Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

I should go back there some time.

In Thailand, the hotel I was staying at had cats. There was one cat in particular who showed me up to my room when I checked in, tried to walk into my room as I was heading out. One night I found it out on the balcony and had to let it back into the hotel, and it waited with me while I was waiting for my ride back to the airport.

This video shows the inside of some of the coffee shops I visited during my 2nd trip to Brazil.

https://video.typica.us/videos/watch/6d37f6f6-8701-4514-9202-b5af36caa4f7

My most recent trip there I got a call about a week before an event from someone who wanted to know if my visa was still good and if I could fly down on that short a notice to teach some classes. I already had a vacation in Thailand booked for a week after that was over so I spent a lot of time in the air that month.

@gnomon Give it a few years for application and system bloat to catch up and some of these tiny drives won't have space for a reasonable working set at all.

More high end laptops should come with giant HDDs instead of tiny SSDs. I get that people like the performance boost from using SSD, but you destroy all those gains as soon as you need to start copying stuff off over a slow external bus to make space for whatever it is that you're trying to work on. Use the savings to load up on RAM and don't use a system that crashes all the time and you probably come out ahead in the long run.

Bulk uploads like that are going to be a lot less common from now on as everything going forward will either be new stuff or stuff that I want to do a little more editing on.

Some of them are still processing, but today I moved a bunch of travel videos to https://video.typica.us/

Video from Brazil, China, Ethiopia, and Mexico.

Did I somehow never edit/upload a video of last year's roasting tent? I should see if I can dig that up some time.

When I'm asked for career advice, one thing that I say is if you have the opportunity to do something cool, take it. Saying yes to working on interesting things leads to more people asking you to work on interesting things. This is how I've been able to travel around the world.

@neal@video.typica.us This is the coffee roasting video that the bots of YouTube don't want you to see.

Last month someone sent an encouraging message to the alt PSN account that only gets used for access to stuff on the Japanese store.

@acciomath Relaxed cubic splines and linear regression are at the top of my list.

Most of my station instructors for the class I'm teaching next month are confirmed. Was told I could reach out to them to introduce myself, but they're all people who I've previously worked with or have had conversations with so I hope introductions aren't really needed.

The problem with going into work for my first cup of coffee is that I don't realize that I should be going to work a completely different way because all the sane routes have been shut down by road construction until it's too late.

Morning cat

It's been about half a year since my Linux laptop got smashed and I switched to a Mac for day to day computing (because I didn't have the budget for a new computer and I already had this to do the Mac builds of Typica). I'm still annoyed by this thing and look forward to having a budget to move back to Linux where I'm a lot more productive.

@deadsuperhero Some anxiety triggered stuff can definitely kill you (I've come pretty close a few times). Most of that is controllable if you can afford the meds (depending on the condition ranges from pretty cheap to a multiple of my mortgage), though in my case it's cheaper/more effective/more fun to make sure I can take a vacation to de-stress before things get too bad (I'm not your doctor and that's not medical advice, just what works to keep me from bleeding out).

Today I got to tell another person that they probably don't want to take a class from me, but was able to point them at 3 other options to look into.

Yes, I helped design that class/wrote most of the exam, but I don't have a good training lab to teach in and trying to do this in a busy retail environment would not be a good experience for anybody.