[-] half@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

With due respect, it is time to go outside.

[-] half@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Relatable. You know how it is when your sleeves get wet and they kinda stick to your wrists or flop around getting other stuff stuck to them... ugh.

[-] half@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago

He cannot protec
Nor can he attac
But he is a little hat

[-] half@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Alright this is the most neurotic thing I've ever written but the lizard primary->accent color map is

'((light . dark)
  (medium . dark)
  (dark . medium))

and at first I thought it would be more symmetrical if either the light lizards had medium accents or the medium lizards had light accents, but then I noticed that the outline is always dark, which lets the outline act as both the background and either the primary or accent color for every possible lizard configuration, adding depth. We don't have time to bring color theory into this but I would be remiss if I didn't mention that this piece is inexplicably sepia toned, which raises further questions such as "what is wrong with me" and "how am I going to put this piece in my dining room without having to defend the 1960's?"

[-] half@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

My pet theory is that NGINX was designed by a pen-tester who realized that all they needed to do to make the majority of SMBs expose their web servers to the internet was outperform Apache

[-] half@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

About seven years ago, I quit dexmethylphenidate after eight years of various stimulants. I wish I could tell you there's a general solution, but I was just reading a completely unrelated book and had to get up, log into Lemmy, and respond to this thread I skimmed past three hours ago. I do take caffeine (~400mg) and nicotine (~6-10mg) daily, as well as a drop of hemp oil weekly to manage the caffeine side effects, so I might be disqualified according to some, but I don't think so. I'm sorry, but nothing will ever approach the unconditional dopamine of strong CNS stims.

Diet and exercise are essential. If I neglect them, I can fall into a loop of unproductive behavior. I mostly eat seeds, legumes, and veggies, with plenty of grain to facilitate cardio. I run 5-10K three times a week. I take protein (pea) and fiber (psyllium) supplements on top of a battery of vitamins. All of this helps me maintain a balance of stable productivity, but honestly the most life-changing thing I've ever done was get to a point in my career where I'm allowed to be productive on my own terms.

It took me until I was 26 to find a job where I was allowed to work mostly alone and be measured by my overall productivity instead of being graded by the horseshit pseudoscience that passes for academics and middle management. Obviously that's not much help to you if you don't have it yet, but please hold out. Don't listen to the horde of people with a work ethic in place of a philosophy. I fucked up or walked away from so many opportunities. You can still find independence. Society needs divergent thinkers, they just don't like to advertise it.

There are still days when I can't get anything done. There are times like this when I abandon what I'm supposed to be doing and fixate on something that really isn't part of the plan. My solution is to practice discipline generally so that I can forgive myself for wandering occasionally. I hope this isn't too disappointing. Take baby steps and trust no bitch.

[-] half@lemmy.world 63 points 1 year ago

That's a good thing. Discord is chugging its way through the last half of the Web 2.0 service to social media pipeline. It's a VC-funded multimedia enterprise extended around a novel technology core optimized for its original service offering, real-time voice/text. Nobody is immune to bloat, but because Matrix is a protocol standard, not an app, users have the option of sticking with minimal clients and servers that won't (necessarily) get destroyed by feature creep.

If you've tried Element and thought "ah, slow Discord," maybe have a scroll through https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/. I don't want to get off topic but all my favorite software is standard/specification-based.

[-] half@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Is this a screenshot of a Reddit post of a screenshot of a Twitter thread about people who want you to know they're involved in literature? I'm just checking. You guys see the same thing, right? This isn't some kind of software bug or dimensional rift?

[-] half@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Home slice I respect the grind but I gotta be real with you I haven't bought a GPU since the Obama administration

[-] half@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago

Oh my God! That's awful! Which ones?! Which sites, specifically, though?! You know, so I can call for bans.

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