benignintervention

Ice chains for traction. It might be a type of crampon, I’m not certain what the distinction is.

Sweet thanks, adding to the list

If it doesn’t feature 4NonBlondes and What’s Going On, then I’m not interested

I forgot about the nebulas! My list just grew

I really enjoyed those books! I found them when I was digging through the Hugo’s for something to read and these definitely seemed like they deserved it. I generally avoid mysteries because it seems they have a tendency to intentionally mislead the reader but these felt complete. Every detail is important and contributes to the story without being out of place or a distraction. Highly recommend

Well I just dumped windows and MS office. For machine vision I’m only dabbling with openCV, so that’s already open source. The switch to libre office has been pretty nice though

Pulse Water Modulation

Cool thanks, I’ll stick with it! At least until I’m familiar and want to try something new

No worries, it’s all part of the experience

Hmm, okay. Yeah I was trying to set up an environment to dabble with machine vision and had trouble finding good instructions or guidance for programming env setup. I think in college we used something-Unix but it’s been so long I don’t really have a frame of reference anymore. So I’m looking for a low-overhead daily driver that’s also relatively common or amenable to maker communities

If that makes sense.

Damnit I just switched to Ubuntu. That explains why I kept getting lost. What about Debian?

Ann Leckie is such a great author. I recommend the Radch to everyone who asks for a book

It’s almost a concept of a plan

Great book, I need to listen to it again. But the interview will do for now!

It’s kind of a disingenuous comparison in the video, but I understand why he did it. The one that settles slowly has no dampening, either fluid or an inductive plate, because he set its initial position by hand. Can’t really do that if it’s in a fluid, although he could have compared in other ways, like setting the initial position with another magnet or comparing to another induction dampened compass and emphasizing that you can see through his.

I had a boss that did this quarterly meeting where he’d schedule two full days to review everything he heard piecemeal once a week and it always ended up taking 3 and a half days. It was hell and we all hated it. The whole office had to sit in it, no one got any work done, and most of us fell asleep. No decisions were ever made and it was just to give himself the feel goods about telling his boss he knew what was going on.

Horrible boss. The running theory in the office was that he hated his family and didn’t want to go home

I might go back and read those again. If I remember right, they get dark as hell for kids books

The downdetector comments have descended immediately into utter madness

Here, I found the video

It’s youtube because I couldn’t find it anywhere else. But I think it addresses some of your points. The biggest point it makes is that at the same time that the greater economy lost 3 million jobs (or had that many layoffs), the gig economy gained roughly the same number of people.