Andrew

dysfunctional programmer
just give me the money and leave me alone

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2025-01-10 15:27:01 UTC

(quick survey, only short and simple answers, without references to a grand economic theory or fancy terms)
why the stupid are rich and the smart are poor?

2025-01-01 15:54:18 UTC

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@nprofile…ynjf maybe she'll like chihuahua then~

2024-12-31 17:53:14 UTC

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@nprofile…ynjf big or small

2024-12-29 23:21:16 UTC

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@nprofile…vrgz only failword

2024-12-29 22:08:20 UTC

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https://stereophonic.space/media/43777f6a71bb77a6e99979aaa90b2070d1e3d5efb385d6a41a7905cd9ab204ac.jpg

2024-12-29 21:38:41 UTC

#handwriting with an #inkwell is so satisfying — I love it when computers with their computery issues don't get in the way: easier to focus on the actual thoughts
I prefer the flat (#caligraphy) nib — for me it's better when the lines are wide and bright, but sharp nibs are good too — you can even dip the nib of a(n automatic) #fountain #pen into the inkwell and the lines will be more saturated
when I was a pupil we learned to write and studied with shitty ball pens which would require pretty high pressure and still produce bleak and often dashed lines
later in high school I bought a cheap fountain #+pen and since then write almost exclusively with them, although the ball pens too have become much better
but an inkwell is even better for stationary use
there are a few thing to take notice of:
- the nibs must be cleaned from anything oily, so wash them at least with a soap and don't touch them with the fingers (or any other body parts)
- don't just refill fountain pens with a syringe — the nib must be submerged into the ink from time to time anyway
- even fountain pens encourage you to write slowly, because the ink flows slowly from the reservoir, while an inkwell encourages you to write fast — if the ink is already on the nib, not moving it quickly enough will produce wet spots and the ink traces on the other side of the sheet — this in effect makes the handwriting better but requires some skill (skywriting of sorts)
- use a dense enough paper (normal office printer paper is good enough, 80 g/cm²) and only write on one side, put another clean sheet under the one you're writing on (if it's not a *book)

2024-12-29 00:50:22 UTC

you can't spell function without fun

2024-12-21 17:25:43 UTC

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@nprofile…ynjf what are the reasons, meteo or drone attack

2024-12-21 15:25:04 UTC

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@nprofile…5k85 the only technique I know is read everything in parallel and save the progress (especially if you're reading a document out-of-order)

2024-12-15 16:48:04 UTC

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@nprofile…ynjf this, and I'd also love new software and hardware being built around this idea

2024-12-15 14:12:18 UTC

there's an idea in computing I particularly like: write-once memory — initially it's clear, can only be written once, but not erased without destruction of the entire medium — like paper and pen, or a PROM, the information doesn't get routinely lost — of course it is assumed that the medium is really cheap and abundant, just not selectively erasable
we aren't quite there yet, but then again there were times when paper and ink were expensive

2024-12-09 20:13:39 UTC

https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2

2024-12-06 14:09:56 UTC

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@nprofile…ynjf this sounds like a corrupt bureaucrat or cheater — can't think of someone feeling it without legit reasons

2024-12-06 13:55:16 UTC

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@nprofile…ynjf I just don't quite understand what it even does and doesn't include, so I can't really tell whether I ever felt it or not
then again, from my intuitive understanding, people who feel it are just full of shit and that's why

2024-12-06 13:44:50 UTC

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@nprofile…ynjf what anxiety even is

2024-12-03 21:42:20 UTC

I've just rebased the MRs for FF merging and #GitLab removed *everything* related to them — reviews, comments, even push history, everything — don't you love Git forges

2024-12-01 18:55:25 UTC

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@nprofile…ynjf "users of heroin" sounds like heroin is a software or hostname

2024-11-24 17:59:02 UTC

used books > new books

2024-11-23 23:44:22 UTC

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@nprofile…ynjf there are no good men just like there are no good jobs

2024-11-23 22:17:03 UTC

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@nprofile…vrgz just one question: *why* it's freaked him out, what kind of difference does it make, it's been 6 months and apparently he's been fine

2024-11-22 00:32:13 UTC

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@nprofile…5f97 SML is kinda better for educational purposes — the concepts are easier to grasp with it, later you can easily switch to OCaml for a more practical (and sophisticated) variant
or you can start with OCaml right away — you can even start right away with Coq and Software Foundations, having only a Lisp as the background, but it's likely to be overly steep
Haskell's only advantage is that the compilers can produce highly parallel programs due to the language's restrictions, but from educational perspective it's complete disaster — if you learn typed FP with Haskell, you're guaranteed to end up with a whole lot of misconceptions about the topics involved, and likely a permanent brain damage

2024-11-14 22:15:27 UTC

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@nprofile…vcde @nprofile…vrgz sounds like one shouldn't reveal too much about oneself, even if it's "psychotherapy", because it's all will eventually become public

2024-09-08 14:47:34 UTC

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 tested with a proper Bluetooth headphones, they all claim up to 20 kHz
some ten years ago I did this test with a different device and the threshold was about 16 kHz, so it's kinda consistent

2024-09-08 14:42:42 UTC

looks like my hearing threshold is now <15 kHz (switching it on and off at 15 kHz doesn't make a difference)
tested with Signal Generator app

2024-09-07 23:05:26 UTC

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 IDK, AFAIR CVS was such a PITA to set up and use I resorted to just copying source trees as directories then modifying them
SVN however was kinda easier to use, still I didn't really have a need for a full blown VCS back then (mid 2000s)

2024-09-03 19:17:25 UTC

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 it may be not the hosting but the browser, wget -c is something a browser developer just can't implement under any circumstances

2024-08-17 01:33:28 UTC

a full adder generally has two extra inputs, carry-out and carry-in, the former to indicate an overflow and the latter to add numbers longer than the adder's width quickly, in this case you set the carry-in bit of the least significant word to 0
this isn't always the case though: e.g. if you subtract two numbers with the same full adder, you use the carry-in to supply the extra 1 after negating one of the arguments

2024-08-16 14:20:08 UTC

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@npub1zdm…g0vj they actually wouldn't place the decimal point but replace it with a letter

2024-08-16 13:03:20 UTC

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 "AI" models too may need "therapy"

2024-07-27 00:08:18 UTC

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 6-string or bass?

2024-07-26 23:28:25 UTC

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 I don't know a single person IRL who'd pay any kind of attention to the planet's climate or other hot ecology-themed topics

2024-07-26 21:56:20 UTC

an urge to do kernel development in C++ because pissed off by the use of the preprocessor functions for the templates

2024-06-17 02:19:06 UTC

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 rather distracting and I don't want my work or workplace to look cool and hip for outsiders — they can be impressed by me using four terminal emulators or eight Emacs windows simultaneously if they feel like so

2024-06-17 02:14:18 UTC

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 awe is not the goal, I want it to be unattractive — those are just tools, use them, not look at them
beautiful maul or axe — not my aesthetics

2024-06-17 02:10:15 UTC

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 conversely, I want my equipment to look ugly and inspire deep fear

2024-06-17 02:08:16 UTC

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 not necessarily, what I had in mind is gluing a bottomless jar to the lid above the logo (say with silicone hermetic)

2024-06-17 02:04:05 UTC

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 I wouldn't care too much about making a hole in it, that's what the stickers are for
one could also try something additive and deposit a layer of metal on it with electrolysis, but it's kinda complicated without submersion of the whole thing into a conductive liquid

2024-06-17 01:56:22 UTC

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 sandpaper first then

2024-06-17 01:20:03 UTC

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 spray paint

2024-06-12 14:56:37 UTC

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 what if Atlas was female

2024-06-09 08:01:10 UTC

since Kant didn't make any sense to me, maybe Schopenhauer will

2024-06-08 12:44:09 UTC

❎ "fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!"
✅ "fuck me, I will do what you tell me!"
rage against the machine somewhere in a parallel universe

2024-06-06 19:32:39 UTC

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 I wish I was invited to parties more often than once in fifteen years, then again I don't really enjoy drinking, that may be part of the reason why

2024-06-06 18:50:14 UTC

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 Darkseed - I Deny You

2024-06-06 07:41:35 UTC

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 Peter principle perhaps
though I no longer freak out about the amount of parasites out there, and the resources wasted due to them, I'm just trying to take my fair share and let others divide the rest however they can

2024-06-05 06:06:06 UTC

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 isn't Gentoo long dead by now?

2024-06-04 19:47:38 UTC

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 then install NixOS or say Arch

2024-06-04 18:09:47 UTC

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 FreeDOS, or perhaps NetBSD
who cares, they're going to wipe it off immediately and install Wi***ws 11 anyway

2024-06-02 14:21:11 UTC

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 well if she's pretty, she at least does take care of herself, and must be deeply interested in something

2024-05-28 21:42:56 UTC

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 isn't there a structural diff tool for yaml, if they insist on this format

2024-05-28 21:32:34 UTC

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 that was a sarcasm, and yep I often want to add -w but for e.g. Python and YAML it'd defeat the very purpose of diff'ing
I still often use Org-mode's hierarchical checklists, but they aren't for diff'ing (unless git diff)

2024-05-28 20:57:03 UTC

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 but YAML files and diff are completely different things, AFAIK

2024-05-18 11:40:04 UTC

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@npub1c4s…aqv4 consider yourself lucky that they haven't seized your smartphone until further investigations

2024-05-13 21:45:25 UTC

(System)Verilog, Java, C++, and C may be bad in so many ways, yet I can't help but regard Python and everything written in it as a toy — easy to start with and get some satisfaction quick, learn the basics, but unfit for any serious purpose where the stakes are high enough
more or less like a breadboard, if this makes sense

2024-05-11 23:51:15 UTC

all the popular psychology videos on YouTube say you should be aware of narcissists and sociopaths and run if you encounter one, but what if you're both a narcissist/sociopath

2024-05-09 20:19:49 UTC

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 well I don't use asymmetric mice or QWERTY so

2024-05-09 20:11:00 UTC

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 indeed, though I don't need a numpad on the left because there's the mouse in my left hand
also I would like a numpad for hex numbers

2024-05-09 12:36:22 UTC

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 e.g.
begin
<four spaces>item1
<no spaces>item2
<two spaces>item3
<two spaces>end
<EOF>
I mean this^ can't be made by accident (or can it) but what the author was trying to say, I don't get it

2024-05-08 20:19:57 UTC

still I also probably should learn some jupyter notebooks and numpy etc., because all the cool kids are now on it, and I must look like a dinosaur with my beloved org-mode

2024-04-26 02:44:48 UTC

in some Linux distributions (e.g. Ubuntu and Mint, not the proper ones) GCC may fail to find the symbols to link against shared library if you put the -l option before the sources — really have no idea why they keep breaking programs like this, could be incompetent or just evil, not sure

2024-04-24 21:32:54 UTC

saying that proprietary software is bad and shouldn't be used is just too obvious, but I keep wondering why it has to be so poor quality, fragile, bloated, etc.
perhaps because mono- and oligopolism — it always leads to bad results but with proprietary s/w it's especially easy to set in
then again what am I supposed to do about it
- donate time and/or money to the FLOSS alternatives
- invest into reverse-engineering: learn it myself and get to know the experts and specialists in this
- what else

2024-04-24 07:02:31 UTC

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 governments are responsible for specification and private companies for implementation, governments shouldn't do anything by themselves except what it takes to enforce the rules of the specifications

2024-04-22 21:41:23 UTC

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 any kind of "paradox" means the terms aren't defined properly — if they were, there would be no "paradoxes"

2024-04-20 19:59:46 UTC

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 some do, but I don't have their contacts anymore

2024-04-20 19:56:21 UTC

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 I know girls who'd put on makeup like this when they go outside to ward off shallow men who imagine themselves as awesome pickupers

2024-04-20 19:42:33 UTC

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 gf stands for god forbid~

2024-04-05 12:15:06 UTC

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 Go is fairly mediocre language, missing a lot of recent (last 50+ years) developments in PLT, and I don't really understand how someone may be a fan of it, but I guess it doesn't matter what I think as long as webdevs finally use static typing, whatever works

2024-04-04 22:50:33 UTC

(not sudden) realisation: Go is basically how to take C, slightly augment it, and then successfully market it to webdevs; unlike it's predecessor as dominant GPPL for backend devs, Python, Go has static typing, it's still an improvement, just like Python was an improvement over PHP due to strict typing
I still don't want to learn it, just like I wouldn't learn PHP or Perl, but I also shouldn't hate on it, generally hating on PLs and other standards looks super silly from my current perspective

2024-03-21 21:03:33 UTC

there's a stupid saying going along the lines of "pain is inevitable, suffering is optional" — I hate it, it's wrong in every respect: pain may and should be avoided, while suffering is never one's own choice
I would however agree that *fear* is optional — no matter what happens, one may still experience fear or not do it, and that's up to a conscious choice

2024-02-08 16:16:05 UTC

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 indian microcredit organisation perhaps

2024-02-08 14:21:26 UTC

"(Original Mix)" must be referring to what the musicians drank while making the song

2024-02-08 14:13:28 UTC

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 some organisms don't poop but excrete with sweat

2024-01-29 06:35:09 UTC

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 eww rope must be a dangerous place

2024-01-26 10:44:02 UTC

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@npub1w7z…ue4q @npub1wc2…4sk7 I don't have even bachelor's degree and it bothers me

2024-01-26 10:34:09 UTC

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 they aren't exactly tech but stuff for prepping to exams (exercises mostly)
and for philosophy, I can't endure reading or listening to it, novels are fine however

2024-01-19 18:50:14 UTC

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 why not monthly or twice a month?

2024-01-19 18:47:44 UTC

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 you're being paid weekly?

2024-01-11 18:40:24 UTC

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 why is it connected to the Internet at all

2023-05-19 22:10:16 UTC

god is cruel and is an asshole, he would break people just for fun, for no other reason than to (presumably) satisfy his curiosity of seeing how the people will manage to cope with the deficiencies