tlavoie
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Greetings!
I'm on Canada's west coast, living the island life and working in tech. I can be found online in a few forums, e.g.:
Mastodon: https://cosocial.ca/@tim_lavoie Reddit: /u/tlavoie Home site & occasional blog: https://fractaldragon.net/
- tlavoieEven still, I have to make sure my KVM switch is connected to the correct laptop. (Work on one side, personal on the other, and shared keyboard / trackball)
- It's amazing the technology that we have available, often cheaply. I'd had some suspected infection in my leg one time, where it looked pinker (sunburned?) compared to the other, and I thought it felt warmer. I happen to have a cheap thermal camera, so took some false-color images compared to the other leg, showing that it was indeed warmer. It was great fun to show the doctors, who had to ask, "what exactly am I looking at?" Antibiotics took care of it, whatever was going on.
- I had (maybe still have somewhere?) a book I'd ordered online as a youth, on how to do exactly that. They were somewhat fiddly, in the sense of being slightly lower-impulse, with clay nozzles and a hollow fuel grain. Never quite got around to making any. I should look for that book though. In any case, it's likely harder than it used to be to get saltpeter, which they just carried in the pharmacy.
- Yeah, the letters go up by powers of two. So an H would be eight Es, sixteen Ds. Considering the cost of a three pack of the latter, I could only dream of those brutes.
- I've still got mine somewhere, did get some pics with it. I was paranoid about losing it though, so I went with a couple big streamers instead of a parachute to get it closer to the launch site.
- You can buy some that are a sort of chalkboard texture, so you can literally chalk on them. I think there are similar spray paint coatings too.
- Some are even more obnoxious. My wife bought a car once, where the dealer had their logo added to the inside of the middle brake light panel. This did not fly well at all.
- I don't mind sharing, but the point remains, they're for the person wearing them. Enjoy them, in public, or in private. They're yours to do with as you wish.
- Beautifully said!
- This is a good argument against getting them on impulse, or cheaply. Find a good artist whose work you can appreciate, pay them well, and you keep some art that will be with you forever.
- My work devices don't have much on them, mostly corporate asset tags and the like. My own, though, I make my own. The stickers reflect things I like or find amusing; maybe they'll get a smirk or a chuckle from someone else, maybe not.
In the end, they're like the tattoos that someone else commented on. (I have those as well.) If you appreciate them, great! If you don't like them, that's fine too. Fundamentally, they're not for you.
- Oh, damn, good to know thanks! Sad news indeed.
- The "Temporary Containers" extension is great here, allowing pretty easy compromise between different buckets of sites. I'll have some personal ones that I log into, others go specifically into a snoop container, and the rest get temporary ones that evaporate when closed. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/temporary-con...
- I've taken it rarely, but not found it to be a panacea on the night I'm having trouble sleeping. That is, if it isn't already early when I take it, I'm positively trashed for the morning after. The next night is when I find that taking one early helps in catching up.
- It's probably the path of least resistance if following the Real World OCaml book (https://dev.realworldocaml.org/), which is quite excellent.
- Speaking of OCaml vs Python, I quite enjoyed this post from 2014, and actually his whole blog post series: https://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2014/06/06/python-to-ocaml-re...
- Hm. My ducks (Indian runners) weren't, between eagles and raccoons gunning for them.
- Good to know, thanks!
- This is probably a good place to mention a cool book, "50 Years of Text Games", at https://if50.textories.com/. Based on a blog series as I recall, but essentially takes a game from each year or so, to look at in detail for what was interesting at that time.
- That's Lu, one of the regular hosts now. All very bright and interesting people, different from each other. I think only Jimmy has a formal CS education, but he'll talk as much about philosophy sometimes.
Also, show notes link to the paper that they talk about that they do like much better.