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I had some significant hand and wrist pain Saturday morning, then took the whole day off from typing and other hand stuff, except for playing a turn-based game on the Switch for 20 minutes.Comments
Sunday, there was still some sensitivity in my hands, but I was mostly OK, so I took a risk and worked out and recorded a guitar part, which amounted to maybe an hour of playing, though not continuously.
Today, I’m mostly fine, so guitar playing (to an extent) isn’t the hand-destroyer that I thought it might be. Shoveling (at least the way I used to shovel) and typing for long periods are what I need to look out for, I think. -
The only thing I wish I had a Mac or PC for are amp modelers. I wish to enter the magical world of taking your guitar’s direct input, then just making it sound like anything you want at your leisure.Comments
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In case you were wondering: People buying stuff on used goods sites are still ridiculous and flaky.Comments
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While talking about what I’m doing while not at a job, I realized I’ve neglected learning stuff, which I’ve always meant to do during a time like this. So, I’m trying to come up with a curriculum for February. I came up with a list of books and web bookmarks to use as sources:Comments
Curriculum Sources
Incidentally, I wrote that on my tablet. There’s a few mistakes in there, but sometimes Remarkable’s handwriting recognition is solid.
* Artificial life
* Vision and Ant
* Kadenze course about M. l. R.
* Dots and Lines
* Why You Hear What You Hear
* Language of Vision
* Pomax Begin enwe explainer
* CR DTs (front jbtephg.com)
* Amit, red blob stuff
* Al for Game Developers
* WebGL tutorial
* Roguelike in Rust
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I’m going to have to make today a no-keyboard day because so much is going on with my hands. I strangely found myself thinking how nice it would be if I could code on the weekends? I should probably end my working sessions on some bitter difficulty instead of stopping when I know what to do next.Comments
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I like what I’ve seen of Rust, but every time I think, hey, maybe I should try a project in Rust, I fail to think of a project suited to Rust’s strengths.Comments
I’ve talked to people using it to compile to WebAssembly for performance reasons, but all of my projects are fine with regular JavaScript performance. I’ve also heard of people making web services with it, but that’s the kind of thing I already know how to do in Node, again producing good enough performance.
Tom MacWright recently tried this. As usual, he thought critically about it and wrote up those thoughts. Apparently, Rust does not have a ton of support for web stuff. -
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I've been finding TypeScript generics quite handy, though C++ has made me wary of going too far with templating. Nesting templates can lead to ridiculously unreadable code and awkwardly stretching a template function or class to do way more than one should do just so you can instanceComments
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Today, I found myself writing this:import type { ThingStore } from './store-types';
type StoreCtor= (object, T) => ThingStore
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I went out to pick the guy up without a mask, and by the time I ran back home, there wasn’t much time left, so I took the scooter.Comments
I’ve never ridden a scooter without a kid to keep pace with, so it felt really fast. In actuality, it took about ten minutes to go a mile. So, 6 mph (or a ten-minute mile) which is a running pace.
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22-minute run, no hills. 14 pull-ups. Done for the week.Comments
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MBS is of the few people that can pull off a SimCity cheat code stunt in the real world. (And of course, also one of the few people that can just kill people and experience zero consequences.)Comments
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I measured today, and I did 4 hours and 40 minutes of typing, with breaks every 20 minutes. Now the abductor digiti minimi in my left hand hurts. So, I guess that’s my current limit.Comments
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I burned my thumb slightly on a light bulb this morning, and it was enough to make it not work with Touch ID! If you were planning on cutting off one of my thumbs in order to be able to unlock my phone, your plan now has a 50% chance of failure.Comments
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12 pull-ups. No running today, except running to school in the morning. My back seems good but just to play it safe, no burpees.Comments
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Hot HTML tip: The old school dl tags work really well for writing out manual test scripts. You put the thing you’re supposed to do in a dt and the results in dd tags.Comments
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This Ted Chiang interview is a fun read not because Ted Chiang is an interesting thinker, which he is, but because he’s so unforthcoming.Comments
When I asked Chiang if he had hobbies, he said no, and then, after a long pause, admitted that he plays video games. He refused to say what he eats for breakfast. Eventually, I sent him an e-mail with twenty-four questions that, I hoped, might elicit more personal details:
Do you have a favorite novel?
There isn’t one that I would want to single out as a favorite. I’m wary of the idea of a favorite anything.
_You've spent many years living near the water. Do you like the sea?
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Dag. It never occurred to me that Harold Washington’s time as mayor was sort of a preview for Obama’s time as president.Comments
It’s the same thing that Obama describes as missing from the example of the man who helped bring him into politics, Chicago’s first African American mayor, Harold Washington. Obama arrived in Chicago halfway through Washington’s first term. Washington had pulled off a thrilling victory to become mayor, but two years later he was stymied by racial factionalism, with old-school white aldermen on the council blocking his every move. It took a federal court redrawing the city’s gerrymandered electoral map to break the deadlock. But it came too late for Washington, who died of a heart attack early in his second term. Ultimately, Richard Daley, son of the former mayor and, as Obama calls him, a ‘scion of the old order’, reclaimed the throne. So what lessons did Obama take from Washington’s initial triumph and ultimate failure? ‘I saw how the tremendous energy of the movement couldn’t be sustained without structure, skills and organisation in government. I saw how a political campaign based on racial redress, no matter how reasonable, generated fear and backlash and ultimately placed limits on progress. And in the rapid collapse of Harold’s coalition after his death, I saw the danger of relying on a single charismatic individual to bring about change.’ Some of Obama’s caution about racial politics makes sense in the light of this, including over the past year, as he engineered the nomination of Joe Biden for president and warned the Democratic Party, particularly its younger wing, against over-committing to the Black Lives Matter agenda. But what about the other side of the equation, the need to get beyond a reliance on one person to bring about change?
Obama didn’t seem to notice this either.
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The guy gave me a perseverance award in his class for “making a program that makes cards.” This is mostly true. Then, he added “The program is done now.” That is incredibly not true!Comments
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“Dad, can you buy me a scimitar? I just want it so I can battle you.”Comments
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35-minute run, 13 pull-ups. I stretched before running so my Achilleses weren’t all stiff, but when I got back, my lower back was stiff, possibly from not stretching after yesterday’s workout.Comments
Basically, aging means you have to stretch all the time.