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There’s fungi that are eating the pacific trash patch, but the issue is that there’s not much energy to be gained from plastics we use. It’s slow.

I’m happy to hear you found something that works. I tried this before and just like every other thing, I forgot about the notebook after a week of it kinda helping. More of a me problem here, though.

Well yeah. Most ND stuff is just normal stuff but turned up to 11.

“Normal” people worry about having locked their door, but OCD will make you go back three times and double-check, even if you’re late somewhere.
“Normal” people get thoughts by association, but ADHD will make you throw the original thought over your shoulder while you’re still having a conversation about it.
“Normal” people may have issues interpreting unfamiliar social cues, but autism is socialguessr on hard mode.

etc.

Yup. Getting tired of people saying “just write notes and reminders!”

Okay, my brain immediately deleted the memory of the reminder once it popped up, now what.

Literally me. I should get to setting this stuff up, probably.

Man, I love lua, but after switching to a different job on typescript I feel like lua could only benefit with a similar type system. So many bugs avoided just because I know for a fact what a function returns and expects.

In my experience, it was an attempt to prune the stuff in old API that wasn’t useful. A successful attempt, since the backend working on it was in the same room as me and I could yell at him.

So you just gave him an excuse to go have a coffee break and wondered why he didn’t care? :P

You can make it mutable really easy, too, if you need to for some reason. Most stuff you need is available off flathub, but some applications you may want have to be installed the old-fashioned way.

This is kinda my experience. If there’s an extension keeping track of schema and linting, it’s alright.

If you’re doing it by hand, well, good luck.

My personal favourite way to make configs is lua. But that’s neither here nor there.

Man, the variable scoping thing is insidious. It will never not be weird to me that ifs and loops don’t actually create a new scope.

And then you try to do a closure and it tells you you didn’t import anything yet.

Personally, I prefer duplicate keys to be eaten by the parser but I can see how it’d be beneficial to prevent them.

Yeah, I remember when I was trying to parse XML into some lua tables and it forever stumped me how to represent something like

<thing important_param=10 other_param="abracadabra"> stuff </thing>

You just have to have different ways to turn different tags into stuff in your program and that’s a huge amount of overhead to think about when all I want is a hash map and maybe an array.

It’s inconsistent and annoying. Expressive, yes. Gets it’s job done, yes. Absolute nightmare of a spec, YES.

The fact that JSON is a subset of YAML should tell you everything about how bloated the spec is. And of course there’s the “no” funny things.

Personally, my favourite way to write configs was using lua (because it was already part of the project so why not), but JSON does fine.

Yeah, it’s pretty difficult to find energy for personal programming stuff when your dayjob is programming stuff.

Gotta get up from the PC for a bit.

Chernobyl isn’t safe safe, it’s just safe enough for wildlife to survive there, possibly with lowered life span and quality of life.

Also, there’s a decent danger of radioactive dust coming off the book if it’s handled. It may not be that radioactive, but if it clings to you, or you breathe it in, it will do considerably more damage than if it was all one solid rock that made geiger counters click.

Anything an API returns should just look like 1720533944.963659 .

There’s no reason to store dates as anything other than UTC. User-side, sure, timezones are useful. Server doesn’t have to know.

It makes gray look red because it’s similar luminosity. White still looks white.

…I was gonna say it took until it was shrunk down to the thumbnail to see red, but nope, it actually has red in it in the thumbnail.

Guess this is specific to how often you see cans of coca-cola?

Here, I put the image through a ditherer (only available colours are black, cyan, white). I don’t see any red at all now.

[edit}

Actually, that “red” is mostly just gray so I played myself here. Still, the luminosity must be closer to red before I detect it as red, white doesn’t do it.

There are usually plenty of choices for ISPs here, actually. But switching between them isn’t likely to give me IPv6 since either they share a magistral or the hardware is just plain old. That, and IPv6 is just not a thing anyone markets.

…and with the current fuckery going on, I doubt many of them have budget for big upgrades. Or maybe even access to hardware to buy.