A timeline from a person for self-reference of important dates. Topics range from movie releases to major book publishing to technology development.

Turns out My Immortal is actually really, really good...

Pareto efficiency or Pareto optimality is a situation where no individual or preference criterion can be better off without making at least one individual or preference criterion worse off or without any loss thereof. The following three concepts are closely related:

• Given an initial situation, a Pareto improvement is a new situation where some agents will gain, and no agents will lose.
• A situation is called Pareto dominated if there exists a possible Pareto improvement.
• A situation is called Pareto optimal or Pareto efficient if no change could lead to improved satisfaction for some agent without some other agent losing or if there is no scope for further Pareto improvement.

A limitation with the concept of Pareto efficiency is that it assumes that knowledge about other market participants is available to all participants, in that every player knows the payoffs and strategies available to other players so as to have complete information. Bayesian efficiency is an analog of Pareto efficiency for situations in which there is incomplete information.

At some point, Japan decided that spaces were for losers, so when reading Japanese prose the mind operates like a regular expression engine, advancing as many characters as it can looking for a valid match, but not finding one, backtracking until matching a known word (even if the word is just one character). If you’ve been reading kanji since age five, your brain makes this happen automatically. If not, it makes you want to douse your Japanese textbook in gasoline, light it on fire, and launch whatever survives directly into the blazing hellfire of the sun. Yet another layer of difficulty in an already really, really difficult language.

Interesting experiments in the self

-A: Get lines after match
-B: Get lines before match
-C: Get lines both before and after match
-i: Case-insensitive match
-v: Only lines that don't match
-w: Whole-word matches only
-h: Prefix filename to match output
-o: Only output matching portion
-l (lowercase L): Only output file names
-r: Recurse through directories
-I (uppercase i): Search only textfiles
-e: Activate extended regex flags

The analysis of shame, understood as a basic emotion that articulates social relationships, affords insight into the embodied experience of social processes. This paper presents the preliminary results of a research study focusing on how this emotion operates in the relationships and experiences of middle-aged (34–45 years) heterosexual men living alone in Madrid (Spain). We are particularly interested in exploring how shame intercedes when these men challenge or fail to fully adapt to the norms of adult romantic relationships and social expectations regarding having a stable partner. Our analysis aims to characterize this population group and describe how they use instant messaging groups and online dating apps. We focus on how shame is articulated in these interactions and the effects this has on men’s subjectivity and self-image, in order to explore the different ways in which they activate and modulate expressions of modern-day masculinity. In short, we suggest that circuits of shame trigger certain forms of subjection which clearly emerge in mediated communications, an arena in which, in the case of men who live alone, the rupture with the social norm is defensively re-worked, inverting the sense of self and embodying a set of tensions and ambivalences.

Things you sometimes forget are options

• Hire a tutor
• Ask your acquaintances, “Hey, I want to leave my house more, are there any cool events you’re going to soon?” (HT Sasha Chapin)
• Modify your own stuff (tape over annoying LEDs, remove logos, etc)
• Be willing to spend a few minutes fixing small annoyances

A chicken may cross a road, but it does not decide to do so for a reason. The chicken may even be caused to cross the road by some desire that it has; and the chicken may exhibit intelligence in whether or not it crosses the road. But the chicken makes no decision to follow its desires, and it makes no reasoned decision about whether or not it is a good idea to cross the road. We can ask: ‘Why did the chicken cross the road?’ but the chicken cannot ask itself: ‘Why should I cross the road?’ We can. That’s why we can eat it.

Search across prediction markets

An analysis of Bandcamp sales, 9/1/2020 - 12/31/2020

Link seems to fail if coming from shaarli?

A mix of the emotional attachment to images, the difficulty of clearing exes from a Facebook account, and some access control problems. The author concludes by saying that companies should offer better ways to manage that - but I can't imagine how to implement such things.

The Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA) is an international not-for-profit organization dedicated to the promotion, study, and support of type, its history and development, its use in the world of print and digital imagery, its designers, and its admirers.

“Basically the perfect ending to cybersecurity in 2021 is a 90s style Java vulnerability in an open source module, written by two volunteers with no funding, used by large cybersecurity vendors, undetected until Minecraft chat got pwned, where nobody knows how to respond properly.”

Crafting resource (possibly outdated)

At a mere 1.98 to 5.33 ounces, this midnight black minimal shoe is one of the lightest shoes in the world. That provides a whole new feeling of freedom – like going barefoot, but with protection. Made of a very special and innovative stretch washi fabric from the Japanese company Itoitex, the low cut is 75% paper, temp