If I had a dollar for every time my mom tried to literally convince me that I wasn't in fact me, but was an impostor planted by aliens… I would have one dollar.
Yes, it did happen. I was twelve.

Completed 2000 problems on Leetcode over a span of 3 years

This year feels weird for some reason….

That moment when you can re-use code you wrote years ago, and it still just works

I asked my wife to make bacon wontons. Yes, they turned out very good. Would request again.

Somebody want to bet that by next year, the US governement is a LLM and nuked the world? I bet 10 euros in btc.

I can even do 3-to-1.

Procastinator's tricks to be productive: Schedule messages

I hate to write people. They could answer. My whole plan might be thrown off. But when is the best time to answer them? The day after tomorrow? Too late. Tomorrow. Around 10? Thank you to all messengers that allow me to schedule a message. Instead of procrastinating, I answer, I schedule, and if I am in a bad mood, I later come back and abort and rewrite the message nicer.

Went perfectly swimmingly with my happy new year messages. Everyone got them at 00:00. Yes my friend, you're obviously the most important thing in my life, first thing I did was writing you!

Never put an optimist in charge of the money.

Ideally they shouldn't be in charge of anything, but especially not the money.

Age of empires, best game ever

Fucking exercise equipment vendors... I have contact at least 3 vendors to ask technical questions about their products and I NEVER get a reply. Do you not want to sell anything you gigantic ass fucks?!

It looks like these vendors are finally standardizing on a bluetooth communication protocol called FTMS. Apps and desktop software are using this protocol to allow all sorts of devices to just work with their software. So I asked a vendor today that connects to 2 competing software systems. Do you support FTMS protocol? Radio silence. Maybe they are in a different time zone on the other side of the planet. But what is the excuse of the other 2 companies?

BTW, FTMS is really cool. You can turn a tread mill on and off with it. I so want this connected to Skyrim.

I hate Vim and trying to install plugins or just do anything in general beyond basic usage so I’ve instead installed the vim plugin for vscode.

Actually FUCK managing dotfiles and dotfolders the size of programs themselves just to get a language server connected.

Vim stans can suck my dick

Ya know how the brits stole all the words from the parisians (the "french"), so that some words are false friends and are exactlty the same yet means different things because brits and french are inferior kinds of being?

How a "regime" mean a dictuture in english but it means "diet" in french so when they speak about the kim jung un regime I'm like "ahah did he lost the bacon yet??"

Finally added UI to pick a reason for downvoting in JoyRant :)

This is your yearly dystopian reminder that Wordpress enjoys a 43.5% website market share. I think it was lower last year at around 41%. So it grew I guess.

https://demandsage.com/wordpress-st...

And they say web dev isn't a real programmer job...

Full disclosure: I think php is fine.

In my EOY performance review/summary, I told I would only receive (along with everyone else) the standard cost-of-living increase of 3%. I'm OK with that, with my tenure/seniority, 3% is a good bump, but I had to make a comment.
Me: "With Biden's inflation between 7% and 10%, its actually a pay cut, right?"
Boss: "Yea, I know."
Me: "Our insurance went up around 5% and they cut some of the benefits, so that's a little more of a pay cut, right?"
Boss: "I know that too. With the economy and cuts to margins, there won't be any profit sharing this year. We have a hiring freeze for the foreseeable future."
Me: "Recruiters have been offering sweet work-from-home compensation packages, what's the likelihood that these young guys will move to greener pastures?"
Boss: "Hard to say. I think the ones that wanted to quit already have. Company already gave a generous industry level-up pay adjustment back in November. Those guys are all single and the 3% is icing on the cake. I don't think 3% will look very good next year."
Me: "Agreed. Looking forward to a wonderful year"
Boss: "Yea, sure.. smart ass."

I wonder why I'm so neurotic. I mean my life is great by some aspect, I have a nice flat and some weed and a beautiful wife who can explain deleuze to me but yet I want to go surfing with the german sex cult

Education isn't meant to prepare you for a job, if it was they'd let you use AI.

Bulgaria and Romania are now part of the schengen area, maybe I should buy myself a gypsy wife as my way outta third world 🤔

It often feels like the logic and the equivalent final application code have nothing to do with each other.

Logic: Find the only element in this list that matches criterion, or the first element in this other list, or none. If the first list has multiple matches, fail.

Application: Produce information about the criterion checks for all elements in both lists for info logging. Find any elements in first list that match. Save the number of matches for an optimization that relies on a lot of assumptions about the search criterion that are only ever expressed in doc text. If one, return, if multiple, fail. Otherwise find first match in second list, produce debug hint on why the preceding elements in that list didn't match by aggregating the criterion check info. If multiple matched in second list, check highly specific interdependency, and if absent, produce warning about ambiguity. Return first match if any.

The first can be beautifully expressed as a 5 line iterator transform. The second takes 3 mutable arguments (cache, logger, criterion because it also may cache and log), must compute everything eagerly and has constraints that are neither strictly necessary for a correct implementation nor expressible in the type system.

you ever habituate yourself to reflexively do something and then forget you ever did that and don't even notice you're doing it therefore can't turn it off because you're too oblivious to understand the problem

and for amusement what is it?