author: @gtl
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Considering Big 5 personality traits I'm mostly two things: neurotic and open. And as openness is mostly why I'm a creative person, neuroticism is what blocks and eats my creativeness. There's so many reasons to work towards less neurotic, this is just another one.
I've been working full-time for the past year and a half saving every penny I can so I can escape the working world (well, at least the version where I work on other people's shit) and go live in SE Asia. I'm getting really close now and it's an unbeliavably freeing feeling. I'm curious... is anyone else doing something similar?
I make my own popcorn on the stove with peanut oil. I wonder how many other people do this. my dad showed me and it was a staple of ours growing up.
"A life well lived is a series of personal obsessions shared without expectation of an audience." 👏
Sketching more lately after a long break, feels good.
I’m pretty sure I wrote something after Aug 17 but there’s no entries. hmm
I saw a place of worship that housed 3 different religions. it got me wondering... how does this work? I guess the place /really/ doesn't matter all that much.
So, what's everyone doing this weekend? Anyone got anything interesting planned?
I hardly ever read fiction books, but I just finished reading The Shadow of the Wind (in English as my Spanish isn't good enough yet) and I absolutely loved it. Lots of unexpected references to parts of Barcelona I know, too, which added to the experience. Anyone else read it?
I'm going to demo Station in a training session in an hour. Say hello if you see this :)
I've been doing a lot of teaching recently and it's a great reminder of: if you think you know something, try teaching it. Teaching is learning in disguise.
“You may delay, but time will not.” – Benjamin Franklin
This is an excellent breakdown of the UK ATC meltdown the other week and what caused it. I'm sure it'll surprise no experienced programmer at all to learn of the various issues that led to it. https://jameshaydon.github.io/nats-fail
I just found out that wikitionary offers full database dumps in json format. time to update my dictionary with more words.
I didn't write here for a some time. I didn't have any special Gemini information to note here. Simultaneously I'm exploring every day Phlog challenge on my Gopherhole.
gopher://sdf.org/1/users/szczezuja/personal
I'm calling it /Personal Soap Opera Phlog/ and there are mainly about weather, my daily activities and other normal/boring topics.
The second thing which is worth noted is the announcement of ROOPHLOCH 2023!
gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/~solderpunk/phlog/announcing-roophloch-2023.txt
Been watching Invasion on Apple. pretty engrossing show. There are some areas of the plot that I don't agree with but overall I like it.
Some random observations: https://gist.github.com/martinrue/ccc773de83be694683edbaef23a9ecc8
Here is something I am working on: a solar powered UPS for routers (for my friends). Uses original router power adapter as 'pass-thru' while falling back to LiFePO4 battery during loadshedding. #solar #diy #ups
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If you live in the UK and want to get into Esperanto, this free weekend event in October will be great. You can even play Homlupo (Werewolf) with me in the international language. Aimed at every level, even possible to ask for help for hotel costs if you need it. More info: https://esperanto.org.uk/studa-semajnfino
words I learned from yesterday's spellbinding:
ABACA ABBE ABELE CABALA CABBALA CABBALAH HEBE LABLAB LEACHABLE
I've never heard of hebe, which is apparently a derogatory name against Jews.
cabala and cabbala are variants of each other meaning
abbe is French and has an accent on the e, making me wonder if this should even be in spellbinding.
My capsule Setup HOWTO is finally finished v1 and is linked on the official Gemini FAQ (section 2.5.4)
Here's an old gemlog I came across today on discogem. I, too, went with a dumb phone for a while but it was years back. I wish I could do it again without my partner being really upset with me, mostly because we have a family and need that connection.
gemini://caolan.uk/desk/2021-02-04_re_the_dumbphone_experience.gmi
I wrote some thoughts on the idea of "getting into motion": https://martinrue.com/get-into-motion
Even though my brain thinks in Esperanto at this point, I occasionally realise I don’t have a word for something. I was chatting to a friend this morning and I needed to say treadmill. To my delight, turns out it’s “kurtapiŝo”, or running carpet.
If having a coffee in the morning isn't working for you, take 2 weeks of leave and then check your email.
I recently spent a few days in Venice (in the cool neighbourhoods). Here's what I got up to. Spoiler: it's mostly me being lost and tortured by mosquitoes. https://youtu.be/_caD0XnBNfI
Wordle 791 6/6*
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22,700 steps today. might be a personal record. treadmill, volleyball, racquetball.
Undiscovered areas in art. There are as many as undiscovered places on Earth maybe. Our neverending mission is to rediscover them for ourselves without this sense of being less important, less true.
I tried to capture some difficult thoughts: https://martinrue.com/nothing-matters
Interesting capsule of the week from #discogem
where I live we have mass transit but also a lot of people have cars because mass transit isn't everywhere. I have an electric car but I know trains are best for moving folks.
well, today I have an occasion for an hour long rail trip, avoiding traffic and congestion of the roads that run alongside the rail line. it's nice to just sit instead of being alert and aware in the driver's seat.
although I left my book at home...
I wanted to find out what the minimum hardware for running a reasonably good Large Language Model at home would be, so I bought a refurbished ThinkCentre M715q with AMD Radeon 5 PRO 2400GE CPU. It's a 2018-era machine costing only around $200. With no upgrades, I was able to run llama.cpp in CPU-only mode on the smallest Llama 2 7b model (q2_K) generating 5.2 tokens/sec! Very impressive! I can also run Vicuna 13b (q4_1) at over 2 tokens/sec after upgrading the RAM to 16Gb. All this while consuming around 40W of power. One trick I had to employ is to use "LLAMA_AVX2=1 make" to compile, as it doesn't detect AVX2 by default. Anwyay, I love this ThinkCentre machine, it is amazing bang-for-buck and will be my main dev machine for the forseeable future. #llm #thinkcenter #llamacpp
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Hello from my offline time. It might give me finally a proper focus and get me back to gemini.
I wonder if 2FA / totp could theoretically be used on Gemini for logins...
I updated my gemroll list with new resources on gemini and added a HOWTO for creating your own capsule
kids toys have to be some of the biggest wastes of unrecyclable plastic. they break in a month or two and go straight to the landfill. how is something made of such thick plastic so fragile?
Venice is such a unique city.
🚙 No cars.
🏍️ No motorbikes.
🚲 No bicycles.
Everything is a boat.
🛥️ Bus? Vaporetti.
🚤 Taxi? Also a boat.
🚣 Moving house? Do it on a boat.
⛴️ Dump truck? It's a boat.
🚓 Have cool boats!
It's rather nice not seeing a single car.
I have an idea for a game for Gemini, I just need time to write it...
Okay, I'm off to live with with 220 Esperanto speakers from 52 different countries for a week. Give me another language where I can do that – where everyone experiences the language equally and fairly – and I'll give up Esperanto¹ :)
¹ This is a lie as I have way too many t-shirts.
Productivity hack: there's no hack. It's hard. Confront it. Take responsibility. Make time. Get started any way you can. Stick with it, even while it feels uncomfortable (creative resistance). Don't expect it to always feel good/happy. Stay focused. Don't quit.
"Brian, do you have an unpopular opinion?"
"Besides cooking salmon in a dishwasher?"
It's quality content only on the GoTime podcast!
I’m in Venice and it’s hot. Charming. But hot. Carrying my life in a backpack probably isn’t helping though.
poking around on Gopher again. Started digging through the random archives that is Quux and found a fun Usenet archive about movies. Dated from 1982, they were speculating on whether Spock dies in Star Trek II
🎥 I made a new video! It’s about making time for your projects and goals, and contains a little preview of what I’ve been working on recently. https://youtu.be/EwE3RkJOFV4
I was reading about the gas stove ban in the US and was thinking "what if a law maker says all new homes had to have bidets in order to reduce paper waste"
Perfect topic for an online troll.
I wonder if anyone has submitted someone else's gemlog to antenna.
We have non-technical Antenna now. It's called /Deep Space Network/.
gemini://gemini.smallweb.space/gemlog/20230722-DSN-antenna.gmi
Thanks to @szczezuja for pointing out that I forgot the link to my version of #Antenna, DSN Antenna, on my gemlog. I'll fix that in a bit. If you haven't seen, I made a version of Antenna for non-tech related gemlogs. Currently the best way to contribute is to have separate tech and non-tech gemlogs.
Deep Space Network (DSN) Antenna
I had a shower thought and now it's a blog post: https://martinrue.com/doing-your-best
What do we want?
Now!
When do we want it?
Race conditions!
I like this story over on cosmic voyage (gopher)
Today is the "Internacia Tago de Esperanto" (Esperanto Day). The "Unua Libro" (first book), which introduced the language and its grammar, was published 136 years ago today.
For anyone curious about why I like Esperanto so much, I made a video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QsHxQcZbQU
wordle keeps adding more and more self-advertising BS. instead of a small "hey play our other games, there's now a 1/3 screen banner that tells me I can download their app.
If they start charging I'm out. if they add a ton of ads, I'm out. I'm just waiting for the day it's less about the game and more clicks.
Shoutout to @eph for the amount of exrta glyphs I've installed in Lagrange so far due to your language pursuits :)
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