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There’s a mix of reasons to start a hobby project.

One reason for starting a hobby project is the learning experience. For example, learning a new programming language or a particular tech stack. The goal isn’t to build something useful. Often it can be building things that already exist. For example, a Minecraft server or a Gameboy emulator.

Another reason is to build something useful for you. Maybe you have an idea of a program you feel should exist. Or maybe a program exists, but not in the way you want. Building it yourself can bridge this gap. Hopefully someone else might find your program useful.

Then there’s also the people who do it for fun. It’s kind of like building a model railway. The process of building it can be more fun and rewarding than actually using it.

Regarding Linux, it’s mostly a matter of preference. There are some things that are easier in Linux. Mac and Windows can sometimes be ” overly protective” and prevent the user from doing particular things. Linux has generally fewer of such barriers.

What’s more frustrating is when the password creation page is silently cutting off too long passwords and don’t inform you about it.

One thing many forget about critical thinking is to also be critical of your own thoughts as well. Too many people think it’s only about attacking other people’s opinion.

Don’t forget about the access to free workforce in slave camps.

Ads will be hijacked into any media content through AI. Watching a video essay on YouTube? Ha! YouTube will seamlessly hijack 1 minute of this video and now your favorite essayist will talk about how great Dunkin Donuts is. All without their consent.

Internet will be truly dead. Nothing is authentic anymore. Everything will be AI slop. If it isn’t AI slop, then it will be injected with AI slop ad reads sooner or later. Some ads will be injected by the service provider. Others will be injected by the web browser. Maybe some even by the operating system itself. Even comments like this one can turn into an AI slop ad read. It reminds me of the unbeatable experience I had the other day in Dunkin Donuts. I don’t know what it is, but something makes Dunkin Donuts that much better. Does anyone know what it can be? IMO, everybody deserves to treat themselves with a little Dunkin in their lives. So good!

I was stubborn and refused to look up guides on how to solve it. I finally managed to solve it by applying some permutation math I learned in university.

Just some default wallpaper. I have never really cared about the wallpaper. I just pick anything that doesn’t distract.

I suppose it tells I’m a boring person.

Just watch Hollywood try to replicate ”chicken jockey” instead

Toilet paper shortage in stores was a global phenomenon. It’s seems like during times of crisis, people buy toilet paper. The grocery stores just weren’t prepared for everybody to buy toilet paper at the same time. They couldn’t keep up with the restocking.

There was no real shortage in toilet paper in terms of production.

Sweden. I pay 150 SEK (~16 USD) for 8GB/month.

Unused data is transferred over to the next month, so running out of data has never been a problem for me.

&& git push --force

Maybe.

When using a random pivot, the worst case becomes exponentially more unlikely the larger the n. The O notation only cares about the complexity when n approaches infinity. So when n approaches infinity, the likelihood of O(n^2) performance approaches 0 (and the likelihood of O(n log n) approaches 1).

I think it’s fine to call it O(n log n).

The quadratic equation is the basis for most other math and physics. It’s used all the time.

The good thing about quicksort is that it’s a good demonstration of an O(n log n) algorithm, and that’s about it.

Full vibe development

So like any Adam Sandler movie?

AI is probably going to transform how code is written, but I don’t think AI will fully replace programmers. At least not in the foreseeable future.

Most of a programmer’s work is maintaining existing code. This is something current AI models still struggle with.

I don’t hate AI art. I hate people who pretend they’re artists when all they do is writing prompts.

”All features are xy problems”

”PM adds new features to the sprint faster than they’re solved”

”Each release require two weeks of testing”

”Each release introduces new bugs for customers despite the two weeks of testing”

I wanted something silly and something completely unattached to who I am. Maybe I went a bit too silly.

They will resort to vibe debugging