Maybe I have a #hottake about #servicemodel by Adrian Tchaikovsky but I did find this to have a midpoint that was just a chore! #bookreview #bookrec #hugoaward #sff #scifi #reader #robot https://hollysreadingescapades.blogspot.com/2025/04/book-review-service-model-by-adrian.html?m=1
Yes, simple graphs and symmetric digraphs are equivalent; their categories are even isomorphic!
But, I prefer the 2-cycles over undirected edges. 
#mathematics #graphtheory #categorytheory #hottake
Yes, simple graphs and symmetric digraphs are equivalent; their categories are even isomorphic!
But, I prefer the 2-cycles over undirected edges. #mathematics #graphtheory #categorytheory #hottake
#FromSoftware game design #HotTake: I vastly prefer the blood vial system of #Bloodborne to the limited flasks in other games, like #EldenRing
Being able to find more healing while you’re out exploring means you are not shackled to the last or next lamp. You can just keep exploring and, if you want, picking fights. And you can stack up extras
But if you have a particularly rough run in ER and other games? Your *only* choice for a refill is to limp back to a lamp and reset *all* the progress you just made for no reason
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#HotTake Reading Braille with your eyes is not authentically reading Braille.
@MachineLordZero In my opinion, no church without a Pride flag follows Jesus either.
#HotTake So many of us state boldly and proudly that blindness or some other disability does not define us. Well, I want to say just as boldly and proudly that blindness *does* define me, but it is not the *only* thing that defines me. (1/3)
Lately, I've been turning more to Chinese media simply because it's far more accessible. Western outlets bury news behind paywalls, bombard you with ads, and demand cookies and trackers. Meanwhile, sites like Global Times and China Daily offer clean, accessible articles without the junk.
#HotTake Name drop philosophers to prove you're right is just showing off.
Nu såhär några veckor efter det skedde och alla känslor har svalnat.
#hottake Avskaffa sommartiden! Den tillför precis ingenting. Saknar du fritid efter ditt 8-17 jobb så får du antingen byta jobb eller gå upp tidigare.
Världen fungerade alldeles ypperligt innan det här påfundet och skulle fungera alldeles ypperligt om man tog bort det.
mon Spielberg préféré est le Vieux Spielberg. j'avais adoré son remake de West Side Story & j'ai trouvé The Fablemans remarquable, alors que je m'en bats les reins des (auto)biopics. la sérénité de celleux qui n'ont plus rien à prouver & maîtrisent leur craft dessus-dessous me plaît bcp. sa façon de dire l'enfance & la famille, dans ses failles, ses mystères, ses beautés m'a touché & sa foi en l'exagération narrative presque naïve est étrange, anachronique, émouvante.
I love Debian. But it gets painfully long in the tooth towards the end of the stable release cycle. I used to just jump to testing after stable was out for the year, but the whole xz thing last year scared me off of that.
I have software I can't update because I'd have to compile the compiler in order to get it to compile, because it's so old. I can't remember what exactly, but I think it's written in Nim.
Don't get me wrong, I do not like the software treadmill. It makes no sense, and it doesn't make for a stable infrastructure. But I don't think there's any changing it, and a two-year update cycle for desktop use is becoming untenable.
The other reason why I'm looking outside of Debian is that I want a linux distro that's as easy to use and seamless as possible. I don't have any serious complaints about Debian in that regard, it's actually a lot easier to use in that regard than people give it credit for. But something that's just a little more windows like, I dunno. For example, graphical boot screens and LUKS password screens. Some distros give you a graphical boot from the very beginning, even when asking for the LUKS password. Some distros also show you a boot screen with the manufacturer's logo taken from EFI.
Really stupid little things like that that don't mean a hill of beans to nerds like us, but they have small, measurable psychological effects on new switchers from windows.
And of course, I'll have my coworker running KDE, because what the heck even is Gnome anymore? Some kind of unusably minimalistic Steve Jobs fever dream, that's what. #HotTake
(To be fair, Gnome is real purty. And there's something to be said for minimalism. Just not that much minimalism.)
My brain needs to chill out.
I watched a video complaining about all the rising food costs in the #usa and noticed the person complaining was really big.
Then immediately thought - "Well maybe the rising food costs are a good thing for the 73% of Americans who are obese or overweight." Then horror laughed to myself for a few minutes.
I do think it's a bad thing, especially for poor families.
But maybe MONEY will finally solve the #obesity issue. Replace it with STARVATION!
Uważam, że wszystkie mechaniki w grach ze "zużywającymi" się mieczami, siekierami itp to patologia, która odbiera przyjemność z grania.
Odrzuca mnie to od gier.
Dosłownie.
Hot take, If you develop for cloud environments you need to get used to a default deny on egress and only allow dependencies to be pulled during the build phase. You should know exactly what is talking to where and why. allow all on egress is the equivalent to I chmod 777'd it and it works so whatever...
Hot take: the Metric System is bad compared to the Imperial system because it is based off of base 10.
Seriously.
The prime divisors of 10 are 2 and 5. People routinely divide quantities in half all the time, but when was the last time you divided something into fifths? Hell, dividing something into *thirds* is far more common, and metric forces you to use a frikking repeating decimal!
Imperial, for all its warts, is set up for halves, thirds, fourths, etc much more conveniently.
#HotTake: Every #human should be entitled by international #law to free, unseizeable #ID documents in the form of a travel #passport to evidence their #identity and have #FreedomOfMovement as well as a chance to #flee.
Why?
I tried a new ThinkPad.
It didn't have the TrackPoint.
And...I didn't really miss it.
Sorry. But not sorry.
Modern touchpads are excellent, especially with haptics.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2637748/lenovo-thinkpad-x9-14-aura-edition-review.html
The FBI is launching an investigation against #trump and I have nothing more to say except -
I hope he gets thrown in fucking prison.
Creating your own personal #Slack emoji with your picture on it is pretentious as hell.
