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Half-fox, half-wolf, half-engineer. Into electronics, radio & software. (Very) amateur radio operator. Talk to me about TETRA V+D. Talks about NSFW stuff sometimes […]

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How come all of the beautiful men come from :ms_bear_flag: ?
December 8, 2025 at 12:02 AM
[AoC 2025 day 7 spoilers]

The tachyon-splitting thing was really cool. I like the transition between "yeah recursion and actually running through all the paths is doable" in part 1 to "oh fuck no you'll be here until the universe ends, find another approach" in part 2. That was my experience […]
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furry.engineer
December 8, 2025 at 12:01 AM
jetbrains...
December 7, 2025 at 9:46 PM
[minor AoC spoilers]

oh dear I accidentally made an AoC solution that will work but will need heat-death-of-universe scales of time to finish. #adventofcode
December 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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December 7, 2025 at 4:09 PM
[F1 WDC spoilers]

Landooooooooooo! Yes lad.
December 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Toto, it’s a motor race.
December 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Fascinating bit of symbology that I have seen on lots of old test gear. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad_arrow
Broad arrow - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 6, 2025 at 11:03 PM
[AoC Day 6 - minor spoilers]

Day 6 is the first day that I've used a totally different approach for part2 than I did part1. Unless I missed something, they really made me rip up the floorboards by suddenly making whitespace meaningful in part2.
December 6, 2025 at 10:43 PM

// forgive me
use regex::Regex;
December 6, 2025 at 10:40 PM
“I’m a Popufur, Get Me Out Of Here!”
December 6, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The new Jurassic park films are just… awful.
December 6, 2025 at 9:08 PM
> Without us, men would be little better than dogs. Don't remember any meal but the last, can't see forward to any but the next. And every time you leave the house and shut the door, they howl like you're gone forever.
December 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Time to lay on the sofa, drink beer and watch people fix air conditioners on YouTube.
December 6, 2025 at 8:36 PM
the "Async Rust" cards against humanity card
December 6, 2025 at 12:44 AM
The vibe this evening. I wish I had hair like that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezURquket9g
December 6, 2025 at 12:41 AM
"hey that for loop is cool but you should rewrite it as a massive stack of iterator functions so it's definitely not debuggable"

- clippy
December 6, 2025 at 12:26 AM
The latest Cloudfloops report, for anyone interested. https://blog.cloudflare.com/5-december-2025-outage/ again
Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
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December 6, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Day 5 Part 2 was pretty fun. Taking me way back to Algorithm Design 1 at uni. Love it.

#adventofcode
December 6, 2025 at 12:09 AM
FIFA: "We're not corrupt at all. Now watch this peace prize award..."
December 5, 2025 at 10:38 PM
[drug addiction, movie quote]

“One bottle of Valium, which I have already procured from my mother, who is, in her own domestic and socially acceptable way _also_ a drug addict.”

- Renton, _Trainspotting_ (1996)
December 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I noticed my solar cloud account said my installer was “anonymous” and said I could enter an installer code to adopt the account. Guessing my installer just created a standalone end user account for me and didn’t adopt it into their own fleet…

Also turns out anyone can create an installer […]
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furry.engineer
December 5, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Furries all busy at MFF… Cloudflare goes down… causation? Hmmm….
December 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Peeked at Day 5... The order of puzzles is really weird this year. #adventofcode
December 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Why do things on Bandcamp just sound better?
December 5, 2025 at 11:39 AM