eqyo @eqyo@qoto.org

So last night was:
17:45
00:45
12:00

For the 5 days before that, I've got no data because I kind of went off the rails. Let's see, I worked through the night mon-tue (did lie down for a bit in the morning), the rest of them is all bedtimes around 2 or 3 o'clock, I believe.

wed-thu:
23:45
00:15
12:15

thu-fri:
19:30
00:45
11:00
(Another one of those nights with near-zero sleep)

and last night:
00:30
01:00
11:45

23:30
00:30
10:30

@Placholdr Oh haha... Tbh it seems like the most straightforward way to me though.

Also, after closing the computer I realised there's a mistake (don't try to do maths quickly when tired 😅): triangle number formula is 1/2m(m+1) instead of m-1 and p/q is in the (p+q-1)-th subsequence not the (p+q)-th.

@Placholdr
The solution I would give goes something like this:
The sequence is made up of smaller subsequences (e.g. "3/1, 2/2, 1/3") and the k-th subsequence has exactly k terms.

We know p/q is the q-th term in the (p+q)-th subsequence. Before the (p+q)-th subsequence there have been p+q-1 subsequences, and the total length of those subsequences is 1 + 2 + 3 + ... + (p+q-1).

We can use the formula for the triangle numbers: 1 + 2 + 3 + ... + m = 1/2m(m-1).
Filling in (p+q-1) for m there gives us the number of terms before the (p+q)-th subseguence starts, and adding q gets us to the right term within the (p+q)-th subsequence, and with that we get exactly the formula for n that is given.

sat-sun:
00:00
01:15
09:15

sun-mon:
01:00
01:00
12:15

and last night:
23:00
00:00
11:15
(One of my worst nights in a while, got almost no sleep)

@trinsec I've done some English-Dutch and Dutch-English translation work and I definitely recognise what you're describing.
It is exactly as you say: a translator should not stick too literally to the original text but rather try to express the meaning as naturally as possible in the target language. A translation that reads like "no native speaker would say it that way" is almost not a translation imo.

01:30 (ugh...)
01:30
11:00

@trinsec No, for me there's a huge difference between lying in bed and sleeping, I tend to lay awake for hours before dozing off 😦

Right now, I really really really need to be focusing on a uni project.
At this point I still have to write most of the code which will have to happen within a few days; I've already started lying about my current progress.

But what am I doing? Figuring out a nice little chord sequence 🙄. Or else, watching a series, looking up random stuff on the web...

I really need to stop running away 😑

(sees that 2 hours have evaporated) "Huh, where did the time go... I was just making a little arrangement..."

mon-tue:
00:00
00:30
10:30

tue-wed:
00:00
00:30
8:45

wed-thu:
00:00
00:15
10:30

and last night:
19:30
00:30
10:30

23:00
00:15
10:45

Quite a bit worse last night:
00:45
01:15
08:00
Still an improvement compared to one week ago, though

23:00
00:15
11:15

(Compared to how it often goes on weekends lately, this is quite good)

@trinsec Yeah, it just so happens that on thursdays I get back home around 23:45 and on other days earlier.

@trinsec Did either of them slowly shift throughout the book? In for example their opposite attitudes to the trip?

Dinner

7 days per week: pasta + cooked vegetables
(exaggerated for mastodon purposes)

"You know, eqyo, you could really use some more variation in your diet..."
"Hey at least I make my own meals... and I vary the veg! (to a limited extent)"
"eqyo, come on, you literally eat pasta every single day."
(sighs) "Okay, you do have a point..."

6 days per week: pasta + cooked vegetables
1 day per week: chips (UK) / fries (US) + mayonnaise

@trinsec This was just a case where I wasn't able to tell the difference between "sometimes done and okay" and "sometimes done but considered weird / frowned upon".

Anyway, I don't see a reason a priori why someone would object to me replying to an old post, and if someone does object they can say so...
So thinking logically I suppose I see no reason for this particular inhibition 🙂

19:30
00:00
10:00