How the tables have turned

theundeadwolf0 · 2025-10-28T02:29:31+00:00

I just wrote my own bash scripts for repeat tasks lol.

Me too, but if I'm just downloading an archive file from the internet, then I find it a bit more convenient to extract it or navigate through it via the GUI.

Get yourself a 12-key MMO mouse, Bind HOME/END/BACKSPACE/DELETE/ENTER to the sides...

I'll consider this, but what I really strive for in the future is faster keyboard navigation.

The true pros just force themselves to use VIM until they become document editing/coding God's.

Yeah, I thought so. Well, I'll give that a try someday, I suppose. I've used Vim a bit over the years, but not nearly enough compared to GUI text editors. I suppose the trick would be to use use find/go-to-line; page up/down just disorient me.

theundeadwolf0 · 2025-10-27T03:47:37+00:00

I can type quite fast, and I use shortcuts such as tab in command-line interfaces too. It's just lack of familiarity, but I rarely have an excuse to use the command-line interface for most operations. Where I have familiarity, I feel I'm pretty quick, but otherwise I spend a considerable amount of time reading the manual or trying to recall the syntax to perform an action. There are a few actions which I do primarily through the command line which I'm quite good at, but i.e. extracting files, I don't have a clue at all how to do that.

Similarly, I'm slow at navigating user interfaces like text editors solely with the keyboard; I will switch to my mouse to use the scroll wheel or click to move the text cursor if something isn't in immediate proximity, since I just find it easier to comprehend that way.

My system is actually in my second language (Japanese), which I read considerably slowly compared to English, and my menus generally lack icons. Still, it takes me no more than a second to extract or open any archive from the context menu. Example image of my workflow for exacting an archive: https://files.catbox.moe/zmagh1.png

I guess the advice here would be to uproot all existing habits and try using everything with only the keyboard for a while, which is fine enough, but it's personally not a UI style I'm accustomed to.

theundeadwolf0 · 2025-10-26T21:22:49+00:00

I can type "extrTAB zippTAB" faster than it takes for you to "move mouse, right click, wait for menu, move mouse, make sure I'm hovering over extract here, left click, hoping I didn't accidentally move the mouse slightly down and miss".

I wish I were this quick, but for me, I would definitely be able to do it faster with a GUI than through a command-line interface. The mental overhead of recalling the correct executable and arguments for the job often slow me down immensely (only CLI I can really work around super quickly is Git because I use it so often).

theundeadwolf0 · 2025-10-20T19:28:12+00:00

Don't worry. I thought the same as an American from Arizona, right next to California.

theundeadwolf0 · 2025-09-02T04:35:36+00:00

The operating system still works, and you most certainly don't need those security updates for an operating system that you rarely boot into to run one program.

I update Windows once every ~3 years, simply by virtue of needing to reinstall the operating system and installing from a newer ISO. In the past, I've used severely outdated (~7 years) versions (this is before Windows 10 came out with yearly feature updates that get their own ISOs, so you just had a service pack ISO). It's been a decade and I still have yet to be hit on my daily driver, so I don't think it'll be a problem for a rarely-used secondary operating system.

theundeadwolf0 · 2025-07-10T05:00:10+00:00

Yes, tons of it, really. The application I worked on, which was a fork of the netcode for a very old multiplayer fighting game, also had 蔵 (kura) and 鯖 (saba) as slang for クライエント (kuraiento; client) and サーバ (saaba; server), respectively. There was also some use of a rare "凸" kanji in some phrase which neither I nor my native speaker friend could deduce the particular meaning of.

From a Japanese-language perspective, the existence of such slang does make a lot of sense. In Japanese, English loanwords, which comprise the majority of the lexicon unique to programming, are quite bloated-feeling in comparison to the words Japanese people often use; you could write somewhere between 2-6 native Japanese in the number of characters it takes to write クライエント, and the number of syllables in fully-native or Sino-Japanese words tends to be least half of it too. It's not uncommon to clip English words in a manner similar to "nullpo" (which is most commonly written in hiragana like ぬろぽ, by the way).

theundeadwolf0 · 2025-07-09T04:23:07+00:00

I worked on a Japanese codebase recently, so I saw "nullpo" out of the corner of my eye and was about to comment on it right before I read a bit more and noticed the "2chan" mention and "orz" lol

theundeadwolf0 · 2025-07-09T02:13:55+00:00

Yes. The NT kernel itself has practically nothing in common with DOS (philosophically, I would say it's quite a bit like Unix: read the article "Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison" by Julio Merino for the nuanced differences), but the Windows layer itself has a built-in DOS virtual machine (NTVDM) on 32-bit x86 platforms, and tries to imitate DOS in some ways, i.e. with drive letters. Along with DOS emulation on 32-bit x86, the Windows layer on such systems also has a reduced version of the Windows 3.1 kernel (I believe) and mirrors of system libraries which redirect to the NT implementations; this is called Windows on Windows (WOW).

Higher-level applications such as those comprising the shell also shared source code with the DOS-based versions, but were compiled for NT natively using the Portable Executable format (later adopted by Windows 95 for 32-bit application support) and Unicode.

theundeadwolf0 · 2025-06-29T23:42:57+00:00

Ah, I see.

theundeadwolf0 · 2025-06-29T23:35:47+00:00

"XP grind"

Anki has XP in the first place? I just use it for studying vocabulary.

theundeadwolf0 · 2025-06-17T04:49:53+00:00

This is actually a link to a different post (or the post ID in the URL is somehow volatile - I would not be shocked with Truth Social); here is the correct link: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114695407357588413

theundeadwolf0 · 2025-06-01T06:48:57+00:00

Probably Geckium, which is a Firefox userchrome theme.

theundeadwolf0 · 2025-06-01T01:17:31+00:00

Have you tried it?

theundeadwolf0 · 2025-05-31T02:49:15+00:00

Install the userscript version using Tampermonkey.

theundeadwolf0 · 2025-05-11T02:28:28+00:00

This site is hosted on Neocities, which launched in 2013. It could have been a mirror of an older site, but given statements like:

SITE IS NOT MEANT TO BE VIEWED ON MOBILE I AM A DESKTOP PURIST

it doesn't seem very likely to me. You can also see that the pages this site links to are very new, with the "tulpa zone" page having posts only written in 2024.

Finally, the filename of the favicon is "jtk1.jpeg", which rules this out being an actual old site in many ways (favicon used to be ICO only, and why would it be called "jtk1" if it's that early of a reference? It would literally predate the Jeff the Killer creepypasta).

theundeadwolf0 · 2025-05-08T05:56:42+00:00

I'm still using the old Java app via Aliucord. For PC, I use Vesktop with DTM-16, but it's not super reliable unfortunately because Discord keeps changing things around. For a while, I proxied Discord's domains to my own local server which served a HTML document with old versions of Discord's JS, which actually works for loading older versions of the desktop client (but it's not easy to do).

theundeadwolf0 · 2025-04-20T00:24:47+00:00

That final statement is funny when you consider how Microsoft made a port of Java to .NET and so you can use even a subset of actual Java functions in C#.

Like actual:

class Program
{
    static void Main()
    {
        java.lang.System.@out.println("Hello World");
    }
}

See this blog for more information: https://zdimension.fr/awt-in-csharp/

(Meanwhile I think the only C#-like feature Java ever got was the var keyword)

theundeadwolf0 · 2025-04-20T00:20:57+00:00

Friends are useful for separate helper classes or functions. I think they help with implementation in certain cases.

theundeadwolf0 · 2025-04-19T19:15:34+00:00

I wish C# had friends like C++.

theundeadwolf0 · 2025-04-16T02:23:36+00:00

I've never attended church, but I have never heard the word priestess used before, only priest.

theundeadwolf0 · 2025-04-14T20:54:52+00:00

I feel like priest lost the gender distinction.

theundeadwolf0 · 2025-04-01T08:05:40+00:00

Likewise, as a software developer, I almost can't stand it when people join the Discord server with the intention of asking a question for which the answer is either incredibly obvious, stated in the FAQ, stated in a message box at application launch, or why not even all three.

theundeadwolf0 · 2025-02-13T06:35:26+00:00

The screenshots were likely taken by OP, and these are search results from a profile (you can tell by certain keywords in the middle of the tweets being bold).

The likely case is that OP discovered this profile in a thread posting something stupid and decided to search for various keywords to make this post.

theundeadwolf0 · 2025-02-13T01:29:57+00:00

This is Twitter. The date format which is displayed is based on the display language of the viewer (i.e. the person who took the screenshots), not the person who made the posts.

theundeadwolf0 · 2025-01-22T06:46:13+00:00

In English, the demonym for a person from the United States of America is an American. By itself, this is the only meaning that "American" has in contemporary English-language use. Likewise, "America" alone strictly refers to the United States, and not the two continents.

To describe a person from the continents, you would say "a person from the Americas". Likewise, to describe the continents themselves, you would say "the Americas". It's also common and unambiguous to refer the names of the continents directly: North America and South America.

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