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Mental health advice be like 'It's okay to take a step back! Prioritise getting more sleep! Spend more time in nature!' while carefully avoiding the elephant in the room that the reason I can do none of these things is because 5/7ths of my life is dominated by that non-optional 'having a job' thing. Tell me how I can 'take a step back' from that and I'll be right there.

just saw a girl say "i'm going puppy mode" then pull out her phone and turn on the samsung modes and routines puppy mode

today we remember Henry Kissinger. in his case, the Norwegian Nobel Committee made the unusual decision to award him the Peace Prize anthumously, that is, before he died. unfortunately it seems that this took longer to take effect than anticipated, but well done, committee!

damn dude this rolling stone piece goes hard, rip bozo

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/

YOU THERE, BOY! WHAT DAY IS IT??

OH: we get _feral_ for fermentation :3

IF CRUELTY IS THE POINT OF FASCISM, Americans have turned their bureaucracies into violent, cruelty machines.

it is going to take more than voting out the fascists.

the cruelty is social.

the cruelty is economic.

the cruelty is systemic.

the cruelty is cultural.

how do you radically change a culture to become antifascist?

how do you radically change the mundane so it wont produce and reproduce systemic violence?

that's the real antifa work: to break the cycle of MUNDANE cruelty. /4

The *reason* C required me to build all this stuff is C is only a language, and doesn't contemplate any broader ecosystem. That means no cross-compatible ecosystem can ever be built, and if you want to express things like "and here's a bit of code you run when building" or "and you need these dependencies", that has to be bolted on with external steps. Rust doesn't need *you* to do that work because a build.rs simply parses an "SVD" xml file containing those build variables and register addrs.

But haven't you heard? Rust is fast and safe!!! You don't need to think applicability to your specific task and compare the tradeoffs, not when Rust is fast and safe!!!11!!!!!1!1!1! Nothing else is safe, certainly not basically every language other than C and C++; and nothing else has ever been fast either, it's not like even Java is fast enough to run on 2003-era microcontrollers embedded in tiny SIM cards!

something that always gets me when doing crosstalk analysis:

when looking at plots of bad crosstalk situations, I have this *visceral* urge to adjust the filtering of the scope frontend to make the waves all nice again

A short write-up on making a handwritten font with FontForge.

https://kokorobot.ca/site/making_a_font.html

Saw this kid speedcubing on the bus… they were like 8 or 9. They were pretty good actually

Generation Z wants to cube as fast as possible

I think most millennials don't realize that there have been significant advancements in cube technology since you were a kid. Cubes look different now. And it's specifically to make speedcubing easier

Me this morning

You all know snow owls, but have you ever seen snow bats? 😍

©Yana Fedorova

is there anyone out there willing to collab/help someone with developing a RealTek audio driver for FreeDOS? it's a great idea and this person → https://twitter.com/fluddsskark/status/1728817419349807589 ← would like help with it, and i don't have enough interest/time/energy/etc to help. please contact them instead of me, but you can repost this to raise awareness or w/e