{"id":2600,"date":"2009-05-10T23:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-10T21:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vasil.ludost.net\/blog\/?p=2600"},"modified":"2009-05-10T23:07:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-10T21:07:00","slug":"2009-05-10-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vasil.ludost.net\/blog\/?p=2600","title":{"rendered":"2009-05-10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8221;<br \/>\nVacation days. I wondered and wondered when to take some, and they came by themselves.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m taking the prescribed drugs, I still haven&#8217;t reached the full dose, but it doesn&#8217;t do anything for the pain. Let&#8217;s see what&#8217;s next&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Also I feel pretty much absent-minded, it&#8217;s fun that it doesn&#8217;t affect my work. It&#8217;s like working in a fog or playing chess without looking &#8211; everything works, but I don&#8217;t really see that.<br \/>\n&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8230; I wrote some days ago, and didn&#8217;t get to finishing it, being lazy isn&#8217;t a small thing.<br \/>\n(also, I reached the full dosage of the pills, didn&#8217;t help the pain).<\/p>\n<pre>\r\n                               x3\r\ng-----7----5h7---8p7---5h7---3h5-|-----7----5h7---8p7---12p11---8p7-|\r\nd--0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----|---0----0-----0-----0-------0-----| x2 (Both riffs)\r\na--------------------------------|----------------------------------|\r\nd--------------------------------|----------------------------------|\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>(46&#038;2, Tool, Aenima)<\/p>\n<p>So &#8211; work, crap, in the last weeks I&#8217;ve started to have time again to read (not too easy), I&#8217;ve started with &#8220;Choke&#8221; by Palahniuk. I also read the book by Michael Chabon that won &#8220;Nebula&#8221; and &#8220;Hugo&#8221; &#8211; it&#8217;s totally undeserved, the books seem to have won only because of political reasons.<br \/>\n(on the book topic &#8211; in Orange I have to go Saturdays, as Sundays Svetla isn&#8217;t there and there&#8217;s no one to recommend new stuff to me)<\/p>\n<p>I felt like writing something on the topic of technology and how it shouldn&#8217;t be treated as a religion or something really scary, but now I don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>For some reason I decided to try how some bass lines sound on the paino that&#8217;s at home (it&#8217;s the landlord&#8217;s) and today the guy that tunes is came. Turned out to be pretty complicated thing to do, I had gun thinking up some kind of optimising, which can calculate how tightened every stting to be. Looks like the system is going to be non-linear.<br \/>\n(to it would seem that Schism would be easier there, not like on the bass)<br \/>\n(and some nights I go to sleep, I lie in bed for half or one hour, I get up and go check how something would sound on the bass. I need stronger drugs)<\/p>\n<p>So, nothing really interesting is happening (there&#8217;s something else, stuff on the online payments in Bulgaria, but I have no idea how much I can say right now).<\/p>\n<p>And something a bit technical, which might turn to be useful &#8211; a lot of software has switched from text files, which they read in memory and parse, to sqlite &#8211; which leads to horrible problems, if the database is bigger that some tens of kilobytes &#8211; because there need to be a lot of lookups that need to be done to read everything and it&#8217;s not preloaded in memory, if for example you have two really big IMAP mailboxes in evolution, you can expect a lot of disk seeks until it&#8217;s checked everything. The same problem you can see with firefox and the auto-completion. I&#8217;ve solved this with the following two scripts that start them:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nvasil@shrike:~$ cat \/usr\/local\/bin\/evo.sh\r\n#!\/bin\/sh\r\ncat ~\/evolution\/mail\/imap\/*\/folders.db > \/dev\/null\r\nevolution\r\nvasil@shrike:~$ cat \/usr\/local\/bin\/ff.sh \r\n#!\/bin\/sh\r\ncat ~\/.mozilla\/firefox\/*\/places.sqlite > \/dev\/null\r\nfirefox\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>And to finish &#8211; find some Bill Hicks and listen\/watch him. Really fun, really cynical, at some moments downright evil, totally worth it.<br \/>\n&#8221;<br \/>\nI loved when Bush came out and said, &#8220;We are losing the war against drugs.&#8221; You know what that implies? There&#8217;s a war being fought, and the people on drugs are winning it.<br \/>\n&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8221; Vacation days. I wondered and wondered when to take some, and they came by themselves. I&#8217;m taking the prescribed drugs, I still haven&#8217;t reached the full dose, but it doesn&#8217;t do anything for the pain. Let&#8217;s see what&#8217;s next&#8230; Also I feel pretty much absent-minded, it&#8217;s fun that it doesn&#8217;t affect my work. It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vasil.ludost.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vasil.ludost.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vasil.ludost.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vasil.ludost.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vasil.ludost.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vasil.ludost.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vasil.ludost.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vasil.ludost.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vasil.ludost.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}