From Where I Stand

I found this in my saved messages today. I remember making an XO game in Processing where you couldn’t win. I literally hard coded every possible case so it never lost, and I was so proud of it back then. I think this bit of code is from when I first started experimenting with saving patterns so the game could use them to play. We were only saving the winning patterns, and this part looks like it's checking for an exact match between a stored pattern,. I also remember the moment I realized you could flip a pattern left, right, up, or down and get 3 new valid patterns from it. That felt like 😲 Cool to see

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Wishing us a year filled with boredom, less consumption and more creation, fewer distractions and deeper connection with life and being. 2️⃣0️⃣1️⃣8️⃣

I dare you to choose a topic that interests you and dedicate a whole year to studying its ins and outs. Prepare a stack of books written on that subject and read them all. Gain the expertise an academic in the field would have. This endeavor is not for money, career, or anything else; but purely out of curiosity. Make this year intellectually worthwhile. #learning #curiosity #self_improvement

"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here." Richard Dawkins

Teach with care for people learn how to treat you by what you tolerate. Oprah Winfrey [ rephrased by @thoughtpics]

They actually rolled out both features You now get AI Mode in google search and the ability to continue chatting, and fixed copy button on Gemini

There's none so blind as those that won't see Jonathan Swift

Ever worked with Thermal Printers? 🖨 Check out this simple thermal printer app that supports real time printing via WebSockets, perfect for printing images and text from the web! Built with Processing (Java), it listens for print commands sent from a web client over WebSockets, processes them, and sends data directly to a connected thermal printer. 🖐 Sharing this here in case you or someone else needs a straightforward example. Source Code: https://github.com/DawitMengistu/thermal-printer-websocket/tree/main

Final25, Final26 was better Name your folders properly. [ filter by date for now ]

Context A friend suggested we go to a book event / interview, and I figured I would check out what it was about and how such things look. I knew very little about the book or the author and I was curious what I would get. This is a reflection on my experience. I knew nothing about the person or the book, and I am not going to talk about either of those things since I have no real knowledge. The main idea I want to focus on is how ideas were being communicated, what that says about what is being presented, and what it should say. But overall, I would say it was a good experience, maybe not in the way the author intended, but good nonetheless. My Experience The book was አዲሲቱ እየሩሳሌም by Demoz Goshime. You may recognize him from movies or screenplays he has done. On this show he was invited to talk about his new book. I knew almost nothing about him except for a quick Google search, which suggested that his work are is contemplative, spiritual and philosophical. My very little experience with religious teachings, in terms of how ideas are presented, I would say, was a bit unpleasant. and the same was for this interview. For me it felt like listening to an episode of Dr. Rodas Tadese on አንድሮሜዳ. The talk jumped from term to term across an overwhelming landscape of ideas, traveling from countries to a single city in a matter of seconds. There was no clear path, no way to follow a line of thought. Is there a place to ask whether someone is communicating well for this kind of discussion? Is there a rule? Do we really need to express and communicate ideas like this? Does how we communicate reflect what the idea itself is and how well we understand it? I think it does. In science, logical consistency is expected in your argument and your ideas. There is a method you have to follow for a statement to be considered a rational thought. I sat and tried to listen to what felt like a 3+ hour ride on a roller coaster, and despite my effort, I could not understand what was being said

Your boos mean nothing to me. I've seen what makes you cheer. Every breath I take without your permission raises my self my self-esteem. Rick & Morty

For your own sanity, always take mixed signals as a no and read the hesitation as rejection. You deserve someone that's certain about you :)

A month in better-auth by Dagmawi Babi I got an internship at Better Auth at the start of July and it’s been a month now and it’s been so wonderful in so many different ways and this blog is just an overview of somethings I’ve learnt and discovered.