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Been nerdsnipped and diving down the rabbit hole on a few topics in the past few months: Some history podcasts had me digging into the Napoleonic Wars and Israel/Palestine. Also a recent interest in human health and diseases has basically sent me down the path of self-study equivalent to a Kinesiology/Exercise Science/Sports Physiology degree.
> Israel/Palestine This is more than a rabbit hole, it's a fractal that changes as you zoom in and out
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I'll never set it up but I'd love to hear about the tech choices/options.
The software that I am using to simulate the courses is GSPro. There are hundreds of courses on there. It's got just about every course you could imagine. Launch monitors come with their own software too and there are a few other options for simulating courses. E6 is one and GolfClub2019 is another. AwesomeGolf. GSPro is hard to beat though. For launch monitors, there are two main types: camera based and radar. Garmi…
Today in Toronto, Canada, a man that was charged with First Degree murder of a police officer was acquitted. I'd only really absorbed the initial news story in passing. The initial news releases relayed the police account of the incident (a man running over a police officer with his car) that it was a "deliberate and intentional act". During the trial, and with today's acquittal and subsequent lifting of a publicatio…
It's a dangerous game when news articles are rewriting content pulled from news wires (eg, Canadian Press in this case) and it's not always clear which sections are pulled from where. There's an argument for legitimate AI-rewriting that can at least leave in direct sources for the content that it pulls in/summarizes (a task that ends up being a hindrance for deadline-facing humans).
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This oddly enough has been quite a big issue in my life as of lately. I need to get off my ass and start working towards better things in real life in order to (potentially) better my situation e.g. new job, better hobbies, etc.. However, I have always had issues with gaming on and off throughout my life (perhaps a lot more on than off). I seriously think that a lot of my issues with gaming is that games are preferen…
Try recording yourself playing video games. You will quickly snap out of the illusion and realize that you're passing through life staring at a screen.
Figure skating. It should be illegal to have so much fun. The feeling of gliding out there on the ice with nearly zero friction is amazing. It's a great community too. Not cheap, but a lot cheaper than many hobbies. Less than $1k will get you a nice pair of skates, plenty of group lessons, and access to the rink for a few months. It's fun for the family or single adults. There are always tons of people just starting.…
I totally agree, we are lucky here in Sweden to have free access to ice rinks, basic lessons are also rather cheap and usually operated but local not for profit organizations.
One of my Canadian friends was explaining that pretty much everyone chooses to do either hockey or figure skating from a young age with a small minority doing speed skating. She says every neighborhood has its own ice rink too. Also, apparently the women's league for hockey is becoming pretty popular in certain places, so that is cool. I'm guessing it's similar to that where you live?
So, I decided to install Linux on my formerly-Windows-only laptop, and thought it was cool enough to go full time and ditch Windows completely. The downside was the lack of access to top tier games. No problem though, my plan was to take a break from gaming, figuring that by the time Linux had caught up with compatibility, computers would also be much more powerful and I'd be able to resume gaming at some point in th…
Is a router a decent box? https://kittenlabs.de/real-gaming-router/
Formal Methods ; and i don't think i am going to get out of this rabbit hole anytime soon in the future. More than just using some formal language/tool i had wanted to learn about the Mathematics/Ideas behind formal methods and how they are embodied in TLA/Z language/B method/etc. After a survey of available books i zeroed in on Understanding Formal Methods by Jean François Monin hoping to get an overall idea of how…
PDF files, and why the heck they are so slow to read. Hours upon hours of perf(1) and fiddling with ugly things in C. My main takeaway is everyone in the world is doing things HORRIBLY wrong and there's no way to stop them. (Digression: did you know libpng, the one everyone uses, is not supposed to be an optimized production library—rather it's a reference implementation? It's almost completely unoptimized, no really…
is there any ffmpeg like command line program for pdfs? Creating, Appending/Removing pages, viewer, etc?
To add/remove: mutool merge -h
To split PDF pages: mutool poster -h
I made a script here that I use frequently for scanned documents: https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/computer/blob/main/bin/pdf_...