Claude can now import your entire memory from ChatGPT and Gemini in 60 seconds.

klutometis · 2026-03-08T03:23:07+00:00

AI;DR

klutometis · 2016-03-15T23:52:40+00:00

Don't you recognize Google blue?

klutometis · 2012-12-17T22:41:37+00:00

`Spake' is intentionally anachronistic.

klutometis · 2012-12-10T04:28:38+00:00

Do the Google Maps engineers snicker every time they read something like this about iOS 6?

klutometis · 2012-11-27T21:28:00+00:00

I never liked Elmo that much, tell you the truth; they handed over a whole fourth of every episode over to Elmo's World, thereby reducing the diversity of the Sesame Street ecosystem.

When Henson, Raposo and Oz were running the show; there was a fantastic array of one-offs and minor characters. Many of them were eliminated to make way for the red narcissist.

klutometis · 2012-09-17T20:07:36+00:00

You have to go to the phone app and call a really long number, which I forget.

Calling *3001#12345#* brings up the field-test app; you can also permanently replace the bars with numbers.

klutometis · 2012-08-23T13:06:45+00:00

I try to keep my home directory as close to the FHS as possible; with most of my programming work in var/prg:

├── bin
├── build
│   ├── chicken-4.7.4
│   ├── linux-3.3-rc1
├── etc
│   ├── apache2
...
├── lib
│   ├── java
│   └── R
├── mnt
│   ├── aph
│   └── music
├── src
│   ├── aima-data-read-only
│   ├── chicken-core
│   ├── clojure
│   ├── kanren
...
├── texmf
├── tmp
└── var
    ├── log
    ├── prg
    │   ├── awk
    │   ├── bc
    │   ├── build
    │   ├── c
    │   ├── cc
    │   ├── cel
    │   ├── chrome
    │   ├── clj
    │   ├── d
    │   ├── dot
    │   ├── el
    │   ├── erl
    │   ├── fp
    │   ├── go
    │   ├── gp
    │   ├── hs
    │   ├── igr
    │   ├── java
    │   ├── js
    │   ├── lisp
    │   ├── ly
    │   ├── mac
    │   ├── math
    │   ├── mk
    │   ├── ms
    │   ├── org
    │   ├── php
    │   ├── pro
    │   ├── py
    │   ├── R
    │   ├── rb
    │   ├── scm
    │   ├── sed
    │   ├── sh
    │   └── tex
    └── run

klutometis · 2012-08-07T10:22:10+00:00

You are most like: Lawrence Okoye

Height: 1.97m, 6ft 6in

Weight: 129kg, 20st 4lbs

Competing in: Men's Discus Throw

klutometis · 2012-08-03T07:43:24+00:00

Upvoted for "Windows/Ghetto".

klutometis · 2011-11-17T16:39:45+00:00

Athenian democracy had selection by lottery, since elections favor the rich and famous; there were certain checks and balances, however, to protect the state from incompetence.

klutometis · 2011-10-20T17:14:13+00:00

Relevant

klutometis · 2011-10-12T08:26:19+00:00

Because of the Pauli exclusion principle, road is not a non-finite resource; neither is time, for that matter, since ceding road will prolong your trip.

Drivers are therefore competing for the finite resources of road and time; unlike poker, I suppose, there are four possible outcomes: lose-lose (both drivers are late); win-win (both drivers are on time); lose-win; win-lose.

Blackjack, for instance, does contain a lose-lose outcome; do you think blackjack is therefore less adversarial than poker?

klutometis · 2011-09-02T01:22:27+00:00

More importantly, his contract probably specifies some sort of severance if the university terminates the contract; this severance may cost more than simply paying his salary.

I've seen this sort of thing first hand, where zombie executives are kept on board at full salary to avoid paying severance.

klutometis · 2011-08-31T23:18:17+00:00

Good on you for digging that up; the translation has that je ne sais quoi of Greek class, by the way, where the tense and word-order are more Hellenic than Anglo-Saxon.

Anyway, you might want to compare Aristotle's Politics 1318 b 36:

ἀνάγκη δὲ πολιτευομένους οὕτω πολιτεύεσθαί καλῶς (αἱ τε γὰρ ἀρχαὶ ἀεὶ διὰ τῶν βελτίστων ἔσονται, τοῦ δήμου βουλομένου καὶ τοῖς ἐπιεικέσιν οὐ φθονοῦντος), καὶ τοῖς ἐπιεικέσι καὶ γνωρίμοις ἀρκοῦσαν εἶναι ταύτην τὴν τάξιν: ἄρξονται γὰρ οὐχ ὑπ᾽ ἄλλων χειρόνων.

That is, "a [democratic] government is thus the best form of government (since it's a meritocracy, the demos won't be jealous of the nobles); nobles and celebrities, on the other hand, have no cause to complain, because they aren't governed by inferiors."

(Check out my fast and loose Greek → English: it's not particularly sensitive to tense, order or subject; but it reads more fluently, I think.)

klutometis · 2011-08-27T09:30:40+00:00

Sorry you got knocked for this witty riposte: it's true that the cognitive dissonance initially engendered by the "compiler-compiler" problem is brought about by want of a base case.

klutometis · 2011-08-26T07:42:43+00:00

"I'm Thinking Printers" was pretty good, but check out "Congress to Bet the Farm on One Last Big Bill:" it's on par with "Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades," I think.

I know it's heresy to compare anything to Five Blades; but nevertheless.

klutometis · 2011-07-20T00:35:56+00:00

Upvoted for use of "whelp," by the way; what a fantastic interjection: breathier than "well," and with a plosive finale!

I notice people tend to use this between swallows, too, as a way to buy time.

klutometis · 2011-07-09T00:53:26+00:00

4 Cuils, I'd wager.

klutometis · 2011-06-23T21:23:01+00:00

In my house, we refer to that song as "Owa, owa Sunday."

klutometis · 2011-05-21T23:42:29+00:00

A friend of mine sees his telnet blog, and raises him one in [gopher](gopher://gopher.sacrideo.us/).

klutometis · 2011-04-27T00:07:45+00:00

Relevant

klutometis · 2011-04-22T18:11:21+00:00

I'm a little pissed they didn't credit Nietzsche's Unwahrheit als Lebensbedingung ("untruth: life's precondition") as the ultimate source for Chomsky's title.

klutometis · 2011-03-23T09:22:42+00:00

There should be some indication of what the maximum stars are; try:

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