#showerthought — Public Fediverse posts
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Another positive #ShowerThought to share: I think I'm going to treat "real" coffee (gibts Kaffiene) as a lesser hormone and carefully measure and time my dosage each week to see how it interacts with all of the other hormones, neurochemisty, and so on.
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Statt die vertrockneten Fussballplätze mit Microplastik auszulegen [1], könnte die auch durch Sandplätze [2] ersetzt werden.
[1] https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/trockenheit-wie-die-hitze-den-schweizer-fussballplaetzen-zusetzt
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Bit of a #showerThought ... John Fogerty definitely has a unique pronunciation of a lot of things, but WHAT THE HELL accent is he doing in the song Proud Mary?
It's like a weird attempt at Southern but with some hilarious “oy" Yiddish vowel sounds in there.
"woykin’ for the man”
"big wheel keep on toynin’”
"proud mary keep on boynin’”🤣
I've grown up hearing this song, never really thought about his "accent" til recently though. #music #60sMusic #1960s
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Today's #showerthought :
Marketing today is often feels like "Contains 0% Eka-Francium" and most consumers will react with "Umm.. ok? I guess that's good?"
And, of course, every other vendor can't immediately advertise the same [despite being obviously true], as it looks like Me-Too-ism.
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#showerthought The people who mocked lisp for having too many parentheses are the same people who made json a thing.
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#Showerthought of the day:
Toothpaste is mint flavored because we associate it with "cleanliness" and "freshness"... but what if you made like pistachio tasting toothpaste and instead of dessert you just brush with that? 🤔 -
Would people care more about the future of this planet, if reincarnation was real?
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If wokeness is unamerican then everything I have is not because of America but in spite of it
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP9MdUwvYMM3J-wjHNH/
#showerthoughts #showerthought #america250 -
Random thought of the day: Having a few open source projects I wrote for myself on a weekend or two means having an endless wishlist / backlog - with no one to blame but myself if things don't get better.
In contrast, I've plenty of folks to thank - since I build on others great prior work!
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@dasnuf Schöne Charakterfrage, die mir neulich so einfiel #ShowerThought: Du stehst in einer übervollen U-Bahn, wo man so Gesicht an Gesicht steht und sich nicht bewegen kann.
Wärst du lieber diejenige, die unkontrolliert niesen muss oder würdest du lieber unkontrolliert angenießt werden?
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Why do streams and rivers exist?
Because hills are essentially wet sponges that collect rain and slowly leak water downhill over time.
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I think it would be fun to play with a local model that is purely trained on spam email. #showerthought #AI #llm #fun
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Funny how mastodon is the only social media that is social on his main feature. Like, I talk to people on instagram or tiktok, but the main thing is just a cursed page full of suggestion posts crafted to make me a prisonner of the app.
Here I can talk without so much noise.
Mastodon feels like a discord server where you don't know the people, but you know they're cool and you actually can talk to them.
#fediverse #mastodon #socialmedia #thought #showerthought #blog
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I've been reading a bunch of academic philosophy papers (I'm thinking about both the relationship between education/learning and games, and ethics for software and design) and I've realized that one of the basic moves in philosophy is basically a version control bisect.
A VCS bisect -- "git bisect" and its ilk -- starts with two commits, one with a bug or behavior, another without, and works out which commit between those introduced the bug.
In philosophy, one of the key things you do is interrogate and sharpen your theory or understanding or belief. A typical example is a kind of classification: let's say you're thinking of some topic in ethics, and with your current understanding, you feel quite certain that Thing A is ethical, but Thing B is not.
How good is this particular theory of ethics? Where are its boundaries? How consistent, insightful is it? For philosophers (as I understand), you start with the above things A and B, and find a new example that is somehow between them for which you are uncertain whether it's ethical or not. You carefully think about your new example in the context of this particular theory or framework, and in doing so you learn more about how that theory works.
That's basically a bisect, with the notion of the first commit to introduce a bug replaced with then notion of a situation that productively exercises your theory. Programmers want to know when the bug appeared so they can improve their code; philosophers want an example so they can improve their understanding of their theory.
I don't claim this is any kind of brilliant insight, I'm just pleased to see how "doing philosophy" is so much like software development.
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#ShowerThought of the day: Apart from the obvious appeal to business of doing more with fewer/cheaper staff, I suspect #AI / #VibeCoding is popular with management as it turns coding into much more of a managerial task - supervising and reviewing the process rather than doing the creation. So they¹ like it because it turns your job into a job *they* are good at.
Related, the technical people who I see getting on well with such things seem to regard it as a management rather than creative process - using it for review of their code and/or giving smaller tasks as if to a junior.
¹On here, I assume any audience is mostly the coders.
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According to physicists, all matter is made up of tiny frictionless spheres in a vacuum
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Another #showerthought -- long shower, today 😉
In the UK, many government departments are named "HM something-or-other"; that is, "His Majesty's". For example, HMRC = His Majesty's Revenue and Customs.
When I was a kid -- yes, I was a strange child -- and it was "_Her_ Majesty's", it occurred to me that it was a remarkable coincidence that the third person genitive pronouns both start with an "H" in English. Think of the tax-savings from the signage not needing to change with the gender of the monarch!
Sweet summer child.
Nowadays, think of the Daily Mail headlines when we get our first non-binary monarch:
"FROM HMRC TO TMRC: The one-letter woke change that will cost EVERY family £847"
I hope I live to see the day!
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Here's a #showerthought conspiracy theory for you 🙊
The closure of the #StraitOfHormuz was actually the intended consequence of the war with Iran. The US buddied up with Israel to use regime change and denuclearisation as a pretext for its actual objective of causing a serious energy supply problem in Asia and thus weakening their economies...particularly China. The global effect was either seen as a reasonable trade-off, or simply not cared about (given this came as something of a surprise to Western heads of states).
From what I've read, the closure of the strait has been wargamed extensively -- and it was even attempted before by Iran in the '80s -- so that was inevitable. The gamble, I suppose, was whether Asian countries' relationships with Russia is good enough for them to pivot to Russia as an energy supplier. Given the continued furore reported in the press, perhaps that gamble paid off.
Just to be clear: this is a thought. I have no evidence for this whatsoever and my knowledge of geopolitics and energy markets is pretty limited! (I don't approve, either, if it turns out to be true.) Moreover, I couldn't for a second "credit" -- if that's the right word -- Trump for such a plan...but I don't underestimate US military strategists in general.
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The not so famous Mug of war, where two contenders fight for the last mug full of coffee.
