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Finished reading: The Devils by Joe Abercrombie 📚
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Currently reading: The Devils by Joe Abercrombie 📚
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Made a cycle over the last two years: Ricoh GR IIIx -> Fuji X100V -> Leica Q -> …and back to Ricoh GR IIIx. The size and handling is just amazing.
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Quickstart: Your first Lore repository - Lore Developer Documentation — Quickstart: Your first Lore repository - Lore Developer Documentation Lore is a new source control system optimized for games and other large entertainment projects. Interestingly, its source code is hosted on GitHub. Should we expect LoreHub at some point? But wait, LoreHub is already taken…
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The Absurdly Optimized Pancake: Leavening Chemistry, Acid-Base Stoichiometry, and an Interactive Calculator | Absurdly Optimized — Absurdly Optimized Tang. A flat-flavored pancake is a vehicle for maple syrup. A good pancake has its own acid brightness from residual lactic and citric acid that was intentionally left un-neutralized. Pancakes! I want pancakes now!
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They’re Made Out of Weights — Max Leiter’s website You’re asking me to believe in sentient weights. Hilarious. Loved the original story , and this one is fun.
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From The age of average by Alex Murrell: This article argues that from film to fashion and architecture to advertising, creative fields have become dominated and defined by convention and cliché. Distinctiveness has died. In every field we look at, we find that everything looks the same. Welcome to the age of average. People just want to have the same stuff.
GPS Art
I bet everybody knows this feeling when you get an interesting idea in your head, and you think – that is it! I need to do it! You start to dig into, but the first Google request shows that somebody has already implemented it. Bummer. I had one of those ideas the other day. Since around a year or a bit more, I am into running. For tracking my running time and routes I am using an application, of…
On Being a Backbone Software Developer
Pilots performing aerobatics maneuvers at air shows are exceptional professionals with incredible skills. I witnessed with my own eyes the Cobra maneuver at one of the performances in Moscow. It is indeed an incredible sight. Piloting at its best. At the same time, a thought came to me: How often do pilots use these aerobatics maneuvers in real conditions? I doubt these skills are required during…
Welcome to March 32nd
My wife and I both have watches with the date window - the one that shows the day of the month. At the end of March, nearly midnight, my watch’s date window switched to number “1”, which stands for April 1st. Though my wife’s watch started to show number “32” instead. I was curious why, and found out that it is because of so called outsize date mechanism. The…
Sometimes You Are No One without your Phone
We become more and more dependent on all sorts of technology and gadgets in our lives. Exactly for this reason, I try to minimize the amount of digital things I interact with daily. All I have is my laptop and, of course, my smartphone. And it is my smartphone that made me recently feel completely helpless. One day I decided to try a scooter sharing app. I took a scooter and had a 10-5 min drive…
Bedtime Ideas
Ah, bedtime. It’s time to close Reddit and have some rest. But not for your brain. Have you ever wondered why you’re so damn.. ehh.. creative before sleep? Why does your brain start to produce this stream of crazy ideas? I have, so I made a small research on the topic. It turns out, that it has nothing to do with the time of day (well, a bit), but rather with your energy cycles.…
Tie-breaking Rounding
So I was reading an article about differences between Python 2 and Python 3 , and there was a statement: Python 3 adopted the now standard way of rounding decimals when it results in a tie (.5) at the last significant digits. Now, in Python 3, decimals are rounded to the nearest even number. At this point, I was like “WTF?!”. At school I was taught a simple rule: if x is exactly…
One Way to Deal with Anxiety
Whenever it comes to some sort of a test or exam, I start to have this feeling of worry and anxiety. It doesn’t matter how well I’m prepared - I still have it. And, of course, it affects my performance not in the best way. But there is one way, that helps me overcome this feeling. The key point, though it might sound strange, lies in our insignificance. When the stress begins before…
Broken Code Theory
I have recently come across Broken windows theory article. It is a criminological theory which addresses the problems of urban disorder, vandalism and anti-social behavior. The theory states that: … maintaining and monitoring urban environments to prevent small crimes such as vandalism, public drinking, and toll-jumping helps to create an atmosphere of order and lawfulness, thereby preventing more…