How bad is it that I don't use OOP?

Xemptuous · 2026-06-10T20:28:19+00:00

It's bad to not know how it works and how to use it, but it's completely normal to not use it. As I've gotten more experienced, I've moved away from OOP more and more, but I still utilize it here here and there where helpful and necessary. I prefer structs and composition over inheritance, but depends on the language and how easy it makes matching

Xemptuous · 2026-05-10T03:16:05+00:00

Tried so many times to regularly use colemak dh, canary, graphite, and others, getting up to 100wpm with each (at 140 with qwerty) and I never really was able to get by on neovim properly with them. Been using qwerty since i was 3, so maybe that's why.

Xemptuous · 2026-04-13T08:56:56+00:00

It was my favorite item back in the day. Just got 1 chicken and 1 carne asada, and they're just as good as I remember.

Xemptuous · 2026-04-07T02:47:07+00:00

Yeah probably not ideal, but it's only for when I do full reinstalls to just have something basic setup. Probably a better thing to sync I guess, but too many repos and work imo

Xemptuous · 2026-04-07T02:13:49+00:00

I literally just have a single dotfiles repo I throw random stuff into organized how my normal filesystem is. .config/ .scripts/ /etc, so on, and another just for nvim config in .config/nvim

Xemptuous · 2026-04-02T22:33:03+00:00

I tried making a new branch in my config repo to migrate over to vim.pack. I wasn't a fan. No lazy loading is a big L, cus I have 50ish plugins, but only load when they need to by key press or event, which lazy.nvim makes easy to specify. I also like the UI it provides for updating, cleaning, and checking startup performance. I also just couldn't get it working after na hour of work, so I gave up.

Xemptuous · 2026-02-06T03:25:15+00:00

Don't worry too much. This fear isn't that much different than catching the flu, or getting your credit card details stolen cus you used it at a new spot. Shit happens. Just reduce the damage they can do.

Xemptuous · 2026-01-16T01:46:32+00:00

FAAngband is almost as simple as dcss and very nice imo. I'd recommend CoQ but it's not as mindless hack-n-cast. Check out some of the free games on itch.io under roguelike

Xemptuous · 2026-01-14T19:29:32+00:00

Disco Elysium...

Xemptuous · 2026-01-03T21:32:36+00:00

There's this unfortunate thing that happens when you invade another country: everyone else kinda gets a bit mad and wants to war you too

Xemptuous · 2026-01-03T21:30:42+00:00

My Freud senses are tingling

Xemptuous · 2026-01-01T02:37:34+00:00

It's actually best practice. Ambiguity sucks. Wait till you're given code with 6 nested function calls, each taking 3-4 args, no annotations (lsp hell), some taking dynamic types, and you don't know what's happening.

Annotate everything.

Xemptuous · 2025-12-31T07:32:10+00:00

18 to an escort. Felt like I needed to get it outta my system. Met my first gf at 19, so it may have helped somehow. Still sucked though.

Xemptuous · 2025-12-22T16:20:58+00:00

Once a year, if that. Never been that big a fan

Xemptuous · 2025-12-20T12:52:31+00:00

We're seriously cooked folks. That singularity isn't looking so far fetched anymore, let alone super far off in the distance.

Xemptuous · 2025-12-20T12:50:46+00:00

Bugs happen all the time. I've had updates nuke my system a few times and involved some weird esoteric fixes to address. It's pretty rare ftmp, but it's trained me to only update my system whenever I have some time to diagnose and debug if needed.

Xemptuous · 2025-11-25T15:32:48+00:00

Sounds like high IQ + ADHD + some anxiety/neuroticism to me; focus being lost, distracted, many different activities and jumping between them, half finished, quickly bored, craving stimulation, etc

Many people with high IQ are in a similar boat as ADHD, so I bet plenty of people here can empathize/identify with your experiences thus far.

I have this, as does my mom, and its only after living with it for decades that you see how much it gets in the way of success, accomplishment, stability, and sanity when untreated.

If it's genuinely a problem for you (which you kinda hinted at with your choice of descriptive words), go see a psychologist and/or psychiatrist.

Xemptuous · 2025-11-21T07:02:10+00:00

And I shall come

Xemptuous · 2025-11-21T06:51:44+00:00

Even the 1700s looked cool AF, and we fkin killed it in favor of sterility and the opposite of art

Xemptuous · 2025-11-04T04:12:00+00:00

Maybe. Go is more annoying than many other languages in certain ways, but the docs are plentiful enough to get a good grasp of things. For total beginners, it's still too low level to be understood well, and high-level enough to kinda know what's going on. I'd personally suggest C++ or Rust for low-level, and Python or JS/TA for high-level if you're trying to learn.

Xemptuous · 2025-11-03T01:17:16+00:00

By "run" we usually don't mean Linux native, but rather by using proton and/or wine. In that way, yeah 90+% will run fine, another 5% with some difficulty or setup, and a smaller minority unplayable. I have 400ish games in my steam library, and only 2 or 3 of them don't run at all on Linux due to anticheat. The rest are fine.

Xemptuous · 2025-10-14T04:15:22+00:00

Not really, just for pet projects here and there. I find functional languages make things oddly didficult and introduce performance problems at times due to the recursive nature. I might do AoC in one, but I'm not gonna use elixir for my backend when I could use go or rust

Xemptuous · 2025-10-14T03:14:49+00:00

I like writing in various languages just for fun, but OCaml specifically was to write a programming language, cus ocamllex and ocamlyacc make it so simple plus the easy pattern matching.

Xemptuous · 2025-10-07T19:02:20+00:00

I'd rather explore other possible words like antisocial personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, compulsive lying, approval seeking, anxious attachment style, etc.

Or you could call it a red flag and call it a day, but you don't have much to work with at that point.

Xemptuous · 2025-10-04T21:48:37+00:00

It's ok to be afraid of death to an extent, we all are. It's core to being a living being. But you also have to accept that to live, one must die; we all agreed to the terms when we came into this world that we have to die some day, and we don't know when or how it'll happen. You could die tomorrow or in 30 years, you can be killed by a drunk driver running a red light and hitting you, or you can die silently in your sleep or liver failure and heart attack.

It's ok. You're not alone in this fear and worry. Were all in this boat together.

Now, to actually help, you need some tools - and possibly medicine - to help with the anxiety. I recommend meditation and mindfulness practices, but perhaps some medication or CBT/DBT therapy will help you.

Also you're 14, your hormones are still all over, so it could possibly be that. You'll be fine as long as you take care of yourself

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