Weeklog for Week 2: January 10 to January 16

Jan 16, 2022

Progress

Lots of work, lots of catching up.

No progress.

Some progress. We did a session on polygon placement, and decided we'd try out a new way to place wall polygons. It's not finished, but it's started.

Let's Settle This: Answers to the pressing questions of the 21st century! Like, how do you pronounce GIF?
Explaining Huffman’s Impossible Pyramid -- mathblag
LatencyFleX: A new approach to game latency reduction -- Tatsuyuki Ishi
Die Jagd auf den Adlermörder
Comprehensive Mask Testing – Armbrust American: Such a great idea, such great data and such bad presentation.
19-Year-Old Student Hides Spy Camera In His Clothing To Take Secret Street Photos In The 1890s -- Bored Panda
The Beauty of Lego Instructions
Universe Forecast: Have a look at what will happen with the universe during your lifetime!
blog/free-trial-expired.adoc at main · chrisdutz/blog · GitHub: An open-source maintainer is fed up with the state of his industry: that commercial manufacturers have the worse product, but thanks to their massive marketing budgets, they still get more business. I've talked about this "enterprise sales" situation as well, where big companies get second-rate products (and produce second-rate products as well), because so much hinges on marketing and contacts and money.
"Nothing like this will be built again" - Charlie's Diary: a guided tour of the nuclear reactor complex at Torness on the Scottish coast
The Tinder Revenge Story Between Sean Rad and Barry Diller: The introduction to the article should be true: a process between to rich guys to determine who will get even more rich shouldn't be this interesting.

https://web.archive.org/web/20211231094826/https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools: If they hadn't issued a DMCA-takedown notice, which seems to be unjustified in any case, I would never have known about this DRM-removal tool for ebooks.
In MySQL, never use “utf8”. Use “utf8mb4”. -- by Adam Hooper -- Medium: This, too, is part of the sales cycle: MySQL had such great marketing and market mindshare that these absolutely bonkers breaking bugs just existed and still exist in this product.
How to Make an Immutable Dict in Python - Adam Johnson (I did not know this. Thanks to Jochen's weeklogs)
Open Infrastructure Map: OSM data rendered for utilities and stuff. Very interesting.

Boost your Django DX -- recommended!
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The Lady of the Lake by Andrzej Sapkowski: Sometime last year, I started reading The Witcher booksThis was part of a trial for wasting less time on the internet: by having books available on my phone, I'd read those instead of Twitter, Reddit, HN, ... It worked for a while, and now I'm picking it up again. The worst thing about reading on the phone is not the size or the interface, strangely, but the bad options for organizing what I've read and what's still on the list. after having played the gameWhich I still need to finish, too.. The first two books are excellent, adventure, action, epic storylines spanning centuries. These books have it all, and they're worthy reads. But then the next three books... they're super-boring. Nothing happens! The main characters are separated and the entirety of three books can be summarized as "they're looking for but don't find each other". Fortunately, The Lady of the Lake picks up the pace and things happen again. Now I just hope the ending is worth it...
Ok, I actually finished reading the book, and I'm not satisfied. They run around pointlessly a bunch, and then they all die pointlessly. Such a waste of a great setting.
Season of Storms by Andrzej Sapkowski: This is more like it, even though there's a lot of unexplained stuff going on. I sure hope something comes up that explains what's going on.