Florenz the Lizard
@florenzthelizard.bsky.social
Computer science doctoral candidate at a public university working on computational sustainability. Aspiring educator. Free software advocate.
Any criticism of the fiddlyness of Linux needs to clear the hurdle of the operating system needing to be installed in the first place. Almost anyone who's using desktop Linux has done that and anything less complicated is fine.
November 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Any criticism of the fiddlyness of Linux needs to clear the hurdle of the operating system needing to be installed in the first place. Almost anyone who's using desktop Linux has done that and anything less complicated is fine.
New users should not be sold on Linux with its extreme customizability, if that was the winning argument for normies everyone would own a Jeep.
November 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
New users should not be sold on Linux with its extreme customizability, if that was the winning argument for normies everyone would own a Jeep.
Gnome is a good desktop environment actually.
November 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Gnome is a good desktop environment actually.
I should post more tech hot takes.
November 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I should post more tech hot takes.
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Research reveals that those diagnosed with autism early show distinct genetic and developmental profiles from those diagnosed later. www.wired.com/story/autism...
Autism Is Not a Single Condition and Has No Single Cause, Scientists Conclude
Research reveals that those diagnosed with autism early show distinct genetic and developmental profiles from those diagnosed later.
www.wired.com
October 6, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Research reveals that those diagnosed with autism early show distinct genetic and developmental profiles from those diagnosed later. www.wired.com/story/autism...
The primary problem I had with mastodon, a project I believed in and worked towards and spent a lot of time with several accounts on different instances, was constant bickering about what other instances to defederate/ban. Constantly! "Oh this instance didn't ban this other instance we banned, ban!"
September 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The primary problem I had with mastodon, a project I believed in and worked towards and spent a lot of time with several accounts on different instances, was constant bickering about what other instances to defederate/ban. Constantly! "Oh this instance didn't ban this other instance we banned, ban!"
One of the themes of the Star Wars Prequels (especially Clone Wars) that I think is really prescient is people caring more about proper punishments for the bad guys than democracy leading to fascism. I think this is important in regards to the constant "why didn't my fav kids show kill everyone??"
August 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
One of the themes of the Star Wars Prequels (especially Clone Wars) that I think is really prescient is people caring more about proper punishments for the bad guys than democracy leading to fascism. I think this is important in regards to the constant "why didn't my fav kids show kill everyone??"
Also given recent developments I'd like to clarify that my previous hot takes on adding engineering classes to humanities degree programs was predicted on those programs being inherently valuable and worth continuing.
August 14, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Also given recent developments I'd like to clarify that my previous hot takes on adding engineering classes to humanities degree programs was predicted on those programs being inherently valuable and worth continuing.
I am going through LeetCode day by day to better learn ruby. It is interesting coming through the pipeline like this, all the material is geared towards learning theory but I write theory already!
Doesn't mean I can tell you if any? or values.any? is a faster way to search a hash intuitively.
Doesn't mean I can tell you if any? or values.any? is a faster way to search a hash intuitively.
August 14, 2025 at 8:33 AM
I am going through LeetCode day by day to better learn ruby. It is interesting coming through the pipeline like this, all the material is geared towards learning theory but I write theory already!
Doesn't mean I can tell you if any? or values.any? is a faster way to search a hash intuitively.
Doesn't mean I can tell you if any? or values.any? is a faster way to search a hash intuitively.
I'm a special boy who needs special prescriptions.
July 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I'm a special boy who needs special prescriptions.
This is me saying that I, as a CS grad student with a pretty good grasp on writing, could probably blab my way through a single 300s level HIST/LIT/PHIL* class.
A humanities grad student would choke on the first electrical eng class. Maybe they could get through civ eng surveying if they use stats.
A humanities grad student would choke on the first electrical eng class. Maybe they could get through civ eng surveying if they use stats.
Not that the other majors don't have parts that require fine understanding but it's not in the entry level classes, and there are definitely majors that can coast on just 'the shape of the answer' don't bs me.
July 22, 2025 at 6:25 AM
This is me saying that I, as a CS grad student with a pretty good grasp on writing, could probably blab my way through a single 300s level HIST/LIT/PHIL* class.
A humanities grad student would choke on the first electrical eng class. Maybe they could get through civ eng surveying if they use stats.
A humanities grad student would choke on the first electrical eng class. Maybe they could get through civ eng surveying if they use stats.
I've become more skeptical of the notion that what's needed is more humanities education for engineers, I don't know of any engineering program at a major university that does not require some ethics and history classes.
No university requires their humanities students to take an engineering class.
No university requires their humanities students to take an engineering class.
July 22, 2025 at 6:15 AM
I've become more skeptical of the notion that what's needed is more humanities education for engineers, I don't know of any engineering program at a major university that does not require some ethics and history classes.
No university requires their humanities students to take an engineering class.
No university requires their humanities students to take an engineering class.
Making everything immutable is only functional programming in functional programming languages otherwise it's only sparkling side effect avoidance.
July 20, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Making everything immutable is only functional programming in functional programming languages otherwise it's only sparkling side effect avoidance.
As a CS academic, in exchange for having to use the worst programming language (LaTeX) I get to use whatever programming language I please for my work.
I've done multiple demos in AT&T x86_64 assembly out of spite and I'll do it again.
I've done multiple demos in AT&T x86_64 assembly out of spite and I'll do it again.
July 19, 2025 at 11:53 PM
As a CS academic, in exchange for having to use the worst programming language (LaTeX) I get to use whatever programming language I please for my work.
I've done multiple demos in AT&T x86_64 assembly out of spite and I'll do it again.
I've done multiple demos in AT&T x86_64 assembly out of spite and I'll do it again.
I watched the interview DHH had with Lex Fridman and good lord the comments are all so puritanical about what programming should be. Dude just like Ruby and the comments are all "uhm aktuahly ruby sucks." I want to engage with the community for my field more but I don't like being the only grown up.
July 19, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I watched the interview DHH had with Lex Fridman and good lord the comments are all so puritanical about what programming should be. Dude just like Ruby and the comments are all "uhm aktuahly ruby sucks." I want to engage with the community for my field more but I don't like being the only grown up.
Whatever person at Microsoft decided to require a sign in for ClipChimp should burn in hell. I just needed to crop a video but seeing that sent white hot fire through my veins and my fist through my monitor.
May 8, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Whatever person at Microsoft decided to require a sign in for ClipChimp should burn in hell. I just needed to crop a video but seeing that sent white hot fire through my veins and my fist through my monitor.
After five long years I think I finally have a working and comfortable Emacs config! The secret was "server-after-make-frame-hook" which for some reason never came up in my searches for "emacs hook that runs after a frame is created." I used it to make sure treemacs starts with each frame. :P
March 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM
After five long years I think I finally have a working and comfortable Emacs config! The secret was "server-after-make-frame-hook" which for some reason never came up in my searches for "emacs hook that runs after a frame is created." I used it to make sure treemacs starts with each frame. :P
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ZELDA OCARINA OF TIME - Forest Temple.
January 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
ZELDA OCARINA OF TIME - Forest Temple.
I decided I need to stop doing all of my grad CS work in C++ so I'm learning Ruby and so far its great! I tried both Perl and Python before this but those are pulling teeth in comparison.
January 27, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I decided I need to stop doing all of my grad CS work in C++ so I'm learning Ruby and so far its great! I tried both Perl and Python before this but those are pulling teeth in comparison.
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January 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Ursula K. LeGuin on technology
January 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Ursula K. LeGuin on technology
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Julia Child on the fear of failure.
January 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Julia Child on the fear of failure.
I bought an off brand Wii remote plus and it's pretty decent. With the sensor bar at the bottom of the screen it's pointing is awful, but on top it's pretty good. Wonder if the remote is failing to obey the console setting for the sensor bar position? Might buy another and open it up.
January 12, 2025 at 4:14 AM
I bought an off brand Wii remote plus and it's pretty decent. With the sensor bar at the bottom of the screen it's pointing is awful, but on top it's pretty good. Wonder if the remote is failing to obey the console setting for the sensor bar position? Might buy another and open it up.