Incanto
23d ago
Logitech G502x wireless is nice mouse (using it to play factorio in fact). I use a large Razer mouse pad.
Incanto
1mo ago
Maybe spending some time every day thinking about your goal in a positive sense (focus on what's good about it) might help motivate you?
Incanto
1mo ago
Sounds like you don't have a clear goal or reason for getting a degree other than that it's vaguely something you feel expected to do.
Incanto
2mo ago
You could be describing my wife there. I am very happy to be married to her.
Incanto
2mo ago
I assume in this competition you keep the best result of your submissions.
Incanto
2mo ago
In Australia less than half of voters strictly follow their preferred party's official slate (how-to-vote card), though this is still enough to be important.
Incanto
2mo ago
They also have a weird semi-charity corporate structure that may make investment riskier and bring down the valuation - but it's true that markets don't seem to be pricing in a near-term singularity.
Incanto
2mo ago
I've been put off the idea of reading The Count of Monte Cristo by people complaining about how long winded it is. Maybe I should swallow my pride and try an abridged version...
Incanto
2mo ago
I need encouragement to pick it up again.
The writing style took some adjustment on first read but The Book of the New Sun ended up as probably my favourite book, and Wolfe my favourite author. It's even better on re-read.
Incanto
2mo ago
Finished The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester (1956). Cyberpunk avant la lettre - if you can have cyberpunk without computer networks. Very 50s and very pulpy - it's no surprise that Bester also wrote comics - but well written with a manic energy that's the polar opposite of the likes of Asimov. You can just imagine the author smashing the typewriter keys while chomping a cigar. Reaches for the stars and sometimes grasps them.
Incanto
2mo ago
I support free speech not because all speech is good (much of it is bad or even harmful), but because there is no ubermensch that I trust to decide which ideas I'm allowed to hear.
Incanto
3mo ago
Here's an interesting article about teaching the Iliad to Chinese high schoolers: https://scholars-stage.org/how-i-taught-the-iliad-to-chinese-teenagers/
Incanto
3mo ago
I think you're right on the vibes but it's funny that someone almost old enough to retire is considered "young" in American politics these days.
Incanto
3mo ago
This is directionally true but a bit of an overgeneralisation given that eg dildos exist - there are genuinely horny women out there
Incanto
4mo ago
Interesting. If true that would be a big blow to the idea that US aircraft carriers are nigh-invincible.
Incanto
4mo ago
Perhaps for most peoples, but the elves seem to be leaving/declining more because they just aren't feeling the vibe anymore.
Incanto
5mo ago
I've seen a lot of hype over this being the Doom of America over the years but the present reaction has indeed been subdued. Is this not the thing the doomers were dooming about, or is it not doomy after all? Or is the doom yet to come?
Incanto
5mo ago
Sysadmin seems to be a bit of a dying role - most of the competent people are probably looking for DevOps or SRE roles.
Incanto
6mo ago
I'm reading the Aeneid, Roman poet Virgil's epic poem/Homer fanfiction. It feels a tad rushed at times, and divine intervention is used in a way that can feel a bit cheap. However it's still well written and reasonably entertaining. Chapter 6 where our hero ventures into the underworld is particularly reminiscent of the Hades games - I've enjoyed playing Hades 2 lately.
Incanto
6mo ago
Always freeze your dependencies to ensure your system is reproducible and won't randomly break when deployed.
Consider reading Effective Python 2nd edition for an overview of Python's features, though as other commenters have pointed out, you probably don't want to use every feature of Python at once.
Use @dataclass for simple data.
Incanto
7mo ago
If it turns out that that she rates you as highly as you rate her, why not go with her?
Incanto
7mo ago
I tend to get winter depression but also don't deal well with super-humid tropical weather. So if it was more practical I would like to live in one hemisphere in the summer and the other hemisphere (or a semi-tropical location) the other half of the year, avoiding winter entirely.
Common enough on the non-antisemitic far right, though maybe that's a bit of a niche...
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