MZan @mzan@qoto.org

@freemo @aazad
probably also because on Mastodon the home timeline is populated mainly by the person I'm following, so I need to follow accounts.

I'm following also hashtags, but it is also a way for finding interesting accounts to follow.

@davidak

many thanks: I used for at least two years NixOS + SSD + HDD + bcachefs without the minimal problem!

@rebtoor NixOS is very good for configuring services, because you have all configurations in one or few files, and you can use code for factoring out common configurations with only few changes in parameters. You can iteratively improve all the settings. Very nice and funny.

But now I had to packages some Common Lisp library, and it will be a "nightmare" because I had to become an expert of the Common Lisp way, of the Nix way and solve some problems. So if you are using it for development, at the first problem, you can easily spend a day or more for solving it, because the entire world is not following the Nix way.

NixOS community is worderful and it is very easy to contribute. It is the only distro where I submitted some patches. Very smooth process.

@rebtoor here, but despite I'm in love with it, sometime I'm not happy about it! 🙂

I played with Common Lisp and SDL, for generating a fractal image. I had fun!

Common Lisp was released in 1984, and Lisp in 1958, and they are still productive programming languages. Impressive!

https://gitlab.com/massimo-zaniboni/snow-assembler

COLOR reflective LCD computer monitor https://www.sunvisiondisplay.com/

Here, he says that it is like watching a paint: https://youtu.be/Ehqj0W3koP0?t=1591

I need one. Coding or reading papers on a traditional LCD is much more stressful respect paper.

@2ck

> I'm skeptical of pop psych claims that reading some book will get me to sort out my whole life though

Yes I understand, but the book is well written, so if you like the idea, it is worth reading it, because it is inspirational.

Reading a summary is useful, but doing so you loose the "inspirational" part.

@2ck

> Issue trackers are a godsend. If I couldn't write up the various ideas I have while working on other things, I'd never get anything done.

You should read Gettings Things Done (GTD): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done

> clear my TODO lists.

Many TODO are instead MAYBE.

I created a website for benchmarking solutions for Advent of Code:

https://aoc-benchmarks.dokmelody.org/

It uses bigger data respect the original problems.

I've completed "Sonar Sweep" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2021 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2021/day/1

I've completed "Dive!" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2021 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2021/day/2

If you read Fictions of Luis Borges, and you liked the book, then read also Cosmicomics of Italo Calvino.

These short stories start from a scientific fact, but they became soon surreal, imaginative and with an irresistible touch of irony.

Best stories of Fictions (IMHO): "The lottery in Babylon", "The Library of Babel", and "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote".

Best stories of Cosmicomics: "Games without end", and "The dinosaurs".

It is better a vaccine today, than a Covid tomorrow.

@swiley @freemo @GodfreyHendrix

> You're missing the point that it's really not worth it for most people since covid isn't *nearly* as deadly.

The problem is the 4.5% hospitalization rate of 50-64 years old and 7.4% in those 65 and over (https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4037)

If you ignore COVID, it will spread in an exponential way, and then also people with "normal" COVID complications will die because hospitals are fulls. In Italy there were a shortage of oxygen during the peek of the pandemic.