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An Amin K. died in 1953 and lived in Cambridge. It was less homogenous than I thought, perhaps, back then.
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Just tried GitHub Actions. It's like a smoother Travis CI, which was already pretty smooth. With both Travis and Actions, being able to just get whole (virtual computers) to run your stuff is a lot to get for free.
This kind of thing always makes me worry about hidden future costs.
And it looks like you can more or less just run arbitrary code on commit? I find it hard to believe because that's really ripe for abuse. -
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Normal length run, possibly slow. Did not time it; my usual way of timing is to start an episode of The Daily and then look at how far into it I am when I’m done. (Today’s episode was about baseball, which I have no interest in.)
10 pull-ups.
Sitting on the porch in the breeze after was extra good. My brain feels refreshed. There’s this weird phenomenon in which I always forget the brain effect until I actually run. -
I stayed up late working, and I feel extra, extra stupid about it.
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12 pull-ups, no other things. All I could fit in today. Consistently, 3+ meetings in a day means I everything gets squished.
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note-taker refactor survival test.
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Normal run, did not get to time it. 10 pull-ups.
Good news: This was my first time outside in two days, unless you count me going on the roof of our building yesterday.
Bad news: I ran through two guys standing around fifteen feet apart, masks down. I think one of them coughed, but I can't recall if it was while I was running through or after. I was masked myself, though that primarily works to keep particles from me from spreading to others.
Still, by the
AnywaySuccessful Infection = Exposure to Virus x Time formula, I don't think the chance of infection is very high, even if he did cough while he was going through. That said, we still don't know the minimum infectious dose. So, I'll note this here so I can refer back to it in two weeks.
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Before the Voting Rights Act, White poll workers would give Black voters bullshit tests that they would have to pass in order to vote. Of course, the poll workers could decide who passed, however they wanted, regardless of what the voter put on the test.
In this Daily episode about John Lewis's life, some examples of questions from those tests are given. "How many bubbles are in a bar of soap?" "How many judges are there in Alabama?"
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10-4-4-4-4-12. Worked out before noon, finally. I wanted to run today, but I would have had to get outside by 8 AM to avoid heat death, and I had other things to do.
I feel like my legs have gotten stronger and attributed it to regularly running up a hill. I just weighed myself for the first time in several months, and I've lost weight, so they might not actually be stronger.
I briefly considered reintroducing barbell workouts, but considering my injury track record there, it's probably not a great idea to pick up during busy times. I exercise primarily to avoid getting excessively angry, depressed, and/or anxious and secondarily to make my old age less limited and painful. So, I'm going to try to let go of my interest in the quantitative amount of force I exert on the outside world. -
Welp. They extended Cambridge city manager DePasquale's contract for two years. Change is hard on every level.
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After all this thinking and rethinking about rearranging my bot infrastructure, I’m finding it’s going fairly smoothly in execution. I’m waiting for the last mile nightmare to drop.