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AstroLightz

@ AstroLightz @lemmy.world

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Hobbyist developer, Linux enthusiast, and Arch Linux user.

"The only things constant in this world are death and taxes, I've got both!" — Skeleton Merchant, Terraria

  • Have you seen Neon Genesis Evangelion?

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  • Never seen it, so all the memes of it in animemes make no sense to me, but it's still funny to look at.

  • Researchers 3D print cell-sized, shape-shifting robots that move and navigate without a ‘brain’

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  • "Nanomachines, son"

  • What’s the most terrifying experience you’ve ever had?

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  • No fucking clue, it just happened one day.

  • What’s the most terrifying experience you’ve ever had?

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  • I don't have spooky, but I've almost 'died' a few times (At least felt like I was dying):

    • Getting very light-headed and my vision becoming bright, and almost passing out due to dehydration and hunger multiple times in my life (A few when I was young, at work, and I think a few times at home)
    • Getting very dizzy, light-headed, and nauseous. Was my 1st time in an ambulance. Was fucked up on drugs they gave me that made my so exhausted, I couldn't sleep at all.
    • More light-headedness due to drastic dietary changes
    • A pain that fucked my stomach up so bad, I though I was giving birth (I imagined it hurt as bad as birth, but through the stomach). After 30 agonizing minutes of it, a weird pressure feeling came over it (like a relieving feeling), and it started going away.

    I've not had a great time.

  • The Claude Code Source Leak: 512,000 Lines, a Missing .npmignore, and the Fastest-Growing Repo in GitHub History

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  • So is "Claw Code" supposed to mean Claude? I don't see any explanation of what the repo actually is.

  • Whatcha all working on?

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  • I've been working on my first Python package to upload to PyPI to be used in more of my projects.

    It's a lot of work compared to some of my hobbyist projects as I'm trying to be (somewhat) professional about it.

    It's also my first time writing actual documentation designed for others to read. It's a lot harder than I though to write good documentation. Thankfully, sphinx helps with pulling docstrings from my code. I just wrote a Quick-Start Guide to get people started using the package.

    It's fun though as I'm learning a new stack for Python package development (hatch/hatchling, ReadTheDocs, sphinx, PyPI). I'm almost done with the initial release too!

  • Enough Arms

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  • I too would like that TACO to go

  • What is your "hunch"?

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  • About 160° (~2.79 rad). Been slouching too much and need to fix my posture.

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  • Accidentally wrote a 2GB 'nohup.out' file when I forgot I had a script running as nohup in the background without redirecting STDOUT and STDERR to /dev/null.

    Basically, I forgot to prevent saving the output of my program to a file, and it created a massive file because of it.

    2GB might not seem like much, but this was on a server with ~5GB free space left. Could have been worse had I not caught it sooner.

  • How do you feel about the current state of Lemmy?

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  • Imagine social media as an upsidedown parabola (like an arc), where the x axis is time, and the y axis is quality.

    The start of a new social media platform would be towards the bottom left. As they grow and add new features, their quality improves. Over time, however, they will 'peak' in quality. Then, they begin to introduce anti-consumer practices, such as API restrictions, ads, sponsored posts, etc. Their quality dwindles until either the platform shuts down or becomes a horrible echo chamber.

    Using this analogy, Reddit right now would be in the latter half of the graph, as it has become an echo chamber filled with bots, ads, and API restrictions.

    Lemmy currently is more like approaching the peak for the parabola. It's great for now.

    Sure Lemmy is open-source, self-hostable, but it's potential downfall would be its userbase. It's starting to have the same issues as Reddit: Don't comply with every else's opinions, get downvoted to oblivion. Of course, downvotes don't mean much on here, but getting banned would.

    In its own way, Lemmy is starting to become an echo chamber for tech/Linux enthusiasts, radicals, and those exiled from Reddit.

  • How long do you typically use a water bottle/tumbler before you wash it?

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  • After I use it each time??

  • My fellow 'Muricans, do you prefer metric or standard measurements?

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  • Metric. Imperial is a fucking mess. At least with Metric, most size measurements are 10 to the power of something.

  • What kind of car do you drive, and what kind do you wish you did?

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  • A large SUV I bought from a friend who was selling it years ago.

    I wish I had something smaller thugh, like a Mini. Though, that probably won't be long as my current car is very old and is already having issues.

  • What is your cinema hot take?

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  • Chainsaw Man Movie: Reze Arc:

    The story should have been about an existing character and not a new character that gets killed off in the end.

    Reze's story wasn't bad, but I cannot connect with her the same as with any of the already established characters. Plus there was a huge lack of Makima throughout the movie. She shows up at the start for around 20 minutes, then disappears until the last 2-3 minutes of the movie just to kill Reze off.

    It feels like nothing was really gained because of this, other than a gun devil piece and a mini arc with the angel dude.

    I would have much preferred an arc about someone we don't know well, like Makima or some of the other devils we met during the show's finale (We got a mini arc for the angel dude, but what about the Shark fiend or the spider lady?)

    Overall, the movie wasn't bad. It just wasn't what I was looking for in a Chainsaw Man movie.

  • Do you stick to the same linux distro across your devices?

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  • Everything but my server uses Arch (BTW). This is so I can have all devices have the same scripts for uniformity.

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  • Occasionally, energy drinks as I like the fruity taste of some of them. Otherwise, I don't consume heavily caffeinated drinks.

  • What biological programming have you overcome?

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  • Took me a minute to realize this is about human behaviour and not actual programming.

    I would probably say not needing to fill a social 'need' to be sane in life. I enjoy my time alone more than with others.

  • How do you describe death to a person who's from a world where nothing ever dies?

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  • You go to sleep and you never wake up.

  • In the instances that eliminated down votes, how did it change your posts and comments?

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  • Instances removing downvotes is the same as YouTube hiding downvotes on videos and comments: It doesn't help viewers, just protects the poster.

    I wouldn't want to be a part of such instance.