Gregory's Server
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This concept of normalizing people being offline. Not being in touch. I don't think I like it. Please be in touch. The recent influx of new Mycoverse adepts and Bouncepaw subscribers seems to have settled. I guess the reason was the recent Lobsters posts. @bouncepaw Noted Mycorrhiza on Lobsters and saw it in the wild in one site I visited the other day. Looks neat! Will try it if I want to setup a wiki. Have you written about it somewhere?  @bouncepaw I'm doing well at the ironing these days, I find I need less and less oil to get the creases out~ It took me a month and a half to reply to this one email. I usually reply faster, please do send mail! TFW your coworker sends pull requests to your free software project. Or rather your contributor becomes a coworker...  Some people say you should do everything you can in order to get the result you want. I think it's not true in general. Sometimes you gotta stop and think before you act. Sometimes you should reconsider. Sometimes you might be just wrong. Sometimes you have to submit. Sometimes you indeed have to pursue your goal with all might. Sometimes you should wait in shadows. // Watching a shลnen anime where the main character wins through determination only. Ridiculous! Funny show though. Somewhere in the world, there is a wall, out of which 12 open pipes of different length emerge. Sometimes these pipes play beautiful melodies by themselves. The pipes are not usual, they're actually parts of the body of a creature that is sealed in this wall. Few know their name, for few learned their language. You can read some excerpts from a lost journal that was found by Ishmael during his travels below: I try not to think about the climate situation too much. It's clear I will live in a burning world. Just gotta provide myself the luxury of living in a place that won't be so affected by this and is modern enough for my wants and needs (you know, internet, medicine, food abundance). Inaction is my choice. I kinda accepted it. Hottest year of them all? Yes, of course! Wait until you see the next one. Insomnia thoughts. Won't have enough sleep before the electricity consuming work tomorrow.  @bouncepaw 2010: "Every thirty seconds, one person's lifetime of recycling plastic is effectively negated by what's poured out of Deepwater Horizon" [edit: based on a decade-old half-remembered newsbite and flamboyant misapplication of unit conversion math] ๐คฆ 2024: "Plastics recycling has always been basically a lie" ๐คฆ๐คฆ๐คฆ So many people my age, id est almost all of them, express their uncertainty of what career they want to pursue. I'm somewhat unique in that regard because I chose the programming path quite early and never changed my opinion since then. So, what is the conclusion we can make? I guess it's that people universally don't really want a career. @bouncepaw my theory is since we are constantly bombarded with politics, climate change, wars, AI, late stage capitalism, social media, influencers, etc, young people don't really see themselves as valuable let alone having a future. My advice is to stop paying attention to what everyone else is doing, and focus on what you want out of life. A good starting point is understanding yourself, your goals, your strengths, your passions. TBF none of that is easy or straight forwardโbut that's life.  @bouncepaw I feel like programming is my dharma. I still feel compelled to do it even though I've chosen a different career Somebody here mentioned Bibliomania yesterday, so I have read it. It was short and wonderful. Highly recommended, just the kind of stories I love. And I myself would choose to stay in the room, of course.   First day at my first dayjob. I'm yet to receive a copy of the IDE and Docker and whatnot. Was busy doing formal org stuff. Office is kinda fun? |
@bouncepaw now i'm really intrigued
@bouncepaw we have Ramadan police, but they don't have buses. They have vans for transporting the "wrongdoers' to jail.
@bouncepaw I havenโt a city, so youโd be 100% assured right.