AcademicalNerd @academicalnerd@social.cleverlibre.org
People are more important than wires.
Joined Jan 2021
2021-03-07, 19:25, Sunday
Oh well. Threw a party. 8 people in my countryhouse, we made a lot of bbq type food (not a traditional bbq, a russian variation). It was very nice and everyone stayed for the night, we played some board games, drank a lot of cidre and red wine. And today in the morning we were just sitting in the living room and watching the snowflakes fall for an hour. Charming night and a beautiful day, but my introverted ass is exhausted. Nonetheless, I'm grateful to finally have quite a few people to have fun with. This is new and wonderful.
2021-05-06, 08:21, Saturday
Day off, going to my country house to throw a party there. Not the most nerdy thing to do, but it's a good way to unwind and relax. This will also make a good story. As a photographer looks for beauty around then to capture it for others, I now look for experiences to capture in my writing.
2021-03-05, 20:00, Friday
Great podcast with Jordan B. Peterson by Tim Ferris. Very interesting, a lot of things to think about.
https://youtu.be/C1sEHNw4UIg
2021-03-05, 06:40, Friday
I can't work late at night. After 18:00 my cognitive functions drop to almost zero and I fall asleep by 21-22. It's possible to shift this slightly if I wake up later, but most of the time it works this way.
This is why I have an hour and something like 10 minutes to study for today's test. We covered the material yesterday and classes lasted 'till 18:30 so there was no way I could revise. Anyway, time to study.
@FailForward @mathias
That editing though: shitload -> load :D
On a serious note, I tend to use fullscreen stuff for the sake of focus. Sometimes it's splitscreen on windows, 50/50 between brave browser and whatever else, most of the time qt creator or matlab.
And in linux... Well, I tend to have 3-4 terminal apps in different workspaces, there is no real pattern there. Whatever works at the moment, that's the advantage of twm.
@mathias @FailForward
I just wanted to try something very configurable and minimal. Yeah, it is very good out of the box, I agree.
@mathias @FailForward
My laptop is on pop os with xmonad wm on top, works great. Although the pc is still on windows :(
2021-03-04, 08:40, Thursday
I write a lot these days. Finally found a story I like enough to work on it for multiple days. There is also a piece of software I'll need to work on... Actually, I might tell a story.
So I am writing this program, it's basically a very advanced thermodunamic calculator. My work is to create a qt gui around someone else's core library. And my advisor asked me to give some work to a younger student (currently 2nd year) on the project. Following best practices, I asked him to do some tests. Haven't gotten anything out of the guy for the past few months. Another student, 1st year, joined the project later; actually, she installed the program a week ago. Yesterday she sent me some tests and filed around five bug reports on github. So much responsibility.
Thanks for the list! I use some of these, although for knowledgebase and notes I find obsidian quite good. Not cli, but it runs smoothly and available on windows. And alacritty as a terminal is surprisingly good, tbh.
As for package manager - stock apt from my ubuntu-based pop-os is just good enough :p
@FailForward @mathias
I use mastodon on my phone
to reply most of the time and on PC I type new stuff every morning, there really aren't any hotkeys I could use. But yeah, good to know.
@mathias @FailForward
This thread is pure gold for looking into cli software :D
Do you people use cli most of the time our of principle or is it a habit? I found myself using a lot of vim and terminal-based tools for personal stuff, but uni and other places still require word documents and stuff :(
@FailForward
Yeah, I do this too, works most of the time. My goal now is to sleep as much as my body needs, not as much as I want to. Because I want to do stuff, but my body needs to play dead for 8 hours or so :p
2021-03-03, 08:10, Wednesday
I decided to stop using alarm clock altogether, at least when there is no early class or it's online. Yes, sleep hygiene will suffer since I'm unable to wake up at a consistent time, but overall anxiety goes down this way. I remember living with an alarm clock very well: waking up at 5 am for a few years. I now understand that I wasn't really happy at the time, partly because going to bed early significantly constraied my social activities, partly because of unavoidable sleep deprivation. A good lesson nonetheless.
@FailForward
Personally I don't block people, out of principle. The only person that ever made it in my blacklist is my ex and she put in a lot of work to achieve this.
But then again, neither do I get emotional in arguments nor do I take part in said arguments on a regular basis.
2021-03-02, 07:55, Tuesday
Yesterday @FailForward pointed out that the link to my blog is broken. Let's give it another shot: [link](https://academicalnerd.blogspot.com/). Anyway, it's academicalnerd.blogger.com, as always.
I started writing fiction in the mornings, 500 words every day for a week. I hope to turn it into a somewhat decent short novel. This helps to hone my craft and escape the unpleasant reality I find myself in from time to time.
@dontworrybehappy
Do you refer to emacs org mode? Didnt quite get it.
@FailForward
Oh, does markdown require these?.. Didnt know. I'll patch it later. It's academicalnerd.blogspot.com, anyway.
2021-03-01, 12:15, Monday
My willpower is way too low to do anything decent today, so I organized my blogspot page. Here it is: [link](academicalnerd.blogspot.com). I'll be posting longer stuff there just in case. This will be moved to my website once I have time to actually build one.
2021-03-01, 06:53, Monday
Classes start again. I'm not font of the ones I'll have today but it's fine - there are things to do while ignoring my teachers. Like reading a textbook on the subject, for example.
There probably will be a break in my long-form posts since I want to try some fiction in Russian. Sorry to my English-speaking followers, I'm not yet comfortable enough to write something big in English; might translate it, though. Generally my idea is that I'll spend a week writing around 500 words per day and release the result in the end of the week.
Also, I'm thinking of using the "blogger" website instead of making an actual site because I have relatively few free time now. Building a decent site can be done on holidays, though.
2021-02-28, 08:50, Sunday
Getting back to work. Yesterday's podcast was sooo good, I might even go back and take some notes. But for now I'll need to take notes on crystallochemistry and a couple other subjects. Thinking of using anki for this.
