Fun fact: the C in CPU actually stands for Central, as in Central Processing Unit. There's also the GPU, the MPU and the PPU. Those are the Greenwich Processing Unit, Mountain Processing Unit and Pacific Processing Unit.

for my New Year’s resolution, i’m challenging myself to #makeArtEveryDay with my preciousss new Apple Pencil Pro, and (for now) the Make Art Everyday prompts from https://bardotbrush.com/making-art-everyday-prompts/

join me :)

During Covid lockdown, if you had family round on Christmas Day the police could force their way into your home and make them return to their own homes.
Does anybody know if this service is still available and, if so, do you have to book it?

Fkin HATE Rust's `Ord::min` and `Ord::max` functions.
They are the inverse of what they read like!
`result_of(foo).min(MIN)` reads like "use result_of(foo), but _at minimum_ it must be MIN".
But it's actually `min(result_of(foo), MIN)`, that is, "the smaller of MIN and result_of(foo)".
Fuck you.

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Leaving the restaurant, Child (not yet 4) standing on a playhouse and eating ice cream. "Go on ahead, I'll come later, I know the way..."
Why not, it's not far.
"...and if you can't get in, I'll come bring you keys."
turns out we gave her the house keys for safekeeping

Today we tried out the big child bike with pedals for the first time. The Child was rather successful.
Also VERY whiny.

thinking of making this space my sorta dadblog.
but like
where to start?
maybe I'll just start completely randomly, and over time I'll figure out what's good.

petition to make bsky truncate URLs less aggressively

Western classical music is inexplicably boring to me.
Like, I'll admit that there is in fact a lot going on that _should_ be interesting. But at the same time, it's kind of like an extremely detailed and embellished children's song? Dunno how to describe it.

it finally hit me after seeing this image: In order to successfully "gamify" something, the original activity needs to be at least mildly enjoyable. Games don't succeed based on which has cooler helmets. That's what the "gamify everything" crowd gets wrong.

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so uh
how do i
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