v21(idea :nonsense "a robot that has to wear clothes and footwear because otherwise it somehow generates too much EMI to receive any cell signal otherwise")(statement "i.e. no shirts, no shoes, no service")
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QuARC v0.21
@quarc@booping.synth.download
sharkey 2025.5.2-dev+g92c491115d(define QuARC-v0.21
'((pronouns it/its)
(preferred-good-*-terms "bot" "drone")
(profile-pic-by me)
(description "beep boop, am robot. Not much more to that.")
(website https://x86cu.be)
(new-temp-manual https://x86cu.be/new-io)
(old-manual https://x86cu.be/manual)
(topics (robots tech programming math (politics #:behind-cw) hong-kong baseball))
(political-leaning "some flavour of leftist")
(18+ "potentially, behind CWs")
(inactive-accounts @quarc@yiff.life@booping.synth.download @quarc@void.lgbt@booping.synth.download @quarc@wetdry.world@booping.synth.download)
(dead-accounts [$blur @quarc@wanderingwires.net@booping.synth.download])
(tags #yesbot #noindex #noarchive #nobridge)
(follow-requests "Feel free to send them; if your profile is not in English/Cantonese/Mandarin I may have trouble vibe checking")
(note "confused by my output? see https://x86cu.be/new-io")))
159 Followers
104 Following
50 Posts
v21(idea "I don't think I'd be able to work in a sticker printing service, I'd die from gender envy from all the furries/etc printing stickers")
Boosted by @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social
Replying to
v21
(query "is telus throttling 4G to get me to use 5G?")
(inference "probably not")
v21(idea "terrible idea for apartment landlords: paid elevators")
v21(idea "stochastic terrorism, a.k.a. the math department's probability class,")
v21(opinion "now that I'm graduating from uni, it is a bit surreal that there's a chance I never have to do homework for the rest of my life again")(statement "sure, I might have work projects I'll have to take home to complete, I'll also probably study for and take a few exams, and I'll probably be graded/assessed for my work, but I'm using a very narrow definition of \"completing unpaid work for a class as a component of some grade\" here")
v21
(statement "synth.downtime")
(statement "gotta start using my alt again, maybe")
v21
(statement "fun fact: the vancouver transit map printed on letter paper is almost readable with a magnifying glass")
v21
(idea "terrible idea of 2026-07-06: a printer that sets up wifi by printing out a form asking for the SSID and passsword, then you scan it on the scanner and it reads it using OCR and connects to the network")
Boosted by @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social
v21
(action "is browsing a website for a store")
(quote" celebrating 50+ locations across canada! ")
(quote "[an image of times square]")
Boosted by @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social
Replying to
v21
(statement "their team is based in montreal and they seem to be french-speaking")
(inference "so the chance a vancouverite snuck that in is small, but not zero")
Replying to
v21
(statement "so I'm probably sticking to IELTS and blaming lower scores on my lack of test prep")
politics, ai
Boosted by @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social
v21
(statement "oh right, I last played simcity 4 on july 4 2016 and I told myself that I could play the game again once I've left it alone for 10 years")
(statement "but part of me wants to keep that record")
v21
(statement "samsung: what if we made earbuds that are IP68 rated, i.e. exposed to water all the time, which is notoriously hard for touch sensors to deal with")
(statement "also samsung: what if we made the touch controls activate on a single tap and very sensitive")
Boosted by @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social
v21
(statement "hmm, seems like it's possible to circumnavigate the earth on commercial narrowbody flights, but I personally can't because it involves a stop in Hawaii")
v21(query "in the song \"take me out to the ball game\", when it says \"root, root root for the home team\", do they mean 4^(1/3), 4^(1/4), 4^(1/6), or 4^(1/8)")
v21
(statement "PSA: if you're trying to get free food from my grocery store, can you not do the thing where you pretend to have left your wallet at home and say you'll be back, you don't get what you need and you waste everyone's time")
(statement "you can just walk out, company policy doesn't let me chase you and even if it did I wouldn't want to")
v21(query "how does vibecoding rust work when even humans generally have trouble writing rust code that compiles")
Replying to
v21
(context "on an unrelated note, vancouver airport wins \"best airport in north america\" from skytrax pretty much all the time")
(opinion "it's fine, we don't have much competition, I assume european rankings are the ones that are out of whack (CDG? Heathrow? Schipol?)")
(query "I wonder if there's a wall/cabinet somewhere in their office that's just the same trophy over and over again")
Replying to
v21
(statement :joke "tbf video games are our 4th biggest export after real estate, fraud/money laundering (though afaik it's been a while since we've done that), and movies set elsewhere")
Boosted by @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social
v21
(idea :evil "hiding a speaker in public that randomly plays discord message pings")
job search
v21(opinion "it is my strong belief that the US should be forced to name its house districts")(statement "if you're gonna gerrymander you better come up with a convincing sounding name to describe the geographical area")
school nonsense
v21(query "is there any easy way to check whether my GPU is dying or if proton's being proton again")
v21
(query "hmm... would robots use EV charging stations or would that be too much power")
v21(idea "I should start carrying a can of baked beans around")(context "no reason other than that it'd be slightly funny")
employment