Personal rule #648: if your YouTube thumbnail unironically has an image of your face looking surprised at something, or mouth agape in any way, I automatically assume you're an ass, and the content of the video is hot, low-effort garbage.
@zeh yeah it’s the first time I’ve felt informed about such a vulnerability from the start here on Mastodon. 😊 Seems like all is working as it should. 👌
If I ever design engineering interview questions the #1 will be "how do you rename a file to a different case (but no additional letters) in git/mercurial". Apparently you have to be a Staff+ engineer to do this right.
Finally did a half-marathon as part of my commute run to work today!
Really fun, and I did better than expected (at around 1h 45m 30s).
Not about to make this a habit (doesn't exactly work with my schedule), but since I can never make a > 1h run fit in the weekend anymore, this was a good last resort to test. Might do it on occasion to get a long run in.
@amxmln The articles are so full of fluff with no meaning that it 100% looks like they were written by AI!
I mean, look at this. "Smart contracts powered by blockchain enable self-executing agreements, and when combined with AI, they can autonomously adapt to changing conditions." is a GENIUS sentence that means jack shit.
That's the sort of stuff I read in the few articles that managed to make into my RSS feed.
Web3 / crypto has always seemed to me to mainly attract the ‘cheap money by whatever means necessary’ crowd to be, so I’m not surprised they’re now all hopping onto the “AI” bandwagon. 😅
Thinking today about popular cartoons (e.g. Bluey) and how they can make sense as a videogame. I feel like popular IPs always have to "go big" - there's no space for small, but fun, unpretentious titles anymore. The Nintendo Bluey game tries to be some sort of omnigame, with many minigames.
Which led me to think of "Krusty's Super Fun House" for the NES... it was very very wholesome, really fun, but also focused. I doubt it's possible to have something like that today.
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great (albeit short) memoir, full of introspection and interesting thoughts on running.
This is the book I wanted to read and didn't know. It's an awesome read about running, writing, and the author's own mind. I found myself nodding in agreement to him too many times, thinking "damn, this guy gets me". Pretty inspiring as well.
I haven't read any of Murakami's books yet, but after this, I'll really have to!
Is there any sort of database/dashboard that shows how "popular" certain modern C++ features are? Something that, say, parses GitHub projects periodically and says "5.3% of codebases are using C++ modules", "26.9% uses concepts", etc?
@zeh C++20 modules work fine in reasonably new gcc builds (there's patches for older builds to enable the intermediate format) and CMake > 3.28 (patch available for 3.27 line). It's only VERY recently IDEs supported them well though, prior to the past 6 months or so it required lots of patches to even be able to use them, and the standard library isn't fully compliant yet either so in practice you still have to use a lot of headers, so tooling is still catching up before you'll see it more
This is going to sound like preaching to the choir, but,
I've now been using kagi.com as my only search engine (paid subscription) and I'm floored about how good it feels.
I had been using DDG before which was in itself a better alternative to Google (despite some underwhelming results in some very specific cases).
But Kagi feels like an order of magnitude above. I haven't had to do very hard searches, so it's hard to compare directly with others, but the day-to-day use is just ... amazing.
@zeh I tried it but it was so slow to the point that I couldn’t continue using it when I’m so used to the speed of Google. I do quite a lot of image searches too which were even slower.
I wonder what's a good Mastodon client for Android nowadays.
I have been using Tusky for a while and it's a good app in general, but it has some annoying bugs (when previewing images) that have never been fixed, which makes me assume development is abandoned.