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We did not run into anything interesting. There were lots of buildings, possibly former mills, that seemed to have little or nothing in them. And there were cars. It was a lot like when we tried to do this in Malden.
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Wily has gotten us up around 6 ever since we’ve moved. We’ve acclimated to the train being next to us, at least while we’re sleeping, but maybe Wily has not?Comments
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For as long as I've played it, I have never once noticed that bards can use any weapon in 2E AD&D. They can play the lute to inspire a party, cast a spell, then just start swinging around a two-handed sword. They're also on the fastest level progression with thieves. What was going on in the late eighties TSR office?Comments
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- Job, largely meetings and Docker nonsense, unfortunately.Comments
- Made sure treadmill movers were still there and knew what to do and who to contact.
- Called insurance to find out what was covered.
- Picked up library books.
- Tried to call vermiculite guy.
- Unpacked a lot of boxes. The thing is, now the basement shelves are full. I guess I actually have to build some storage shelves like I had been aspiring to.
- Made dinner.
- Took down a burglar alarm speaker.
- Client C work. I'm glad I got in some dev time that yielded a "win".
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- Job. Got stuck on some local setup issue today.
- Chatted with someone doing a Recurse Center batch soon that happened to also be my editor on this [Taper piece](https://taper.badquar.to/6/reconstructing_the_die.html). Found out some interesting things about the Society6-type merch marketplaces. And about Flash.
- Made dinner.
- Got the Micro Cube today. It's a fun little amp, but I kind of sound the same, probably because I lean toward playing the same riffs that I played in my twenties when I get an amp.
- Worked on house issues with Katt, got a bunch done and decided!
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- Called Mr. Music. They didn't have it on their web site, but they did have a used Roland Micro Cube! Shipping was $20, so I went for that so that I wouldn't have to drive to Allston.
- Made dinner.
- Read, watched more about ground source heat pumps. I wasn't understanding how it got air from the the 50°F underground temperature to 70°F. It's actually simple: The heat pump works on the fluid the same way the air source heat pump works on the outside air (by extracting heat from it by using pressure lower a refrigerant's boiling point to make it evaporate and absorb heat energy). It's just much less work to start from 50°F instead of whatever the temperature is outside.
Today was the first day of school. The guy has been excited since the tour a few days ago and has stayed excited so far. It was also the first day of not being in any sort of afterschool program. He got himself a snack, wrote in his journal, played Pikmin, then made a Tinker Crate lamp, all with fairly minimal help from me. Maybe this could work out? - Comments
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Holy shit, the next couple of paragraphs from Venomous Lumpsucker are even more real!Comments
A couple of her friends from ETH already had jobs at Antichain lined up, and one of them loudly announced he was
Ned Beauman understands the nature of the tech worker.
going to pull out. Which was quite a stand to take. After all, it wasn't only that they'd been offered such sought-after jobs, it was that they'd been offered them in such a straightforward
way, right out of graduate school, with no additional rigmarole, Famously, Barka loved people who shortcut the selection process with an inventive demonstration of how desperately they wanted to work for him--some sort of elaborate hack or prank or tribute- and over the years this preference of his had filtered down to every level of the company, so that even though the whole point of it was to highlight maverick thinkers, it had become almost ritualized, with various third-party consultants offering to help you come up with a semi-original gimmick. If you could avoid all that, skip straight to your five-figure signing bonus without having to worry about how you were going to squeeze a chuckle out of the jaded kings- well, that was tough to pass up, no matter what Barka had said at Davos.
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At the end of her masters, she was in the middle of applying
Waaaay too fucking real.
for a Machine Learning Residency at Antichain when it emerged that Antichain predictive analytics tools were being used to run detention camps in Assam and Kashmir. And then Ferenc Barka, Antichain's founder, gave his notorious interview at Davos where he defended the contract, arguing that "when a
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