GPU fun..

Quite impressive. Imagine the possibilities.

7 habits of highly effective men

I'm writing this one from eeepc - really funny feeling, feels bit like trying to open the door through the keyhole (from the other side, obviously :) and the real pc is left at the office by the human - who spent a good half of the evening exercising his throat, trying to get under the Purple Rain, also he was Chasing Cars and trying to express his feelings towards someone name Ruby - I have no clue who that person is, but he was trying really hard... it was entertaining to watch. Nonetheless, there's whole 3 weeks before the show, so he will sort the things out.

So, about being a decent man... Tiessa writes about her opinion of 7 habits a man should have - and i figured i'd take a note for myself as well as write some things on the side.

7) Pick up the dirty socks off the bedroom floor.

good that this is the last one in order. gonna be the toughest one. try to plan the house so the washing machine is not far from the bedroom so you can sneakingly drop them there later on - after all, they'll complain anyway if you go to the washing machine during the most precious moment. I suspect it is an RFP check item to fend off those they could not get rid of by other means.

6) Put the cap back on the toothpaste tube.

ahha, now i know why they invented the snap-on caps (which are actually pretty hard to NOT put back on. if you manage to buy a toothpaste which has detachable cap - you deserve your destiny.

5) Clean the sink after shaving.

shave in the shower. besides the irreplaceable experience of blind shaving, all the annoying details are taken care of automagically. cleaning the short pieces of hair off the sink is a pretty boring experience - there's always something left.

4) Know how to use a mop.

which one.... note: educate myself on that part about the dice retrieval. looks pretty unuseful, but hey, who knows - maybe one day it saves the life...

3) Carry shopping bags for more than 20 minutes without whining.

the shops have parkings, as well as trolleys. plan and manage the shop routing accordingly, so the heavy stuff is in the very end (it's typically food). the "things" are usually voluminous, but light. in order to minimize the amount of this, plan the shopping such that it is shortly before the closing hours - or shop more frequently. the remote shopping villages in the middle of nowhere are very good. you can get her to buy something-or-two-versace, and you've got a lead in the shopping management for the rest of the month. somehow they like those, so it's a no-brainer. just remember: the food store is the *last* place in the supermarket to visit.

2) Ask for directions before we are late for the event.

get a GPS. know the address. tell the time of the event 30-40 minutes in advance of the real one - this way you will be always on time and won't have to shrug when asked where have you been. the delta might need careful adjustment - the only thing worse than being late for the event is being early for it. if you are early indeed - pray for a good weather, and suggest a walk. neer ask for directions - the folks around don't have a clue anyway, it will only make her angry that you were not able to find an appropriate person to help.
if you follow the wrong directions - it's your fault. a decent car in addition to the GPS is a very good plus - it's being looked at. possible theory: in connection to item 3 above. but a good car is an advantage even with no additional variables in the equation.

1) Cunnilingus

the jury does not have any objections on this item and nods emphatically.

A killer recipe..

If you got an idee-fixe-du-jour, all you need to do is to hint your friend to come back to you and attach some official task to it for you. Preferrably with the supposed deadline, and make it all very seriozz.

The idea du jour will lose a lot of its sparkling - so you'll get your best to get rid of it as soon as you can.

This behaviour indeed not anything of an invention, but feels quite funny to experience it consciously.

I'm curious if this is the timing that matters, or really it is that the idee-du-jour would really be persistent in case it was worth it - so one can really use it as a "tester" ?

Impressive 3d for your home use..

The videos are not so new, but I did not see them before. I can feel a trip to the shop sometime :)

The future of the internet and how to stop it

looks like a book worth reading.

Brings up the balance between the "sterile" and "generative", with the boom of 90s being because of the technology becoming generative, and the current success flipping it back into sterile field. It's quite insightful and relevant for anyone - thinking of where is their place in this emerging soup. Long watch, but very much worth it.

Web3.0

this is so web3.0!

p.s. don't try :%d, afterwards it does not work very well.

The most clicked global warming story of the month

Great tits cope well with warming

sweet :-)

character vs. token based parser in Parsec with haskell

Ok, the first parser did look *ugly*, so I wrote a bit less ugly one, using the token parser. It's not much shorter,
but runs two times faster!

$ time ./packet_template_token >/dev/null

real    0m0.138s
user    0m0.130s
sys     0m0.006s
$ time ./packet_template_char >/dev/null

real    0m0.395s
user    0m0.388s
sys     0m0.005s
$

In case you are interested, both are here

Packet template parser in Haskell

As part of the dive into Haskell, I've tried out Parsec, which allows a pretty intuitive construction of parsers.

The result is a parser that can consume the packet template file. It does not do anything smart with it beyond some printing.

You can take a look at the two here.

The code leaves a lot to be desired - as I've used the lowest-level character parser.

Geek humor in haskell

Lately I'm periodically flirting with Haskell - and today I've found an incredibly funny page, which at the same time offers an ample educational content.

Enjoy.