[-] Hexarei@programming.dev 6 points 10 months ago

You seem like the type whose college-age room is covered in blacklight posters, and tells their younger sibling's friends about how the Mayans invented cell phones.

[-] Hexarei@programming.dev 6 points 10 months ago

You can also press Ctrl+shift+t to resurrect closed tabs

[-] Hexarei@programming.dev 6 points 11 months ago

Fun fact: Unrelated to the browser of the same name, it's the "window chrome" of the browser

[-] Hexarei@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

Ok that's interesting to hear as someone trying to lose a bit of weight. Can you elaborate or point to some sources that do? My doctor told me to minimize carbs so I'm very curious

[-] Hexarei@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago

Indeed, just a small attempt at disembowelment

[-] Hexarei@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago

I hope not, given that thing doesn't have one!

[-] Hexarei@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago

Vulcan on a hulk hen is absolute fire

[-] Hexarei@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago

I've been in the industry now for just over 10 years. I have a particularly potent cocktail of ADHD+autism that has resulted in me being very similar to your description - If it were up to me, I would take the extra time to make things incredibly nice to work with and with cleanly-defined dependency boundaries every time. I can write code all day and enjoy every second of it, often to the point where I work too much. Sometimes I'll spend time after the "official" end of the work day to just clean things up and refactor so that things feel cleaner.

The unfortunate truth, though, is that the industry at large doesn't make it super easy to find companies that appreciate folks who prefer to take it slow and get it right. I've hated the "ship it or shut it" culture for a long time, as it means I don't get to take the time crafting the solution I want to craft, and instead I have to push what sells. It ultimately results in a best-effort that works! ... until it doesn't. It results in harder-to-troubleshoot bugs, code that is harder to read, and a frustrating amount of revisiting old code that was written fast and loose in the name of "time savings," when the time saved is just spent fixing the problems created by "moving fast".

The owner of the (very small) company I work for often says "There are two kinds of code: Perfect code and written code. One of those makes us money." and I've spent a long time hoping we'd reach a point where the written code makes enough money that we can slow down and write better code. We've not reached that point yet, but it's the whole reason I have side projects: So there are things I can spend that extra time on to get things right.

To answer your question: Yep! You're a weirdo, but me too. And that is absolutely not a bad thing.

[-] Hexarei@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago

I hate that you're correct lmao

[-] Hexarei@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago

Man, I haven't thought about conky in years. I ran it on everything back in like '09

[-] Hexarei@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Obsidian isn't meant to be a general purpose text editor, it's a personal wiki; None of the things you mentioned are its goals, though it can highlight source code in code blocks.

It's meant to be a second brain, with interlinking between notes and ideas a la the Zettelkasten method. I use it for keeping everything from DND notes to local documentation on my home lab, to meeting notes... Think Notion or the like, if you're familiar.

Here's a great overview by one of my favorite YouTube channels: https://youtu.be/DbsAQSIKQXk

For general purpose editing, I personally use Neovim in Termux.

[-] Hexarei@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago

As an update to my earlier nerd-sniped-ness:

I found a list of prime numbers, which states that the 50,000,000th prime number is 982,451,653, which means 5.08930896% of the numbers up to 982,451,653 are prime. That's unfortunate, as it means the accuracy is actually lower than the original post we go further - down from 95.121% accuracy to 94.921%. Bummer!

Out of curiosity, I then whipped up a quick program in rust that starts from those numbers, crunching forward through the primes while prime_count as f32 / total_count as f32 > 0.05, using 16 CPU cores to divide-and-conquer and check whether a number is prime. There's probably a better way to do that, but meh. Such a check will essentially only get me back above 95% though, and based on the rate of change, I suspect it would take an exponentially higher amount of time than whatever it takes to get to 99.5%.

In the time it's taken me to write this, it's calculated just over 330,000 more primes, reaching ~0.050874 hit rate for primes.

This has led me down a small rabbit hole, in which it turns out there are plenty of folks who have approached the topic of "what percentage of numbers are prime?" - and the answer is essentially "it will eventually round to 0%". Because of you, I remain curious to know when that crosses the threshold of 99.5% though - and I'll at least leave it running for the next day or two to see how close it gets.

Unfortunately though, at the rate my PC can calculate, I don't think I'm personally gonna be hitting an answer to this any time soon. If I ever do manage to figure it out, I'll be sure to update... because hell, why not.

I've also considered trying to find bigger lists of primes, but meh. I've already spent an hour on this that I intended to spend playing D&D so ... meh. =]

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