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Cake day: November 10th, 2023

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  • I use FiraCode Nerd Font Mono instead, but it also does not have a specific italic font. In my config, only the “normal” section is defined, but all my bold and/or italic text looks like it should. Apparently, alacritty will apply a heavier weight or slant to the “normal” type face if you simply omit the “bold” or “italic” sections. So, what you have right now should Just Work.

    Allegedly, you can omit the “style” specification in the “italic” section (ie: just add "italic": {"family": "FiraMono Nerd Font"}, to your config snippit above), but i haven’t actually tried doing it that way.



  • While i do think life exists elsewhere in the universe, I think the chances of extraterrestrial biological entities coming to our planet is exceedingly unlikely. Space is just too big, and there isn’t any hard evidence that faster-than-light travel is even possible.

    Although, the universe isn’t just big – it’s old. There could be some ancient civilization from an ancient planet that became uninhabitable long ago. If they were technologically advanced enough to escape their solar system before things went tits-up AND were able to live multiple generations fully in space AND they just so happened to set out in our direction, I guess it’s possible that they found us. Even then, i would expect any UFOs or whatever would merely be probes, not the actual biological entities themselves.


  • i live in a red state, so much so that some races in the general election are uncontested. if i don’t vote in the republican primary, i essentially don’t have a say in anything because i will be out-voted in the general even if there are multiple candidates. so i hold my nose and try to find the least bad option in the republican primaries. I did vote in the democratic primary in 2016 and 2020, though, b/c i had to support the Bernie man, so it depends on the circumstances. This is what our FPTP voting system has reduced me to.





  • The operative phrase is “or influence”. That 91% doesn’t sound so crazy if you sum up the cases of a woman solely buying a house, buying a house with her partner, or being asked if she likes the house before her partner purchases it.

    That being said, I agree that it’s shitty to add a bunch of qualfiers to make the numbers more impactful, and the citations they provide are vague enough that they intend literally no one to dig into any of them (let me just read everything published by Forbes in 2019 lol). It’s just for show, even if there may be a grain of truth. But it is a marketing website; the spin should be expected.




  • I think it’s because English isn’t super consistent with the spelling of vowel sounds. Consider also “choose” (rhymes with “lose”) and “chose” (which doesn’t rhyme with either).

    I guess really the vowel sound in loose/lose is basically the same; the difference is whether or not the “s” makes a “s” sound or a “z” sound… It is admittely odd that the presence or absence of an extra “o” would affect the sound of an adjacent constant (especially when we have a perfectly good “z” character available).

    Which reminds me of my pet peeve: when people use “breath” or “cloth” instead of “breathe” or “clothe”.