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I've been reading Antenna posts at work. It's a interesting form of entertainment that I can quickly jump to directly from Emacs. Also most people write relatively short posts.
So I figured one way I can make my RUC more active is to do shorter form text. Rather than waiting until "I have something to share", just start typing away a couple random thoughts and let the exercise of writing more regularly help me get better at it.
I started playing Dead Cells again (on the Steam Deck). The game obsesses me, but at this point I am on the fourth "step" in difficulty (4BC) and the game sometimes starts becoming unfair. At the same time, whenever I play, I can't shake the feeling that I screwed up because I got complement or had a lapse of attention.
So I consider stop playing - I have a big enough backlog LOL. But _something_ keeps me coming back, thinking "I can do this". So the end result is that I keep sinking time into the damn game.
As an Emacser, OF COURSE I am very fond of Lisps. I am somewhat proficient with both Elisp and Common Lisp.
The contrast between these languages, both with a huge number of built in functions, and SQL, is quite interesting. Because SQL seems to grow not only in have more functions being part of the standard, but also adding more syntactic constructs.
I can't help but feeling put off by it. I hadn't used TSQL in many years, and now I see MERGE, DISTINCT used as a new clause...and I can't quite explain _why_, but adding more syntax feels less elegant than having a gazillion functions in your standard libs.
(typed 04:29:00 PM~04:42:00 PM)