Cracks_InTheWalls
@Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works
Enthusiastic sh.it.head
- Comment on Anon goes on a first date 6 days ago:
There’s anime (“Hellsing is pretty good, Gundam’s pretty cool too”), and anime(“KONICHIWA SENPAII~~❤️UwU NANI!?!?”)
Lots, if not most, people who like anime are in the first camp (sub in anime that people watch these days - I am deeply out of touch and know it shows). Lots, if not most, people think of the second camp when they hear someone say “I like anime”.
Wouldn’t necessarily lead with it as a hobby in a dating scenario unless you’re talking TV and movies in general already. But that’s just me, and I haven’t had to think about dating strategy for a loooong time.
- Comment on Anon gets corrected 1 week ago:
I also follow the Less than Jake linguistic model.
- Comment on Checking in 1 week ago:
What makes this hilarious to me for horny check purposes is the context it was used in.
- Comment on What's the deal with male loneliness? 2 weeks ago:
A challenge for you (or anyone interested in taking it up): Once a day, while waiting for public transit, pay attention to the people around you. Does anyone have something interesting about them (hair, clothes, jewelery, weird keychain thing on their phone, etc.)? Ask one identified person about it. See someone who looks like their on the verge of tears? Ask them “Hey, is everything ok?”
9/10 times you’ll have a brief Q-A-back off interaction, but sometimes it’ll turn into a longer conversation. Yes, it feels awkward. Yes, in some places you’ll come across as rude (keep your dominant culture in mind - you probably wouldn’t try this in some place like Finland or something). But I’ve had some very interesting experiences doing this in the past (usually with the ones who look upset - if you’re willing to be a sympathetic ear you might just make that person’s day).
- Comment on Anon discovers Japanese jazz 2 weeks ago:
I mean, when your major genres are built on a foundation of music made by folks who often didn’t have access to formal musical education, I kinda get it.
As an Elecki enjoyer I do see your point, though.
- Comment on Anon trying understanding women 2 weeks ago:
I disagree - it’s the difference between a “lol, women only become interested when you’re not available anymore” trope v. “You were a single dude in a sea of single dudes, now you’re attached and in a smaller pool of nonmonogomous dudes. Pool is smaller, so more bites”.
Or this was entirely clear in the other post if reading between the lines, and I’m just very tired.
- Comment on Anon trying understanding women 2 weeks ago:
It recontextualizes things a bit - this is not purely a function of vetting, but places him in a different (smaller) category than he was in previously on the app.
- Comment on Shit Post 2 weeks ago:
I’m embarassed about how often I think about this chart.
- Comment on Behold currently! 3 weeks ago:
Fakeness aside, I like this part and feel like I need it on a poster or something:
Behold now! You are currently a star child!
Begin your power! Go! Laugh! - Comment on american culture 3 weeks ago:
I feel like there’s a way to do it in a way that doesn’t suck - an examination of the book WRT the hero’s journey, picking out elements borrowed from English literary tradition to see how they’re deployed v. original texts, etc.
Real talk though, I feel it comes from a place of not knowing how to appeal to young people. I ran into the very same thing once when asked about course ideas for first year students coming directly from high school. I had no idea (still don’t) what would appeal to kids, so I thought a course that used Harry Potter as a keystone text (everybody being familiar, using it as a bridge to more traditional lit) could work. But as I said the words I knew 18 year old me would’ve hated that, sooo…
- Comment on So is it "It just works" or "Shit just works"? 4 weeks ago:
Shit just works - forever and always.
(shh, it just works and shit just works are both valid - the intent was the former IIRC - but the latter is obviously the superior choice. I’m also partial to sh.it.heads to refer to users [cheeky, but thought about in the same way as Deadheads for Grateful Dead fans])
- Comment on Literally c/THE_PACK 5 weeks ago:
AROOOOOO! WELCOME TO THE MF’IN PACK!
- Comment on Literally c/THE_PACK 5 weeks ago:
I SEE YOU BROTHER AND I CRANKED THIS OUT FOR ALL OUR GIRL BROTHERS, ARROOOOOO!!
I SUCK AT PHOTO EDITING BUT IT’S ABOUT THAT 💯 EFFORT!
- Comment on What do people (as in, IRL) actually think of the [alleged] perpetrator involved in the NYC shooting? 5 weeks ago:
So far, it’s mostly been these points:
- Murder is wrong. Thompson should not have been murdered.
- Nevertheless, this was bound to happen eventually, and [people I’ve talked to about it are] not upset that Thompson is dead.
- Comment on Binary search 1 month ago:
There’s lots of stuff about what I do that doesn’t make much sense :)
It works in this scenario because the stacks are reliably sorted by date, and each form has a running tally of what cookies are on offer as things get added to the list.
Assume a given customer’s forms are taken out, and you make two stacks of them without shuffling the forms. The very first form on the first stack from 2022-01-01 does not include cookie x. The first form on the second stack, from 2023-02-01, also does not contain cookie x. Based on this information and the conditions above, you can infer that the form you want is in the second stack.
Now, if the forms were not reliably sorted, or did not contain a running record, you’d need to approach this differently. Strategies would probably involve inferences or straight getting the info you need from other sources - custumer correspondence around “We want cookie x, how much?” (if it occurred when you were in a position to get such correspondence); knowledge of big changes to cookie offerings to the client (contract renewals); bugging accounting at a regular, annoying cadence with progressive escalation until they answer/complain about you bugging them, etc.
- Comment on Binary search 1 month ago:
It’s a crummy job, but someone’s gotta do it.
- Comment on Binary search 1 month ago:
Imagine you work at a company that sells cookies. The company offers a variety of cookies at different price points to different customers. They set up contracts saying they will offer a customer a set variety of cookies at various prices, with a clause stating that if the customer wants a different type of cookie the company makes later on, it will be priced and added to their list. This should be in the form of regular contract amendments/addendums, but it isn’t.
Several years go by, and in the course of that several different varieties of cookies have been added by the customer. The price given to them at the time may not account for the cost of materials and labor today, or how many of those cookies not mentioned in the contract are being ordered v. how many were expected, the fact that you outsourced some of those cookies, or brought some of those cookies in-house, etc. The cookie executive asks you “When did we offer customer x cookie y at price point z?”
Now, the company has a perfectly good database of cookies and price points for customers, but it’s very old tech and requires certain access privileges, which are very hard to give people outside of the accounting department. Accounting is never able to help with this, and the cookie executives try poorly and fail to get people like you access. But you do have years and years of cookie addition request forms, which are kept in chronological order by customer. This is where binary search helps - you can pretty quickly find the one where the cookie y was added even though there are hundreds of these forms.
It’s not a situation that should exist - we have a god damn cookie database where you can just pop in cusomer x and cookie y to get price z, with an effective date - but in my crazy cookie factory it helps a ton.
There’s other examples but they’re all pretty much variants of this thinly veiled analogy.
- Comment on Binary search 1 month ago:
Honestly, this was the comment that exposed me (regular office rube) to binary search as a concept and it is so. fucking. helpful.
- Comment on Remember: 1 month ago:
Because it’s been a while since I’ve seen a reference to the teleportation paradox, obligatory NFB cartoon link: youtu.be/ocgFkHElzgQ
(Or if you prefer, and are able, to watch on the NFB website directly) www.nfb.ca/film/to_be/ - Comment on I am a very liberal person and I have very liberal children, except for one. I'm pretty sure my Gen Z son has been taken in by fascist doctrine. What can I get him for Christmas? 1 month ago:
Reading through the comments here, I would say a gift certificate or membership to some activity they’ve expressed interest in. Ideally, something physical, that either involves working/playing/whatever with other people, or which has a social element to it.
My biased selection would be rock climbing if this is of some interest and you have a climbing gym that isn’t a giant pain to access (which you might not). Solo sport, but a) you need a belayer - that was my Dad when I was doing it, and b) the gym rats I’ve come across are often very friendly, open people.
Can be as challenging as you make it, gets you talking with IRL people, opportunity for what sounds like really necessary quality time going up there, if he gets into bouldering or makes a gym buddy and can get there himself he can eventually do it independently, etc.
Might make sense for them, might not - only you would know, really.
- Comment on Why does it seem most people, mainly conservatives, against Trans people? Unless I am wrong I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever. The ones I have met have been pretty cool. 1 month ago:
Ugh - that’s fucking gross of people, and I’m sorry to hear that.
My argument was more when considering ‘most people’ - most people is a lot of people. An individual doesn’t really interact with most people. But that said, you can certainly interact with ‘enough people’ that an expectation of shoddy treatment is pretty reasonable (if a pretty bullshit set of circumstances individuals shouldn’t have to suffer).
Pedantry on my part, I guess, along with likely blindspots I have as a cis male. Fuck transphobes…such meaninglessly hurtful bullshit.
- Comment on Why does it seem most people, mainly conservatives, against Trans people? Unless I am wrong I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever. The ones I have met have been pretty cool. 1 month ago:
First, I’d challenge the ‘most people’ part. In my experience most people really, truly do not care one way or the other if someone is trans. But to be fair, this may vary between countries, societies, etc.
Next, aside from its obvious use as a political wedge issue, and generic fear of the unfamilar, I’d argue that a decent portion of conservatives (in a North American sense) fancy themselves as Christians. There are ideas in the bible re: the ‘place’ of men and women in relation to one another that make deviations from this (gender identity not match genitals, homosexuality, etc.) aborrhent. I personally think those people are missing the actual good things to take away from Christianity, but I’m also not a Christian, so idk.
I think it’s silly, really - coming out and living as a Trans person, if that’s something folks feel they want/need to do, is one of the most radical exercises of a person’s autonomy and personal freedom. I’m for it.
Complete aside, but it’s always weird to have conversations with folks who like the idea of transhumanism who are transphobes. Met more than one conservative person who is like this, which is really the only time I give trans people much serious thought beyond “Oh look, a fellow human. Neat!”
- Comment on MyHouse.WAD - Inside Doom's Most Terrifying Mod 2 months ago:
After watching this video and a few other playthroughs, I didn’t feel a need to actually play it. But I am thrilled that it exists, and love the idea of someone having the opportunity to play it blind (though how would you even come across it these days if not through exposure via Youtube or other media?).
Such a cool mod.
- Comment on Anon falls through the cracks 2 months ago:
Big subgenius energy in anon’s post.
The subgenius MUST have slack!
- Comment on I would personally just treat whatever direction I'm facing at the time as North and go from there. 2 months ago:
Quick shoutout for Trail Sense for Android. Designed to function offline, lots of cool navigation/basic tools I haven’t used outside of the GPS and compass, reasonable permissions, etc. One of those “You don’t know how useful it is until you don’t have connectivity” things.
- Comment on Road trip! 2 months ago:
Honestly, now that I know Pee Pee island is in the mix, I’m sold on a trip to Newfoundland. Dildo was almost enough to make that happen as it was.
- Comment on Old photo of my brother before he lived alone in a cabin 2 months ago:
We got the Subproject 68 expansion set here.
- Comment on Most of the trick-or-treaters have been skipping my house, and I finally figured out why 2 months ago:
Out of curosity, how was the weather in your end of the world? We had the same thing happen this year, but mostly because it was unseasonably warm.
Granted, it was also 'cause we had a fog machine this year, but the weather played a big part.
- Comment on She-Ra Lives! 2 months ago:
Huh. Can’t help but wonder if this is connected to why a significant amount of people find asses sexually attractive across gender lines - something about signs of a good persistance hunter (likely quite overstated by base monkey brain), and therefore ability to provide for spawn.
Probably not, but makes ya think. I also accept that I’m thinking about it from a heteronormative, sex as biological imperative for spreading genes POV - so limited and overall probably wrong.
- Comment on Can I not be an adorable junkie 2 months ago:
Listening to a folk punk song that uses the word fuck to great effect on Spotify yesterday, wondering why the fuck the line ‘If you fuck up I will still be your friend’ reads ‘If you f up’.
I just don’t get it. Fuck is a valid, if vulgar, part of the common English lexicon. It serves a purpose.
