You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Windows Update's "we'll install updates when you're not using your computer" model in Windows 10 seems built around the faulty assumption that I frequently leave my computer powered on when I'm not actively using it.
Is that a thing people do? I always shut down or at least hibernate the PC when I'm away from it, both of which would preclude it from installing updates during that time...
Windows Update's "we'll install updates when you're not using your computer" model in Windows 10 seems built around the faulty assumption that I frequently leave my computer powered on when I'm not actively using it.
Is that a thing people do? I always shut down or at least hibernate the PC when I'm away from it, both of which would preclude it from installing updates during that time...
I kept my computer on for two months this summer while I was in another state because I sshd into it
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
i am trying to writ esomething, but i am still mechanically unclear on how to write fiction
all of it is so hard fo rme to register. how descriptive do i have to be, for people and for scenes? when? where? guess it's something you pick up from practice
I saw Aevee Bee say that the best way to do things is to just write a pile of stuff down (like, absolutely everything you're thinking of in your head) and then edit it into better coherence afterwards. Almost like the opposite of software development, where you make little things and make absolutely sure they work before making the next part (unless you want supermassive headaches later).
*concerns himself with whether or not software dev is going to make him a less creative person* *remembers he isn't creative anyway*
was more or less what i was going for but didn't articulate too well
the software dev . . . dis-analogy is interesting to me
might be interesting to experiment with, writing the same kind of thing but using the 2 different approaches
I don't think it would work. I imagine that mostly results in writing Lore.
There's good reason for the approaches to be opposite. Art succeeds when it elicits an emotional response, while programming succeeds when the compiled code runs. Language isn't as rigid as programming is, so even rough writing can elicit feelings; a program just doesn't run if there's a typo or what not in it.
idk, i see no reason why precise, carefully chosen language can't be creative or emotive, even if it's a laborious way to write
kind of thinking of William Carlos Williams here a little bit
^^oh man. Now I'm thinking about how in 20k Jules Verne wrote up a series of descriptive paragraphs describing fucking *dimensions* for a particular room, because he was getting paid per chapter.
That's exactly the kind of thing I would do.
Except I wasn't getting paid by the chapter, I was just young and confused
What if Roko's Basilisk doesn't actually torture people, it just creates a whole lot of massively simplified copies and gets dust specks in their eyes.
i feel like Roko's Basilisk should be a boss in some kind of RPG.
I once statted up the Lag Beast--the insatiable monster stalking the internet, devouring innocent packets--for the Returners Final Fantasy tabletop game.
that was as pointless as when I just posted "foot" that time 8ecause someone said "foot" on a commercial while I was typing and I forgot what I was going to say so I just said "foot"
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You know what Windows 7 feature I miss when I go back to XP?
Being able to make maximized Windows small again by dragging the title bar.
I didn't even realize I was doing that until I used an XP computer and realized it doesn't work on XP.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
10 also expanded some of the neat tricks 7 added...you can still make a window take up half the screen by slamming it against the edge, but if you slam it in the corner instead it will take up a quarter of the screen, which is nifty if you want more than two windows tiled.
Powder of sympathy was a form of sympathetic magic, current in the 17th century in Europe, whereby a remedy was applied to the weapon that had caused a wound in the hope of healing the injury it had made.
The powder was also applied to solve the longitude problem in the suggestion of an anonymous pamphlet of 1687 entitled "Curious Enquiries." The pamphlet theorised that a wounded dog could be put aboard a ship, with the animal's discarded bandage left in the trust of a timekeeper on shore, who would then dip the bandage into the powder at a predetermined time and cause the creature to yelp, thus giving the captain of the ship an accurate knowledge of the time. There are no records of the effectiveness of this procedure. It is also uncertain if it had ever been tried, and it is possible that the pamphlet was a form of satire.
The powder of sympathy was termed weaponsalve ("A salve which was supposed to cure the wound, being applied to the weapon that made it.") by Dr. Johnson in his Dictionary of the English Language (1755).
Powder of sympathy was a form of sympathetic magic, current in the 17th century in Europe, whereby a remedy was applied to the weapon that had caused a wound in the hope of healing the injury it had made.
The powder was also applied to solve the longitude problem in the suggestion of an anonymous pamphlet of 1687 entitled "Curious Enquiries." The pamphlet theorised that a wounded dog could be put aboard a ship, with the animal's discarded bandage left in the trust of a timekeeper on shore, who would then dip the bandage into the powder at a predetermined time and cause the creature to yelp, thus giving the captain of the ship an accurate knowledge of the time. There are no records of the effectiveness of this procedure. It is also uncertain if it had ever been tried, and it is possible that the pamphlet was a form of satire.
The powder of sympathy was termed weaponsalve ("A salve which was supposed to cure the wound, being applied to the weapon that made it.") by Dr. Johnson in his Dictionary of the English Language (1755).
a Rosicrucian adept, and therefore an expert in magiam, in necromantiam, in astrologiam, in geomantiam, in pyromantium, in hydromantiam, in chaomantiam, in medicinam adeptam, to quote the book of Azoth, which, as the Raptus philosophorum explains, was given to Staurophorus by a mysterious maiden. But the knowledge of the adept embraces other fields, such as physiognosis, which deals with occult physics, the static, the dynamic, and the kinematic, or astrology and esoteric biology, the study of the spirits of nature, hermetic zoology. I could add cosmognosis, which studies the heavens from the astronomical, cosmological, physiological, and ontological points of view, and anthropognosis, which studies human anatomy, and the sciences of divination, psychurgy, social astrology, hermetic history. Then there is qualitative mathematics, arithmology... But the fundamentals are the cosmography of the invisible, magnetism, auras, fluids, psychometry, and clairvoyance, and in general the study of the five hyperphysical senses - not to mention horoscopic astrology (which, of course, becomes a mere mockery of learning when not conducted with the proper precautions), as well as physiognomics, mind reading, and the predictive arts (tarots, dream books), ranging to the highest levels, such as prophecy and ecstasy. Sufficient information would be required on alchemy, spagyrics, telepathy, exorcism, ceremonial and evocatory magic, basic theurgy. As for genuine occultism, I would advise exploration of the fields of early cabala, Brahmanism, gymnosophy, Memphis hieroglyphics-
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kind of thinking of William Carlos Williams here a little bit
sparse poetry, every word chosen carefully
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Except I wasn't getting paid by the chapter, I was just young and confused
It was my finest creation...and my deadliest.
It's what he goes by on twitter, this is not a big reveal
but "azot-" in species names and stuff refers to azote, which is just un-occult french for nitrogen
bo-ring