Towards a Reasonable Approximation

ghc/ghc (most impressive-sounding, but technically easy work in the base library; doesn't even show up in github's activity log, presumably because that repo is mirrored from elsewhere)

nikitavolkov/refined (haskell library)

has2k1/plotnine (python graphing library)

stackbuilders/hspec-golden (haskell library)

lspitzner/brittany (haskell formatter)

yesodweb/wai (haskell library)

chrisdone/intero (emacs package)

mebassett/servant-db-elm-auth-example (haskell/elm sample app; we had no idea what we were doing back then)

ForumMagnum/ForumMagnum (LessWrong 2)

yhat/ggpy (python graphing library)

bellroy/predictionbook (PredictionBook)

mooz/percol (command line app that I thought sounded useful but maybe never used)

Draknek/fcsh-wrap (command line app)

Also most-but-not-all of my own repositories. (Pretty sure I have some that I forked but never committed to.) And several in my employer's namespace that I'd feel weird linking here even though they're public. And two repos I have open pull requests in that mostly seem to be getting ignored: hedgehogqa/haskell-hedgehog (haskell library; would probably be my favorite on this list if the second PR was accepted) and harelba/q (command line app).

More excitingly, I got a bugfix PR merged into util-linux/util-linux, which means when it rolls out I'll have code installed on probably millions of machines.

(Idk why I was being vague and just talking about "the interesting one" without saying what it was. Rn I'm doing it because I can't be bothered to explain, so maybe that's why I did it then.)

I now also have commits in

haskell/aeson (haskell library)

LuanAdemi/toumei (ML interpretability library)

JJWRoeloffs/VimOS (a shitpost).

Briefly some in JJWRoeloffs/advent-of-code-2023, a friend was trying to do advent of code in a different language every day and we paired on day 3 (rust). She didn't have time to do much after that and now seems to have deleted/privatized the repo, so my fork is no longer marked as a fork.

Bodigrim/infinite-list (haskell package). (My commit message "add @since" referring to function metadata seems to have been interpreted as a reference to the github user @SIncE. And now tumblr's doing the same.)

haskell/containers (haskell package)

I'm hoping to buy a place of my own soon, so that would be a natural time to decide "okay, I officially Do Not Live At My Parents' Place any more".

So of course, having had my offer accepted and being asked for documents to prove my address and that I have funds, I realize that a lot of these documents have addresses other than the address I gave them, and this might look suspicious. So I guess I gotta get a bunch of addresses updated before I can get a new address.

Current account: parents' address because I've had it since forever. To update, I needed to go into the app and enable face verification. Now, every time I want to log in to the website, I also need to log in to the app and play with the camera. (Previously I needed to enter a code they'd send to me through the app.) The update seems to take some time; at any rate, has not yet gone through (~1 hour later).

Help-to-buy ISA: address I lived in 2015-2016, because for some reason I was being Conscientous about the address I gave then or something. To update, I needed to install a new app. But at least it was an instant update when I did, and at least I now have one bank statement with my current address.

Premium bonds: parents' address because I guess I was still using that when I opened the account? Updated just through the website, with them giving me a phone call for security.

Credit card: I actually updated this one recently, because "not on electoral roll" was hurting my credit score. But it's no help, because they don't need to see my credit card statement.

Revolut: I updated this one recently too, to be able to give proof of address to someone else. Also no help, because I don't keep enough money here to worry about.

Two stocks and shares ISAs: not sure what address they have, but it's not on the documents they generate, so doesn't matter.

«Hi there. I see you want help changing your address.» I explained my problem again. «I see your address as being updated.» I explained my problem again. «It can take some time to regenerate. Try again tomorrow.»

Tomorrow, to no surprise, nothing had changed. This time I found their phone number and spoke to a human. She said those statements had already been generated but she could generate a new document, essentially three months' worth of statements in one pdf that would have my new address. That would take 24-48 hours to generate. I said I'd have hoped to have it sooner, and she said it's usually less than 24 but they have to say it could be up to 48 just in case. That's not what I thought she meant originally, but okay, that's less bad. It actually came in ~12 hours, and was fine.

Idk, maybe it could have worked? This was all going through my mortgage broker, and I'm not sure how hard he tried - it wasn't really necessary, because I have more than enough in other accounts to fund the whole thing, so mortgage providers don't actually need to know about this one, so we decided not to bother.

But my plan had been to fully drain this one. And I think it makes sense to do that over a period of weeks-or-months, instead of running the risk that I happen to withdraw it all in a market dip. But if something goes wrong, and I need to give proof of funds again, then suddenly I have a mysterious injection of tens of thousands of pounds into my bank account that I can't easy give provenance for. Proooobably not a dealbreaker, but at least a pain in the ass.

So I thought maybe I'd withdraw it all from the other ISA (Vanguard), and then when I'm done I transfer everything from M&G to Vanguard and close M&G. I've been vaguely meaning to do that for years anyway.

I'm hoping to buy a place of my own soon, so that would be a natural time to decide "okay, I officially Do Not Live At My Parents' Place any more".

So of course, having had my offer accepted and being asked for documents to prove my address and that I have funds, I realize that a lot of these documents have addresses other than the address I gave them, and this might look suspicious. So I guess I gotta get a bunch of addresses updated before I can get a new address.

Current account: parents' address because I've had it since forever. To update, I needed to go into the app and enable face verification. Now, every time I want to log in to the website, I also need to log in to the app and play with the camera. (Previously I needed to enter a code they'd send to me through the app.) The update seems to take some time; at any rate, has not yet gone through (~1 hour later).

Help-to-buy ISA: address I lived in 2015-2016, because for some reason I was being Conscientous about the address I gave then or something. To update, I needed to install a new app. But at least it was an instant update when I did, and at least I now have one bank statement with my current address.

Premium bonds: parents' address because I guess I was still using that when I opened the account? Updated just through the website, with them giving me a phone call for security.

Credit card: I actually updated this one recently, because "not on electoral roll" was hurting my credit score. But it's no help, because they don't need to see my credit card statement.

Revolut: I updated this one recently too, to be able to give proof of address to someone else. Also no help, because I don't keep enough money here to worry about.

Two stocks and shares ISAs: not sure what address they have, but it's not on the documents they generate, so doesn't matter.

«Hi there. I see you want help changing your address.» I explained my problem again. «I see your address as being updated.» I explained my problem again. «It can take some time to regenerate. Try again tomorrow.»

Tomorrow, to no surprise, nothing had changed. This time I found their phone number and spoke to a human. She said those statements had already been generated but she could generate a new document, essentially three months' worth of statements in one pdf that would have my new address. That would take 24-48 hours to generate. I said I'd have hoped to have it sooner, and she said it's usually less than 24 but they have to say it could be up to 48 just in case. That's not what I thought she meant originally, but okay, that's less bad. It actually came in ~12 hours, and was fine.

I think this is an overstatement. I'd expect stricter animal welfare regulations to raise the minimum price of chicken, but not to the current price point of ethically raised chicken. Partly because there's more supply of ethically raised chicken, and partly because there'll be more optimization power applied to the problem of "how to raise chickens cheaply and ethically".

I have no particular intuition for where in between the current price levels things will equilibriate, or for that matter what the current price difference is.

I'd also expect other foods that can substitute for chicken to become cheaper/more available, since there's more demand for them. I could imagine that being basically-unnoticeable though.

The first two are chapters 2 and 1 of the same series. (Chapter 3 is awaiting publication and I intend there to be a chapter 4 hopefully by the end of May but I'm not gonna rush myself.) #4 is one I wrote a few years previously but just didn't put on Literotica until I wrote #3.

I agree with the general ranking that #1/#2 > #4 > #3. I maybe think #3 is a little underrated but not much. #s 1 and 2 I really am proud of. My girlfriend and recent ex also think they're great, and they got some very flattering comments on reddit. (#1 got way fewer votes on reddit than #2, probably because it's a chapter 2 and both chapters are longer than normal for the subreddit. Chapter 3 currently has slightly more votes there than #2 there but no comments yet.)

Both the stories in the serial have similar numbers of favorites-per-view, which tracks with them having very similar ratings. But #4 has way fewer favorites-per-view despite also a fairly similar rating, and #3 is in between despite having a notably lower rating than #4.

#2 was at 13 favorites before #1 was published and got 9 after. The others got one favorite each after #1 was published. Between #2 and #1 they got no favorites but that's when #4 got its comment.

My guess would be that that's because #4 is F/m, so a lot of people bounce off without even reading. It says in the summary that it's F/m but maybe a lot of people don't notice that. Or maybe they're just looking for a different style of femdom or something.

But it has more votes-per-view than #3, so that doesn't seem like it can be the explanation. I don't have any other guesses. And I don't have a guess for why #2 has wayyy more votes-per-view than the others.

My guess for why it has lower views than #s 2 and 3 is saying F/m in the summary. And I guess #1 has low views because it's a part 2.

But unless I really missed something, the text of the film doesn't give him any sexuality. He basically doesn't interact with anyone except Cruella (briefly with her henchmen) and doesn't talk about himself much. He doesn't kiss anyone, gaze longingly after or into the eyes of anyone, pull anyone into a closet and come out looking disheveled, talk about banging or wanting to bang guys...

I think the subtext based on how he dresses and speaks is supposed to be: "he's gay, he's not trying to hide it, this is supposed to be obvious to you and it would have been obvious to the other characters even if he doesn't explicitly tell them".

But I actually parsed him as "trans woman but in the 70s". Not sure exactly what caused that - maybe something like, today I don't particularly think of gay people as presenting different from straight people, I do think of trans people as presenting different from cis people, and in the 70s trans people would presumably have presented differently than they do today? Idk. And I don't actually know anything about how "people we'd understand today as gay" versus "people we'd understand today as trans women" presented in the 70s.

(Ally, who is themselves a trans woman except NB, parsed him as gay.)

Also, the actor says "I think it's important to say he is queer because obviously, lots of people were dressed like that at the time that weren't necessarily queer, but in my head, he always was." So acknowledging that it's valid to read him as straight.

So I'm not sure "openly gay" is quite accurate, but I'm not sure how I'd word it differently.

Like people talk about fashion, but... from what I recall all they ever really have to say about it is final judgements? Like, this is good or bad or exiting or boring. Not even very nuanced judgements I think. (But it's been over a month, who knows.)

There's no "this is good because" or "this would be better if". When Artie and Cruella meet and he's seeing if she knows fashion, she passes his tests by recognizing specific outfits, "Celine Dior, autumn collection, 1955" sort of thing.

I don't actually know if high fashion is fake, but it feels like the script writer didn't know either.

Anyway I was reminded of this because I just saw Ratatouille for the first time, which is also built around an art form I don't really get and low-key think is fake. And it's not like the complete opposite of Cruella, but. At least the film (and the characters) know that food contains ingredients! And that it's supposed to have tastes and smells, and that these can combine. It has sound and visuals to try to represent the experience of tasting things.

It never has characters disagree though. There's "this is the recipe / but this is what's good", but that's not what I mean. There's never "we should add X to do Y / no, that would also do Z" or "/ no, the thing we're going for here wants less Y".

But it still feels like there's a lot more substance to Ratatouille's idea of gourmet food than to Cruella's idea of high fashion.

It didn't feel like a deficiency of the film as much though. Partly because the film does have opinions about how the fashion industry works, and those kind of suggest that yes, high fashion is a fake artform. (If the only thing that matters is one person's opinion... it could be that there's something real here that's getting suppressed by a cult of personality, but it could also be that there's nothing real.)

There's also a speech about fashion as fashion that has its own section on wikipedia: «you think you're above this? That shade of blue you're wearing, I can trace its lineage from a particular show years ago to recently appearing in high street shops, we gave you that color and you don't even know it».

Other things about the movie:

It has a weirdly high number of people who I think look like other people. Anne Hathaway looks like Zooey Deschanel. The friend-who's-into-fashion looks like a young Stephen Fry. The journalist love interest looks like Elon Musk.

There's a "in pursuing your dreams you sacrificed the thing you cared about" thing going on. That doesn't feel like a particularly gendered trope to me, but when I try to think of other examples, all I can come up with are Molly in Molly's Game and Glinda in Wicked.