Roy Tang

Great talk about what we know and what we dont know in software engineering

Quoted _joetdc’s tweet:

Probably the most important talk you’ll ever watch about software engineering, by @hillelogram https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2183&v=WELBnE33dpY (and blog post here https://www.hillelwayne.com/talks/what-we-know-we-dont-know/)

Missing today’s Inktober because I’m tired. Hopefully can double up tomorrow

Time to do something scary

Today (Oct 12, 2019) is the 80th anniversary of Quezon City

After watching Joker and Scorsese recently commenting on Marvel movies, I thought I’d watch one of his films, so I saw Goodfellas today. It’s not bad.

This makes me glad I didn’t follow my first instinct of upgrading to Catalina immediately https://tyler.io/broken/

We grew up way too fast And now there’s nothing to believe And reruns all become our history

It’s like our government leaders have never played Civilization

Quoted docligot’s tweet:

Just for reference. Ranking of Countries by R&D spending. If you sort by % of GDP, PH is 5th from the bottom. Vietnam spends double what we do in terms of % and $. Don’t know what we’re proud of. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_research_and_development_spending

Re:Blizzard/HS/China. I fully understand that a lot of people wouldn’t want their esports to be inundated with politics, especially if it’s not even their own country. Nevertheless, the penalty was too heavy-handed, and we must remember that neutrality favors the oppressor

Also: Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our time!

Me: “Ma, may ruler ka?” Ma: “Kailangan ruler? Pwede tape measure?” Me: “Hindi, ruler” Ma: “Sige, meron ako hanapin ko” (Maya maya) Ma: “Kelangan mo pa din ruler?” Me: “Oo” Ma: “Hindi pwede eto?” (shows tape measure) Me: “Hindi” Ma: “Bakit?” Me: “Hindi yan ruler e”

I’ve had a blog post draft for a few months now on my thoughts about the congestion and traffic issues in Metro Manila and potential solutions, it just keeps getting longer and longer lol

TIL that “a11y” is short for “accessibility” (the same way i18n means internationalization), and it’s not some weird l33tization of ally

I’m now following https://unicyclic.com/indieweb/

I should build a bot that analyzes mobile phone screenshots in tweets then replies if the OP needs to charge her phone

Tag yourself I’m cleric

Quoted ampepers’s tweet:

As promised, tag yourself meme for #roguelikecelebration! I am definitely a Druid in this case, slipping into Wizard frequently (see ranting talk I just gave 😅)

I ran Bant Golos for the #mtg arena all cards in standard event but only went 5-2, losing to Monoblack and the mirror :/

@kerwintang kumain tayo nito diba haha

Quoted mental_floss’s tweet:

The price hasn’t changed in nearly 35 years. What kind of sorcery is this? http://mentalfloss.com/article/547020/costco-150-hot-dog-soda-combo-enigma

Aside from Joker, I also watched Stuber today, mainly because the ads for this kept showing while I was in the US and it reminded me of Deadpool and Dopinder. Not a very deep movie, but a fun watch. I have no choice but to rate it 5 stars!

JOKER spoiler-free review:

• very dark movie, not like any previous superhero movies at all; don’t bring your kids

• it is violent and potentially disturbing, but strangely not as much as the hype made it out to be

• Joaquin Phoenix definitely gives a pretty good performance, but IDK about the supposed “Oscar-worthy” hype

• some of the shots feels like the director definitely had a lot of fun bringing this story to life

• I would have liked less connection to the Batman mythos so that this movie is more stand-alone. I mean, it is pretty much stand-alone, but it does remind you where it’s set and direct connections to the Mythos exist

• I think a lot of the story and plot elements are handled well, any concerns I have would largely be nitpicking

• No post credits scene

• i didnt watch in imax and don’t think it would be relevant

• magugustuhan ba ni mama: sure NO

• Ultimately, I still prefer that Joker’s origin story remain undetermined, as it makes him more akin to a natural force of chaos, but I accept this movie as a version that even canon Joker could have told and that might have been believable

• it’s definitely a better movie overall than Suicide Squad, Man of Steel or Dawn of Justice or Justice League, but it’s also a different completely type of movie, so the comparison is difficult

• I still like Ledger’s Joker the best, the character is best opposite Batman

Having The Last of Us Remastered free on PS+ is great for first-time players, but I’m not sure I’d like to relive that story. IMO Ellie and Joel’s story is best on the first time through

Obligatory “tweetdeck is down” tweet

I just saw a post by someone denouncing socialism, someone who I happen to know benefited from free/govt subsidized high school and college education. Idk I feel like that’s kind of ironic

I spent a lot of time wondering why my changes weren’t reflecting in the browser and it turns out I was reloading the wrong server: based on a true story

TIL you can subscribe to an Atom feed for a github repo’s commits

Survey: What are you looking forward to?

I didnt have a deck yet for the #mtg arena standard challenge and so i ran this one and jeez 5/5 easy wins so far even beating the t2 oko. Cc: @switchfollows you might wanna try it

Quoted AffinityForBlue’s tweet:

@misterorange @BryanGo @FandomLegends @OndrejStrasky Ah yes! There it is 🙂

Taglish not being a formal language means it doesn’t really have any rules, but I’m still annoyed whenever someone uses “double past tense” such as “Na-bored ako kahapon”

For a brief moment, I grabbed a fragment of another universe. And then it was gone. I go back to sleep lamenting what might have been

I wouldnt necessarily assume causation in the given direction. For example, it’s possible that having a higher gdp is more conducive to the rule of law

Quoted paulg’s tweet:

Rule of law vs GDP per capita, courtesy of the Lexis Nexis Rule of Law Foundation.

(I’m surprised China ranks so low in rule of law. If that’s accurate, this graph suggests China will have to change significantly to become as rich as I’d been assuming it would.)

Planning to replace a 2tb HDD with a 2tb seagate firecuda SSHD, anyone have any bad experiences with this drive?

This was less than a week ago. Today I found out my secondary hdd had a bunch of errors and might be failing. Psychic much?

Quoted roytang’s tweet:

I had been waffling on getting a new external HD for a while, but a couple of days ago one of my friends posted about her backup drive failing at 6yo and I was like “all my drives are older than that” lol

I enjoy browsing people’s personal websites, especially if theyre often updated and not dead. If your website has a blogroll, I will happily spend at least an hour clicking through the links there

Great article about the tech stack behind a one-person company: https://broadcast.listennotes.com/the-boring-technology-behind-listen-notes-56697c2e347b?gi=d5c4d4dbb7a1 The DevOps stuff is of particular interest to me since I may need it soonish for some projects.

Yesterday I subconsciously crossed the road while on a phone call for the first and hopefully last time because that would be a dumb way to die

@IvyPatdu ang mga ganung information gathered using promos, di ba yan covered ng dpa?

Quoted FloydWhaley’s tweet:

It is amazing the amount of personal data that is being harvested by businesses in the Philippines, with personal information collected for rewards programs, promotions, and raffles. One Manila restaurant offered me free nachos in return for a vast amount of personal info. https://twitter.com/neltayaoINQ/status/1172356882909892608

I had been waffling on getting a new external HD for a while, but a couple of days ago one of my friends posted about her backup drive failing at 6yo and I was like “all my drives are older than that” lol

I finally watched Dark Phoenix today. It was not as bad as I thought it would be, but the #xmen jet did have a port where Cyclops could put his head so they can use him as a cannon, and apparently Nightcrawler can teleport 4 people across an entire city so there’s that

some weird character choices too. I mean, Erik’s lackeys were basically random unknown mutants (I didn’t even realize who Selene was supposed to be until she fell off the train). Not to mention the obscure Marvel alien race in the movie.

At least we got our space firebird thingy so there’s that

The interface for the standard 2020 event on #mtg arena is so clunky. They could have at least default the deck selection to what I was playing last time

I will admit I enjoyed the #MTGEldraine brawl on Arena. I may get into this format if it becomes regular, so that I have a palette cleanser for standard #mtg

Not a fan of the templating “When <trigger condition>, do X, then do Y. Do Z.” The full stop after Y makes it like Z is a separate thing, since it’s no longer in the same sentence as the trigger condition. (Yes I know it doesn’t work that way.)

Quoted wizards_magic’s tweet:

Tick Tock Tick Tock Tick Tock

It’s midnight here in Seattle, which means it’s time to move the countdown to SIX. #MTGEldraine

I followed this chain all the way to the end even though the last few didnt even make sense to me

Quoted histoftech’s tweet:

Me, a historian of technology, hiding under the bed:

Armed robber:

Me:

Armed robber:

Me:

Armed robber: the computer revolution sure is wonderful, just like the industrial revolution. I love how tech creates progress for all

Me: NEITHER OF THOSE ARE REVOLUTIONS AND … shit https://twitter.com/jessamyn/status/1168725458218835975

Sentence Scrabble: like normal scrabble except every turn you must use all the words you play that turn in a single sentence

Twitter should let us add private notes to people we follow. So I can remember why I follow people or how I learned about them in the first place

Putting yourself out there is stressful

Survey: If you didn’t need to work, what would you be doing all day?

Youtube subscriptions support RSS! Wew, that’s a game changer. But I also found out that Inoreader free plan limits me to 150 feeds and I can’t import all my subscribed channels lol. Time to shop around for a new reader! https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6224202?hl=en&authuser=0

As a digital pack rat, it always annoys me when I remember how much of my own pre-cloud data I am no longer able to recover

I’m entered to win a Razer Panthera Evo Arcade Stick + TEKKEN 7 & SOULCALIBUR VI games from MarkMan23 & Razer! You should enter too! https://gleam.io/47Qdv/markman23s-razer-panthera-evo-giveaway

Chinese Agencies ‘Crack Telegram’: A Timely Warning For End-To-End Encryption https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/08/25/chinese-agencies-crack-telegram-a-timely-warning-for-end-to-end-encryption/

THIS IS FINE

Quoted CNN’s tweet:

More than one and a half soccer fields of Amazon rainforest are being destroyed every minute of every day, according to Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/21/americas/amazon-rainforest-fire-intl-hnk-trnd/index.html?utm_term=link&utm_content=2019-08-21T12%3A40%3A06&utm_source=twCNN&utm_medium=social