samir, a terminally deprecated method

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Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably.

A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza.

Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out.

Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off.

PM me for my Signal handle.

This profile is searchable.

Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

pronounshe/him; they/them
locationZürich, Switzerland
bloghttps://functional.computer/

There’s this passage in Systemantics which talks about “dual bureaucracy” in ancient Egyptian organisations (presumably public office).

It sounds like an excellent idea, but I cannot find any sources.

Does anyone know if it is true, and of any research or articles which explain it in more detail?

This book aged badly.
squircle (n). A British prime minister.

THIS WAS NOT A REQUEST TO SPAM ME, GITHUB

I mean, this is just insulting. Not only have they turned on email spam for me again, without my permission, but they are sending basic shit to an account that’s over 10 years old.

I don’t think the LLMs are taking my job yet.
And the award for the most terrible, awful, hilariously bad, automated birthday email from a random corporation goes to…

Alright, I am back to work, but I did do a lot over the holidays. And I struck some stuff off the list too, which is just as good.

I didn’t get a chance to try Iocaine, but I’d like to.

I tried fixing my unsafeness in my Rust version of Crafting Interpreters, but I worry that diverging from the book’s C code too much will cause problems when I have to implement the garbage collector, so I backed off. I’ll try again after I finish the book.

I looked at Jujutsu and decided… I don’t care.

Heaven’s Vault keeps getting better. I am very much enjoying it. Not done yet but I expect I’ll finish this month.

Silksong isn’t inspiring me. I want to play it but it’s the kind of game that suffers badly from long breaks, and I don’t have time to play regularly. So it’s going on the “later” list.

And I didn’t do any programming, except Nix for my servers. Perhaps that’s for the best.

Now this is an interesting new scam.

The link is almost certainly a phishing domain.

TBH, it’s going alright!

I think I’ll switch from server admin to video games for a day or three.