2024-05-04

Activity Log

hackers.town: 2024-05-04 Sat 07:51

Ah good I am getting many terrible project ideas this morning. Generally my clue that I have processed the latest sad-making news (this week, the job rejection) sufficiently.

Have known enough depressed and bipolar people to feel I’m neither. My emotions nearly always match up to obvious situational factors. But thanks to neurospicy emotional dysregulation it is a roller coaster. A roller coaster at one of those theme parks that got closed after too many people died or were seriously injured.

I learned to keep my head and arms inside the coaster at all times and wait for the latest ride to end.

hackers.town: 2024-05-04 Sat 08:02

https://hackers.town/users/lori/statuses/112383403897188010

hackers.town: 2024-05-04 Sat 09:59

@thegibson @earthshine I can remember the exact line in Attack of the Clones that lost me for the whole series. It was Yoda commanding “Attack those Federation starships”

Sitting in the theater and my eyes rolled so far back that by the time I could get them back in place, Revenge of the Sith was at the local Blockbuster.

Like

The whole thing was unforgivably bad because of Lucas thinking he could direct (EDIT: or write) a love story. But something about that line jumped out at me, given the Star Wars / Star Trek beef of the time.

hackers.town: 2024-05-04 Sat 11:12

filling out a fairly in-depth impairment questionnaire for neurospicy job seekers and BTW

I got awkward anecdata for my fellow misophonics — that thing where loud or discordant noises trigger a strong emotional response?

I developed moderate-to-severe hearing loss in one ear over the last year, and that side still responds badly to audio triggers. Can’t hear the damn thing, but my inner eardrum or something is sure to let me know HEY THERE IS A BAD NOISE HAPPENING OVER HERE

yaaayyy

hackers.town: 2024-05-04 Sat 13:55

hm

calling pandoc a thousand times takes a bit

hackers.town: 2024-05-04 Sat 14:07

Well there’s step one done.

Now I need to link them.

hackers.town: 2024-05-04 Sat 14:51

small survey sample, but:

“Being a man and having sadistic and psychopathic personality traits accounted for about 29 percent of the variance in the preference for loud vehicles.”

Imagine my shocked face. Picture me being very shocked.

Now picture the opposite of that, because that’s where I’m at with this.

Study Links Preference For Loud Cars to Some Unsurprising Personality Traits ScienceAlert

hackers.town: 2024-05-04 Sat 14:55

@tk my grampa’s first chopper was a Triumph. I much preferred its sound to the Harley he got later.

hackers.town: 2024-05-04 Sat 15:10

Took the pypandoc invocation, which calls out to pandoc. Stuck it in a multiprocessing pool. Added a file cache layer.

Timed execution to process 927 notes went from 10m50s to 1m45s first run, 0.5s for additional runs. Could probably do better, but it’s good enough to make this more complicated and start regretting new regrets.

hackers.town: 2024-05-04 Sat 15:15

The cache is just for pandoc output so far. There’s a lot of potentially fiddly changes to be made, but that initial md → org conversion is both the most expensive action and the least likely to vary output between batch runs.

hackers.town: 2024-05-04 Sat 15:42

@n1vux importing an Obsidian vault to org-roam, using pandoc for the md -> org bit.

pandoc-server would probably do the job nicely!

hackers.town: 2024-05-04 Sat 17:45

I’m not exactly going full hyperfocus mode on this. I do a thing, wander off, maybe apply for another job, come back and do another thing.

Anyways got filetags in based on section of source vault. org-roam-ui can color-code the tags, so the still-disconnected graph is a little prettier to look at.

hackers.town: 2024-05-04 Sat 18:25

sometimes my feed just turns into everybody individually getting into some special interest hyperfocus and sharing as they go

it is magic

hackers.town: 2024-05-04 Sat 20:26

@ElleGray heck I’m sure he’s been asked his opinion about random rap beefs before. Lord knows he’s outlived enough of them. Some of them literally at this point.

hackers.town: 2024-05-04 Sat 20:27

@GeoffWozniak I’m currently pasting links into Logseq with a plugin to grab titles, then tag with the appropriate topic / page for later sorting.

hackers.town: 2024-05-04 Sat 20:36

@GeoffWozniak yah, a design by non-designers, for sure. And it’s just a local note-taking app, because that’s all I need for my bookmarks. Tried a few of the online bookmarking sites, and it just kept turning into a graveyard of ignored links.

hackers.town: 2024-05-04 Sat 21:00

Yeah that mostly works. Some links didn’t get picked up, but I’ve established that it’s possible to convert my overly complicated Obsidian notes to overly complicated Org notes.

Need to copy over asset files, ensure missing links are caught, do a quality check on the pandoc conversion, and — oh I don’t know — maybe think up an actual #OrgRoam note-taking and publishing workflow.