bugfix, I do not trust that this is over…

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I hope you enjoyed my attempt to compress 1500 words about what I learned from skimming the patch into 280 characters, that was hellish, it's really hard not to sound like an LLM when you do this

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PHP is a million or so lines of C code that pervasively used alloc functions that longjmp() on failure, so OOM bailout creates corrupted state. the fix uses fallible allocs and a global please-return-early OOM flag but requires touching Everything. completeness is impossible 😰😰😰

Swedish appreciation post: ”samma ex” is a very snappy and precise way to express that something is the exact same physical object/specimen, not just the same model, I wish English had anything that good

you *can* say “specimen” but good lord

äntligen får vi veta precis hur bred den breda mitten är

what do you mean the US has state-run supermarkets that do not make a profit because they sell things basically at cost. socialism for military members only, huh

got to see Moses Yoofee Trio live in Malmö just now, we quite thoroughly enjoyed that, possibly the best of the few concert experiences we have had

alas however I must boost this old tweet bsky.app/profile/hika... the live music listening experience is so bad it's depressing everything is so distorted, this has been our consistent experience across different venues but this time it was no worse with hearing protection :)

Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)@hikari.noyu.me

live music is the realest music, which is why it's such a shame that it's the worst way to listen to it

their usual drummer has a hand infection right now so they found some “sufficiently mad” (I probably misquote) Austrian guy whose name I wish I managed to catch, he did great, he had this really cool long drum solo at one point

?.??km/41.5min the autumn colours outside are very pretty… you can explore such a wide area if you run…

I've gone running every day for the last six days, averaging 36 minutes per day, feels good, feels good

(not all of that is single continuous workouts, which are the ones that really count, but wow that's still quite an improvement on running 33min three times a week huh)

#wikifinds “Marital status is also related to sensation seeking, as studies have found that divorced males tend to be higher in the trait compared to single or married men.”

youtube.com$32 For A Genuine Fender! Turning A Cutting Board into a TelecasterYouTube video by NOT A LUTHIER

cutting board telecaster www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1nf...

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