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zeh, to random
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This WonderMark hits hard in the creative feels https://wondermark.com/c/1548/

diyelectromusic,
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cc

I can't help thinking this relates to some of our questions from time to time :)

zeh, to random
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Personal rule : 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, to random
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Minecraft is such a mind virus for kids.

I played it once with my 4yo for a grand total of about 1h, about a month ago. It's still something he talks about constantly.

Digging a ditch for water on the beach? It's just like what we did in Minecraft. Our house is not big enough? We can build a bigger one in Minecraft.

Today he saw a kid with a Minecraft sweatshirt (the green mosaic pattern) and he knew it was Minecraft. No idea how.

It really explains its popularity past the "it's a fun game".

zeh, to random
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My feed is now 98% about xz with discussions from all sorts of angles. I don't even purposefully follow infosec people.

I wouldn't have it any other way. 👏

amxmln,
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@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. 👌

zeh, to random
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The closest I've come to a mid-life crisis is realizing a lot of the people I admired growing up (artists and such) are complete asses.

Like realizing Iced Earth was led by a conspiracy theory wacko (i.e. got arrested in January 6th's insurrection attempt at the US Capitol).

It's a shame. The band had some amazing tracks.

This just popped up up in my random stream and made me nostalgic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eQ6smosgi0

WTL,
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@zeh @sebastianhahn It's always sad when someone you admire for whatever reason turns out to be a disappointing person.

zeh, to random
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Leaf blowers are the quintessential American tool.

  • Noisy AF, whole street hears it
  • Size range from "quite big" to "so gigantic you need straps on your shoulders"
  • Uses a ton of energy (or even gas!)
  • Creates a fuckton of pollutants around you
  • Doesn't really do jack shit other than push the problem around

Do people assume brooms make you look weak or poor or something? IDK, makes no sense to me.

(I might have said this before. It's a thought I keep going back to every time I see one).

aeva,
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@zeh I always figured it was a hypermasculine thing, but that makes sense too.

zeh,
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@aeva it probably is too... it's always some dude. Should add "phallic" to the list

zeh, to random
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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.

Tearcell,
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@zeh this seriously cost us so much time and rage when we were just getting started on our game... You never forget it tho!

zeh, to running
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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.

WTL,
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@zeh Nicely done!

zeh, to random
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Seeing a new wave of "web3" news on tech circles, as if 2024 is expected to be the year of "web3".

All articles completely devoid of anything meaningful; just crypto mumbo jumbo and colorful wishes sold as predictions.

Who's paying for all this sponsored crap?

zeh,
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@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.

amxmln,
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@zeh yup. 😅

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. 😅

zeh, to running
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zeh, to random
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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.

https://youtu.be/lfypm_5unD4?feature=shared

zeh, to running
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⭐⭐⭐⭐ 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!

WTL,
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@zeh I completely agree; I read this last year and it still comes to mind.

zeh, to cpp
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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?

For comparison, there's plenty of that for Web features (e.g. https://chromestatus.com/metrics/css/popularity, https://trends.builtwith.com/javascript/, many others) but I've never seen it for C++.

(And yeah, I'm curious what the deal is with C++20 modules in the real world).

simontoth,
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@bluGill @zeh Please don't tag mid-thread. It spams everyone following that hashtag.

raptor85,
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@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

zeh, to random
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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.

apq,
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@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.

zeh, to random
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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.

zeh,
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@amxmln @megalodon interesting. Looks good. Extremely similar to Moshidon; they seem to have the same origin. Wonder which one is a fork of what.

Edit: oh, and it seems whatever fork they came from is itself a fork of the official client.

(Awesome, that's a sign of a healthy client/open source ecosystem IMO)

amxmln,
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@zeh @megalodon if I remember correctly, Moshidon is a fork of Megalodon, which is a fork of the official Android app, but I might be wrong. 😅

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