What do you nerd out over?
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Pens
Its such a common thing that we've all used and have opinions. And the rabbit hole goes as deep as you want.
You're good with a Bic and shitty notebook paper? Cool. You have a $3,000 custom built fountain pen that's been handcrafted to fit your grip and is based on a sketch you made from a dream with a 21k gold nib? Also cool.
Once I found the plethora of good but >$10 pens, I had a lot of fun. The Precise V5 is one of my fav, and at the job I had where people would frequently need to borrow my pen, that received steady unprompted compliments.
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"Aztec" by Gary Jennings.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/aztec-gary-jennings/784861bf1a137811?ean=9780765317506&next=t
It's a novel about coming of the Spanish.
I had to read it when I came across an article the author wrote. He wanted a word for 'orange.' He wanted to book to sound authentic, and the Americas didn't have oranges. He ended up using jacinth
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Who is the most criminally under appreciated philosopher/author and why is it Ursula LeGuinn?
Go read Joanna Russ.
imho she writes rings around the popular woman.
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Go read Joanna Russ.
imho she writes rings around the popular woman.
I will. Thank you.
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Ha! My glob, she was so amazing. I had the opportunity to attend a reading she did from The Lathe of Heaven years ago, and I was struck anew not only by her creativity, but by the philosophical ideas underpinning it. A lot of people think The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas is her most philosophical work, but I actually found what Lathe had to say about control, obedience, and power incredibly compelling.
Agree. AND. Left Hand of Darkness. Dispossessed.
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Just install HA and try it out! It's a lot easier to do than you might think. Every vendor or connection type has its own Integration. Most integrations can be set up through the UI very easily. I have dozens of integrations.
And the automations have had a lot of work the last few years. They are getting much easier to set up in the UI without having to worry about code or yaml.
The integrations are working. I just don't know how to cross link them...
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Art history :3
Any specific regions or time periods?
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Ha! My glob, she was so amazing. I had the opportunity to attend a reading she did from The Lathe of Heaven years ago, and I was struck anew not only by her creativity, but by the philosophical ideas underpinning it. A lot of people think The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas is her most philosophical work, but I actually found what Lathe had to say about control, obedience, and power incredibly compelling.
Adventure Time fan as well?
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I’ve come to the conclusion that if you’re buying tools, you should go for the sets. Take a socket set, for example. Realistically, you’re probably using the ratchet, an extension, and three to four sockets the most. At some point the cheap ratchet breaks and you replace it with a high-quality one. You may also lose or break a few of the most commonly used sockets and replace them with high-quality ones. In ten years you’ll have a set with a high-quality wrench and a few high-quality sockets that you commonly use, plus the rest of the other sizes you’ll only touch once every few years.
Had you gone for the high-quality set right away, you would have paid even more - and now you’d have a 4mm made-in-Japan socket you spent 10 euros on that you’ll never use.
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The integrations are working. I just don't know how to cross link them...
Here's an example. The first picture is part of the UI configuration for this automation. The second picture show the yaml that was generated from this. Utility Room Occupancy is a Zigbee door sensor. When it turns on (the door opens), it triggers the Utility Room Lights on. The light is actually a WiFi LED bulb. The rest of the script turns the light off when the door closes.
What's beautiful about Home Assistant is that it just creates devices that look identical no matter what integration you're using. A light is a light no matter how you interact with it.
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Aperiodic tilings! Just a couple of years ago someone discovered a single tile (down from the set of ~20000 that was first used to prove that aperiodic tiling was even possible) that can completely cover an infinite plane without ever falling into a repeating pattern.
The use of "aperiodic" is somewhat loose here compared to what I would expect. Like... I can instantly see several places with the same pattern just on that small sample...
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The ESP32-S3 has become my standard goto device. If power usage is an issue, the ESP32-C3 is a great option. And the ESP32-C6 opens up Thread capabilities. I recently picked up a device with an ESP32-P4 that I'm wanting to play around with some more.
If only the C6 was actually supported correct everywhere...
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Characters. I love designing characters and doing a deep dive into who they are and why they're designed the way they are. For example, I did one recently about a girl who is a mechanist in my Victorian modern world who works on robots and airship but likes to go to a dance club at night. She keeps her goggles from work since they're seen as fashion in this world and wears a distinctive hair clip that was given as a gift to her from someone dear to her before the war. And, then there's another guy I did that is basic rich kid egotistical. Looks like and ultra Chad and has the dance moves to show for it. Basically, he's like the ultra Chad meme in this world.
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Once I found the plethora of good but >$10 pens, I had a lot of fun. The Precise V5 is one of my fav, and at the job I had where people would frequently need to borrow my pen, that received steady unprompted compliments.
100% the best off the shelf rollerball. I use one often.
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Any specific regions or time periods?
I just love studying how culture cross pollination leads to art movement's throughout history ie. how Japanese prints are largely responsible for the Impressionist and Post impressionist movements in Europe or how the Mughal Emperors of India had Paintings of a Greek God on the ceiling, in the Palace of Muslim rulers.
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The use of "aperiodic" is somewhat loose here compared to what I would expect. Like... I can instantly see several places with the same pattern just on that small sample...
wrote last edited by [email protected]Aperiodic, in this sense, doesn't mean that there aren't any bits that repeat. In fact, if you pick any patch of tiles of any arbitrary size, that patch will be repeated infinitely many times. What it means to be aperiodic is that if you slide the whole tiling over so that one of the patches aligns with the repeated bit, there will still be something outside the patch that doesn't align. Compare that with, say, a repeating grid of squares, where if you slide one square onto a different square then everything lines up, all the way to infinity; it's impossible to tell that it's been slid over.
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"Aztec" by Gary Jennings.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/aztec-gary-jennings/784861bf1a137811?ean=9780765317506&next=t
It's a novel about coming of the Spanish.
I had to read it when I came across an article the author wrote. He wanted a word for 'orange.' He wanted to book to sound authentic, and the Americas didn't have oranges. He ended up using jacinth
Thanks, that one I had it on my wishlist.
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Ice, ice, baby! I love fancy ice. Have gear to make crystal clear big ice for whiskey, and also a countertop ice maker for what the kids call "the good ice".
It's just such a cheap upgrade to any drink.
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Project moon
Don't say the word 'wild' near me...
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Just came here to say that I love how engaged people are with their hobbies. Keep going!
