So it turns out my laptop, the one where I had setup all the dev environments decided to go full on kamikaze on me last night. As I was recording the @helpie hangout, since I'm trying to provide those agai for @helpie's blog, the computer froze completely. It being Linux Mint, I thought to myself, OK, no biggie, I could kill the processes on a terminal, but nothing, it was ded.
I've been working really hard on some models to play @magic-dice and had progressed quite a bit on the python code, and of course, as you might guess, backed absolutely nothing regarding that.
Now, the rest of my stuff I do have backed up, my keys, wallets, etc, so all that is fine, but the countless hours I've spent on this particular algo are completely lost. You see, I'm not even upset about the laptop, since its a 2007 model and truthfully it's done it's job. I'm upset I lost all that logic, even if it turns out it was futile after all.
I'm considering donating this laptop, slapping it on ebay as an auction and see what happens. Maybe it's time it moves on, I don't really know. What I do know is that hard drives can't be trusted, and one would think that lesson had not left my brain, but apparently it did.
"Always backup your work"
At any rate, I'm not going to work on the bot anymore, at least not on that one. That being said, some of the things I learnt while doing so can be very useful to some of the projects I have in mind, I even started to draft out a game too.
Enough complaining... time for bed for this old man.