The snowflakes are all flocking together! Can you have a murmuration of snowflakes?

Bloody poor people deciding for themselves what they want. Shouldn't get a vote unless you have a degree and property. If only they'd had the sense to listen to their betters.

And those poor people are objectively poorer because of Brexit. But as long as there's fewer foreigners coming in, then they're happy?

There’s more foreigners coming in. Which was “project fear” back in 2016.

Those poor people voted for something for which they were explicitly mislead. The results of Brexit have in no ways made their lives better.

In other words "democracy" - people with an agenda tell their version of its benefits. Saying "the vote was invalid because the poor uneducated people were too stupid to realise they were being lied to"

The elites made the mistake of actually putting political power in the hands of the British people for once.

Catastrophic error on their part, they won't do that again

That's particularly true of tech books. I want to hang on to my copy of "Tinker Tailor" but "Adobe Air in Action" 2008?

That's a sad indictment of tech.

Most underlying technology is timeless (see TAOCP, SICP, CLRS, K&R, GoF, Dragon Book, Beej's Guide, Sipser,...); but we seem set on producing an endless, pointless, churn of frameworks and minor language differences in the name of progress.

> Most underlying technology is timeless (see TAOCP, SICP, CLRS, K&R, GoF, Dragon Book,

True enuf, but how often do you actually refer to the books underlying ideas? I've had (now gone, presumably) TAOCP on my bookshelves for years, but how often did I use it? Stuff on RNG a bit, I guess...

TAOCP is trash. I wish I grew up in the era where you could just hit up zlib for an accessible book on any topic instead of highly rated and hardly read 'classics' like TAOCP.

Yeah, well, I do kind of miss "The Design & Evolution of C++", but I can't convince myself I actually need it.

True for many, but I actually have been acquiring some computing books I had enjoyed reading in my youth (e.g. Organick's Multics). Perhaps living permanently abroad strengthens nostalgia...

Ditto. It is very very slow but I never hit quota limits but people on Discord are complaining like mad it is slow even on the Pro plans. I tend to use glm-*air a lot for planning before using 4.7

> This is why the common "There's no such thing as talent, it's just hard work" line can't possibly be true.

please stop killing my delusions.

The best essay I read last year described how there are two types of artists: those born with great talent, that usually create their masterpieces in their early 20s and coast for the rest of their life, and those that take most of their adulthood before finding their voice, peaking late in their 40s and 50s. The author used Picasso as an example of the former, and Kurt Vonnegut for the latter.

Gave me the greatest impulse to explore my creative drive like nothing else before, after spending my 20s lost in a daze. I know you’re joking, but if you aren’t, do not lose hope yet.

Read his books as a schoolboy, stopped taking him seriously when in one of his books he reproduced an ancient picture of a skeleton and said “this was /centuries/ before x-rays were discovered. How would they know bone structure without [alien advanced tech]” I kinda laughed and threw away his books. Still, he grifted a good living so props.

The EFF, FOSS, Stallman, Barlow, so many things seem childish or naive now, but not back then. Maybe it’s just me. I wish I could go back.

There was a homoerotic element in the fishnet stuff I always thought. And HR would have a fit if you asked women to wear that stuff now, err, I mean in 1999.

Agreed on all points. Yes it was dynamite on the ladies.

Ahhhhh, nzbs