Author: harold

Shout out to my girl Ariane 5 and Europe for its perfect launch!

Webb! It’s incredible. I mean, have you read the story of this deployment? Basically 30 years of constant issues across teams all over the world. I’ve read comments on Reddit/HN of folks who worked on this project in one way or another and they. are. crying. of joy. Because this device is finally going to tell us that yes, we live in a simulation, look at the pixels over there *zooms in*.

No but for real, it will change our understanding of the universe forever. That’s much more interesting than trying to go walk on red rocks while trying to not die immediately, in my opinion.

And now, the telescope is fully deployed and I feel a bit emotional.

The absurd capacity for humanity to produce, despite EVERYTHING this monumental future source of information for basic stuff like the origins of life and the big bang —I mean HELLO??? that’s pretty tight— while being unable to stay at home and to wear a goddamn mask outside.

Dear future, it hurts so much to witness this in real time.

Anyway, this is so wonderful.

Well Omicron is insanely fast but it looks like it’s *truly* less lethal (with vaccine)? We might want to wait for all the hospitals to clear out, probably late February, to know for sure.

But that could really be great news. IF the next variant is even weaker, that is.

Oh boy. I jinxed it didn’t I.

100 ways to slightly improve your life without really trying

It’s a good list! Not that I do most of it, but kind of though.

#2 is a really good way to get real with yourself. Pros, Cons, Budget. Period.

#4 is not happening with me, but I eat fruit every day.

#9 I’m fortunate enough that I have pigeons living across my kitchen window. They moan a lot.

#30 what’s amazing is how it fucks up their expectations. They’re essentially kids.

#32 33 34 are important. Go for a walk with your phone, just freaking leave it in your pocket.

#42 game changer (years without it).

#44 absolutely not.

#47 I should do that more often. Be in the present.

#53 I need that skill.

#75 duh! It’s a constant for me; keys always at the same place, always.

#87 brutally important even though it sounds stupid as hell.

#100 YUP

This beast is being resuscitated by my mechanic Max. Hopefully. Please? Data is safe but… It’s complicated.

This is an old laptop on which I did SO much. No nostalgia but I really kind of want to refurbish it and use it a little bit longer. Once the hardware failure is corrected, it should be fine. Hopefully.

New machines are doing too much and not what I want. So so sick of it.

Also it’s going to cost me some extra money so if you’re into Venmo, drop me some coin if you can. I will appreciate you, time’s is hard, etc *hugs*

Gas is so expensive right now this morning I told myself that “I shall purchase propellant for my roadship before the new moon”.

Shout out to all the AMD Opteron CPUs out there, doing nothing when they could power local internet infrastructures, school labs and passively heat entire states in the winter.

($20 for a 16-core 6380 on Ebay right now)

It’s a nice book.

It was entertaining? I don’t know. I jumped on it without social media, without reading any piece on it.

Entertaining but also bland and AI-designed or something quite mechanical about it. I don’t know. Maybe it’s the current day setting with current dystopia. Watching something that is pretty much exactly what we’re living might not yield satisfaction like that.

Now imagine the same settings but it’s the start of a new year. The major phone company is bigger than ever. But for some reason, at the end of January, the sales are gone. Exactly zero new phone is sold. Not one.

Same thing in February. No one really knows why.

The company doesn’t freak out yet, they’re filthy wealthy with a treasure chest in billions. But they start investigating after the board asks for answers and more money.

See? A lot more exciting to think about human intelligence than human impulses.