Urzin

Forever Upset | 🔞 sometimes |言葉とは、望めば幾らでも偽ることができる。だからこそ、真摯に用いなければならない | 似ているということは確実に何かが違うという証左だ。

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Fastest way to determine someone has never actually worked on soft-realtime, low-latency software is to hear them claim nobody uses linked lists

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The Perfect HN Post

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Rental GF is basically a human relationship Rorschach test

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Still unironically using select() in 2025 is a good way to out yourself as never reading man pages

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Which is not generically applicable for obvious reasons. Even trying to script the long-standing tools fucking sucks

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Still blows my mind that we're in 2025 and afaict there's not really a config-driven disk partioning, encrypting/lvg-ing, formatting tool that's just considered defacto standard for Linux systems. Sure there's some shitty Ansible modules, but closest I've seen is disko for Nix

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As an aside: People like to claim code can't be an asset, and they do this by divorcing the business function from the implementation. This is blatant nonsense. The technology often *is* the business function.

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"Code is not an asset, but a liability" is somewhat true from a business perspective, though code very much *can* be an asset, but your shitty CRUD app probably isn't. That being said, if you take this to mean you should tunnel vision LoC you are missing the forest for the trees

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I remember having a conversation at work where someone said something along the lines of "the only real metric we know is that >LoC => >bugs". They took this to mean that <LoC is always better. It ceases being a good metric when you are targeting it

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A corollary of this is that 4chan etc are even worse than that

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I have a pretty staunch belief that astroturfing is probably a lot worse on places like Reddit than it is here. My reasoning (beyond anecdata) is that there is a much much much lower primacy placed upon the identity of a user on there than here

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Which is a lot of words to say: if you think it's actually better on other platforms I think you might be smoking smth strange

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People pronouncing regex as rejex is somehow a lot worse in my mind than the great GIF vs JIF debate

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I cannot overstate just how much I despise rental ebikes. I was already getting annoyed at people blatantly ditching them on cyclepaths, but now fuckers are just ditching them at dead-angle choke points and causing accidents

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Manhwa on average have an issue (that I imagine is strucural/incentive-based) where they move at light-speed for about 30-50 chapters and then just move glacially after that until they eventually get axed

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Just because you are putting your own balls in a vice doesn't mean you'll win the lottery in 6 months in a legendary karmic victory

Everyone needs to learn that lesson I suppose

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Every time someone shows up to a gumtree sale and plays the "oh I don't actually have the cash! How about a fiver?" game I immediately upcharge them over the list price and otherwise refuse the sale. If everyone did this nobody would even try

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Don't want to be that guy, but I can assure you that internationally everyone has noticed people only got off their asses in any significant number once the stock market took a dump

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The moment a discord server makes a vent channel is the moment the war is lost

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Every single normie-adjacent hobby chat space I have ever been in ends up getting hijacked by kidult woe-is-me posters that end up picking fights with everyone else in very particular ways, making people walk on eggshells because a mod-level user decides this is worth caving to