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Miniature painting

I wanted to be able to easily distinguish between the 60+ figurines of the Zombicide board game, so I figured I could paint them "quick and dirty".

Well 8 months later, I'm not finished because I "had to" learn about paint, color theory, paint mixing, human vision, brush types...

Being colorblind I gave no attention to colors around me, but I have since discovered I can see more shades than I was aware, and I'm having a blast just looking at the foliage... Which does not speed up the painting!

I made a few commits now and then on corsixth and I want to stress how much the team has been welcoming, with "first issues" label, guidance and help on the code.

Many thanks!

Instead of doing a lot small things, work on a few high value ones. The definition of "high value" is context dependent of course, for instance if the ones buying a software are not the ones who will using it, the value of UX efficiency when doing bulk operations will not be the same.

You have done a lot for a student, your should be able to write up a great resume!

If you want, send me an email and we can work on it ?

I rent a small bare metal OVH server which is not used a lot, I can host your projects/data, send me an email if interested.

Wow what a mouthful, I'll send you some wheels

There's an application called "should I answer?" which could help you?

I list 1 main task, 3 important others, and 5 cherry ones Since my days are very impredictable (thanks to being in support and having attention issues), that allows me to adapt to the workload and avoid straying too far from what I need to do.

The topics you're struggling with would be a great addition to the article, if only so that you can reread it later and check whether it had changed.

Ask a friend to dedicate time to be with you (even on remote) when you fill/send the paperwork. Or hire a secretary/student to do it for you. You need a crutch, that's OK and totally normal!

Does anyone knows about the business model of the company making Ruff, Astral?

I'm one of these firefighter type, and it's causing some frictions with others developpers, because my code is not great and not future proof. But I get the job done quickly, and lots of my quirky code have saved the day, either by solving an emergency or winning a tender. It's difficult to communicate with "perfect minded" developpers, because for them if code is not thought-out, then it's not worth anything, even if they understand the need for speed. Of course they think the reverse about me^^

We're set up a weekly meeting to alleviate the issue and it's working OK. The hardest is finding out which "type" is the right one, when it's not an emergency but there's a tight schedule/unclear specifications... At least we make a common decision

Hi,

Would you recommend using Cinder for stack made of - Django - Cython - Numpy

Thanks!

It's funny, I've just discovered this drop two days ago, because it's mentioned at the end of Book 5 of Dungeon Crawler Carl (https://www.goodreads.com/series/309211-dungeon-crawler-carl)

A coworker shared this video about the artisan who makes theses drops https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1KT8PS6Zs4&pp=ygURc21hcnRlc...

As a fellow pessimistic person, I'd like to share the idea that obstacles are not the end, they just mean one needs to be look harder.

I hope to switch you a bit from problem-finding to problem-solving mode.

You have identified some risks, great! Now let's qualify and find solutions for theses in order to move forward. For instance: - assumptions check: young people adapt quicker than older people, so the retirees may not be representative of the others life stages - solution proposal alpha1: education could teach people to look for purpose instead of teaching them a job

What are your solutions to the issues you've raised ?

Amd is developing a new governor (amd_pstate) for their cpu, you may have better luck with it ? On my laptop it works well and helped reduce the number of spikes. It requires a recent cpu and kernel though.

Here the Archlinux wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CPU_frequency_scaling

Gorhill has clearly said he won't accept money for this project, Cf the project Readme : https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

I wish I could repay in some way the happiness this extension is bringing me though

I love the content, and I'd like to add another semester in the same tone about people and communication : - how our brains work (in particular, emotions !) - group behavior theory - non violent communication - scientific method - design/ergonomy 101 - written communication (how to reach an understanding with someone through slack?)

I'm not looking at the moment, but for anything privacy related knowing the jurisdiction is key, especially when the GDPR is so much more advanced than anything else. Thanks!

In which country are the datacenters?

Kis are 9 and 10. For the past few years, they are allowed 1hour of screen time on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays. They are required to eat and do their homeworks before playing. Screen time can be anything, so they either watch series, play games, create spreadsheets, etc. Since they have discovered Minecraft, they play a lot together, it's great to see!

They are expected to control their screen time by themselves and globally they respect it. The younger one does sometimes "forget" for how long he's been playing, in that case we make him immediately stop, that's effective but heart breaking.

We also watch movies on : - Tuesdays nights can be anything they want, especially re-watch. They decide by voting, or random choice, or negotiate - Fridays nights: it must be a movie they haven't seen yet We've discovered quite a lot of great movies that way!

Computers and switch are on free access, but they are forbidden to sleep with it. Our first born started watch it at nights during a few weeks, so we now control more closely where the computers are...

For now it's enough!

The anime is not as good as the manga, but "Blame!" is all about a city where humans have lost control. Multiple AI have become mad with lack of purpose, each in its own discrete way, sometimes linked to humanity (either to kill or to protect), sometimes completely oblivious of them (never stop building for instance).

The movie is easy to watch and hopefully will get you to read the manga which is the real gem.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blame!

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt6574146/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_5

There's a really well written serie of three articles about Dune and Dune 2 history on the Digital Antiquarian, if you want to find out a lot more about theses you can find them here: https://www.filfre.net/tag/dune/

First part is about Dune the book and its author Franck Herbert, the second one about Dune 1, and the last one about Dune 2. Each article is well documented and describe in great details the technical, economic and artistic background of the people who made these three projects.

One could buy his book https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/prep/

Why not store it as a byte array? Thanks for the pointers!

I often read UUID are a pain to sort for relational database but I've not seen any benchmark. Does anyone have some data on that topic? Thanks!

We switched to kubernetes with the basic autoscaller, that saved us money in particular when there's less traffic.

We've also moved away from AWS Elasticache offering and now directly manage our own Redis. We've discovered that our backend is very sensitive to missing cache and that Elasticache is expensive but very reliable.

Currently we're testing Karpenter to automate scaling with 'spot' instances.

We're working with dev teams to remind them performance is a requirement, that will help us reduce ram/cpu allocations. Since RAM is capped, they have no choice but to take it into account if they want to avoid emergencies, it's a very motivating carrot! (just trolling !)

In the pipe: - move some workloads to arm (databases, cache, Argo, grafana, etc) and generally speaking better match instance types with the workload - our testing environment is too close to production, that's great for testing but quite expensive, for instance we're going to move to only one Postgres cluster with multiples db inside, instead of one cluster per test account. - more monitoring to know where we can reduce cpu /ram requests - market our results to the business side of the company, so we can require more resources to reduce costs - simplify our docker images which have a lot of legacy code, to be able to scale up faster. That will allow us to scale down more - invest more time to comb through AWS cost reduction programs to enable some more

That's it for now!

That's the plot of Norman Spinrad's book Little heroes. It starts with the idea that Music record companies can only make bad automated music, and in order to make a hit, they hire real musicians.

It's a great read! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/719900.Little_Heroes?ref...

I've been using MoonReader (https://moondownload.com/) for years now and it's great, with an integration with the Gutenberg project. I also love the gestual shortcuts to control brightness, and the treasure thrive of options.

The "advanced ebook" is not displaying the cover, I'll reach to the dev, but the compatible version is ok.

I agree with your analysis, except singling out about Muslims, because I think the issue is way larger.

To my mind, there's a growing part of the population who is looking for simple answers to complex issues, leading to very divisive behaviors. It seems to me that only the stated reasons change : religion (don't pray like me? Burn to hell), conspiracy theories (don't think Didier Raoult was right about covid19? You've fallen for the government conspiracy ), plain racism (you don't have my skin color, you must be an animal), habits (psychoanalyst say autism is caused by the mother's behavior), etc...

Muslims are only the tip of the iceberg, because the difference are simple to grasp (not the same Book nor look), but extremism and lack of empathy is only growing.