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zalasur

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I play strategy games, write software, and stream on Peertube (not necessarily in that order). Also, sock monkeys! Preferred pronouns: he/him/his.

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dvshkn, to rust
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The difference between using async/await in typescript vs is that the rust compiler routinely asks "are you sure about that??"

More times than not it's a good thing.

zalasur,
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@dvshkn I'm not entirely sure about that. async/await can certainly be abused but they themselves aren't harmful. It's just a coding pattern.

My only main gripe with them is that they tend to hide implementation of the underpinnings of how a Promise is supposed to work. This is by design, of course, but too many developers just throw them around without proper flow control or error handling. Or worse, they don't realize that an async function returns a Promise at all.

zalasur,
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@dvshkn Oh absolutely. 🙂

Mrfunkedude, to random
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So I have this hypothesis that people who never listen to music past their teenage years do so because of a traumatic event in their childhood.

Music became a comfort to them during this time which switched it from being just enjoyable, to being enjoyable plus emotionally comforting.

Hence the desire not to listen to music outside of that comfort zone because any music past that, is no longer comforting and no longer serves a need.

Or not. I don't know. It's just a thought.

zalasur,
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@Mrfunkedude I think there might be some truth to this, but I know a lot of people whose music listening habits stopped at around the age of 17 for some perfectly banal reasons.

I love listening to new music. I also like to go back to the classics I grew up with too, but there's joy in discovering new things that artists are coming out with in 2024.

Whenever someone says, "they don't make songs like they used to" I feel bad because they clearly aren't listening. It's a preconception filter.

zalasur, to random
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Ah ha! I figured out why I was having issues with the rollup tool previously. Once I got past that stubborn error, the rest of the comfort was pretty easy.

I think I'll be able to do that technical stream tomorrow. The web page redesign project is a go!

zalasur, to DwarfFortress
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Today in Dwarf Fortress: The Sinister Start in the Plane of Myth, were gonna stream the setting up of some tree and obsidian farms.

My next goal is to get a cheap and easy supply of wood going for my fort. Wandering outside is too risky due to the smelly goo threatening to send my fortress into a tantrum spiral. So we're heading underground to set up a tree farm. It's a real pain to set this up but it will be worth it.

https://video.surazal.net/w/9HhmDj1WqnkgTzvXKsVKka

#DwarfFortress #Stream #Streaming #PeerTube

Mrfunkedude, (edited ) to random
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Well I was going to go take a nap this morning to make up for the hour of sleep I lost, but seeing as a moving truck has pulled up behind my bedroom window, I don't think the nap is going to happen any time soon.

That sucks.

zalasur,
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@Mrfunkedude We've got people working on their roof nearby. Second day of banging happening right now.

The no nap zone is pretty strong today.

nonfedimemes, to random
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zalasur,
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@nonfedimemes thanks for putting that song in my head 😂

exocomics, to random
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muffin dilemma

zalasur,
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@exocomics The Muffin Conundrum

zalasur, to fediverse
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Today on Dwarf Fortress: The Sinister Start in the Plane of Myth, my citizens has a sad! 😢

I keep sending them outside to build the outside fort and they are getting fed up. But not to worry, I finished the roof so now they con complete their work in a smelly goo-free environment. Or, at least until I decide to build the fishing hut.

https://video.surazal.net/w/9HhmDj1WqnkgTzvXKsVKka




zalasur,
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I was interrupted by a page from work. It looks like a false alarm but I need to respond to it anyways. I'll be back as soon as possible.

zalasur,
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I'm still on the call with the group troubleshooting this thing. We're finding out who we need to page but we also have to give them the correct information when we page them so yeah this is going to take a while. 😭

I'll probably have to resume the stream tomorrow morning. I don't think I'll be free from this anytime soon.

zalasur,
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The call ended a bit after my last post, but we had dinner and watched some RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 9. This is going to be a fun season.

Now, I'm tired. I made the bed and I think I'm going to lie in it pretty soon.

This weekend I'm going to shoot for having the long-awaited technical stream. I need to create a build script for my web dev project so I have to figure that out. Then, I can start writing the front end code. ♥️

zalasur, to random
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I'm going to start a stream shortly. The Fortress beckons.

HamonWry, to random
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So, after all the whining and attacks on the NY election interference trial judge by Trump did he actually go to Barron’s grad ceremony or did he just golf and head for his Minnesota rally?

zalasur,
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@HamonWry My understanding is that he's in Minnesota today, unless I am mistaken

0x47df, to random
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couldn't find the snale in the bushes, i guess it found some food and slimed away

zalasur,
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@0x47df sneaky snail? 🐌

zalasur, to random
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I'm engaging in the kind of procrastination today where there's this important thing I should be doing, but instead I'm doing a bunch of smaller, slightly less important tasks instead.

rodhilton, to random
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How many days do you suppose we have before Dropbox announces they are selling everyone's documents to OpenAI?

zalasur,
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@rodhilton I'm surprised they haven't already

zalasur, to fediverse
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Today on Dwarf Fortress: The Sinister Start in the Plane of Myth, we hit magma! We're producing green glass and are working towards kicking off our steel industry. Just in time, too, because we're now a County and the Count wants fancy rooms! I hope he likes steel walls.

We're upgrading our fortress defenses and will be building an above-ground fort pretty soon, provided the smelly goo doesn't drive everyone mad!

https://video.surazal.net/w/9HhmDj1WqnkgTzvXKsVKka

zalasur, to random
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I wonder if there are any man pages written these days that just say "Please join our Discord"

zalasur, to random
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So, I don't know if this works for everyone, but this might be useful if you have noticed (like myself) how time passes faster and faster the older you get, as if fate wasn't cruel enough.

One simple trick: think in terms of what calendar year things happened rather than how old you were.

It's not perfect but it's better to have that "2020 seemed so long ago" feeling than it is to have that "WTF happened to my forties!?" dread.

hannah, to random
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Floored to discover this wasn't just a weird word Terry Pratchett made up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morepork

zalasur,
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@hannah "The morepork (Ninox novaeseelandiae), also known by numerous other onomatopoeic names (such as boobook, mopoke or ruru..."

Ok now they are just trolling us 😂

GreenSky, to random German
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zalasur,
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@GreenSky I'm sorry, but the only reason George Orwell would be shocked at all about anything happening in 2024 would be because he would learn that Aldous Huxley was right.

zalasur, to random
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I had this moment today:

https://tapas.io/episode/3009766

arstechnica, to random
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Dangerous outbreak in children tied to mixing up irrigation and drinking water

Of 13 children sickened, 7 hospitalized and 2 had life-threatening complications.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/dangerous-outbreak-in-children-tied-to-mixing-up-irrigation-and-drinking-water/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

zalasur,
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@abcderian @arstechnica Irrigation water typically contains animal waste byproducts. I'm guessing E coli.

zalasur,
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@abcderian @arstechnica It was mentioned in the article itself. Sometimes you gotta click through. I know, annoying. But it happens.

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