Thoughts about whatever comes to mind.
In this post I want to talk about something that I'm calling the "Humans are bad at randomness" fallacy. If you've read any discussions on a game with random mechanics, you've almost certainly seen a conversation that goes something like this: Person 1: I just had happen to me multiple times in a row! Something has to be broken with the RNG. Person 2: Nah, that's just how randomness works. Humans…
I was recently in a discussion about singular "they". I have plenty of thoughts on the topic that I might turn into a separate post, but the discussion prompted me to look for research that had been done on questions such as: What portion of people treat singular "they" as grammatical? Are people of certain ages (e.g. younger) more likely to treat it as grammatical? In the process of looking for…
I've had my Voron 0 up and running for about two months now, and I wanted to write a bit about my build experience. I had loved the look of the Voron 0 for a while, bought an LDO kit on Black Friday last year, and finally got around to building it. There's a lot of options for kits on the market, and LDO's is one of the priciest, if not the singular priciest. I was drawn to it over the other kit…
The Problem A while back, I got a new computer. Since the chip shortage was still ongoing, the easiest way to get a good graphics card was to buy a prebuilt PC. The PC overall was great, and even better after I installed liquid cooling which made it run effectively silently. The difference is so large that it feels similar to switching from a HDD to an SSD. I'll probably never run a desktop with…
About two weeks ago was my last day working at Google. I'm still not sure to what extent I want to write about my time there, so at least in this post I won't be going into any details for why I left. One of the big effects the job had on me was that I generally had very little energy after getting home, and so all my personal projects ended up getting put aside. Now that I've left the job, I'm…