๐ŸŒธ Fri, Jan 26, 2024 ๐ŸŒธ

73 F (23 C) I like it Picasso.


๐ŸŒธ Fri, Jan 26, 2024 ๐ŸŒธ

Recent layoffs in the tech and gaming industry have significantly impacted several major companies. For instance, Microsoft announced 1,900 layoffs, Riot Games 530, Unity 1,800, Twitch 500, and Epic Games 800, among others.

This situation has led me to reassess my perspective on…


๐ŸŒธ Fri, Jan 26, 2024 ๐ŸŒธ

There is a great principle called DRY (don’t repeat yourself). Comments in the code violate that principle. Seriously, I mean it.


๐ŸŒธ Wed, Jan 24, 2024 ๐ŸŒธ

I wish if YouTube had the option to limit videos by no longer than 5 minutes in autoplay. It has a tendency to be stuck in 5-hour long compilation videos or even worse, never-ending live videos.


๐ŸŒธ Wed, Jan 24, 2024 ๐ŸŒธ

What was a design decision to make the click in DAWs tonal, IMO it is distracting.


๐ŸŒธ Wed, Jan 24, 2024 ๐ŸŒธ

Such basic functionality; I just cannot memorize it. Every time I am messing with markdown, I need to disable auto-fill-mode. I am going to put it here so that next time I can look it up here.


๐ŸŒธ Tue, Jan 23, 2024 ๐ŸŒธ

3 days ago, I started doing resistance exercises. I managed to do 6 push-ups; the next day, I was so sore that I could not do anything. Yesterday, I did 10 push-ups, and now I am in pain again. ๐Ÿ˜‚


๐ŸŒธ Tue, Jan 23, 2024 ๐ŸŒธ

Just to make you feel slightly better: it is normal to have 200 unfinished projects with 5 of them in active development.


๐ŸŒธ Mon, Jan 22, 2024 ๐ŸŒธ

Lies are everywhere: 15" CRT screen is actually smaller, 1TB hard drive is actually 70GB smaller, 5% annual interest rate is actually 5.12%.


๐ŸŒธ Mon, Jan 22, 2024 ๐ŸŒธ

TIL: Michelin, the tire company, is the same company that gives Michelin stars to restaurants. ๐Ÿ˜ฒ


๐ŸŒธ Mon, Jan 22, 2024 ๐ŸŒธ

I asked my Muslim friend to pray for me. Maybe this is the hack to switch my life from hard mode to easy mode. I was asking my Christian God, it did not work. So as the true scientist I am, I’m playing with the variables ๐Ÿ˜œ At this point I don’t want to learn how to fish, I nee…


๐ŸŒธ Mon, Jan 22, 2024 ๐ŸŒธ

Sometimes ABBA ratatouille me back in time. In the time when I was a 10-year-old kid and listening to ABBA on the cheap cassette player with the bad speed controller, wobbly tune, and a full 50 Hz buzz in the background.


๐ŸŒธ Sun, Jan 21, 2024 ๐ŸŒธ

TLDR; let’s implement a message queue in Java, oh wait GC is too slow; let’s save data to files instead.

Why not just use a better language (khm, C++)?

https://docs.confluent.io/kafka/design/file-system-constant-time.html


๐ŸŒธ Sun, Jan 21, 2024 ๐ŸŒธ

Two days of rain in a row mean that it is two days of the weekend you decided not to stare at the screen and go touch the grass. โ˜”


๐ŸŒธ Fri, Jan 19, 2024 ๐ŸŒธ

I was watching some videos that explained the quantum many world interpretation. TLDR; there is no collapse of the wave function, but rather a bigger world that is always in a superposition. ๐Ÿค”


๐ŸŒธ Thu, Jan 18, 2024 ๐ŸŒธ

TODO comments in your source code are most likely not going to be addressed. TODOs in the source code are invisible; your producer won’t see them, nor will most of your colleagues. If you want to make TODOs work, you need a tool that will extract them from the code and bug you to…


๐ŸŒธ Thu, Jan 18, 2024 ๐ŸŒธ

What would you do as a teacher if you had gone through all layers of knowledge, explaining the topic for months, and you’re on an advanced topic, and a student asks a question, and suddenly you understand that the student did not get the basics from the very first class?


๐ŸŒธ Thu, Jan 18, 2024 ๐ŸŒธ

Restrictive laws may make criminals more powerful. I was thinking about laws against collecting and selling personal information. Now, good people’s hands are tied by the law, while criminals still freely collect and use personal information. Did you notice that the number of unw…


๐ŸŒธ Wed, Jan 17, 2024 ๐ŸŒธ

I cannot find it anywhere, so I’ll play by memory. Someone asked Richard Feynman: is it possible to make an antigravity machine? And he said, define antigravity? If you define it as a device that cancels gravity, I would say the chair I am sitting right now is the antigravity mac…


๐ŸŒธ Wed, Jan 17, 2024 ๐ŸŒธ

I work a lot, so I hope my kids won’t have the need to work.


๐ŸŒธ Wed, Jan 17, 2024 ๐ŸŒธ

What I have learned over years of software engineering is that if you think it’s impossible, it will happen tomorrow, guaranteed. So now I am thinking everything is possible; nothing happens.


๐ŸŒธ Wed, Jan 17, 2024 ๐ŸŒธ

Windows 95 had multiple releases, or patches on them, one of which was called OSR2. It still had a lot of bugs and crashes; it was a minefield of bugs. Over time, you just learned how not to step on the mines. There was a joke circulating: How to fix all the bugs in OSR2 with a c…


๐ŸŒธ Wed, Jan 17, 2024 ๐ŸŒธ

I like UTF-8; I think it is a good standard. It has some drawbacks, for example, it is expensive to calculate the number of characters in the string, but I think it has more pros.


๐ŸŒธ Wed, Jan 17, 2024 ๐ŸŒธ

I really like how KDE does taskbar buttons; the way I configured them, they don’t have any brainsโ€”it is all manual, and they don’t group. I can’t figure out how to do the same on Windows. If I open two Visual Studios, they stick to each other, and I even can’t swap them.


๐ŸŒธ Tue, Jan 16, 2024 ๐ŸŒธ

I use ChatGPT daily, and while it is often mediocre and produces poor code, I continue to use it to build my skills so that when the technology improves, I will be ready to hit the ground running. It reminds me of the story with Pixar - the founder made a short 3D animated movie …


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