Polymaths.social

Really enjoyed the first book of the Corporation Wars by Ken MacLeod, there was some quite cool twists in there, and the story is fun, in addition to opening for some interesting thinking material. Third book of his that I've read so far, and the favourite of them I think. Sneaking up on 50 books read so far this year, just 2 more to go :)

Writing an interface between 2 ERPs where one is very strict and need everything must be strict and define as it is, the other is a glorified humonguous excel-sheet.

Its a bit like trying to fit square pegs into round holes only using cooked spaghetti as manipulators and having your coworkers blindfold you for fun :p

Oof, I think I just came to a realisation. So as a context for people who don't know me, I'm Norwegian, and somewhere out on the Autistic spectrum.

I just realised that when American english speakers keep heaping on overly polite phrases and praise, they actually mean it that way and to be encouraging.

I have always taken that as I would in Norwegian where using extra polite phrases and language like that mostly are used as sarcasm or to indicate that you are in a sitaution where you're uncomfortable and want out.

It does feel kind of stupid looking at it, but at the same time it feels kind of mindblowing to me.

Listenenig to a podcast they reminded me of the game "Den lengste reisen" (The Longest Journey) And I remember really enjoying playing that back in the day, it's the only point and click adventure game I ever really played for a longer time, probably because it's one of the few games that are completely in Norwegian, including the voice acting work, it just made it something really special.

A short comment relating to this post
https://janerationx.me/posts/postliterate-america by @janerationx

The phrase “dumbing down” has kicked around for a while, and this is reflected in the reading habits of those few who still pick up a book. Instead of losing themselves in a vast landscape of complex sentences and concepts, they are now indulging in young adult fiction and badly written porn romance.

While I agree that reading is important, and yeah, it's also important to read some more complex books, I think it's really going against it's purpose to talk down to things that people are actually reading, rather than encouraging them to also read something a bit more demanding if they feel like it

if you look at snippets from my reading feed over at https://bookwyrm.social/user/sotolf you will see longer stretches of not at all that "impressive" literary books, and often being on the verge of the thing the writer here says is a bad thing. I don't see how talking down about the books someone is reading is going to encourage them to read more and more challenging stuff? Do you read, great, enjoy your reading, no matter if you read 10 pages in a week or 100, no matter what you're reading, it's a great hobby that will serve you well in many ways.

Ugh, have done some hairy sql updates today, even though I'm really sure it's correct, and testing shows it's correct it's just that tiny niggle that it went wrong, they were all wrong originally and I fixed them, so it doesn't make sense that I have this worry, stupid brain.

One of the first times I actually got good use out of regexp_like though which is fun.

I don't usually finish games, that's something I leave to books.

I also don't have a backlog of games, I have a toybox full of different toys that I pick and choose depending on my mood that day.

Some times I feel like I'm a weirdo for doing it like this :p

Ah, if you feel a bit down today I would very much suggest to do an internet search for "googly eyed chud", made my day a bit brighter at least :)

It's so warm outside, I was going shopping and now I'm feeling as if I ran a 10 k,  just got inside at work again, and I'm dripping. This is not good.

Week of introspection and deduction games last week, also doing good progress on reading more again, and hope to keep that up this week.

https://sotolf.polymaths.page/posts/this-week-2026-31/

I actually made good on my promise to read more this week, and it has been great. Of course it helped that I've really been enjoying the book I'm currently reading. Feels great :D

Reminiscing about the times that handheld systems were fun and easy to bring along, quite a fun little indulgent trip down memory lane for me.

https://sotolf.polymaths.page/posts/handheld-gaming-travel/

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,