Interests: programming, video games, anime, music composition
I used to be on kbin as [email protected] before it broke down.
Yep, salt. Also, there are much better options than MD5. I used bcrypt in systems I built a while back. There’s also scrypt and argon2, which are newer. (Just be careful that you don’t create a DoS vulnerability while hardening your login system…)
RIP.
(Screenshot is from Bodacious Space Pirates – he directed the anime.)
May the Fourth be with you
Generally the professor in charge of the research group.
~2011?
2016 or later for MHA anime.
Better out-of-the-box text-to-speech voices would be very welcome. The defaults are pretty painfully robotic… (Try spd-say "Hello world" if you don’t know what I mean.)
Trivial to use on-device dictation software could also be useful.
The capabilities of models like qwen3.6 to do things like on-device image analysis are pretty incredible if you have hardware capable of running it – I’ve run it on a Framework Desktop – but I have no desire to expose my systems directly to AI agents. That’s just asking for trouble… If an AI agent can fuck up, it will fuck up eventually, and I’d rather it not have the ability to delete my files when it does.
Took me longer than it probably should’ve to realize that said “Rustia” rather than “Russia” – was getting some real “Brazilian Arabia” vibes (from old EU4 memes) for a moment there.
Glad you got outside and were able to get things sorted out without too much trouble! Having gone from “complete shut-in” back to “goes outside at least once in a while” myself, I will say it gets easier the more you do it.
Not really. I’m just in kind of a snarky mood. 😛️
So, my taxes are paying for this, huh? Do I get to watch the movie for free then? 🤨️
I wrote some VBA for a job a long time ago. It was pretty good for making quick and dirty UI in Excel – like, click a cell and have it pop up a form you can interact with that will let you do data entry with less clicks/typing than whatever Excel would’ve made you do if you had to do it naively.
I used it for showing a list that could be filtered down by partially typing in text in one project. (A really basic autocomplete sort of thing, essentially.) For another project, I integrated IE and showed some complex data in the embedded browser with buttons (or maybe it was checkboxes? been too many years) in the form to quickly classify it and move on to the next entry without having to flip back and forth between multiple programs and manually open files. (Each entry corresponded to a row and widgets on the form updated values in various columns so I could go through all the data and fill out the full spreadsheet super fast.)
Alternatively, write a script that checks your spreadsheet for errors. e.g. add a reference to a regex library and use it verify that all the entries in a column match the data format you expect (like serial number patterns with hyphens in specific places).
You can also ask your coworkers for something tedious they have to do a lot in Excel and see if you can find a way to make it less tedious.
Been there. Got so bad that at one point I was seriously concerned I’d get fired over lack of productivity due to anxiety and depression. I was already in therapy for the anxiety (and some traumatic events that were then recent in my life) but had been resisting pharmaceuticals.
Two things helped me. One, I started keeping a weekly list of the hours I’d been mentally “on the clock” at least trying to work – whether or not I actually got anything useful done – along with a note of what I was trying to work on. When I got to 40 hours, I was done for the week. Off the clock. Unless I was doing something that I really wanted to get done or some emergency that really needed my attention came up, I was just done. Could do whatever the fuck I wanted with my time with no guilt. (If I did get called for a work emergency or was pursuing something particularly interesting, I logged those hours and deducted them from the next week’s 40 hours.) I used a text file for this and wrote a little python script to tally my hours automatically – do what works for you. This alone helped me a lot.
The second thing I did was I got on an SSRI. That reduced the amount of chest pain and severity of anxiety attacks I was having. After they took effect, I’d say I had more of “Oh fuck it, I’ll just do it” attitude to things I’d put off from anxiety before. Didn’t solve everything, mind you, and I still have a hard time getting myself to go outside regularly, but it’s not the ordeal it was every time before, at least. It lowered the bar for doing things rather than removing it completely, basically.
If your problems persist, seek a therapist. A licensed, human therapist – not an LLM! – and tell them what’s going on. My therapist strongly encouraged me to try medication after we’d been talking for a while, and eventually I took his advice and got a psychiatrist who prescribed the SSRIs.
Best of luck.
Not good enough for me knowing there are Thomas Midgley Juniors out there:
On October 30, 1924, Midgley participated in a press conference to demonstrate the apparent safety of TEL, in which he poured TEL over his hands, placed a bottle of the chemical under his nose, and inhaled its vapor for sixty seconds, declaring that he could do this every day without succumbing to any problems. […] Midgley later took a leave of absence from work after being diagnosed with lead poisoning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.
He was the jackass who invented both leaded gasoline and CFCs and inflicted them on the world.
I think they mean that they’re blaming Mary Sue-ish/wish fulfillment isekai specifically. i.e. like stories that are stereotypical of self-published content on Shosetsuka ni Narou (lit. “Let’s Become a Novelist”) – not two separate genres.
(“Narou” itself just means “let’s become”, but it’s slang for the website if I understand correctly.)