Weeklog for Week 38: September 19 to September 25
Progress
I've finally finished with Dockerfilesfor the moment and graduated to deployment.yaml.
Been a bit ill this week, so sleep instead of progress.
Well, I did tinker a little bit, and I now have an automated pipeline for my documents into paperless. Much better than some commercial solutions, too.
Also, accurately tracking room temperature again, even across different places. This led to an interesting experiment: does running my computer increase room temperature. The answer is: yes it does, but only when the computer is doing something. Well, that's the preliminary result and more research is needed.
Finally, I might, accidentally, have started another gamedev project with Elderic. It was an accident!
Articles
- Jonty Wareing ⍼ on Twitter: "IMPORTANT UNICODE NOTICE: The character "ꙮ" (U+A66E) is being updated in version 15.0.0. Because it doesn't have enough eyes. It needs to have three more eyes. https://t.co/R37gIgjFBP" / Twitter
- Why do domain names sometimes end with a dot? (via Jochens weeklog)
- Science and Technology links (September 12 2022) – Daniel Lemire's blog (via Jochens weeklog)
- Learning in double time: The effect of lecture video speed on immediate and delayed comprehension - Murphy - 2022 - Applied Cognitive Psychology - Wiley Online Library
- Supplemental Vitamin D and Incident Fractures in Midlife and Older Adults -- NEJM: "Vitamin D3 supplementation did not result in a significantly lower risk of fractures than placebo among generally healthy midlife and older adults who were not selected for vitamin D deficiency, low bone mass, or osteoporosis."
- OpenBoard, the best interactive whiteboard for schools and universities
- excalidraw/excalidraw: Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams
- mbrlabs/Lorien: Infinite canvas drawing/whiteboarding app for Windows, Linux and macOS. Made with Godot.
- tldraw/tldraw: A tiny little drawing app.
- Mental speed is high until age 60 as revealed by analysis of over a million participants -- Nature Human Behaviour: "Our results indicate that response time slowing begins as early as age 20, but this slowing was attributable to increases in decision caution and to slower non-decisional processes, rather than to differences in mental speed. Slowing of mental speed was observed only after approximately age 60. Our research thus challenges widespread beliefs about the relationship between age and mental speed."
- Science and Technology links (September 16 2022) – Daniel Lemire's blog
- Old plasma dilution reduces human biological age: a clinical study -- SpringerLink: "The results on biological age are strongly supported by the data, which demonstrates that rounds of therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) promote a global shift to a younger systemic proteome, including youthfully restored pro-regenerative, anticancer, and apoptotic regulators and a youthful profile of myeloid/lymphoid markers in circulating cells, which have reduced cellular senescence and lower DNA damage."
- Saturated fat: villain and bogeyman in the development of cardiovascular disease? -- European Journal of Preventive Cardiology -- Oxford Academic: "Collectively, neither observational studies, prospective epidemiologic cohort studies, RCTs, systematic reviews and meta analyses have conclusively established a significant association between SFA in the diet and subsequent cardiovascular risk and CAD, MI or mortality nor a benefit of reducing dietary SFAs on CVD rick, events and mortality. Beneficial effects of replacement of SFA by polyunsaturated or monounsaturated fat or carbohydrates remain elusive."
- Comparative life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of a mid-size BEV and ICE vehicle – Charts – Data & Statistics - IEA
- Science and Technology links (August 7 2022) – Daniel Lemire's blog
- Stable Diffusion based Image Compression -- by Matthias Bühlmann -- Sep, 2022 -- Medium
- Gadgetbridge for android: Gadgetbridge is an Android (5.0+) application which will allow you to use your Pebble, Mi Band, Amazfit Bip and HPlus device (and more) without the vendor's closed source application and without the need to create an account and transmit any of your data to the vendor's servers.
- What does Earth look like from across the Universe? - Big Think
Libraries, programming, etc
- This page is a truly naked, brutalist html quine.
- Markdown.css - make HTML look like plain-text: How useful!
Games
- Tokyo 42: I love this game. It's fantastic. It's a great mixture made of isometric, retro, 3D, action, sci-fi and whimsy. But with a controller it's absolute garbage. Part of the appeal is that with the precision of the mouse you can accurately track objects across half the world, without having to deal with depth. With a controller you have to aim directionally. Ugh, I can't play this on Deck.
- Strange Horticulture: What a strangeI mean, it's right there in the title. What I'm saying is that it's not just the horticulture that is strange, but also the game. little game. It's an... uh... occult pattern matching puzzle, where people ask for plants and you have to identify them according to your botanical encyclopaedia. Sometimes you'll know the name, but that won't help you much. Sometimes you only know a few clues, and those are very easy. And when you do it wrong, you have to puzzle back your sanity. But there's also atmosphere, and story (you have to find the plants, and solve a murder, and help people), and characters, and places, and mystery. There's no time pressure, just puzzles. I was surprised that it didn't have any plant-care mechanics, because there is a watering can; but I like it, less stressfull that way. I have no idea how to classify this game, which is awesome. 8/10
- Grand Mountain Adventure: Wonderlands: Perfect on the deck. I'd played this on Mobile before and this is even better: Bigger, easier to control and still very cute. If only there were a little more content... 8/10
Backlog
- Gloomhaven (from free EGS)
Recipes
- Tigerkuchen, except it's a vegan melanistic tiger. Didn't work too well, but I don't know why.