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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • I don’t want to sound judgmental. I’ve never been in your position.

    One potential way to approach this would be to “bring the shelter staff on the juorney”.

    • Tell them as soon as you confirm the job.
    • Thank them for their support.
    • Explain that you will be getting some equipment, and that you will need to connect it to Ethernet.
    • Give them the great news, that you have organised housing for yourself, once that first paycheck comes in.
    • Let them feel yes excitement, at the prospect of getting some momentum in your life.
    • If they express concern, invite them to sit with you while you work, show them you are trustworthy.

    This is a people problem, not a technical one. People that run shelters, especially volunteers, a good people. But they likely have been burned in the past; they will not blindly trust.



  • For distance:

    • learn to do a 1m pace
    • measure your height to compare against other things
    • measure the length of your finger gun (mines basically 150mm)

    For temperature (for me):

    • below 6 think about wind chill and keep warm
    • 6-10 = warm jacket weather
    • 10-14 = pants and sweatshirts
    • 14-18 = great exercising weather
    • 18-22 = shorts and t-shirts or light sweatshirt.
    • 22-26 = very warm
    • 26-30 = uncomfortable
    • 30+ = sweating just walking around

    For weight, it is too dependent on your strength. For some, lifting a 20kg sack of flour would be to much, for others grabbing two 40kg sacks of cement per trip to the palet is normal.


  • The stock market is chaos, driven by bias and a bunch of unknown and unknowable variables.

    A simple example with 3 players.

    • P1 thinks stock A is a good buy (for whatever reason) at $1/unit. P1 decides to buy putting upward pressure on the price.
    • P2 has been holding a bunch of A for a while and has a number ($1) in mind to sell at, P1 can’t know this information. This sale puts downward pressure on the price.
    • If P1 & P2 have the same number of shares, the pressures are equal, and the price doesn’t move. If they don’t the price moves either up or down.
    • P3 has been watching A, sees that it moves and decides that this is a good time to buy, (going down its a bargain, going up its on the rise get in early), putting further upward pressure on the stock.

    Each action by the different players causes something to happen to the price, no-one can know all the internal thought patterns of all the other interested parties, and thus can never have perfect information. And even with perfect information, it may not be possible to predict, as some stocks interact in non-predictable ways.

    e.g. Nvidia goes up, TSMC usually goes up, but not always. TSMC going down can be caused by Nvidia, but also thousands of other things also.

    Conclusion: can the stock market be predicted? General trends - Yes, specific stock movements - No!


  • A few years ago, I installed mint 21.1 on my mum’s old NUC; a 2013 model; was running Win7.

    I said, it doesn’t meet the minimum for Win10, so it was either buy something new or try Linux.

    Just got back from visiting them, I updated it to 21.3, still running fine. It still does everything they need.

    Mum even said, “it always just works”. A great endorsement, as a non-technical user mum needs a no fuss distro, mint works so well in this regard.









  • As someone who deals with lactose intolerance.

    Just don’t make it a big deal, if you can’t eat something, don’t eat it. Your needs are important, but other people are equally entitled to their own enjoyment.

    I hate vegans who only do it to virtue signal, it is a personal journey keep it that way.

    If someone is thoughtful enough to ask about your dietary requirements, they are probably “good people” and won’t care about it. They will just make allowances for you.

    An anecdote about dietary requirements:
    I have a sister in law who cannot eat onions/garlic/leeks etc… she does make a big deal about it, no dishes can have those ingredients when she is around.
    Her intolerance is about at bad as mine, she gets bloated and gassy… So not dangerous, just uncomfortable.
    It always feels difficult to deal with. My view is, if you want to make potatoes with cream sauce, enjoy it I’ll eat something else.