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Respect to remote-touchpad! It lets us use the media computer to play videos from web pages on the TV without having to go to and open up the computer, all without having to install a phone app or some other such malarkey. I just open up the browser on my phone and make the computer do stuff from afar.Comments
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I had three good back days in a row, then woke today to a weak one.Comments
Semi-involuntarily napped this afternoon, and now it feels good? I guess sleep is one of the thousand factors in back health. -
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You have to get way out there in New England to avoid light pollution.Comments
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Bonus Cat is back from his echocardiogram, and the vet’s office did not feel the need to have a substitute vet (instead of this normal vet) call us right away, so I guess the news is neutral at least. We’ll find out for sure on Monday.Comments
Bonus is up and about instead of hunkering down. He even said hi to a visiting friend who he’s never seen before. So, maybe the experience wasn’t so bad, either. -
5m above the surface of Mars. I haven’t seen a picture from that distance, and it’s compelling for me.Comments
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If I ever get committed to an asylum, my specialization is going to be the hypercube. People at the asylum will point at me and say “There’s the guy who always talks about the hypercube.”Comments
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Yikes. Filled up the cloud VPS hard drive again. Was able to get a couple GB back by just deleting media, which is cloned in the cloud bucket, but the elephant in that room is like 10 GB of mail, mostly cron job run reports.Comments
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It looks like business night is not something anyone at Recurse Center other than me is interested in, which is understandable, so I'm going to have to do it on my own.Comments
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A 00 roll on the old wilderness encounter table:Comments
First, in an improbable occurrence, a snake fell from the clear blue sky, wrapping itself tightly around Ms. Jones’s right forearm.
“I immediately screamed and started swinging my arm to shake the snake off,” Ms. Jones, 64, said in an interview. “I was screaming, ‘Jesus, help me, please, Jesus, help me!’”
The snake wrapped itself around her arm more tightly. It hissed and lunged at her face, at times striking her glasses. But then, Ms. Jones realized, the snake, too, was an unwitting victim.
A brown-and-white hawk flying overhead had fumbled and dropped the four-and-a-half-foot-long scaly creature. The hawk quickly joined the fracas, swooping down to wrench its serpentine dinner from Ms. Jones’ arm.
The hawk snatched, scratched and jabbed at her arm “three to four times,” to reclaim its meal, Ms. Jones recalled. Each time, its powerful talons slashed her forearm. At one point, the bird dragged Ms. Jones’s arm up into the air. On the fourth try, it successfully uncoiled the snake and flew away. The “horrific” ordeal, Ms. Jones said, lasted about 15 to 20 seconds, and left her arm scratched, bruised and punctured. -
Two of my coworkers have moved their families to Europe.Comments
Europe as a place used to appeal to me because most of the countries have been in economic decline for a while, unlike the US which has more or less started recently.
They're not counting on growth, and they're not expecting everyone to get richer. But they've made it possible, via social democracy, to share things so people can have decent lives without having to fight for it. It looked like they've basically learned how to do more with less.
Of course, now they've elected far right leaders in Sweden, Spain, Italy, Hungary, Poland, Finland, and probably others, so I think (unsurprisingly) I didn't understand the situation there.
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In car news, the problem was not just the alternator, but the alternator and also the battery.Comments
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I guess it costs way more than we have to build a door and a deck! Which is understandable because everything is expensive now.Comments
The construction guys asked for a number, and I was too tired to make them give us a number first, so I just told them how much we had for it. And they were like, whoa, this is not for you.
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The OCD therapist thinks we're probably good, and that the guy has a strong handle on compulsive behavior. Sometimes, kids just grow out of scary behavior! Growth is cool stuff; it's nice to have Actual Growth instead of the meager "Growth Mindset" that I, Smidgeo, and other adults have to make do with.Comments
I was thinking yesterday about what a huge mental relief it was for us. Just now, I realized it also saves us $1000 per month.
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A classic professor-ass home page! Those things are so rich compared to a X/Twitter or Linktree page.Comments
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Real-life Dr. Nicks are pretty scary and can actually make it past medical boards.Comments
Also, imagine having to be this lawyer:McGuckin’s attorney David Heim described him as a “very good, skilled surgeon who has helped thousands of patients,” many of them at higher risk. “Any effort to portray Dr. McGuckin as some ‘greedy’ or ‘bad’ doctor would be completely false and defamatory,” he said. Heim did not respond to ProPublica’s questions about specific patients, citing privacy.
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Ohh, yeah, I’ve seen the drawing the tesseract in pop culture a lot, but I didn’t realize those diagonal inner lines are just an abstraction. They are actually meant to go in the 4D plane, and they are perpendicular to the 3D cube lines, but you can’t draw that. But they do help you count the extra cubes but counting groups of eight adjacent vertices.Comments
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I’m pretty tired, so maybe that’s why I don’t understand well why a 4D hypercube (two 3D cubes with edges in the 4D plane between each pair of corresponding vertices) has eight total 3D cubes. The hypercube has 16 vertices and 32 lines. I know there are 16 “original” 3D cube edges, but where do the extra 16 come from? Is each of the 8 connections between vertices 2 lines?Comments
Come to think of it, are the vertices points in this case? Or are they lines? Because the hypercube “faces” are 3D cubes. So maybe everything is promoted? Edges are squares and vertices are lines.
So, what are the points, then, if not vertices?
OK, the Wikipedia article says the vertices are still points.
If the two cubes are connected by eight traditional lines, though, how would that produce the six additional cubes? I guess it’s a matter of finding adjacent squares in the network of lines.
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Checking off the PT for today.Comments
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Relieved I didn't get pinged on a work Slack while I was out on my car breakdown adventure.Comments
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