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hackers.town: 2024-02-27 Tue 11:59

Marking the day of Leonard Nimoy’s passing on 2015-02-27 by remembering his greatest moment.

Bruno Mars - The Lazy Song (Official Alternative Video) - YouTube

hackers.town: 2024-02-27 Tue 12:55

on the other hand the LLMs of the world today could use a little more uwu

and finding porn in every sand dune

good times

hackers.town: 2024-02-27 Tue 13:19

Bouncy Dog has no bounce due to a hurt leg, and will be spending most of the day in a baby sling wrapped around me. I don’t think he’ll mind.

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hackers.town: 2024-02-26 Mon 07:50

@adrianh I concur.

hackers.town: 2024-02-26 Mon 09:41

Sudden urge to dust off my Pi4 and set up Taskwarrior sync. A task which shouldn’t take more than half the day.

Ah yes I have an interview in 20 minutes. That tracks for my brain.

hackers.town: 2024-02-26 Mon 09:49

@boris Relevant to my interests, as I look at my PKM toolbox and go “what if this, but native?”

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hackers.town: 2024-02-25 Sun 12:59

The defenses in I’m confused what’s with the project descriptions at httpspkgx.devpkgs · Issue 5358 · pkgxdevpantry · GitHub got me worried.

“it would have been hard to write descriptions and add images to every single package…AI-based image and description generation might be the easiest and probably also the best for everyone approach.”

It’s like “aliens built the pyramids” except “AI built the package manager.” People are coming in without any understanding of community or organizational structure and deciding that instead of ropes and pulleys and a whole lot of human cooperation, they’re gonna use magic space aliens AI.

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hackers.town: 2024-02-24 Sat 06:33

@ElleGray fancy and fabulous

hackers.town: 2024-02-24 Sat 06:39

Hrm. Ladybird browser will be more interesting when I can figure out how to log into hackers.town with it.

hackers.town: 2024-02-24 Sat 10:50

Body not relaying any pain messages but I sure am making a lot more Old Man noises than usual today.

hackers.town: 2024-02-24 Sat 12:53

@kusuriya absolutely not. No news is good news.

hackers.town: 2024-02-24 Sat 16:31

@vees I’m not 100% sure, but motivators for the Akkoma fork seem relevant:

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hackers.town: 2024-02-23 Fri 11:05

Hm. Maintaining the blog and brain in #Logseq could work, with a little massaging by plugins like logseq-page-tags-and-hierarchy and logseq-plugin-short-namespaces

The hierarchy view for posts would be pretty darn long with every post in it.

hackers.town: 2024-02-23 Fri 11:31

logseq-page-tags-and-hierarchy adds a breadcrumb trail for pages in namespaces, which is much easier to deal with than Logseq’s default of SHOW THE WHOLE PATH AND NOTHING BUT THE WHOLE PATH EVERY TIME

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hackers.town: 2024-02-22 Thu 08:19

https://hackers.town/users/lori/statuses/111975794524426964

hackers.town: 2024-02-22 Thu 09:17

@boris you made it!

hackers.town: 2024-02-22 Thu 09:37

@boris That’s all I ask of anyone!

hackers.town: 2024-02-22 Thu 09:39

Daystar found me

(hisses)

hackers.town: 2024-02-22 Thu 10:24

@Rob_T_Firefly that is a good sign!

I didn’t even bother unpacking my backpack at the last in-office job.

hackers.town: 2024-02-22 Thu 11:09

There’s the whole late capitalism aspect of generative AI, but also? I feel it’s some kind of apocalypse indicator that tech money has given up on clean structures, quality code, useful documentation, accessibility, etc.

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hackers.town: 2024-02-21 Wed 07:26

https://hackers.town/users/calcifer/statuses/111969932367748340

hackers.town: 2024-02-21 Wed 10:07

Fiddling about with aWindows Dev Drive. Thought I’d see if it makes any difference building my site. 10 runs each on a warmed-up build (image processing already done)

Yes, but not much. OTOH it’s expected to have a bigger impact dealing with things like package caches. You know, like node_modules with twelve million files.

I may fiddle more in the name of mad science, but I doubt any use case will reach WSL or Linux native.

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hackers.town: 2024-02-20 Tue 09:07

Got some minor productivity done in Linux, thought I’d reboot and try again on the Windows Dev Home thing. Better. Nothing to do with default browser, just Windows being Windows.

Incidentally, WingetUI is pretty sweet. Wonder if I can get its widgets working, or at least showing better error messages.

hackers.town: 2024-02-20 Tue 09:08

apparently taking a screenshot of a window takes a lot of CPU

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hackers.town: 2024-02-19 Mon 06:11

Being unemployed disconnects you somewhat from office holiday schedules. On 2024-02-19 I thought I’d ask Windows Copilot why folks were talking about a three day weekend.

hackers.town: 2024-02-19 Mon 07:56

Every time I type “red-black tree” my brain tries to make me type “red-green tree.”

i mean it does match my engineering style BUT ANYWAYS

hackers.town: 2024-02-19 Mon 10:05

@cestith @IamMrsGeek if ain’t broke, you aren’t trying.

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hackers.town: 2024-02-18 Sun 11:04

@grmpyprogrammer My first paid job was restaurant stuff: dishwasher, busboy, janitor.

The eventual transition to dev was pretty seamless, though it took me a couple years to admit the similarities. Thought i didn’t want to be a maintenance dev, but that’s all there is after oh say a week at best.

hackers.town: 2024-02-18 Sun 11:09

@gizmomathboy @grmpyprogrammer course the shit’s more metaphorical than literal usually, but the responsibilities map.

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