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i_am_a_peasant

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About i_am_a_peasant

Embedded guy.

C, C++, ASM, Rust, Python

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49224483

    Upvoting this purely because I want to see you two argue more hahahhaha

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    Comment #49223391

    I had all my dinosaur books always on the bathroom floor waiting.

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    Comment #49208528

    sounds like a mythical creature hahaha

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    Comment #49208515

    with very, very expensive logic analyzers... But yeah, nothing weird here. Plus OP was retelling a story of someone else doing it, while probably not being a specialist in this fie…

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    Comment #49180391

    True, my last startup got acquired and it still has the same CEO and CTO.

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    Comment #49161823

    Idk, do you play those point and click adventure games from early 2000s? Syberia? Broken Sword? they’re decent. Deponia also good, Truberbrook. What I cannot stand are things that …

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    Comment #49161791

    Yeah I’ve only played witcher 3 in german. I don’t even know the english names of many characters.

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    Comment #49153070

    A lot of good video games have decent German dubs, it was how I reached B2 German.

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    Comment #48918524

    Reminds me how I never in my life used the word “bespoke” before ChatGPT.

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    Comment #48890371

    i never managed to pay attention fully to an audio book. i always have to go back 30 seconds every now and then cause i lose the plot. i am the same with books. i never read it lin…

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    Comment #48870672

    I don’t find this beautiful at all tbh. Looks fiddly

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    Comment #48838977

    I was more used to hearing the "Measure 7 times cut once" russian saying. :D

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    Comment #48838961

    I trust a lot more Rust code generated by an LLM than anything else ngl.

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    Comment #48832253

    even txco's?

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    Comment #48784732

    For me the biggest learning investment outside work I put is learning Chinese and Vietnamese. I tried music but I gave it up after a year. And I can just do it on my commute to wor…

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    Comment #48685241

    same, I'll definitely pay for that

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    Comment #48627030

    Vietnam is legit a good place to live tbh. My wife is Vietnamese and we visit at least twice a year. Without making any value judgment on the government itself. I think it’s health…

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    Comment #48418273

    seems to work for android though

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    Comment #48410924

    That's just terrible, I love it.

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    Comment #48410659

    hard pass :D isn't kotlin supposed to be the future for JVM?

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    Comment #48409613

    My only problem with C++ is that it’s too verbose. my eyes need to parse huuge chunks of things when I just want some convenient syntax for it. otherwise the idioms are pretty univ…

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    Comment #48382953

    Monty Python fan detected :D love your profile desc btw

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    Comment #48382552

    I agree with both OP and you

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    Comment #48369323

    Idk about anyone here but I find the effect disorienting.

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    Comment #48337897

    you don’t need to understand millions of lines of code to be effective at a job. you just need to identify the boundaries and the subsystems you need to touch. I’ve always only wor…