I’ve been out a few hours again. I came across a dozen or so forest mice. I heard tons of squeaking and saw a lighting fast moving seething mass under leaves and groves. It was impossible to capture anything but I could watch it for two, three minutes. They even seemed to come as close as 20 centimeters judging by the rustle and moving plant leaves. Pretty cool.

But heaps of people had to fire up their noise machines today. That clouded my overall joy in nature. Once a commercial airliner was about to fade away in the distance, the next one already adumbrated itself. Lots of prop planes and even a helicopter. Obnoxious loud super cars and motorcycles with broken off mufflers or I don’t know what. My felt hat amplifies the sound I noted.

Luckily, the sun hid behind the clouds most of the time, so I survived the 25°C. Even hotter tomorrow, yikes!

https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2024-04-07/

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My email is such a cluster of noise. The only time i actually use it is to find out I have to do my security training or something. All communication is slack now days.

yarn should define its own federation protocol that extends the basic twtxt in ways that twtxt doesn’t allow. it’s time. and i’ve got ideas!

Not making THREADING the default view of e-mail clients and thus teaching users that e-mail is “chaotic” (if you get a lot of mail, it becomes unusable without threading) and “needs” full quoting all the time was one of the worst mistakes ever.

I keep muting accounts here (twtxt.net), and they keep popping back on after some time. It is nuts. :-(

I finally found the NASM assembler.

https://nasm.us/index.php

I had heard that name before, many times, but somehow never looked into it. Weird. 🤨🤔

This is the kind of program I was looking for.

1. It is free software. Especially in the DOS ecosystem, free/libre software is a very scarce resource.
   
2. It’s a small command line program, not a huge behemoth.
   
3. Documentation appears to be well written.
   
4. It can even cross-compile DOS binaries from Linux.

the hydrophone is back in the water again! two of them this time. i’m hoping the river will freeze soon. one will stay until the spring and the other will come in and out for me to listen in the meanwhile…

Pinellas County - Easy: 3.13 miles, 00:08:27 average pace, 00:26:24 duration
felt crazy relaxed and easy breathing. i did notice at around the mile and a half point (11:30 in?) my HR jumped. around this time i also noticed i had to switch to more mouth breathing because my nose was running. going to try to take note of this because if it is a fault on the watch side then i can not consider it a reliable measurement.
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Pinellas County - Long Run: 8.04 miles, 00:08:22 average pace, 01:07:15 duration
rain and wind the entire time. it was a blast! kept it at the hardest pace of the marathon plan and did well. this was the last hard session before the race!!!!
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Lost my wallet with my IDs and bank cards. Would have been worse case if I had lost my phone. Still, it’s a waste of time and it will take weeks before I get all my cards back.

Pinellas County - Long Run (part I): 11.63 miles, 00:09:54 average pace, 01:55:08 duration
did not really want to run today. but i did it anyways and it felt fin until my dumb ass decided to go over one of the clearwater bridges. took everything out of me after those hills and had a hard time getting the legs moving again.
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Well crap. I think I just realized that if my profile photo was a person it could vote in this year’s election. Probably time for a new default one.

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Feels like my days of browsing YouTube for content are numbered. It’s only a matter of time before YouTube refuses to load for any browser with an ad blocker.

Pinellas County - Long Run: 16.03 miles, 00:08:58 average pace, 02:23:34 duration
my ankle, achilles, and calves were fine walking but really tight the first 3 miles of the run (maybe the rope course?). kept it light for the first half then attempted MP or quicker. it was a little hard at times but comfortably discomfortable? all-in-all it was a good run.
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org They sure are silly at times. :-) You really have to combine this event with something else, like learning a new language. Otherwise it gets boring real quick.

What I absolutely love about AoC is that it’s – indeed – a bit like school. 😅 The problems are well-defined, the inputs are well-defined, and there is a definite answer. It’s either right or wrong – period. Compared to real life and work, I welcome this very much. 🤣

@xuu@txt.sour.is Despite that these AoC math text problems are rather silly in my opinion (reminds me of an exercise in our math book where somebody wanted to carry a railroad rail around an L-shaped corner in the house and the question was how long that rail could be so that it still fits — sure, we’ve all carried several meter long railroad rails in our houses by ourselves numerous times…), these algorithms are really neat!

But when you do take the time to analyze / reverse-engineer this puzzle, then it’s really cool. Might be my favorite one so far. 😃

I’m really bad at competitive programming. 🙄 For today’s #AdventOfCode puzzle, I spent an eternity trying to understand exactly what kind of bG9naWMgY2lyY3VpdAo= the puzzle input describes – I haven’t done that in well over a decade, so I made little progress. I knew right from the start that SSBoYWQgdG8gbG9vayBmb3IgY3ljbGUgbGVuZ3RocyBhbmQgdGhlbiBmaW5kIHRoZSBMQ00K. It just didn’t occur to me to just run my program on cGFydGlhbCBpbnB1dAo= and print those numbers. 🥴 I only did that after over 4 hours (including time to debug my nasty C code) and then, boom, solution …

Spent some time getting my air sensors tied together into a dashboard. :-D

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Yet another study strongly calling into question the concept of “echo chambers”. I’ve argued it here before and people pushed back, but there is growing evidence that “echo chambers” are a moral panic and not a real phenomenon that we need to worry about. It’s time to throw it out and re-think, in my opinion.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-81531-x

Ah, there it is. Today’s AoC puzzle is of a categeory that I find the least interesting. Gonna take my time with this one. 😴

This is the best time of the year - BEFORE the Christmas holidays - when most are hopefully looking forward to spending good times with family and friends. And I do wish you too.

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COVID is still a leading cause of death in the United States. This pandemic is nowhere near over no matter how many times people try to pretend it is.

Having a tough time gathering my thoughts sometimes. So many appearing and bursting through.

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Pinellas County - 10 x 2’[1’]: 6.25 miles, 00:08:43 average pace, 00:54:27 duration
the intervals went great at around eight minute pace each time. some crazies out there dorking with the first three, but after that it was a smooth rhythm.
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All brute force.

Its the latest ryzen 7 chipset for laptop/mini form factor.

I am very surprised about the times others are getting. I guess that’s the difference between interpreted and compiled showing.

took a few attempts.. but i managed to do it in half the time!

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de It took a little over a minute on my machine.. i should try to make it multi threaded.. 🤔

Executed in   68.96 secs    fish           external
   usr time   60.84 secs  242.00 micros   60.84 secs
   sys time   12.52 secs  252.00 micros   12.52 secs

With all M$’s apps being basically fancy web apps, there is no need to actually install any of their legacy applications locally anymore. Since I am online basically 100% of the time this turns my Office experience in a Chromebook like one. No installs, never outdated software. Just a yearly subscription contribution to worry about.

… it just finished and brute-force worked. 18 minutes of computing time on my 11 year old machine, single-threaded.

My son said for the first time he wanted to make a game himself today. Going to freshen up my canvas and collision detection skills.

I would love to be able to time travel back to the days when Talking Heads toured and witness one of their epic live concerts.

Hey Apple, it’s 2023 - about time to start supporting the content indexation of markdown files in Spotlight out of the box, don’t you think?

@xuu@txt.sour.is Ah, you went with the “scanning” approach as well. I did that, too.

It’s quite surprising to see (imho) how many people on reddit started substituting strings (one becomes 1 etc.). That makes the puzzle much harder by introducing nasty corner cases.

(Maybe I was just lucky this time to pick the correct approach right from the start. 🤣 Or maybe it’s a bit of experience from doing past AoC events …)

Went to the Christmas market for the first time this year.

Feeling nostalgia for simpler web development times.

Context-switches are a real productivity killer if it means that by the time you get back to the previous context your remote desktop session expired.

The best gift anyone could give me is the time to be able to finish reading some books.

Pinellas County - 90’: 9.10 miles, 00:09:28 average pace, 01:26:06 duration
brrrr…. pretty decent run. thought the HR would creep more with how much i was wearing. only stopped five times to hack up a lung.
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Full moon tonight: time to play #nethack :)

It is that time of year where I try to be extra nice in customer service Quality and feedback surveys. I once worked on the other side of these, so it might brighten someone’s day.

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There is a lot of Black Friday promotion happening in Germany these days - I wonder however how many Germans really know where it comes from? Happy Thanksgiving to whoever is celebrating today - as it is one of the few US / Canadian festive days where families - really - try to enjoy their time together.

First time ever I made something that uses Redis

@prologic@twtxt.net its not.. There are going to be 1000s of copy cat apps built on AI. And they will all die out when the companies that have the AI platforms copy them. It happened all the time with windows and mac os. And iphone.. Like flashlight and sound recorder apps.