W. Dow Rieder
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W. Dow Rieder
@riderius.bsky.social
Mathematician, writer, lover of books, rememberer of computers past.
Writing at Dreamwidth: https://riderius.dreamwidth.org/
My old writing tumblr: https://docfuture.tumblr.com/
Old Stories archive: https://docfuture.tumblr.com/post/62787551366/stories
Beats insomnia 8-)
December 15, 2025 at 3:22 AM
North Dakotan, right across the river, with family in Minnesota (and lived there for about 10 years)
Can confirm that is a very rare, very particular kind of fury.
And there are a *whole lot* of quite conservative people who will find that convincing.
December 14, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Sympathy. Also, my skin is very suggestible and itched very mildly in solidarity 8-)
December 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Aw, man. I haven't even played Diablo since 2 and even I can tell that's a sweet hat.
December 12, 2025 at 9:07 AM
It's a larval LLM.
December 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Sympathy, and may the pill division of the pharma spirits be kind this time.
December 10, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Oh man, that's like a Cat triple-word-score 8-)
December 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM
...everything plausible I can think of that might make it tolerable is either A) unlikely to be in the mental map of anyone who thinks "team building exercises" are a good idea, B) Unsafe, C) No budget for that, or D) won't pass an IRB.
December 9, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Using a slide rule is conceivably of some use interpolating log scale graphs by eye, so I'll go with refolding long continuous feed program printouts so they store nicely after use.
December 9, 2025 at 4:29 AM
"You going to use a light sensor?"
"Yeah, to turn it on when it gets dark and turn it off when it gets light."
"...do you know anything about control theory?"
"No, why?"
December 8, 2025 at 8:11 AM
...I'm kinda stuck on the 'normal people' concept right now, tbh.
December 7, 2025 at 11:10 PM
No doubt why, like coconuts, they don't migrate, and must be carried.
December 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
There's been at least one full moon since the surgery, right?
December 5, 2025 at 4:46 AM