Learn how to use a debugger you peasants!

You monster 😶

Your body doesn't need sleep. Your muscles can probably keep doing their thing 24/7.

It's your mind that needs sleep.

Despite all the science links people are posting and the AI-bot's explanation, if you start looking through the literature, no one really knows why we need sleep. Everyone is really just guessing.

I was in high school. I went to three parties. Start with a good friend and my girlfriend, then drove down the street to a bunch of my church friends, and then a few of us from that group drove over to my best friend's place (the pastor's kid) and that's where we ended up crashing.

I read the last devotion from My Utmost of His Highest from Oswald Chambers before we went to bed.

@Lensflare I've heard anorexia is really a subconscious suicide, way back in the 90s.

Can we not /pol splurge on devrant? I come here to get away from that shit.

I wish I was in management. I hate having to do stuff.

Civil War might be coming to western nations faster than you think:

https://youtube.com/watch/...

@Demolishun Her life was pretty tragic and she was used and manipulated by Hollywood for some pretty bizarre purposes. There's a whole three part series on it:

https://youtube.com/watch/...

https://youtube.com/watch/...

https://youtube.com/watch/...

The news cycle is accelerating people's perception of time. It's intentional. It will be a bumpy year.

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I wish I could get back on solid Keto. That was the healthiest I've ever been. Meat, salads and cheeses. Lots of stir fry. For ~4 solid years I was at 59kg (~130 lbs) (I'm 160cm or 5"2). I could cycle farther and weight training was a lot easier.

It's much more difficult to stay low carb now that I'm back in America. If I went the "eat two eggs" a day route, I'm sure I'd fail. Staying healthy is difficult.

At Kiwicon in 2014, Gutmann did this amazing talk on WW2 bomb diffusing. The average lifespan of someone in this position was ~2 weeks.

https://2014.kiwicon.org/the-con/...

https://fh-campuswien.ac.at/fileadm...

Today, we have robots for this shit.

I don't disagree with you. There hasn't been any real safety testing on a lot of the tech we've seen come into the market. There have been people with brain tumors right where their cellphone rests.

I think a subset of the population may get real damage from non-ionizing radiation. People dismiss cellphone cancer like it's crazy. It could be real, and just affect 1~2%. Rather than doing actual testing and studies, it's easier to hand wave it.

Not real clear how you'd get gas, water, electricity. Feel like there should be a railing on the rock. Also one day it's going to erode out and fall into the ocean.

I use Void on a bunch of my servers and my work laptop. There is a packaging problem in regards to the maintainers and what they're even willing to allow. I wrote a tool called Voidup for making it easier to build custom repositories. I also wrote a bunch of tips for Void here:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/...

I hope that NEVER happens. If everyone used one base, it WOULD be Chrome and it would be massaged in such a way as to block the usage for any ad blockers and user scripts.

As dodgy as Mozilla is now (I use Librewolf, the privacy aware fork of Firefox, because it's 2025 and everything is that terrible), I'm glad there are still at least three major engines (Mozilla's Gecko, Safari's WebKit, Chrome's Blink/Chromium).

I've compiled a few early builds of Ladybird and hope they really take off. We need more browser rendering choices, not fewer.

I just finished a really good book called "Road Ends" by Mary Lawson where one of the characters, Tom, has this special spot in a half booth in a restaurant in his home town he always sits at alone.

Reddit is a cesspool at this point. Many of the mods have actively used scripts to delete posts made by people who use wrong-think subreddit, even if those posts are totally unrelated to said wrong-think. I've covered it extensively here:

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/...

I never use Reddit except occasional self promotion or specific topic questions. It's not a site worth using when you understand the true depth of censorship and group think. Anyone with hetrodox opinions left long ago.

If you do have to use Reddit (or worse, Orange Reddit) but sure to read from the bottom first:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/...

I still have several serial->USB adapters for switches, routers and such. I even found this old Intel Atom device that was serial only on eBay:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/...

It's still my router to this day.

Jeze. I haven't seen people use WinMerge for deployments since 2012!

Automate that shit man! You really want clear scripts and clear logs that show what's happening. It's 2025. Not having automated CI-deployment as a priority is a massive pile of tech debt.

Are there any tests? Or is your company one of those bureaucracy first, engineering second' kind of shops?

Always push back. Tell people the risks. Never work overtime, especially if it's their fault things were missed or wrong in planning.

Because Java is super old. I remember starting with Java 1.2 back in 2000. For over a decade it also tried to really push for backwards compatibility, and didn't end up with breaking changes until Java 9.

Joda time was used to fill in a gap on how bad the original Java date times were. Eventually a very of that became a part of the language.

So it's due to a lot of legacy stuff. Swift is incredibly new by comparison.

@retoor Thanks for the code review.

I use Pathlib some places in some code, but not as a full on replacement for os stuff. Might look into that more.

Yea, async is confusing as fuck. It doesn't work the way Futures/Promises work in most other sane languages.

Although this tool is simple, other tools I make need migrations to the database for newer releases. Plus, both Gentoo and Void Linux package yoyo-migrations, but they don't seem to package dataset. Although I won't package bibilobunny, I have two other projects I'm planning on packaging for other distros.

No thanks on the AI. I've found most coding LLMs are good for wrong answers only or spewing out unreadable buggy bullshit. Next token prediction models aren't the best thing for novel, complex problems.

My personal account was banned from Hackernews: https://battlepenguin.com/tech/...

My website is still shadow banned on Hackernews: https://battlepenguin.com/tech/...

LinkedIn silently deleted several of my posts: https://battlepenguin.com/politics/...

I've never been banned from Reddit, but I've had several old posts removed: https://battlepenguin.com/politics/...

I've been banned from WT.social: https://battlepenguin.com/politics/...

I've been banned from phucks: https://github.com/Phuks-co/throat/...

I deleted my FB/Twitter in 2021: https://battlepenguin.com/philosoph...

I'm banned from most Mastodon servers ( https://djsumdog.com/@djsumdog )

Welcome to the club.

@retoor Companies have literally denied roles to people purely based on their white skin color for over 10 years:

https://rumble.com/v64y40d-employee...

I had a friend at InDeed who said they weren't allowed to start interviewing a new batch of Candidates if there wasn't one black person in the batch.

Only if you're white.

@D-4got10-01 oh man, I had a Samsung Galaxy S I used for a while. It's in my big list of every phone I've ever had:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/...

@Demolishun You can use Lineage+microG (or any other ROM that supports microG) and Google Maps will work.

I just use Google Maps in Mull (Firefox mobile fork) when I need it. Maps will even prompt you to add a shortcut to your homescreen to open the web version. It works well enough for me, but your mileage may vary.

HERE maps and OSMAnd~ do work without Google services.