Me when I fucking GET you

Skinny polymath nerd who is antisocial, often bored with life or the people around him, has a major sweet tooth, and near permanent dark circles under his eyes because his thoughts and projects keep him from sleeping.

Off the top of my head, characters sharing this stereotype are: L from Deathnote, Saiki K, and (if you swap tobacco and opium for adderall and chocolate) Sherlock Holmes

(Not that I’d say I’m as intelligent as any of them; also my life is definitely more boring than all of theirs)

I recently did some digging on the fruit of the loom logo because I remember learning the word cornucopia and connecting it with the logo on my T-shirts and underwear.

Yeah, I was mistaken. The dye on some of the clothes just made the logo look like there was a cornucopia. Like the leaves on the side being brown and a tiny bit of those leaves at the top right with the small white grapes at the bottom right also looking the same brown color? It definitely looks like a cornucopia until you look very closely.

(The logo shown in the image above is a more modern one, look at the earlier ones from around the turn of this century and you’ll see it better)

What’s impressive is that it’s survived centuries of earthquakes without seriously falling apart

Are you Canadian?

I would imagine it depends on what kind of dyslexia.

If someone can’t process similar looking letters well, I’d imagine most reading of even small sentences is likely painful.

I get some of that and I suck at spelling words with repeated letters because I can’t remember which ones are repeated. But, for me, the hardest part is that my brain doesn’t let me look at all the words. My eyes jump multiple words/lines at a time and hey some of the time, skimming paragraphs is fine. But when I’m trying to actually read something or learn something from the book… it feels like an impossible task.

Some of the problem is also related to ADHD where I can’t seem to actually focus on reading even if I can go through the words one by one. I have to reread sentences dozens of times before my brain finally realizes “oh there’s actually information here?”

That being said, I can and do still read. When I’m down a rabbit hole in Wikipedia articles my brain is locked in and I have the motivation to keep trying when I keep missing information.

I also think maybe I’m just really out of practice. I used to read books back in elementary school. I definitely still had trouble getting all the information out of them but when you’re reading fantasy it’s kinda fun to let your imagination fill in the gaps. Maybe I just need to start doing that again, reading for pleasure instead of purpose. I bet that would make the idea of having to read a research paper less daunting.

Oh also if anyone else is like me, I recommend highlighting like literally every sentence and trying to “translate it” especially for dense or jargon filled sentences. Like try to explain what the sentence is saying in your own words. It is tedious but it helps stop the “I’ve literally read this paragraph 8 times and not actually read any of it” phenomenon

Also isn’t an infinite dimensional sphere practically hollow?

(If you were to integrate the sphere to calculate volume like you do for lower dimensional ones, you would sum the volume of shells—which is just their surface area times a thickness—making it up. With infinite dimensions, each shell becomes infinitely larger than the preceding shell no matter how fine you make the slices. This means the largest shell contains basically all the volume.)

Get ready for an estradiol egg contract to show up on Egg Inc. lol

Hate the laws of thermodynamics? Put that hatred to good use and become a mechanical engineer! Doesn’t matter if it’s aerospace or manufacturing! We all hate that doing fun stuff generates heat, so we design complicated systems to make things like 1% more thermodynamically efficient 👍

(This sounded funnier in my head)

I did it myself on a relative’s very old laptop a few years ago. I think it was specifically the 32bit Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1) upgrade for Windows 95 (maybe 98?)

I just searched it up and was able to find an iso with only 129MB which is still impressive. But that’s a clean install and I think it’s for both x64 or 32. If I get more time to look into this later, (or if I can find the floppy disks themselves) I’ll try to find the original and send it to you if you want

Also you’re right, the fact it got images is pretty insane. Then again the only real “graphics” would be default icons, and possibly the green landscape but I wanna say that it didn’t even have that background image when I finished the upgrade; I think it was just a solid color. (The real crazy thing I remember was that the laptop had a color capable screen but had a purely black and white OS on it originally lol)

I think much of the kernel carried over. Also I can’t recall if I updated it to 98 before xp or not. That might’ve cut down on the needed install space.

Anyway you’ve gotten me curious, I kinda want to find that laptop now. Maybe I’ll use it to make authentic “Analog nowhere” style art with paint lol

Edit: This site seems to have the boot images for windows xp floppies and exe’s to create them. Looks like only 6 floppies are needed in total for all of Windows XP SP1

Even using just 8bit color depth you’d only be able to store a single 424x424 pixel image (uncompressed) on a “high density” 1.4MB floppy.

That’s absolutely garbage, but makes it all the more impressive that an upgrade from windows 95 to the first version of windows XP only took two floppy disks.

Edit: It seems I might be mistaken and the two-disk upgrade was more likely from 98 or 98SE not directly from 95.

Having seen many things on the internet I wish I hadn’t, I think there are actually 12 holes. Roughly working top down:

• 2x: gore
• 2x: slightly more socially acceptable gore (especially on non-humans)
• 2x: that’s just weird but not gore I guess
• 1x: mainstream porn
• 2x: I don’t think these work like fetishists think they work
• 1x: this definitely doesn’t work the way fetishists think it works
• 1x: probably uncomfortable, also why?
• (1x: not guaranteed to exist on everyone but the most “vanilla” of all the holes)
• 1x: probably ouch but some people are into that ig

Newton’s first law applies to virtually any dynamic system, including the actions and thoughts of organisms.

No idea what this is from but I would not be surprised if the answer involves an anvil in a high place

The fact art like this exists just makes me all the more certain that if we find any sort of intelligence in the universe, biological or not, someone is going to try fucking them. It will likely be one of the first things someone does.

“Sir we sent in the battle AI’s to dominate humanity before our colonization team arrives.”

“Good how many have died?”

“Uh none. Aparrently the humans find the slight curvature of the bots’ torsos arousing, so many of them submitted to the bots immediately and just started calling them ‘mommy doms’”

“What?!”

[shows commander a clip of sub begging “mommy” battle droid to step on them]

“…”

“…”

“Perhaps we should leave the humans alone…”

“Uhhh human horn? How ridiculous! Why would a virile male like Lrrr need human horn? I don’t even know what it’s for! What is it something you uh put in salad dressing?”

If he calls it his “horn” he’s either Canadian or just someone who has watched too much Letterkenny lol

My hyperfixations jump around a lot though mostly it tends to stay in the STEM arena of things.

Currently I’m trying to design a language framework for building as low-level a language for reality as possible. Strangely (or not) I’ve touched very little in the way of linguistics and I’m wayy out of my depth in the field of logic and of all things category theory as well as philosophy because holy shit it’s kind of amazing we can communicate anything at all lol

In addition to that (and somewhat tangentially related) I’ve also been diving into the science of spiking neural nets and neuroanatomy in an effort to create an extensible self-supervised net I could then copy train to do a variety of tasks for me. Like the previous fixation, I am also very out of my depth in this project (also there are a lot more knowledgeable and well funded people who will almost certainly beat me to the punch), but even if I fail it’s already been a fascinating journey. Oh and I greatly dislike python so I’m basically reinventing the wheel multiple times in rust so that likely doesnt help my progress lol

Right away!

Come away!

Right away.

Come away.

I didn’t mean that in the “lowkey my dick is huge” way lol. I’m not even that big which is the point because I’m not even in the “size-queen” range and there are still times where it’s annoying. I’d imagine those annoyances get worse as size increases, ego big dicks are overrated.

(PS: Regardless of size, women tend to like men/women/enbies that are good with their hands.)