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It’s not a “no one asked you”, but it is an idiom. As you can probably guess, it means more “don’t help people working against your interests”.

So, you’d say something like that to a pro-ICE minority person, for example.

I’m happy to hear you found something that works. I tried this before and just like every other thing, I forgot about the notebook after a week of it kinda helping. More of a me problem here, though.

Well yeah. Most ND stuff is just normal stuff but turned up to 11.

“Normal” people worry about having locked their door, but OCD will make you go back three times and double-check, even if you’re late somewhere.
“Normal” people get thoughts by association, but ADHD will make you throw the original thought over your shoulder while you’re still having a conversation about it.
“Normal” people may have issues interpreting unfamiliar social cues, but autism is socialguessr on hard mode.

etc.

Yup. Getting tired of people saying “just write notes and reminders!”

Okay, my brain immediately deleted the memory of the reminder once it popped up, now what.

I’ve had my accounts blocked like that a few times when Mastodon was relatively new. I guess it’s an instance-specific thing?

I don’t remember the exact instance any more, since I never went back there, but mastodon.social doesn’t seem to do that.

You don’t need to choose a server with bsky, that’s it. It’s just one big blob of everyone where no one really cares what kind of content or how often you post.

With Mastodon, you need to pick a server, and then there’s funny things like “oh, you haven’t posted for a while, we’re blocking your account” or concerns that the server you chose may decide you’re not fitting. That and mastodon.social wasn’t available to register for a while as I recall.

Add to that the fact that your instance may not be federated with whoever you’re trying to share stuff to. Meanwhile with bsky it’s just “do you have bsky yes or no”.

People care about ease of use way more than whether it’s corporate or not.

Literally me. I should get to setting this stuff up, probably.

Man, I love lua, but after switching to a different job on typescript I feel like lua could only benefit with a similar type system. So many bugs avoided just because I know for a fact what a function returns and expects.

In my experience, it was an attempt to prune the stuff in old API that wasn’t useful. A successful attempt, since the backend working on it was in the same room as me and I could yell at him.

So you just gave him an excuse to go have a coffee break and wondered why he didn’t care? :P

This is kinda my experience. If there’s an extension keeping track of schema and linting, it’s alright.

If you’re doing it by hand, well, good luck.

My personal favourite way to make configs is lua. But that’s neither here nor there.

Man, the variable scoping thing is insidious. It will never not be weird to me that ifs and loops don’t actually create a new scope.

And then you try to do a closure and it tells you you didn’t import anything yet.

Personally, I prefer duplicate keys to be eaten by the parser but I can see how it’d be beneficial to prevent them.

Yeah, I remember when I was trying to parse XML into some lua tables and it forever stumped me how to represent something like

<thing important_param=10 other_param="abracadabra"> stuff </thing>

You just have to have different ways to turn different tags into stuff in your program and that’s a huge amount of overhead to think about when all I want is a hash map and maybe an array.

It’s inconsistent and annoying. Expressive, yes. Gets it’s job done, yes. Absolute nightmare of a spec, YES.

The fact that JSON is a subset of YAML should tell you everything about how bloated the spec is. And of course there’s the “no” funny things.

Personally, my favourite way to write configs was using lua (because it was already part of the project so why not), but JSON does fine.

Genuinely, why? Personally, I’m happy to eat basically same meals for a few days before they get boring, and you can vary your sandwiches a lot of you so desire.

I used to use FTP for file transfer, nowadays I just start up a HTTPS server on the source machine and grab stuff from there.

Well, it was a spur-of-the-moment sort of thing when I went and looked at their site and it just had a bunch of names with no numbers there under the book art.

Went and checked now and site looks entirely different, and I can clearly see the issue numbers. I don’t know, maybe I hallucinated it.

Yeah. I tried getting into comics once and got a multi-gigabyte archive of deadpool stuff.

…couldn’t make heads or tails of it.

Actually couldn’t get into IDW sonic/transformers for the same reason. WHERE DO I START!?

Yeah, it’s pretty difficult to find energy for personal programming stuff when your dayjob is programming stuff.

Gotta get up from the PC for a bit.