I guess, when I'm on salaried jobs, I can afford to hang out with emotionally volatile people. Any issues they have are easily bought out with money in the short-term.
But if I am living my own life, without depending on a salary, they simply don't fit in my budget. Good study, this 2023.
Participation in society defines each individual. The degree to which an individual decides to participate, or not, tends to vary. An individual with clear directions about their business ( not referring to commerce, here ), will selectively participate with others who are involved in similar businesses. The degree of participation between individuals comes down to an advertisement of one's own business interests, and an inquiry about the businesses of others.
My friend was not sure why I said I had trouble forgetting a TV show we watched. I explained that the TV show being several hours long, contained a lot of data, which remains in my short-term memory. Most of this data is not relevant to my hourly work, so I have been trying to forget it.
A tv show such as the one we watched would have
- a number of cinematographic composition decisions
- a script
- a cast of actors
- an art director
- a set of real world artifacts reflected in the movie
Each actor would further have :
- a vocal timbre
- an accent or capability to mimic other accents
- a kinesthetic profile / posture
- etc.
Of course, most people dont notice, process, or retain this information about TV shows ... in the way that most people don't deconstruct the design decisions behind the clothes, food, machines, administrative processes, and places that they interact with a on daily basis.
Some of us do, however. We just have different training. One way to illustrate the mode of thought is, if you look at some movies and a character doesn't see ordinary objects, only the formal representation of those thing as "code". There's an earlier reference I can think of which motivated me to train myself in this way ... in a children's book from many years ago, a character would automatically see the accelerated aging process of any item they looked at.
I thought that was generally useful, so I was always looking to have a similar understanding of the world.
Life seems to be a continuous effort of avoiding troublesome people ...
... people who bring uninvited expectations
... people who learn only for other objectives
... people who are themselves troubled and cannot express it rationally
Half my time is spent avoiding troublesome people. The other half is reducing troublesome behaviours in myself.
Inability is the absence of ability to do X.
Disability is formalised inability.
Pervasive but informal dis\inability is culture.
It's just statistics.
#ableism
Towards building a tiny IaaS for individual users that is also FOSS.
Reviewing the past few days' readings. OpenStack and Kubernetes are doing a great job, but they're very, very, fat. I mean they're oriented around big-people problems, and are quite OS-oriented in their approach to fundamental units of governance.
I just want something like a HomeStack ( don't google it - the brand is taken ) or GarageStack ( this brand isn't taken ), which would basically be an IaaS deployable on anything as small as a home router, USB drives, a NAS, and obsolete laptops - but robust enough to scale up to a public cloud, if needed. (If it scales that well, getting it to run at scale on bare-metal shouldn't be the hugest problem, but thinking about that right now would certainly be a premature development concern.)
I guess given my limited background in this area, I'll probably end up trying to see if I can get ErlangOTP to handle the control plane.
But then, I still have this niggling feeling that I should check out the newer V8 runtimes like Deno and Bun, to try and implement a JavaScript version of whatever OTP is doing. But maybe this too is premature optimisation.
IDK, we'll see.
Maybe related : https://ferd.ca/a-pipeline-made-of-airbags.html
Car paint TIL ( possibly relevant to any metal substrate, and then some ) :
// CHEMISTRY //
- BEWARE ambiguous terms : LACQUER, ENAMEL, RESIN are all non-specific labels which may refer to a very wide variety of formulations
- CURING time : paints require days or months to fully cure, so leaving a WEEK between layers may help for DIY projects, especially if you don't have a car-sized oven
- HARDENERS : anything which requires you to mix two parts ( usually 1-2% hardening catalyst ) is likely to be stronger than a one-part product; but this is not absolutely guaranteed to be true
- DURABILITY : [ ( stronger ) : polyurethane > epoxy > acrylic > nitrocellulose : ( weaker ) ], paint formulations typically have a mix of these chemicals; branding of the product might highlight one chemical over the others; polyurethane (PU) is generally regarded as having the highest durability, particularly against ultraviolet radiation
// MECHANICS //
- SANDING : always address the substrate before applying the layer over it; wet or dry methods may apply
- 1 : lower layer : "body FILLER" x "putty" : the structurally strongest stuff is a { polyester resin, hardener, fibreglass } concrete ... this method is used to build entire car bodies, in some cases ; otherwise it is usually just for smoothing out cavities
- 2 : lower-mid layer : PRIMER : the main role here is to protect metal from rusting, and to provide adhesion to upper layers ... the stack is usually [ metal OR filler > PRIMER > pigment > clear ], however [ metal > PRIMER > filler > PRIMER > pigment > clear ] also works
- 3 : higher-mid pigment : whatever ... see CHEMISTRY, above
- 4 : top layer : clear coat ... see CHEMISTRY, above
- 5 : super top layer : clear polymer or ceramic coatings ... are regarded as "not paint" but basically play the same function, and should be regarded inclusively with paint maintenance; these are commonly applied with a cloth, using a special method
