They say insanity is doing the same thing multiple times and expecting different results.
And yet, computers, devices of pure logic, are proving to me that insanity kind of works.

Introduction to programming is very low end, simple things. I'm basically relearning shit I learnt in highscool, but it's good because it's been a few years since highschool.
However, having attempted a solution to a simple syntax error and getting a different syntax error was starting to get on my nerves, eventually calling the teacher-guy over and asking him what's up with this, at which point he dd the same thing I attempted, but it worked.

This seems to be a pattern, given this one time in highschool;
I got a second videocard, put it in my computer and the entire thing died.
Of course, my first thought was to remove the new videocard and test, and it still did nothing.
I spent two weeks fucking around with it to no avail, eventually having to give the PC to professionals to see what they can make of it.
After two more weeks of being computerless, the professionals called me to say there was nothing they could do, the entire computer is fucked, every test they ran showed the whole machine was dead.
At which point, I got it back and complained to my friend who happened to be over at the time.
He pulls out the second videocard and turns it on.
At which point, the computer booted without issue, as if nothing had ever been wrong.
WHAT?!
Computers work of a binary decision making system, either yes or no, for it to give different feedback for the same action is something that bothers me.

But consider insanity in the real world. Have you ever heard of a story of someone bothering someone over and over until they do something?
"Wash up your dishes"
"No"
"Wash up your dishes"
"Fiiiiiine..."
Which makes me think that insanity is the right way to go.

Of course, the washing the dishes example is flawed as we can't account for humans.
In the same way we can't account for human error.


Basically, if anyone tells you that you're insane, chances are that just means you're good at getting shit done.
i'm procrastinating at university currently and decided to write this. I'm trying over and over to read these lecture slides, expecting at some point to get the result of actually reading them :P