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- _caw parentDo any other upper body strength exercise, and then come back to pushups in a couple of months.
- If you're somewhat terrified of Lyme's disease, as I am, one thing you can do to protect yourself and relatives is wear Permethrin treated clothing, especially pants and socks[0].
After hiking, take a very close look at all of your body parts and remove any ticks. You can bag them and send them off to a lab for testing as well.
I've known multiple Lyme's sufferers. You do not want this.
- I love observing the moon, whether that's taking a picture with a telephoto or peeping through telescope.
There's something special about seeing the craters with your own eyes and then sharing that with friends. The framing & cropping, zoom, color of the sky are all unique to that experience.
Plus the moon is always looking slightly different each time, with different areas shadowed; fuzzy details one day are sharp the next.
And it's a skill like any other, which feels great to improve day after day.
- I got the sense the author wrote the post in collaboration with LLMs as a way of processing the experience:
> I was alone. Nobody understood the weight of losing a decade of work. But I had ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok to talk to
> To everyone who worked on these AIs, who contributed to their training data—thank you. Without you, this post might have been a very different kind of message.
It sounded like perhaps this post would have conveyed a message the author didn't think constructive if they wrote it entirely themselves
- Haven't seen stitch-maps, that is useful.
I've also been thinking about what constitutes a "good" encoding, and it definitely comes down to individual preferences, even preferences in a given moment. Today you're reading off a sticky-note and want to optimize for size, tomorrow you're laying out 3 notebooks for a huge project and want clarity.
I like the idea of a creator making the base pattern, and then sharing a link that lets the user customize the output encoding.
That customization could be visual (I want a different random seed that is used to parameterize different aspects of this pattern, so it's totally unique to me) or in the notation.
I think it'd be awesome to have a recursive notation editor. So you'd click on a variable and it expands to the verbose representation, which might include other nested variables that you can further expand (or not).
(side note, I hope you don't mind: Game Programming Patterns made a huge difference for me early in my career, thank you for bringing that into the world.)
- I tried and failed to write a knitting interpreter that could take a written pattern and generate a visual representation. You could have variables that expand into larger expressions, and some kind of "syntax highlighting" or verification step to make sure things are consistent.
Interested to know if you've ever tried something like that? I also get that knitting is a hobby many people do to escape computers for a minute.
Anyways, that got me into approaching the problem from a different angle (https://madhatter.app). A visual editor for hat patterns with layering, repeats, shapes, overstitching markers.
Some stuff is broken right now and it doesn't look great on mobile, but I'm building it in real time whenever my partner expresses frustration in some aspect of existing paid software ;-)
- I'm working on hat knitting software focusing on colorwork[1]. It has some bugs, but so far has been a great way to learn React and Typescript.
- Can you expand on that? The Federal Government[0] seems to think the EDL[1] is a RealID.
- Hey, feel free to disregard this as I obviously don't know you.
Have you considered if you might have ADD[0]?
I know someone with identical experiences and this was the root cause. Having the diagnosis was life changing.
- Direct link to ESA: https://esawebb.org/images/potm2308c/
2.7MB JPEG: https://cdn.esawebb.org/archives/images/publicationjpg/potm2...
NIRCam vs. MIRI Slider: https://esawebb.org/images/comparisons/potm2308/
- You are correct, it eats battery; it lasts about 8 hours or so on li-ion. If you look down the lens and move it around, you can really see the mechanical movement in action.
It has two operating modes.
1, it stays on as long as the button is depressed. This is good for quick looks.
2, you press it once and it stays on until either (a) 5 minutes pass, or (b) you press it again, or (c) you put the binoculars down (it knows when they are vertical, like hanging around your neck.)
- I own a pair of the 10x42s and they are indistinguishable from magic. When you press that button, the wobbly image becomes rock-solid and allows you to perceive and enjoy way more detail than would otherwise be possible.
Perfect for observing birds, planes, double stars, nebulae, satellites, and planets. I can't resolve Saturn's ring, but Jupiter and its moons and the Hercules cluster are not to be missed.
A tripod doesn't solve the same problem. You can walk around, pass these to other people, take it on a hike, use them in a car.
Some downsides: expensive, battery maintenance, and heavy (not as much a problem with smaller pairs.)
- I do wish the first was more widely adopted.
The typing experience on AppleTV is actively user hostile - the password is masked (you cannot reveal it) so if you even think you've made a mistake in one of your 25 characters, you need to start over.
The second doesn't work for me: we only have Android devices. It's unclear why our 3 MacBooks aren't sufficient for this purpose; I didn't have any suspicion that this would be the case.
- > Brick and motor universities vary in quality and I’m not sure where you attend or what level classes you took
3/4 years of a B.S. at a large research university, with 1 or 2 grad courses thrown in.
> DS&A classes..at WGU look completely watered down from what is taught in a single semester at the nearby university of Utah.
I agree with that. They do look watered down.
> They are talking about learning about hashmaps (how, at this point in their education???)
I checked the link and don't see what you are describing. One comment is talking about how to use a hashmap. But, I wouldn't be suprised if they didn't know what a hashmap was at all, since I've encountered that in undergrad at brick-and-mortar too.
> More than half the classes in the CS BS degree at WGU look like filler too
That's exactly how I feel about most gen-eds at a brick-and-mortar :)
But, I am actually learning things from these filler courses that were never taught at my university, nor taught at the workplace, which honestly did surprise me in a good way.
- Disclaimer: currently enrolled @ WGU.
This comment comes off really strongly to me in the direction of gatekeeping.
> These would not be acceptable in any CS department that I know.
Personally, some of the courses I'm taking now are just as hard as those I took during undergrad at a brick-and-mortar university.
I would say that the promised scope & depth of my undergrad courses at my brick-and-mortar university was greater, with interactive lessons, feedback, etc.
On the other hand, to learn that breadth of material takes two interested parties. Often I had professors who wanted to research, not teach. Sometimes the course was taught entirely by TAs after hours. Usually the pace was so fast that I never had time to learn one thing before we moved on to the next.
There were students who did the bare minimum, while others went beyond. That piece of paper symbolizing their "CS education" means much more to some than others.
> You did not get a CS education.
Hard to argue since you haven't defined "CS education", but I'll read it as "..the CS education that my university provides."
I believe it, and acknowledge that not all CS educations are equal.
> There are bootcamps that are much higher quality than this.
I think the goals are different. WGU allows me to study at a slow pace, go as deep or as shallow as I please (while passing a minimum bar) and will grant me a B.S. at the end of it. I already have a job; what I'm missing is the degree.
Perhaps I wouldn't feel such a strong need to get the degree, if it wasn't a prerequisite to even higher education!
- I just put in a couple hours of studying @ WGU for Discrete Math II last night, and I'm happy that the school exists.
I spent months trying to get my brick-and-mortar to allow me to complete my B.S. remotely; I had dropped out after junior year for startup reasons.
Long story short, the idea that an adult working full time might want to complete their degree without dropping $65k wasn't acceptable (of course COVID forced the university remote.)
Then my partner began a WGU Master's program and told me about it.
Although I wasn't able to transfer in most of my courses (older than 5 years), I was able to transfer a chunk of gen-eds. Now I'm slowly but surely working through the degree, diving much deeper into math topics than I ever did before.
I have the time to actually understand things instead of passing by the skin of my teeth. I also have the choice to skip a topic entirely if I know its contents.
It can be a slog, and there are times where it appears a gargantuan task. But I'm learning, and the challenge of doing it while working full time gives me great confidence.
Make sure you match with an excellent mentor to cheer you on while holding you accountable.
Now, some things to consider:
* I value the friends and shared experience I made @ brick-and-mortar university. This doesn't replicate that at all.
* Prices, although relatively low, have risen.
* Self-motivation is critical.
* No detailed feedback on projects.
I appreciate it for what it is: a self-motivated, self-paced escape hatch for those who want to earn a degree, where your experience is valued, and your bank account is respected.
- I created this site to enhance my New Year's Eve experience.
There are plenty of websites with countdown timers, but I couldn't find one solely dedicated to watching the year increment.
It's also super useful if you wake up from a long cryosleep, have access to a time machine, or otherwise need confirmation of your place in history.
Hope you find this a useful addition to your celebrations!