Joe Cecil

"True" parameters

I suspect the idea of a "true" parameter is sort of a lie. A random Cross-Validated/Stacks Stack Exchange person agrees with me, and the other answer is sort of similar, so I don't think this is too outlandish. It is sort of true enough for

Species of code

(Half-hearted humor. The images for each section might be the best part.) Code comes in a variety of species. Some species live less than a day, a week, or a month by nature. Shell command It's easy: Just type a command into Bash, cmd.exe, fish. Lifecycle: Seconds,

Review: "A Family Supper"

For a book group I'm in (book), I recently read the short story "A Family Supper" by Kazuo Ishiguro. It's a good short story. I recommend it, it's a good short story and well-written. It's a nice character piece for

The wrong kind of question

There are some things I enjoy explaining in some contexts, and other things and contexts I don't enjoy explaining. Even sticking to non-responsibility or non-relational explaining, there are things I don't seem to like explaining. For example: I seem to like explaining math, in some sense.

Invisible society? Love letter?

(making words up, trying to gesture at something) There's a certain kind of Internet writing trope I notice. It's a trope of subject matter, or maybe of framing. I think of it as "the invisible society." It's like a secret society, but

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