Re: Energy Levels and Complicated Optimizations

I found a new way to think about that lighting optimization problem which actually allowed me to simplify some of the SpeculativeProjection. I got that merged yesterday and it gave a 30% savings to the micro-bench and seemed to remove the [...]

Re: Trying to Socialize Again

I am still around but haven't been doing much so I don't have much to say. Working on the OP optimization which is mostly implemented and preliminary results are very promising.

Those PSW organizations are unusually bad at scheduling their people. [...]

Energy Levels and Complicated Optimizations

I really need this winter to finally end. I need to get out and get some exercise, sunlight, and human contact (even if just in passing).

This winter has been rough. Between the usual lack of meaning, the constant feeling of the walls closing in [...]

Re: What now?

Wow, good to hear that this is moving closer to being completed. Being stuck in that "in-between state" can be stressful and tiring.

Energy Level

Work on the next OP release is moving along, although slowly. The last bits of that cold are taking a long time to fully work their way through and the weather has likely been keeping my energy level down (well, that and the news being consistently [...]

Re: Can I recover yet?

Probably some kind of cold.

I suspect that the difference in how late this came on, and how the symptoms played out, is likely due to it being a different kind of cold virus (since there are several).

Sinuses are still a little odd but I have [...]

Re: Part 2

This is a good picture. I hope that you are doing ok.

Can I recover yet?

I don't know what this illness is but, despite feeling better 2 days ago, yesterday was pretty rough. Today is seeming better, but we will see how this goes since I am no longer sure.

At least it was nice to get that OctoberProject release done. [...]

Re: House and babies.

I didn't realize gender reveal parties were still a thing or were all that common when that fad was in full swing (back before that one sparked a huge wildfire).

Good to hear that the house is on the market. Hopefully you guys get a serious offer [...]

Re: Is this aging?

Today seemed to be better. Just a bit of a headache by this point, really. My mass seemed to jump back up to the normal range, today, too.

I usually consider myself "sick" if I have a fever (unless I just received a vaccine) so that is my once [...]

Is this aging?

This winter has been odd in that I keep getting sick. This is probably the 3rd or 4th time I have been sick since the new year and, historically, I would only get sick 0-1 times per year.

I don't even know where I caught whatever this is since it [...]

Re: Unsettled

I think that our minds going to old connections is pretty common. It isn't bad unless it becomes a fixation or something which prevents you from properly living in the now.

I also think that more people than want to admit it are in a similar boat, [...]

Fear and Powerlessness

Looking at the news and the state of the world, I see a lot of fear. The fear isn't so much fear, itself, but a fear which comes from powerlessness. The idea that we are all so far from the means to control our own lives that all we know is fear [...]

Re: Take this moment, you deserve it.

This kind of thing is always a good idea. I once heard that the only verified way to improve your sense of well-being is to be sure to periodically think about what makes you feel grateful.

I wonder how the asteroid would be "gone". I know that [...]

Re: Testing my key.

Finally seeing this now. Sorry about that but it looked like a bizarre IPFS ism where sometimes some nodes just won't get to see some pieces of data. I think it is how they try to distribution the index where you essentially can end up putting [...]

Re: Walking in the Snow

The Expanse?

I am not sure about "better". Season 1 was very good. By this point, I have watched seasons 1-5 and they are all good. For reasons I can't remember, I think season 3 was my favourite and 5 was probably the most tense (yet strangely [...]

Re: When you're polyamorous on Valentine's Day

I haven't seen family in a while but I have been in touch over text and calls, recently.

Good to hear that the house is getting sorted out. I hope that replacing that ID from your wallet isn't too rough. I always find things like that leaving me [...]

Walking in the Snow

I got a call that my blu-rays for The Expanse came in, today. Realizing I didn't have any other afternoon plans, aside from connecting and testing the OctoberProject fire logic, I decided to take the walk.

The walk to Bay Video is roughly 40 [...]

Re: Ill Again

I definitely find less excitement in wanting to watch it. I watched the first episode and thought it looked pretty good. I should continue but my mind doesn't settle on it. With Lexx, that was never an issue as it was something I found I could [...]

Something to look forward to

I really feel like a big problem I have is that I have nothing to look forward to.

On the work front, I don't think I have real prospects. Combine that with the lack of in-person work going on, the lack of problems worth solving, and how so many [...]

Re: New Draft - 1798108309

While I always thought the world could use more melodramatic wording (I am a goth, after all), I know that I tend to be very to the point in text (partly due to SMS limits but also my dislike of touchscreens for typing).

Ill Again

This is strange. Historically, I only get a bad cold once every 2-3 years but this year I got one at the beginning on January and now at the beginning of February. I blame the lack of normal human contact: Either being alone or sometimes in large [...]

Fitness for Human Interaction

For some time, I have been noticing that I am becoming "stranger". I blame this on general isolation and lack of humanization. I don't really know how to interact with people, these days, so I just seem to intensely babble or just generally act [...]

Re: This hits close

I do wonder how we got to this place where they needed to make such dramatic and sudden changes to international student enrolment. I wonder if the issues had been growing for a long time, were sudden, or were not directly related (like if it was a [...]

Re: Licensing

I hope that this is progressing well and that you get this licensing issue sorted out. Good to hear that the MRI results were normal.