Andrew

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2024-07-27 01:28:25

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 I don't know a single person IRL who'd pay any kind of attention to the planet's climate or other hot ecology-themed topics

2024-07-26 23:56:20

an urge to do kernel development in C++ because pissed off by the use of the preprocessor functions for the templates

2024-06-17 04:19:06

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 rather distracting and I don't want my work or workplace to look cool and hip for outsiders — they can be impressed by me using four terminal emulators or eight Emacs windows simultaneously if they feel like so

2024-06-17 04:14:18

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 awe is not the goal, I want it to be unattractive — those are just tools, use them, not look at them
beautiful maul or axe — not my aesthetics

2024-06-17 04:10:15

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 conversely, I want my equipment to look ugly and inspire deep fear

2024-06-17 04:08:16

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 not necessarily, what I had in mind is gluing a bottomless jar to the lid above the logo (say with silicone hermetic)

2024-06-17 04:04:05

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 I wouldn't care too much about making a hole in it, that's what the stickers are for
one could also try something additive and deposit a layer of metal on it with electrolysis, but it's kinda complicated without submersion of the whole thing into a conductive liquid

2024-06-17 03:56:22

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 sandpaper first then

2024-06-17 03:20:03

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 spray paint

2024-06-12 16:56:37

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 what if Atlas was female

2024-06-10 09:10:59

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 I'd much prefer shared fields in substructures to inheritance

2024-06-06 21:32:39

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 I wish I was invited to parties more often than once in fifteen years, then again I don't really enjoy drinking, that may be part of the reason why

2024-06-06 20:50:14

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 Darkseed - I Deny You

2024-06-06 09:41:35

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 Peter principle perhaps
though I no longer freak out about the amount of parasites out there, and the resources wasted due to them, I'm just trying to take my fair share and let others divide the rest however they can

2024-06-04 21:47:38

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 then install NixOS or say Arch

2024-06-04 20:09:47

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 FreeDOS, or perhaps NetBSD
who cares, they're going to wipe it off immediately and install Wi***ws 11 anyway

2024-06-02 16:21:11

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 well if she's pretty, she at least does take care of herself, and must be deeply interested in something

2024-05-28 23:42:56

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 isn't there a structural diff tool for yaml, if they insist on this format

2024-05-28 23:32:34

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 that was a sarcasm, and yep I often want to add -w but for e.g. Python and YAML it'd defeat the very purpose of diff'ing
I still often use Org-mode's hierarchical checklists, but they aren't for diff'ing (unless git diff)

2024-05-28 22:57:03

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 but YAML files and diff are completely different things, AFAIK

2024-05-13 23:45:25

(System)Verilog, Java, C++, and C may be bad in so many ways, yet I can't help but regard Python and everything written in it as a toy — easy to start with and get some satisfaction quick, learn the basics, but unfit for any serious purpose where the stakes are high enough
more or less like a breadboard, if this makes sense

2024-05-12 01:51:15

all the popular psychology videos on YouTube say you should be aware of narcissists and sociopaths and run if you encounter one, but what if you're both a narcissist/sociopath

2024-05-09 22:19:49

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 well I don't use asymmetric mice or QWERTY so

2024-05-09 22:11:00

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 indeed, though I don't need a numpad on the left because there's the mouse in my left hand
also I would like a numpad for hex numbers

2024-05-09 14:36:22

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 e.g.
begin
<four spaces>item1
<no spaces>item2
<two spaces>item3
<two spaces>end
<EOF>
I mean this^ can't be made by accident (or can it) but what the author was trying to say, I don't get it

2024-05-08 22:19:57

still I also probably should learn some jupyter notebooks and numpy etc., because all the cool kids are now on it, and I must look like a dinosaur with my beloved org-mode

2024-04-26 04:44:48

in some Linux distributions (e.g. Ubuntu and Mint, not the proper ones) GCC may fail to find the symbols to link against shared library if you put the -l option before the sources — really have no idea why they keep breaking programs like this, could be incompetent or just evil, not sure

2024-04-24 23:32:54

saying that proprietary software is bad and shouldn't be used is just too obvious, but I keep wondering why it has to be so poor quality, fragile, bloated, etc.
perhaps because mono- and oligopolism — it always leads to bad results but with proprietary s/w it's especially easy to set in
then again what am I supposed to do about it
- donate time and/or money to the FLOSS alternatives
- invest into reverse-engineering: learn it myself and get to know the experts and specialists in this
- what else

2024-04-24 09:02:31

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 governments are responsible for specification and private companies for implementation, governments shouldn't do anything by themselves except what it takes to enforce the rules of the specifications

2024-04-22 23:41:23

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 any kind of "paradox" means the terms aren't defined properly — if they were, there would be no "paradoxes"

2024-04-21 23:46:59

love and jealousy always come together, there can't be one without the other

2024-04-20 21:56:21

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 I know girls who'd put on makeup like this when they go outside to ward off shallow men who imagine themselves as awesome pickupers

2024-04-20 21:42:33

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 gf stands for god forbid~

2024-04-18 23:02:59

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 no this would not be allowed anywhere here, this is one sure way of getting fired very quickly, no matter how well you perform

2024-04-18 21:55:47

I've established a polyphasic sleep pattern: four hours couple times a day, can't sleep for longer at a time
while I myself am okay with that, it's definitely gonna interfere with full-time work and interactions with the colleagues -- gotta get rid of it somehow

2024-04-18 21:28:37

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@npub1c4s…aqv4 meanwhile, what's even the point of making the guns bright and shiny, silvery revolvers etc. -- why even make them visible, anything but black and camouflage seems very impractical

2024-04-14 17:49:04

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 what the community is gonna do
or is that association that needs formal membership and mission

2024-04-13 19:01:13

ad: minimalism is necessary for happiness, less things and tasks make one happier
me: fuck off and keep this bullshit for yourself! everyone knows what is included in happiness and which boxes need to be checked for that

2024-04-11 15:14:17

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 not AFAIK — the rockets are only used to get the payload out of the atmosphere ASAP (almost vertically, along the meridian) and then the payload is accelerated tangentially, moves to it's proper orbit, where it adjusts it's speed and altitude to the prescribed values

2024-04-11 15:05:21

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 space rockets are only launched along the meridians (towards the equator), generic ballistic missiles though may be launched in all directions

2024-04-07 00:23:16

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 looks like just broken USB cable, replace it or split it in half and resolder

2024-04-05 14:15:06

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 Go is fairly mediocre language, missing a lot of recent (last 50+ years) developments in PLT, and I don't really understand how someone may be a fan of it, but I guess it doesn't matter what I think as long as webdevs finally use static typing, whatever works

2024-04-05 00:50:33

(not sudden) realisation: Go is basically how to take C, slightly augment it, and then successfully market it to webdevs; unlike it's predecessor as dominant GPPL for backend devs, Python, Go has static typing, it's still an improvement, just like Python was an improvement over PHP due to strict typing
I still don't want to learn it, just like I wouldn't learn PHP or Perl, but I also shouldn't hate on it, generally hating on PLs and other standards looks super silly from my current perspective

2024-03-30 18:29:08

whenever I try to play¹ something for others (bass guitar, piano), or show them music I like, I confirm that people en masse don't care about polyphony, chord progression and such, but timing — it better be a simple melody played on only a few notes but with a perfect timing than taking any complex chords
¹ I'm very lame, not a musician, but still occasionally I may try

2024-03-22 17:51:31

for now I just don't have any interesting thoughts, and I guess nobody really wants to read about my frustration, it's all so old

2024-03-12 15:28:54

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@npub17es…clcm maybe trying to do for Ada wat Guido did for Lisp — people complained about too many parentheses, and he made a Lisp dialect without paired syntactic elements as such

2024-02-15 22:13:12

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@npub1c4s…aqv4 how about guys wearing construction workers' uniform?
something like blue suit + red cask, or yellow vest with reflective stripes

2024-02-15 22:09:46

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@npub1c4s…aqv4 how dare you doubting the authority
you're supposed to trust any officially looking papers, officially sounding speeches, and anyone wearing a uniform

2024-02-15 17:26:22

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@npub1c4s…aqv4 all western "explanations" I've ever seen are completely wrong, they all prefer simple and catchy "reasons", not even mentioning military strategy and stuff
speaking of mixed bathrooms, I never understood how is that bad *provided the cubicles themselves are properly isolated* (not the literal american toilets, just one bigger instead of two smaller) — this would be overall more flexible and the resources would be used more efficiently

2024-02-15 00:23:04

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 the mistake I often make is not allocating enough space — filesystems later need to be resized (grown up), and swap turns out to be small, compared to increased RAM size (sure I could avoid swap in the VM altogether, even give the VM more RAM than the host has, but it's going to be slow… the VM itself knows better what to swap in and out)

2024-02-15 00:16:47

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 while I'm at it, I should actually prepare a few VM images with popular distributions and don't forget to snapshot them right after installation — my future self will be grateful, I suppose
lately I also think a lot about making software being shit somebody else's problem, what if I could use other people to deal with the software while I myself focus on the people themselves and touch computers less
if I got a job where I could just talk to somebody almost all day and get paid more than as a "developer", I'd probably like it

2024-02-14 16:13:04

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@npub1c4s…aqv4 pasteurise the entire phone, it must be full of pathogens

2024-02-11 17:58:45

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 I thought "64" refers to a system having full 64k words of RAM~

2024-02-11 15:57:14

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 well I'd only drink it for an effect, don't like the taste, especially black one

2024-02-11 15:53:57

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 good, even as just stimulant it's still better than coffee

2024-02-11 15:52:05

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 pre-workout mix helps against the headache, unlike coffee

2024-02-11 15:48:40

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 beta-alanine works better for me

2024-02-09 19:33:55

me: *updates profile on a site matching companies with candidates*
site: let us test you, let us educate you!
me: no, fuck off, my education is none of your business, just let me filter pls

2024-02-09 15:40:02

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 any recommendations? as far as I've noticed most of it is utter trash, but maybe there are gems I'm just unaware of

2024-02-09 15:26:46

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 oh, guess the idiot fits me the best

2024-02-08 17:25:13

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 my eyes would respond "no you won't"

2024-02-08 17:22:03

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 would be fun if this is the place pentagon was once hacked from

2024-02-08 17:16:05

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 indian microcredit organisation perhaps

2024-02-08 15:21:26

"(Original Mix)" must be referring to what the musicians drank while making the song

2024-02-08 15:13:28

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 some organisms don't poop but excrete with sweat

2024-02-07 19:20:17

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 just moving to somewhere with near tropical climate would be way more practical, California maybe?

2024-02-07 19:16:11

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 still I'd much prefer winter with snow than "winter" when it's only raining all the time

2024-02-06 17:50:39

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@npub1c4s…aqv4 the HRs doing essentially OSINT on the candidates — wonder if that's the norm or that's just me who wasn't surprised

2024-02-06 13:48:21

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 @npub1c4s…aqv4 still BSDs' code must be older on average because BSD folks are very reluctant to rewrite anything from scratch (except RCS and CVS…)

2024-02-06 13:42:26

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@npub1c4s…aqv4 whatever deals with ancient hardware and other protocols
for PC it's the parts dealing with BIOS and "protected mode"
for protocols it's stuff like sendmail and bind
BSDs could actually contain more of and older code than Linux or Windows (they both appeared only in the 90s)

2024-02-04 15:58:19

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 one can still be gay without being married, but one cannot be married without being gay

2024-02-04 15:45:28

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 all married men are gay, otherwise it makes no sense -- so many self-imposed restrictions for what sake, if not just to make right impression

2024-02-04 15:05:21

outliers:
in a lab the experimenters measure the height of a human, people come, get measured, and leave, the experimenters enter the data and rebuild the histogram
then suddenly somebody enters the lab riding a horse, the experimenters don't notice it and measure the person's height without him/her getting of the horse
then things get back to normal
#statistics

2024-02-03 14:09:47

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 @npub1lc8…92pf I wouldn't call it proof-assistant though — it has no tactics or any interactive features (relying on emacs for proof search can't be taken seriously)
if it's not to write actual programs then I don't really know what it's for, other than 80-20 reimplementation of something that existed before with reduced functionality

2024-02-03 13:33:04

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 @npub1lc8…92pf looks like they've already fixed some of these issues with agda
and these minor details still make it bad for teaching, for example (confusion matters)
I also can't help but wonder why they decided to keep and introduce such quirks if not to ward off those who reasonably care about there details
anyway, I'm only willing to consider haskell as compilation target — just like javascript or x86 assembly, nobody should write it directly by hand

2024-02-03 10:47:22

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 @npub1lc8…92pf it needs using single colon for type annotations and double colon for conses, not calling generic monoid operation "append", not calling "data" what isn't in fact a data, and lots and lots of other such things
OTOH, given it's semantics the programs written in it must indeed run faster on highly-parallel systems

2024-02-03 09:57:35

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 @npub1lc8…92pf agda at least looks saner and more competent than vanilla haskell

2024-02-02 22:02:48

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 prison, probably, or deportation
I'm also wondering why the plutocrats haven't implemented it anywhere yet, this would obviously benefit them w.r.t. taxes and they surely could

2024-02-02 18:08:21

lots of cute girls everywhere

2024-02-02 14:00:02

UBX — Universal Basic eXpense
single tax paid by every adult, no matter whether they work or how much they make, the amount is defined as fraction (say half) of average income determined by estimates derived from large amounts of data collected about the residents

2024-02-02 13:48:00

books written some hundred years ago describe society which is exactly today's up to minor details, except technologies are different (more horses, less cars, more candles, less electricity, paper instead of electronics)

2024-01-31 09:46:29

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@npub1c4s…aqv4 what the knob does

2024-01-26 14:25:37

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@npub17es…clcm what is GMail

2024-01-26 13:07:23

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 @npub1w7z…ue4q theoretically regulations first of all reduce scatter, cut off very bad and very good, make everything more homogeneous, IDK how it affects the averages
but definitely not all hospitals are regulated the same, e.g. there are actual hospitals here whose founders basically say they rely on mysticism in their practice
opthalmology not plastic surgery

2024-01-26 12:55:40

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@npub1w7z…ue4q @npub1wc2…4sk7 well there are certified but really incompetent doctors, e.g. recommending painkillers instead of surgery

2024-01-26 12:52:43

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 @npub1w7z…ue4q well, of course I don't trust doctors very much, sure they do mistakes or simply don't care sometimes, that's why everyone should learn the basics and more deeply about their own conditions
still though I observed a lot of programmers who "learned to code" quickly with an online course and found a job afterwards — I'm not impressed with their skill level and they really lack math background, just parroting what's considered best practices by someone else
OTOH I also observed mathematicians who can't even style their code properly (it's basically unreadable until you pass it through an auto formatter and remove large blocks of commented out core)
either way, we can argue whether things should be regulated or not, but practically I have to play by the rules actual now (or get kicked out of the game)
actually I try to think of ideals as little as possible now, only adapt to whatever bullshit other people had imposed

2024-01-26 12:34:54

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@npub1w7z…ue4q @npub1wc2…4sk7 I'd much prefer my doctors and civil engineers designing the buildings I spend my time in not to be just self taught, for programmers it's OK but I don't want to be part of that group

2024-01-26 12:16:24

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@npub1w7z…ue4q @npub1wc2…4sk7 exercises for the topics of the entrance exams mixed with some theory (e.g. I can't just use analytic geometry to solve the problems and need to use the theorems about triangles, ditto complex numbers and trigonometry — it's been 15 years since I finished high school, I may not remember the "right" way to solve the problems), also I need to prepare for language tests (the grammar is quirky even if it's your native language), I also suspect I'll need to write some patriotic bullshit to score high

2024-01-26 11:52:44

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@npub1w7z…ue4q @npub1wc2…4sk7 well, you're not the first one who's surprised

2024-01-26 11:44:02

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@npub1w7z…ue4q @npub1wc2…4sk7 I don't have even bachelor's degree and it bothers me

2024-01-26 11:34:09

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 they aren't exactly tech but stuff for prepping to exams (exercises mostly)
and for philosophy, I can't endure reading or listening to it, novels are fine however

2024-01-26 06:44:44

'nother bunch of books I won't read
(from start to end at least)
https://stereophonic.space/media/22eb94041c352f945dd34193594942766488a56d3dedb205603951ba400d9f27.jpg

2024-01-25 17:42:44

just went ice #skating for the first time in my life
turns out inline skating experience is quite transferable, though I haven't skated in past summer because reasons
still in one and half an hour I was able to basically recall everything, looks like on ice everything is even easier
practiced skating backwards, on one foot, sharp turns, slides, and rotation — can't really do all that well, I'm not a good skater, but still
fell a lot of times, but that's good, it means I pushed myself hard enough, just need to wear another jacket, because it got wet
also I better come to the place earlier, because towards the evening there was a lot of people and, even though I haven't hit anyone, it isn't compatible with tall old guys skating at high speed — I don't need any more enemies
anyway, everything noted, I'll try to do better next time

2024-01-20 14:25:01

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@npub1c4s…aqv4 not much, AFAICT, more like an easy job for somebody who can't or don't want to do anything else other than posting on social medias, but writing bigger articles for populist press would probably pay much better

2024-01-20 14:19:44

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@npub1c4s…aqv4 have you considered working for a troll factory

2024-01-19 20:05:52

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 hmm, I thought counting the hours is a feature of staff employment -- who cares how much time I've spent and when if it's all the same long awaited solution of their hard problems (compliance with new standards etc.)

2024-01-19 20:00:19

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 I though for contract work it makes more sense to negotiate the entire amount and being paid part upfront and part by the completion, after a few months

2024-01-19 19:50:14

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 why not monthly or twice a month?

2024-01-19 19:47:44

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 you're being paid weekly?

2024-01-17 11:32:10

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 make something seem part of the person's identity and he/she'll try to defend it every time with all means available