complexifire.bsky.social
@complexifire.bsky.social
(political) decelerationist, software dev, nerd
the answer is both right there in front of you and impossible to make sense of: teenagers
November 17, 2025 at 12:52 AM
finally, the word rankings I was expecting when I followed you
November 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
If ICANN, DNS, etc, required at least 2 characters before .com (as it always seemed like they did, URL shorteners notwithstanding) nothing of value would be lost
November 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I feel my views were unjustly ignored because I used “day” as a unit of measurement
November 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I still say we should have patched the hitbox down 10-15 more orders of magnitude and let a few of them meet every day, as a treat
November 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I like the idea of one app to do design and image editing, though I don’t know how much getting used to it will take. I did note that it easily made a PDF editable, though it (unsurprisingly) didn’t give word processor features like treating consecutive lines as a paragraph
November 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM
can't abide rent-seeking, but man, the last time I tried to make some edits to some PDFs (just basic work, separate from the graphics project), everything I tried but Acrobat was a disaster, so I ended up paying for a month just to convert like 40 files "back" to Word
November 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I'm not sure if I ever looked at them when I was doing my last twice-annual project that needs Adobe tools, but I like online Canva and this suggests they're taking a serious swing at taking Adobe down, so I'll give it a shot
November 14, 2025 at 7:53 PM
hold on, if the Italian stream was crystal blue, that dream was set in real life, not a silent film
November 14, 2025 at 4:24 AM
if you're going to announce your new Announcements page you bet your ass your screenshot should be in your screenshot
November 13, 2025 at 5:37 PM
This one? Loved it, surprisingly dense with stuff I didn’t even know I wanted to know
youtu.be/iVx_bvyBhDM
Why The US Southeast Coast is Absurdly Empty
YouTube video by RealLifeLore
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 5:21 AM
issuing another correction on a different previous post of mine, which is the same correction, minus the mocha screenshot
issuing a correction on a previous post of mine, re hubris and the gods
November 12, 2025 at 7:57 PM
but idk why we need to scale based on its phase changes

though I do also wonder if we could clean up Avogadro’s number some with a new mass unit, and also wonder if there would be a better type of matter to organize our temperature conversion around, since water is weird, important as it is
November 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
define your new degree in terms of the energy needed to heat that new gram, to the closest order of magnitude where 1 degree difference will be basically detectable by a human, and *then* you’ll have a good, consistent system. Water’s fine for converting space to mass, and mass-energy to heat…
November 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
or we should go all out and redefine a meter in terms of c (light) now that we know what it is. Distance traveled in a ns is very close to a foot! Make that your new meter, then define a g' as a cubic *deci*meter' rather than cm (1/100 was pretty arbitrary!) and a gram' is in the range of an ounce…
November 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I always sort of felt like Celsius had to make sense because most of SI makes sense, but now that I think about that weird 4.184 factor to go from energy to heat on the scale of that degree… 1/100 of the liquid range of water is pointless…
Either a degree (K or C) should be 1/4.184 what it is…
November 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
and then they tried to give back the second thing, and I didn’t want to watch it the second time

also: that episode is now a couple years older now than the movie was when it was made
November 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
They tried to give it back, and then they took that too
youtu.be/q69tyPdLp5U
MST3K: Hike Up Your Pants!
YouTube video by samtaco
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
One two princes here before you
That's what I said now
Princes, to check out your books for you
Just go ahead now
This one slips inside your wallet
That's what I said now
This one’s for the keyring in your pocket
November 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM