deraffe

@deraffe@chaos.social
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Obsessively monkeying around in rabbit holes.
Pronomener/sein/ihm/ihn/der
Pronounshe/him/his|they/them/their
Hackspace@cccda
DECT/EPVPN3372
Do you prefer the Nintendo S or the Nintendo S Lite?

Im Deutschen spricht man ja die Einerstellen vor den Zehnerstellen: 42 ist "zweiundvierzig". Mich stört das schon lange, und dachte, ich probier mal eine Weile aus "vierzigzwei" zu sagen.

Stellt sich raus: Es gibt seit 2004 den Verein https://zwanzigeins.jetzt, der sich für diese "unverdrehte" Sprechweise einsetzt! Sie führe zu weniger Lernhindernissen und Zahlendrehern.

Der Verein hat unter anderem ein 60-seitiges Positionspapier ausgearbeitet, aus dem ich ein paar Sachen berichten mag! 🧵

Zwanzigeins – Startseite

@DerMolly Minerals for private machines, mountains for work stuff (if it's pet machines).
There's osmium and osmeth (two laptops of the same model), sodalite (media center), onyx (black router), fulgurite (outdoor AP) and others.
@nev Compost Flies (Ptecticus trivittatus), no?
Perfectly normal behavior in my book anyway, especially for such nice photos.
Punk's not dead -
Punk fischt jetzt.
#birds

TIL why (in British English) we don't use a dot after the “St” short form of “Street”.

The “t” in “St” is *not* the second letter of “Street”, but the sixth. So it's not an abbreviation (like “Prof.” for “Professor”, “etc.” in “et cetera”, etc.), it's a contraction (like “Dr” in “Doctor”, “Mr” in “Mister”, “St” in “Saint” and so on) and contractions don't have a dot.

🤯

I assumed it was just a weird English thing, but turns out I found the only language feature that's entirely consistent 

Become ungovernable:
The Occam/Chekhov/Chesterton Razor/Gun/Fence matrix. Summer’s off to a productive start.
@malwaretech True, memory as such isn't new, but it gained new behavior under that same name.
@simon
@Anarchoesel Der verlinkte Ring arbeitet auf 125kHz (LF), dein Handy auf 13,56MHz (HF) - deswegen siehst Du da wahrscheinlich nichts.
Lesegeräte für LF RFID gibt es aber zuhauf.
@eliasp @yrrsinn
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The Occam/Chekhov/Chesterton Razor/Gun/Fence matrix. Summer’s off to a productive start.
@kjhealy i reckon spinoza would have loved chesterton's gun
@kjhealy argh my head hurts

@kjhealy

We need another row for Hanlon though

—'s Razor: do not attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence

—'s Gun: any "obviously incompetent" mistake will eventually be made

—'s Fence: warning labels like "DO NOT EAT" are written in blood

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

Hanlon's razor - Wikipedia

@trochee @kjhealy i tried writing the column and got stuck.
O’s Rulebook: ???
Cv’s: — viz rule will be applied
Ct:
@kjhealy Occam's gun doesn't quite make sense, Occam's Fence is good, Chekhov's Razor isn't, Chekhov's fence is good writing advice, Chesterton's Razor is good, and Chesterton's gun is obviously false. Overall okay.

@FishNamedDog @kjhealy in defense of the razor and gun, "need no more than one" can be read as remarking that it's possible to stop once satisfied, not demanding singletons

"already being put to use" doesn't have to mean the intended use, and just existing can be creating unseen value somewhere. I imagined accidental environment shaping, like abandoned bunkers becoming habitat for novel fungi or radiation-eating bacteria

Though I admit, both are a reach

@FishNamedDog @kjhealy

I think a more reasonable version of Chesterton's Gun would be more along the lines of: "The purpose of a system is what it does" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_what_it_does )

The purpose of a system is what it does - Wikipedia

@kjhealy you could maybe add Overton’s Window 🤣
@BillSaysThis hmm...
- Overton Razor: do not needlessly multiply points of view
- Overton Gun: if a point of view is possible, someone will use it against you
- Overton Fence: do not discount a point of view if you do not understand it @kjhealy
@dgfitch @BillSaysThis @kjhealy Occam's Window: People who live in glass houses should not add more windows.
Chekhov's Window: Every window must have a view of something relevant, and everything relevant must be visible from a window.
Chesterton's Window: Don't uninstall that Windows partition unless you understand why it was added in the first place.
@kjhealy holy crap, all those boxes are good advice?
@kjhealy
That's one heckuva matrix, Kieran!
How many pills are on offer, and what are their colors?
@kjhealy it's not orthogonal, but the parts that break the pattern are the ones that individually make the most sense....
@kjhealy this is fun to think about, especially because we think some of the games that have done a sense of mystery particularly well, violate specific parts of it... https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/game-design-essentials-20-mysterious-games
Game Design Essentials: 20 Mysterious Games

The latest in Gamasutra's 'Game Design Essentials' series looks at the design lessons from titles in which 'the player must solve mysteries' - from finding secrets to wrestling with algorithmically generated content.

@kjhealy (an old article that's a longstanding favorite of ours)
@kjhealy of course, that doesn't make your 3x3 grid bad advice. as with any socially-defined rule, it's useful to know it before violating it...
@kjhealy Wojak's Razor: Nothing Ever Happens

@babble_endanger

Corrections:

Wojak's Razor: There are zero trustable entities on 4chan
Wojak's Gun: 4chan leads to mass killings
Wojak's Fence: There's a reason 4chan users don't have girlfriends

@kjhealy this makes me laugh because I'm currently in Chesterton
@kjhealy Script writers really ought to pay more attention to Chekhov's Fence.
@mansr @kjhealy glares at a lot of "Mystery Boxes"
@kjhealy occam's gun is a phrase only rivaled by newtons flaming laser sword and i will absolutely find every chance to incorporate it into my vocabulary

-carrie

@kjhealy clearly we need a website to add all the laws

34: there is already pr0n about this chart

@kjhealy What about the Pascal row and the wager column?