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gerryflap

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  • What's something you did once but won't do again?

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  • Magic mushrooms, or any other psychedelic stuff. I did it three times, and in retrospect I'm not sure if I realized what I was messing with. Unlike being drunk, it actually feels like these instances actually changed me as a person. Not for the worse, but it's still kinda spooky.

    On the surface it was just some fun, my brain was being silly and everything felt much more vibrant. But beyond that it actually changed my views on people and concepts. It altered my relationships and ultimately who I am as a person. Looking back, thos stuff seems to put your brain into an entirely different mode of creating and removing connections. It's not just messing with the "RAM" like alcohol, this stuff is writing to disk and making persistent changes.

  • I... don't know how to feel about this

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  • If I get the context right then he's a traitor, but I cannot deny that the outfit is pretty cool

  • Least favorite book?

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  • "De Grote Zaal" by Jacoba van Velde. For school we had to read many books. In the earlier years this could be anything as long as it was Dutch, so translated versions of English books were fine. I could read stuff like Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, etc. However, at some point the requirements shifted, and we were only allowed to read Dutch (non-translated) works of literature. This shit single-handedly killed all my fun in reading. Dry books about old people or about the war.

    "De Grote Zaal" is the one that I remember the most. It's a short book, but it goes pretty much nowhere and doesn't at all speak to the imagination of a teen guy. To me it represents the death of reading as a hobby. I've tried to pick up reading again, but it has since been replaced by other things and I just don't make the time for it anymore.

  • What's the most useful thing in the room you're in right now?

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  • Uhhhh. Probably the fridge. Maybe the microwave/oven combi, but the microwave no longer works so it's a bit less useful. If you purely look at the basics of survival then those would probably do it. Maybe the heaters, because surviving in a cold room is also pretty shit.

    You could also argue that the smartphone I'm typing this on or the laptop are the most useful. It really comes down to semantics of "useful".

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  • I think it'd because the Trackmania arcade mode doesn't really let you affect anyone else. Everyone in the server is obviously trying to go as fast as possible,and to a degree also get as high up on the session leaderboard as possible, but you can't ruin each others laps. And while finishing high on the session leaderboard is nice, the overall goal for everyone is to get a good enough time on the map in general. To beat your own PB, to get all medals. So essentially the real opponent is your past self. This leads people to get quite cooperative. Having discussions about how to tackle certain parts of the track, congretulating each other with setting a new PB, etc.

    Playing against random people and especially with random people in other competitive games seems to generally get toxic. People blaming you for ruining their game, people getting mad. To me it's very stressful. Even if I know that it shouldn't affect me, and I'm never going to meet them again, it still does affect me negatively

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  • At the moment basically anything competitive/ranked. I don't want to compete online anymore because I know that I'll have to go on an insane grind to get good. Only exception is trackmania because it somehow doesn't upset me quite like other ranked online games. But even then I only play the "arcade" mode and not ranked

  • I redid the meme with what hurts me

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  • I may or may not have done this haha. I'm a threat to any working piece of software, just enough knowledge to be able to break shit and too little knowledge to avoid breaking shit. I think after all these years I've mostly learnt my lesson though. The package manager is the boss, and if I don't like it I have to work around it without upsetting the package manager

  • I redid the meme with what hurts me

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  • Good meme. However I do think that most people starting out will not really have to deal with any of those issues in the first few years apart from maybe the pip/venv/poetry/etc choice. But whatever they'll pick it'll probably work well enough for whatever they're doing. When I started out I didn't use any external libraries apart from pygame (which probably came pre-installed). I programmed in the IDLE editor that came with Python. I have no idea how I functioned that way, but I learnt a lot and hat plenty of fun.

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    What kind of messaging apps do you use?

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  • I try to steer as many people as I know to Signal, but I don't want to be the type of person who accepts no compromise so I also use a bunch of others. Whatsapp is the most common, as pretty much everyone here in the Netherlands uses it. I used to use Telegram, but nowadays I trust it less than Whatsapp and all my Telegram chats have moved to Signal. SMS is only there for backup and older people who don't use other apps. And Discord is there for people who want their messages to never be read, because that app is a dumpster fire that constantly makes me miss messages.

  • Bluesky has gained a million new users in the last three days.

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  • Maybe the phrase "white ones are better" triggered some moderation bot?

  • Why are so many people so fixated on Lemmy's growth?

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  • Because that's what I'm missing. I like the apps, I like the site, but I need content. And not memes or politics, but specific niche topics. The nice thing about Reddit is that there's more than enough content about basically anything. Non mainstream music (DnB, Hardstyle, Trance), games, hobbies. There are always hundreds ,if not thousands of people engaging. I don't want a discussion with 3 other people, I want a large community that can actually provide me with a lot of new information and keeps itself going without any effort from my end.

  • sometimes means every time

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  • That depends on the person. I'm autistic and for me it's just a moment to minimise stimuli and recharge a little bit. No fear involved, just a little overstimulated and in need of a reset.

  • We text now, stop calling me.

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  • I'm from the EU. I do the same. I hate getting calls. It forces me to drop everything I'm doing and suddenly switch contexts, which I absolutely hate. So I usually don't answer unless I expect the call or know the number. If it's important they can enter a voicemail or preferably send a message, either of which doesn't require an immediate response and is therefore a lot less annoying.

  • What’s the last thing you’ve done that’s made you ask “Am I stupid?”

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  • I'm a programmer, so this is pretty much a constant thing haha. Sometimes you write the smartest shit imaginable, and sometimes you waste 4 hours on something extremely simple.

  • How do you approach learning a new programming language or framework?

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    • Start with an ambitious project
    • Get stuck
    • Curse everything about said language or framework, "why did they do it like this"
    • Read the docs and find out why they did it like this
    • Feel stupid
    • Finish the project (or at least the part you actually cared about) with your new knowledge
    • Feel smart
    • Repeat until you know said language or framework