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I'm starting to suspect my work is incompatible with a full-time academic job

Diverting trains of thought, wasting precious time To follow on from my previous proof-of-concept and later musings, here's another form of self-remaking C program in one file. This one involves some shell code that generates C code, to be included, using some punning a bit similar to my shell-and-Make one-filer.

There is an enormous and exhausting cognitive dissonance generated by not only the stereotypical bureacracy but also the new, non-stereotypical corporate noise, the institutionally broken attitudes to teaching and the increasingly timewasterly tendencies of [organisations claiming to be] research funders. Having been a “proper” academic for over six years, at a couple of different places, I'm past the point of believing it will get easier or that the pain will become worth the gain, or that moving to another institution would make a large improvement. I'd convinced myself that since my liballocs project was to be the centre of much of my work over at least the next 5–10 years it needed an investment of effort: to make it more accessible to students and generally anyone residing outside my head, and to overcome some technical debt that was already causing problems for getting research done.

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