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@jessfromonline

13 Nov

i let myself believe NFTs were a passing fad, in part b/c just thinking of them drains my soul, but their adoption & advertising boom is a reminder that:

NFTs are a natural instance of capital expanding private property given near-complete enclosure of existing forms of property

marx writes about the tendency of the rate of profit to fall, which oversimplified, explains that investment opportunities inevitably become less profitable for investors over time, creating periodic crisis and forcing capital to constantly open new investment opportunities

one way that capital can create these new opportunities is "enclosure" (as named by rosa luxemburg, also called primitive accumulation)

aka taking resources that were previously not private (typically land, natural resources, etc.) and privatizing them

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@jessfromonline

13 Nov

#nobechdeltest but the fact that the female lead of altered carbon s1 literally does not appear in the 4min official recap of that season except as an offscreen voice in the final 15s to ask the male protag what he'll do about his long-lost love...says a lot about that show lol

she almost definitely has the second most screentime of any character and the fact that they "recapped" the entire season without her uh. hmm? could this perhaps indicate? she was a shallowly written character?

also the only named women to appear on screen in the recap are 1. the obsessive, controlling older sister 2. the sex worker trapped in a digital memoryscape to relive her murder repeatedly

also says. pretty much the same thing. about how this show writes women.

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@jessfromonline

12 Nov

proud of this simple solution

im implementing text search on HTML TTRPG logfiles & parsing the HTML to return meant lines meant searches took ~1.5s

it's a CLI tool, so i realized i could just use ag's faster search to make basically a shitty bloom filter & get it down to 1s

6 line probabilistic filter with the same guarantees as a bloom filter that shaves 1/3 off the search time by using an existing tool without even adding a gem to the project :)

haven't programmed professionally in over 4 years but it's good to remember i still have the brain for it

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@jessfromonline

12 Nov

[goes into a store to buy a single pair of bootcut jeans] [has to physically pull myself away from the flannels multiple times]

say it with me jess: you have enough flannels

the duality of lesbian

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@jessfromonline

11 Nov

feels good to realize i can still look at 3 lines of ruby, go "that can definitely be done in 1 line of ruby" and do it in one line of ruby

initialize a local variable from an arg, concatenate to that variable by looping an instance variable array, and return it? nah, call reduce on the instance variable array with the arg as the initial value.