Shaun Griffith

@shaungriffith
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Software engineer, former test and chip engineer. On the lookout for puzzles, games, logic, science, mindbenders, and thoughtful discourse.

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ios user interfaces have become truly nihilistic. buttons on top of buttons. text on top of text. multiple inscrutable hamburgers. nothing has any meaning and all human action is futile
@jonny Or even if every line of it might be changed tomorrow in *comprehensible* ways.
@neil No one said Link?
GitHub - BigBodyCobain/Shadowbroker: Open-source intelligence for the global theater. Track everything from the corporate/private jets of the wealthy, and spy satellites, to seismic events in one unified interface. The knowledge is available to all but rarely aggregated in the open, until now.

Open-source intelligence for the global theater. Track everything from the corporate/private jets of the wealthy, and spy satellites, to seismic events in one unified interface. The knowledge is av...

GitHub

This explains a lot a lot about asymmetric populations and effects.

"Suppose that men and women are equally sexist, and imagine a group that’s 80 percent men and 20 percent women. If 20 percent of people (represented as squares above) will make sexist comments to people of the opposite gender, we might expect that the women will receive four times as many sexist comments as the men. In fact they receive 16 times as many."

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2026/03/22/the-petrie-multiplier/

The Petrie Multiplier - Futility Closet

This is dismaying. Suppose that men and women are equally sexist, and imagine a group that’s 80 percent men and 20 percent women. If 20 percent of people (represented as squares above) will make sexist comments to people of the opposite gender, we might expect that the women will receive four times as many sexist comments as the men. In fact they receive 16 times as many. Computer scientist Ian Gent explains: With 20% women the gender ratio is 1:4. So there are 4 times as many men to make sexist remarks, so 4 times as many sexist remarks are...

Futility Closet
We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse: we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard. -Penelope Lively, writer (b. 17 Mar 1933)
18 years ago, I went skydiving in a very thin and low-cut top. That video is that skydiving company's most viewed clip. I look matronly these days but that view count and "I'd hit it" comments pick me up when I'm low.

I just learned about something called recency bias ...

It's my favorite thing ever.

A lot of the devices we use in the kitchen (Thermomix, microwaves, dishwashers, coffeemakers etc) use complete operating systems and embedded computers nowadays, often with internet connectivity for who knows what. So. Will we soon see mandated fingerprint readers for age verification or will a simple switch with "18+" be sufficient to continue to cook and clean? ;)

#SarcasmButOnlyHalf #AgeVerification