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When I used Emacs I went for nano, it’s pretty.

My not so generous and extreme take is that the medical profession has a “hero culture”.

There is prestige in working your ass of and living for work. Work life balance is for the weak people who can’t take it, they are not real health professionals. They don’t have what it takes.

I have seen the same culture in aid work.

I find it ironic that both health professionals and aid workers are there to help people, but not for each other. Then it’s cut throat.

Is that on the cloud? If so, no thanks.

I’ll take either a local LLM or a licensed therapist whose career I can ruin if they spill the beans.

I believe Gemini has a 1M context window.

So I can feed a lossy text to an LLM and it can “delossy” it?

Does the lossy text take up less space so this could work as a weird compression?

I think the camera import on Excel MacOS works pretty well. You could probably call that version through an API.

I recommend therapy and maybe some of these books will be helpful.

- Non violent communication - Diffcult conversations

I work as a civil engineer in road construction. I was certain that it was the roads that drove the development of bikes, not the other way around.

It’s cool that the bike movement had a role in building roads. And that a political movement can drive technological change.

I think you are up for a surprise if you read the Wealth of nations. Adam Smith was a moral philosopher and was pretty preoccupied by the negative consequences of the division of labor.

Can this be used for deobfuscation of code? I really hadn’t thought about LLM being a tool during reverse engineering.

I went hiking in Yosemite/John Muir for a week. The night sky was something I hadn’t experienced before.

I didn’t bring a tent so I slept under the night sky.

I remember waking up and thinking “aha, that’s why it’s called the Milky Way”.

I am a manager, definitely nodded my head and patted my own back.

I wonder if there are fly wheels in the grid that are used to store kinetic energy.

I went to Ethiopia in 2015. Unfortunately we didn’t go to Dallol and the Danakil depression.

I have added it to my bucket list since I find deserts to be a fascinating environment.

“After checking with Bryan that he wasn't implementing this himself, I took the nerd snipe bullet for him…”

I love that - wholesome.

Hopefully I won’t have to share the bug bounty with OpenAI.

I got a call in the middle of the night where an unknown woman kept asking me who i was.

I thought it was a scam so I was very vague.

The woman then went on to tell me my mom had had a stroke.

Unfortunately she was telling the truth.

So yeah, sometimes it's good to answer unknown callers.

I really like the work of Gervaise Bushe and his book “clear leadership”.

He makes the argument that by putting a lot of effort in understanding your own and other peoples viewpoint you are able to build good relationship.

But what I believe sets his work apart from others is his psychological view on why it’s sometimes hard for people to listen to each other. He dissects which anxieties drives our behavior to listen or not to listen etc. without coming of as a know it all.

Probably not for everyone because of the psych framing. But if that speaks to you, give it a try.

Overall: five out of five toasters.

I have a Mac and Windows hooked up the same monitor and keyboard/mouse. I used a USB-switch and connected the monitors separately with USB-C and VGA. Then I don’t have to route the video though the USB-switch.

Like this? https://gotit.pub/

I am 35 and I thought I was young, dammit. 2024 is off to a bad start.

For anyone interested in Susan Sontag I can recommend the POD “Philosophy this!” and the episodes about Susan. They are well worth a listen.

Thanks for the write up. I am seriously considering the NeoSmartpen since it’s cheaper in the beginning and I really like the feeling of ink flow.

I looked at their website and if you buy the idea pads you get 5 for 20 USD, seems reasonable.

Haven’t heard of Neo before but it looks amazing. Could you explain your process and likes/dislikes with the Neo/reMarkable?

Nothing but love for Zotero and the iOS app.

I would go for physical copies. Print all the text and images. For video, why not use actual film and buy an old projector.

That stuff have a proven shelf life, compared to all the digital alternatives.

As a bonus, write it by hand or get a robot to mimic your handwriting. I believe your grand children (if they still can read handwriting) will get a small glimpse of your personality.

I wonder how long it’s going to take to break even. It’s pretty expensive to install piping. Even if you use no-dig tech.

Also, if they go out of business the infrastructure built isn’t going to be taken away.

The problem being that a huge part of rising construction cost in infrastructure is poor documentation of current infrastructure. You have a lot of stops in production when you encounter unknown piping.

So this is RAG for video - VRAG?

I did training for the Red Cross to join the rooster. Never been deployed so I don’t have any field experience. I have friends whose whole career revolves around different deployments in hardship areas.

From hearing people that have been in the field it sounds like a total shit show. But also very boring since you get to wait a lot.

You also se a lot of traumatized people which I believe takes a toll on your mental health.

I was surprised by the partying, alcohol seems like the preferred way to cope with the environment.

All in all, the people I have met don’t seem at peace with themselves.

A colleague that used to work in the aviation industry told me that they always had layoffs on the 23:rd or 24:th.

I believe it had something to do with the yearly reporting and the people doing the reporting being on holy day between Christmas and new year.