天空вℓσи∂ @skyblond@qoto.org

Trying to find a HD portrait for Father Godwin, but no luck. So I tried Gemini 3 pro. God that works so great.

Remind me years ago when I first tried waifu2x.

P1: the screenshot from the game (~600KB)
P2: the result from gemini 3 pro (7.2MB)

Looks like the highest vote answer on StackOverflow is not always correct.

I set `access_log off;` to disable the nginx logging, according to this post: https://serverfault.com/questions/318574/how-to-disable-nginx-logging

Guess what I got? A 13GB file just called "off".

No wonder the instruction explicitly said (and bold) take pills at every 12 hours, and keep taking pills for 5 days even if the symptoms are gone.

Ok, this is my bad.

Another lesson learnt: take pills at the correct time, no delay.

Today I took oseltamivir late for 5 hours, and now my temperature is back to 37+

Not good :(

For some reason, my temperature fluctuated between 37 and 38 tonight. Within an hour it jumped from 37.1 to 38c, and then back to 37.4C. It feels a bit strange. Maybe it's that ibuprofen and the hypothalamus (if I recall correctly, it is the part that responsible for regulating body temperature) are fighting for control of my body temperature?

Talking about taste, I did try to eat some potato chips around lunch time. Usually I like eating them, but today the grease makes me feel disgusting. Maybe that's something worth investigating, so we can use that to help people (me) lose weight?

oh no, I can't taste.

I spent the whole day in bed, switching between sleep, awake and feeling tired but can't sleep. So didn't eat anything until now. I ordered burger king, but suddenly noticed my taste is no longer working. Covid tried 4 times but didn't take down my taste, flu did it at first time. Good job.

Also, for another comparison, my friend (the one who gave me the flu) had fever for more than 24 hours. And only after he went to the hospital and take oseltamivir, his fever is under control. Also based on my previous flu and covid experience, usually it takes days for my immune system to get virus under control.

I start taking oseltamivir as soon as I feel the fever, and my temperature go back to normal in less than 24 hours. So, yeah, this is amazing.

Every time I get sick, I'm amazed by modern medicine (by medicine, I mean the science used to prevent, treat, or cure diseases and illnesses).

Yesterday afternoon I started feeling dizzy, and my fever reached 38.9C last night. I started taking oseltamivir (Tamiflu) at 5 PM yesterday. I woke up with a fever of 38.5C at 4 AM this morning, so I took another oseltamivir tablet. My temperature is now 37.1C, and I feel like the fever has basically subsided. (Although my nose and throat have not yet recovered, and I feel tired and weak from time to time)

I really didn't expect two things: first, I didn't expect the flu to be so contagious; second, I didn't expect oseltamivir to be so effective. I love modern medicine.

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In comparison, ibuprofen only bring down my temperature by 0.4C. Although ibuprofen is also a good medicine/drug, it only covers the symptoms, not the root cause. The oseltamivir stops the virus from spreading in your body, which fundamentally stop the infection, or stop the growth of the infection. This is amazing.

oh no

Spent the weekend to take care of my friend, who has FluA and fever, and ibuprofen can't bring down the temperature, so we went to the hospital. Now he is feeling much better, but I guess now it's my turn.

Hopefully it's the same FluA, not something else I picked up in the hospital.

well, based on my blog post, there are several fun things, but they fun differently. For example, jailbreak my kindle is fun, but all I need to do is to follow others instructions, and the fun only last for several days (but I do enjoy reading on it). This is the minor fun because you don't put in much effort, and you don't get much fun out of it.

There are also things like exploring solutions, like the workflow for post processing photos, or build a cdn using blackblaze b2 and cloudflare worker. This is the middle fun. You need to set up something, the the community and companies covers your back. You need to figure out something, but the core thing is already there. Just use it for free or paid.

The best fun, like exploring steganography, or write an android app that use udp broadcast for voice chat. Things like this requires me to build something from scratch. It's hard, require a lot of efforts, sometimes it doesn't work. But if it works, it's proudly fun (fun and I'm proud of it).

Now I understand why there a lot of people love building things from scratch.

Ordered a cassette player from We Are Rewind (yes, this is the brand name). Despite the low quality head, it offers stero recordings. So naturally I would like to store some data on it. I own a LTO 6 type drive so I know this gonna be a hard thing to do. But it's fun.

I asked AI, start with fldigi. In one conversation, it said MFSK128 is great for tape. On another one it said anything beyond 4 MFSK will be a nightmare on cassette. Lol

I guess my first step would be implement the KCS at 300 baud rate, that will be my base line. Then I'll try fsk and mfsk. I know the mfsk in fldigi contains a bunch of error corrections stuff. Never got them in the college, hopeful I can implement them this time.

This side project sounds so fun. When do I have such interesting ideas last time?

I just figured out that if I give up my instinct of trying to get everything under control, I will have a much better mood when facing some (actually many) situations. After I accepted that something just happened, and I can't change it, the frustration and the sad mood that haunt me all day just suddenly disappeared.

So the next question will be: why do I instinctively want to control everything, even sometimes to the point of being aggressive? Is it just me have some mental issues or it's a common thing for some people?