Fellow oldie here

When we were in university, professors who had contacts in the manufacturing industry would post a bill on the notice boards stating that some of the factories they know have a slot for visit open. If there was enough interest, the thing would go on like any other group visit. Logistics, dates, etc.

During the visit, the professor and their contacts would walk us through the shop floor explaining the stations along their production line. Sometimes, there’ll be a walkthrough of their logistic decision making processes. Usually concluded with a q&a session with some manager in the factory. Back then, we broke students were curious regarding how our education made us suitable for a job there and what soft skills are expected of us.

So, hitting someone up where you are interested in visiting might be a good start.

Or incorporate it. Basically what George Carlin said. Evolution will witness a new paradigm of life plus plastic and will keep evolving as if nothing matters.

With the arrival of near infinite phonebooks, the drive and know-how to remember 100s of phone numbers is lost to humanity.

Passwords present added complexity to those of phone numbers. On top of a name to number (allowing a few collisions) passwords are required to be of certain length, contain an upper case letter, lower case letter, number, special character, and more importantly, a preset lifetime.

Password managers seem to be a safer and low stress bet for the vast majority. There will always a few exceptions who can do it all in their head. They don’t tend to advertise their presence.

Coming at it backwards

Jackie Chan was a martial artist who fought (on screen) his way into the film industry. Hard to imagine Keanu Reeves becoming a martial artist anywhere near the caliber of Jackie Chan’s

There are obviously those like Gary Oldman, who, unless you paid close attention to the credits list, won’t be able to tell that he worked in the Fifth Element, Harry Potter, and the Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy. Did he learn new skills for the movies he worked in? Most likely yes. Does he retain those skills? Only as much as he practices them or else like in all of us, I’d wager that those skills atrophied away from the moment respective films wrapped up shooting.

If anything, those skills look more like accessories to the critical job of acting on screen.

The question feels lost on the destination for a path. If you can, describe the course you want to take at that reputed university with leafy lawns. What would you like to do with that education?

Did the fees suddenly explode in 2023 and surprise you? Had you not been looking up the fees prior?

This path you’ve chosen and are seeking validation looks unrealistic at best despite breaks, weekends, etc dedicated to catching up with sleep. The question, as of this writing, is silent on weekends and breaks. Let alone sustainability.

I think adding a bit of curvature to the six surfaces of a regular cube can throw off many. Then there’s scale. Astronomical scales and milli or micro meter scales adds its own complexity by the simple fact that we lack regular language tools to capture the ideas and express them completely.

Where do we see curved surfaces? Everywhere from flight routes to space flight to deep sea diving.

Though I am not all tbat clear where we apply 3d geometry at micro scale or smaller, just a hunch that we may need them.

Language plays catch up. Is.

At the risk of being downvoted to oblivion, trying to understand better here.

How does the CEO’s anti-LGBTQ stance reflect in the Brave Browser product’s quality?

How does the CEO’s anti-mask stance reflect in the Brave Browser product’s quality?

In all honesty, I wish the association with cryptocurrency is not there. Business choices, unless there’s a new way to run business, will bring these things onboard. Not defending the business choices in anyway. Merely stating my understanding of them.

The way I use Brave is, delegate it pages that absolutely cannot be viewed through Dillo browser with all CSS and images disabled. Though on mobiles, Brave is my default. On any week, I find myself reaching for Brave less than a handful of times.

Taking it one step further

Garbage is more a side effect that we want to pass on to the poor sod next in line

The pleasure of being understood is underrated

• Simon Baker portraying Patrick Jane in The Mentalist

TIL 👍

The first thing that came to my mind is perhaps October Surprise is something pleasant and giving a feeling of relief after Eternal September

Addictive tobacco has reinvented itself. Vaping, gummies, and probably more.

New Shepard (of Blue Origin that dick shaped space flight in which Jeff Bezos took off for his first mission)

Start listening to Dr Michael Greger. You’ll thank yourself at 40.

When making your worldviews, difficult as it might be, consider listening to the news from original source. Say, for China related stories, look up Chinese publications, translate them to a couple of other languages you know. Ask yourself what each narrator or writer wants you to think and do after listening to their side of the story. This habit will make traveling a better experience in many ways.

Write a journal everyday. Write a meal and snack journal everyday and include any alcohol, drug as well in it. Review them every now and then. Never miss any vaccine. The journals will come in handy for everything from planning weight loss, effectiveness of any diet or exercise, sicknesses, mental health issues, to helping your doctors help you better. Course correction will get simpler and ever easier.

If you ever think of kids, do consider stopping with one. This boiling, frying planet we have made ourselves need not be inflicted on any more than one little one of yours.

From what I can see on the F-Droid description, Focus connects to iTunes, presumably in addition to the same places Antenna does, for podcast search indexing

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKOvOaJv4GK-oDqx-sj7VVg – either this channel may visit you, or you visit the channel.

The episode will begin with a dramatically narrated, HF is a <XYZ> years old <gender identifier>, and had <food> for a month! This is what happened next!

Indeed, haste makes waste

Been a few years since using Emacs extensively. From memory, IRC is a good fit for what you are after for texts and some emojis. No clue regarding multimedia messages.

If IRC is acceptable

Make your own channel on say, Libera chat, set your own rules for how long those messages are retained. Make a user for each of your devices. You are set. I’ve used ERC a few years under Emacs. Also used GNUS for reading and writing emails from the big providers.

https://www.opensourcealternative.to/ lists rocket.chat as an alternative to Slack and Discord

I have not used it. I have used Mattermost. And it can do channels, teams, hashtags, @ mentions etc similar to Slack. Though it requires the server be hosted and administered by you or someone you know.