Amrit 
@Spaceface16518@fosstodon.org
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high school programmer interested in computer science, particularly PL design and systems programming.
i recently switched to linux 
and am working on FOSSifying my life. i mainly code in Rust 🦀, but i know all sorts of languages.
learn more about me at my website! https://amritrathie.now.sh/about
Joined Jun 2020
What's the most fun way to calculate the value of e?
my favorite is with random number samples
Using proprietary software in an academic environment is an adjustment. I guess I've been using almost all FOSS for long enough that it felt weird to get Matlab, Wolfram, and Discord, all in one day.
excel gore
i’m a programmer who codes in rust and haskell
my dad is a project lead who makes spreadsheets and presentations for executives
here’s what happens when i help him
i love linux for the fact that i didn't notice i was at 100%/100%/59% cpu/mem/swap.
thanks electron (i was also compiling imagemagick6 lol)
i'm trying to imitate the mastodon layout with #css grid (rather than the multilayered flexbox approach). how do i style the "main panel", the one in the center? specifically, how do i make the column max out at 600px but then shrink as the page size shrinks lower than 600px?
right now i have `minmax(min-content, 600px)`, but that doesn't do the shrinking thing. plus, i suspect that won't work once the main panel contains long toots.
dang we’ve had consistent power for almost the entire day
#snowpocalypse
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today is a good day to stay under a blanket i think
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Learning that people suffering from the storm and blackout in Texas were using the guide in our book Recipes for Disaster to build a rocketstove with which to heat food and water, we've put the directions online here in their entirety:
Please circulate.
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On how people forget how miserable school was
“Do Adults Really Not Remember School Sucked? - Ian Welsh” https://www.ianwelsh.net/do-adults-really-not-remember-school-sucked/
I will never get this. School was a miserable experience for me. I did really well but hated every moment. Pretty much everybody I went to school with hated it as well. Even disregarding the horrible teachers I had*, the overall school experience still sucked
*: I had at least five teachers who were genuinely evil people and seemed to thrive on the misery of children.
is there a simple chatting service that acts like Jitsti meet in the way that I can just make a room, invite people, and start chatting without having to make an account or anything besides a display name?
my sister wants something like that to get around school restrictions and i was just going to make one but i was wondering if there was already a foss solution that fulfilled those requirements? (IRC? XMPP?)
finally set up printing on my laptop lmao
i'm a programmer who works on a computer almost all of the day, but my girlfriend, a musician, can type way faster than me 😞
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So good.
squatting valid internal package names was a nearly sure-fire method to get into the networks of some of the biggest tech companies out there, gaining remote code execution, and possibly allowing attackers to add backdoors during builds.
https://medium.com/@alex.birsan/dependency-confusion-4a5d60fec610
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Here's a few things I do when I'm bored:
1. Make an account on #openstreetmap.org(#OSM) on your desktop browser. Do some map editing. It's an intuitive in-browser editor.
2. When walking around the neighborhood, use the #Mapillary app(sign in with your OSM account) to do street-view photos
3. Also while walking around, you can use the "#StreetComplete (Sign-in with your OSM acct) app to add info about buildings near your in a fun adventure quest style method.
I've realized that I see the PDF format as something portable that everyone can access without any basis for this view; it reminds me of how windows users treat the DOCX format.
Is there something I'm not considering when I send everyone PDFs?
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The right to repair is crucial for a free future, this is illustrated in our latest animated video "Fight to Repair." Join our campaign and inform others on the state of #RightToRepair in your country. #FightToRepair https://fsf.org/ftr
- Website
- https://amritrathie.now.sh
- Pronouns
- https://pronoun.is/he/him
high school programmer interested in computer science, particularly PL design and systems programming.
i recently switched to linux and am working on FOSSifying my life. i mainly code in Rust 🦀, but i know all sorts of languages.
learn more about me at my website! https://amritrathie.now.sh/about
Joined Jun 2020
