tougenkyou

stream-of-consciousness

Spending time making elaborate solutions to closed-source APIs is often an exercise in futility (unless it's for learning purposes). I have been bitten by this myself before.

https://cadence.moe/blog/2022-09-01-discontinuing-bibliogram

If you are going to do this, you should do it at the scale of https://kaeru.world/projects/wfc

Of course, the difference between bots or clients for a closed-source social media platform and reverse-engineered server emulators for consoles is that you have a guaranteed userbase for consoles, somewhat justifying the effort.

Namely, people who are into nostalgia or want to experience authentic video game lore. Whereas socmed is you know easily copy-pastable into whatever platform is trending at the moment, or backed up on the web archive.

with that said, https://breezewiki.com/ is a neat wrapper for fandom.com

SUPER EUROBEAT Vol.110 - ParaPara Medley ~ Micky Mouse March, in which Dave Rodgers accepts an award

on consequentialist thinking

https://old.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/sev4e5/why_is_utilitarianismconsequentialism_so_common/

Regional Gray Matter Volume Is Associated with Empathizing and Systemizing in Young Adults

https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/millsonph115/2014/10/06/restricted-and-extreme-utilitarianism/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalism

https://www.opencolleges.edu.au/informed/features/are-empathy-and-competition-mutually-exclusive/

This random alternative medicine company https://web.archive.org/web/20210927073348/https://www.mybae.com/corporate-about-chakra.html

bogus certifications

The curious case of seemingly questionable certifications which turn out to be legitimate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIZ

https://web.archive.org/web/20210422003524/http://www.boeing.com/features/innovation-quarterly/2020/12/triz-aerospace-engineering-method.page

Representatives cannot conduct any alternative TRIZ certification without an explicit permission of MATRIZ; otherwise, the accreditation should be revoked.

https://matriz.org/licenses-of-are-revoked-due-to-multicertification-rules/

https://web.archive.org/web/20220207030426/https://www.mybae.com/index.html

...which cite "Far-infrared spectral emissivity reports" and antibacterial reports from a NOGUCHI MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE to, supposedly, give their products an air of legitimacy.

Amongst other bogus certificates.

Although to be fair, they don't explicitly state which aspect or feature of their products these certifications are meant to support, so...

Ningen Dock

Rule of 30 – When is a Method, Class or Subsystem Too Big?