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2022-10-07

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hackers.town: 2022-10-07 Fri 06:01

Casually referencing when I imported a few (thousand) files into Obsidian and that other time I used Robot Framework to export from a crappy Web app.

Suddenly recall a 2002 Microsoft interview where they said I’m too much of a hacker and I’d be bored.

ok maybe

hackers.town: 2022-10-07 Fri 06:02

Best brush-off I ever got TBH.

hackers.town: 2022-10-07 Fri 10:52

Anyways yeah we are in a good enough situation that we can do the funds vs time math, so: new video card tomorrow. That way I don’t need a bunch of maybe-hacks to play with Stable Diffusion or PyTorch.

hackers.town: 2022-10-07 Fri 11:28

Oh god auto-save in the newest #NoMansSky update.

I haven’t been this excited since Perl got function arguments.

https://www.nomanssky.com/waypoint-update/

hackers.town: 2022-10-07 Fri 20:36

OTOH sometimes your blog post is the top result for a search and YOU ALREADY KNOW IT’S NOT THE ANSWER FOR TODAY’S QUESTION

hackers.town: 2022-10-07 Fri 20:38

oh wait

actually it was

dammit

hackers.town: 2022-10-07 Fri 21:13

Opened a 196,000 line JSON file and VS Code didn’t choke.

I was gonna be really impressed until I remembered I have 96GB RAM.

But I’m still a little impressed. Not like it’s Vim or anything, but still.