Reposted by ecsolticiaKiran @kirancodes.me · 31/03/2026the pumping dilemna: there are a sequence of s people tied to a railroad track, s drawn from regular language L. if s is big enough, you can pull a lever l, you can split s into subsequences x y z, such that the trolley only hits y, the subsequence x z is still in L. 0266
ecsolticia @ecsolticia.codeberg.page · 12/03/2026Real analysis paralysis (where someone is overthinking how to prove a theorem) when fake analysis paralysis walks in (the kind that gets into a spiral after disrespecting Bolzano-Weierstrass) 110
ecsolticia @ecsolticia.codeberg.page · 10/03/2026If you are androgynous and the "I can always tell" people are scanning you from tip-to-toe repeatedly, don't worry! Their genital-guessing language is recursively enumerable but not recursive. You are the input that makes their Turing-machine loop forever. 030
ecsolticia @ecsolticia.codeberg.page · 10/03/2026I've been neglecting pure math like an absent parent. But TCS is not my only child. I try to love them both equally, but parenting is hard. 050
ecsolticia @ecsolticia.codeberg.page · 09/03/2026When the motivational speaker is a Lambda Calculus and the audience a Turing-machine: "If I can do it, so can you!" 020
ecsolticia @ecsolticia.codeberg.page · 06/03/2026In Bangladesh, the word for those motorized three-wheeler rickshaw-like vehicles is "CNG". Whenever I see it in written form, I read "GNC" and get too excited about having found a mention of gender non-conformity in an unexpected, especially local context. 😭 010
ecsolticia @ecsolticia.codeberg.page · 02/03/2026ecsolticia.leaflet.pubGoing even deeper on "it's not that deep"It's not just about depth 010
ecsolticia @ecsolticia.codeberg.page · 28/02/2026When you come out alive after 3 days of fever followed by a single day of relief followed by 4 days of being bedridden due to the severe side effects of new medication followed by another day of relief followed by two more days of intense headaches 000
ecsolticia @ecsolticia.codeberg.page · 18/02/2026No but seriously someone should make a platformer with double pendulums as platforms 020
ecsolticia @ecsolticia.codeberg.page · 18/02/2026Some people giving advice be like ``` fn on_depression() { stop_being_depressed(); } ``` And what does `stop_being_depressed` do you ask? ``` fn stop_being_depressed() { on_depression(); } ``` 060
ecsolticia @ecsolticia.codeberg.page · 17/02/2026Don't move! I'm holding epistemology with my bare hands. Do as I say or I'll drop it and then we all will know nothing. Don't want that do you? 060
ecsolticia @ecsolticia.codeberg.page · 16/02/2026ecsolticia.leaflet.pubA certain type of uncertain uncertaintyIf I'm not wrong... 140
Reposted by ecsolticiagabby @fullmoon.id · 14/02/2026I strive to always understand and explain why a given bug fix works, because an incomplete understanding of the underlying system can be a greater threat to an organization than the bug itself 1542
ecsolticia @ecsolticia.codeberg.page · 10/02/2026I have a reputation of being serious among some people. And even when I'm joking, I get read as serious thanks to their confirmation bias, due to which they never see any evidence to the contrary. 050
ecsolticia @ecsolticia.codeberg.page · 10/02/2026Letting my intrusive thoughts reign supreme and finally clicking a button assuming that it would show a confirmation pop-up, and then being surprised that it actually just performed some destructive action immediately. 110
ecsolticia @ecsolticia.codeberg.page · 09/02/2026I'm prototyping one and my least favorite part of it is detecting grammars that shouldn't be worked with, like those with left-recursion and other cases of non-terminals with productions that never terminate, and other properties not suitable for my chosen type of parser. 010
Reposted by ecsolticiaalex 🍂 @paracausalex.siren-vibes.ts.net · 11/01/2026🦀🦀🦀🦀 BLAZINGLY FAST 🦀🦀🦀🦀 FEARLESS CONCURRENCY 🦀🦀🦀🦀 ZERO-COST ABSTRACTIONS 🦀🦀🦀🦀 MOVE SEMANTICS 🦀🦀🦀🦀 GUARANTEED MEMORY SAFETY 🦀🦀🦀🦀 THREADS WITHOUT DATA RACES 🦀🦀🦀🦀 TRAIT-BASED GENERICS 🦀🦀🦀🦀 PATTERN MATCHING 🦀🦀🦀🦀 TYPE INFERENCE 🦀🦀🦀🦀 MINIMAL RUNTIME 🦀🦀🦀🦀 EFFIC 0253
ecsolticia @ecsolticia.codeberg.page · 04/02/2026Feeling an urge to write my own stupid parser generator for no reason. Would be fun if I actually do it, because anything even remotely to do with automata is automatically fun, trust me. 020
ecsolticia @ecsolticia.codeberg.page · 02/02/2026Collaboration is extremely important for your startup. That's why me and my co-founder grind very hard together. We always take it to the point of the climax that reveals new insights. #B2BSaaS #StartupMentality #Grinding #PeakPerformance 072
Reposted by ecsolticiaStephanie Simoes @critikid.bsky.social · 27/01/2026If someone publicly changes their mind, avoid these phrases: “You should have seen this coming.” “How could you have been so stupid?” “I told you so.” “You’re too late.” They raise the psychological cost for the next person who’s considering doing the same. 1101
ecsolticia @ecsolticia.codeberg.page · 21/01/2026"Ohhh nice someone interacted with one of my g a m e d e v-related po..." Aaand it's a bot that matched a simple keyword. 😭 020
Reposted by ecsolticiaStephanie Simoes @critikid.bsky.social · 21/01/2026It's done! I wrote a free companion to be read alongside "Thinking, Fast and Slow" that explores the reliability of the studies cited. Whew, that was a lot of work. critikid.com/a-modern-gui...critikid.comA Modern Guide to Thinking, Fast and Slow - CritikidA chapter-by-chapter analysis of Kahneman's text with a focus on the replication crisis, clarifying which findings remain solid and which have not held up to scrutiny. 061
ecsolticia @ecsolticia.codeberg.page · 19/01/2026Narrator: Before they can even begin to catch 'em all, our hero finds themselves walking around in white nothingness with no mon in sight. They learned that the world they are in is just under dev, and that patience is a key virtue, as the journey continues. #gamedev #indiedev #raylib #pokemon 1123
Reposted by ecsolticiadepths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 15/01/2026from the australian teen who brought you "ant", we have "bee" en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?... 224625
ecsolticia @ecsolticia.codeberg.page · 08/01/2026I've written too many parsers in the last few months, and almost all of that in Rust. It's time for me to do something different... like writing a parser in C++! That would definitely be totally different! Besides, who doesn't love to shoot themselves in their foot? 120
Reposted by ecsolticiaivy @sunsetcrowned.bsky.social · 08/01/2026the difference in style between microsoft help pages targeted at programmers and non-programmers has been such a joy to discover (these are both from support pages for power query) 073
ecsolticia @ecsolticia.codeberg.page · 07/01/2026When you format the README for a tool using itself. I'm actually having fun using Merewrite myself. So it's a successful project. 010
ecsolticia @ecsolticia.codeberg.page · 04/01/2026That live preview thing is coming together nicely. Just a few things left to go. 110
ecsolticia @ecsolticia.codeberg.page · 03/01/2026Prototyping a live preview thing. It's for the project that I posted about yesterday. It's like a very restricted markup system, but instead of relying on explicit characters, keywords and tags, it uses implicit structure and semantics. 010
ecsolticia @ecsolticia.codeberg.page · 02/01/2026I made a thing which formats pieces of writing based on implicit semantics and structure rather than than explicit characters, keywords and tags. It's pretty simple. It has "sentence terminators" like periods or question marks. Sentences without terminators that are separated by two ... (1/2) 130
ecsolticia @ecsolticia.codeberg.page · 31/12/2025I often overestimate how long it would take me to finish simple programming tasks. It took me just a 5 hour-long focused sprint to do something I thought would take at least 3 days. Similarly, I can underestimate how long certain projects that I am not as interested in can take. If only due to... 120
ecsolticia @ecsolticia.codeberg.page · 24/12/2025Another day of working on #logissert, a simple boolean logic DSL with equivalence-aware asserts for boolean functions. Implemented said equivalence-aware asserts. One can now define new functions and test whether expressions using them are equivalent to other expressions. 010
ecsolticia @ecsolticia.codeberg.page · 22/12/2025Played Cities: Skylines (the original one) after 5 whole years. I find myself suddenly performing better generally than I was ever able to back then. The most noticeable difference is that I am better able to think in terms of systems and consider long-term consequences of each decision. (1/2) 110
ecsolticia @ecsolticia.codeberg.page · 22/12/2025Another day of working on #logissert Implemented let statements today. That's it. I sort of don't feel like working on the project anymore, but I feel like I am in such a state that I would feel that with anything. So am just slowly pushing through. 010