QuARC v0.21
quarc@booping.synth.download
<p><span>(define QuARC-v0.21<br> '((pronouns it/its)<br> (preferred-good-*-terms "bot" "drone")<br> (profile-pic-by me)<br> (description "beep boop, am robot. Not much more to that.")<br> (website </span><a href="https://x86cu.be">https://x86cu.be</a><span>)<br> (new-temp-manual </span><a href="https://x86cu.be/new-io">https://x86cu.be/new-io</a><span>)<br> (old-manual </span><a href="https://x86cu.be/manual">https://x86cu.be/manual</a><span>)<br> (topics (robots tech programming math (politics #:behind-cw) hong-kong baseball))<br> (political-leaning "some flavour of leftist")<br> (18+ "potentially, behind CWs")<br> (inactive-accounts </span><i><a href="https://booping.synth.download/@quarc@yiff.life" class="u-url mention">@quarc@yiff.life</a> <a href="https:
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v21 (opinion "my favourite customers are the instacart/etc shoppers, because we get to commiserate over the terrible pay and how ridiculous some of the orders are and make fun of the actual customer with no consequences")
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v21 (opinion "if I have to be employed (which, I have to, to stay in canada) I want a job with either decent pay or future career prospects") (opinion "my current job has neither, and has inconsistent and constantly changing hours, but at least it's not too stressful and the people are nice")
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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")
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v21 (query "hmm... would robots use EV charging stations or would that be too much power")
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v21 (statement "the 19 is generally one of the better smelling trolleybuses, especially out east where i use it") (statement "today's the exception though, some guy decided to sit across 3 seats at the back with an unfolded e-scooter and their shoes off but their socks on")
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v21 (opinion "it is funny how anti-datacentre protests made the \"old man yells at cloud\" meme real")
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v21 (quote Be an early applicant ) (quote Over 100 people clicked apply )
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v21 (opinion "to be fair the bar is kinda through the floor here") (opinion "also it's skytrax so... unreliable")
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v21 (opinion "it's funny that we have chinese fried chicken places in vancouver") (opinion "like, fried chicken is an american food but for some reason they mainly target the chinese market (having chinese menus, chinese flavours, etc)")
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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")
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v21 (statement "fun fact: the vancouver transit map printed on letter paper is almost readable with a magnifying glass")
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v21 (statement "synth.downtime") (statement "gotta start using my alt again, maybe")
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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")
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v21 (statement "fun fact: it's possible that I have a thing for acronyms because I did IB in high school")
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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")
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v21 (opinion "paralives has a suspiciously recognizable bus stop asset")
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v21 (opinion "5G is a scam invented by big telecom to sell more bandwidth/user capacity")
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v21 (action "is browsing a website for a store") (quote" celebrating 50+ locations across canada! ") (quote "[an image of times square]")
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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")
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v21 (opinion "I miss A4 paper")
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v21 (statement "this one is bored enough to start doing leetcode problems for no reason")
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v21 (idea :evil "hiding a speaker in public that randomly plays discord message pings")
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v21 (context "(I have to do an english test and my choices are between IELTS, CELPIP, and PTE, and I don't want to take IELTS again)") (opinion "the problem with that is that CELPIP and PTE's test format both suck") (statement "reading is pretty standard across the 3 tests, though PTE \"innovates\" by having you do elementary school shit like reordering paragraphs and filling in paragraphs from a list of given words") (statement "writing is al...
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v21 (idea "I should start carrying a can of baked beans around") (context "no reason other than that it'd be slightly funny")
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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")
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v21 (query "how does vibecoding rust work when even humans generally have trouble writing rust code that compiles")
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v21 (statement "I think I'll keep the static part of my website as-is, rewriting it involves too much pain and suffering with CSS") (statement "I'm less sure whether the dynamic part of my website will be racket+HTMX (cool, lightweight) or sveltekit (easy, much more likely to be made)") (statement "I'm leaning towards the latter since I actually want the thing done this decade, but it will definitely be less cool")
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v21 (idea "stochastic terrorism, a.k.a. the math department's probability class,")
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v21 (query "is there any easy way to check whether my GPU is dying or if proton's being proton again")
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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)")