social.noyu.me

(reading about life in germany)

During quiet hours, you can’t make noise that disturbs your neighbours.

You can’t…

• use the vacuum cleaner
  […]
• play loud music
  […]

But there are exceptions to quiet hours:

• children can […] cry during the day

i see

second life? it's not only lindy, it's lindeny

Bosch Elevator Cloud

hanging around interesting people feels uncomfortable insofar as i don't think i'm as interesting as them and so i don't always feel i belong (i.e. i feel like an impostor)… but if i hang around uninteresting people i have no envy motivating me to better myself, i become content

if a really high follower-count influencer follows you, and you don't follow back, this reflects the fact you are actually far more powerful

gonna upset everyone by writing percussion staves where the notes are positioned according to the general midi drum map, complete with accidentals

haskell is really the universe brain language because it doesn't really have mutable data types or assignment, so it ought to be useless, but the type system is so powerful that you can just reimplement them from first principles as a library and it's almost convenient to use!

ok i'm sold

(https://gleam.run)

sweden is great, the bureaucracy openly talks about the use of ”påtryckningsmedel”, which is literally “means of [exerting] pressure”, to encourage compliance. for example, fines. a delightfully clinical word; ”medel” is also used for “bleach” (”blekmedel” ~= “bleaching agent”)

varför kallas det för ”eftertanke” om man väntas göra det före