Notices by amy (amy@kokoro.garden)

@sun meh, rewriting stuff in rust is a bit silly and mostly performative but given a drop-in replacement of equivalent code quality, rust is marginally safer.

sudo-rs is pretty high quality and users will complain if you swap out the default implementation with something that isn't flag compatible, might as well use sudo-rs.

@sun Congrats, I'm really happy for you!

@david_chisnall Drivers doing too much in interrupt handlers answers a lot of questions I had about windows..

@sun I used to live by one of these. Never went, it looks disgusting. Especially the weird dessert pizzas.

@scathach its great

@shibao mdns is horrid congrats on the working firewall

@shibao filtering broadcast packets?

@shibao Does French Guiana have one too or is that map just weird?

@sun I would assume that anyone who uses their PDS instance (90+% of the network I'm sure) is subject to their moderation.

@arcana @griffith @icedquinn @7666 @sun aren't you from a noble family

@shibao I ended up doing this out of curiosity and discovered that it doesn't necessarily place you in a micro-community, it discovers exactly what kind of short-form video is most likely to make your turn your brain off and mindless scroll through content. I found the ability of the algorithm to quickly learn how to manipulate me into a vegetative both impressive and unnerving, I will not be installing it again.

Is it possible to buy small freestanding cranes? The problem I am trying to solve is that my house has a lot of storage space on the (flat) roof but I don't want to keep carrying my bikes up through the house. I am looking for basically a shop crane to hoist my bikes up the side but the problem is that all of the ones I see (shop cranes and engine hoists) have a long base in front that will butt up against the wall around my roof.

Looking for suggestions, if anyone has any.

@shibao @sun start racing your motorcycle

@shibao I don't know Dazai that well but I think the meme is just yuri about two japanese political extremists (who apparently hated each other)

@shibao I have seen other people effectively flow back and forth between these two extremes and attain a really high degree of mastery in both personal and professional interests. This works better if your profession accommodates it at different phases of your career. An example I'm thinking of is physicians I know who have something on the backburner during residency and then start working on it in depth when they become an attending. I don't know if software has a similar exit..

@shibao Also IME this doesn't work unless you have the "work hard play hard" mentality, if your personal life is that you just want to chill and socialize with friends work will never be anything but antagonistic to that. If work is instead one thing skill many that you want to hone, it's much easier to allow it to be something that you primarily focus on for a while, and then allow it to ebb into the background and hone your other skills later.

@amerika @anemone @sun who hires former swes for mercs?

I've been doing some boxing recently. It demands much mentally. The mental intensity reaches the same peak in weapon arts, but doesn't require you to stay at the peak very long.
Not having a weapon somehow changes the game, I can't be effective unless I am laser focused the entire time. Finding it really fascinating.

@shibao this is a struggle that I have with my dog..

Today at work I found a slide deck which was purportedly about personal development as an adult, and was actually a 50-slide presentation about the kind of knowledge found in occult tomes, framed in the language of psychological development.
The goal of personal development is framed as development toward the "alchemical self" and it begins with a short lecture on the illusory nature of reality.
Absolutely wild.