Making music inside, learning to grow my own weed outside :) Also, I'm fixated on Muriel Spark books right now.
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#202Being finally able to work in US, after 15 months of spending savings to survive. Ouch.
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#203Building my Tyranid army in Warhammer 40k
A good buddy of mine had been itching to get back into the hobby that he played as a teen but I wasn't interested in it. Until I got the Ultimate Starter Box from my game store as it was basically calling out to me.
It's been an incredibly fun (and yes, expensive) hobby.
The people are great, especially in my local area they're suuuper friendly and welcoming to new people. They want cool people to play with and enjoy the hobby with so there's little gatekeeping that I've actually run into.
Learning new skills (assembly, priming, painting) and learning the rules has been really fun as well.
My passion for coding has been at an all time low, so it's good to have something to channel my passion into.
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#204Small city council politics :( there's a lot of resistance against a new temporary housing project for Ukrainian refugees with many legit concerns, and some NIMBY, but also xenophobia and racism.
It's tough but we've been able to start a YIMBY group and encouraging people and organisations to make public comments or send letters of support. A good few didn't dare because they feared reactions, and rightfully so, because some who did (including me) ended up on the receiving end of some bullshit. All bark and no bite - for now - but not great for democracy.
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#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know what "chaos for social good" is supposed to be, but I am intrigued. Would you care to expand on that?
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
> • tools for improving home ventilation
Interested to see what you have in mind
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#206The 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…
What's the motivation for this problem if there is any? It's a really specific problem.
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#207Mead. On my 5th batch and it's an awesome hobby. Very easy and inexpensive to get started, the process is slow-paced, but not glacial, not hard to follow, but with a depth to it if it's your thing ... and then you get to drink the result!
, Carver. Oh wait, no...
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#208I love these threads: - Learning to use Emacs better - Common Lisp - Clojure - Getting better at chess - Rubiks cubes and solving them faster - Indie gaming and fighting games at the moment
+1 for Chess. Such an amazing game, one could spend (some might say waste) their whole life dedicated to it, or just a couple minutes here and there. It's fun either way.
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#209Home Assistant: between cheap ESP-based controllers and ESPHome, I'm aiming to get my whole house under local, cloud-free control.
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#210Moving 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 c…
Golf and downhill skiing were huge when I was a kid. I grew up golfing and downhill skiing. Decades have gone by now. Who golfs? Who has downhill skis?
Golf has surged in popularity after covid, 20 year high rates of growth in every demographic.