Readit NewsThen you realize it was this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Demaine
His lectures are absolute gold. He explains everything so clearly, simply, and efficiently.
I started skipping lectures in favor of watching his videos, and it saved me countless of hours -- and I got a perfect mark :)
Not that it matters to most users, because they wouldn't know how to use such tools to begin with, and don't know what they're missing.
Discord is an information black hole, and I pity future generations who'll have virtually no access to the petabytes of history lost in dark data vaults like Discord.
I usually connect to IRC channels through a browser client or a desktop app, but all too often, my browser would lose the connection or my computer would go to sleep, disconnecting me from the server. Also, sometimes the server would not let go of my disconnected nickname, so I would get one with one of more `_` appended to it.
Re-joining would not fetch the previous messages, and I would have anxiety that someone has replied to my message that I posted a few minutes prior, but I would never see...
I know that IRC bouncers exist, and I have even tried using `tmux` on a server to keep my irssi connection alive, but that is in no way user-friendly, even for a fairly technical person. Last resort is to find the public channel logs somewhere, if they even exist.
At that point, I would just give up and use Discord.
Oh and the mobile app has a decent editor for text / markdown files :)
Personally, I feel there are many benefits to it, mainly:
1. It gives me time to think, to process my thoughts, explore ideas, and handle emotions. I often learn a lot about myself, what I did well, and how I can improve.
2. It is a great way to preserve memories. Only after I started writing my journal did I realize how much I forget about my past. I've always taken photos throughout my life, but those only capture a very small part of my life. My worries, the music I listened to, the TV-series I raved about, my dreams, my thoughts on the books I've read, the deep talks with my friends, are all preserved in my journal. It is easy to remember your vacations to exotic locations, but do you remember your everyday life from years back?
3. It can be meditative. It feels great to be able to sit for up to an hour and write without any barriers. I don't have to stress about my writing style, the words I use, embarrassing stuff about myself. I truly feel I can express myself to the fullest.
I'm really happy that I decided to write my journal in Markdown. This format can be opened pretty much everywhere, even on my phone or my moms computer. Furthermore, it enables me to do some crude formatting for code, create headings, and even attach images. And since it is digital, I can search in it pretty easily.
Just sending full pages, server side rendered, like Hacker News and Wikipedia do is fine:
Going from the HN homepage to this topic we are on:
36 KB in 5 requests.
824 KB in 25 requests
11.4 MB in 265 requests.
3.74 MB in 40 requests
For instance, on GCP, I:
0. Open 2 tabs for a 2 google cloud instance
1. For each tab, I click on the action I want. E.g Logs, deployment, and networking.
2. Then, for each tab again, I click on the nested action I want
3. Repeat step 2
It does not happen on all sites, and I know GCP is a very complex site, but it happens often enough that it has become a habbit to me.
I love sites like Wikipedia or HN where everything is snappy.
I absolutely hate those sites that scrape other well-known sites (like StackOverflow, Quora, Reddit) and add ads and SEO spam. They are increasingly better at being on the top of the search results, and I cannot get rid of them.
My first phone was a Nokia 3310, and the typing experience on this was significantly better — despite it only having 10 keys. I’m not saying it was faster — although it might have been — but the enjoyment of typing in words was so much higher because I could literally close my eyes and just press the given keys a deterministic number of times to arrive at my imagined word.
The experience of typing on a touch screen, by contrast, involves constantly looking at the screen to both see if you hit the right virtual button, and also if Auto-Correct tried to be “smart” and changed the word you actually typed to something else.
sigh. Oh how I yearn for the physical phone keyboard.
I absolutely hate typing more than 3 words on my iPhone. Not only are the keys too small for my large-ish fingers, but regularly typing in 3-4 languages completely messes up my finger-memory for each keyboard layout. Even worse, it completely messes up auto-correct.
I actually have a reoccurring nightmare where I need to send a distress message from my iPhone, but it refuses to write anything legible. I bet my subconsciousness agrees.
I seriously thought that I had signed up for a phishing site ...
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I miss the days of reading AMD64 manuals and directly interacting with my hardware through assembly, and I want to get back to it.
What would be a good entry-point to OS development nowadays? I have the "FYSOS: The System Core" by Benjamin David Lunt. While I love the series, I wonder what other alternatives there are, perhaps supporting ARM?