Flipping that page.

Stochastic altruism.

I did this without intending to because by wife relocated (I can work from anywhere). Very dry here and it’s been great for arthritis, sinuses, exema, etc.

Manhattan at the height of a humid heat wave is hell on earth. Just the smells, alone, are enough to qualify. Still a cool place to visit.

I was on a recent business trip and signed up for a couple of days of roaming. My colleagues saved a few bucks with e-sims which was great until they needed to get an SMS for 2fa.

Both of these are incorrect. YYYY-MM-DD for life.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jellyfishbabies

I am a terrible writer that does it purely for my own edification.

I use spiral bound notebooks with the coil at the top and whatever pen.

Every night I try to write one page.

Sometimes it’s a scene that advances the story or shows something about a character.

Sometimes it’s a history of some faction or region, or an anecdote that the characters know from their past, or maybe a note about politics or trade.

Occasionally, I’ll write a character sketch or map and describe a location.

I just like writing and this way creates the least pressure on me to “write”. It’s just fun.

If I ever get a complete story I’ll maybe type it into a document and try to edit it.

The last time I finished something was seven years ago. It was a short story. Wasn’t great but I enjoyed the process. I’ve always got ideas going but this current work is a Yankee in King Arthur’s Court type adventure that I’m really having fun with.

People who do not read the linked info may not realize that the denial says “yeah, we have these but they were reviewed and are not available for FOIA” (paraphrasing). That’s not the same as “what pictures?”, like you said. Pretty wild.

I had an Uber driver in Florida last time I was there (business) and when he found out I was from Canada he told me he went to Boulder in the winter for a vacation and thought it would be cool to rent a car and drive up a mountain. Yeah, he was pretty freaked out by that driving experience. :)

Good call on the Subaru. My wife had a couple and they were great in the snow. First car we ever had with heated seats, too!

I don’t know. Projects inherently get finished. That’s kind of the point of projects.

Areas are “projects that are never finished”.

A project is “buy Christmas gifts” but I might keep my list of gift ideas in the Areas folder in a file dedicated to tracking gift ideas (which I need because I’m terrible at that). When I get a good idea for a gift I just throw it into my inbox file and move on with my day. Occasionally, I sit down and run through that inbox and file stuff into better places (like the gift ideas file).

Resources are things that you can share publicly. You should be comfortable publishing that folder to the web, for instance.

These are meaningful distinctions for me.

I do use my projects folder like a project list. That’s how I keep track of what I’m working on. I’m pretty absent minded so this system helps me to easily scan that list and figure out what I can do right now on something to make progress.

So it will snow at night but warm up during the day so you’re dealing with icy conditions that have a layer of melt water on them. Or freezing rain that flash freezes at dusk to black ice. And so on.

Winter driving and shoulder season driving. Snow, ice, black ice, freezing rain, slush, hydroplaning, driveway clearing, walkway maintenance, windshield scraping, and keeping an emergency kit for breakdowns. Stuff like that.

You are not wrong. I think the best use of this would be a verification test that had significant impact on your grade but didn’t necessarily fail you if you did well in other evaluations.

Think of it as a conversation like a job interview that takes into account the different ways people react in that environment. I do this when I’m interviewing job candidates. I interview people for technical jobs. I value good communicators but if that’s the only people I hired, I wouldn’t have as good a team. But if I do hire someone who isn’t as good as this, I coach them. They get more comfortable. I realize some people have anxiety or other things that make this very difficult, I think that could be taken into account (e.g. more written work but in an observed setting).

I’ll just leave this here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/house-majority-leader-to-colleagues-in-2016-i-think-putin-pays-trump/2017/05/17/515f6f8a-3aff-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html

Switch to oral exam and you’ll know fairly quickly who is actually learning the material.

I was going to add this but figured I had already given too many points. This is the way, though.

As an old programmer, always build in checks for your systems. Keep a cache of posted articles and check it before posting so you know you haven’t posted this one yet.

When you let something run overnight, that’s going to go south somehow. If running overnight for the first time, throttle it to one post per hour. And not the same post. I’m the morning you check if it successfully posted a new article once per hour. Next let it post a little more frequently. Ease into your desired frequency once you have figured out all your edge cases and scale issues.

And so forth.

I am the moderator of this group and started it on a whim during the Reddit exodus. I am no longer using Obsidian for reasons I don’t wish to get into and have nothing to do with Obsidian (it’s awesome).

Would you, or someone you nominate, like to be named as a moderator?

Ask the popcorn eating will counteract the alcohol, digestion-wise.