🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇 @2ck@qoto.org

good reminder that I wasn't always competent with computers and system administration: in a journal entry, I'm confronted with the fact that I switched to #Linux full-time for my personal computers because I had accidentally overwritten my disk partition table and didn't know how to recover the #Windows partition

I even have some cutsheets from an architectural modeling class (one of the school's career training elelctives). SubZero freezers and wine cabinets. Reminds me of why I didn't continue with it. Became abundantly clear that we were designing huge houses containing expensive things that only very rich people could afford and benefit from.
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Maybe I would have more money now though if I had stuck with it. It was laughably easy to design these things if you had the right software and measurements. Way easier than writing software.

Found the #aqsis renderer source. I think I was playing around with #makehuman (a #blender plugin project for generating 3D models of human bodies) and that's why I had that. Cool to see MakeHuman isn't abandonware.

http://www.makehumancommunity.org/

#firefox has accounts now? when did this happen? I've been on ESR for a while and hadn't noticed.
#mozilla

i get that sometimes the customer tries to specify implementations, but it's part of the PO's job to steer them away from that.

although sometimes the customer or PO does know the best solution in some case, the place to suggest that is separate from where requirements are stated.

scrum pet peeve: product owners specifying implementation rather than relating requirements and user stories
#agilesoftwaredevelopment #softwaredev #scrum

apparently i played a game called "savage2" back then.

fascinating looking back at backups from high school. honestly, it's a strong argument for planning to filter what you backup and to rotate out the backups eventually. such garbage...

@freemo why can’t my code have newlines?

Does everyone use #Python’s object() for unique tokens? Like:

no_match = object()val = some_dict.get('key', no_match)if val is not no_match:    do_something()

I don’t know what else object() would be used for (and why they’d keep it).

social scientists trying to call learning "epigenetic" really need to stay in their own lane.
#science #genetics #socialscience

Has any study been done on the effect of student loan debt and whether undergraduates decide to continue to grad school or do research? When I think back, I almost certainly would have gone into a computational neuroscience research track if I didn't have debts worrying me or if I was as sure I could pay them off doing research as working professionally as a software engineer.
The particulars may be different for others, but I have a hunch others made similar choices. There are, undoubtedly, a number of other factors influencing decisions like that, but I'd submit that personal finances are bound to be a major one.
#studentloandebt #education #usa

Seems like #soylent (the meal replacement company) could have bought gov't ration bars, relabeled them, and upped the price. Ration bars actually don't taste that bad, and they get the job done for a meal replacement.