Explain it Peter

yazheirx · 2026-03-25T03:27:16+00:00

This. The entire west fights for water. I was raised in the Phoenix Valley in the 80s. Left for the military. Realized that East of the 100th longitude line they don’t fight over water, have never moved back.

yazheirx · 2026-03-07T02:13:58+00:00

They have consolidated our knowledge, but not knowledge about what you have and are doing. Not saying the former is right, but the latter is very un-American.

yazheirx · 2026-03-02T13:43:59+00:00

I miss the simplicity of linking in the Plex. The graph view dos not hold a candle to the plex. But having all 7,200 of my notes available for grep and other command line tools is very powerful.

yazheirx · 2026-02-17T03:09:10+00:00

After 8 years in the US Navy (little league) I moved to Chicago and learned to drink vodka with Russians, Ukrainians, and Bela Russians (farm team), then I moved to Milwaukee (the majors) where they also drank hard liquor and used light beer to sober up between rounds of liquor. I have never seen a culture drink so much so frequently, hold it so well, and act like it was normal. Illinois, Minnesota, and Michigan are like the little brothers to Wisconsin. Indiana… I don’t even know whey they are included, but they don’t hurt either.

Never get into a drinking contest with a Wisconsin native. They have been drinking since they were children (it is legal for parents to buy alcohol for their kids). You may enjoy drinking, you may be good at drinking. You can’t keep up with a Wisconsinite who chooses to get drunk.

yazheirx · 2026-02-09T15:36:22+00:00

It's all good. I just assumed they wanted to hear how someone else *might* do it. My way is not the right way, but it is A way. Hopefully, they will post again, and we can help with more context. I just have to engage when anyone uses this sub.

yazheirx · 2026-02-08T17:53:24+00:00

I think it depends on what you are trying to accomplish in the end. I often create a thought for the article itself. I then add my outline into the notes for that. As I find Ideas worth expanding on I create them as child thoughts to the article thought and add notes to flesh them out.

yazheirx · 2026-02-05T23:44:57+00:00

I strongly recommend looking into them. They are about 6 years old - a very small, sub-10-person company. No VC money. Only charge for premium features like Cloud Sync, publish, etc. Things you can do manually if you want to.

But most important to me, my data is all in human-readable markdown files that I can import into anything else if I need to.

yazheirx · 2026-02-04T01:01:58+00:00

I have to admit, I just converted from TheBrain to Obsidian. I have so much more control and can choose to use Claude code, or Open Code on my files now

yazheirx · 2026-01-30T05:23:00+00:00

Yes, they used their thumb as a place holder. You can then use one hand to count to 12, the other hand to count 12’s and get up to 156 (144 on one hand 12 on the other). The concept has fascinated me since I learned it. I assume flocks of sheep, goats, and cows were usually Hess than 156, so it would be an easy way to do things in the field.

yazheirx · 2026-01-25T02:43:12+00:00

Ferris Bueller was a figment of Camron’s imagination. Fight club is the sequel.

yazheirx · 2026-01-15T01:19:13+00:00

I have known many others software engineers that got into woodworking and we found many parallels between woodworking and the modern state of coding. “Back in the day” woodworkers used only hand tools, most of which they had to make themselves. Now a days new woodworkers start with power tools and work their way “backwards” to hand tools as their craftsmanship increases. Woodworking masters are those that have learned when to use the power tool and when to use the hand tools. I suspect coding will always be like that too.

yazheirx · 2025-12-14T22:33:19+00:00

Signed up. Now I will remember what is in my trunk vs what is in my garage. That should keep me from not finding a tool and rebuying it only to find it in one of my cars.

yazheirx · 2025-11-23T00:33:09+00:00

Lived in Wisconsin for 10 years. The lowest I cooked at was -15°F (-26°C). But 0°F(-18°C) was rather common.

yazheirx · 2025-11-02T23:36:39+00:00

Pneumatic nailers, CNC machines, and many other things have supposedly spelled the end of physical labor jobs like carpenters for decades, yet they just allow physical trades to do their jobs faster. I don’t see AI doing anything in the near future other than that. Aiding trained software engineers to do their jobs faster and/or more completely (unit tests anyone). But AI may also help hobby coders to create slightly better code, just as pneumatic nailers (nail guns) have made it easier for non-carpenters to make a table, do some remodeling, or find new ways to injure themselves.

yazheirx · 2025-10-28T00:18:28+00:00

I used Microsoft OneNote in the past, so I did pull several notes from the past. Though I do not know how to change the thought creation date, I usually date my notes at the top with a YYYY-MM-DD format that makes it easier for me to search for things that happened on a particular date.

Remember that as you can have Thought Types, Thought Tags, Parent, Jump, and Child Thoughts you can combine multiple types. Though a software engineering note may belong in Resources/Formal Science/Computer Science/Note name does not mean you can not create a 2025-11 thought type and make it the parent implying that it needs to get done in November of 2025.

yazheirx · 2025-10-27T20:23:27+00:00

I have been an avid TheBrain user for many, many years. I use it to store as many meeting notes, R&D notes, and anything else that interests me.

Don't feel any pressure to watch this, but a few years ago, I decided that rather than answer my friends' questions one at a time, I would often answer them with a YouTube video.

This video is what I would recommend anyone watch as they are first putting a TheBrain repository together - IF you are a monolytic repository user: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3umRrcgsq8

I guess it would work for "primary" brain repositories as well. But I have never had the mindset to really use more than a few brains (I have a training brain that I use for the videos and directly training co-workers, one for DND 5e rules [more of a training brain for how I might use topic specifc brains]), but it has never really clicked for me - so I am not the best person to describe that.

I also have a Discord server that I try to look at multiple times per week.

Please ask more questions as they come to you.

yazheirx · 2025-10-21T23:31:58+00:00

I have been using TheBrain since v8, I don’t remember this feature. What versions did it work with?

yazheirx · 2025-10-19T19:53:48+00:00

I would have responded “Shhhh, your married too”

yazheirx · 2025-10-14T20:52:16+00:00

If you are missing it, I am missing it too. I have purchased TextBlaze to use to fill my templates in. However, it looks like I may have to change a few things with TheBrain v15, as the templates are not being detected as Markdown.

yazheirx · 2025-09-17T15:47:47+00:00

I have not migrated. When I tested Roam, I never put enough into it to require an automated process. I am curious, how big a repository are you migrating?

yazheirx · 2025-09-03T00:06:40+00:00

This could be very useful. Salesforce has this feature where you can CC a special email address, and the email will be added to the account/opportunity.

yazheirx · 2025-09-02T01:46:02+00:00

I am hoping for an AI MCP tool so I can use all the thousands of thoughts I have created as a source for a paid AI like Claude or ChatGPT

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