@retoor
I was very tempted just now to quickly hack your site and fix the typos/minor language issues.

Tbh, even as much as typos in good content annoy me... it was probably only 50% of my temptation. The other half was likely my urge to procrastinate since what im doing now is boring but i gotta do it...

*sigh*

Im gonna zone out/clear my head, then go back to hours of hyperfocus to get this boring administrative crap done.

@retoor just read your bio...

If you like collabing on stuff and dont mind signing an nda or 2, between my company and the new(im literally writing up the legal stuff now) partnership company with a very experienced(impressive CV too) dev friend we have tons of space for people we can tolerate to collab... whether in actual code writing or some version of an advisory capacity.

Technically im also fluent in Dutch... super rusty in verbal communication and i assume my grammar/word choice has dropped quite a bit due to years of mainly just reading it ...but i do fully comprehend the vast majority of typed Dutch and most spoken ...if slow and clear enough (aka, would appreciate the practice)

Here's my info if interested (anyone else is welcome to use it... im not exactly hard to find... unless youre quite dense):

Tg- awesomeest
Discord- sara.awesomeest
Email- awesomeest@gmail.com

@typosaurus
I dont like humans enough for extended interactions like that.

A couple weeks ago I drove 14hrs away(i live in michigan, had to go to a southern and west(of me) state) for business (albeit business involving a good friend).

He/the thing i was there to advise on, are definitely rural. Nearest motel/hotel/etc was over a half hr away so I stayed with him and his partner (and their flock of mostly chihuahuas). Not a tiny house or a ton of people, just 2 people i actually, genuinely like/respect/typically enjoy the company of... even had a room on the opposite side of the house.

Very laid back/no issues with basic pajamas (giant tshirt&boxers/pj pants)... still very relieved when i got home,minimal clothing, just Boomie(scardey-cat, part pittbull, doggo), JSON(tortoise) and me, in the middle of a corn field.

Don't get me wrong, there's several ppl i like, loads intriguing enough to enjoyably study(ie Sid). i just req periods of effectively having the whole world f off.

@typosaurus
Hmmm

I was just stating what's actually been happening in my life.

That said, there is no real "cure" for any herpes virus. They just get forced into submission and go dormant. There's cases of, i believe, all, but definitely the overwhelming majority of "herpes" viruses (there's way more, most quite common, than people realise) reactivating after a period of dormancy.

Best known example of this is chickenpox. Elderly people (their immune system not as robust as earlier) will often get Shingles, a very painful rash that is like an evolution (i mean by presentation) of the chickenpox virus(a herpesvirus). Once you get it, you always have it... under the right conditions, it can come back with a vengeance.

@Lensflare

Side rant, that may give some additional insight into my atypical thought patterns about linguistics...

In 4th gr(near Y2K bs), my favourite book became, and still is, 1984 (read animal farm 1st... ran out of encyclopaedias i hadnt read).

I don't mind colloquialisms, or almost any new terminology, but I am strongly against proliferating the concept of 'it dont matter how i talk if u know what i mean'. Imo USA is the worst.

I can (have, for good pay) explain and theoretically prove the real fallout/dangers in losing the ability of non-colloquial, custom, communication.

Basic/already occurring problems are detrimental at the personal level, yet not inspiring change. The current overly tolerant of... nearly everything, incl harmful thought/actions/etc, promotes social decline, propagating the issues.
Deny a job, as they can't form sentences or have a very limited vocab, explain why= risk being a social media villain/potential lawsuits, don't= propagate the issue.

@Lensflare yea... im literal af... like to a fault.

Though apparently i messed with you a bit too well in german, i do actually know language, to a degree beyond what i want to publicly acknowledge(feel free to inquire elsewhere).

I innately tend heavily towards original, literal, meanings and/or the etymological roots of terminology.

WARNING: Side Rant
Meanings of words like "selfish" typically annoy me.

Originally, "selfish" literally meant not considering others. No ill will, greed, recognition of some negative thatd effect others, then just doing it anyways despite knowing the probable harms...
Just simply, never having that spark/urge/sight to consider people/things outside of one's mental thought bubble.

The original def of selfish is how most autistics (incl me) innately are. Nothing to do with ego/like/dislike of ppl. literally, not considering-- like having blinders

Now, selfish means you know youre causing hardship but do it anyways to get what you want.

@retoor
Make a bunch of programs/scripts/networks/encryption methods/etc... but do it like the mentality of those apocalypse preppers that invest so much time/energy/money/etc into their supposed survival.

So going super overboard, but leaving out anything involving thought or learning outside of an overly simplified scope... like how most preppers learn about guns/knives/making pointy sticks... etc... yet dont consider packing a microscope and some basic knowledge/highly magnified pics of common protozoa or very easy to make, broad use, pharmaceuticals like penicillin (aka bread mold that's still one of the most widely used antibiotics in existence).

Those prepper people never learn about basic chemical reagents either...foolish imo

@Demolishun acc to syd's standards, im pretty sure jeff foxworthy is racist towards a large chunk of the US south.

I used to (sometimes still do if someone seems a bit too entranced) start talking about racism (just a few sentences) and how wrong it is... to someone who was boring me/looking for something beyond friendship... then directly tell them (changing tempo, volume and pitch just enough to signal extra importance) that I'm only at all racist, even just a little bit, to one group of people, blondes with blue eyes... especially the females. Then quickly cite some random traits i claimed justified this highly specific distaste.

Then id see how long i could keep it going for.

Anyone who hasn't seen a pic of me... clearly blonde with bright blue eyes.

The expressions when they'd finally realise i was directly depicting myself (if it took longer for them to catch on id add more details) was always amusing... esp the dumb ones who weren't sure if i realised i was describing myself

@donkulator
But how soft is too soft?

I mean, i kinda think about it like this:
Whatever traits a colon, or anything, innately has or is expected to have due to being one specific entity within the group that is initially defined with sets of characteristics to identify the base traits of the individuals in it... thatd be the norm/expected start that wouldn't need any explicit declaration unless outside those values.

So like bread is normally soft, but if you ask someone what a bagel or baguette is theyd likely explicitly define that it's harder/denser/not as soft as something like mass produced sandwich bread.

...im now realising im defining the world by oop class structures... but w/ev.

So i think if youre specifically declaring a soft colon... it must be remarkably more soft than colons tend to be... which seems intriguing and dangerous.

Thinking about it... would the contents of a colon even be included in the traits of the colon itself? Genuinely curious now.

@SidTheITGuy SID! You did it! Im so proud of you!

You finally admitted your proclivities to suck. That's a great first step!

@retoor
Listen... he's not sexist... just sexually insecure. You gotta remember, even though most of the world is currently flooded with an array of increasing 'genders' and the attitude similar to parents telling toddlers that they can be whatever they want when they grow up, dont listen to or believe anythingelse-- applied to behavioural gender traits...

India isn't quite as inviting to people like syd who just wanna be a pretty pretty princess.

So, like any childhood bully, he attacks, using topics close to his internal strife, trying to believe his own lies.

@SidTheITGuy
Next time you wanna dress up like Cinderella or Belinda, you do it! Don't let the idea of society's negative views of you stop you!

@retoor
Yea... he tried that on me. He lost.

Something he clearly didn't know about me, but any childhood friend or close teen and beyond friend knows as basic fact, is that since i turned 5, I've had TONS of Indian friends... acquaintances, employees, relationships, business partners (which for me tends to also mean they are some of my best friends)...etc. I even have a 'sister' in india due to one of those programs where u adopt a needy child for some meager 20$ or whatever a mo... i picked her off a Christmas tree when i was 4, then by 8 got really annoyed that due to the program's rules i couldn't just send her half of my money (i was a rich 8yr old dev), so made a fund to send her gifts/money as soon as i was 18. But even before she knew any of that, joseline has called me her sister and we keep in contact (she's a nurse now).

Realistically, i probaly have more indian friends than him, not even counting temp employees etc.

Him calling me racist is honestly hysterical.

@Lensflare oh i know. But dont we all know that sydney is plenty neurotic enough that he's likely scrollimg through posts looking for his name ad nauseum multiple times a day?

I have a very low tolerance for envs that arent mine... so ofc, i also have scripts to do stuff like remap system variables... even to an external hard drive for several programs, drivers, their paths, the registry keys of shit that annoys me... regex to check for bad registry keys... and stuff that puts it back to normal when im done.

Me without regex and a tolerable env... historically, that's dangerous.

Dude... if you only knew...

Since i was a kid (7 or 8... so 25yrs ago) i started using basic regex for shit like filtering logs...

Then i started scripting the shit that annoyed me... like everything default set to run... updates, scans, sysrestore... and stuff like temp files, recycle bin, internet history... etc

Then i got annoyed going through log outputs, including ones i generated from manually scripting and automatically checking to make sure nothing broke... and keyloggers (several reasons and varieties)... malware thatd just change little shit about their files so it wouldnt match the lists, or sht that mimicked/deleted real files (a HUGE regex script so id know what exactly got changed in updafes or when file info had tiny mismatches)

So many scripts by middle school... too many macros to tolerate hotkeys... so i started making my own file extensions, regex to find/sort/relocate and the program to read

Ofc cli regex to generate/append custom files

All b4 16. Imagine now

Well duh.

Think about it in middle school and beyond terms. When the teacher makes people work in groups for 1 grade. Teachers know damn well that the one who actually gives a shit is gonna end up doing all the work... anyone who knows that hard working kid then tries to get in their group.

But... if you're given an assignment, school, social, adult life/work, and you do it well and fast/efficiently... now it's your job forever, plus another job for the extra time they know you could have.

Same thing applies at blue collar (and below) jobs. You work at fast food, walmart, some random store... work well/better than others you get a fancy manager/team leader title... and a few cents an hr raise. You also get to deal with more bs, stay later, clean up coworker bs & get yelled at by strangers for sht u have no control in.

Why do u think so many people do the bare minimum to not get fired?

@CoreFusionX
It's case by case imo. ChatGPT responses can be amusing or just wordy trash.

Ads used to be more creative... or so bad, but clearly took someone a lot of effort, that it's highly amusing.

Both types are now just rooted in nonsensical irony.

AI - the literal point of AI is that it's meant to LEARN... yet the vast majority of 'AI' use for responses just spits out an answer, not even allowing a direct way to disagree/point out what's wrong/correct it that gets fed back into the 'AI'... effectively making it no longer an AI.

Ads- used to take agencies, events, tangible items... things like giving away a certain car to whoever touches it the longest... i mean, really, it's total nonsense at first glance but the exposure, and rate of increased obsession with owning one, is well beyond the car value.

Now, digital ads everywhere. Like a game w/o ads, in in-game ads & pay ppl to dl apps. Cost tons more per user than shipping thousands of branded keychains(or w/ev) irl.

@Tounai nope... was already in the cart

@typosaurus

What do you define as a workaround?

Never thought of it so maybe its just me... but i always just considered it literally... working around some sort of preexisting construct, whether it's a pile of bricks irl or some annoying, bulky, and/or dysfunctional code/mechanisms.

@typosaurus
Oh, trust me... there's well over a novel worth... and i dont mean the type with ~7 adjectives per sentence or that looks like some teenager's homework assignment... after they realised they were still short ⅓ of their required word count.

Seriously, the ridiculousness is still going on.
was at the store and asked the guy at the pharmacy the soonest I could refill a med. He looked me up, turned to the 1 page-per-day calendar with such an odd expression, the pharmacist stepped behind to watch.

Tech slowly says "but... you just got it refilled... not even a month ago??"

I said "yup... 30-day supply 3gr/day, it's why im asking"

He gives a 'wtf' look, blinks a few times and checks the screen again confused af.

I finally caught on..."I dont have HSV1 or HSV2, it's not for the typical use"

Pharmacist (+2nd tech) are visibly confused... i tell him "I apparently have HHV6 meningitis. Yup, sounds nuts i know, but script is from an eye dr cuz of an auto-immune corneal ulcer"

@typosaurus
A motorised home.

Typically you see them with corny families that want to 'explore', go on long roadtrips for the 'experience', claim to enjoy 'camping' but find the outdoors too frightening... or old/retired couples trying to be whimsical or check things off a bucket list before dying and/or being stuck in a nursing home.

@retoor

if you know how to condense that further lmk.

ive tried simple "swelling in my spinal cord"... that's apparently either code for 'i dont feel comfortable giving more details so just assume im gonna die but don't ask anything' or tons of assumptions that are mostly asked... both varieties end up with some chain reaction of cards and\or vague offers and\or suggestions of 'helping me get through this emotionally'... or worse.

basically everything that's short simple either seems somewhat facetious or like a personal slight to someone or gets some amped up story of me being about to die.

tbh, i was pretty critical for awhile... but now, a bunch of shit that i never expected any viable solution or cure to, is strongly connected to this thing that should be able to be wiped out(well made dormant) with enough drugs... even the painful af handicap in my left arm and left leg should have much less pain.

biggest annoyance now is every new dr think im nuts, for new reasons

@retoor
knowing\telling myself via some creepy clue trail that only id understand, also confirming that i mustve been the sole architect.

spent 2mo making an intense system to record and analyse anything i(mainly, amnesia-me) may do... which ofc had to be tamper proof... against me\amnesia-me.

... tons of mindfucks and realisations of damage i\a crazy version of me could actually cause later...

several severe neuro symptoms from pressure (now clearly swelling) in my cervical spine later...

over 3wks stuck at my mother's, in and out of ERs(or admitted), then she say something weird in my eye... used a work connection (she's anesthesia) to get to a cornea specialist hours later.

cornea specialist looks at my eye, prescribes valtrex(valacylovir-- typically for cold sore or genital herpes, i have neither)

due to hives(and beyond)when reducing the valtrex, and old hhv6 meningitis diag, im currently on so much valtrex, via an eye dr, ive had 2 very odd conversations with pharmacists.

@retoor

well... the short version...
apparently a virus,
( nearly the entire population of the world has had since before the age of 3 and typically never bothers adults without aids or leukemia (i have neither))
reactivated back around age 8... causing tons of weird, seemingly disconnected medical conditions since then.

in my adult years ive had much more severe issues (sudden, total loss of consciousness, weird heart shit, the other conditions(hives\rash, high temp idiopathic fevers, extreme fatigue, etc), including meningitis(6yrs ago, LP\csf showed said virus(hhv6) but since i ended up recovering enough to go home, a dr treated it like a typical non-issue)
and migraines, minus the headache, giving me transient amnesia (like total, not foggy memory).
January i became aware of the amnesia (also recurrence of weird migraines) because, like any sane person, i told myself, while apparently knowing i would be having amnesia of the event...

I ended up messaging the seller(not sure if i got a response cuz i havent been back to look for one)...

from the way it was written i just reeeeeaally wanted to know if he realised that no standard\marketed (basically anything not specifically made for some unimaginably ridiculous reason(s)) computer can ever boot to BIOS if it has no RAM.

so... did he mean that somehow BIOS, with working RAM is somehow non-functional?

... aside from someone directly opening it up and removing or, with much skill and precision, intentionally shorting out only the BIOS storage chip... id really want to buy it just to discover why\how.

or...

does he not know any OS, including BIOS requires RAM?

the only other thing i can think of is that, for some, likely nonsensical, reason, he really wanted to make sure that a potential buyer wasnt buying a gutted computer to play in BIOS (which tbh sounds nutty even to me... and on rare occasion i write code in winre)

@Demolishun @retoor

yeah... didnt check if devrant killed the photos again. that said, its not THAT exaggerated

i did call... i don't remember if it had a voicemail or not... if it did,i definitely left a msg, if not, i def sent a text... no response

@Tounai physical book vs my frustration, sanity and time sink... im not one to be scammed.

@12bitfloat

~2yrs ago i found out ppl "practice" code... not just write it and edit\fix\re-engineer. i had literally never considered this. immediately i asked like a dozen ppl i knew about this. it seems mostly a generational thing(from start of dev not age)... so everyone around my age(32) or below actually wrote essentially unusable code before attempting any usable code.

it still blows my mind. doctors\surgeons...you should practice, a lot, on non-humans, when possible... code thats not being immediately put into some corruptible live system... i dont get it.

side note:
do to this, and several other factors (like assuming people "building" a computer, meant what i was doing... cutting\joining\remapping mobos, including Frankenstein-esq de\re-soldering chips etc, and ofc driver creation)... with most things, esp tech, i have a dangerous lacking of any valid frame of reference. teach someone about storage?...im pretty sure i should stop before data fragmentation patterns right?

@12bitfloat
yea... glad i got *not that*.

the 2 big, initial, issues with that free one, just from your short few lines...

1. i almost exclusively use physical books. digital books and i rarely get along. most e-readers have some annoying delay or page-turn animation\sound\inability to rapidly turn pages. using something that scrolls tends to suck for me too. idk if it's a smoothness\frame rate issue or just not compatible with how my eyes focus. ive considered experimenting and\or building my own... but that's kinda voided by the same rationale of learning the content>> building something else. i think i just read too fast.

2. beginner books-
though, in any subject, i tend to avoid them like the plague (by start of 2nd grade i already made a short script for Microsoft sam to read whatever was reqd, on a loop, while i played neopets, consoles, etc).

recently this has been harshly reaffirmed. ive had to go through newb books\etc for babydevs.

@Root
time 2, i gave up\wrote new... asked 2 devs that worked there(w\crap scripts) awhile, apparently disliked each other, to each make a simple, complete, list (and flow) what the crap did. best list won.

wrote most of it b4 seeing any list. seeing the lists, i had them each format\comment\document what i wrote (high functioning, not pretty, code, esp then).

showed their work to their sups(lvls up too). i pointed out tons they didn't need me for; they needed like a school chart with gold stars, and the 2 working separately.

comical as it is, it's mind boggling for me. i get i think differently, on a phys\electrical lvl, but crap like that always seems so obvious to me, despite months+ of failed solutions.

that said... i pity the fool whod ever need update most of my scripts. think, the concept of CSS, ~5 world languages used, w\abbreviations, no\rare comments & some (nowadays) extreme methods of resource optimisations (like manually using binary for storage based per item\var)