I have a few 30 day experiments I am setting out to do this year:
- No sugar
- Daily journal writing
- Sweat every day (via exercise and/or sauna)
- Contact one friend/acquaintance I haven't spoken to in a while every day
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#62In 2019, I built Alchemist Camp into a decent side-business (see https://questinglog.com/2019-year-in-review/ ). In 2020, my goals are: - Double gross subscription sales - Keep lifetime retention above 60% - Launch product #2 by the first of March - Finally travel to the US for an Elixir conference
Back when I was first learning Phoenix, I watched a couple of your videos! The one I can remember is about using edeliver to deploy, which I'm using right now for my little project, Podalong.
Just wanted to thank you for them, it's a solid resource for anyone interested in Elixir/Phoenix. I hope you reach and exceed your goals!
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Hah I feel you on the smoking, with vape pens it's almost too easy to take a quick hit here and there. Cutting back weed is probably number 1 on my resolutions for next year.
what are the main reasons for you wishing to cut back?
I'd like to cut back due to the negative impact it's had on my sleep and general motivation. I've found that daily smoking really reduces the quality of my sleep, which means 8 hours of sleep with THC in my system is closer to 5-6 hours. As far as motivation goes, the dopamine release from THC really reduces my drive and makes me more content/complacent than I would like to be. As a note, my total intake is really low (less than 1 gram every three months), but I still feel like I shouldn't feel obligated to smoke on a daily/weekly basis.
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#64I am working to improve self-discipline in almost all forms: diet, exercise, reading, attention span, and even relaxation. I suffer a large amount of anxiety from this. I don't do the things I need to and I do too much of the things I shouldn't. I need a better balance or I will forever be disappointed with what could have been.
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#65For 2019, I had set myself several objectives but the one I have respected the most is to read 1 book/month (book or audiobook). For 2020, I will: - Read 1.5 books a month. - Launch my startup while being employed (I am currently working on the product). - Enjoy life and the people around me. - Less time on social network. - Travel to at least 3 new countries. - Develop my photography (and videography) skill. - Try t…
> Propose to the most wonderful woman.
Best of luck, and congrats in advance.
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#66I am in my 50s and want to start working on Raspberry Pi and Arduino fun projects. But this time do it with the mindset I had when I started out. Take the sample code and modify it without thinking too much about consequences. In many ways experience is good but I feel I have become too “professional” and worry too much about things that aren’t really important in small projects. In short, become a reckless programme…
The dog door one is of interest to me. I've noodled over that one a bit at times. How do you propose to identify when your dog is in proximity? I've got a Labrador and two cats, so the size differential was such that I was thinking I could probably get away with an ultrasonic distance sensor. Other possibilities would be a pressure mat (dog is 37kg) or RFID although I never found a suitable RFID solution that had suf…
I have a cat door that reads the cat's microchip before letting her in. The brand is SureFlap. You could probably find out about the antennas they are using through FCC filings: https://fccid.io/XO9
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#67Figure out how to want to do things again.
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#68I am working to improve self-discipline in almost all forms: diet, exercise, reading, attention span, and even relaxation. I suffer a large amount of anxiety from this. I don't do the things I need to and I do too much of the things I shouldn't. I need a better balance or I will forever be disappointed with what could have been.
I used to think like this. You have it backwards. You're causing yourself anxiety by setting unrealistic goals and expectations for yourself. Take some time and chill out. Stop caring so much about what you do or don't do. Soon enough you'll start just doing the things you want to do when the pressure is gone.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
The dog door one is of interest to me. I've noodled over that one a bit at times. How do you propose to identify when your dog is in proximity? I've got a Labrador and two cats, so the size differential was such that I was thinking I could probably get away with an ultrasonic distance sensor. Other possibilities would be a pressure mat (dog is 37kg) or RFID although I never found a suitable RFID solution that had suf…
I hope to do something with PIR Sensors and then image recognition. This would also be useful for my trail camera idea. Maybe I am totally off but I hope with two or more sensors with small field of view that all have to trigger I can reduce false detects. Once they have triggers then fire off image recognition to see the dog. No idea if that will work :(
Hmm. I thought about this for a minute, it's a good question.
First of all I realized that audio processing is at a really awesome point right now: you could train a system to capture your dog's voiceprint when it barks! I suspect that would be sufficiently unique to only match your own dog in your neighborhood. But this could be attacked by recording the barks and playing them back, means your dog is making noise every time it wants to be let in, and also depends on the dog learning new tricks ;)
Then I wondered about GPS tracking, then realized that would be stupid since this doesn't require absolute positioning.
So then I thought about Bluetooth LE. I think this is reasonably short-range(?).
Then I thought about those tiny 2.4GHz 2Mbps radio modules you can get on eBay, and fiddling with one of those to set the output power weak enough so it only works when really close. But that might be so close to "not transmitting at all" it might be very flaky.
But the above 3 ideas all require battery replacement in a collar.
Image recognition does sound like the way to go. One thought that does come to mind though - capturing a wide view of the environment and requiring both "dog within small perimeter around dog door" AND "empty environment with no additional objects in it", for additional security (especially if the dog door is positioned such that it's not too hard to reach up through the hole to the doorhandle). Some tweaking would probably be needed to make the system resilient to birds and objects moved around the environment.
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#70I have a few goals in mind: 1. Get more flexible. I'd like to be able to touch my toes. Stretch goal (pun slightly intended): palms to the ground 2. Finish 3 (BotW, Doom, and Celeste) of my Switch games. I've done a good job of playing a few hours of some great games, but I'd really like to see some of them through. 3. Deep dive into Clojure. For someone that uses it daily at work, I really feel like I ought to know…
On touching your toes > hamstrings, work on them liberally but try not to make them too sore.