Gentle Giant, Knots

but on the positive side the photos you take of the armed police shooting you can have swirly bokeh

Opinions on the Zenit Photosniper?

they’re calling it ‘a great way to get shot by armed police’

if there's one thing ive learned from my math education it's the ability to judge a textbook by it's cover:

fancy cover with actual picture, fewer than 15 years old, $300: absolute dogshit. time wasting exercises, poor exposition, that weird gloss they put on the pages probably makes it too toxic to use as kindling

title is just name of subject, referred to by author, 50 years old with like 3 editions: excellent. compact proofs, exercises good enough people refer to them by number in conversation. available for free by foraging somewhere they grow naturally

title is some shit like paul's notes, "cover" is just default latex titlepage, distributed as pdf to grad classes or by advisor: best coverage of whatever (usually niche) topic it's about in the world. crystal clear exposition. solutions to exercises available by emailing grad students working under author

I don't want to say "you should never listen to a non-linguist about anything involving language", but like... man, people are so wrong about language. If you are learning a language and want to know how it works, don't ask a native speaker! They don't fucking know! Ok, they do, but not in a way they can convey to you. They'll tell you some wrong shit!

"How does this grammatical construction work in your language?" — you'll get the wrong answer

"How is your language different from English" — you'll get the wrong answer

"What is unique about your language" — you'll get the wrong answer.

"Oh ho ho, I am the exception, I am a very educated person in general and I would never—"

Wrong. You don't know shit. Language doesn't work like that. The things you think about language are wrong. "I always heard it was—" wrong. "I always figured it was—" wrong. Oh my fucking god you guys you would not believe how furiously wrong everyone is about linguistics all the time. It's wild.

which fetish is like the flimsy lime-colored palm bit

come play weird fetishes with me like theyre bionicles. we can mix and match

Takes the computer less time to assemble a genome than it does to resolve the conda dependencies I need to get the software to assemble a genome

Inland Empire relief sculpture I made, all finished and on the wall. Plus he glows in the dark :3

i think im still kind of lost on what kind of things constitute "genre" as opposed to scene or style. like the best ive come up with is that "tracks are in the same genre if their authors considered the same stylistic elements important to play around with and were in communication with each other either personally or through a shared canon of previous work" but i dont even know if i have it right i like the similarity webs because they capture that this is about this sort of interrelatedness and not just stylistic features, though, so in this sense i understand

music companies like genres for marketing i like genres for sociomusical understanding and exploration. we are not the same. do you understand

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hauve you guys seen trey the explainer