Polymaths.social

Some times I read back what I wrote a couple of days ago and ask myself what? I don't know, half sentences, weird repetition all seems to be my writing style :p

Uhg Corey Doctorow went from a bit annoying liberterian leaning to more and more supporting fascistic things, might be time to drop him from my rss list.

I've been quite enjoying solving sudoku puzzles again, having fun untying those logic knots :)

I guess I'm oldschool, most of the time I really prefer a text based interaction with a computer program, rather than the clicky, button menu thing.

Ah good book hit just the right spot for me to enjoy it yesterday, was great, apart for the fact that I got to bet a bit too late, so now I'm sleepy today, out with the coffee :)

Question, what is: (false / 2 + "3" + 2 ) * 3
JS: 96 of course

So it turns out, Not only is not a number, a number, but in JS there are also about 9 quadrillion Not a Numbers..

Uhg, the more I have to try and do things with js the more I hate it,

If you at work contact me and only want to talk on the phone and not over loggable text I will assume you are kind of an ass and/or want me to do something suspicious that you don't want to be responsible for.

Why are people talking about multiple endings in games as if that is a good thing?

At least the first day of my promise to myself to read more this week has been succesful so far, let's see how it goes on. It all hinges on the books that I'm reading mostly, and how well I enjoy them, how much they fit to my current mood. Also 4 books until I've read 50 books this year, which is pretty good for me, some of them are rather short though, I would guess in the number of pages I'm pretty close to last year.

I bet 99% of the people being afraid of marxism don't even know what it means. It's just that "evil" thing.

It's amazing how much more readable code gets from just formatting it to have shorter lines, less idea per line really makes a huge difference.

Still being onto Questing with Dragons, and reading a bit less than what I feel like I want to, I hope this week will be a bit better about that :)

https://sotolf.polymaths.page/posts/this-week-2026-30/

Caught 2 decently big mistakes (work stuff) I did over the week today and rectified them, now I hope there won't be more showing their ugly head.

It is Friday again, looking very much forward to getting some off-time now :)

I really enjoyed reading Newton's Wake by Ken MacLeod, I think I would have read a lot more of his stuff already if this was the first one I read of his rather than the Engines of Light series that I didn't enjoy that much.  Now I'm excited for continuing on reading his stuff, from what I understand this is one of his less political books, looking forward to seeing what more he packs into the next ones, Probably starting up Company Wars the next time this slot in my reading schedule comes up :)

Lots of "fun" trying to be the technical person dealing with getting stuff from three sides, everyone decides things, without knowing what is possible with the tables and erp that we have in production, so you try as much you can to do what they want. The People at the ERP-Company are frustrated and annoyed with how much I do cheat and kludge things together to make something that at least half way works. Today I have a text field that is 18 characters long, I can't change that, they "need" to have 4x 12 character long lot numbers there, I keep on asking what I can shave off, get no answer, but more of the same question. Keep on asking, keep on getting no answers, I don't have the social skills for this, I'm trying as hard as I can, but I can only do so much magic. And now I'm socially drained from having to deal with people, it's hard enough figuring out what people want when I'm not this frustrated :/

Arg I'm kind of annoyed,

Managed to mangle filenames in a script by renaming files by

parts = filename.split("_")
newname = "PS_" + parts[1] +"_" + parts[2] + ".pdf"

and then having some faulty sftp logic,

kept running the script until sftp worked, and mangled the names completely.

Have now written a regex guard to save myself from my own stupidity

filenamePattern = /^[^_]+_\d{8}_\d{9}\.pdf$/;

So that the needed info doesn't get shifted out of the filename if I fuck things up again :p

I'm really enjoying Newton's wake now by Ken MacLeod, it took a bit for me to get into his style of writing, but it's quite a fun book, and lots of adventure now that it got going, there are some funny caricatures of people, but they are still treated like real people, which helps them not getting grating. I'm really enjoying this one, and I think I've got a hold of most of the scottisisms in the speech as well, they were a bit of a struggle to begin with to guess from my limitied experience with scots :)