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hackers.town: 2024-05-14 Tue 06:56
Been thinking “I’d like to learn Go” for — when did I see that talk by @briandorsey? Ten years ago? Twelve? It wasn’t last week I know that much.
I poked enough to understand basic structures, but that’s it.
Yesterday in the middle of writing Python code, brain goes “Bored now. Let’s do this in Go,” and by this morning I’ve got ten pages of notes, and have absorbed more practical information about the language than in the previous decade.
I honest to god do not understand #ADHD brain.
hackers.town: 2024-05-14 Tue 09:35
I do know what prompted the “bored now” though. It’s a motivated boredom, that happens when something is harder than it needs to be with the given tools.
Multiple times it’s resulted in me using an entirely different framework or language to finish the job correctly. (and multiple times it’s gotten me in trouble for doing that because the framework / language was part of the spec, not an implementation detail)
Anyways this time “this” was setting up a project I might want to share, which Python is infamously confused about.
hackers.town: 2024-05-14 Tue 13:31
Reboot after a Windows cumulative update, starting the timer for “too annoyed / bored by latest change; must reboot into Linux”
hackers.town: 2024-05-14 Tue 19:09
Lord. I always forget how much slower Windows is with compilation and file access stuff until I run the same code on (a local checkout of) the same files from the Linux partition.
A trivial Go test suite finishing in 0.2s or so on Windows. Didn’t think much of it. blip-done on Linux. Had to time it. 0.001s. Had to run go test -v to reassure myself it actually ran.
hackers.town: 2024-05-14 Tue 19:18
Seeing a meme that’s funny but assumes folks older than a Millenial have seen a functioning economy, and I feel compelled to blurt again that even for the olds — I mean the really olds including Gen-X me, my boomer-age mother, her Silent Gen dad, etc — how functional that economy was depended a lot on who and where you were.
But yeah I’m old enough to remember the middle class. They didn’t talk to us much, but I remember them.
hackers.town: 2024-05-14 Tue 20:09
Aiming for a mellow evening.
#NowPlaying
Jazz and All That by Sachal Studios Orchestra
hackers.town: 2024-05-14 Tue 21:39
Both the cats sneezed at the same time and startled each other.