User: anders
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
- Stephen King
“Don’t be prideful with any excellence that is not your own” - Epictetus
My bike lock is hopelessly stuck and my bike is locked to a rack across town. Looks like I’m going to have to buy some bolt cutters and conduct a brazen mid-day theft of my own bike. I hope Dutch prison isn’t too bad…
tabstore: very simple program to store URLs just by title and date. Finch but even simpler. Intended just for letting me clear out browser tabs quickly.
The Effect of Topical Arnica on Muscle Pain
Rather than decreasing leg pain, arnica was found to increase leg pain 24 hours after eccentric calf exercises.
Finally, I have a fully functional dutch bank account with money in it transferred over from the US! Now I can use the “pinnen alleen” lines at the grocery store like a big boy.
The Future of Meat Is Plant-Based Burgers
Roughly three-fifths of all farmland is used to grow beef, although it accounts for just 5 percent of our protein.
simple android app (now I can write one in Go) that has examples of my artwork compiled in. Just a basic interface to swipe through them. Solves the problem of how do I explain to someone I’ve just met at a bar or conference what kind of art I do without having them pull up a web browser.
Backblaze uses SMART 5, 187, 188, 197 and 198 for determining the failure or potential failure of a hard drive.
emacs macro commands
C-u C-x (- append to the last macroC-x C-k r- apply macro to region linesM-j 0 C-x e- apply macro infinitelyC-x C-k C-i- insert counterC-x C-k C-c- set counterC-x C-k n- bind macro to nameM-x insert-kbd-macro- gives you elisp for the macro (must already be bound to a name)C-x C-k C-e- edit macro
One of the risks of being quiet is that other people can fill your silence with their own interpretation: You’re bored. You’re depressed. You’re shy. You’re stuck up. You’re judgmental. When others can’t read us, they write their own story—not always one we choose or that’s true to who we are.
- Sophia Dembling, The Introvert’s Way
The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.
- Edsger W. Dijkstra
dialectic view of software engineering
- starts out ad hoc/informal (thesis)
- everyone gets burned
- react by moving to extreme formalism, waterfall model (antithesis)
- result is slow and cumbersome, inflexible
- move to agile processes where flexibility is formalized (synthesis)
simple dist file store app
- essentially Tahoe w/out encryption, reticulum w/out resize
- N nodes, no master
- immutable only (no delete)
- POST file
- calculates hash
- chunks file, calc hash of each chunk
- make manifest listing chunks
- write manifest + chunks to nodes by DHT w/ desired replication (copy manifest to all nodes?)
- return hash as location
- GET file
- retrieve manifest
- get all chunks + reassemble
- return file
- stick with HTTP for retrieval or try btsync?