I just built myself a sim racing rig with triple screen setup. Will be signing up for iRacing soon. I'm tired of being productive and "on".
6DoF?
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#142Tabletop RPG games, with friends and food. Good music, food and friendship is the key.
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#143Tinkering with brass astronomical gizmos.
Made this orrery a week ago: https://youtu.be/FGdjk5fY87s?si=t9nwZI8YXxy4Bi7D
And presently working on a world clock inspired by the xkcd 1335 commic.
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#144I've been competing in ultra-distance bike races since 2020. In April this year, I decided to take a break from work and see how well I could do if I dedicated one year to training. I chose the Race around the Netherlands in 2024, the race that started it all for me, as my goal race. Training takes up to 30 hours a week, so at time it's like a full time job, but I haven't felt so fulfilled in a long, long time. I def…
How do you train?
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#145The following open research problem. Given an undirected graph G with two vertices s and t, the task is to determine whether there is an undirected path connecting s and t which is simple (no repeated vertices) and has length divisible by 3. It is not known whether this problem is NP-hard, or whether it can be solved in polynomial time; apparently the question is open since the early 90s. (The problem is also open fo…
An old favorite open graph theory problem:
In your right hand, take any collection of trees with 2, 3, ..., n vertices. These have a total of 1+2+...+n-1 edges, ie, n choose 2.
In your left hand, take the complete graph with n vertices. This, of course, has the same number of edges.
Conjecture: it is always possible to pack/embed the trees into the complete graph in such a way that all edges are matched exactly once.
The problem has been open for like fifty years, lacking a counter-example or a proof. One can assume Erdos thought hard about it at some point...
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm producing tools for the following: • converting gendered restrooms to all-gender restrooms (with or without permission) • easy legislative templates and meetups for removing billboards from your municipality • low-powered and repairable permacomputing hardware designs • tools for improving home ventilation • software for retrofitting walkable infrastructure into existing towns and cities
> converting gendered restrooms to all-gender restrooms (with or without permission) I believe, for a long list of reasons, that families with stably married mother/father are the best way to preserve humanity and that they are most stable without wandering eyes. Avoiding having wandering eyes, or wandering loyalties, in turn, is helped when we make it easier for people to manage and direct sexual attraction to keep…
Going to the bathroom is like porn to you? Not to kinkshame, but that seems like your problem, not anyone else's.
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#147Moving golf simulation into the cloud [0].
Golf is one of the only sports that can be realistically simulated indoors.
Golf is also one of the only sports where even severe lag has no effect on the accuracy of the play - just the viewing experience. Unlike FPS games in the cloud which become unplayable with even modest lag.
The golf simulation technology landscape today is pre-cloud. People running their own gaming computers with complex lash ups of open source software to connect their launch monitors. All pretty prohibitive to the stereotypical older tech-averse golf player.
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#148creating content
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#149Building lo-fi synthesizers with Teensy or Arduino. They are becoming more like interactive sculptures than instruments now. The sound is important, but the visual aesthetic is just as interesting to me.
Love to see pics.
Bottom of this blog post: https://lucidbeaming.com/blog/mmxxii-berlin/
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is your approach to learning them? Do you do them in order from ABOK or pick ones that look interesting and/or useful? What are your favorite knots? I've tried to learn a number of knots. I find that tying knots is a good way to keep my hands busy while doing something else, like listening in a meeting. I favor the diamond knot, constrictor knot, hangman's knot, alpine butterfly loop, and Japanese square knot.
I first just went through it front to back, having a go at some of the simpler ones as I went. Since then, I've mostly just picked ones that felt interesting to learn. I've been a bit partial to more decorative stuff lately: a few of the sinnets, Full Matthew Walker, Turks-Heads, that sort of thing. I'd say my favourite one is one I come up with based on a Sheepshank, but (to the surprise of no one) was in the book a…
I'll have to check out some of those knots you mention. Thanks!