2024-05-23

Activity Log

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 05:20

@matthiask Out of curiosity, which distribution and which card?

EndeavourOS (Arch-based) plus Ti 3070 went smooth for me, but I know there’s a lot of variation.

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 08:56

The thing I’m dreading more about the move than heat, more than scorpions, more than rattlesnakes:

figuring out my #ADHD med situation living across new state lines and under new insurance that can’t start processing until we’re at the new address.

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 08:59

@antijingoist I switched off of iTerm2 a little while ago as it was already overkill for my needs (and I needed something with roughly the same config across platforms).

Now it’s really overkill for my needs.

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 09:55

Pleased with a rare show of coding discipline on my part.

Doing a thing, ADD (ADHD-Driven Development) style adding a lot of stuff way before the foundation is solid but hey at least I have tests.

Realize the foundation is not solid. Make a “spike” branch to focus on just that core. Decide what’s needed to call that spike done.

Spend several days getting the foundation where it needs to be, only occasionally distracted by unrelated ideas (then rolling back from those).

Actually finish the spike (!?¿ first time for everything I guess)

Merge that back into main, incorporating the tested ideas I’d tried the first time through.

Pause for air.

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 09:57

push to remote

Okay now I can pause for air and get back to being useful in the house.

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 11:33

ADHD is real good for catching important cues in a private conversation you’re otherwise completely blanking out on.

timezones, arson, stuff like that

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 11:54

She, a normal person trying to get stuff done: “What’s wrong with this Web page?”

Me, a computer genius: “It’s broken.”

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 12:16

Direction I’m going with the PKM parsing stuff, starting to realize one of the stopping points will “writing my own linked note application”

which has me thinking about a) wonder if that could be a rent-paying or at least pizza-buying path; and b) a graph data / text processing variant on the very good SSG-as-learning-project talk by @genehack

A static site generator should be your next language learning project | PPT

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 12:25

Bouncy Dog bullying the bumblebees again.

Impressed he hasn’t been stung.

Wondering how much to worry about moving to the land of much spicier bugs.

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 14:44

“opt-in by default”

Opt-out. That’s called opt-out.

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 16:51

Basically gonna have to spend the next week with part of my brain going “are we there yet?”

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 17:05

Looking at the Google AI Overview screenshot via Ars Technica – couldn’t tell you what Google looks like today as I actively avoid it – and thinking back to the search engine I abandoned because Google Beta was so much cleaner and with better Web search results.

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 17:24

Need to set up peertube or something.

For those who partake in Instagram, Bouncy Dog at war with the spicy sky raisins: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7VLQkUvwcW/?igsh=MWdvZmZsOXozdXl3aw==

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 17:26

@WuMargaret well that’s a given. I was evaluating whether the fuckedness was intentional or accidental.

It was fucked because some pop-over wouldn’t load after the page had already done the “lock out interaction on this page and gray the window out” so it was kinda both.

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 17:27

https://hackers.town/users/earthshine/statuses/112493223368220411

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 17:39

So anyways with the spike I disabled the coding assistant (more accurately I’m on the laptop where I haven’t enabled it just yet). Definitely wrote code slower, but better focus and quality. This isn’t a scientific test or anything, since I’m building off prototype code written with the assistant’s assistance.

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 17:41

But the workflow concern there is “focus.”

Coding assistant will readily help you implement any terrible idea the second you start typing in one idea’s direction, then another idea’s direction, then – do you see the neurospicy hazard I’m pointing out here?

Even if all the other many ecological, economical, and sociological issues were somehow addressed, there’s the problem of if ADHD me leans too hard on a coding assistant I’ll paint myself into a corner in like two minutes.

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 17:42

as opposed to my normal pace of twenty minutes

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 18:02

Coding assistant makes a great Yes Man.

I don’t need a Yes Man. I need a “WTF are you even thinking?” advisor.

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 18:03

@maddiefuzz

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 20:38

@genehack that’s borderline what I got when you put one of those copilot thingies in my hand

“you dawg I heard you like parsers so let’s put a parser in your parser so you can parse while you parse.”

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 20:41

@genehack Oh that yeah that’s more what I need.

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 21:37

https://hackers.town/users/IamMrsGeek/statuses/112494209827392361

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 21:37

@IamMrsGeek Beano for cars