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Cake day: August 14th, 2023

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  • I think this is common in scientists and researchers. They operate at the edge of knowledge with one foot in the unverifiable and their eyes peering further still into the murky unknown. There is no map nor direction where they’re going, and that extension out into the darkness is often much like superstitious belief.

    What makes them different from followers of the occult that remain lost in the fog is that science returns from explorations with verifiable proof. Research extends it’s own foundations with new findings in order to venture yet another step further outwards.




  • Distributing power across a group of communities over the same topic (e.g. like seats in a congress/parliament) is a nice thought.

    However, my second thought was how vulnerable that is in a fediverse. To continue the analogy, an adversary could create new states (server/communities) of arbitrary population (accounts) at will.






  • In recreational climbing, skin calluses and surface abrasion aren’t usually much of a concern compared to tendon health. Skin heals light damage quite easily.

    However, it’s not uncommon for a new (or experienced) climber to develop their muscles beyond what their own tendons can take. Since it takes tendons so long to strengthen, it’s common to need managing the risk of finger pulley tendon injuries in climbing.

    Also, I do not know how these nuances apply in your context of your medical condition.



  • wanted to add something to the end of a for-loop, but had too little indentation

    To address this, I prefer reducing length & depth of nested code, so the for/while is rarely ever not visible along with everything inside it. Others have success with editors that draw indentation lines.

    opening up new/anonymous scopes

    I occasionally use Python nested functions for this purpose


  • I find it’s possible to operate Python as a statically typed language if you wanted, though it takes some setup with external tooling. It wasn’t hard, but had to set up pyright, editor integration, configuration to type check strictly and along with tests, and CI.

    I even find the type system to be far more powerful than how I remembered Java’s to be (though I’m not familiar with the newest Java versions).




  • In a sense, money represents all the future goods and services it can buy, and those goods and services ultimately resolve down to someone’s time and effort. Money was conceived as a formalization of IOU’s, after all.

    So it’s similar to asking whether there’s a limit to how much time and effort from (i.e. influence over) others one would want.


  • I’ve heard of publishing software to design photo albums/scrapbooks/cards etc. Is there a photo collection manager for archiving, sorting and filtering?

    Given access to a large set of personal photos, say tens of thousands, it should be able to group, categorize, tag, and sort along a myriad of dimensions.

    Example dimensions would be time, people and places. It would need some facial recognition/image classifier/similarity scoring capability.

    There definitely are some cloud offerings today that do similar things, but I’d want it to work locally for privacy and practical reasons.