dyed my hair

I'm getting a little upset at people who parrot "unused RAM is wasted RAM". the real answer is: yes, but not in the way you'd think. amazingly, the operating system *already* uses the 'unused' RAM as file system cache. but the cache is dropped as soon as an user-mode app demands memory.

suppose that we have a M by N vandermonde matrix with cells given by V_{i,j}. we remove M-N rows with indices given by a_0, a1, \ldots, a{M-N-1}, in order to make the matrix square. direct formula for cells of V^-1_{i,j} given a?

tracking xpar v0.7: github.com/iczelia/xpar added fft-based rs encoding/decoding in o(n log n)

bathrobe mode

At #Evoke2025

I used to envy 'normal' people for how easily they can make friends or socialize, because they are totally oblivious or immune to the things that make their relationships shallow or toxic in my perception. Then it turned out that they are perfectly happy to replace all of that with a LLM.

Enlightenment.

One interesting variable that nobody seems to control for is that native speakers learn through listening and speaking, while ESL speakers tend to learn through reading and writing. This induces different mental patterns and classes of mistakes.

there is a hornet nest in my office 🫠

this feels like a major milestone.

British fantasy: If I have this one stone, I can do anything I want! American fantasy: If I believe in myself, I can do anything I want! Slavic fantasy: I can't do anything.

Breakthrough study: COVID-19 reactivates dormant breast cancer, triggering deadly metastasis. Cancer survivors who got COVID had 4.5× higher cancer-related deaths and 1.4× greater breast cancer. MASK UP!! Protect yourself from Covid, which is airborne

Little know this, but you can (relatively viably) use PHP as a preprocessor for C source code.

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

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back in germany once again. time to grind my thesis.

$6 tim hortons chilli to good to be true

nails

unironically wow, what a way to put it

somehow everyone seems to think that i am 4+ years older than i actually am.

welp, turns out that i am 21 now.

if this post gets 20 likes i will mail my shit to Lisa Su and ask it to be forwarded to the two interns who maintain the amdgpu drivers in Linux.

on vacation in canada

i am this 🤏 close to rewriting my thesis in assembly

Pop quiz: When do I wake up, eat lunch and have dinner?

it's hot as shit outside. i'm tired boss.

some custom gtk theming...

First source code patch for an E16 bug: Upon resumption from LightDM, the desktop background would not refresh.

I became Enlightened and that was totally worth it to ruin my sleep schedule over.

Tray.

We have a file manager now!

Going slow and steady...

the new debian install has been upgraded to trixie/testing... yes, i will be live-posting cobbling together my new linux setup.

wow the debian installer sucks at partitioning when crypto volumes are involved

Birthday coming up in a month, so here is a superficial goal for myself that I want to accomplish: Reduce my reliance on newfangled stuff. Terminal music player and an offline playlist. Tmux. Neovim instead of VSCode. Git CLI instead of a GUI client. As little time spent in the browser as possible.

automake 1.18 shipped and it supports bzip3

i seem to struggle a lot with building an online presence recently