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This is not something that has ever happened to me.

You were the first person I thought of, actually.

Better off planning on eight hours, even if that means you stretch it to eight years.

Snakes and Ladders is the only game bad enough to avoid that I’ve nevertheless been obliged to play repeatedly.

Original Fluxx is fun. Mix in too many expansion packs and it’s a tedious morass of mechanics.

It’s serious business in my house. We play to the death here.

That sounds AMAZING

Did somebody just discover eugenics?

No, the government cannot be trusted with that power. It will be abused, it has been abused, it has been abused by governments within the past couple decades: involuntary sterilization of First Nations women in Canada, for example.

We don’t need more usebase, we’ve got perfectly good userbase at home.

Nah, I cry almost every day some months.

a short length of bicycle chain

don’t rule out “Spike”

seconding Jelly

Uh, excuse me, Mayo is a clinic.

I prefer the approach of the Netherlands and Portugal, where drug abuse is treated as a medical issue rather than a criminal one.

Literally none, they all sound terrible.

Okay, maybe the 60’s folk revival, but that’s only a maybe.

Not as much as I’d like, honestly.

Depends on if you think of formal proofs as a kind of code, I guess.

We’re very specialized kinds of mathematicians, sometimes. In other languages the term is often “Information Science” and in German, IIRC, it’s “Infomathics”, both arguably better names.

Theoretical Computer Scientists write mathematical proofs showing the limits of how information can be stored, transmitted, permuted, hidden, and extracted. Practicing Computer Scientist learn the current best ways to do the above and write implementations thereof. Examples:

Storage: Compression algorithms like zip files, jpeg, mp3

Transmitted: protocols like FTP, HTTP, and yes, ActivityPub

Permuted: A lot of sound editing is done by turning an array of of pitches over time into an array of frequencies over time, changing those frequencies, then turning them back.

Hidden: Encryption, obviously, but also steganography

Extracted: Decryption, obviously, but also natural speech processing and image recognition

The Long Winters — “Stupid”