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2019-10-09

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hackers.town: 2019-10-09 Wed 00:16

Got a new matte screen protector for the iPad. Feels a lot like #drawing on paper. I like it.

Pencil drawing of irregular segmented cylinders

hackers.town: 2019-10-09 Wed 07:12

Watching my Bay Area coworkers adjust their work plans on Slack like it’s a snow day but it’s a no-electricity day.

hackers.town: 2019-10-09 Wed 08:02

The SHA256 checksums took nearly all my program’s CPU time. No surprise there.

Got a thought before bed: this doesn’t need cryptographically secure checksums, just uniqueness markers.

Trying again with MD5 before work while I finish first coffee.

go pprof output showing 83% of time in crypto/sha256.block

hackers.town: 2019-10-09 Wed 08:21

Saved myself about 30 seconds — out of 28 minutes — by using MD5 instead of SHA256. That’s what we call a “learning experience.” okay, time for work.

go pprof output showing 72% CPU in crypto/sha256.block

hackers.town: 2019-10-09 Wed 08:38

@rabcyr I AM SMART

Twitter: 2019-10-09 Wed 09:05

A friend shared a version of this joke after watching me look both ways when crossing a one-way street. So I started writing code for pay.

https://twitter.com/mykola/status/1181361584213544962

hackers.town: 2019-10-09 Wed 10:33

Interested in bullet journals.

So naturally I remembered a thing and I’m looking up information about commonplace books. Because I may not be hip but I’m still a hipster.

hackers.town: 2019-10-09 Wed 13:25

I know it’s because one dog is sick and the other is kind of dim, but current status: trying to figure out a) where to start the cleanup; and b) why people have pets.

hackers.town: 2019-10-09 Wed 13:35

Not like I can be angry or anything. This is one unhappy pupper.

Sad-looking Sheltie

hackers.town: 2019-10-09 Wed 13:39

And this is one dim bulb, currently being startled by the breeze.

Small black dog

hackers.town: 2019-10-09 Wed 15:14

@AFresh1 holy crap.

Twitter: 2019-10-09 Wed 16:42

Right even caffeine isn’t going to get me through the rest of my work day.

Time for emergency measures.

Starts playing reggaeton

hackers.town: 2019-10-09 Wed 16:42

Right even caffeine isn’t going to get me through the rest of my work day.

Time for emergency measures.

Starts playing reggaeton

Twitter: 2019-10-09 Wed 17:30

Am now imagining AR closed captioning that works like this.

https://twitter.com/glassbottommeg/status/1182089143913873408

Twitter: 2019-10-09 Wed 20:16

They’re trying to make it sound fancy but they just have gig economy folks rolling d100 and looking up the results in Arms Law.

https://twitter.com/mark_riedl/status/1182112008889667584

hackers.town: 2019-10-09 Wed 20:33

Don’t get me wrong. Spotify’s math is accurate. Most of these recommendations are in my library.

It’s just that it makes me want to listen to my library instead.

Assorted Spotify “Daily Mix” summaries

hackers.town: 2019-10-09 Wed 20:45

@rabcyr I do enjoy Spotify for binge-listening to a favorite artist. Earth Wind & Fire was my most recent.

hackers.town: 2019-10-09 Wed 22:57

https://hackers.town/users/Agrippa/statuses/102936471842505125

hackers.town: 2019-10-09 Wed 23:11

The Leuchtturm comes with stickers.

Labels.

Whatever.

Pocket notebook labeled “POCKET BOOK OF STUFF I NEED TO KNOW like even when i can’t get my note files or ipad or google? sure yeah ok”

hackers.town: 2019-10-09 Wed 23:40

Wondering if folks have a favorite place online for printing / selling stickers of their #art (or even just random doodle #drawing)?

hackers.town: 2019-10-09 Wed 23:42

I already have stuff on Design By Humans (shameless plug follows) and it’s great, but I was pondering larger sticker runs for myself & maybe others.

https://www.designbyhumans.com/shop/randomgeek/